From mortgage planning to investment strategies, Picket's free tools provide the insights you need to make informed financial decisions.
Estimate your monthly mortgage costs with accuracy. This tool helps you calculate your mortgage payments, including property taxes, insurance, PMI, and optional extra payments, so you can plan your finances confidently.
Calculate Mortgage
Evaluate your Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat (BRRRR) strategy. Understand the cash flow, total investment, and cash-on-cash return for your BRRRR properties, empowering you to maximize profits through strategic real estate investing.
Evaluate BRRRR
Project your profits and returns from house flips. Use this calculator to generate detailed profit forecasts, return on investment (ROI), and cash-on-cash returns for your fix-and-flip projects, helping you make smart financial decisions.
Calculate Fix & Flip
Compare the long-term costs of buying vs. renting. Use this calculator to evaluate whether buying or renting a home makes more financial sense for you. Factor in property appreciation, rent increases, and other key variables to make an informed decision.
Compare Rent vs Buy
Quickly estimate your assignment fees, acquisition costs, and expected profit on real estate wholesale transactions. This tool helps you determine if a wholesale deal is worth pursuing, maximizing your profit margins.
Calculate Wholesaling
Evaluate the profitability of your rental investments. Analyze rental income, expenses, cash flow, and return on investment (ROI) for your rental properties. This tool helps you make data-driven decisions to optimize your rental portfolio’s performance.
Evaluate Rental Property
Quickly assess potential fix-and-flip deals. Use the 70% rule to calculate the maximum price you should pay for a property to ensure profitability after repairs. This tool helps you evaluate whether a deal meets the industry-standard formula for successful flips.
Apply 70% Rule
Estimate the tax deferral benefits from doing a 1031 exchange, allowing users to compare the long-term financial impact of deferring capital gains taxes on investment properties.
Calculate 1031 Exchange
Calculate property depreciation over time to understand the tax benefits of owning a rental property and how it impacts your annual tax filings.
Calculate Depreciation
Evaluate the benefits of house hacking by calculating how living in part of the property and renting out the rest can offset housing costs and boost ROI.
Calculate House Hacking
A simple caluclator to determine how much house you can comfortably afford to buy a new house to live in or rent.
Calculate affordability
The Renovation Cost Estimator helps homeowners and contractors calculate renovation expenses by entering details like square footage, number of rooms, material quality, labor rates, and fees.
Estimate renovation
Mortgage lending climate risk
The blog discusses the future of mortgage lending and insurance in high-risk climate areas, exploring how rising insurance costs, increased weather risks, and lender retreat could reshape real estate markets.
Texas housing market 2024
Explore the key factors shaping the Texas housing market in September 2024, including mortgage rates, inflation, inventory, and demographic shifts, providing opportunities and challenges.
Housing Market Crash 2024
Explore whether the housing market will crash in 2024 or 2025, considering key factors like supply shortages, interest rates, and market stability.
Federal Reserve Impact
Learn how Federal Reserve interest rate changes affect real estate investors, from borrowing costs to market opportunities, and discover strategies to navigate this evolving landscape.
AI
Discover how AI technology can revolutionize vendor bill management in real estate, offering solutions that simplify processes, reduce errors, and cut costs. Learn about the benefits of automation and how integrating AI tools can enhance efficiency for property managers and investors.
Real Estate Investment
Learn how to start a successful real estate investment company, from forming your business plan and securing funding to navigating legal requirements and market strategies. This guide provides expert tips to help you build a strong foundation and achieve success in the real estate market.
Real estate investment software
Explore the best software tools for real estate investors in 2024, covering research, property analysis, buying, selling, and investment management. Learn how these tools can streamline your workflow and maximize returns on your investments.
Kitchen renovation costs
Find out if your kitchen remodel will be profitable with insights into costs, market trends, and value-adding tips. Learn how Picket's AI tools can help you make data-driven decisions to maximize your investment returns.
Stock Market vs Real Estate
Compare real estate and stock market investments, focusing on leverage, volatility, and returns. Discover why real estate often offers a more stable and profitable alternative, and learn how to balance risk with smart investment strategies.
Discover why top-down real estate strategies often miss key opportunities and how a bottom-up approach focusing on hyper-local data can lead to better investment decisions and maximize returns. Learn to leverage property-level insights for smarter real estate investing.
With interest rates dropping, investors are reconsidering a shift from bonds to real assets like single-family rentals, which offer stability, income, and inflation protection in a changing market.
Managing real estate can be challenging, and AI tools can simplify real estate data management, and bill processing.
Ever wonder why Picket, Redfin, & Zillow predict very different home prices? It's all about the data!
Delve into the reflections of an old house, exploring themes of memory, connection, and the enduring nature of home. Discover how the stories of those who lived within its walls continue to shape its legacy.
Large markets often seem like the best place to invest in residential real estate, but as these markets become increasingly more saturated, investors are missing lucrative opportunities in small and secondary markets.
Explore the reflections of an old house, celebrating the craftsmanship and resilience of historic homes. Discover why traditional architecture stands the test of time and what modern homes can learn from these timeless structures.
Build-to-rent communities offer lucrative opportunities for investors, but come along with their own set of risks.
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