Today, I analyzed over 10 condos, and while I found one with a positive cash-on-cash return, it was far from impressive.I’d love to hear from experienced condo investors about why this type of real estate might make sense despite the low cash-on-cash returns and HOA fees that cannot be influenced.As a bonus, if anyone has purchased investment properties for their children with a similar goal, I’d really appreciate any insights about your process or results.I am looking at buying 2 investment condos for my children to pay for their college tuition in 13-15 years.

Or we gradually perform high-quality updates for a live-in flip, then roll the equity into a new home.Regarding rental income, we aim to boost income, lower our effective tax rate by generating more low tax-drag income with rental income (since there’s not much we can do to lower out W2 tax bills) and have retirement cash flow.To compare the financial impact over 10-20 years, we want to analyze renting versus flipping.

They can also help you analyze the highest and best use for the property and location.

BP has various tools to help you analyze your deals (rentals, flips, wholesale, etc). : https://www.biggerpockets.com/investment-calculators7.

@Marc Zak look at the free calculator here on BP to see a pretty good model to analyze rental deals.

Then start analyzing deals so you get comfortable with that process.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

I use bigger pockets to analyze my flip deals.

It has been frustrating but it also is a positive as I now can quickly know what deals to not even waste time on analyzing. 

If you want to talk strategy, analyze deals, or just get some honest insight, feel free to reach out.