A listing that says "9.6% yield" is telling you something true and something incomplete. When people compare rental yield vs cap rate, the difference sounds technical: one divides rent by the price, the other divides what's left of the ...

Most rental listings don't deserve an evening of your attention. A few do. A good first-pass deal analysis is how you tell them apart in a couple of minutes, and a deep analysis is what you do with the few that survive. The two jobs answer diff...

A vacancy rate rental assumption and a maintenance reserve rental line are the two operating buffers most optimistic underwrites leave off the sheet — or treat as a wish instead of a number. The rent still looks solid. The mortgage is fixed. Cash fl...

HELOC interest-only payments can make a rental's month look easy. You pay the interest that accrued on the drawn balance. Cash flow on the spreadsheet improves. The quieter fact is what interest-only does not change: the principal is still waiting, ...

Flip holding costs are easy to treat as a later problem — something you'll feel after closing, during rehab, while the house sits. The quieter mistake is leaving them out of the maximum allowable offer you write before you buy. Once the offer is acc...

Short-term rental vs long-term rental tends to get argued with one number: what the place would bring in each month. On that number the short-term version usually wins. The number that decides it is what each version keeps after every cost, and how ...

The debt service coverage ratio on a rental property, usually shortened to DSCR, is the number a lender uses to decide whether the rent can carry the loan. It's also one of the most misread numbers in rental investing, because the version the lender...

Cash left in the deal after refinance is the BRRRR number that tells you how much of your own money is still tied up in a property once the new loan closes. The formula is short: everything you put in, minus everything the refinance gives back. The ...

A CapEx reserve for rental property is money you set aside every month for the big replacements you already know are coming: the roof, the furnace or AC, the water heater, appliances, flooring. The method is plain arithmetic. For each item, take wha...

If you have ever worked out how to calculate rental property cash flow, got a positive number, and then opened your bank account and wondered where the money went, this is for you. The formula is simple. The confusion comes from the fact that cash f...

If you only remember one distinction: cap rate looks at the property as if you paid cash; cash-on-cash return looks at the deal after your loan payment and after the cash you actually put in. They answer different questions. Mixing them is how a dea...

Cash-on-Cash Return in Real Estate Investing Cash-on-cash return (CoC) is a fundamental metric in real estate investing that measures the annual before-tax cash flow generated by a property relative to the total cash invested. This metric provides ...

Real estate investing might sound intimidating at first, especially when you hear about formulas and math involved. But understanding the numbers is what separates successful investors from the rest. Let’s simplify some of the key metrics that can ...

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