Investing in Single Family Rentals

Learn to evaluate rental property cash flow and apply an investment criteria workflow to analyze profit potential and make informed single-family rental deals.

Explore how the course structures learning with four engagement tools—case studies, quizzes, and an interactive manual—and three components: lectures, a property analysis spreadsheet, and a workbook.

Compute rental revenues, vacancy, and expenses using the buy and hold cash flow formula to derive gross operating income, net operating income, and before tax cash flow.

Learn how deal analysis guards against emotional bias, enables profitability assessments, compares investments, and refines your investment criteria to better align with the market.

Trust the numbers over emotions when investing in single-family rentals. Use a four-step criteria process and daily deal analysis to align cash flow with market demand.

Compare two single-family rental deals using a ROIC framework, evaluating down payment, rehab, capex, op-ex, projected sale price, holding period, and rent potential.

Analyze a single-family rental deal with a financial analysis tool, inputting acquisition data, rehab costs, rent, and market assumptions to project income, expenses, and cash flow.

Four steps to refine your criteria: establish and analyze properties, leverage your network, monitor actual performance, and revise assumptions to align with market realities and avoid overpaying.

Stress test your single-family rental deals by contrasting base and test scenarios, adjusting rent growth, OpEx, and inflation, and evaluating cash flow, holding period, and cap rate implications.

Gather essential market data and your investment criteria to analyze deals, using rent comps, network insights, and rental indicators like rent trends, home sales, and cost of living.

Learn the property calculator workflow for analyzing single-family rental deals, from data inputs and constraints to outputs guiding investment decisions. Examine market assumptions and amortization inputs for year-one projections.

Learn to use an Excel-based rental analysis tool to model max offer, discount to list, acquisition costs, rehab costs, vacancy, debt service, and NOI for cash flow.

Learn how to use the criteria and assumptions tables to assess a single-family rental, focusing on debt service coverage ratio, gross rent multiplier, and cash-on-cash return for market-driven projections.

Analyze the property analysis tool’s forecast and pass/fail signals to inform buy or pass decisions, learn the payback period, and explore year-one and beyond projections using index match arrays.

Learn how a criteria-based investment decision scorecard uses Excel with conditional formatting and if statements to show pass or fail signals based on cash flow against your investment criteria.

Build a dynamic excel projections tab model for single-family rentals, using analysis tool inputs to forecast year one and beyond, including rent appreciation, expenses, and vacancy as outflows.

Explore the projections tab in the analysis tool to compute equity, return on equity, return on investment, and average annualized ROIC from cash flow, debt pay down, and price appreciation.