For Buy-and-Hold Real Estate Investors, Nomads™ and House Hackers...
Serious Real Estate Investor Education and Tools, Without All The Sleazy Hype!
You get 1 full year of access to:
- Over 100 premium real estate investing classes
- Over 200 hours of video training
- Downloads:
The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™
How to Improve Cash Flow on Rentals Checklist
Buying Criteria Worksheet
Rental Property Bookkeeping and Accounting Spreadsheet
Qualified Business Income Deduction with Rental Property Log
Interest Rate Buy-Down Spreadsheet
Off Market Deal Business Marketing Tracking Spreadsheet
240-page book with detailed analysis of 10 different investing plans
- 20 "secret" bonus classes - another 40+ hours of video training... and some of my best work

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The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™
Download the Microsoft Excel version of the The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™ and use it to analyze potential property purchases or evaluate existing rentals.
Great for analyzing:
- Buy and hold rental properties
- Single family homes, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and apartments
- Lease-Option properties
- Nomad™ properties
- House hacking properties
- Partnership deals with deal makers, loan partners and money partners
Includes James' Return on Investment Quadrant™ and Return on Equity Quadrant™ which shows all four areas of return (appreciation, cash flow, debt-paydown and tax benefits (depreciation) for your deals.
Plus, over 10 hours of classes on analyzing deals and how to use the spreadsheet to analyze a variety of deals, what to use for assumptions and much more.
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How to Improve Cash Flow Checklist
Use this special 3-page PDF checklist with each of your rental properties to maximize your income and minimize your expenses to ensure that you're maximizing cash flow on each property.
Plus, an entire class that goes over the entire checklist and describes how to improve cash flow.
Rental Property Bookkeeping and Accounting Spreadsheet
Keep track of all your income and expenses for all your rental properties quickly and easily with this downloadable Microsoft Excel Rental Property Bookkeeping and Accounting Spreadsheet.
Quickly copy and paste the tax summary information to your accountant or CPA at the end of the year to make tax-time effortless and pain-free (or use it to do your own taxes if you enjoy that sort of thing).
Plus, an entire class on how to use it and best practices for bookkeeping, accounting and record-keeping as a real estate investor.
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Qualified Business Income Deduction with Rental Property Log
If you want to be able to take advantage one of the best tax deductions landlords are offered by the tax code, you must log your hours for your rental properties.
According to the IRS:
"The taxpayer maintains contemporaneous records, including time reports, logs, or similar documents, regarding the following: (i) hours of all services performed; (ii) description of all services performed; (iii) dates of which such services were performed; and (iv) who performed the services. Such records are to be made available for inspection at the request of the IRS."
With the included Qualified Business Income Deduction with Rental Property Log available as a Microsoft Excel download, you can take this tax deduction with confidence that your record-keeping requirement is satisfied.
Plus, a quick class on how to use the log.
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Interest Rate Buy-Down Spreadsheet
Should you buy-down your interest rate to improve cash flow? Should you take a credit to reduce your closing costs instead? Or, should you accept the par rate without improved cash flow or reduced closing costs?
Once hard, now easy... use Microsoft Excel Interest Rate Buy-Down Spreadsheet to quickly do the math and see the information you need to make this decision when buying or refinancing your next property.
Plus, an entire class on buying down interest rates and using the spreadsheet.
Off Market Deal Business Marketing Tracking Spreadsheet
Some real estate investors will choose to use marketing to find amazing deals not listed in the MLS. Use James' Off Market Deal Business Marketing Tracking Spreadsheet to see how much marketing and time you need to invest to get amazing deals.
Plus, an entire class that goes over the spreadsheet and how to use it in detail.
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240-Page Book Comparing 10 Different Investing Strategies
James wrote a book to his college-aged son describing 10 different investing strategies and how each one might perform as he begins saving for retirement. This is that book as a downloadable PDF with detailed charts and comparisons of each plan.
Plus one of the classes summarizes the information in the book in just over two-hours.
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Over 100 Real Estate Investor Classes In Total...
