The difference between these two numbers is that year’s net appreciation and principal debt payments less sales expenses and income taxes.The numerator of the formula is the property’s cash flow and increase in the equity for that year.

I am not an attorney, but I have fixed up numerous house and have run 2 construction companies and can speak from my years of experience in California.

When I asked “why” he simply replied; “You didn’t thank me, so I took it back.”From that day forward, I was always the first of my siblings to say, “Dad, thanks for taking us to Dairy Queen, dropping us at the movie theater, taking us to football practice, and thanks for not getting angry when we were teaching our youngest brother how to drown in the bathtub.”  

@Markeshia Calimee, That great you're Oakland native, so you must know the market well.I love horror movies/stories, you can tell me all about it! 

So far Ohio, Indiana and kentucky  seem like they may worth taking a closer look at ( a purely numeric observation). 

After listening to dozens of podcasts, and reading numerous real estate investing blogs and books I'm concerned that the following will doom me to failure.I'm not interested in traveling and I don't salivate over quotes.I've noticed repeatedly that real estate investing masters love nothing more than going on a vacation, and it just doesn't do it for me.

There's numerous 20-somethings through 40-somethings dotted all over the beltline. 

They have numerous evictions, a theft record, the good tenant says they steal her stuff and their kids pull pieces of the house off (siding corners), and best for last, when they failed to pay the electric and it got turned off, they switched the meters, which of course is dangerous and put the good tenant in a mess with the electric co that was sending her the bills!!!

I have spoke with numerous property management companies and plan to meet up with a few when I get construction quotes.

Simply watch the Movie Glenn Gary Glenn Ross that is EXACTLY how this stuff was remarket in the 50s and 60s..