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Users of our Real Estate Investment Analysis program sometimes call us with questions that are not about the software but about the underlying analysis. If we had a “greatest hits” list for those questions the all-time winner would be this: “My cash flow goes up each year; the value of the property goes up each year; […]
Welcome back to my new podcast series. In my first interview I answered some questions about how I got started as an investor, and I hope my experience provided some ideas for you if you’re just looking to get started yourself. And in the second, I talked about my first commercial investment, which is where […]
Read More… from Educating Real Estate Investors — Third Episode in My New Podcast Series
Welcome back to my new podcast series. In my first interview I answered some questions about how I got started as an investor, and I hope my experience provided some ideas for you if you’re just looking to get started yourself. Now I want to take you on the next few steps in my journey […]
You probably all know me as a “numbers guy” who focuses on metrics and analysis of potential real estate investments. But I hear lot of people who sound frustrated or discouraged by a very basic question: Just how do I get started? So I’m going to step back from my spreadsheets for a bit and […]
Read More… from Getting Started in Real Estate Investing — First Episode in My New Podcast Series
We usually think of Return on Equity (ROE) as a straightforward investment measure. That’s understandable, because the traditional method of calculating ROE is pretty clear cut: Take your cash flow after taxes and divide it by your initial cash investment. This in fact is just a hop-and-a-step away from another popular measure, Cash-on-Cash Return (aka […]
Read More… from Return on Equity — What a Non-Traditional Approach Can Reveal
Regression – no, it’s not what your family and friends accuse you of when you want to trade in the mini-van for a two-seater stick-shift convertible (well, maybe it is, but that’s a topic for a different article). If you’re familiar with our RealData software, my online video courses, and my other blog posts here, […]
Many thanks to one of my favorite podcasters, Keith Weinhold, for his youtube review of my book, “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow.” Also a “thank you” to Flagship Bank for including my book in their list of “…the best commercial real estate investing books you can buy…” —Frank Gallinelli […]
I had a question recently about a metric called Yield on Cost, aka Return on Cost and also sometimes called Development Yield. So what is it and when and how might it be useful? Yield on Cost is very similar to cap rate, which you’re already familiar with, especially if you’ve followed my posts, read […]
Read More… from Yield on Cost — a metric for real estate investors and developers
If you’ve taken my video course, read any of my books, listened to some of the podcasts I’ve been on, then you’re very aware that I often rant about how important it is for you to account for just the real operating operating expenses when you evaluate the worth of a property — no more […]
If you’re not an all cash buyer, then when you purchase a piece of income-producing real estate you’ll probably need to secure mortgage financing to complete the deal. It’s essential for you to understand what your lender is looking at when underwriting that loan. And — If you guessed that he or she is not […]