It is critical that, before buying an investment property, you do the numbers in order to determine what price you are prepared to pay. If you do them properly, you will realise that finding a good buy is harder than you expected, but that simply forces you to buy with your head and not your heart. Here’s how I did it when I was in the buying mode of my property investment career. You need a modicum of Excel skills because you must build a model into which you can plug the numbers, and see what happens to the monthly…
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