Rent vs. Sell Calculator

Every landlord asks this eventually. The honest answer depends on more than the sale price — it depends on what the property earns while you hold it, and on the fact that a resident is paying your loan down the whole time. This puts both sides on the same page.

The property today
If you keep renting it
If you sell
Side by side
Sell today, cash in hand—
Cash flow a year if you keep it—
Rent collected over the hold—
Equity when you sell later—
Keeping it puts you—

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This compares holding against selling today. It does not model what you would earn investing the sale proceeds, nor taxes, depreciation recapture or capital gains, all of which can move the answer. Talk to your CPA before you decide, and ask us for a rental analysis on the actual address.