Appears some areas still offer rehabbing as a viable business model but for the most part, buy-and-holds more popular especially with depressed home prices elevating investor returns when compared to CD's, stocks, bonds, etc.

That sparked the interest and a lot of training fueled it.I love finance and modeling so real estate is a natural fit.

I have not yet and in my current biz model, do not see any benefit of use, but perhaps sometime in teh future.

The classic William Nickerson model was to take a certain amount from your units, coupled with your regular monthly savings, so that you can get to your next building faster.His model was:1.

These customers are narrowed to a particular brand and model.

If you plan to hold the project indefinitely the extra value is large, especially with rates so low.I suggest that you model both scenarios and do so in a very conservative fashion.

We've bought 7 in Vegas in the past 3 months, but the market continues to decline, so forecasting ARV is difficult.

It would change most buy-and-holders business model drastically if would get endless 4-5% money.

We were out looking at a house near the same street and I asked my Realtor if he'd be willing to let us see it so we knew what the model looked like.

As you gain experience you can tackle more creative ventures but there's no reason to complicate the model.