
5 March 2020 | 3 replies
My reluctance is that it is in an A -A+ neighborhood and everyone I've listened to has said that it is best to buy in a B-C+/blue collar neighborhood so that your chances of keeping a longer term tenant and avoiding annual vacancies will be low.

5 March 2020 | 7 replies
Depends on your long term goal and if it cash flows/maint/vacancies/appreciation, etc
5 March 2020 | 13 replies
Determine how much you could charge for rent and how much your expenses would be (including mortgage, insurance, property management, repairs, capex, vacancy, etc).

6 March 2020 | 11 replies
I use 8% as vacancy which is 1 month out of 12. 5% vacancy is 1 month out of 20 .

5 March 2020 | 4 replies
I have two buildings under contract, that host 25% vacancy, and a traditional commercial bank will not finance them.

6 March 2020 | 10 replies
Make sure you can make a case for the projections that you are making and be sure to include realistic vacancy factors and rents.

5 March 2020 | 1 reply
but I placed them in an expense/cost section along with water/sewer, trash, heat, electric, vacancy, management, maintenance, and capex.

21 March 2020 | 42 replies
I'm sure it will appreciate well over time since ADU's are still new and in 5 years there will be more properties to compare it to for appraisers - but we are not comfortable with covering vacancy costs that could be up to 7k per mo.

12 March 2020 | 75 replies
I think the economies of scale of multi family and not having a single vacancy or repair eat up all profits in a year are very good reasons to go with larger multi family units.

12 March 2020 | 9 replies
I have ran all the numbers, including PITI, vacancy, maintenance and CapEx, and it would just barely cashflow.