What does this rental return?
Price, rent, and expenses in — NOI, cap rate, and cash-on-cash out. Every number below is computed from your inputs, nothing else.
The Property
Taxes, insurance, maintenance, management, owner-paid utilities — not the loan
Your Financing
Down payment + closing costs + upfront repairs
Cap Rate
7.44%
$18,600 NOI ÷ $250,000 price
Annual NOI
$18,600
Before debt service
Annual Cash Flow
$3,636
After the loan payment
Cash-on-Cash Return
5.19%
$3,636 cash flow ÷ $70,000 invested
Year-one snapshot from your inputs only — no appreciation, loan paydown, or tax effects. Not investment advice.
A worked example
Say a duplex is listed at $250,000. It rents for $2,400 a month total, and you estimate $850 a month in operating expenses — taxes, insurance, maintenance, and management, but not the loan. Net operating income is ($2,400 − $850) × 12 = $18,600 a year, and the cap rate is $18,600 ÷ $250,000 = 7.44%.
Now add financing. With $70,000 of cash in the deal (down payment plus closing costs) and a loan payment of $1,247 a month, annual cash flow is ($2,400 − $850 − $1,247) × 12 = $3,636 — a cash-on-cash return of $3,636 ÷ $70,000 = 5.19%. Same building, two different lenses: cap rate scores the property, cash-on-cash scores your deal.
How the math works
NOI = (monthly rent − monthly operating expenses) × 12
Cap rate = NOI ÷ purchase price × 100
Cash flow = (monthly rent − expenses − loan payment) × 12
Cash-on-cash = annual cash flow ÷ cash invested × 100
- Cap rate deliberately ignores financing — it measures the property, so two buyers with different loans can compare the same building on the same number.
- Operating expenses means taxes, insurance, maintenance, management, and owner-paid utilities. Loan payments are never part of NOI; many investors also hold capital expenditures in a separate reserve.
- Cash-on-cash puts financing back in: actual cash flow after the loan payment, divided by the cash you actually put in. It is the return on your money rather than the building’s.
- Neither number includes appreciation, loan paydown, or tax effects. They are snapshots of year-one operations, not a full projection.
Cap rate questions
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