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All Forum Posts by: Dan Cho

Dan Cho has started 17 posts and replied 61 times.

Post: Estimating Rehab Cost

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

How does someone that is brand new get into the flipping game? I mean if I visit a REO property I'd like to flip or invest in for rentals, do you bring a contractor with you?

So I just picked a random building in my neighborhood and did my very first deal analysis using the tools provided. Please provide critique on what you think were too low. I didn't know how much insurance is on average for this property and the water and sewer comes out too.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/calculators/shared/539737/fb8904af-ada0-4f08-a9ce-6a383628e727

So I just picked a random building in my neighborhood and did my very first deal analysis using the tools provided. Please provide critique on what you think were too low. I didn't know how much insurance is on average for this property and the water and sewer comes out too. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/calculators/shared/539737/fb8904af-ada0-4f08-a9ce-6a383628e727

Post: How do you calculate taxes?

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

Hi all I was just wondering when you do your analysis, how do you calculate taxes exactly? I understand in the calculation there is a tax tab and I see that people input there tax from there county assessors office. Now I'm talking about rentals when I do this, but don't you also have to include state as well as federal taxes? I'll use an example

Purchase Price: 100,000

Rental Income: 1,0000

Tax (From County Assesor): 100

Net Income: 900

Now I'm using a very basic analysis here for our example, lets say we make $9,000 for the year, don't we have to tax the $9000 with state as well as federal taxes?

I'm sorry for the delay in response. I've just been so busy with this loan and dealing with the town building department. I've included what I think is relevant information. Do you think I can use the bigger pocket calculator to come up with a value?

Hi I posted something earlier about a commercial property valuation, and the responses I've received have been to hire a commercial broker to do this for me. However I was hoping that someone could walk me through creating the valuation myself. If so please respond on here and I'll  post all of the information I have on here. Thank You.

Post: Evaluating a Commercial Building

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

Ah thank you for the advice.

Post: Evaluating a Commercial Building

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

Hi thank you all for the response. To answer the questions on here, at this point were are already in the process of the deal and put down a down payment, contingent upon mortgage, thus I don't think it would make any sense to get a commercial broker.

Regarding appraisal, the building will be appraised by the end of this week and we expect it to be in line with around $750k-$800k.

Regarding location, this building is located in a suburban area, and the new location would be a lot better than the old. The building is a lot newer 1950 vs renovation 1980, this is through the SBA loan thus the low down payment. My business will be taking up 50% of the retail space, and the building is a commercial retail space. Regarding recourse, I'm not 100% sure are SBA 504 loans usually recourse or non recourse? and I think with the bank loan there is no pre-payment penalty, however with the SBA aspect there is a prepayment penalty.

I'm working with a mortgage broker and he has been helping me with creating projections for the property, provided below.

Estimated Revenue:

Effective Gross Revenue: $104,279

Estimated Operating Expense:

Total Expense: $36,213

NOI: $68,066

Value: $825,041

First Mortgage Debt Service: $28,469

DSCR 2.39

CFADS 39,597

LTV 45.5%

SBA Mortgage Debt Service: $24,058

DSCR: 1.65

CFADS: 15,539

LTV: 81.8

To be honest I was looking at how much we would be paying at our current lease vs how much we would be paying for our mortgage, I was estimating our mortgage would come out to around 7k-8k, and with us paying 4k for our current upcoming lease and the tenants paying 3k currently, which I expect to raise to around 3.5k for current market rate.

Based upon comparable, the two buildings above I think would work well as the first one mentioned is right across the street from this building. And building 2 is about a 3 min drive as well.

BLDG1 Comparable: Sale $400,000/5,000 sqft= $80 per sq ft, but complete gut renovation needed

BLDG2 Comparable: Sale $315,000+ $400,000 (quote I received for brand new construction of building)/ 6,000 sq ft= $119.00

Building I'm considering: Sale $750,000/ 7350 sq ft= $102 sq ft (this building is move in ready, with no renovation needed)

Is this the way to do comparable sales?

Also the estimates I've come up with through my research is that average NNN rates go for around $14-$20, one of the tenants is currently paying $15 NNN, however one is only paying $11 NNN which I think can be raised to $14 NNN when the lease ends which would bring in an additional estimate of $400 a month.

So basically I made my decision on the fact that it didn't make sense to pay the upcoming lease of $4,000 monthly for around 2,800 sq ft which comes around to $1.42 sq ft,  when I could pay around $4,000 monthly for 3,200 sq ft which comes out to around $1.25 sq ft. Also this building was completely renovated in the 1980 and is in great shape with no expected renovations needed vs our current location which was build in the 1950's with no renovation and bare minimum upkeep during this time. 

I also translated this to that if I stayed my new NNN lease would come out to $17, but with the new building it would come out to around $15 NNN.

So what do you think?

Post: Evaluating a Commercial Building

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

Hi I'm new to the forum and still trying to piece everything together, and if someone could provide a link on how to analyze a deal as well that would be great. But my question here today is that I'm in the middle of buying a commercial building for my current existing business and I needed some help evaluating the deal, so that I can know if I got a decent deal or not.

Sale Price: $750,000

Down Payment: $100,000

2 Bank Financing: 

Bank 1: $375,000, Amortized 20 years, 4.5% interest

Bank 2: $300,000, Amortized 20 years, 5.15% interest

Banks Expense: Debt Services Annually $52,000 (Can someone tell me what debt services are for banks?)

Sq Ft Approximate: 7,400

Divided into 4 separate units.

Unit 1 Rent: $18,000 year/ $1,500 monthly 

Unit 2 Rent: $19,500 year/ $1,625 monthly

Unit 3/4: Vacant, although I'll be taking Unit 3 for my business.

CAM Reimbursement: $11,000

Estimated Expenses:

Insurance: $4,800

Taxes: $11,300

CAM Expense: $12,300

Reserve (.35/SF): $2,600

Current Location not at new Location:

Rent: $3,500 but raising to $4,000+ uknown CAM charges.

I have a lot more information with stuff I've never heard of and I don't know if they are needed for deal analysis but they are stuff like mortgage debt services, DSCR, CFADS, LTV, etc. If you think they would be helpful I'd gladly post.

So do you think this is a good deal? and also how would I go about analyzing this deal?

Post: New Member from San Francisco

Dan ChoPosted
  • Latham, Ny
  • Posts 64
  • Votes 9

hello all from the bay area. new to the forum and just starting my real estate education. hope to learn a lot and meet new people in this new journey.