When deciding on a purchasing a Real Estate Investment there are several major factors to discuss.

One of them is Asset Class… you may want to invest in Apartments, Industrial/Warehouse Properties, Office Buildings or any number of other types of properties.

When you finally decide on what you are going to buy, you need to be able to do the financial analysis to figure out if the property you are buying has positive investment potential. That means that it is priced right and it cash flows.

If you are interested in Multifamily Properties … otherwise known as Apartments… then one formula you may use to analyze properties is called the Gross Rent Multiplier Formula.

A fundamental of buying Real Estate as an Investment is CASH FLOW.  
Despite the profitable years of “Buy and Flip“, during our current Real Estate Economy, “Buy and Hold” is what investors need to be prepared for… which means that somehow these properties need to pay for themselves while the Investor holds onto them.
Whether you […]

The Florida Real Estate Market has many opportunities to offer investors that looking to buy low and sell high. Savvy investors from all over the globe are seeing the low prices combined with good exchange rates on the dollar (for foreign national investors) and relatively low interest rates for mortgage financing as an invitation […]

With the current state of the national and local economies and the decline of the real estate market throughout the state, many home buyers are thinking that now is the time to pick up that first rental property that will lead them to financial freedom and wealth for their retirements.
Unfortunately for most, the fundamentals of […]

DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO or DSCR

What is it?
Who came up with this?
Why do we need to know another math equation?
How can it save a deal? or a client?

Wikipedia defines DSCR as this:
The debt service coverage ratio, or debt service ratio, is the ratio of net operating income to debt payments on a piece of investment […]