Property Investing
What Cap Rate Actually Tells an Investor
Two properties crossed my desk the same week last year, both listed at four hundred thousand dollars, both advertising a seven...
Investing and rentals writer
Victor manages a small portfolio of rental units himself, which means his cap rate math has to survive contact with an actual tenant. He writes about landlording and property investing from the spreadsheet outward, not the other way around.
Property Investing
Two properties crossed my desk the same week last year, both listed at four hundred thousand dollars, both advertising a seven...
Property Investing
My first rental property looked profitable on the back of an envelope: rent of eighteen hundred dollars against a mortgage...
Renting
A tenant I know lost eleven hundred dollars of a security deposit over a clause she never read, on the fourth page of a lease...
Renting
I once had a fellow landlord ask me, over coffee, why I did not simply ask applicants whether they planned to have kids soon,...
Property Investing
A poker player who goes all in on every hand is not brave. He is broke within an hour, and every serious player knows it.
Renting
I turned down an applicant last spring with a seven hundred and twenty credit score and stable income, and approved one with a...