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A working system for real landlords

The Rental Property Reality Check.

Is the property building freedom—or are you just feeding it?

This is the spreadsheet and field guide I wish I had before the vacancies, plumbing disasters, contractor promises and mysteriously expanding rehab budgets.

$19Excel workbook + visual field guide
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The Rental Property Reality Check cover featuring The Katie Lee

No creative accounting

A pretty property can still be a lousy investment.

More doors are not the flex. Owning your time is. This forces the rent, debt, vacancy, repairs and money still trapped in the rehab into the same picture.

Five-minute portfolio check

See what is actually on fire.

The dashboard turns scattered property information into one uncomfortable—but useful—view.

Rental Property Reality Check Excel dashboard preview

What you receive

One workbook. Eight jobs.

01

Dashboard

See cash flow, equity, vacancies, open repairs and rehab commitments in one place.

02

Property snapshots

Track value, debt, cash invested, rent, expenses and actual monthly cash flow.

03

Monthly tracker

Stop letting one good month—or one ugly repair—rewrite the whole story.

04

Renovation budget

Separate the budget, money committed and cash actually paid.

05

Contractor quotes

Compare scope, timing, insurance, references, warranty and deposits.

06

Operations

Track maintenance, showings, no-shows and applicants before details disappear into texts.

07

Decision tool

Compare selling now, repairing then selling and repairing to hold.

08

Visual field guide

Eight blunt, photo-led pages explaining how I use the workbook in real life.

Built from the mess

I did not learn this from a course.

I bought my first investment property at 21 while earning $8.50 an hour. More than 20 years later, I still verify the work, count the vacant days and refuse to let appreciation pretend a cash-flow problem does not exist.

A badly cluttered rental kitchen before renovation and the finished kitchen after renovation

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