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Part 4 of "The Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investing"--CpA

Sunday, February 16

Here's the final leg of our race: Part 4 of our series on "The Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investing” discusses Capital Accumulation Comparison (CpA) as a possible to way to choose between two mutually exclusive real estate investment opportunities. In particular, it can help you put pr...


Part 3 of “The Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investing:” FMRR & MIRR

Monday, February 10

In Part 2 of this series of articles on the RealData Software Blog, we had just reached what appeared to be an epiphany of sorts. We turned Discounted Cash Flow on its head, solving for the rate rather than the Present Value. That rate – the Internal Rate of Return – looked like it provided...


IRR: Part 2 of our Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investing Series

Monday, February 03

In the first installment of the four-part series on our RealData blog I introduced two important measures of investment performance, Net Present Value (NPV) and Profitability Index (PI). Now I want to continue this review of key real estate investment metrics by looking at Internal Rat...


The Alphabet Soup of Real Estate Investing

Tuesday, January 28

Successful investing in real estate depends to a great degree on your ability to work with some basic financial concepts. How do you take the measure of an income-producing property? What does the terminology mean? Allow me to continue my review of key real estate investment metrics b...


More articles

Monday, January 20

Again I've been remiss in not letting you know about content -- some new, some revived -- on my blog at realdata.com Time to catch up: The One Key Concept All Real Estate Investors Should Understand The 50% Rule vs. Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Understanding Net Operating Income ...


The Cash-on-Cash Conundrum

Tuesday, October 01

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...