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Cynthia Brooks
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What Income Do I Use to Analyze Rental

Cynthia Brooks
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Brooklyn, NY
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Hello, I'm trying to analyze a multifamily ( 4 family) property in Trenton,NJ. Should I analyze the property using current rents seller is receiving from tenants ( which are below market rate rents) or should I use the projected market rate rent I could get with minor renovations or do I use both? Thank you.

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Dennis M.
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Dennis M.
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A lot of new investors have this idea that they will simply march in to their new property and jack up the rents . There’s a few different metrics that might make that not possible . There might be a good reason those rents are set at that price maybe the local tenant pool is broke the property is an eyesore or there was a murder down the street , so many factors . Do as  joe says and base it on a known price it already produces  

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