Welcome to Dartnell Investment Academy
Buying For Cash Flow in an Always Changing Market
Research Needs To Be Done
Picking the best real estate investment properties clearly takes a lot of work if you are going to make a good decision. Having the correct answers to these many questions allows you to purchase high Return on Investment (ROI) properties that have lots of equity. These answers also let you know whether it is the right time to get into the investment market or whether the market you are considering is even a good market to buy investment real estate in!
Dartnell Investment Academy has a very experienced staff of seasoned investors that have consulted, trained and helped clients from across the world buy investment properties in the top cash flow markets in the United States. These clients rely on our thorough research and analysis to help them pick the best properties with extremely high cash on cash returns. While you don’t have to have a team of advisors, and you can get the answers to all of these questions on your own, do you have a national perspective to know how your market compares, and do you have the time to do all of this research if someone else has already done it for you?
Choosing The Right Market
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Our Power Team
When Passive Income Covers Your Expenses You’re Out of the Rat Race
When I worked as a Trainer/Coach for Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki stressed the importance of acquiring assets that put passive income in your pocket. If you wanted to buy a new toy, acquire an asset that put passive income in your pocket, and this cash flow (often from investment property), would allow you to buy the new toy without leveraging your future with debt. Eventually enough passive income would get one out of the “Rat Race,” that everyone seems be in regardless of how high their incomes are. True freedom came from having low enough expenses that the passive income would cover them, and you no longer had rely on income from a job to maintain your lifestyle.Market Timing and Selection Are Keys
During the height of the real estate investment market, many novice investors didn’t pay attention to the market cycles and bought properties that they thought were investments, but that really didn’t put cash flow in their pockets. By not paying attention to whether they were in an expansion, equilibrium, contraction or absorption market, they bought the wrong properties in the wrong markets at the wrong times.Understand How Your Investment Market Compares to All Others
By developing a proprietary system that analyzes over 278 different real estate investment markets across the United States, and allows us to compare each market side by side in an objective manner, Dartnell Investment Academy helps our clients understand which markets have the best real estate investment opportunities. We know when to get into these markets, how to have the highest return on investment (ROI), and how to help our clients assemble a real estate portfolio of high cash flow properties that allow our investors to get out of the “Rat Race,” and live off of passive income.
Market Timing
Real Estate Investing is all about research and numbers. Is it good time to enter the investment market? Are we at the top, is the market about to decline, or is it building steam? Can I flip a house? Is this a buy and hold market, a seller’s market or a buyer’s market? Are rents going up or down? How long will it take me to rent this property out? If I want to resell the property, how long will that take? What will it rent for, and what does section 8 pay? How difficult will it be to get a good tenant, and how long will the tenant stay? What types of properties have demand, and how large are the households I will be renting to?Market Selection
What are the property taxes, and how will they affect my cash flow? What is the median home cost and median income? What are my affordability and cash flow ratios? What is crime like in the area, what type of crime is there, and is it going up or down? What are vacancy rates, what percentage of the housing is owner occupied verses rental? Is the area growing, are there new schools? How many new homes are being built? What is the unemployment rate? Is this city growing in population, and are jobs moving to this area? What is the infrastructure like, do new roads, sewer systems and water lines allow for new growth? Is the area pro-business or is heavy unionization driving employment out of state? Are there Freeport taxes? Are there economic incentives to help bring new jobs to the area? Are there tax credits available if I choose to make certain improvements to a house? From an exit strategy standpoint, how many days on market are the houses in my price range taking to sell, how many homes am I competing with? What is the absorption rate? What percentage of the sales are foreclosures? Are there down payment assistance programs for buyers?Neighborhood Selection
What does the rental inventory look like, what does my competition look like? How much renovation will I need to put into this house to successfully compete against the other rentals in inventory? What is the average age of the homes that are available for rent? How many apartment complexes are there, and how many bedrooms and bath does their competing inventory have? What do these apartments rent for? Which school districts do people want to live in and what are the test scores? How close are jobs, and who are the main employers? What is the median income for the neighborhood? What do police incident reports tell me about the neighborhood? Are there bars on windows or security doors? How many homes are in the market in this subdivision, and what are they selling for? How many properties are coming up on the (NOD) notice of default list that may be foreclosed soon? Is the neighborhood improving or going down-hill? How is the pride of ownership?Property Selection
What is the age of the roof, and how much life is left on it? What age is the air conditioning condensing unit and furnace, and does it operate? When was the hot water heater installed? Do the electrical systems and plumbing systems work, and has any copper been stolen? Do I have updated romex wiring or is it the old knob and tube electrical systems? Is the electrical box and service updated? Are the appliances in working order, and how old are they? Is the plumbing cast iron, polybuteline or pvc? Do I have Louisiana Pacific siding, and were any other recalled products used in construction? Is there active termite infestation or previous damage, and what will the cost be to treat or repair damage? Is the home under any warranties? Is the house located in a flood plain, and has there been any previous flood damage? Have there been any previous insurance claims on the home? Does the home need any mold remediation? If the home was built prior to 1978 does it have lead based paint? If the home is in a historical area, do I have codes and restrictions that might make renovations much more expensive? How much are my repair costs going to be on this home? Does the floor plan appeal to prospective tenants?Picking the best real estate investment properties clearly takes a lot of work if you are going to make a good decision. Having the correct answers to these many questions allows you to purchase high Return on Investment (ROI) properties that have lots of equity. These answers also let you know whether it is the right time to get into the investment market or whether the market you are considering is even a good market to buy investment real estate in!
