If your 50% expenses consists of 20% vacancy and another property has a 5% vacancy the NOI will be DRAMATICALLY different. 

When you want to dramatically increase the number of your holdings as a way to jump start operating cash - 1031(diversification exchange)7.

This has dramatically altered by move out process since all tenants are in a hurry to move out.  

Things are still on the rise in palm beach county but not nearly as dramatically as the past few years.

Having it in a legally zoned area also helps dramatically.

The reason I “retired” from being a tax attorney is because I was flipping real estate and I realized that there are laws in the US territory of Puerto Rico that can significantly reduce my taxable gains while avoiding complicated structures or buying assets that do not perform etc There are 2 laws that Mr Dan Heimer is mentioning about Puerto Rico to reduce taxes legally (I assure you most CPAs can search this info but will not grasp it totally) The two laws are Law 22 if you personally relocate and take residence in Puerto Rico (just like moving to Florida or Texas there are benefits with no state taxes), well Puerto Rico has special rules approved by Congress for those applying under that tax incentive law - but this is too dramatic and it only makes sense if you are a billionaire like John Paulson or many other wall street gurus who moved there to reduce their taxes Then there is Law 20 which is for businesses.

I don't discount the ability of leverage to grow your portfolio dramatically - and the leverage I have was done just for that purpose, when a great deal came up and I was in too many projects - but for me personally I'm not interested in owning 100 doors.

I am now working on the SEO portion of the program and my rankings are improving dramatically every week. 

All of this together has cut down on my emergency calls dramatically.

The costs can vary dramatically depending on how much needs to be done to get those items near your proposed new hookup.