It is a place to park capital and earn a return on it.If your dream is to generate income in the Real Estate field you could look at becoming a Realtor.

I would claim the income and pay more taxes to make the tax return look great to the lenders so you have a higher borrowing power for low interest rate of 5%.

The BP rental property calculator should be helpful in determine the cash return on your investment.If you didn't see this past week's webinar, Brandon walks you through on things to consider as well as how to input numbers into the online calculator on BP.

$1100/year Vacancy = $92 Principle & Interest = $340 Total monthly costs = $896.50 Cash flow = $1150-896.5= $253.50 Per unit cash flow = $126.75Cash on Cash return = $253.50x12 / $23,450 = 13%Cap Rate = $7122/$83,000. = 8.6%Would you take this deal?

Or at least a 12-month history with your tax returns, and the calculations are different as of march 2018 with Freddie Mac.

It seems painting gets the highest rate of return for the cost involved.

i'm in the process of exchanging out of an existing property, and into a large multi-family value-add syndication through a TIC structure. the syndication team is looking to refi their acquisition loan approximately 2 years after the acquisition to return investor capital. the business strategy calls for a sale in year 5. any one out there able to opine as to whether the cash-out refi would fall under the 'step transaction doctrine,' and thus be a taxable transaction for me?

You do have to pay a premium so your return isn't as high as other providers.  

Does this approach cut into your return?

Prices are still at a point where a good return is possible and there a lot of up and coming areas that are showing extremely good returns.