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ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software includes a mortgage calculator that allows users to calculate a wide-range of mortgage and time value of money calculations in seconds.

Whenever a real estate agent makes the transition from residential property to residential income property, the tendancy is to present the income property to the one doing the real estate investing the same way houses are presented to a home buyer. This can lead to (shall I say?) a rather embarrassing moment when you make your presentation to the investor.

Debt Coverage Ratio is a term real estate investors and real estate agents have probably heard of but might not understand. So let’s take a look at it’s intention.

Gross rent multiplier (GRM) is a good method to use when comparing various residential income property within a particular rental income market. It’s best used as a precursor to a serious income property analysis, however, because it does ignore operating expenses and time value of money. Nonetheless, it is easy to calculate, and it does offer real estate agents and investors a quick method to do a preliminary survey.

As stated in our previous article, Gross Rent Multiplier (or GRM) provides a ratio real estate investors can generally use to test the market value of a rental income property compared to comparable rental income investment properties in the area.

Anyone that has been around income property long enough has surely heard of gross rent multiplier. Or perhaps seen it used in an APOD or other investment report characterized simply as GRM.