Classes on:
- Getting your first deal done
- How to come up with down payments or financing strategies that don't require down payments at all
- How to analyze deals to avoid the dogs
- Selecting and optimizing financing on your rental properties
- Asset Allocation, Equity Allocation™ and evaluating when you should sell rental properties (including discussions of True Net Equity™ after all your expenses to get at your property equity)
- All the different real estate investing strategies compared with deep-dives into ones for buy-and-hold real estate investors, Nomads™ and house hackers
- Creating and structuring partnerships to partner with folks who have the resources you don't
- Practical tips and strategies for the new investor to the most sophisticated investors
- And much, much more...
Almost all the classes are about 2 hours in duration and packed with practical, how-to information for the novice to the uber-advanced real estate investor.
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Here's a list of the classes included.
- 10 House Hacking Tips and Tricks for Real Estate Investors
- 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting to Invest in Real Estate
- 10 Tips to Get Offers Accepted in Hot Markets
- 8 Money Saving, Risk Reducing Real Estate Investor Insurance Tips
- 9 Nastiest Nomad™ Mistakes
- Advanced Lease-Option Deal Analysis
- Advanced Real-Time Deal Analysis with Brian's New, Improved Spreadsheet
- An Alternative to Cash Flow - Saving Money With Rental Properties
- Analyzing Deals 101: an Intro to Cash on Cash Return on Investment
- Analyzing Deals 102 - Fix and Flips
- Analyzing Deals 201 - Selling with Lease-Option
- Analyzing Deals 303 - Subject-To and Lease-Options
- Analyzing Multi-Family Properties
- Analyzing Single Family Homes, Condos, Townhomes and Multi-Family
- Arguably the Best Class of the Year - Part 1
- Arguably the Best Class of the Year - Part 2
- Arguably the Best Class of the Year - Part 3
- Arguably the Best Class of the Year - Part 4
- Arguably the Best Class of the Year - Part 5
- Ask Me Almost Anything
- Asset Allocation Secrets of Real Estate Investors
- Better Credit for Better Deals: Improving Your Credit Score
- Beyond Cash Flow - The Return on Investment Quadrant™
- Bookkeeping and Accounting for Real Estate Investors
- Buying Down Interest Rates
- Buying New Houses as Investments and Nomads™
- Buying Properties on Lease-Option, Lease-Purchase or Subject To
- Cap Ex – The Silent Killer
- Cash Flow Power Meter™
- Cash Flow Versus Appreciation
- Catch Up Nomad™
- Closing Real Estate Deals
- College Nomad™ Overview
- Comparable Sales 101
- Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate in Detail
- Contract to Close
- Converting Your Owner-Occupant Property To A Rental
- Creative Financing 101
- Crushing Your Real Estate Goals Using EV
- Deal Alchemy™
- Deal Analysis 301 Multi-Family
- Deal Analysis Post-Coronavirus
- Establishing Your Buying Criteria Workshop
- Evaluating Mortgages and Comparing Lenders
- Everything You Learned About Deal Analysis is Wrong - ROIQ+R™
- Financial Mindset and Overcoming Fear
- Finding Amazing Real Estate Investor Deals
- Fix and Flip Case Studies
- Fixer Upper Nomad™ Overview
- Go to College or Skip It to Invest in Real Estate
- Grit and Persistence - Brian's Story
- Hard and Private Money 101
- House Hacking versus Nomad™
- How to Analyze Deals with Brian's Spreadsheet
- How to Be the Ideal Client That Realtors Call First with the Best Deals
- How To Do A Deal Using Self-Directed 401Ks and Self-Directed IRAs
- How to Get Down Payment
- How to Get Your Next Deal Done After Coronavirus
- How to Go Broke Using the BRRRR Strategy
- How to Improve Cash Flow Workshop
- How to Nomad™ without Moving into Properties
- How to Select a Real Estate Agent
- Improving Cash Flow by Buying Down Interest Rates
- Insider Secrets of Experienced Home Inspector for Investors
- Interest Rate Buy Down Spreadsheet
- Interest Rate Scenarios for Nomads™
- Is Nomad™ Dead?!
