Tag Archives for " cap rate "

Dec 27

Certified Property Animator

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

Real estate invention I work with several hundred real estate investors to determine their residential or commercial property’s habu, highest and best use, how to differentiate themselves from their competition, how to boost cap rates and ROI, how to get tenants to pay more of the share of the costs of running a building, how […]

Read more
Mar 15

Accretive Finance

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

I have a client who runs a mini storage business whose biggest profit center is not actually renting 10′x10′ or 10′x20′ lockers either heated or unheated, but leasing parking spaces in his graveled lot. Trucks, RVs, trailers, loaders, pickups, backhoes… all find a resting place in his yard, and the more local ordinances the municipality […]

Read more
Mar 05

How to Calculate the Capitalization Rate

By Bruce Firestone | Entrepreneurship , Finance , Investing , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Urban Economics

The Cap Rate Most real estate professionals do not use IRR, internal rate of return, calculations—they use cap (capitalization) rates to compare one project with another. The cap rate is an approximate assessment of ROI, return on investment, as all financial measures are anyway. But they are more approximate than the IRR is, in my […]

Read more
Mar 05

Analyzing real estate deals

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

[guest post by Robin Chahal, IT specialist, real estate investor] When analyzing real estate deals, my biggest problem is self deception. I fall in love with a bad property because I like the trees in the backyard. Then I run away from great deals because the bathroom smells funny. I’ve learned I can’t trust my emotional brain […]

Read more
>