Because such a high percentage of these units are investments and not primary residences, the units in these buildings are known as "Condotels" or "Non Warrantable Properties."

The “headline” number or main number typically seen in media reports, is the percentage change in inflation versus the prior year.

I am asking about a real estate portfolio specifically, not your overall portfolio that may consists of stocks and/or bonds.Do you build your RE portfolio based on a predetermined percentage of each asset class (ex. 50% residential properties 50% passive funds)?

If they collect $1,000 for me, they keep a percentage of it and I get the rest.

An outsized percentage of them are guys who never quite made it in the trades and decided to get their home inspector's license to supplement a not-so-steady income from other sources.

It's the perfect storm of low end houses (they look nice, but they are all builder grade stuff where they are throwing these homes up by the thousands every year), high occupancy with most stays having a high percentage of young wild children, and tired parents after a long day in the parks that are too wiped to police their kids properly.

We have rental properties in various LLC's and until recently were under the impression that the deductions we could claim against my W2 income was limited to her percentage interest in the LLC's (i.e. since we are 50/50 members in the LLC that only 50% (her share) of passive losses can be deducted against my ordinary income.  

Unfortunately, you also need to  account for expenditures other than your debt service…I.e. repairs, vacancy, etc. usually people assume these as a percentage into their calculation.

So if you have a high rent it’s a smaller percentage and a low rent it’s a higher percentage.

If you charge some percentage lower than the local power company, your tenants will get a break and be happier.