Nate Wilson
How important is it to follow the 50% or 2% rule.
3 January 2016 | 32 replies
If you don't have a professional property manager hired, you can probably expect to pay about 10% of your gross rents for vacancy while looking for a new tenant or might need to make repairs from the last tenant)10% of gross rents for water, sewer, trash, and snow removal (even if you're not running on city water, you still should be budgeting money accordingly for water because at some point, the pump in your drilled well is going to give out and you'll be left high and dry unless you have the money to fix it.
Christopher Wedde
Real or Fake?
7 November 2016 | 12 replies
This is one of the worst houses in the area right now since it looks like nothing has been done for years and a couple cars are just rotting in the field.
Einar Mykletun
Next Property - Appreciation ($650K) or Cash Flow ($170K)?
26 November 2016 | 49 replies
But please, make sure you allow for: what happens IF your "nice income" were to suddenly dry up!
Juan Diaz
My Strategy for buying Foreclosures
20 July 2016 | 9 replies
If there’s wood siding, is it in good shape or is there dry rot?
Glenn P.
Buy now, pay down existing mortgages, or just wait?
22 July 2016 | 8 replies
I have 9 units (Quad and 5 SFR's all on 15 yr mortgages), everything is going really well, things are cashflowing quite nicely (Bought when the market was down).Right now, the market is dry where I am.
Chris Watkins
Do your best w/ current market conditions or wait for better?
21 July 2016 | 28 replies
The last 6 months have almost put me out of business because the "deals" have dried up in the strong seller's market.
Thomas Hickey
Ways to increase appraisals of 5+ multi?
26 January 2017 | 20 replies
It's not always as cut and dry as gross rents - So having a stabilized property (proving low vacancy/delinquency over time) where you can minimize expenses and maximize rents will get you the highest possible value.In my experience, usually only single family homes are valued by "comparison approach."
Account Closed
Engaging Apartment Brokers - Key Questions?
8 February 2017 | 34 replies
I would ask for the materials you stated and if not familiar with the area of the listing I would drive the property and neighborhood and if still interested I would schedule a tour of the property.You will be looking for the bad stuff (foundation, roofs, lots of exterior wood rot, etc...) on a tour and also what state the made-ready units are in to determine what if any updating you may need to do to get the rents you are projecting
Michael S.
Extremely dirty subfloor after removing carpet and pad
25 April 2018 | 11 replies
I don't see a problem as long as you give it time to dry out before installing carpet.
Deborah Burian
Due Diligence - it's all true
22 May 2013 | 6 replies
One place literally before the ink dried the tenants where already calling about issues.