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All Forum Posts by: Layne Higgins

Layne Higgins has started 3 posts and replied 4 times.

I am currently living in a home that is worth 725k. I owe 440k on it. We are trying to move to a different part of town for financial, and personal reasons. A typical move would be to sell our house and go purchase a home. The new house we are buying is a new build and we need to release the contingency on our current home. I would like to keep my current house as a rental property, but don't have the funds to pay off this one and buy a new one. I could rent my current property for about 3.5k a month. I am a real estate newbie and have one other rental property but slowly dipping my toes into the pool. I also have about 200k equity in my rental property, if that is helpful. I was wondering if any of your smart people out there had other creative ideas to finance keeping our current home and buying a new one. Thanks!

Hello All,

I want to get into the MTR game but I don't have a ton of capital and thought if I could lease some apartments and MTR them I could build capital and then move into purchasing houses for MTR. I figure that apartment complexes okay with rental arbitrage don't care if you STR or MTR but I don't know if people rent out apartments for 30 days or more. Anyone have experience in this area? Would love to chat also. Thanks.

Post: Property Evaluation Tips

Layne HigginsPosted
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Quote from @Jamie Banks:

Hi Layne, welcome!

There are a few things that I use when underwriting a MTR.

1. Furnished Finder to access the stats (furnishedfinder.com/stats) and I look through their inventory to determine the average price for my unit size.

2. For expenses I use an average of the last few utility bills for each type of utility. You can call the utility company to get the average if you don’t have it handy.

3. For furniture expense a good estimator to use is $5k per bedroom for moderate furnishings.

4. I personally account 20% for vacancy, repair and maintenance reserves, and capex  because of the potential for increased vacancy

These are so helpful! Thank you. Do you find that MTR's for single renters (travel nurse, business professional)? or ones for families/multiple people do better (sabbaticals)?

Post: Property Evaluation Tips

Layne HigginsPosted
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Hello!
I am new here to the BP forum and website. Have been listening and reading all their stuff for a while. Thinking about getting into the mid term rental market. I have a long term rental right now. I need some tips on how analyze properties to be an MTR. Any help, guides, books would be awesome. Thanks.