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Owner Resources
Owner Resources: practical guides for owners of one-to-four-unit residential rental buildings, written and reviewed by Nate Jones, CPCU.
8 guides in Owner Resources. All guides →
- Owner Resources
How to Calculate ROI on a Rental Property, Step by Step
The arithmetic behind a rental ROI figure: what belongs in the return, what counts as invested, and why one building yields several honest answers.
- Owner Resources
Is a Duplex a Good Investment? How to Answer That
A duplex is not an asset class — it is one building in one place. What a two-unit building trades away, and the tests that settle the question.
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How to Read a Texas Rental Market Without a Ranked List
Texas is several unlike rental markets under one name. How to read a region yourself — tax, wind and hail, flood, supply — and where to check each one.
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Tracking Insurance Across Several Rental Buildings
What has to be recorded for each rental building you own, why staggered renewal dates cause the most avoidable trouble, and what the record needs to hold.
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What Buying a Duplex Actually Involves for the Owner
A duplex conveys two live tenancies with it. What the leases, the inspection, the seller’s documents and the insurance timeline ask of a first-time buyer.
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What Cash Flow Measures, and What It Leaves Out
A cash-flow figure is a claim about what was counted. What belongs in the count, what usually falls out of it, and why the period is part of the claim.
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What Running a Duplex Actually Takes from an Owner
A duplex is one structure carrying two separate tenancies. That single fact drives the shared systems, the repairs, the friction and the insurer calls.
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How to Judge a Rental Market Before You Buy Into It
Durable criteria for reading a market for one-to-four-unit rental buildings, and the public sources to check them against yourself — not a ranked list.
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