We sold The Lake House the other day (statistics and financial results below)…it’s was a quick project that didn’t require much work and barely generated our minimum profit target — but we’d do it again in a heartbeat…
As I’ve mentioned, this is the first of three properties we’ve purchased in this subdivision. All three were purchased between $55-60K, needed between $13-20K in rehab, and are being resold in the $100K range. While we could likely get a good bit more for these properties, there aren’t too many comps in the area (other than the ones we’re creating), so we’re selling low, making a quick minimum profit, and giving our buyers a great deal.
This property was only on the market for two days before we got our first offer. In fact, we never even finished staging the property before we came to terms with the buyers!
Here are our final analysis numbers:
Timelines
The rehab and sale were both very short on this deal. The longest parts of the project were the two and a half weeks we waited to put in on the market (we finished rehab just before Christmas) and the 7 weeks we waited to get the deal closed after the contract was signed (this was a request by the buyer).
Here are the key timeline milestones:
- Purchase Offer Date: 11/8/2010
- Purchase Closing Date: 11/29/2010
- Rehab Completion Date: 12/13/2010
- Sale Listing Date: 1/1/2011
- First Sale Contract Date: 1/3/2010
- Final Sale Contract Date: 1/3/2010
- Sale Closing Date: 2/23/2011
Financials
Here is the breakdown of financials for this project:
We will clear almost exactly $15K on this project (after including unpaid utility bills we’re waiting to receive), which is our minimum profit target. Our ROI on this project was about 100% (we put in very little of our own cash on this project) and our annualized ROI was just over 400%.
Final Statistics
Here are just some of the final statistics that I’ve been tracking for all my projects, and that summarize the success/failure of each project pretty well:
- From Offer to Purchase Time: 21 Days
- Rehab Time: 13 Days
- Selling Days on Market: 2 Days
- Selling Close Time: 51 Days
- Total Hold Time (Close to Close): 86 Days
- Total Profit: $15,295.85
- Return on Investment (ROI): 97.76%
- Annualized ROI: 414.91%
Rock on! As they say on Ghosthunters (yes, I am a geek), “On to the next!” (we can fist-bump at the next closing ; )
Congrats as always, Guys!
Amazing! You’re ready to sell guru material 🙂
Hey J,
You mention at the bottom that’s just some of the statistics you track. What other stats do you track if you don’t mind me asking?
Hey Rob,
I generally track schedule and financial stats. For schedule, I track the duration of each phase of the project, from putting in an offer, to have many counter-offers I have, to how long it takes to close, rehab, staging, marketing, getting a contract, how many contracts it takes to get a buyer who can close, etc.
For financials, I track the costs in five separate categories: Purchase Cost, Rehab Costs, Holding Costs, Selling Costs, and Commission Costs. For my rentals, I track expenses in great detail. Then I track a couple different ROI measures: straight ROI, IRR, etc. And lastly, I track percentages of sale price to listing price and original listing price.
I use all these metrics not only to determine averages (which in some cases don’t really mean anything anyway), but also to be able to tell if we’re getting better at this business. For example, I like the fact that over the past 2 years, the average time it’s taken to get from sales contract to close has dropped — this tells me that we’re better at selecting buyers, working with lenders, etc.
Excellent work, J! Gotta love these light quick flip rehabs!
Shae – Thanks for your help on this one as well… 😉
A pleasure! Let’s do it again (and again….and again) 🙂
Great job! Congrats!