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lumberjack_jeff

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4. That's only a 5.5% capitalization rate.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 02:00 PM

Feb 2014

An investor is better spending that two million buying 36, $500/month rentals in my area.

If you buy it yourself, you'll be giving $9500 of that $10,000 to someone else anyway.

SF looks like a shitty investment for landlords.

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This $10,500 rental in the SF Mission District is absurd [View all] Newsjock Feb 2014 OP

Saying something is caliente sharp_stick Feb 2014 #1

Yes, the hipsters are thick in SF. Blue_In_AK Feb 2014 #3

And stops at Tacolicious on the way home KamaAina Feb 2014 #5

Is that thing in the middle supposed a couch or a bed? Blue_Tires Feb 2014 #2

That's only a 5.5% capitalization rate. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2014 #4

The blogger completely misunderstood "the hottest microclimate" term --it's not racial CreekDog Feb 2014 #6

San Francisco is in a bit of a real estate bubble at the moment. Xithras Feb 2014 #7