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Shakthi Kamal Is a min of 2% rent to price ratio needed for positive cashflow in today's market?
6 January 2025 | 2 replies
that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.
Audrey Sommer Texas Laws on Out of State Investors
9 January 2025 | 8 replies
Better to go right to the source.
Matthew McCarty Started out, need advice. Already have one property and have 100K in the bank.
2 January 2025 | 4 replies
If you learn how to use Hard Money loans properly and how to find good deals in need of rehab, there are plenty of areas of the country where you could buy 3-4 rent properties in solid middle class areas with good cashflow.
Abby Blumenfeld Buying My First Investment Property at 21
28 December 2024 | 6 replies
That property is now a reliable source of rental income and a constant reminder that success starts with taking action, learning on the fly, and embracing challenges head-on.
Walter Pineda Your Property Management suggestion for Memphis, TN Please.
16 January 2025 | 11 replies
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Sebastian Nadal Greetings from Chicago
2 January 2025 | 13 replies
I am orginally from Elgin, but living down in Logan Square area of Chicago proper!
Bradley Buxton What are the scariest things about real estate investing?
5 January 2025 | 24 replies
Their commercials seem higher quality than the no on prop 33 commercials (who have similar budgets but from much more sources).Hopefully voters educate on this and strike down this proposition for the third time. 
Henry Clark Belize 25 acres Teak
4 January 2025 | 28 replies
We have to order six months ahead from our Mennonite source and put a deposit down
Bob Dole Cost Segregation -- What is the true benefit of the accelerated depreciation?
9 January 2025 | 32 replies
The thing I'm trying to figure out is how to properly qualify as a RE Prof.