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Rent, Fees & Returns

12 tools, 3 guides

Proration, increases, ledgers and receipts on one side; cap rate, cash flow, depreciation and the sell-or-hold call on the other.

Two kinds of number live here. The first is the rent itself: prorating a partial month, pricing an increase, and keeping the ledger and receipts that prove what was paid. The second is what the building earns once vacancy, turnover, reserves and depreciation are counted honestly.

The calculators share one worked example unit where they can, so a figure from one tool can be carried into the next — cash flow into cap rate, vacancy into cash flow, depreciation into the tax guide. Where a page states a rent-increase rule, it names the statute it read and the date it read it.

Engraving of blank ledger sheets, a coin scale and a brass paperweight on a desk
Rent set against expenses: what the building earns once the ledger is honest.

Tools

Rent & Returns

Cap rate calculator

Net operating income over price — and what the number is not telling you.

Rent & Returns

Rent ledger template

A month-by-month ledger that stands up as evidence in a rent dispute.

Guides

Rent increase laws

When you can raise rent, how much notice, and where caps apply.

9 min

How to raise rent on a tenant

Timing, the letter, the conversation, and the renewal you want to keep.

7 min

Landlord tax deductions

What Schedule E actually lets you take, line by line.

10 min