But don't take my word for it; do the calculations for yourself;4.

What are ways you have seen landlords calculate rent raises?

For real estate the will calculate what your return would be if you purchase a single-family home at market rate and hold it for ten years.

I built myself a little calculator. 

The floor area is to be calculated on the basis of total dwelling unit area.Thank you for making some excellent items to consider going forward.

What blew my mind through this process is how people calculate returns.

Interest rates are in the 6's right now so that heavily affects any new calculations for DSCR than when you bought the property.A hope would be that as your loan comes do and gets closer hopefully interest rates fall some making potential extra payment less required from lender.  

When calculating that into your analysis you’ll see that can eat up your profit real quick.

I think people do not calculate the toll the lower end properties take on investors with years of ownership.Even with management in place there tends to be more problems with those properties over time.The emotional toll alone owning a low end rental portfolio over a decade is enough to make me cringe.Time is something we never get back.

Also if it is intended to possibly be a rental you should calculate the end result of the acquisition, the debt service, the rehab, etc and pretend to get a loan to refinance. then look at the potential rent to offset that monthly cost and see if it would cash flow.