How To Get $5,000 Per Month In Passive Income (How Many Units Do Will You Need?)
Sometimes we need to look at the Bigger Picture. It’s of course imperative that we ask ourselves what we want to achieve and why. After we do that, we then need to figure out HOW to do it. Let’s say your goal is to generate $5,000 per month in passive income from your real estate […]
Estimating Acquisition and Closing Costs for Apartment Building Deals
Many beginning commercial real estate investors are shocked at how much it costs to perform due diligence for a deal and how high the closing costs are. While the latter are usually paid for at closing, the former must be paid with hard cash while doing due diligence. In the video below, I review the […]
How to Fine Tune the P&L to Determine the Maximum Purchase Price for an Apartment Building Investment
Once an asset is stabilized, a good rule of thumb is to assume that rent will increase by 3% as well as the expenses. The Syndicated Deal Analyzer uses this as its default in the 10 year profit and loss (P&L) projection. Sometimes, however, you will want to fine-tune the P&L. For example, let’s assume […]
How to Fine Tune the P&L to Determine the Maximum Purchase Price for an Apartment Building Investment
Once an asset is stabilized, a good rule of thumb is to assume that rent will increase by 3% as well as the expenses. The Syndicated Deal Analyzer uses this as its default in the 10 year profit and loss (P&L) projection. Sometimes, however, you will want to fine-tune the P&L. For example, let’s assume […]
Power Negotiating Apartment Building Deals with Side-by-Side Scenarios
When you get a deal in from your broker, the marketing package usually provides actual financials as well as “pro forma” financials, i.e. the way the building should perform if it were managed perfectly. Most often, the asking price is based on the pro-forma net operating income at the prevailing cap rate for that market. […]
How to Project Investor Returns When Analyzing Apartment Building Deals
Because I syndicate most of my apartment building deals with investors, my primary investment criteria are the returns for the investors. Even if you don’t use investors, your desired returns should drive your analysis. In this video, I use the Syndicated Deal Analyzer to project the returns for both the investors as well as yourself.
What Should Your Apartment Building Investment Criteria Be?
Before you start investing in real estate, you have to be clear about your investment criteria. I call this your “trading rules”. Many years ago, I spent a year or so trading options. I took a bootcamp and signed up with a mentor. I did OK (I made an average of 7% during this time, […]
The 50% Rule to Quickly Analyze an Apartment Building Investing Deal
Imagine you get in a deal from one of your brokers. Now what ….?
If you’re anything like me when I first got started, I didn’t look forward to analyzing the deal because I knew it would take me hours. I found that if you don’t get back to the broker within a few days with some feedback, they’ll stop taking you seriously and may stop feeding you deals.
Instead, what we need to do is to quickly analyze the deal to answer the question “what is the most I would pay for this deal, and why?” and get back to the broker as quickly as possible.
In this post’s how-to video, I use the Syndicated Deal Analyzer with the “50% Rule” to quickly analyze an apartment building deal as it comes in.