I appreciate the clarity, preciseness, and professionalism put into Ashcroft's materials. 

It’s precisely because the market as a whole justified loosening it’s standards that cap rates compress so much.

My analogy wasn't trying to be precise, or something to be dissected from 100 different angles, it was trying to illustrate ONLY that one simple point: If you deal with it, it's not a big deal...

Your situation you are describing is PRECISELY the niche I work in - scaling small residential or multifamily portfolio's accordingly.

It's precisely because they only do it once a decade that they obsess over it.

I understand the pay is negotiable, I just wanted to see if other agents had any more precise knowledge of the typical payment sturcutre.

You have to include this if you are assuming the $80K was invested in example 2)$600K (total cash at the end of 30 years)Tenant buys ($20K paid):$100K (property value)$150K (cash flow $5K per year for 30 years)$350K (principal plus interest from investing the $80K at 5% - so the number includes the original $80K)$600K (total cash at the end of 30 years)These are not precise numbers, but essentially you end up with similar outcome, because you are reinvesting the "initial cash difference of $80K" or the "added yearly cash flow of $5K" at the same interest rate. 

Makes sense but I hear NYC brokers have it way easier than brokers else precisely because there is always an attorney involved.  

@Adam Zach I’m not an engineer but I am a machinist and gunsmith yup those are thingsAssociates in cnc machining, associates in precision manual machining and associates in gunsmithing.

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