My most measurable goal was to add $10K in new monthly rental income in 2010.

We had Wordpress and many tools to measure performance though.If you PM me I will e-introduce you guys.BTW...BiggerPockets pulled 2nd best of all of our funnels to our site too.

Project a 4-8% reduction in market price for good measure after purchase, run your numbers again.

If the 50% rule is in fact a true measure, my calculations tell me doing rentals would get me 6% return, just 1% higher than a bank CD.

Allowing for a modicum of debt, this meant that only 1% of the population of San Diego could qualify for a mortgage based on traditional measurement.

Is measuring your cash against long-term debt a useful tactic as your portfolio scales in size?

As soon as we demo the place we will make our measurements for the kitchen and start on that. 9.

This site will help us build a buyers list for wholesaling and retailing which will help us build some savings for our first property.Usually I like to make more specific goals with measurable results but at the moment I just want to get some things down to get the thread rolling.

And 36 Other Key Financial Measures" by Frank Gallinelli.

Stocks are in the top quintile of historical valations based on all of these measures, and this makes it HIGHLY likely that stocks will perform poorly over the next decade Bonds at 2% on the 10yr treasury, same story, very expensive.I know this is off-topic for this thread, but I'm concerned that folks just hear this "stocks have averaged 9%" mantra from the brokerage community and go with it.