Price/earnings ratios and dividend payout. Yield to maturity and yield to call. Cash-on- cash return and equity build-up. Sound confusing? Stock brokers, bond dealers, and real estate promoters all speak different languages when it comes to extolling the virtues of their investment proposals. This book reduces the jargon to a single magic number or common denominator—a yardstick by which all forms of investment may be directly compared—the Internal Rate of Return or IRR. Now you can invest like a computer whiz— without a computer. Using the simple graphs devised by Larry Rosen from approximately 30,000,000 calculations, you can quickly evaluate any investment proposal in a highly professional and precise manner. Analysis that would take hours, and in some cases days, can be performed accurately in mere seconds of your time. And if you wish to go a step beyond, you can discover the benefits of analysis by marginal IRR, as well as by partitioning the IRR. Whether you use the graphs or recreate the computations from the programming instructions and formulas that are included, this book will take the mystery out of investing and help you make more intelligent investment decisions.

"Here is the first guide to understanding and computing the true costs and values of mortgages, savings accounts, installment loans, annuities, etc."--Jacket subtitle.

Calculator Mathematics for the Real Estate Professional has two objectives: 1) to show you how to correctly answer the mathematics questions on a real estate licensing examination for salespersons or brokers; 2) to be a time-saving reference for real estate professionals, investors, tenants, accountants, lenders, and attorneys. Even those who are capable of performing complex mathematical computations will welcome the practicality of having the formulas and methods contained in one easy-to-use reference and will benefit from the short-cut, time-saving techniques described, including—how to determine in seconds (without handbooks or tables) the monthly payment on a mortgage loan, the outstanding loan balance at any particular point in time, or the interest portion of mortgage payments for a given year. The first ten chapters explain the various computations one will encounter in licensing examinations and everyday practice. The last three chapters describe how to use a pocket calculator to quickly solve these computations, and provide the method of solving more complex and advanced problems such as: computation of the area of unusually shaped land areas and the various calculations related to ‘balloon" mortgages. Examples are given for an algebraic language calculator and a reverse Polish calculator as well as for a basic four function model. Real estate practitioners who master the time-saving skills explained will increase their productivity, listings, commissions, and professionalism.