Higher rents have a lower percentage, lower rents have a much higher percentage.

This leaves the other 50% to pay the mortgage.It sounds to me like you are assuming expenses to be a very tiny percentage of the income, which will come back to bite you in the long-run.So, before you take money out of this property, consider that it may take what is currently a negative cash flow situation and turn it into a disaster.

The beauty of this system is that the property/ies are each individually held by a third party trustee and your group can set up ownership percentages at whatever level you want per entity (usually with no less than 10% beneficial interest, but "could" be less as well).

It's like when countries in the UN try to say they give more money than the US - because what they give equates to a higher percentage of their GNP than what the US gives as compared to their own GNP.

I am new to this sort of thing and was wondering what people thought was reasonable.

I have a recently built condo (late 2007) with all recent applicances that I need to rent out. HOA allows it but does require mi...

According to Reuters. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090708/us_nm/us_realestate_usapartmentsA couple interesting things in this article:"The national vacancy rate rose to 7.5 percent, the highest since 1987 and an increase of 1.4 percentage points from last year, according to a report Reis released on Wednesday.

You can’t eveict as quick on a lease option but it can generally be done in 90 days or less.If you have “patient†money I think it is a good alternative to renting just understand that you will get a good percentage of your homes back if your investing in inner cities – which may or may not be a big deal as you can just turn it again.I think you need to have the home pay itself off in a short time though – you need to be free and clear quick.

I live in an area where a good percentage of homes are upside down a significant amount when they are in the pre-foreclosure stages.

While that may be so, it may not be the opinion of the homewoner and therefore they could take offense.Now, that said, I have no idea what percentage of homeowners who would take offense to that, but I thought it was noteworthy.

If so, at what percentage?