IE buying RE considerably under market value.

If they aren't taking you seriously you could give them 100 bucks as earnest money (I believe it's called a consideration).

Compare those three over 10 years, without consideration for ROI and see where you get.

I ran this by my title attny today:He said that until there are both signatures, and consideration is received there is no contract.

Might as well go through the trouble of finding your own cash buyers and assign the contracts to them for a considerable profit.

The purpose is to be able to compare deals "apples to apples"Placing more money down on one deal does not necessarily make it a better deal than the other.Similarily, in commercial, cap rates are commonly used which take into consideration only the gross income less operating expenses, arriving at the NOI (net operating income), therefore romoving any debt leverage from the equation.

it's 'consideration' Also I wouldn't offer 'rent credits' Originally posted by Matt Batson: Also, how do you handle things like a plugged toilet and such?

Most rookies don't take all OEs into consideration, Darin.

Of course the Opt. consideration, has the T/B made many costly improvements, how long have they been there etc.

Have you taken into consideration the taxes?