If vacant units do exist at the time of your real
estate analysis then include them at their reasonable market rent.
Not exact matches
Then now's the time to request a comparative market
analysis (CMA) from your real
estate agent.
I spent a lot of time in our local library pulling out microfilm & microfiche and looking up stocks, bonds, indexes, cost of living / govt info, real
estate, etc information from ~ 1900 until (
then) recent times in the wall street journal (this was pre internet — what took many weeks
then now just takes a few minutes, but the Lotus 1 -2-3 spreadsheet program was very helpful in doing the
analysis) and
then analyzed the results and concluded that the «only» investment strategy that made any sense was 100 % stock (absolutely the best return over time); but... there was that pesky thing called recessions, depressions, stock market corrections etc..
The critical
analysis here is to determine what environmental, cultural and other factors are causing you to be unhappy with your litigation work and
then determine which of these factors would be addressed if you switched to the real
estate group (at your current firm or a different firm).
So a Registrant or Practitioner could reasonably ask themselves today: why would any Buyer commit to talking to just a single real
estate sales person — if they understood that individual (Practitioner) was going to promote their own listings first,
then those listings of their brokerages colleagues, and
then in the final
analysis they (the buyer prospect) would be advised of any pertinent property listings that might be under contract with the other competing brokerages.
You can assign one person from your real
estate investment group to look at each available property for
analysis and
then decide how it fits with your overall portfolio.