I like your idea on setting an income number and building a model around that.

Appears some areas still offer rehabbing as a viable business model but for the most part, buy-and-holds more popular especially with depressed home prices elevating investor returns when compared to CD's, stocks, bonds, etc.

RIght now, I think there were four other topics on the board that are of a general or even non-RE related topic like this one.To me, it seemed to have a different flavor about it, more technically driven a couple years ago, when I first got here, I think it's been almost two years.

That sparked the interest and a lot of training fueled it.I love finance and modeling so real estate is a natural fit.

I have not yet and in my current biz model, do not see any benefit of use, but perhaps sometime in teh future.

The classic William Nickerson model was to take a certain amount from your units, coupled with your regular monthly savings, so that you can get to your next building faster.His model was:1.

These customers are narrowed to a particular brand and model.

If you plan to hold the project indefinitely the extra value is large, especially with rates so low.I suggest that you model both scenarios and do so in a very conservative fashion.

It would change most buy-and-holders business model drastically if would get endless 4-5% money.

We were out looking at a house near the same street and I asked my Realtor if he'd be willing to let us see it so we knew what the model looked like.