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All Forum Posts by: Sean McDonnell

Sean McDonnell has started 39 posts and replied 564 times.

Post: Surf City, NC Pints & Properties

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Come join us for the first Surf City Pints & Properties of the New Year! We are honored to have Clint Harris come and teach us about beach short term rentals! He will cover everything from how to analyze them to how to manage them in order to provide the highest ROI possible. Hope to see you there!

Post: Pints & Properties - Surf City, NC

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Come join us on Tuesday December 14th to hear about how Alex Felice made the jump from Single family to multi family! 

Post: BIG DAY In our Short Term Rental World!

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Just ordered it! Cant wait to read it, congrats to all your success so far and for giving back so much to this community. 

Post: [Calc Review] Help me analyze this deal

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

The two cash on cash return number are for before and after you refinance. Prior to refinancing, your total initial investment is $99,300 which it looks like you said you would pay cash for. With a rent of $1,200 a month and expenses of $492 a month, your monthly cash flow is $708 a month or 8,496 a year. Your cash on cash return would be 8,496/99,300 = 0.085 or 8.5%. 

Once you refinance, you are adding a large monthly expense of the debt service or mortgage payment BUT you are getting almost all of your cash back out of the property. Your cash invested in the deal with these numbers would be $99,300-$98,000 = $1,300. With the addition of the debt service, your monthly cash flow went down to $240 which is $2,880 a year. $2,880 divided by the cash left in the deal, $1,300 = 2.21 or 221%. 

Let me know if you are confused at all! Moral of the story is if these numbers are accurate this would be a baller deal.

Post: BiggerPockets Podcast Announcement

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

@Brandon Turner Thanks for giving so much to this community! My wife and I have learned a ton from you and are very grateful. Enjoy this next chapter of life.

Post: Issues Landing A Deal With VA Home Loan? Newbie

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Hey Eric, unfortunately as you are experiencing, VA loans sound riskier to sellers because of the more stringent property requirements. I am in a military town and lots of our clients use VA loans. We have had some success with having the loan officers call the listing agents when we submit offers and try to help ease their concerns with advising the sellers to accept a VA loan offer. We ask the loan officer to talk about how qualified the buyer client is and that based off their research, the property will meet the VA minimum property standards. Hope this helps! Good luck man

Post: Pints & Properties Surf City, NC

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Post: Buy and Hold, Short Term Rental

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Congrats man! That looks awesome. Are you STRing both the top and bottom? What is each expected to gross? 

Post: Anyone Invested into Courses or Coaching?

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

These forums will beat any course if you put the time into learning from these experienced people. Also the new BP book on STRs by Avery Carl sounds like it contains a wealth of knowledge. I am excited to read it.

Post: Biggest Real Estate Investing Mistake Ever

Sean McDonnellPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Surf City, NC
  • Posts 646
  • Votes 595

Our biggest investing mistake so far was trying to do everything ourselves initially. We did not do a good job of managing our first long term rental and the tenants totally took advantage of us. We learned our lesson and hired a property manager who is doing a great job and we hardly think of this property now! We lost money the first two years but the lessons we learned were invaluable and now it cashflows a solid $200 a month and has appreciated over 75k. Gotta love real estate