Rental Investing Guides

The numbers behind a rental decision, explained without jargon. Each guide covers one metric: what it measures, how to work it out, and what it does and does not tell you.

• What Is Market Rent?How market rent is determined, why it differs from asking rent, and how to tell if you are charging enough.
• Cap Rate ExplainedWhat a capitalization rate measures, how to calculate it, and what counts as a good one in a given market.
• Cash-on-Cash ReturnHow to measure the return on the cash you actually put in, and why it tells a different story to cap rate.

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