
16 July 2018 | 27 replies
I decided to get my license and according to the math I will break even on the board of realtors fees if I do one deal per year.

11 July 2018 | 72 replies
Live with parents, get your cost of living down to like 15k a year (no housing payments, no car payments, and make 65k/year, then the math works).

24 June 2018 | 3 replies
Make sure you double check their math, I have caught mistakes before.
4 July 2018 | 3 replies
Like a broken record, the trick is to find out the perfect Location, Location, Location ;-) Many STRs break even or even lose money because the math needs to make sense in terms of year-round high average occupancy rates necessary to pass the break-even threshold.

27 June 2018 | 1 reply
The primary reason is I'm having a hard time following your math, the numbers given don't really line up - I'll get to that in a moment.

2 July 2018 | 3 replies
From looking at your math evaluation, it does not look very good.
24 June 2018 | 2 replies
So a math example would be: buy for $100,000, spend $20,000 fixing it up, sell for $150,000, pay taxes on $30,000.

2 July 2018 | 10 replies
My goal (considering TVM principles) to get my money back within 5-10 years and for net present value to be better than selling and putting the cash in a conservative portfolio of stocks/bonds - which would be for me: 25% stocks/65% diversified bonds/10% cash or something of that nature yielding 3-4% after tax.My challenge still.... is the math and comparative analysis with different seller financing structuring.

6 July 2018 | 14 replies
If you don't have a firm answer you may never buy a primary residence because the math will always tell you to invest more.