Therefore your overall rate of return spread becomes far less.

See if he will sit down with you a build out a spread sheet of costs.You could have backed out with an inspection contingency but you don't want to do that if you don't have to.

RE is awesome but let's not be ignorant about how the stock market works and spread bad information just because we like RE.

When looking at real estate all assets classified as 15 year land improvements and 5 or 7 year personal property qualify for 100% bonus depreciation, meaning you can deduct their entire cost in year 1 instead of spreading that deduction out over 5, 7 or 15 years.

Spread out your funds and get loans for 5.

After bills paid, I typically have around $300 to $400 left to spread out for savings monthly.

Vendors can do it because we spread the costs among thousands of customers. 

Just try and spread the word as much as possible, and have your friends tell their friends, all the way down to acquaintances.

The currently scheduled lease rates for these unit averages $814/month.Comparing existing leases rates to our “Base Case Scenario” you can see how much the new lease rates are exceeding our baseline projections AND the average currently scheduled rents: 2/1 New Lease +$78/month                Our Base Case is +$53/month2/2.5 New Lease +111/month             Our Base Case is +$71/monthI don't want to post the actual rent roll on here, but I can tell you that just from the wide spread in lease rates among unit of the same type that this property is carrying a big loss-to-lease.So what do you think? 

I applied, did indeed receive the $200,000, and invested it in a high yield mortgage loan, earning about a 8% spread ($16,000 per year) over a 4 year period.