To explain: Say your monthly servicing is $2k per month. 

., and mapping out capital expenses for year one, two, three, four makes your analysis much more grounded. 

Welcome, Joshua, and thank you for your service.

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>Some CPA insist on having at least 3 stays prior to considering it "in-service", some insist on at least 1 stay.

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Quote from @Edward Dandrea: @Drew Sygit funny I asked this exact question, owners answer is I’m building a huge network and service with clientele worth way more than that..

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@Josh Lewer great synopsis and as a fellow cpa I agree with your analysis here.

If you’ve been on this forum lately, you’ve seen about 47 posts starting with:

“I’m building an AI tool to analyze deals…”

This is not one of those.
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