If we get the rent I predict, we will still make $120 a month and pay $0 for housing.

Still not amazing, and maybe you can do better, but it depends on your market and your predictions for the future!

I say "prediction" because the property will be completely vacant when I take possession.After lots of research and time looking at costs for updating (and negotiating with the seller to make some repairs), these are the numbers I have finalized on my 9 unit MF purchase, which is closing in March.

You can predict the price of a home for sale within a few thousand dollars by just eyeballing it.

It is interesting to hear the housing market predictions from all different sources.

As Beachbum said, nothing can predict exactly what the expenses will be for a given unit in a given year because there are too many unknowns.

The Baseball season is soon upon us and I thought we could make our pre/early season predictions for who is going all the way this year . . .My guess: Mets vs.

I am not going to make any solid predictions about the bottom, until I see the extent of fallout from this group.

Hard to predict what lending guidelines or house values will be in the future.Any exchange of money between you and the seller that doesn't appear on the HUD-1 is most likely loan fraud.

I use 50% for all the expenses and don't try to predict any particular expense for a given unit in a given year.Mike