Investing in real estate is not about getting rich quick. It’s about getting rich for sure. However, you do need to know how quickly you’ll get paid and if an investment is worth the wait. That is why should learn how to calculate GRM — gross rent multiplier. 

Understanding this profitability metric can help you make informed decisions about how properties compare to each other in a given market. Also, it can also help you decide on an asset you wish to buy and sell within a certain time period. 

If you’re interested in knowing when you’ll pay off your real estate deals before you buy them, find out the formula for how to calculate GRM below. 

Basic Gross Rent Multiplier Formula

As I previously mentioned, the gross rent multiplier can give you an idea of how fast you will be able to pay off an asset.

I’d like to caution you that this is only a forecast and not certain. GRM does not take into account net operating income (NOI) or vacancies in a piece of multifamily real estate

All that aside, here is the formula for calculating the gross rent multiplier of a property: 

Purchase Price ÷ Gross Scheduled Income (GSI) = Gross rent multiplier (GRM) 

In case I lost you there a moment, the gross scheduled income (GSI) is the amount of cash the property will earn if it is 100% full occupancy. 

Based on this formula, you can see how you would want the GRM to be smaller. That is because the lower that number, the faster you pay off the asset and make a property. In theory, at least. 

Remember, GRM is not equivalent to the length of time it takes for the investment to pay off because it doesn’t include full net operating income.

When looking at real estate deals, there are a lot of numbers you have to look at. All of them are to help you.

Gross rent multiplier is just one. Know how to calculate it and take it into consideration when going after the deals that will change your life. 

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Be Great,

Grant Cardone  

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Star of Discovery Channel’s “Undercover Billionaire,” Grant Cardone owns and operates seven privately held companies and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets under management valued at over $4 billion. He is the Top Crowdfunder in the world, raising over $900 million in equity via social media. Known internationally as the leading expert on sales, marketing, and scaling businesses, Cardone is a New York Times bestselling author of 11 business books, including “The 10X Rule,” which led to Cardone establishing the 10X Global Movement and the 10X Growth Conference, now the largest business and entrepreneur conference in the world. The online business and sales educational platform he created, Cardone University, serves over 411,000 individuals and Forbes 100 corporate clients throughout the world. Voted the top Marketing Influencer to watch by Forbes, Cardone uses his massive 15 million plus following to give back via his Grant Cardone Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring underserved, at-risk adolescents in financial literacy, especially those without father figures.

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