- Just One More Rental Property - Part 1
- Legacy Nomad™ Overview
- Line of Credit Magic
- Little Down Nomad™ Overview
- Live Deal Analysis
- Looking at Profitable Investment Properties Tips and Tricks
- Low and Nothing Down Strategies That Work In Today's Market
- Low-ball Offer Case Studies
- Making Strong Offers That Get Accepted
- Negotiating Win-Win Inspections for Maximum Benefit
- Nomad™ - Ask Me Almost Anything
- Nomad™ 101
- Nomad™ 101 FAQs
- Nomad™ by Proxy
- One Crazy Night - Brian Solves All Your Real Estate Problems
- Owner Financing
- Paying Off Debt Optimization for Real Estate Investors
- Presenting a Deal to Potential Partners
- Presenting A Wholesale Deal To Investors
- Pros and Cons of Every Real Estate Investing Strategy Compared
- Real Estate Appraisals for Real Estate Investors
- Real Estate Investor Buying Process Overview
- Real Estate Investor Financing After Coronavirus
- Real Estate Investor Horror Stories
- Real Estate Investor Loan Comparison Deep Dive
- Reducing Risk While Nomading™
- Rental Property Tax Deductions
- Return on Investment and Return on Equity
- Rules of Thumb and the Sacred Numerology of Real Estate Investing
- Seller’s Property Disclosure Case Studies
- Should I Sell My Rental? ROTNEQ+R™
- Should I Wait for a Real Estate Dip to Invest in Real Estate?
- Side Hustles: Earn Down Payments Faster - The Amazon Class
- Strategies to Get the Lowest Monthly Payment When Buying
- Stress Testing Your Real Estate Investing Portfolio - Part I
- Structuring Partnerships - Part 1 of 2
- Structuring Partnerships - Part 2 of 2
- The Case AGAINST Investing in Real Estate
- The Two Best Investing Strategies For Our Market Right Now
- The Ultimate Guide to Earnest Money
- The Ultimate Guide to Market Corrections
- The Ultimate Guide to Private Mortgage Insurance
- The Ultimate Guide to Rent Comps
- The Ultimate Guide to Should I Pay Off My Mortgage
- The Ultimate Guide to the BRRRR Strategy
- The Ultimate Guide to VA Loans
- The World's Best Real Estate Investing Goal Setting Class
- Unleashing the Secret Power of Debt-To-Income for Real Estate Investors
- Using Poker to Make Real Estate Decisions
- Wait! Before You Make That Offer...
- Warning - The Dangers and Risks of Real Estate Investing
- What Happens If Values and Rents Don't Always Go Up As A Nomad™
- World's Greatest Deal Analysis Spreadsheet Unleashed
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Plus 20 Additional "Secret" Real Estate Investing Classes
Some topics are too controversial to list here, but there are 20 additional classes—some of my best work honestly—that cover aspects of real estate investing and the pursuit of your goals that it would be criminal for me to leave out of the treasure chest.
So, I've opted to include them.
In fact, they're so important that 3 of the classes I turned into separate, stand-alone books.
You'll get access to these 20 classes as bonuses with the treasure chest.
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Here's just a sampling of what's included in some of the classes...
8 Money Saving, Risk Reducing Real Estate Investor Insurance Tips
Real estate investing—like anything in life—is not without risk. However, we can mitigate or eliminate many of the risks with the proper use of insurance. In this class you'll learn:
- Why it is critically important to develop a strong your insurance agent and truly understand your coverage
- Understanding what risks are insured and to what extent and what risks you are self-insuring and at what the likely extent of your exposure is
- Why it is critically important to limit making insurance claims close to your deductible amount and how that impacts selecting your deductibles to begin with
- Why maximizing your liability coverage on your properties and autos may be the most important thing you do regarding your insurance
- What an umbrella policy is and why or why not get one
- How to compare premium/deductible especially during deal analysis and property acquisition
- What extra coverages are available and which may be worthwhile (like sewer backup, loss assessment coverage, etc)
- What's the difference between replacement versus actual cash value and why you should care... a lot
- The importance of requiring renter policies from your tenants, what it covers and how
- Plus, much much more...
