Comments on: 15 Best Tips, Tricks, Strategy for Monopoly City Streets

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:25:22 +0000

Hi Mike,

I would like to buy your street which over 7M, how can I get your ID?

Thanks,

Jenny

By: mcs-stats

mcs-stats — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:35:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

We just created a tool that allows you:

- View initial streets value.
- Rent.
- Next day income.
- Taxes calculation.
- # Bonuses / Hazards
- More coming…

You can find it @ http://mcs.vertigoproject.net

Hope it helps you on having a good strategy,

Greetings,

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:17 +0000

Hi micheal, the bug which has lasted several days has now been fixed :-)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:07:20 +0000

Hi i am not able to build on my streets it gives the below message any idea what i could do?

“It looks like someone else has beaten you to do this,Please try again once they’re done”

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:04 +0000

I am selling long and very long streets (above 1 Millions).
As they are quite difficult to find I think a little paypal contribution may be nice.

I am asking for:
1-2 Millions -> 2$
2-3 Millions -> 5$
3-4 Millions -> 10$
4-5 Millions -> 15$
5-6 Millions -> 25$
7+ Millions -> 50$

For info you can get me at this mail address: michelelole (at) gmail.com

Thanks and have fun!

By: TH155

TH155 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:19:40 +0000

Oh… Now how can i find 14 non-taken million $ street :(

Time for google maps!

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:59:34 +0000

Intrigued by Alan’s calc, I took a little bit longer than 30 seconds and did some calculus. (Yikes!)

It looks like if you got the same rent from all your streets,the optimal number to have would indeed be 19. In fact if it were possible to have fractional streets, the optimum would be 19.16666… :)

In the unlikely event that anyone cares, the equation for the income you get for n streets simplifies down to:

Income = 1.15*n – 0.03*n^2

(As long as n>=5).

By: MonopolyHQ

MonopolyHQ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:43:07 +0000

great listing – lots more tips in addition can be found on http://monopolyhq.com

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:52:23 +0000

Are you sure about stopping at five streets? This is a 30 second analysis, so happy for someone to prove me wrong – feel free to spend 45 seconds!

Seems to me that we can disprove the five street option quite easily.

If I have five streets, all worth, say $10m and fill them up with any type of building, lets say I get rent of $100m per street (depends on the building type of course, but the relativities will be the same?)

My income is $500m / day and no tax.
If I now buy a sixth street (same as the others), my income becomes:

$600m less 3% tax = $582m

Clearly six is better than having five streets.

Putting it into Excel, and spending the aforesaid 30 seconds, it looks to me that 19 streets is optimal (eventually). You max out at a net rental income of 11.02 times the single gross rental of a single street (on average).

18 gives 10.98 and 20 gives 11.00 (both net).

In terms of getting there, in theory its best to fill up each street before buying the next, but I would suggest being opportunistic and staying ideally, just ahead of needing a new street.

Alan.

PS: It too me far longer to type this than to work it out!

By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:21:36 +0000

Thanks for the “long streets” tip. Found some forest service roads and rural roads that are HUGE and pay top rentals!

Also for the tax advice. Sold a lot of streets and bought more houses!

Kewl! (Tedious building all those green homes!)