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Depends on the rent vs the price!
If your gross annual rent divided by purchase price is 8% or more, then it's true, your tenant's rental income probably does cover the mortgage, property tax, maintenance, and everything else.
But to get that kind of yield, you need to be able to collect the rent reliably. The best yields are in bad neighborhoods, where collection is harder.
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Need some more technical insight to discourage this dumb thinking:
MMP = monthly mortgage payment
- If the home insurance and property taxes are not in the mtg payment, then you're really fooling yourself.
- MMP fluctuates if there is an escrow portion
- MMP fluctuates if it is IO ARM
- MMP doesn't include repairs and capital improvements, which can be x times more than annual rent
- MMP doesn't include HOA fees
- MMP doesn't include sweat equity and time
- Water bills, etc
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