Understand every number.
Plain-English guides to the metrics and strategies BuyBox runs for you, how each is calculated, what a good value looks like, and the mistakes to avoid.
Getting Started
Run your first deal analysis in 30 seconds
Open BuyBox, run a Quick Analysis, and read your first deal verdict, try the real controls below, or watch it done.
Read →Import a listing from Zillow, Redfin, or Realtor
Use the BuyBox browser extension to pull a listing straight into a pre-filled Quick Analysis, no retyping. Try the click below.
Read →Reading your deal verdict, score, and risk flags
What the Deal Score, the STRONG DEAL / SOLID DEAL / NEEDS WORK / HIGH RISK verdict, and the Risk Flags mean, and how to see the math behind every number.
Read →Set your buy box so the verdict is yours
Configure your own good/workable/bad ranges per metric. Your thresholds drive the colors, the risk flags, and the deal verdict, try it live.
Read →Go deeper with a Deep Dive analysis
When a Quick Analysis looks promising, a Deep Dive lets you refine the rehab, financing, expenses, and multi-year projections. Click through the tabs below.
Read →Export a report to share with lenders and partners
Turn an analysis into a spreadsheet or a lender-ready package. Exporting is a Pro feature, click the button below to see the gate.
Read →Metrics
What is DSCR, and why do lenders care?
DSCR measures whether a property earns enough to cover its own mortgage. It's the number lenders use to decide whether (and how much) they'll lend.
Read →Cash-on-Cash Return, explained
Cash-on-cash is the return on the actual dollars you put into a deal: the first number most investors look at.
Read →Cap Rate: the unlevered yield
Cap rate is a property's yield ignoring financing, useful for comparing deals and for pricing a future sale.
Read →Strategy
BRRRR basics: how the refinance returns your cash
BRRRR: Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat, lets you recycle your cash from deal to deal. Here's how the refinance step actually works.
Read →How to analyze a rental property, step by step
The full rental underwrite in five steps: income, operating expenses, NOI, financing, and the four metrics that decide, with a live worked example you can edit.
Read →The 1% rule: a 10-second screen, not an underwrite
The 1% rule says a rental's monthly rent should be at least 1% of its total acquisition cost. Here's how to use it, and exactly where it falls apart.
Read →The 50% rule: estimating expenses before you have real numbers
The 50% rule estimates that a rental's operating expenses will average about half of its gross rent, everything except the mortgage. Useful for a first pass; dangerous as a final answer.
Read →Account & Billing
Your free trial, Pro, and Pro Lifetime: what you get
How the 7-day free trial, the Pro subscription, and the one-time Pro Lifetime purchase differ, and what happens when the trial ends.
Read →Your account: sign in, create an account, and where billing lives
How to sign in or create a BuyBox account, reset a forgotten password, sign in with Google, and where your email, plan, and billing live in Settings.
Read →Manage your subscription: payment, invoices, and cancelling
Where to update your card, grab an invoice, or cancel, and exactly what happens to your account and your deals when you do.
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