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for real estate investors: Part 2 of "The Cash-on-Cash Conundrum"

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Services for Real Estate Pros with RealData, Inc.

​In a prior post I mentioned several new articles that I've written recently for income-property investors.

Here is a follow-up to one of them:

In the first part of our discussion, you looked at the simple math that underlies Cash-on-Cash Return. The short version goes like this: First you calculate your property’s first-year cash flow before taxes—essentially all the cash that comes in from operating the property minus all the cash that goes out. Then you divide that by your initial cash investment, and that percentage is your Cash-on-Cash Return. Nothing could be simpler.

Simplicity is a good part of CoC’s appeal. Unfortunately, that is also part of its weakness. If you are using this metric to help you decide whether a potential income-property purchase is a promising investment or not, then you need to look carefully at the story—or stories—that may lurk behind these numbers. In keeping with our literary metaphor, let’s call them our subplots.

Subplot #1: A Point in Time

read the rest here---> http://is.gd/tFrCjA

If you missed part 1, it's here: http://is.gd/pa74ed

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