Tag: Real Estate
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Occupancy Rate – How to Evaluate
Temporary housing includes hotels, motels, resorts, apartment complexes and rental homes. The number one tool to measure performance is occupancy rate.
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Financial Leverage in Real Estate
Financial leverage refers to using a third party’s money to increase profit for the borrower. With real estate, the profit or equity in the property is the weight being lifted by the use of a lever (borrowing money) on the fulcrum (the property).
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Replacement Reserves- Understanding the Fundamentals
Long and short term housing rental businesses use a financial operations tool to maintain, repair and upgrade the physical facilities. This tool is known as replacement reserves in the real estate industry. In almost all cases it is a contractual agreement requirement between the mortgage lender and the borrower.
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Don’t Flip Them, Finance The Flip!
The rage in real estate for the last 17 years has been flipping houses. Simple tenet of buy low, fix it up and sell high – House Flipping Business Dynamics.
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Landlord – Business Dynamics and Economics
I love the game of Monopoly. My sons enjoy playing it too. But we all have the same complaint about the game; it takes forever to accumulate all the wealth and ultimately win the game. Being a landlord means the same thing. It will take a long time to accumulate wealth. For those of you considering becoming…
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Apartment Complex Profit and Loss Statement – (Revenue Section) Best Presentation Format
In the apartment complex industry I have had the privilege of reviewing four different presentation formats prepared by different Certified Public Accounting Firms.