RealtyPad vs spreadsheets
Bring your numbers. We’ll do the legwork.
Most investors start with a spreadsheet and a few portal tabs, and that works. Here is what changes when the deal file keeps the listing, the research, and the math for you.
The short answer
A spreadsheet is free, flexible, and yours. It is a good fit for quick math on one deal. RealtyPad fits when you compare many deals over time: listings come in once, inputs carry their source, every deal runs through the same underwriting, and the market and buyer side sit on the same record.
| The job | A spreadsheet | RealtyPad |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a listing in | Copy price, beds, baths, tax, and HOA from a portal by hand. | Bring listings in from a link or a market pull. The same listing doesn’t become two deals. |
| Inputs you can trust | A cell holds a number. Where it came from lives in your head or a comment. | Tax, insurance, HOA, rent, and repair inputs keep their source. Estimates are marked as estimates. |
| Consistent math | Each copy of the sheet can drift: a changed formula, a missed row. | One underwriting engine for long-term rental, short-term rental, flip, wholesale, and redevelopment. Cash-on-cash and hold-period returns come out the same way on every deal. |
| Looking past month one | Build your own hold-period tab. | Hold-period projections and financing and strategy scenarios you can save and pick from. |
| The market around the deal | Static growth and rent assumptions you type in. | Home value and rent trends for the area, plus logged growth drivers with sources. |
| A pipeline, not a pile of files | One file or tab per deal; sorting across them is manual. | Every deal has a status and a score, so you can sort and filter the whole pipeline. |
| The buyer side | A separate list, matched by memory. | A buyer book with criteria, deal-to-buyer matching, and a share link the buyer can open. |
Stay with a spreadsheet if…
- You run quick numbers on one or two deals a month.
- You need a custom model RealtyPad doesn’t have, and you want full control of every formula.
- You don’t want another subscription right now.
Pick RealtyPad if…
- You review many listings and want the same math on each one.
- You want to know where each number came from when you revisit a deal.
- You match deals to investors or clients and want to share a deal they can open.
- You work with an AI assistant and want it to read and update the same deal record.
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