Terms Starting with A
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Self Check-In
Self check-in is a short-term-rental arrangement where guests access the property on their own using a smart-lock code or lockbox key—no in-person host handoff required.
Self-Management
Self-management is when you run your rental properties yourself—tenant screening, maintenance, rent collection, inspections—instead of hiring a property manager.
Self-Storage
Self-Storage is a property classification concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of portfolio scaling 1031 exchanges deals.
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis is a deal-analysis technique that tests how returns change when key assumptions shift—vacancy, operating-expenses, rent, interest rate. It reveals breakpoints and risk.
Service Animal
Service Animal is a legal strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of tenant screening system deals.
Shared Amenities
Shared Amenities is a property management concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of house hacking deals.
Short-Term Rental
Renting a property by the night or week—e.g., Airbnb or VRBO—typically for vacation or business travel.
Soft Landing
Soft Landing is a economic fundamentals concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of market cycles deals.
Spreadsheet Analysis
Spreadsheet analysis is building a custom financial model for a rental property—typically in Excel or Google Sheets—with explicit inputs, formulas, and outputs for rent, expenses, financing, and returns.
Step-Up in Basis
A step-up in basis is a tax rule that resets a property's cost basis to its fair market value at the owner's death — wiping out both unrealized capital gains and depreciation recapture for the heirs who inherit it.
Subordination Agreement
Subordination Agreement is a title and closing concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of purchase process deals.
Subscription Agreement
Subscription Agreement is a legal strategy concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of syndication deals.
Surveyor
A surveyor is a licensed professional who measures and maps property boundaries, improvements, and easements to produce a survey plat.
Tangible Asset
A tangible asset is a physical asset with intrinsic value that you can see, touch, and use—such as real estate, land, machinery, or precious metals. Real estate is the largest tangible asset class in the world.
Tax Audit
Tax Audit 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.
Tax Loss Carryforward
Tax loss carryforward is the rule that lets unused tax losses—from rental real estate or other passive activities—carry to future years to offset income when you sell the property or have passive income.
Transportation Access
Transportation access measures how easily residents can reach jobs, services, and amenities using roads, public transit, bike lanes, and walkable infrastructure.
Triple Net Lease
A triple net lease (NNN) is a lease structure where the tenant pays base rent plus all property taxes, insurance, and maintenance—the landlord receives net income with minimal operating expenses to manage.
Utility Allowance
Utility Allowance is a property management 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.
Vacation Rental
A vacation rental is a property rented for short stays—typically 1–30 nights—to travelers and vacationers, often via Airbnb, Vrbo, or direct booking, as opposed to long-term rental property with 12-month leases.
Vintage Year
Vintage Year is a financial analysis concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of real estate investing deals.
Virtual Assistant
A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker who handles administrative, marketing, or operational tasks for real estate investors—often part-time or per-task.
Walk-Up Apartment
Walk-Up Apartment is a property classification concept that describes a specific aspect of how real estate transactions, analysis, or operations work in the context of small multifamily investing deals.
Wealth Acceleration
Wealth acceleration is the strategy of using real estate-specific tools—leverage, forced appreciation, tax deferral, and capital recycling—to compound net worth at rates that significantly outpace traditional passive investing.