Hey everybody,
(Sorry to mods, originally posted this in the wrong forum!)After roaming the BP Forums and blogs for the past few years, my wife and I are finally under contract for our first rental property. So finge...

It is common not to have comps for multi-family because they have slow turnover and there just are not as many duplexs as there are houses so the sales comparison approach is not very accurate unless you do have a good recent comp in the area and that is why the rent is very important.

I’m really curious since I cannot find a comparison between House hacking - BTL student accommodation.So if you or anyone could just clear up the good and bad of both, that would be amazing.Thank you for the blog, looking out for the younger ones.

(I say didn't save because buyer's agent are free/extremely low cost in comparison to what an agent charges to list a property for sale.)

You need to rehab it first to have a fair comparison with a buy and hold deal.

Pricewise there is no significant change in the loop market by a comparison of the first four months sales between 2019 and 2020. 4.

The closest house in comparison that I could find sold in 2016 for $304,900 and is about 400 sqft smaller with a similar age, layout, lot size and golf course view.

New construction should fair quite well by comparison from a capex standpoint and renting out.

As I use the bigger pockets calculators to analyze potential deals, for the extra upfront money required to get into the small apartment deals, it does not produce extra cash flow in comparison to what is required for me to continue with duplexes. 

Your NOI will be "falling" in comparison to surrounding retail properties however the value of your property will still be impacted by inflation.