@Tim LaRiviereNot sure what your time horizon is, but creating real and measurable passive income can take some time, especially depending on your risk tolerance, the funds you have available and to what extent you want to partner with others or get hard money financing.  

Agents are being measured how they can utilize their time efficiently and able to achieve their successes.

A zipcode does not a good demographic measure make. 

Hi all,First post here and I couldn’t find it answered anywhere else - I have a 2-unit in Portland Maine built in 1920 and for the first time this year the fire safety inspector measured my upstairs bedroom windows and found neither of them conformed to existing egress window standards.

We are so wrapped up in investing (i.e. analysis, due diligence, performance measures, etc.) that we end up investing for the sake of investing (i.e.

That’s a nice scale for measuring general expectations.

Anyone below is a automatic rejection.Credit score is a measurement of risk of non payment.

A paper by Joshua Gallin published in Real Estate Economics (The long‐run relationship between house prices and rents) was a great place to start, and the gist I got is that we can measure risk in the home ownership market using the price to rent ratios, much like we do in the stock market with price to earnings ratios.

I am trying to gauge what to measure potential deals by when it comes to profit amount.

Agreed with Larry on this one -- because real estate is so illiquid, there's no reasonable situation where equity accrual should be considered part of a cash return.While Nathan's way is certainly better than just including it in the COC, it obfuscates the intended purpose of the COC measurement.