Are both taken out of the gross rental income before all of the other operating expenses or after you deduct the operating expenses?

.), helping them with their bills, while also paying for a beach house STR that is not covering it's own expenses (thank God summer is on the way), and I am carrying $64k in credit card debt with interest that is eating my lunch.  

Costar is exceptionally expensive as has been eluded to here a couple times. 

A DTI (Debt-to-Income) ratio of 50% or lower, when including all expenses you pay/month, would be safe IMHO.

The only down side of the area is that all types of properties are more expensive.

MFH helps reduce vacancy expense, and you'll typically have a better ROI.

Expenses: 1.

Missing a few details—namely it seems your expenses seem high.

Hello, I was reading the book and was wondering if you can share the link to download the flow chart income/expense. 

If possible, not use an agent, to lower commission owed expense (not sure if this is possible in Chicago, IL).