Real Estate Investing Terms: Cash Flow [example]
Wednesday, October 19
Because we focus on buy & hold rental properties in Pensacola, Cash Flow is the most important metric we look at when considering an acquisition._____________________________________________________________Caution: This post goes technical real quick and my geeky side does come out :)Most peo...
How Do You Know How to Invest in Real Estate?
Thursday, September 29
As I continue to talk with more & more people about our buy & hold real estate investing in Pensacola, I find myself running into a similar question: How do you know how to do this? How do you know how to successfully invest in buy & hold real estate?Fair question. I have spent most o...
Selling Your Home. Can and Should You Owner Finance?
Thursday, September 15
If you have a house in the Pensacola, FL or Cantonment, FL area you want to sell, there are plenty of things to consider. One of those is whether you want to owner finance. In some cases you simply won't be allowed to do that, but there are circumstances where it may work for you.________________...
How I Started Investing in Real Estate
Wednesday, August 31
I began my real estate investing career in 2006 with what I like to consider a false start. Flags on the field, back it up 15 yards...or realistically, 5 yrs :). At what we now know was the height of the local market in Birmingham, AL, I purchased a 1950s ranch style SFR with the plan to live in...
How To Subdivide a Lot in Santa Rosa County
Friday, August 19
We learned a lot through this process: zoning, required set backs, required road frontage, required acreage, # of dwellings, etc. ____________________________________________________________ In a recent acquisition, we purchased a duplex that was on a half acre lot in Gulf Breeze (discussed in t...
Real Estate Investing Terms: Capitalization Rate
Sunday, August 07
Cap Rate...it's not science rockets!? Wait, did I say that wrong?_____________________________________________________Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate for short) is the measurement used to reveal how well a real estate investment will perform or is performing. I look at 3-5 investments in Pensacola ...