Short-Term Rental Investment Calculator

Understand the property decision

What the Short-Term Rental Investment Calculator is for

Estimate booked revenue, annual cash flow, and cash-on-cash return from nightly-rate and occupancy assumptions.

It keeps income, operating costs, financing, invested cash, value, timing, and exit assumptions explicit so you can reproduce the result and compare genuinely consistent scenarios.

Calculation structure

Keep income, costs, and value in the right period

Booked revenue = nightly rate × available nights × occupancy + other income; cash flow = revenue − operating costs − debt service.

Visual explanation

See what drives the property result

Potential incomevacancy−operating costsCollected incomeKeep capacity and reporting periods consistentBooked revenue = nightly rate × available nights × occupancy + other income; cash flow = revenue − operating costs − debt service.

Read the result correctly

Use the result with its boundaries

A 150 nightly rate, 300 nights, 60% occupancy, and 3,000 other income produce 30,000 gross revenue.

Seasonality, local restrictions, taxes, cancellations, cleaning pass-throughs, and platform pricing are not inferred.

Quick guide

How to use this calculator

Enter a single internally consistent property scenario.
Use the field labels to preserve each page's specific investment, transaction, lease, development, or lodging convention.
Review the calculator-specific boundary before interpreting the result.

Calculation method

Booked revenue = nightly rate × available nights × occupancy + other income; cash flow = revenue − operating costs − debt service.

Entered fixed decimals use exact rational arithmetic except the explicitly approximate IRR root. Money rounds only for display and supported nonzero amounts remain visible.

Worked example

A 150 nightly rate, 300 nights, 60% occupancy, and 3,000 other income produce 30,000 gross revenue.

Booked revenue = nightly rate × available nights × occupancy + other income; cash flow = revenue − operating costs − debt service.

Supported inputs

Precision and limits

Visible input limits

Amounts accept up to 30 digits and 12 decimal places and are capped at 1e12 per input. Whole-number periods are capped at the page's stated range; rates are capped at 1000%.

International scope

No currency, tax regime, lease law, lender threshold, local market feed, appraisal, or jurisdiction-specific charge is assumed.

Decision boundary

Results are visitor-entered arithmetic scenarios, not appraisals, forecasts, loan approvals, legal or tax determinations, or investment recommendations.

Calculator-specific assumptions

Seasonality, local restrictions, taxes, cancellations, cleaning pass-throughs, and platform pricing are not inferred.