Sean Gallagher
Scaling out of state while busy working my W-2
12 January 2025 | 23 replies
My recommendation, depending on income, is to get 2-8 total properties per city and really allocate 40-60% of your intended investment before moving to the next city.
Kody Smith
Transition from SFR to Multi Family 10-20 units
6 January 2025 | 17 replies
Quick math, $2.8M equity + $1.8M cash = $4.6MSo take that $4.6M and re-allocate it, buy SFR with cash, and target appreciating areas.
Bruce Woodruff
Thoughts on the California fire repercussions
22 January 2025 | 17 replies
I recently did an underwriting where I allocated $6k/year to insurance.
Marisela Arechiga
To ADU or to Purchase Another?
14 January 2025 | 8 replies
It falls short of the 1% rule which with current rates is not sufficient in most markets to have achieved real cash flow after properly allocating for sustained expenses.
Kezia Edmonson
SFH investment 1031 into MFH investment/primary?
23 December 2024 | 5 replies
The primary residence unit does not qualify, so the purchase price must be allocated between investment and personal use.
Jeff Goedeker
P&L excel template for rentals
23 December 2024 | 9 replies
Specific is how I classify loans toed to a specific property, and generic is how I classify our family loan that is not tied to any specific property, so I have to allocate it myself.
Julio Gonzalez
Cost Segregation FAQ
31 December 2024 | 3 replies
The IRS defines a “quality” cost segregation study as “a study that is both accurate and well documented with regard to” 1) the classification of property into classes, 2) Explanation of rationale for the classification of the property and 3) substantiation of the cost basis of each asset and reconciliation of the total allocated costs to total actual costs.
Nicholas Dillon
Does it make sense to take money out of the stock market to invest in RE?
22 December 2024 | 2 replies
It will also depend on how your asset allocation is, I like to keep mine mixed between real estate and the stock market.
Ed Lopez
Excessive "Make Ready" Costs from Property Manager
21 January 2025 | 35 replies
Pm takes over 1.5 months. 4.5 months of 11 months (allocating same 1 month year vacancy as OP) for just turn over and PM.
Rene Hosman
What do you consider a "good" cash flow for a property in 2024?
7 January 2025 | 22 replies
I would say the cash flow would go up every year and that would usually be the case but my son will be moving into one unit probably for just the labor to rehab the last unit (collected rent will go down for a year).After that rehab is complete, at market rent I would have about $8k/month cash flow with underwriting that most would consider conservative (for example $1200/month allocated to maintenance/cap ex).