I am interested to hear how you are allocating your education dollars.

It matters when seeking financing.The blog might be made to justify selling a larger loan, LOL, I agree with Minh.Your return is really more to the weighted average of cash and financed amounts, so the OP's simplified allocation is not correct.There's an old saying, "figures lie and liars figure". :)

Greetings BP members,I'm looking to purchase a property and rehab it to flip.  My question, is there a rule of thumb about how the funds should be paid out to the contractor?  For example, if a contractor gave me a qu...

I suppose the in-house brokerage could be paid market rate commissions but that's ultimately the decision of the Builder on where they want to allocate revenues but there are cost savings nonetheless.  

During that time I didn't know better and wasn't allocating much to future CapEX or anything else for that matter. 

You can allocate out unmetered utilities but I haven't messed with it.  

If the mechanicals are in good shape or if they need repaired and allocating funds to repair them still makes sense then it's fine.

The examples in this thread boil down to over-zealous attempts to automate mortgage lending by allocating resources for mass marketing and flowcharts instead of people.

@Andy Bondhus , First, you have to carve out the value of the land from your 300k. and then you allocate the basis based on any reasonable method ( square footage). 

.), the portion of the management company's overhead allocated to your property, and profits for the management company.