Stop benchmarking yourself against other people your age, or the general population at all as most will always be working and spending all they earn.What market are you in? 

It will give me and I’m sure many others a benchmark in which to start.Location:Type of property:Monthly rent:Expenses:Mortgage:PS - I understand you might have to combine several properties to get $1K/month cash flow, please write that down too!

Transparency, ease, access are all tenets of CFRE so you should use that as a benchmark: you should be able to find or receive all the information you need to make an informed decision on the investments.

Hi Bradley White - Our goal is to hit someone with the message every 4 to 6 weeks, whether that is door-to-door, direct mail, or a combination of those.And here is a benchmark on delivery (for anything door-to-door).

That is an important benchmark as the rate on this loan puts the risk into a similar category as those 'vanilla' prime conventional loans.

Develop financial benchmarks so that you are comparing applicants the same way.

I arrived at  those benchmarks because they were more or less handed to me on the first 2 deals that I did (actually both deals came inside those figures).

Rather it is a decent benchmark by which good data (recent sales) can be vetted. 

By evaluating like this you can red light green light very easily and create benchmarks to quickly eliminate the losers and see the winners rise to the top.  2.  

Our absolute limit of liability is 8% of purchase price to conform with GAAP rules for a sale, which is a very important benchmark.