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10 House Hacking Tips and Tricks for Real Estate Investors
House hacking is a real estate investing strategy where you create income from a property you're living in. In this class you'll learn:
- The difference between house hacking and the Nomad™ real estate investing strategies
- Why you need to use an appropriate/special lease and create house rules when house hacking
- How to maximize cash flow by optimizing income from the property and minimizing expenses
- What special keywords should you be looking for to find the best house hacking properties when you're buying
- How analyzing deals changes when you're house hacking
- What you need to know about insurance when house hacking
- How to comply with local occupancy laws
- How to limit liability and reduce risk by making sure you implement these health and safety tips
- Financing tips when house hacking including how to use house hacking income to qualify for additional property purchases
- An unlikely reason why you should always report income from your house hacking (and not just because it is the law)
- How fair housing laws impact your house hacking and what you can and can't do under the current law
- The pros and cons when selecting the level of quality in your house hack
- Why and how combining house hacking and Nomad™ can be a powerful 1-2 punch
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9 Nastiest Nomad™ Mistakes
The Nomad™ real estate investing strategy is one of the best available, but it won't be the best for you if you make these all-too-common mistakes. In this class you'll learn to avoid:
- Using the wrong financing type and what financing type you should be using instead
- Buying the wrong property type (SFH, Condos, Duplex, Triplex, Fourplex) and what properties you should be buying instead
- Buying the wrong property (Location, Layouts, Obsolescence, Cap Ex), the criteria you must have and the criteria you should have (when possible)
- How to avoid refinancing errors will stop your acquisition plans dead in their tracks
- Putting together the wrong team (Real Estate Agent/Broker, Lender, Inspector, Property Manager) and what criteria is most important in selecting a Dream Team
- Look away! Look away! Avoiding "Shiny Object Syndrome" (and not starting soon enough, flipping, wholesaling when you should Nomad™ in parallel at the beginning, losing motivation and stalling)
- The fatal mistake of not optimizing cash flow (Income, Expenses, Leases including Timing) especially in markets where positive cash flow is hard to come by
- Avoiding analysis paralysis and making decisions confidently
- Having unrealistic expectations that prevent you from taking action with a plan that thrives for those that take action with even reasonable expectations
- Being under capitalized (including reserves) and some simple solutions
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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting to Invest in Real Estate
In this highly personal class James shares how he had to build a multi-million dollar portfolio TWICE and the lessons he learned along the way. In this class you'll learn:
- Why real estate investing is NOT a get rich quick scheme
- "A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price." — Charlie Munger
- The importance of reserves and James' recommendations for reserves in your real estate investing
- The Return Quadrants™
- The value and benefits of the Nomad™ strategy
- Why focus means both improved speed and improved safety
- That the grass isn't always greener (even if it looks that way)
- The past and what happened in the past does not always equal the future
- Why it is worthwhile to develop a significantly deeper and more nuanced understanding of income and expenses (especially on your rentals)
- The often-overlooked benefits of sharpening the saw
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10 Tips to Get Offers Accepted in Hot Markets
Real estate markets can cycle between hot and cold. In hot real estate markets it is often harder to acquire properties and get your offer accepted. Should you find yourself in a hot market cycle, here are tips for getting your offer accepted. In this class you'll learn:
- Tips regarding price to improve the odds of getting your offer accepted
- How to use appraisal gaps and appraisal waivers and the dangers of doing so
- Using escalation clauses correctly and safely and how to avoid over-paying
- The importance of calling the Seller’s Broker and what to say and what NOT to say
- How to leverage your lender and loan type to improve your chances
- Strengthening your offer using your inspection rights, the risks of doing so and how to mitigate those risks
- The importance and value of using hot sheets
- How to correctly use earnest money as a sign of strength and when to do it (and when not)
- The devastating impact of conditional sales and some alternatives/solutions
- The hidden power of backup positions and why you might want to consider utilizing this strategy
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Deal Analysis Classes
A wide range of classes on how to analyze a variety of real estate deals. In these classes you'll learn:
- What to use in each field as you analyze deals using The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™ (INCLUDED in Microsoft Excel format)
- What the most important metrics to look at are when analyzing deals
- How to spot green-light properties and how to quickly and easily eliminate red-light ones
- How your analysis changes when considering a single family home versus a duplex/triplex/fourplex or a condo/townhome or an apartment
- Where to get the data you need to do your analysis quickly and easily
- Plus much, much more...
