Latisha Douglas
Calling all (successful) Low income (class C / D) investors
4 October 2023 | 96 replies
It helps me to make rational decisions vs. building hatred, anger and not wanting to deal with tenant problems.The first thing I did was I sent every tenant a letter telling them how I was the new building owner.
Cori Leste
Dumb question about expensive markets
28 October 2019 | 29 replies
They are emotional buyers looking to buy their "home", and will do a lot of rationalizing to make sense of their "investment".
Dennis M.
Disabled tenants in the hood
3 November 2019 | 66 replies
That doesn't make it right, it just makes it rational. 2.
Kyle Curtin
Price to rent ratio for multi’s?
13 September 2020 | 2 replies
There are lots of other factors to consider (for example Property A could be falling apart, and Property B could be turnkey) - The price to rent rations (aka 1% rule) is just a quick screening tool, nothing more.
Erin Spradlin
So What If Airbnb Is Crashing Right Now...
17 June 2020 | 79 replies
Renting out rooms has helped us rationalize staying in a home that is oversized for our present situation.
Cameron Lambo
Quantity vs. Quality: When does a rental reno cost too much?
5 December 2018 | 8 replies
The opportunity cost of spending more time remodeling a rentals slows my growthIgnoring my degree in finance and my rational brain.
Christian Austin
Renting in home market, while investing elsewhere
28 January 2014 | 17 replies
I also come from a project management background, so was well aware of the amazing feats that can be accomplished with a competent team.When it was time to invest, I scanned all markets I had any sort of access to, evaluated which other ones I could enter with reasonable safety by utilizing unfamiliar teams on the ground, then crossed that over with potential returns.I'm a pure cashflow investor, never like to speculate, so reliable monthly cashflow was criteria no. 1, followed closely by no. 2 - ease of management and low maintenance, then finally no. 3 - Affordability (which equals hedge and diversity), and last but not least, no. 4 - would I like to visit once or twice a year, at worst case, if things require my hands-on attendance.A combination of the four pointed at Japan, which is where I'm primarily invested (with smaller portions of our family portfolio in the US, Europe and Australia), although I'm only living there half the year at this point, thanks to good team utilization which means I don't need to go there unless I want to - this may change now that the yen's down and our son's nearing primary school age - which is the whole point of renting where you live and investing where the money and the environment works for you - to retain the flexibility and lifestyle benefits of being able to work and live anywhere we want at any given time.This is, of course, a long process of rationalization and calculation summarized in a nutshell - if I haven't bored you to death yet, and you want to hear more about the hows and whys of investing overseas, feel free to contact me. :)Best of luck in your chosen path, you seem to be considering all the right factors before embarking on it - I'm sure you'll enjoy the ride.
Greg R.
Housing crash deniers ???
14 January 2023 | 2904 replies
again, you're making these wild statements without any sort of rational explanation other than "the coast people know better" thing.
Sergio Aguinaga
Private/hard money lender aftermath
6 October 2018 | 10 replies
If it is on your personal ration how much income from the property can you claim?
James York
Why are you refusing section 8 vouchers?
19 March 2023 | 212 replies
No one is against equal housing opportunity, the market can make rational decisions on its own.