The Four Pillars of Real Estate Investing
Cash flow, appreciation, principal reduction, and tax savings - the four ways real estate builds wealth, and how each one shows up in a deal.
Read the article →Underwriting methodology, worked deals with every line of arithmetic shown, and the thresholds CasaWise scores against. No summaries of other people’s summaries.
Cash flow, appreciation, principal reduction, and tax savings - the four ways real estate builds wealth, and how each one shows up in a deal.
Read the article →A complete rental property analysis on one $340,000 house: rent, vacancy, the full expense stack, NOI, debt service and every return metric, math shown.
Read the article →Four constructed deals where cap rate, cash-on-cash and IRR each give the wrong answer. Full arithmetic at 6.67% money, plus which metric to lead with.
Read the article →Calibrated 2026 thresholds for cash-on-cash, cap rate, DSCR, IRR and rent ratio at 6.67% money — with the full CasaWise Deal Score table and two worked deals.
Read the article →A full BRRRR deal worked end to end at 75% LTV, then re-run through the five failure modes that actually sink it — with the dollar delta on each.
Read the article →The flip budget most people write has four line items and needs seven. One deal modeled at 4, 7 and 10 months, the 70% rule tested, every number shown.
Read the article →Why 5% of rent and $250 per unit are guesses. Build a component CapEx schedule for a rental property, with two fully worked reserves — 9.30% and 33.20%.
Read the article →A short term rental vs long term rental analysis on one property, underwritten both ways — full expense stack, seasonal revenue, NOI, DSCR and worst case.
Read the article →Appreciation and rent growth compound, so a one-point error is not small. A full two-way IRR sensitivity grid, the break-even contour, and how to stress test.
Read the article →Every formula, threshold and standing assumption behind these pieces is published on how CasaWise calculates — the model is not a black box.