Rental Cashflow Worksheet
Works out what a rental actually returns after the costs people leave out — voids, management, maintenance and the ones that only appear in year three.
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Running it, start to finish
- Enter the property, the evidenced rent, and every cost you already know.
- Add the omitted costs the worksheet names before drawing any conclusion.
- Take the finished worksheet to a qualified accountant before committing to a purchase.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Applies a void allowance and the costs headline yields leave out, including your own time.
- Amortises the lumpy costs that only appear in year three, which is where projections usually break.
- Shows gross and net side by side, and explains the gap line by line.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Use achieved rents, not advertised ones. The gap between the two widens in a slow market, and it is where optimistic worksheets start.
- Cost your own management. Self-management is not free. Pricing it at zero makes the comparison with a managed property meaningless.
- Read the sensitivity table first. The base case is the least informative column. What matters is what two months of voids does to it.
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