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23 June 2008 | 19 replies
That is our plan.The costs of renovating the property are added to the tax basis of the property for calculating the gains when the property is sold.
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13 April 2008 | 4 replies
I found that my best bet was to keep some for rentals and flip the others via seller financing.
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10 August 2008 | 7 replies
I then multiplied 333 by 2066) The fact you can't find any comps is a real problem.This calculation is almost certainly incorrect.
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20 September 2008 | 13 replies
I calculate this at $48K/$36K or 1.33.
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26 August 2008 | 9 replies
In Excel, there's a function to calculate the loan amount from the payment.
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15 March 2009 | 14 replies
Your best bet is to go out buy at these low prices.
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17 August 2008 | 10 replies
Is it normal to include only the interest portion of the mortgage payment in the cash flow calculation?
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13 August 2008 | 3 replies
This is how I calculated my expenses...most of it goes toward property taxes which I looked up on the city tax assessor website.
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19 August 2008 | 21 replies
You then leave and do some calculations as to the value of the house and the ballpark estimate of the repairs.
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21 August 2008 | 13 replies
I sure as hell don't write poems, look at the periodic table and calculate the molecular structure of anything, know every little fact and date about every little war, or use trig on a normal basis.