Historically more stable?

The owner's books will reflect the reality: their self-defined 'business value' of their brokerage is based on their historic sales transactions.

If you run an IRR analysis on the example parameters you provided above, you get the following:Yup, your compounded annual rate of return needed to hit this investment target ($131K return off $11K investment over 30 years) is 8.60%.While I'm not a huge fan of the stock market, the fact is that these returns are pretty commensurate with what you'd get in a diversified stock porfolio (based on historical averages), and there's no argument that you'll do a lot more work holding a portfolio of houses than you would putting your money in a mutual fund.Regardless, whether you believe 8.6% is a reasonable long-term annualized return for being a landlord or not, there's no arguing that the returns you presented for this scenario (36%) are at-best misleading and at-worst deceptive.In a later post, you claim that math can get confusing because different people use different terminology and formulas, etc.

I like to look at historical net rents but, because of what I do for a business, I look at what I will net out renting the units.

., have you checked with fema if the property is in the flooding zone, additional 1K in insurance cost for home owners ain't fun. how about previous claims with the insurance ..they stay with the house, maybe the house is a historic landmark …that would perform fun tricks on your budget, how about the city records ..does the room count aligns with the what they have in the city ?

Overall, the province had Production and Drilling seeing historic highs in 2012, and again in 2013.

I was aware of the pension issues Chicago had, but this is terrible.Given the "historic underfunding of pensions . . .

I thought at first someone from the Historical Society wanted to preserve it.

Interestingly it looks like the historic norm is more of a 0.0625%(ratio of price = 15*annual rent).http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/business/economy/16housing.html?

Ok, you buy a bunch of index funds and hold on as the market returns roughly 8% historically.