Thought about flipping in Denver but not sure where to start or if you can be successful in a competitive and changing marketplace? Our ELEVATE Your Flip course will give you the real-time keys to success from a local investor who is actively flipping. The guest for this course is Derek Marlin. He is the Founder of ELEVATION which specializes in property re-development (Fix & Flip), consulting, wholesaling, and a unique Partnership Flip system.

Chris Lopez shares his 2020 investment goals and updates to his investing strategy. The chapter submission for the 2020 Guide to Denver Real Estate Investing Strategies is extended to January 20th. Details at https://www.denverinvestmentrealestate.com/submission-guidelines-for-the-denver-real-estate-investing-strategies-book/

Do you have a strategy for your real estate investing? Is it written down? Most likely your answer is no! Creating a rental income stream for retirement is the main reason people invest in real estate. The goal of this episode is to help you create your real estate investing strategy.

In November 2019 I closed on a cash-out refinance on my primary residence to pull out $106,000 to invest into Denver rental properties. As discussed in earlier posts, the equity in my home is an opportunity cost.

Before reading this post, make sure you read the previous post, "Refinancing Your Primary Residence to Purchase Denver Investment Property" as this post builds upon the information in there. This post continues to explore different scenarios for pulling equity from your primary residence in order to buy rentals properties.

My clients reviewed the first Real Estate Financial Plan™ model, and then we hopped on a call to discuss it. Not surprisingly, there were some updates to make. It takes at least a few meetings to get details flushed out and to find the right path.

If you're like many Denver homeowners who have owned their primary residence for a few years, then you're probably sitting on a decent amount of equity that is often in the six-figure range. The Return on Equity module discussed calculating your return on equity and the opportunity costs of equity in your rental properties. This module will explore the opportunity costs of equity trapped in your primary residence.

After owning a property for a few years, is using return on initial investment the best way to measure the performance of your rental property? No, it's not. You're building equity, which has an opportunity cost. Do you leave it in the current property or take some or all of it out to buy more properties? What you do or don't do with the equity, can have a big impact on your rental portfolio.

The podcast covers (1) How to calculate and understand return on equity. (2) The three common scenarios for determining your equity opportunity costs. (3) An overview of the "Equity Optimization" Spreadsheet (4) A real-world case study for optimizing return on equity.

This episode gives you a high level overview of the rental analysis spreadsheet from Joe Massey that we use to analyze properties. It does not go into specifics on how to use the spreadsheet, but rather discusses variables and assumptions to use.

Go to https://www.denverinvestmentrealestate.com/denver-rental-property-spreadsheet/ to download the spreadsheet and to watch training videos.

Cash flow is NOT everything when it comes to analyzing rental properties. Yes, it's important, but if you're only looking at cash flow, then you're missing a few very important pieces to the puzzle. This show covers: (1)The four ways you make money in real estate investing. (2) Defining your true total initial investment to accurately measure your ROI. (3) Using a powerful visual aid to calculate the four returns to determine your complete ROI. (4) Two real-world Denver rental property analyses and their ROI.

Most likely, it'll be a different property analysis perspective than you've learned elsewhere. As the title states, cash flow is NOT everything!

Listen to the overview episodes of the new Investment Property Analysis Course (IPAC). The goal of this course is to teach you how to analyze an investment rental property at the initial purchase and then review it every year to optimize your rental portfolio for long term retirement planning. In a nutshell, it'll help you understand and play the real-life Monopoly game -- from buying your first your property (a green home), to accumulating more, and then trading up into bigger and better rental properties (red hotels!)