From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: BLT or Pension??
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:54:56 GMT

Clifford Frisby wrote:

> JohnW wrote:
>> 
>> My daughter DOB 1967 is contemplating a BTL  costing 160K producing
>> currently 7500pa. net of expenses.

>> Rental, should they maintain a similarly conservative 5% will be produce
>> 243K pa at year 20.
> 
> Show your working. There is definitely something amiss here.

Missing decimal point, perhaps?  £24.3k divided by 1.05^20 is £9160
which could well be the gross equivalent of £7500 net.