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  • At the time, the rents were way out of whack... I was eating up to $500 a month... but rents caught up... and if you are willing to put down a larger down payment by leveraging (something you can't do in the stock market), you can make the numbers w…
    in Finding an apartment is harder — and pricier Comment by Darwin April 2007
  • All of my rentals are making money... everything is postive cash flow. Could I find something like that now in today's market, probably not. But in the past I have had the same scenario and I had to eat some money in the short term. I say you con…
    in Finding an apartment is harder — and pricier Comment by Darwin April 2007
  • In one dream scenario: 700K house, 30% down vs. extravagant rental at $2300 a month. You can also up the investment return (under "advanced") to 8-10 percent, which is below average annual market returns. Even if you leave that setting as-is at a mo…
    in Finding an apartment is harder — and pricier Comment by Darwin April 2007
  • I think I have read that the rental rates are not high enough to keep up with the real estate market, and now that the rental market is picking up, due to the fact that they can't afford to buy something in say... Seattle, they are having to rent an…
    in Finding an apartment is harder — and pricier Comment by Darwin April 2007