Quote from @Trevor Finn: Hey @Michael Wentzel,Congratulations on an impressive real estate career thus far!

However, in any civil judgement, collecting is a different story. 

I've had a free trial of property radar before, and I was impressed, but how do we know the data is accurate and current for any of these platforms?

Revenue (USD)1,5046429991,2451,6872,3843,6346,059Revenue 2021:MarketBedroomStudio1 Bedroom2 Bedroom3 Bedroom4 Bedroom5+ BedroomLowest monthly revenue4781551262994855678381,220Highest monthly revenue3,7021,7822,4023,2614,2265,9607,58113,008Top listings by revenue (2021) by typeBedroom (USD):26,267 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/4194669920,739 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/41933482Studio (USD):15,938 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/877259715,513 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/4372084215,505 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/437125351 Bedroom (USD)46,729 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/4371253541,631 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/4473623034,878 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/437125352 Bedroom (USD)46,764 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/4474057646,753 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/2794866646,568 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/352304833 Bedroom (USD)65,067 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/3016841862,927 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/3092969360,572 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/79445974 Bedroom (USD)95,798 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/461402578,379 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/2168099972,150 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/23319248+ 5 Bedroom (USD)71,752 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/3585985153,277 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/541379926,563 - www.airbnb.com/rooms/5281704Other market info- Average selling price m2: 2.680 EUR- Average transaction value: 155K EUR- Average rent (long term) per m2: 4.9 EUR/m2The numbers were collected from a pricing software that we use to manage the pricing of apart-hotel units we operate.With this information I was able to calculate the maximum I would be able to pay for property (including works, buying costs, etc), to have an edge for a positive cash on cash return.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Surely they're collecting most rents, even during COVID.

You can find higher ROI (on paper) here and probably in other cities…but the probability of actually collecting rent significantly decreases.

If you’d been holding around $620K from a 2019 sale and directed it toward a few properties like that.. especially if you leveraged financing.. you might’ve grown your portfolio’s total value well beyond what many Los Angeles holdings would have delivered over the same period.Then again, L.A. still has that unique mix of robust demand and limited supply.. from what I’ve heard, you can see impressive long-term gains there if you’re comfortble navigating tenant protections.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

You can find higher ROI (on paper) here and probably in other cities…but the probability of actually collecting rent significantly decreases.