Real estate investors are a finicky breed, especially when it comes to analyzing a real estate investment deal. Some will go into great detail - analysis paralysis as I like to say - while others will give the numbers a quick once-over and go with a gut feel. But regardless of the approach, all have some type of return threshold or requirement as a target. In this month's Financial Strategies column of Properties Magazine, we will review some of the ...
In last month's Properties Magazine, we introduced the overall concept of Time Value of Money. There are six methods associated with TVM, called the six functions of the dollar. The first three are compounding functions, moving money forward over time, and these were covered in the September issue. The last three are discounting ...
In this month's issue of Properties magazine, we introduce the sometimes mysterious concepts associated with compounding and discounting. Although these concepts can be a bit daunting, they can also be extremely helpful to a real estate investor. With a little help from Rod Stewart, we take the mystery out of these concepts, which are ...
Although we like to think that real estate is at the center of the universe, the reality is that our profession is but one part of a very large puzzle. And many of the tools and concepts that we use to figure out our little puzzle can be applied to a variety of other situations. In the June issue of Properties Magazine, we discuss the concept of Net Present Value. As you will see, although the concept is quite useful when analyzing real estate ...
With the ushering in of the internet age, the amount of information (and pace which that information flows) has dramatically increased. In the old days, analyzing a real estate site or a market involved at least one if not several treks to the local planning department with the hopes of obtaining any kind of demographic information that might be stashed away in a file cabinent. The dawning of the PC era saw this data migrate from hard copy to digital ...
