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Rental Property Investment
Posted on 6/17/15 at 11:56 am
Posted on 6/17/15 at 11:56 am
Any of you landlords have tips, books, blogs or websites you recommend?
Rules of thumb?
ie
-Worst house in the best neighborhood
-Rent >1% of house cost
-Finance 15 yrs
Buy vs flip? Thoughts on one over the other?
Better to buy, fix & rent or buy ready to rent?
I'd appreciate any insight you can provide
Rules of thumb?
ie
-Worst house in the best neighborhood
-Rent >1% of house cost
-Finance 15 yrs
Buy vs flip? Thoughts on one over the other?
Better to buy, fix & rent or buy ready to rent?
I'd appreciate any insight you can provide
Posted on 6/17/15 at 12:00 pm to SomeGuyFromLA
Rent for no less than 2% of purchase price
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Posted on 6/19/15 at 5:40 am to SomeGuyFromLA
land lording is a giant pain in the arse. I used to love it when I had good tenants. One bad one will ruin it.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 7:19 pm to SomeGuyFromLA
quote:
Any of you landlords have tips, books, blogs or websites you recommend?
I've enjoyed reading Robert G. Allen's books. He also provides a similar spreadsheet that was posted. I'm 32 looking to do this hard for the next ten years in order to set myself up. I actually stumbled across a guy that we contract at work and he wants someone to go into a trailer park with him.
Posted on 7/16/15 at 1:21 pm to SomeGuyFromLA
quote:
I'd appreciate any insight you can provide
I base almost everything off of the cashflows. I won't do one that has negative cashflow...unless I'm absolutely convinced it's a distressed purchase with significant appreciation potential.
I assume:
- the low end of expected rent and with no rental growth over time
- the high end of expected vacancy (e.g. 1.5 months/year)
- the high end of maintenance (at least 1% of property value per year)
-the high end of required cap ex upon exit
- paying a full boat of property management expenses (8% of gross rents)
- a full boat of real estate agency fees upon exit
IF after going through all of that I find that my realized cash yield is at least 8%, then I look to proceed with the purchase.
I find that with markets as recovered as they have been since the crisis, it's hard to find houses that meet these parameters any longer.
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