Calculator Problem – 10/10/2011
If you invest $50 every month for 30 years at 15%, how much money would you have? (The answer will be posted with the new calculator problem in 2 weeks. … Read more
Calculator Problem – 09/26/2011
Ray is renting a room in a house for $500 a month. He negotiates to pay 5 months in advance and get the 6 month free. What is his return? … Read more
Calculator Problem – 09/12/2011
You find a rental house for $60,000 that you can finance with a 75% LTV loan at 5% over 15 years. How much will your payment be every month? (The … Read more
Calculator Problem – 08/29/2011
How much would you need to earn on a monthly investment of $718.08 in order to have $44,669.85 in five years? (The answer will be posted with the new calculator … Read more
Government houses turned into rentals?
HUD is looking at a range of options for the inventory of foreclosed houses that the government is sitting on including turning them into rentals. http://www.fhfa.gov/webfiles/22367/FHFARFIReleaseFinal.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/can-a-new-plan-to-rent-out-foreclosed-properties-actually-work/2011/08/10/gIQAO0YA7I_blog.html
Calculator Problem – 08/15/2011
What is the payment on a $50,000 loan at 4.75% amortized over 12 years? (The answer will be posted with the new calculator problem in 2 weeks. Or if you … Read more
Calculator Problem – 08/01/2011
(See Calculator Problem 07/04/2011 and 07/18/2011) How much would you have with each scenario if you invested the money until you were 100? (The answer will be posted with the … Read more
Calculator Problem – 07/18/2011
(See Calculator Problem 07/04/2011) If you wait until you are 66, you can collect $1846 a month. If you can earn 7% on your money, how much will you have when … Read more
Calculator Problem – 07/04/2011
You are currently 62 and can start collecting a pension of $1228 a month. If you can earn 7% on your money, how much will you have when you turn 80? … Read more
Double Dip Data
A blog post from Marcus Millichap that has some data on the double dip in real estate. One interesting piece of data was the estimate that 28% of single family … Read more