Return On Investment

Are foreclosed properties good deals?

by Jay Castillo on August 30, 2010 · 16 comments

in Financial literacy, Real Estate Investing

It depends! Obviously not all foreclosed properties are good deals. It’s common sense that not all properties are good investments, foreclosed or otherwise, you don’t need to be a real estate investing guru to know this. However, based on the number of times I’ve either heard people ask or get asked this very same question, [...]

How to turn listings of foreclosed properties into opportunities

by Jay Castillo on March 31, 2010 · 27 comments

in Real Estate Investing

“If only it were this easy in real life!” , a Think Rich Pinoy Seminar attendee exclaimed after buying his fifth property while playing Robert Kiyosaki‘s Cashflow 101 game. I heard him say this as I helped facilitate the Cashflow 101 game at their table during the afternoon session of the Think Rich Pinoy seminar [...]

How To Easily Calculate The Return-On-Investment (ROI) For Rental Properties

by Jay Castillo on January 28, 2009 · 67 comments

in How to do the Numbers, Real Estate Investing

As promised, I shall be sharing in this post how I calculate the Return-On-Investment or ROI that I could get for a property. To better illustrate the computation, we will use an actual example which I earlier introduced in Pre-auction bids – Another lesson learned. For this example, I shall be using the buy-and-hold strategy [...]