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What Are a Rental Property's Operating Expenses?
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
The industry standards for measuring returns to real estate investments are rate of return on equity and cash flow. To do this successfully, however, the calculation of annual cash flow must be made in a ...
What is a Proforma Income Statement?
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
A proforma income statement is a report investors and analysts who are engaged in real estate investing commonly use for the purpose of forecasting the cash flows generated by a rental property. The concept is ...
Why Real Estate Investment Includes Risk Analysis
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
The bottom line about any real estate investment analysis is that it is a risk analysis. If risk was not an issue with investing, and all the results of any given investment were known with ...
How Rental Property Investing Software Makes It Easy To Create Cash Flow Analysis and Market Presentations
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
To best understand why rental property investing software makes it possible to create cash flow analysis and marketing presentations easily, it will help to have some idea from whence it came. Understanding its origin lends ...
Internal Rate of Return: Understanding the Difference Between IRR, MIRR and FMRR
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
Internal rate of return (IRR), modified internal rate of return (MIRR), and financial management rate of return (FMRR) are three returns used to measure the profitability of investment property. Each method arrives at a percentage ...
Cap Rate: The Meaning, Formulas, and Uses in a Rental Property Analysis
By James Kobzeff · 13 years ago
Cap rate (the more commonly used expression for capitalization rate) is one of the most popular measurements used by real estate investors and analysts doing a rental property analysis because it can reveal whether or ...
Should I Determine Cash Flow Before Tax (CFBT) or Cash Flow After Tax (CFAT)?
By James Kobzeff · 14 years ago
Real estate investors and real estate investing analysts generally seek to know the cash flow after tax (CFAT) when evaluating the profitability of investment income properties because it includes the elements of tax shelter and ...
How to Create a Real Estate Analysis Without Real Estate Investment Software
By James Kobzeff · 14 years ago
If you rather not invest the money into real estate investment software and prefer to create your own real estate analysis, then you certainly can. Rental property cash flow analysis along with rates of return ...
The Benefit of Real Estate Investing and Tax Shelter
By James Kobzeff · 14 years ago
With the bigger bite the Feds want to take out of your income for taxes, don’t you think that it’s time you start considering investing in rental properties to help shelter some of your income? ...
The Difference between USA and Canadian Mortgages
By James Kobzeff · 15 years ago
The major difference between how mortgages are calculated in the US and Canada rests solely on the way compound interest is calculated.
To understand the difference between US and Canadian mortgages, however, we should start ...
How to Buy Multifamily Property to Build Wealth
By James Kobzeff · 16 years ago
Rental property that has more than one family unit is considered multifamily property. From a duplex (two units), the smallest multi family property, up from there to larger rental complexes easily consisting of hundreds of ...
Do You Know the 7 Things That Can Destroy Your Investment Real Estate Value?
By James Kobzeff · 16 years ago
The primary motive for real estate investing, of course, is the money. Wealth is the essential reason why people invest in real estate, and typically the first thing people think of when they consider owning ...