Rental Property Financial Model Template

See the cash flow after the mortgage, with no appreciation assumed.

Doors, occupancy and rent against a mortgage. Cash flow first, appreciation never assumed.

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What You Get

Every number is grounded in real benchmarks, not guesswork.

Built on real industry benchmarks
Full model in under 5 minutes
Break-even month and cash trough
Capacity and occupancy modeling
Loan schedule and payback
Debt service coverage a lender screens on
1,000+ risk simulations
Bank-ready PDF report

How It Works

From idea to investor-ready projections, in minutes, not weeks.

1

Answer a few questions

Tell us your business type, market, and pricing. AI pre-fills realistic numbers based on real industry data.

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A full financial projection appears in seconds, revenue, costs, profitability, and 1,000+ risk simulations.

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Test, adjust, export

Change any assumption and see results update live. Download an investor-ready report when you're ready.

How the Rental Property model works

The assumptions, benchmarks, and drivers behind your rental property projections.

The assumptions this template starts from

This template models a small residential building bought with tenants in place: doors times occupancy times rent, with no cost of goods and a concession allowance on turns. Property management sits in admin at roughly eight percent of collected rent, and there is no payroll because a small building does not carry staff. Depreciation runs straight line over 27.5 years, which is the life the US tax code assigns to residential rental property and one of the few figures here that is a public rule rather than an estimate.

Benchmarks that keep the numbers honest

An eight-door building at the modeled rents does roughly $130,000 to $160,000 a year in collected rent. Purchase plus closing plus initial turns is financed at around 70 percent loan to cost over thirty years. Stabilised occupancy of 94 to 95 percent is the planning target, and a building bought tenanted stabilises in about four months rather than the eighteen a storage lease-up takes. Debt service coverage of 1.25 is exactly the test a lender applies to this asset class, so it is the test the model applies too.

What actually drives the outcome

The deliberate omission here is appreciation. This model tells you whether the building pays for itself out of rent, because that is the part you control and the part that decides whether you can hold it through a bad year. On that basis the drivers are rent growth against expense growth, and vacancy. Rental property also has the longest honest payback of any vertical in this tool: the cash flow is real but the owner's equity comes back over a decade or more, not inside a five year model, and the model says so rather than pretending otherwise.

FAQ

Everything you need to know about rental property financial modeling.

Does a rental property cash flow after the mortgage?
That is the question this model is built to answer, and it deliberately leaves appreciation out. Revenue is doors times occupancy times rent, less management, maintenance, taxes, insurance and debt service. Revenue Map shows the monthly cash flow that remains, because that is the part you control and the part that decides whether you can hold the building through a bad year.
What debt service coverage do lenders want on a rental building?
A coverage ratio of 1.25 is the standard test for this asset class, meaning net operating income has to be at least a quarter above the annual loan payment. It is the same test Revenue Map applies, so the number you see is the number the lender will compute. Vacancy and expense growth are the two assumptions most likely to push you under it.
How long until a rental property pays back?
Longer than any other business in this tool, and honestly so. The cash flow is real month to month, but the owner's equity comes back over a decade or more rather than inside a five year model. Revenue Map reports that plainly instead of borrowing appreciation to make the payback look shorter than it is.

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