Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

The important part of investing is the calculations of a deal, having capital, and a W2 job that will help you get loans.

Plus you get interest income on top of your principal payments, too.Also allows you to spread the taxable gain out over time, which would help you keep taxable income low and potentially still contribute to Roth IRA in the year that you sell. 

Not only does this lower your taxable income, but it also allows you to support a cause you’re passionate about.

The increased depreciation deductions can offset your taxable income, including gains from the sale of the previous property.

On Page 134, he lists the following when analyzing a deal:Sales Price: $132,490.00Sales Expenses: $17,000.00Loan Balance: $55,004.72Total Invested Capital: $35,950.00Profit: $24,535.28I agree with his thought process here when he calculates net profit, but I'm trying to verify the net profit by adding up all the sources of income over the past five years in his example by doing the following:Appreciation over five years=$12,490 (see chart on Page 133).Cash flow ($297.73x12x5)=$17,863.80 over five years.Loan paydown: ($60,000-55,004.72)=$4,995.28 over five years.Sales Expenses are still $17,000.Doing the math, profit= $12,490+$17,863.80+$4,995.28-$17,000=$18,349.08There is a $6,186.20 difference from the net profit he calculates.My question is: Is this $6,186.20 difference due to the forced appreciation gained in the property from the rehab he does in this example?

Now the 9% doesn't seem to be a terrible deal, but then I calculated the risks involved.

I'm betting most all of these note schools are teaching how to move the asset through a system and facilitate a transaction, how to use a financial calculator or their software.

J Scott breaks down all the fixed costs on closing a wholesale/flip deal. I'm a new investor and wanted to understand where I could find all these costs for a certain zip? Are they more universal?  Inspection Co...

We like being aggressive in stock market investing but more conservative in real-estate given that we plan to use that for cash-flow eventually.The options are:We expect to have $200K/year in taxable savings the next 5 years (barring a job loss)- Pump all savings to the stock market & keep the current rental properties as-is and payoff the properties over the next 15 years using cash-flow for snowballing.