Good morning fellow BP investors, I recently started getting tapes with no column that shows the amount of months left for the loan, a crucial bit of information.If i take the next due date and the maturity date and subtract the two, will that always give me the correct amount of months left?

I think most analyses show after subtracting inflation, the market does ~7%/yr in gains. 

Or, more precisely, it's subtracted from the gross income along with other expenses (plus the depreciation add-back, etc), and any remaining positive number is included as income (with nothing listed as a debt/liability).

So just use $0 for the mortgage amount... and if it won't allow you to do that, use any amount less than the purchase price and subtract the mortgage recording fee.

Also would it be wise to subtract this from your property net income each month before you arrive at a hard "cash flow" number per door?

Then, at the end of the month add up all the income, write that down, add up all the expenditures, write that down, then subtract one from the other to see how the month went.

The better you get over time at seeing those unforseen costs the better your profits will be on each deal.The "best" formula is to take the ARV and subtract the known repairs, taxes, holding costs, closing costs (both ends), commissions to sell, your preferred profit, ect. and what will be left will be the amount that you should not go over when purchasing the property.All this will depend upon how well you (or someone for you) estimate the ARV of that property.

Subtract line 2 from line 1.If less than zero, enter zero.___________ The amount on line 3 will generally equal the amount shown in box 2 of Form 1099-C.

Then, I'd figure out the cost to remove it and subtract that.

If there's a garage, measure that, too, and subtract it off.