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All Forum Posts by: Jason Bible

Jason Bible has started 7 posts and replied 72 times.

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Jaron Walling:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

 Hell of a good deal man! Where does the money come from on the REFI loan? I calculated a vacancy rate of 3.5%, isn't that pretty low? 

 There is no refi.  Straight private money loan for 5 years.   Vacancy in this market is virtually zero

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Account Closed:

@Jason Bible do you think your multi will appriciate over time? It seems that cap rate are super low now.

As long as rents do, absolutely.  

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Michael G.:

@Jason Bible

Hi Jason! Thanks so much for transparently putting yourself out there. It's genuinely appreciated.

Given your level of real-estate activity in the last ~ 5 years can you share:

  1. What is your current NET WORTH? (Using conservative estimates of the equity in your real-estate holdings)
  2. How much TOTAL INCOME (EBITDA) did you earn, in aggregate, from all of your real-estate investments & activities  A.) over the last 12 months?  B.) in 2018?   C.) in 2017?   D.) in 2016?  E.) In the last quarter?
  3. For what amount of money did you sell your Wholesaling & Flipping company?

Thanks!  (and wishing you much continued success!)

 Posting all that in a public forum is a real swell idea.  

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Account Closed:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @Account Closed:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

Hmm...I know the houses in TX will last longer than up here, but zero for cap-ex appears a bit unrealistic to me. Tell me what I'm missing here.

This property is getting EVERYTHING. Capex should be close to zero for the first five years. If you look under the Vacancy, MR, and o&M that is where I hide cap ex.

 Sounds good. So are you expecting to sell after 5 years then? How many years have you been managing rentals?

 I may keep them longer than 5 years.  I do not manage rentals, I have a great property management company

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Mike Rutherford:

@Jason Bible I have a couple of SFR's that are cash flowing pretty well. I'm looking to get into MF but I can't seem to find a good deal that cash flows. I'm looking for a cap rate of north of 10%. Any suggestions on finding deals for MF? I'm working with a realtor that is searching for some off market properties, but considering they are from his realtor partner I doubt I'll get a deal. Thoughts?

 There are a ton of deals on market, just need to negotiate them. 

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Timothy M.:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

Two things.

1) Is tax really that low? $100 / month seems awfully light.

2) Nothing put away for capex/repairs? Who pays for those...?

1. its is, it should be about 3k/yr in the next few years.  

2. This is a major rehab where everything is replaced, cap ex should be close to zero for the first 5 years.  I dump all those expenses into the vacancy, MR, O&M column by using a simple depreciation calculation.  NOTE: that since the new tax law, its possible to take an accelerated dep of 30% based on a handful of factors.  Also if you are cost seg'ing your portfolio your schedule e is going to look very different than you p&L.  

I made a few changes to reflect a 3200 tax liability and use depreciation as a charge against net monthly cash flow.    It drops my net profit to 700/month and I am building a capex of about 1300/yr.  

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Account Closed:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

Hmm...I know the houses in TX will last longer than up here, but zero for cap-ex appears a bit unrealistic to me. Tell me what I'm missing here.

This property is getting EVERYTHING. Capex should be close to zero for the first five years. If you look under the Vacancy, MR, and o&M that is where I hide cap ex.

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @John Elias:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

Oh wow I really appreciate that level of insight. Did he also finance all the rehab for the property? If you don't mind me being so blunt, what sort of agreement did you have in place? Did you do most of the rehab yourself or did you just find an excellent deal?

 He financed 100% rehab and purchase.  We use an equity participation mortgage.  I have a GC rehabbing the property; I've been to the property once.  Found a the deal through one of my agents.  

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Kirby Davis:
Originally posted by @Jason Bible:
Originally posted by @John Elias:

For someone looking to get started soon, if you had to redo it all again would you still start by wholesaling and flipping? I actually kind of want to follow the path you did. Flip at first then transition into rentals once i get some capital

I just closed this one with a partner.  He gets 9% interest and 30% equity.  Ill cash flow 900/month and have no money in the deal

 Jason, on this deal, do you repay the full loan or 70%, as the lender maintains 30% equity in the deal. Do you have more details on how this is structured? 

30% of the net equity.  Net equity is about 20 ish, if we sold it today.  Lender gets 6K

Post: Almost 500 houses ----> Multifamily

Jason BiblePosted
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Houston, TX
  • Posts 75
  • Votes 66
Originally posted by @Avery Coleman:

@Jason Bible Thanks for taking some time out for this AMA. Since your move to multi family properties, what's have been your biggest challenges?

 Biggest challenges is lenders and partners.  They've been so great to work with in single family that some do not want to make the jump with me to multi.  Second is timeline, MF moves much much slower. 

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