Start here · Rental foundations
From “could this work?”
to an informed next step.
Six practical lessons connect the research to the numbers. Start at the beginning or choose the question you’re working through.
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Choose a strategy that fits your life
The right rental strategy has to work for your finances and your time.
Check whether the rental can operate
A promising spreadsheet does not establish the right to rent a property.
Build an income estimate you can explain
An estimate is more useful when you know which properties and assumptions produced it.
Count the full cost of owning the rental
A missing cost makes the return look better without making the property better.
Follow the money from rent to cash flow
Gross revenue, operating income and spendable cash answer different questions.
Test a bad year—and your next move
A useful stress test shows what would happen under specified assumptions, not how likely it is to happen.
You don’t need a property to start.
Use the fictional examples in the Deal Lab to learn the process before evaluating a real address.
Open the Deal Lab