Terms Starting with R
197 terms
Rent Roll
A rent roll is a document listing every unit in a property alongside its tenant name, lease start and end dates, monthly rent, security deposit, and payment status—the single most important document in multifamily due diligence.
Rent Stabilization
Rent stabilization is a government regulation that limits how much landlords can raise rents each year — typically capping increases at 3–8% or tying them to inflation — in contrast to rent control, which freezes rents, and applies in cities like NYC, LA, SF, and Oregon statewide, with significant impact on market rent growth and property valuation.
Rent Survey
Rent Survey is a market analysis concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of rental strategy buy and hold deals.
Rent vs Buy Analysis
Rent vs Buy Analysis is a deal evaluation concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of rental strategy buy and hold deals.
Rent-Ready
Rent-ready means a property meets all legal, safety, and market standards for tenant occupancy and can be legally leased.
Rent-by-Room
Rent-by-room is a strategy where you lease each bedroom in a property separately to individual tenants, rather than renting the whole unit to one household—often maximizing gross income from a single-family or small multi-unit.
Rent-to-Income Ratio
Rent-to-income ratio is the percentage of a tenant's gross monthly income that goes toward rent—or the inverse: how many times their income exceeds the rent.
Rent-to-Own
Rent-to-own is a real estate arrangement where a tenant leases a property with the right or obligation to purchase it at a predetermined price within a set timeframe, paying an upfront option fee and above-market rent that may credit toward the purchase price.
Rent-vs-Buy Decision Matrix
The Rent-vs-Buy Decision Matrix is a structured framework that evaluates seven key financial and lifestyle factors — price-to-rent ratio, time horizon, opportunity cost, transaction costs, maintenance burden, tax benefits, and market trajectory — to determine whether renting or buying a primary residence is financially optimal.
Rental Application
A rental application is a form that collects tenant information—income, employment, rental history, and references—for screening before lease execution.
Rental Application Scoring
Rental application scoring is a point-based system that assigns numerical values to key tenant qualification criteria—credit score, income ratio, rental history, employment stability, and references—to create an objective, consistent, and legally defensible tenant selection process.
Rental Arbitrage
Rental arbitrage is the strategy of leasing a property from a landlord and subletting it as a short-term-rental on Airbnb or VRBO—profiting from the spread between your lease payment and STR revenue.
Rental Comp Pull
A Rental Comp Pull is the systematic process of researching comparable rental listings and recently leased properties to determine accurate market rent for a specific property, forming the foundation of rental income projections in deal analysis.
Rental Comps
Rental comps are comparable rental units—similar size, features, and location—that have recently leased. They're the basis for market-rent in deal-analysis.
Rental Criteria Consistency
Rental Criteria Consistency is a property management concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of tenant screening system deals.
Rental Demand Indicator
Rental Demand Indicators are quantitative and qualitative metrics that measure the strength of tenant demand in a specific market or submarket, helping investors assess whether rental properties will maintain occupancy and achieve target rents.
Rental Income
Rental income is the money a property owner collects from tenants in exchange for occupying a residential or commercial property. It is the foundation of buy-and-hold real estate investing.
Rental Listing
A rental listing is a marketing advertisement for a vacant rental unit, including photos, description, rent, and application requirements.
Rental Loss Deduction
Rental Loss Deduction is a tax strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of tax optimization deals.
Rental Market Analysis
Rental Market Analysis is a market analysis concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of rental strategy buy and hold deals.
Rental Property
A rental property is real estate you own and lease to tenants to generate income—as opposed to living in it yourself or flipping it.
Rental Property Calculator
A rental property calculator is a tool—software, spreadsheet, or app—that models a rental property's financials: rent, expenses, financing, and projected returns.
Rental Real Estate Exception
Rental Real Estate Exception is a tax strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of tax optimization deals.
Rental Super-Cycle
The Rental Super-Cycle describes a multi-decade structural shift toward renting driven by housing affordability constraints, changing demographics, delayed homeownership among younger generations, and lifestyle preferences that favor flexibility over ownership.