Clay Manship
What To Do with These Tenants?
5 November 2014 | 24 replies
The people buying for cheap will reduce market rent rates to lease up fast bringing the market down permanently or at least for 3 to 6 months.
Jason Miller
Financial books for tenants
3 October 2014 | 5 replies
I realize you can lead a horse to water, but my theory is that if If just 1 in 100 tenants listen or read these books and help their financial situation, it may reduce my turnovers and cost of turnovers.I'm curious as to if anyone has tried this or something similar in their welcome package.
Kyle Overman
What metrics are typically stuck to when determining a "good deal" for buy and hold?
3 October 2014 | 2 replies
Now your cash flow is reduced by this amount: $1000 -$360=$640.$640 x 12 months =$7680 - Your cash flow for the year.Going back and looking at the fact that you invested only $30,000 cash, we will calculate the cap rate using only the cash involved:$7680 divided by $30,000= 25%You can see now that using cash only versus a high interest mortgage for this market is significantly increasing your cap rate. 25% vs 13.3%.Using the same scenario, you can use buy 3 homes with the same $90,000 and have a total cash flow of $7680 x 3 = $23,040 versus using all the cash in one home and getting $12,000 per year cash flow.There are other factors to consider of course...
Christopher Gilbert
How do you handle depreciation in a self-directed IRA?
15 August 2015 | 13 replies
If so, it would seem like it would be, in effect, a penalty since you do not get the tax benefits and your cost basis is reduced.
Jim B.
For all you self-managing landlords out there, how far is too far?
4 October 2014 | 14 replies
This could really reduce the hourly rate of return from your rental business per hour of your time invested.
Karen Margrave
EBOLA & REAL ESTATE
12 October 2014 | 23 replies
And real estate values would have plummeted because of the reduced population.
Account Closed
Homeowner's insurance on a rental house
7 October 2014 | 11 replies
What everyone needs are products, services and policy structures designed by real estate investors, for real estate investors and one of those features is a portfolio type master policy, with no location limits, with the ability to insure multiple controlling entities and properties in any stage of renovation, in all 50 states, offering agreed value, special form coverage with theft and vandalism, the ability to actually reduce premiums incrementally by aggregating locations AND do it all on a monthly reporting basis so that you and your CPA can easily see the breakdown in coverage and premium for every location.
Michael Powell
New Member from Houston, TX
8 October 2014 | 19 replies
They force you to constantly do specials that reduce your profit margins.
Craig Holt
Starting a Rental Property Co in Texas
6 October 2014 | 5 replies
For example, city of Austin has some rediculous energy efficiency requirements as well as ever-changing codes that take effect on properties with an ownership change regardless of how old the building is.
Dwight Sands
Underwriter's Perspective for Self-Employed
9 October 2014 | 7 replies
Yes, those starting out, and beyond, who are self employed look for every expenses they can, some exaggerate and that reduces your ability to borrow.