Real Estate Investing
BRRRR Method: Does It Still Work in 2026?
Model a BRRRR deal end to end: cash left in the deal, cash recovered, cash-on-cash return, and whether it still works at today's rates.
Real Estate Investing
Real estate investing calculators analyze a deal before you buy: what a property earns, what it costs to operate, and what your cash actually returns. They are built for rental property investors, short-term rental hosts, and investor-friendly agents. The Rental Property ROI Calculator is the flagship: cap rate, cash-on-cash return, monthly cash flow, and total return over your holding period. Strategy tools go deeper: model a full BRRRR cycle through the cash-out refinance, check whether rent covers the debt with the DSCR Loan Calculator, estimate a flip's profit and maximum allowable offer, or see how house hacking offsets your mortgage. Screening tools like the Cap Rate and Gross Rent Multiplier calculators grade a deal in seconds, and the Rent vs Sell Calculator settles whether to keep a home as a rental. The short-term rental group below covers Airbnb returns, nightly pricing, and startup costs.
Calculators
Rental Property ROI Find a long-term rental's cap rate, cash-on-cash return, monthly cash flow, and total return over your holding period, with financing handled correctly. Fix and Flip ROI Estimate a flip's net profit, ROI, cash to close, and your maximum allowable offer with the 70 percent rule, including financing and holding costs. DSCR Loan Calculate a rental property's debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) from rent and PITIA, and check it against common 1.0 to 1.25 lender thresholds. House Hacking See how renting out the other unit or rooms offsets your mortgage: net rental income, the percent tenants cover, and your true out-of-pocket housing cost. BRRRR Model a BRRRR deal end to end: buy, rehab, rent, and cash-out refinance, to see how much cash you pull back out and how much stays in the deal. Cap Rate Calculate a property's cap rate from net operating income and value, with vacancy and operating-expense inputs, plus the implied value at a target cap rate. Rent vs Sell Compare keeping and renting your home against selling now and reinvesting the proceeds, with a year-by-year wealth projection and the crossover year. Gross Rent Multiplier Screen a rental deal fast with the gross rent multiplier, price divided by gross annual rent, with a 1 percent rule check and the implied price at a target GRM. 1031 Exchange See the tax a 1031 exchange defers on an investment property sale: 25% depreciation recapture, capital gains, and NIIT, plus the reinvestment bar for deferral.
Short-Term Rental (Airbnb)
Airbnb ROI Estimate a short-term rental's cap rate, cash-on-cash return, cash flow, and total return from your nightly rate and occupancy, with STR expenses included. Airbnb Charge-Rate Find what to charge per night for your short-term rental: a cost floor, a comp-based base rate, weekend and peak premiums, and length-of-stay discounts. Airbnb Startup Cost Build an itemized, all-in budget to launch a short-term rental: furnishing by room, the soft-cost stack, a contingency, and the operating reserve.
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These calculators live in another category but come up often in Real Estate Investing decisions.
Seller Net Proceeds Estimate what you walk away with after selling your home: your sale price minus the mortgage payoff, agent commission, closing costs, and transfer taxes. Real Estate Commission Calculate the total real estate commission on a home sale, how it splits between the listing and buyer sides, and the seller's net after the fee. Home Sale Capital Gains Estimate the 2026 federal tax on selling your primary home after the Section 121 exclusion: adjusted basis, taxable gain, and long-term capital gains tax.
Playbooks
Real Estate Investing
Cap Rate and GRM: What Each Metric Misses
Learn cap rate, GRM, NOI, and cash-on-cash, what each metric includes and excludes, and why no single number can grade a rental deal.
Real Estate Investing
DSCR Loans Explained: Qualify on Rent, Not Your W-2
How DSCR loans qualify a rental on its own rent: the ratio formula, the 1.0 and 1.25 reference lines, interest-only, and a worked 1.03 example.
Real Estate Investing
Airbnb Financing Playbook: How Lenders Treat Short-Term Rentals
How lenders finance Airbnb properties: conventional, DSCR, and second-home loans, how projected STR income is counted, down payments, and refinance break-even.
Real Estate Investing
The True Cost of Starting an Airbnb: Furnishing, Setup, and the Hidden Expense Stack
What it really costs to start an Airbnb: furnishing by size, the hidden setup and compliance costs first-timers forget, and the cash you need before booking.
Real Estate Investing
Airbnb Cash Flow vs Cash-on-Cash Return: Operator Profit vs Investment Return
Airbnb cash flow vs cash-on-cash return: revenue is not profit, profit is not return, and leverage distorts both. Four metrics separated, with worked math.
Real Estate Investing
How Much Should I Charge for My Airbnb: A Pricing Playbook
Price your Airbnb with a system, not a guess: a cost floor, a comp-based base, the new-host discount, weekend and event premiums, and orphan-night fixes.
Real Estate Investing
Is Airbnb Still Worth It in 2026: The Saturation Question, Answered With Data
Is Airbnb oversaturated in 2026? The data says the real gap is operator quality, not blanket saturation. Supply, demand, occupancy, regulation, and STR vs LTR.
Real Estate Investing
The Airbnb Investment Calculator Playbook: Run the Numbers Before You Buy
Learn to run the numbers on a short-term rental before you buy. Walk every input and the exact ROI math with a full worked example you can follow.
Real Estate Investing
What Is a Good ROI for an Airbnb in 2026: The Honest Benchmarks
A good Airbnb cash-on-cash return in 2026 is 8 to 12 percent, with 15 percent plus the serious-operator target. Here are the honest benchmarks.
Real Estate Investing
How to Calculate Airbnb Income: ADR, Occupancy, and the RevPAR Method
Estimate Airbnb income from average daily rate and occupancy, adjust for seasonality, and sanity-check against real comps using the RevPAR method.
Real Estate Investing
Is Airbnb Still Worth It in 2026? What Separates Winning Hosts
How Airbnb ROI really works in 2026: why RevPAR and operator quality beat the market, the full expense stack after the 15.5% fee, and a worked example.
Real Estate Investing
Is the 1% Rule Dead? How Rentals Actually Make Money in 2026
Why the 1% rule is dead in 2026, the four ways a rental actually pays you, and how cap rate, cash-on-cash, and total return differ, with a worked example.