For too long, flood insurance has been associated with mortgage requirements, rather than a prudent measure of protection against a catastrophe that many property owners would not rebound from without coverage. 

You and I have always said on here that taking 50% of rents and measuring that number against your investment is a pretty good basic way to evaluate a deal. 

For instance, in this case, here are the key points:1 - Profit in rental REI is measured mostly in cash flow...POSITIVE CF.2 - PCF is the result of the spread between the income (rent) and outgo (expenses)...per month/year.3 - Profit is a measure of the difference between the positive cash flow, and the amount of cash you put into a deal from out of YOUR pocket.4 - Since the mortgage (interest and principle) is paid out of the rent, which is paid to you by the tenant, the mortgage is NOT a cost to you...but a cost to the tenant (indirectly). 

Service fees, booking fees, commissions, whatever name they use, everyone seems to be charging some sort of middle-man fee that causes a serious discrepancy between the costs Guests pay and the money Hosts receive.I’m posting here to try and get some feedback on an idea I’ve had kicking around for a while to try and solve the problem.Basically, I’m aiming to establish a listing service that only charges an annual listing fee to the Host.

The kitchen was pretty big and I figured that I would pay about $100 per LF for cabinets and I roughly measured 15ft of cabinets.

Cash and cash like substance, cost to buy and cost to use, own and control, measuring returns using Stock Market terms and using REI terms, possitive CF and Negative CF, the power of the penny, the power of compounding, goals and plans, etc...4 - You need to learn how to develop a REI Plan. 

I am definitely aiming to surpass it though haha  

@Jacob Chapman no one can answer that question without knowing the scope of work and the level of finish you are aiming for

The yield gap measured 490 bp in March 2009 (13th percentile).

They can then see the value of setting aside money into a retirement plan where they can actually create measurable results.We also work as a platform provider for many financial advisors who are tuned-into the need for diversification beyond stocks and want their clients with expertise in real estate to be able to invest that way with retirement funds.