From these separate classes:
- Analyzing Deals 101: an Intro to Cash on Cash Return on Investment
- Analyzing Deals 102 - Fix and Flips
- Analyzing Deals 201 - Selling with Lease-Option
- Analyzing Deals 303 - Subject-To and Lease-Options
- Analyzing Multi-Family Properties
- Analyzing Single Family Homes, Condos, Townhomes and Multi-Family
- Advanced Real-Time Deal Analysis with Brian's New, Improved Spreadsheet
- Advanced Lease-Option Deal Analysis
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An Alternative to Cash Flow - Saving Money With Rental Properties
Most real estate investors focus on cash flow from rental properties (and for some very good reasons), but in some markets and some situations it is important to understand how rental properties can be considered a vehicle for savings even if they are not producing immediate cash flow. In this class you'll learn:
- What are your options if you find yourself in a market where it is difficult (or impossible) to find positive cash flow properties?
- Should you even still buy properties if they don't cash flow with a reasonable sized down payment?
- A comparison of rental properties to other investments the masses make that do not cash flow
- The risks and dangers of speculation and why you should avoid it
- What are the Return Quadrants™ and why should I even care?
- What component returns of real estate are speculative, volatile, consistent, limited and unlimited and what to do about it
- When do you receive each component return from real estate and why it matters
- The role and importance of reserves in real estate investments
- The past does not equal the future and the impact of this on making investments in general and real estate investments in specific
- A discussion and exploration on historical returns for the largest 552 real estate markets in the US
- Using real estate as a savings vehicle
- A review of the compound interest formula and James' black box model of debt paydown
- The return on investment you earn by paying off properties starting with a variety of initial down payments and the shocking realization of the characteristics of this return
- A more holistic analysis of using real estate as a savings vehicle and an introduction to some powerful portfolio analysis tools for seeing this in your own portfolio of properties using the Real Estate Financial Planner™ software
- An introduction to James' Return in Dollars Quadrant™, Return on Investment Quadrant™ and Return on Equity Quadrant™... the impact and addition of reserves on these and new reports
- And a final warning to be careful and specific things to watch out for if you opt to pursue this idea
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Too Short For Its Own Class, But Too Important To Be Ignored
Some topics are too short to be their own full two-hour class, but too important not to cover. We combine several mini-topics into one class that we call "Arguably the Best Class of the Year". There are 5 different ones covering:
Part 1
- A brief market stats update
- What is depreciation recapture, how does it work and why you should care
- What is the creative deals matrix, what are the characteristics of different types of creative real estate deal-making
- Three Myths and Three Biases
- An overview of the steps for doing "Off Market Deals"
- "Will You Be My Mentor?" and information on finding a local mentor to help you
- A introduction to "Cash Reserves" for rental properties
- The "Off Market Deals" business processes
Part 2
- What is the ROI on paying down debt on your properties?
- How to payoff your mortgages faster using a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
- Insights to investing $100K
- What are the differences between the wealthy/rich and the poor?
Part 3
- What are the 3 ways to measure returns on your real estate investments, which do you focus on and when do you use the others?
- Should you continue to grow your 401K or liquidate it to invest in something outside of it (like real estate)?
