Your $1,600 / month translates to $19,200 per year in PM at $1,000 a unit.  

Hey John - Not sure if this tactic translates to RE perfectly, but I work in sales and one of the tactics I've found success in when trying to win someone over is to show them the financial pain of inaction and then visually graph the numbers on a chart/powerpoint/posterboard/etc right next to the outcome that I'm looking for a.k.a. doing business with me. 

I multiply the rent by the occupancy rate.As we speak i'm analyzing a deal where the rent is $900/mo, in an area which typically sees a vacancy rate of 10% - which translates to a 90% occupancy rate90% of $900 is $810 and that's the number I use for my analysis

That translates into $18.6 billion of debt, and assuming 75% LYV, translates into $23.25 billion of MF property.What does this mean for you?

Will it translate because the business model is the same? 

Some things that are common sense to a LL don't translate to a renter's common sense.

They carry a lot of the smaller and hard-to-find parts that can translate into a simple repair, as opposed to an expensive and time-consuming replacement. 

This all translates to mean that your payments will be higher per month on a commercial loan due the shortened amortization period.Hope it helps!

in exchange I can help with anything, I am fluent in Spanish and Italian so I could help with translation, or anything else.Thank you so much in advance, Abigail Florentino

Translate that for cash flow