Robert Kiyosaki & the Anatomy of a Financial Statement: Property Management

Robert Kiyosaki & the Anatomy of a Financial Statement: Property Management

Robert Kiyosaki likes real estate investing is because real estate touches each part of his financial statement.  Starting with his best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad and continued in many of his subsequent books, Robert explains how real estate gives cash flow to his income statement and on the expense side of the income statement he’s able to deduct the property’s depreciation as an expense. 

When seen from the balance sheet, he’s able to gain appreciation on the asset side and the leverage provided by the bank rounds out the liability side of the balance sheet.      

Through a property management company you can also access the four parts of the financial statement.  Here’s how:

Balance Sheet:  Asset-side

Every property producing monthly rent is an asset.  It is possible to sell the rights to manage the property to another property manager for a lump sum of money. 

Balance Sheet:  Liability-side

Robert uses his banker’s money aka leverage in order to purchase a large property with only a small percentage as a down payment.  When the property goes up in value he is able to keep the entire appreciation amount without having to share it with the bank.  He can use leverage and still get the benefit of 100% of the appreciation.

In the property management business, leverage is achieved through controlling the income of a property.  A property that is producing 0/month in rent gives a property manager in income.  If the property manager feels that 0 is too low for the area, the manager can increase the rents by 10% to  0 and the management company’s income will go up 10% accordingly.  How many companies can increase their income by 10% without a causing uproar among its clients?

Income Statement:  Income Column

As a property manager, you take your 10% management fee directly off the top after the rents have been collected.  Here again, if the manager feels that rents are too low, the manager simply raises the rent and increases the income to both the manager and the property owner.  It’s win-win!

Income Statement:  Expense Column

While Robert Kiyosaki is able to depreciate the building as an expense, a property manager cannot take this tax advantage because a property manager doesn’t own the building-the owner does, however, a property manager is able to make money off the expenses incurred by the owner of the property. 

Let’s say that a tenant calls to say that the plumbing underneath the sink is leaking.  The property manager sends out his repairman to fix the leak.  The repairman sends a bill to the property manager for the .00 plumbing parts plus .00 for his hourly rate. 

The property manager now marks up the bill by lets say .00 and now charges the property owner .00 for the parts and .00 for the repair time.  The .00 is for the property manager’s orchestration of taking the call from the tenant and sending out the repairman.

Now multiply this scenario by the management of 200 properties and you’ll find that expense mark-up is a significant source of a property manager’s income.  

As you can see real estate allows an investor to utilize all four parts of a financial statement.  As a property manager, you can piggyback on the owner’s shoulders and receive some of the same benefits of cash flow and leverage and you can actually profit from the property in ways an investor cannot i.e. expense mark-up. 

And here’s the best part and the prime example of a property manager’s ultimate leverage:  the manager isn’t responsible to the bank for making the payments on the mortgage.  The owner is responsible!  The property manager is able to make money off the property without being personally responsible to the bank for the asset that creates all the money in the first place. 

What a concept!

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