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Six Rules of Thumb for Every Real Estate Investor

Whether you’re scrutinizing a piece of property you already own, one you want to sell, or one you may choose to buy or develop, you need to master the metrics. The numbers always matter. Here are six basic rules to keep in mind. Continue reading

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Real Estate Partnerships and Preferred Return

Q. Can you explain more about how preferred return works in a real estate partnership? Does it always have to go only to the limited partner or non-managing partner? A. The first point to make about real estate partnerships – … Continue reading

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Investing in Real Estate: Should You Buy Residential or Commercial Property?

We hear this often: “What’s the smarter move? Residential or commercial investment property?” It should come as no surprise that there isn’t a one-word answer to this question. You’ll arrive at your best choice – the one that maximizes your chances for success – by working through a decision process that includes some “global” issues, some local and some that are entirely personal. Continue reading

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Making the Case for Your Commercial Refinance, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, you learned what information you need to assemble to get started with the process of refinancing your commercial property — information about your property’s income, expenses and loan balance, and about the prevailing cap … Continue reading

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Making the Case for Your Commercial Refinance, Part 1

Since we released the original version of our Real Estate Investment Analysis software in 1982, our focus has been on pro forma financial analysis of real estate investments and of development properties – projecting the numbers out over time to … Continue reading

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Cash Flow Analysis — Annual or Monthly?

A reader of one of my books wrote to me recently with a very worthwhile question.  When we build a pro-forma analysis of future cash flows from a real estate investment, why do we annualize those cash flows instead dealing … Continue reading

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New Review of “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know…”

I want to thank Prof. O William Evans from the University of Alabama for his review of my book, What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow… We all appreciate receiving praise, but this is humbling. You … Continue reading

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NPV, IRR, FMRR, MIRR, CpA — Stirring the Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investment, Part 2

Part two of our article on rates of return — what are the problems with IRR and how do we deal with them? Continue reading

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NPV, IRR, FMRR, MIRR, CpA – Stirring the Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investment, Part 1

Real estate investing is all about the numbers. In Part 1 of this article you’ll learn about two important metrics; Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). Continue reading

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