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Recently I've seen others in this space sitting on the sidelines waiting for the bottom to drop I am still looking for deals but wanted to put something out there to my fellow multifamily investors on how to get cashflow by means other than buying apartments.To illustrate my point I'll show you two deals, hint: only one of them is real. 

My point is to illustrate the importance of knowing your market and being educated on REI. 

In addition to which returns/ratios to show, what frequency do you illustrate the returns to your investors?

This does not show housing price drops -- we know those were bad -- but it illustrates that rental revenue was not as hard hit as sale prices.

@Marzieh Rostami  To illustrate and example, lets say you buy the land for $150k, and you build a 1200ft2 house for $132k (=1200ft2 @ $110/ft2), ignoring finance and soft costs, your total cost would be $282k. 

@Brian Faust your question clearly illustrates my point.

(I realize I cannot control the outcome of investments with that level of precision, but I'm using those numbers to illustrate a point).Feed back would be much appreciated!

This is just meant to be illustrative... certainly not actionable advice.You don't really state what your goal is for the property.

I don't know if the numbers work but for ease of illustration - if the propert you're purchasing is worth $700K and the investment portion could be allocated to be 50% of the property then you could purchase the property using the 1031 proceeds and accepting debt for the remainder which would be your primary.