To win, a player must get his character to buy his “dream” or accumulate $50,000 in monthly cash flow.The game forces the players to do the accounts by themselves.

After six months, the accumulated interest would be $2000. 14 nights in the place would have a value of $2100 (14*$150).

You and your family have worked hard to accumulate this equity.

Other people have different strategies - but you are assured a very nice cash flow with 5 paid off properties (plus the accumulation of more potentially).

You buy them for future wealth accumulation (appreciation) and current cash flow.

Only the principle portion of the payment accumulates toward equity.To calculate first year pay down in Excel:Fill in cell A1 with the loan amountCell A2 with the term in yearsCell A3 with the annual rate (not APR, just the rate)In cell A4 put =-PMT(A3/12,A2*12,A1)A4 will be your P&I payment.

I guess it comes down to whether or not you need to continue accumulating cash flow, or just eliminate as much monthly debt as possible.

I would love to accumulate houses that way.

There is no better way to reduce your ROI to almost nothing than by allowing it to accumulate as dead equity.

Being an inspector takes a good amount of construction knowledge and local code knowledge which can take years to accumulate.