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Evaluating Real Estate Investments Like a Pro: Present Value
 
Evaluating Real Estate Investments Like a Pro: Present Value
 
When you consider that there are many real estate opportunities where you think you could make a killing, how can you really be sure that one investment is better than another? Many would-be investors jump into real estate without a good way of determining whether a particular piece of property, a single family home, resort condo or a multi family dwelling is really and truly a good investment. The end result is often disappointing. Maybe you should have bought investment B instead of investment A. And so it goes…What is the best way of evaluating real estate? The following approach is the way large companies utilize a very important, yet relatively simple evaluation tool for comparing competing investments.
 
 A Couple Fundamentals, First
Obviously, if you are a real estate investor, you probably have decided on a minimum rate of return or minimum amount of money that you would expect yearly on a real estate investment. Of course, there are some investments that you can immediately jump into without doing very much evaluation. Suppose you can snap up a home that is selling for 60% less than its current value ... more

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