All Forum Posts by: Jingru Sui

Hey @Kam Ajani, welcome to the BP community!

The problem you are facing is one that just about every buy & hold investor in Atlanta is facing right now. While rents are ticking up, home prices have shot through the roof. This, coupled with raising interest rates, has made cash flow close to impossible to find anywhere in the Atlanta MSA. This is especially true if you're looking on the market and for relatively turnkey properties. If you do happen to find one, you'll find yourself competing with the other hundreds of investors (and homebuyers) who have seen the same property. Likely, the closing price won't end up being anything that would have produced cash flow..

However, there are still investors doing well in the buy & hold space here in Atlanta. These are the folks who are getting creative. Either in their strategy or in how they find deals. Have you thought of other ways to boost income beyond market rent? Or maybe developing a direct to seller marketing program of some kind, if you have the time. Essentially, the days of just doing the same basic strategy as everyone else to find cash flow are long gone. Now it takes creativity, time (yours or your team's) and patience. 

Hope this helps a bit! Please, feel free to reach out anytime if you have other questions or just want to chat.

 Hi!  Can you please share the two apartments. 

Hello Everyone!

So, I have been a real estate agent for 2 years now and last year I had about 8.5million in volume with 31 transactions. My team split is 55/45 so I about 241k in commissions but got paid about 135k last year. This year Im heading towards 10million+ and they talk of no commission split changes. The team does offer a full time transaction coordinator and marketing coordinator. They also do give a couple leads a year. Do you believe this is a fair split?