[quote name=`invst4profit` date=`Jul 14 2009, 01:56 PM` post=`61861`]
Mitch
I can see break even or maybe a little better initially with a mortgage at 3% with no maintenance but in the event mortgages go to 5% at $2000+ per month I do not see how you make enough to cover expenses. And that is ignoring the fact that maintenance costs will climb with time and use.
I can not see how $2800/month could possibly be enough to cover a $385,000 investment.
What numbers are you using for insurance, taxes, legal, accounting, reserves, vacancies, utilities while vacant, evictions, advertising, routine upkeep between tenants etc. to project positive cash flow on these properties.
What percentage of income are you attributing to expenses to calculate positive cash flow on these properties.
Good questions - here are the answers;
1. A 80% LTV mortgage on $385,000 gives you a mortgage of $308,000. Based on a 35 year amortization and 4% locked in rates the payment is approximately $1,360 per month.
Then add the following-
Insurance - $110/mth
Taxes - $280
Vacancy - $140/mth (5%)
R+M - $70/mth (2.5% average with a brand new building - don`t forget about home warranty on brand new property)
Management - $180 (7% for management fees. I manage my own so this cost isn`t real)
Utilities - 2 seperate meters, each tenant has their own electric and natural gas hook ups.
So - total monthly expense of $2,140. This leaves you a cash flow of $660 per month.
All your other costs there are covered by whatever JV agreement you have in place. As far as legal fees, accounting, advertising, utilities while vacant - how do people who buy properties cash flowing at $100 per month pay for the same? What I do with my JV partners is cover 100% of the accounting expenses from my own pocket and provide PM services. And personally the only advertising expenses I`ve had in my single family properties (duplexes, etc) has been lawn signs. We don`t even bother with the local paper anymore and use 100% exclusively free online advertising and professional made lawn signs I had done a few months ago.
Greg - could you let me see some of the deals that you get involved with as well? I`m just curious how you calculcate out cash flows, etc. It would probably be beneficial as well for the other REIN members to see how you get strong cash flows, what you calculcate and if you involve illegal suites, etc.
Just a quick edit - even with a PLC at 5%, the downpayment and approximate closing costs and initial reserve fund of $90,000 would be about $375 per month. Now you have a 100% financed project with $285 cash flow per month including vacancy and management fees. Now with the reserve fund in place if you had something you needed to replace I would pay for it from the reserve fund and repay the reserve fund over a period of months.
Warm Regards;
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