Do we all just take our equity percentage and claim it as it applies to us? 

Some first time home buyer will overestimate their DIY skills and underestimate the scope of work and cost.While equity is a percentage (ideally 25%) rehab cost is a dollar amount that does not go down with lower priced properties.

Basing maintenance/cap ex as a percentage of rent is not smart even though many rent calculators use percentage.

If nothing else, maybe a lawyer would take a percentage of ownership in the property as payment for getting this all straightened out.

Even though a county “seems onboard” it’s never a given with them until you have your site plan approved.Up through that time expect to use your own funds or get an investor but they will want a good percentage of the deal due to the risk involved

Regardless of using a partner or not, you have an interesting question of percentages.

I was wondering how you would go about finding out how much (in percentage terms) the operating expenses are on a property without owning it aka when looking for properties to purchaseBecause of course if I already owned the property then I would know because I have to pay them all but when trying to figure out if a property's purchase price is justified how can I determine how much the operating expenses will be?

Does your PM get a percentage of repairs as well?

Hi Luis,It sounds like the larger property would cash flow around the same percentage range but the appreciation potential likely higher for the 750k property.

I came across a website called Niche.com, and it tells you a little bit more about the demographics of an area, and one thing specifically it told me was about the percentage of people who rent/own in that zip code.