Michael Fielden

Investor tools

Will this rental pay?

A rental property earns three ways: monthly cash flow, loan paydown, and appreciation. Around here the first one usually starts negative, and pretending otherwise is how investors get hurt. Put in your numbers and see the whole position, month by month, for 40 years. Everything is pre-tax.

Cash flow in year one

Cap rate, year one

Net operating income over price, before the loan

Cash-on-cash, year one

Year-one cash flow against your down payment

Monthly payment

Principal and interest, 30-year fixed

Cash-flow positive

When the rent starts covering everything

The whole position

Total profit if you sold Cumulative cash flow

Year by year

Year Property value Loan balance Cash flow that year Cumulative cash flow Profit if sold