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In a continuing effort to help real estate investors and agents learn how to calculate the common rates of return for rental income properties, we have added an additional three more online calculators to our ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software website. These are 100% FREE to use. Simply go to our website at www.proapod.com and click the Learning Center in the left menu. The from the Learning Center scroll down to Free Online Calculators and select the calculation you would like to make.

Net present value (NPV) is a measurement of the investment performance of a property that converts investment cash flows to a single amount to facilitate a real estate investor’s decision making for property analysis and comparison purposes. And this true whether the investor is concerned with maximizing wealth at a specific point in time or minimizing the cost of obtaining a particular benefit.

Financial management rate of return (or FMMR) is a return conceived (at least I think it was) by the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CIREI) and is taught to those who seek the CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation.

Getting involved with foreclosures can be a profitable venture because in almost any area of the United States there is an ample inventory of real estate foreclosures—in some areas more than an ample inventory, maybe even a glut As a result, of course, some real estate investors are having a field day buying and selling these properties at a profit.

Any real estate investor who wants to purchase foreclosures should bear in mind that banks don’t necessarily list their REO (real estate owned) property at discounted prices, and in fact, could be asking too much.

In this article, I want to acquaint you with the concept of time value of money and show you why it is important when real estate investing.Time value of money is the concept of measuring the value of money over time because it is essentially a fact that money does not remain static and over time does change value.