About this Short-Term Rental Profit Calculator
Short-term rental profit depends on booked nights, average daily rate, fees, cleaning economics, operating expenses, and financing costs.
Who this calculator is for
- Real estate investors, landlords, and operators comparing property-level operating assumptions.
- Short-term rental hosts, property managers, and finance teams building transparent scenario checks.
- Owners deciding whether rent, sell, self-manage, or outsource operations using their own local numbers.
When to use it
- Estimate operating cost, rental profit, occupancy, rent-change impact, or rent-versus-sell tradeoffs.
- Compare conservative, expected, and optimistic property scenarios with formulas you can inspect.
- Document how user-entered rents, fees, expenses, occupancy, appreciation, and sale assumptions affect the result.
How to use this calculator
- Enter your own rent, nightly rate, occupancy, fee, expense, mortgage, appreciation, or sale assumptions.
- Review the primary output first, then use supporting outputs to understand the drivers behind it.
- Run alternate scenarios before using the result in a budget, offer, refinance review, or hold-versus-sell plan.
Key assumptions
- All rents, nightly rates, occupancy, operating expenses, management fees, sale costs, appreciation, and reinvestment returns are user-entered assumptions.
- No platform rates, property management rates, rent caps, tax rates, brokerage fees, or market forecasts are hardcoded.
- Results are deterministic planning estimates and are not investment, legal, tax, accounting, lending, or property-management advice.
- Calculations run locally in the browser without uploading private property, tenant, reservation, financing, or sale data.
Accuracy and testing
Review formula sources, default test cases, assumptions, unit handling, rounding rules, and changelog for this calculator.
How this calculator works
Inputs explained
Booked nights and ADR
Reservation nights and average nightly rate used to calculate room revenue.
Cleaning charged and cleaning cost
Guest cleaning fees collected and the actual cleaning expense you pay or allocate.
Platform, operating, and mortgage costs
User-entered channel fee rate, recurring operating expenses, and mortgage or debt-service costs.
Understanding your results
Example scenarios
Planning example
18 booked nights at $185 ADR plus $900 cleaning charged, 3% platform fees, $720 cleaning cost, $1,050 operating expenses, and $1,400 mortgage cost estimates about $960.10 monthly net profit.
Key Features
- Instant Calculation
- Private & Secure
- Mobile Optimized
Things to Keep in Mind
These calculators do not fetch live market rents, property values, platform fees, tax rates, mortgage quotes, rent-control rules, short-term rental regulations, or sale comps. Enter the current assumptions that apply to your property and review important decisions with qualified local professionals.
Tips & Best Practices
- Use recent leases, owner statements, bank records, management proposals, booking reports, and local sale estimates when possible.
- Stress-test vacancy, repairs, operating expenses, sale costs, appreciation, and reinvestment assumptions before making a decision.
- Check local laws, lease terms, lender rules, tax treatment, licensing, and HOA restrictions before relying on a scenario.
Glossary of Terms
- ADR
- Average daily rate, calculated as room revenue divided by booked nights.
- Gross receipts
- Room revenue plus cleaning fees or other guest-paid amounts included in this model.