Ultimate Guides

Learn what you need to know to find success in real estate investing! Here, the Real Estate Financial Planner™ team has collected all our Ultimate Guides so you can explore everything from investment strategies to financing to rental properties. Dive into the topics that have been holding you back so you can make informed choices, take action, and make your real estate investment goal into a reality.

The Ultimate Guide to Gross Operating Income for Rental Properties

Want to learn more about Gross Operating Income? Check out The Ultimate Guide to Gross Operating Income for Rental Properties where we will start with the basics and dig into more advanced and nuanced discussions. Gross Operating Income = Gross Potential Income – Vacancy Gross Operating Income, often abbreviated GOI, is the Gross Potential Income that a property could generate minus the Vacancy on the property. Gross Potential Income is the most you could possibly receive on the rental property if you collected all the income generated on the property. It is defined as: Gross Potential Income = Rent + … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Net Operating Income

If you’re looking to learn more about Net Operating Income (also abbreviated as NOI) then check out our Ultimate Guide to Net Operating Income. Net Operating Income = Gross Operating Income – Operating Expenses NOI is defined as the Gross Operating Income minus Operating Expenses. Calculating Net Operating Income The following walks you through how to calculate NOI on rental properties. I will be adding to this page in the future: Show where NOI is located on spreadsheet and walk through the calculation of it using the spreadsheet and images Show REFP charts of Net Operating Income for buying one … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Property Management

Property Management is one of the most important factors in determining the success of your investments in real estate. That is why we’ve put together The Ultimate Guide to Property Management. To give you an overview of what goes into property management we have created the following flowchart. Follow along as we touch on each of these topics. We will continue to update this over time with improvements and additional resources. Please let us know what you loved and what we need to add in the comments section. Our aim is to make this the end-all be-all of Property Management! … Read more

The Penultimate Guide to Safe Withdrawal Rates

The following is The Penultimate Guide to Safe Withdrawal Rates. Why not the “ultimate” guide? Because Karsten Jeske with Early Retirement Now made the ultimate guide already (which you all should read and I link to below). Our guide is intended to be an addendum to the amazing work he’s already done and the second-to-last guide you’ll need in addition to Karsten’s. I will continue to update this over time as I discover more resources or have more to say about it from modeling done with the Real Estate Financial Planner™ software. In this guide, I will primarily do two … Read more