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Deal calculators.

Twelve tools for investment property deals. Purchase, rehab, the cost of the money, the carry, and what is actually left at the end.

The tools

Pick the question you have.

Maximum offer calculator

Find the purchase price that supports your target profit after rehab, financing, holding, and selling costs.

Hard money loan calculator

What you need at the table, and what the money costs in interest across the hold. Purchase, rehab, advance rate, the ceiling on finished value and the closing costs, all of it yours to change.

Fix and flip calculator

The full round trip. Purchase, rehab, the cost of the money, the carry, the cost of selling, and what is left.

ARV calculator

Finished value from comparable sales, per square foot. The number every other number in the deal depends on.

BRRRR calculator

Both loans, and the ceiling that actually binds. Most BRRRRs are limited by rent coverage rather than by value, which is the part that leaves capital stuck in the deal.

DSCR calculator

Gross rent over the full payment, which is the test a rental loan is underwritten against. No tax returns and no employment history enter into it. Credit and reserves are still reviewed.

Rehab cost calculator

A budget built from area and scope. The starting point for a conversation with a contractor, not a substitute for one.

Construction loan calculator

Land plus vertical, drawn against a schedule. Interest accrues on what has been drawn, which is why the timeline matters as much as the budget. Land closing and sale costs are yours to enter.

Rental portfolio calculator

Multiple doors, one instrument. Coverage is tested across the portfolio rather than property by property, which changes what the weak ones can do.

Why these

Built from how the money actually works.

Most deal calculators stop at finished value minus purchase minus rehab and call the difference profit. That number has never been the profit. It leaves out the cost of the money, the months of carry, and the six percent or so that goes on the way out, and those three together are usually the difference between a deal worth doing and a job you paid to do.

These count them, because they run the same arithmetic used to underwrite a file rather than the version that makes a deal look good. Where a figure is an assumption you can change, it says so. Where it is a market convention rather than a quote, it says that too.

What none of them can do is see your property. Every figure they produce is an estimate from the numbers you typed, subject to underwriting rather than a quote or an approval. When they look right, the next step is a person reading the deal, and there is no credit pull to get an answer.

Estimate only, based on the figures you entered. Not a quote, an approval, an appraisal or a commitment to lend, and subject to underwriting.

This is an estimating tool. It runs arithmetic on the figures you enter using the assumptions stated above, and changing an assumption changes the answer. The result is not a quote, an approval, an appraisal, a valuation, or a prediction of what a property will sell for, and it does not commit anyone to lend. Costs, taxes and market conditions vary by location and change over time. Check the numbers that matter against your own contractor, agent and professional advisers before you commit to a deal.

Submit a dealYou get an initial written response in 24 to 48 hours, and a straight answer either way. Terms, if offered, are subject to underwriting and approval.