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15 January 2025 | 8 replies
Hi @Deepak Malhotra,Thanks for sharing your experience—there’s a lot to learn here!
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22 January 2025 | 13 replies
Can I DM you to pick your brain on what you've learned over the years?
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17 January 2025 | 11 replies
I’m here as a 51 year old newbie to real estate investing and wanting to learn as much as possible.
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29 January 2025 | 16 replies
that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.
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23 January 2025 | 2 replies
Moving from SFR to MF has its own learning curve without the development part.
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29 January 2025 | 28 replies
.), and anything else that is important to them.Ask follow-up questions to dig deeper and learn more (without being too intrusive) then jot down any relevant notes so that you can reference them down the line during your follow-up calls.
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28 January 2025 | 9 replies
If you're running a fix & flip business, you'll eventually want to learn how to estimate repairs and independently prepare a scope of work.
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11 February 2025 | 25 replies
You can easily do this on a spreadsheet and it will take less time to track than it would to find and learn a new software.
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19 January 2025 | 21 replies
I have been binge listening to The Bigger Pockets podcast for the past few months and have learned a lot so far.
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29 January 2025 | 14 replies
that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.