Dartnell Investment Academy has a very experienced staff of seasoned investors that have consulted, trained and helped clients from across the world buy investment properties in the top cash flow markets in the United States. These clients rely on our thorough research and analysis to help them pick the best properties with extremely high cash on cash returns. While you don’t have to have a team of advisors, and you can get the answers to all of these questions on your own, do you have a national perspective to know how your market compares, and do you have the time to do all of this research if someone else has already done it for you?
Where Do Our Properties Come From
Dartnell Investment Academy utilizes several strategies to acquire the best real estate investment deals for our clients, including bank REO’s, HUD properties, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, VA and Rural Development Authority homes, properties being sold in probate, short-sales, auction properties, and purchase of properties in bulk. Strategic partnerships give us direct access to over 50 bank REO departments, as well as FDIC assets. We are able to source bank tapes, as well as large apartment complexes and commercial deals with very high ROI’s and large cap rates.A Competitive Advantage You Can’t Have on Your Own
Working with a vast clientele that includes large and small individual investors, as well as large real estate investment funds gives us many competitive advantages. Due to the volume of investment purchases our clients make, banks and their representing agents take us very seriously when we make offers due to our reputation of high volume sales and the recognized ability to close transactions quickly. In many of our selected investment markets, the top REO agents that specialize in selling volume bank foreclosures keep us on their “short list” and call us as soon as they receive deals that match our criteria. This often means that our investors are getting access to deals just before everyone else.The Real Work Has Already Been Done For You
Some markets have as many as 50,000 foreclosures at a time, so weeding through the junk of overpriced massive repair projects in bad neighborhoods to hand select only the best investment deals takes a lot of time. Having a large team of experienced investment specialists who analyze several hundred foreclosures each day, and then scout the very best 75 properties each day allows us to cherry pick the highest return, lowest repair properties that will provide the best investment opportunities for our clients. As these properties are scouted, our team shoots a video of each property, which provides great detail on estimated repair costs, pride of ownership in the neighborhood, and gives you a very real feel for the property as if you were walking through the property yourself. Often these videos are highly educational and make the selection process much easier. The Investment Vault and Toolbox Make All the Difference Each of these videos are placed in our property vault, where a myriad of investment tools and resources make it much easier to make an investment decision. These tools include market data, sales and comp information, demographic, crime, economic and employment data, tax records, mortgage calculators, a full investment analysis report and cash flow score, birds-eye, street and map views of the property and much more!Turn Key Deals
For the busiest professionals, or for funds that are more conservative, we have partnered with many of our investors to provide turn-key real estate investment solutions. In addition to buying properties directly, our clients are able to purchase properties that have already been rehabbed, and have well screened tenants already in place. This allows our most conservative clients to purchase performing assets that already have a proven track record. Return on investment (ROI) on these properties are still quite high, but much of the risk has already been eliminated.”Dartnell Investment Academy can help take away the hassle and intimidation of real estate investing, by helping you understand the factors that make up the best cash flow markets in real estate. Instead of building a team on your own, we have researched and interviewed expert potential power team members across the United States. By allowing you to interview these power team members, and providing extensive education and mentoring, Dartnell Academy is able to help you achieve your goals.