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Including Principal Pay Down in Your Calculations

by Ken Corsini | July 27, 2011

With a big question mark surrounding what kind of appreciation investors will achieve in the coming years, most investors look at yearly cash on cash returns as the primary metric for evaluating investment property. I see a wide array of advertised returns from various investment property marketers, and it seems like everybody has slightly different [...]

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Interest Rates: A Critically Important Factor for Real Estate Investors

by Ken Corsini | June 1, 2011

I just read an article today regarding the fact that mortgage interest rates have just reached their lowest point of 2011. Interestingly, I remember reading another article in early April of this year about the likelihood of rising interest rates and the urgency many real estate brokers were broadcasting to their clients to purchase before [...]

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Return on Investment (ROI) Versus Cash on Cash Return (CCR)

by Joshua Dorkin | February 4, 2007

A great question came up today on the forums, inquiring what the difference was between Return on Investment (ROI) and Cash on Cash Return (CCR). I think the question was answered perfectly here, but I’ll elaborate a bit. EXAMPLE: Suppose you buy a house for $100,000 and sell it later for $110,000. Your return on [...]

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