Hi Guys! Evaluating a deal at the moment and I am curious how you would calculate your CAP rate. Once our building is stabilized we are anticipating a CAP rate as follows (backed by market data): 1. CAP of 9.57% if we...

What is the best way to find out the crime rates of certain areas in a city?

Hi, in looking at getting into an investment property nowadays, it seems we could be creative about using the rate that the seller got a few years ago. For instance, if they bought at 250k with a 3% rate, can we get t...

Hello everyone, I'm in my first purchase journey. At this stage I'm looking at financing. So far, looking at conventional loans, commercial since the property is in my LLC. Current rates that two banks have gi...

Hi, I was "shopping" for rates because someone advised me that is the way to go. Now I'm realizing it doesn't make sense. I don't get locked into any rate so the rate I shopped 2 weeks ago is not the rate I would get ...

I feel like the returns on single family renting are decreasing.  I wonder if they will ever come up.  I've seen  single family new construction homes in Florida and Texas in less than 15 days.  It seems that everyone...

How to properly figure out cap rate on an owner finance deal? All my houses are owner finance.  It's pretty simple to figure out so I thought....My first property I bought, I figured it like this: purchase price: $51,...

Loopnet has been sending me lots of multi family properties with cap rates listed. Do they pre vett these properties to come to these cap rates. I know to do my own due diligence I was just wondering if any of it coul...

Just read the feds raised the rates. What now for RE investing?!?This is an article I found on msn.com. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/the...I know that the HELOC I just got doesn't look that good anym...

Happy Sunday!!Question does anyone have advice on finding vacancy rates for a particular area? I've been using deptofnumbers.comAny advice would be much appreciated! Thanks, Bunn