Short-Term Rental Profit Calculator accuracy and testing

Formula source

• Short-term rental profit = booked nights x ADR + cleaning fees charged - platform fees - cleaning cost - operating expenses - mortgage or debt service.

Test cases

Known limitations

• 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.

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.

Unit handling

• Booked Nights accepts values in nights.
• Average Daily Rate accepts values in $/night.
• Cleaning Fees Charged accepts values in $.
• Platform Fee Rate accepts values in %.
• Cleaning Cost accepts values in $.
• Operating Expenses accepts values in $.
• Mortgage or Debt Service accepts values in $.
• Monthly Net Profit is displayed as currency.
• Room Revenue is displayed as currency.
• Gross Receipts is displayed as currency.
• Platform Fee is displayed as currency.
• Profit Margin is displayed as a percentage.

Rounding rules

• Number displays use up to 2 decimal places in the calculator UI.
• Currency outputs are displayed with standard US dollar formatting.
• Percent outputs are displayed with two decimal places.
• Input precision follows configured step values where provided.

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