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.

We will be focusing on property rehab and buy to rent.Funnily enough, it was a review search on a get-rich property seminar (that had a few scammy elements) that made me stumble across BP.

You can screen well, but as long as the human element is there, you could run into anything. 

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.

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

This is long-term investing for us with a focus on stewardship, good business practices and with a dose of the human element.

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. 

I knew it would likely get rejected on paper so I called the listing broker to put a human element to the offer.

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!!!