The Rent-to-SA Numbers

Nightly rate, occupancy and the true cost stack: spot a deal in ten minutes

This book teaches you to look at a specific property and know, quickly and honestly, whether it will pay its way as a serviced let after every real cost. It picks out the numbers that matter from the noise, then shows where to find reliable local data for free on the two hardest figures to pin down, the nightly rate you will achieve and the occupancy you will run at. You will turn those estimates into an honest annual income by subtracting from the figure you are tempted to inflate, and build the full cost stack, which is far heavier than for an ordinary tenancy and entirely yours. The appraisal is then stress-tested for a bad month, an empty week, a winter and a rate rise. A complete worked example shows the ten-minute appraisal from listing to decision, and the final chapter reduces it to a one-sheet calculator and names the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Rent-to-SA, Legally”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true income, not optimistic income
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the bad month, the void, the rate rise
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.