SteemPower Investments - Earnings from leasing is changing

Steem powered investments @spinvest has been set up to offer an investment fund based on funding from STEEM POWER. Investments are funded through filling STEEM POWER delegation lease requests for community projects and by taking advantage of STEEM's booming eco-system. The aim is not to get rich quick; the aim is to build a safe portfolio of investments that will stand the test of time while ensuring all investor's starting capital is not at risk. Full details can be found here

The Current State of Things

Before we get started, we all need to be aware that the users of dlease/minnowbooster (same thing) pretty much dictate how much the leasing market is worth. Since HF21, the ROI for leasing SP has been dropping and has gone from a solid 20% down to 14-15%. Right now, we are doing ok because we filled a lot of lengthy lease requests pre HF21 but they are starting to end. Below you can see a screenshot of what we have ending over the 2 weeks. Please keep in mind that we need to add 5 days to each of these for the cool-down period before the SP is useable. The total of leases ending within the next 14 days will be around 11,000SP

Since HF21, we have been focusing on off-market leases but with the prices, the way they are, some people have been asking about leasing SP for a lower rate then our current delegatees are paying. This is expected and we cant surprised about this but it does require some focused attention and action. Let's make no bones about it, our rates will have to go down and are earnings will drop by a few percents. When the market moves, we gotta move with it and make the most of what we've got.

The current states of things are we need to make a plan and we have around 2 weeks to get this done and dusted

Off Market Leasing

We currently fill 3 off-market lease requests, 1 for SteemLeo and 2 community bots. Each lease is set up with the same payments of 10 STEEM per week per 2500SP. This works out to be a 20.8% ROI for us. Please see the screenshot below, i have tried to write this but can't. It's not hard to understand but i made this excel sheet to show you better how i work out off-market lease prices. I sorta normally just do it with a calculator but i might use this sheet from now on, lol.

The 1st column shows our current rate of 10 STEEM per week per 2500SP, the middle column boxed in red is what i would suggest is for us and the last column is if we matched Dlease current rates. Everything is set to 13 weeks as i would expect this is a minimum and it makes it easy to work out numbers. I would suggest that we drop down to 9 STEEM per week per 2500SP leased ou to ensure we keep our customers.

We are not trying to undercut Dlease as we offer a better service. Off-market leases are pay as you go and require no time commitment, its pure P2P. This lets tribes, communities are users lease larger amounts of SP by paying weekly instead of all at once (huge advantage). Most people require the SP for the foreseeable future and off-market leases can run from months to years with no work required after the setup. It's easy and busy people like easy. I think we are justified in charging a little extra STEEM. What do you think?

Dlease is longer an option at under 15%

There are 2 ways we can go about this.1/ We can aim for tribes/communities/projects that will require larger amounts of SP are 2/ we could aim to provide an alternative to dlease by offering off-market lease's through posts? We can always delegate SP to earn tribe tokens and convert them into STEEM but it would be a lot of work and a backward way of doing things. I just don't like the idea of having SP in the SPinvest not really earning anything more than curation.

1/ Aiming for bigger accounts would be the easiest way to go about things. For example, contacting the guy that does leasing for the SBI upvoting bots are talking with the founders of the tribes that we are already involved with. SteemLeo is currently taking around 25,000 SP from us, whos says Neoxian are RaggeaSteem will not take some.

2/ This would require a new account that would be run like a STEEM POWER bank. At would provide a weekly post about stats are something but its main purpose would be the hold leasing contracts made with users. Some tracking would be involved but steemworld is an amazing tool and makes long work short.

What does it all mean?

Earning are going to go down, that's a certainty and there nothing we can do about except roll with it.

We could continue to use dlease at current rates and still make are targeted 20% per year. Let us say we take 15% for requests on dlease and then add on 2.2% for SP inflation we would earn 17.2% from our SP. Now, based on last weeks non-SP related earnings of 80.90 STEEM divided by total STEEM holdings multiplied by 52 weeks to get the yearly figure of 6.38% pushing us well over the 20% mark at 23.58 %. This means other earning like post payouts, tribe account, etc earn an ROI if you will of 6.38% per year based on the total balance. I'm learning new stuff, i never knew that before. Point is, we could easily continue on as we are and still earn our target of 20% per year.

I think we can earn at least 17% are maybe even 18% from leasing SP if we put a little work into it. Right now with SPinvest holding under 100,000 SP, it does not make a huge difference to overall earnings but when we have 500,000 are 1 million SP, these small differences seem to look bigger and it would be great to have something set in place ready to absorb every STEEM cent we can from our SP balance.

Things that need to be voted on

Pick how to use STEEM POWER going forward?
1/ Continue what we are doing
2/ Aim for communities/tribes/project that requires lots of SP
3/ Set up our own STEEM POWER leasing bank
4/ A little bit of all the above

If anyone would like to vote on changing the 9 STEEM per week per 2500SP rate is anything else related feel free to raise your voice.

Below are steemconnect hotlinks that allow investors to buy SPI tokens directly from @spinvest. Each token is currently priced at 1.20 STEEM and beside each link is the true STEEM cost to reduce confusion. You can also send any amount directly to @spinvest and i will issue you SPI tokens to 2 decimal places for the value of STEEM to send. All tokens bought directly will be sent to investors SE wallets within 24 hours but most likely much sooner.
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5 SPI tokens - 6 STEEM
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10 SPI tokens - 12 STEEM
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25 SPI tokens - 30 STEEM
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50 SPI tokens - 60 STEEM
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100 SPI tokens - 120 STEEM
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250 SPI tokens - 300 STEEM
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500 SPI tokens - 600 STEEM
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1000 SPI tokens - 1200 STEEM
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2500 SPI tokens - 3000 STEEM

All questions are welcome, please ask in the comments below