
29 May 2024 | 4 replies
:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+, zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680, some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

30 May 2024 | 6 replies
Must we forget the other federal agency, the Federal Reserve, is in a highly restricting posture right now, holding interest rates at historic levels to slow inflation.

28 May 2024 | 9 replies
My wife is British, and I am also military!

28 May 2024 | 0 replies
Many homeowners locked in mortgage rates at historically low levels, between 2.5% and 3%, providing a golden opportunity for those refinancing or purchasing homes at that time.

30 May 2024 | 27 replies
But as others @Becca F. pointed out California RE produced more millionaires than anywhere else historically.

30 May 2024 | 22 replies
consider the opportunity cost of doing this#1) sell house for cash or to a buyer with their own financing from a bank, etc and you get 315K at time zero, you invest that at historic SP500 8.4% return over last 220 yrs and it grows to $3,541,514.46#2) do owner financing and you get 100k up front that invested at 8.4% grows to $1,250,000, plus you get your payments at $1400 x 360 months or $502k, invested grows to $3,265,000 total including the 1.25 mil aboveso you come out 300k better not doing it and you don't have to service the loan and all the other risksremember banks don't even carry mortgage notes after origination, they dump them onto the US taxpayer via illegal-unconstitutional havens like Fannie/Freddie/HUD, and for last 15 yrs the FED has bought every MBS in the country, which frees up the Banks capital to do it again and make the real money on churning the points and feesplus will next 30 yrs have higher inflation than last 30 yrs?

28 May 2024 | 2 replies
The property is an existing STR and the historical P&L data is solid.

27 May 2024 | 7 replies
Long time reader, first-time post.My partner (French/British) and I (Australian) moved to Canada 5yrs ago.

30 May 2024 | 93 replies
Quote from @Carlos Ptriawan: investing residential where I can control and the appreciation curves is exactly like what I've forecasted.It's also easy to look at historical performance and say that something has performed exactly as predicted.