The next question you should ask yourself is whether your potential rental property will cash flow. This is why you must understand what the debt coverage ratio is. The debt coverage ratio (DCR) measures the landlord’s ability to make monthly mortgage payments from the income generated from renting that property. It tells you whether a rental will generate enough cash to pay for its expenses. Ultimately, it helps you decide if it’s an appropriate candidate as along term or not.
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Flip vs. Hold: What A Property Can Tell You – Part I
In our previous real estate investment blogs on flipping homes vs buy-and-hold we talked about why different types of investors are better suited for each strategy. Choosing whether to flip or hold may depend on your financial situation, your goals, and the time you have.
On one side of the spectrum might be a young real estate agent who chooses to supplement her income by flipping several properties a year. She is well-positioned to find a good property by the nature of her business. Her current work doesn’t require her to be in the office from nine to five. In fact, it offers her ample opportunities to efficiently manage her rehab project. Her goals is to boost her income to enjoy a better life style. She also wants to accumulate capital to expand her rehabbing business.
Flipping Homes vs. Buy-And-Hold: Fundamentals
Flipping homes and holding them for a long term are two dramatically different approaches to making money in real estate. Some investors specialize in one particular area. Others like to employ both strategies: selling off some properties and keeping the others. I like to compare flippers and long-term investors to hares and turtles, without passing any sort of judgment on hares. Both animals are evolutionary winners that thrive because of their different survival skills.