That's a pretty conservative number and doesn't always work around here where purchase prices are much higher than other parts of the country.The 1% rule is for rentals and is a way of ballparking a deal. 

This is a duplex that I am considering purchasing, and I tried to be as conservative as possible.

If your numbers work, conservatively, then they will work even better when things are better. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.How does this analysis fare, I feel as though I used fairly conservative numbers.

I keep about 25% of the rent set aside for repairs, vacancy and cap ex (probably too much but wanted to be conservative) and the house cashflows roughly $300 per month.

They are also one of the few funds that has an investment grade rating and  conservative leverage at 40% .

The CA market is high risk right now and lenders are getting conservative.

When it comes to building your own models how do you underwrite value add rent increases ie: bringing rents up to market at lease renewal/ bringing down units onlineIt can be done manually when investing on a small scale but once you get into bigger unit counts it seems inefficient to manually enter the rent roll for each month during reposition and even more complex when there is a diverse unit mixHow you do you model this on your large deals with the goal of accuracy and being conservative?

Once you learn the numbers and what makes a conservative deal you will be able to find very quickly who is and isn't a strong operator.

To be conservative I am basing numbers on an average rental amount per unit of $600 a unit, and  believe can increase unit count to 12 to 14 units but that is not in my numbers at this moment.