Omar Pena
Need Advice on 'Selling" or "Renting" A Condo I own
1 June 2023 | 3 replies
A lot more than my PITI costs combined.The condo charges a $250 sublet fee for renting out my unit; That would bring my total monthly expense over $2600; Based on what I researched I could get for rents in this area, not sure I can get $2600; Even if I could I would just be breaking even with no cash flow; Wont include amount needed for potential vacancy; The sublet fee kills my flexibilityDecision - Sell CondoProsWould probably get top dollar on sale of home selling now; if there is a downturn it can be MANY years before I can get the money I would be able to get now (anticipate $425k to $450k)Sell and use part of the money to buy new home for myself and/or use the money on alternate investment(s)Keep the money liquid for opportunities that come up in the next 1 to 2 yearsFree myself from the politics of the condo board and how the complex operates; A lot of the issues are financial in that over the years money has been collected and not well managed or spent which is why HOA fee is so high; this provides a level of inflexibility on managing expenses which I have limited control overConsDon’t have that much left on mortgage; selling now would mean investing elsewhere via new long term mortgage at todays higher interest rates (albeit at smaller mortgage amt since I would be able to put down a larger down pymt); Additionally, at todays market prices, I would not be able to get a unit like this one for the price I paid over 2 decades ago and for the interest rate I have nowI have been wanting to build a real-estate portfolio and my thought has been that this would be my 1st unit in that portfolio and I should keep it & build from there; Selling would mean starting from scratch instead of building; However is this Condo Unit really a good investment?
Troy J Szczudlak
Cash Deal Payback Timeline
4 April 2020 | 3 replies
It depends on the area but in most places it will be north of a decade.
Adam A.
Question regarding Real Estate Broker's License for Property Managers in Upstate NY
1 June 2023 | 2 replies
Been managing 15+ units under my families residential properties for almost a decade now.
Chen Zhou
My second ADU project in the Bay Area (why and how?)
31 January 2022 | 33 replies
I'm a buy-and-hold investor and I'm planning on holding on the property for decades, so instead of immediate resale value (which ADU doesn't compare very well with perhaps other rehab/flip projects), I care much more about long-term cash flow and long-term resale value.
Andres Murillo
STR Investors! Do you also regularly use your/other STRs?
31 March 2023 | 32 replies
I've vacationed in STRs for decades.
Will Lenz
First flip goes great!
15 May 2023 | 8 replies
To make it worse, if it's a condo conversion you could hold it for a decade and then decide to do a condo conversion... it's short-term capital gains as you only owned the condos for under a year...that hit me hard...3.
Ty Primers
Steps to Becoming a developer ?
4 January 2019 | 16 replies
I've partnered with developers who have decades more experience than me, and they still run into this.
Bruno Araujo
Syndication VS Rental Property Calculator?
15 July 2019 | 14 replies
As long as the quality of the tenants are available to the location of the investment, you were certainly able to capture the profit from the Amortization of a fixed Rate Mortgage.Over the decades, my pro-forma models have proved this to be a very compelling reason and time has proven it to be both accurate and profitable.This Exercise will teach you a lot about Investing in General and you will have a huge advantage over someone that only knows a single way of analyzing just one specific investment or using one specific calculation.Continue the good work!
Scott Reese
Newbie in Plano, TX!
3 February 2020 | 11 replies
The boom is still coming, there is going to be fantastic growth in the next decade.
Deepak Bhosale
Detached ADU pros/cons in bay area
12 September 2021 | 5 replies
If both go up drastically over the coming decades, this will probably work out to be the better investment.