- 29 - An integer of 3.0 represents a gross return of 300 percent of initial cost. Thus, petitioners' experience indicates that the total amount of gross rental received on rental units approximated 300 percent of their initial cost, the percentage the parties stipulated that the total gross rental anticipated to be received on each rental unit would equal. Petitioners provided data only for the 1991 and 1992 calendar years. Since such data for the years at issue was not readily available without resorting to significant expense, experience data derived from the 1991 and 1992 calendar years was utilized. The parties stipulated that petitioners' business operations and surrounding market conditions remained essentially unchanged from the years at issue through the years in which such experience data was derived. Moreover, the parties stipulated that, due to such continuity, the parties believe that if petitioners' actual data were available for the calendar years 1987 and 1988, the data, if delineated, would not vary materially from the experience data delineated for 1991 and 1992. Consequently, in this particular case, since the parties stipulated as to the estimate of income expected over the life of the rental property and this stipulation approximated petitioners' experience, and since they stipulated that 1991-92 data did not vary materially from the years in question, we holdPage: Previous 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Next
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