- The surprisingly exciting and interesting exploration of real estate deed types
- Just 1% better... the miracle of compounding small improvements on the bottom line and your success in whatever you do
Part 4
- What's the difference between a pet and an Emotional Support Animal (ESA) and an update on ESA rules and laws
- Beware of real estate guru scammers: what to look for and avoid
- A discussion of the impact of cash out refinances on your income taxes
- A deep dive of cases to determine if the landlord is liable or not to help you better understand the best practices to managing your properties
- An improvement to the previous class we taught on buying down interest rates
Part 5
- A dive into historical rent appreciation rates
- Should I roll landscaping (or other builder-offered upgrades) into my new construction purchase?
- Why every real estate investing spreadsheet is wrong!
- What should I use for maintenance in my deal analysis spreadsheet?
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Miscellaneous Topics
Plus, you get a bunch of classes that cover wide range of miscellaneous topics.
For example these classes based on client questions, answered live during the class:
- Ask Me Almost Anything
- One Crazy Night - Brian Solves All Your Real Estate Problems
- Real Estate Investor Horror Stories
Asset Allocation Secrets of Real Estate Investors
Rules of thumb exist for folks investing in stocks and bonds (X% in stocks, Y% in bonds based on your age). However, until this class, no great rules existed for those investing in rental properties and other real estate. In this class you'll learn:
- What should your asset allocation vary with?
- Everything has risk. How do you evaluate risk versus reward?
- Some historically common asset allocation models
- Traditional asset allocation rules of thumb (for stocks and bonds)
- Rebalancing your asset allocation and a discussion on frequency of rebalancing
- A discussion on retirement date risk, sequence of returns risk, portfolio size effect and glide paths
- Diversification: friend or foe?
- What are bonds? How does this relate to real estate investments?
- Are bonds dead?
- The source of real estate equity
- The accessibility of real estate equity and its impact on asset allocation
- The two types of real estate equity: real estate equity and James' Bond-Like Real Estate Equity™
- Should I pay off my mortgage?
- An introduction to James' concept of True Net Equity™ and how this impacts asset allocation
- Optimizing Safe Withdrawal Rates for Asset Allocation with real estate investments
- The role of reserves on your real estate asset allocation
- An alternative perspective: using the Barbell Asset Allocation model
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Better Credit for Better Deals: Improving Your Credit Score
Having great credit can open additional opportunities to you and lead to better financing that ultimately improves the quality of some types of real estate deals. So, we have an entire class on improve your credit in the context of real estate investing. In this class you'll learn:
- Why you should care about your credit as a real estate investor
- What is FICO®, how it works and much, much more...
- How to get your credit score (and which ones you get from where)
- What impacts your credit score, what doesn't, how much impacts what and more
- How to tank your credit score
- How to improve your score - a step by step plan
- How to rebuild credit... especially if you've abused it in the past
- The impact of credit score on cash on cash return on investment and cash flow... some charts and analysis
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Beyond Cash Flow - The Return on Investment Quadrant™
Cash Flow isn't the only return you receive with rental properties. You get appreciation, debt paydown, depreciation AND cash flow. In this class you'll learn:
- An introduction to James' Return Quadrants™ including the Return in Dollars Quadrant™, Return on Investment Quadrant™ and Return on Equity Quadrant™
- When to use each quadrant
- Which returns vary based on your down payment? Which stay the same regardless of how much you put down?
- Which returns are speculative, variable and market dependent? Which are not?
- Which returns put cash in your pocket now? Which are cash later?
- What is the impact on Return on Equity as your equity increases over time?
- Announcing the addition of the Return Quadrants™ to The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™
- An exploration of selling properties when return on equity drops to a pre-determined level and the impact on your real estate financial goals
- Why we don't use return on investment (ROI) over time as we hold onto rental properties
- A quick reference to James' Deal Alchemy™ and how we can move returns from one quadrant to another
- How rolling in upgrades when buying properties, paying points or paying private mortgage insurance (PMI) impacts different areas of return
- Comparing 20% versus 25% down payments when buying non-owner-occupant rental properties with traditional financing
- The impact of a rent discount or premium on all areas of return
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