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Rick Baggenstoss How would you improve upon the 2% "rule"?
13 January 2014 | 17 replies

I've struggled, along with others, with the 2% rule. It has some drawbacks which I think can be improved upon with BP community help.

Simply stated, the income from a house should be greater than or equal to...

29 July, 2023
Rookie Reply: Don’t Chase Cash Flow! Use THIS Metric to Analyze Your Deals

How important is cash flow when analyzing real estate deals? Many rookies zero in on this familiar figure when crunching the numbers, but there’s another metric that is FAR more important: cash-on-cash return. This si...

16 January, 2022
BiggerPockets Podcast 558: Seeing Greene: Cash Flow—The Most Overrated Metric in Real Estate?

Cash flow is arguably the most important metric in real estate investing…that is if you’re talking to novice investors. Expert investors, like David Greene, know that cash flow is but one of many factors to consider w...