How to Rehab Your Property and Maximize Returns

I have been investing in real estate for 25 years and bought and sold over $750,000,000. Over that period of time, I have rehabbed thousands of units and spent tens of millions of dollars in rehab. You can see those here. I have made many mistakes and learned a lot from those mistakes so you don’t have to. There are only two reasons to rehab your property.

1)You are forced to rehab it because it must be fixed.

2)You are rehabbing to increase the value of the property to sell it, or in my case to create a new product that will increase rents and returns—thus the value of the property. 

If you are a wholesaler flipping homes the renovation in most cases is required to bring the property to a condition so you can actually sell the property for a profit. When you are in the apartment game like I am, I rehab the units to bring a new tenant to the property that is willing to pay extra for a new and improved product. 

For instance, I just purchased 192 units in Florida and we are taking 10% of the property—approximately twenty units—to test the ability of the market's demand for a new product at a new price point. 

This is a math project as much as a physical rehab project.

We rehabbed the kitchen, including appliances, cabinets, flooring, paint, and baseboards; we also did the bathrooms, resurfacing tubs and sinks for a total cost of $7188 a unit. Here's some photos to show you what I'm talking about:

BEFORE REHAB

AFTER REHAB

The new product achieved new rents immediately for $200 extra dollars per month, which is $2400 per year resulting in a return of 33.3% per year. The property is now improved, and with a new tenant profile, rents go up which ultimately increases the NOI or net operating income— this is what determines the increased value of the property. 

This is where the math becomes quite compelling and why so many of my friends and customers invest with me. This is the part of the game about investing most people don’t get. Just rehabbing those twenty units will increase the NOI $48,000 per year changing the value of the property by over $1 million dollars. 

Here is the math:

$200 per month

20 units

$48,000 per year in new income (should all hit bottom line)

$48,000/cap rate of 4.5% = $1,066,666 new value

In multi-family investing you get the scale and leverage of many units that you don’t get with a single family home. That’s why every flipper (wholesaler) I have ever met desires to be in the apartment game at some point.

That is why I say the bigger you can go the better because you get the scale. Consider that the new value of the property of $1,066,667 is for rehabbing only twenty of the units. If I can pull that off on all 192 units—big if—it would increase the income by $460,800 per year and increase the value of the property by $10,240,000.

All that assumes I can get the project done on time, I get the rents across the board and that all the new money hits the bottom line because the cost to run the property does not go up with improvements except for the management fee on total income and possibly higher taxes if I get reassessed. 

Remember there are four ways to invest in real estate:

1) Do it yourself 

2) Invest in REIT (not really real estate)

3) Syndicator

4) CardoneAcquisitions.com 

If you are going to invest either KNOW what you are doing or find someone that does.

Good luck, and good investing!

Be great,

GC

Ask your questions in comments and I will answer.

Also, don’t forget my Real Estate Made Simple podcast and show. 

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Grant Cardone is an American entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, speaker, motivator and online sales training expert. Cardone is a respected, highly regarded master salesperson whose passion is to teach people how to sell themselves, their products and services regardless of economic climate. His books, audio packages, and seminars provide people of all professional backgrounds with the practical tools necessary to build their own economies towards the path to true freedom.

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