
19 January 2025 | 55 replies
Free option available too.

30 January 2025 | 19 replies
Yearly increasing costs will, in time, eat up any profit they have per unit.

17 February 2025 | 8 replies
Our average monthly revenue is $2,675.We have had 46 stays so, $4,600 in cleaning fees (the cleaning fees are included in the avg $2,675 monthly revenue) If we have someone clean it, it costs $100.

27 January 2025 | 18 replies
@Joseph BinkowskiDon’t forget that you can now be qualified as an accredited investor by passing the series 65 exam without any income or net worth requirements.It will cost you around $200 to $300 and will be valid for 2 years (unless you can park your license with a financial advisor firm, then it will last as long as you maintain it).It is not a difficult exam and you should be able to pass it with around 40 hours of self study with a good prep book or website.

28 February 2025 | 26 replies
Debt service is way up, revenue is generally down, down payments are way up, financing terms and costs are much worse.The time of fast scaling has passed, unless you're very creative.

18 February 2025 | 9 replies
So, the extra unit may cost you more then it brings if you cannot access equity or if the market discounts the property when you go to sell due to financing available.

6 February 2025 | 2 replies
I had a client who kept waiting for a better rate, only to see it jump 0.5% overnight costing him thousands.

11 February 2025 | 31 replies
Second year distributions rise to 5.27%, third year 7.27%, according to the projections.Those projections may be at risk, for many reasons: the recent huge increase in interest rates -- increasing the cost of loans and decreasing valuations, insurance costs have skyrocketed, real estate taxes are up, labor and material costs for repairs & renovations have increased, etc.On the plus side, the majority of the ODC funds were designed to be high value add projects with plans to increase operating efficiencies, add tenants and raise rents.

27 February 2025 | 6 replies
Hopefully someone with tax accounting knowledge can jump in here with more detailed analysis, but I looked at this a bit several years ago...1) You still have to pay the depreciation recapture on the sale decreasing the net benefit of this approach due to the large tax payment in the 'sale' year2) The LLC would need to not be a passthrough entity so that it can be taxed separately from you, so you have to add another tax return cost for the years going ahead3) Taxing it separately from you likely means corporate status and corp. taxation rates which are higher than yours and I've heard many times over the years to avoid titling real property as a corp...Overall from what I've seen this only makes sense in a select few scenarios, which for most people aren't in play.

27 January 2025 | 21 replies
So a room used for laundry that is 100 sq ft (quite common) costs the owner about $72,000 over the course of a decade (in today's dollars).