Meaining you take the monthly rate and multiply it by 12.

Multiply that by 50 or 100 properties and you're talking about the difference between a failed business and a successful business.The 2% of gross rents that Mike mentioned is normally not feasible in most marketsI believe that the opposite is true.

That makes it really easy to know the most I should offer for an apartment building by just taking:Current monthly rent / 2% * number of units in building = price I should no exceed on building offer (thats divide by 2 percent not multiply).

. ($90,000 minus $73,893.48) you will get the gain on sale of $16,106.52.To factor in appreciation, simply multiply the appreciation number to the original purchase price and add that together to make your sale price.

I include a 20% margin in the rehab cost so multiply the estimate by 1.2.

If you occupy unit 2, your gross rent is $1,325 and multiply by 30% and that's $397.5 in additional expenses.

It multiplies what one person can do alone.

Additional ways to gauge value or whether to sell: cap rates gross rent multipliers comparable sales of similar triplex's fourplexes sales price per unit 1% or 2% rule on comparable properties or alternatives and more...

It is simply a form of Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM) which is a old crude screening tool.

It might be best to take the rent multiply by twelve, then divide by 26 and then instead of a monthly rental it is every two weeks.