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18 December 2017 | 11 replies
Here is what I come up with:Purchase Price: $400KIncome $37,620 (year two after 5% vacancy)Expenses $18,810 (50% rule, which may need to be more if you are covering all water)Debt Coverage $21,219 ($400K @ 3.375% 30 year fixed = $1,767.28 PI payment/mo)___________________________________________________________Cash Flow NEGATIVE $2,409 per yearNO Deal...in my book anyway.
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13 May 2019 | 177 replies
All of this hype will only exacerbate the negative effects of a crypto bubble that I do believe very obviously exists.
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1 March 2018 | 13 replies
People want to be paid for their time.I think people automatically jump to negative thoughts abut paying for mentors because of the association with "*gurus* 1 hour seminar make a million dollar" ads.
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2 June 2018 | 112 replies
All in all, negative experience; although, I did learn a lot and gained a few hundred thousand skymiles :)Overall, as someone who desired a very hands-off approach, I did not find the flip process and its juice to be worth the squeeze.
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9 April 2018 | 8 replies
Without thought I've kind of just followed the rule of thumb of capex being estimated at 10% of rent; it seems like that input might play a large part in all of my negative cash flow deals I've analyzed.Instead of estimating capex at 10% of rents, do you think it would be reasonable to back into capex by dividing $20k (a little more conservative than $16,000) by 360 months to get a monthly allocation towards capex?
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10 April 2018 | 17 replies
I am uncertain what others see in this property but what I see is a huge amount of negative cash flow.
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6 January 2023 | 14 replies
Thanks$230k Purchase Price$30k gross income/year (AirDNA/Rabbu)Yearly:$12000 Monthly payments$8000 utilities/capex/mx$7000 cleaning (70 stays/$100 per clean)Add in all the other costs and the cash flow is negative, even though it's such good loan terms.
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5 January 2023 | 6 replies
Your property will negatively cash flow.
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10 January 2023 | 14 replies
That could lead to harassment of the guests all the way to physical confrontations.That will generate a ton of negative reviews and kill your listing right quick.
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4 June 2021 | 17 replies
I don’t have BLS statistics on unemployment, but the city has been through the wringer, and nothing has really popped regarding a replacement for jobs.