Topic
Real estate investing
Tools for evaluating rentals: single-deal cash flow, DSCR qualification, BRRRR cycle math, multi-year projections, and full-portfolio aggregation.
Investor tools
Investment ROI
Cap rate, cash-on-cash, and total return on a rental.
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DSCR Calculator
Debt service coverage ratio for investment loans.
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Deal Analyzer
Year-by-year cash flow, equity, and total return.
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BRRRR Calculator
Buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, modeled.
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Portfolio Builder
Aggregate value, debt, equity, and DSCR across rentals.
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Rent vs Sell
Should you sell your home or rent it out instead?
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Concepts at a glance
- Cap rate
- NOI ÷ purchase price. A property's unlevered yield.
- Cash-on-cash
- Annual cash flow ÷ total cash invested. Levered yield, year one.
- DSCR
- NOI ÷ debt service. Lenders use 1.0 minimum, prefer 1.25+.
- ARV
- After-repair value. The market value once the rehab is finished.
- BRRRR
- Buy → Rehab → Rent → Refinance → Repeat. Recycles capital across deals.
- NOI
- Net operating income. Effective rent minus operating expenses, before debt service.