As mentioned in this months “Personal Investor” magazine, you can download a completely free IP tax and cashflow simulator, compatible with Windows 95 and up.
– Simple, easy use GUI
– P&I or Interest only loans for varying periods
– Automatic calculation of stamp duty and other costs
– Building and Fittings depreciation
– Save different calculations as property “profiles”
– Preview/Print reports of your analysis.
– Built in help
Over 1000 people have downloaded EZ-Rent and the feedback has been very positive. Please try it out and let me know what you think..
Sorry Dave C but the short answer is no.. unless you have some good PC emulation software.
The long answer (and this is for the tech geeks), is that EZ-Rent has been written as a COM+ DLL, so it is certainly possible to write an ASP/PHP web based version of EZ-Rent without any EZ-Rent recompiling, but unfortunately that would mean hosting costs and I want to keep EZ-Rent free.
I recall sending you an email about your product (several weeks ago?) and making the offer that I would send you a copy of a portfolio excel spreadsheet product I developed for myself if you decided to go down the path of developing a commercial version of your product. Q: did you receive this email & do you want to receive a copy of the spreadsheet?
Yes I received your email and I replied back. Guess you never received it..
The gist of my answer was that yes I would be happy to do this, but I am working on another application right now that means EZ-Rent is not getting any serious development for a few weeks..
I have just logged on to see your reply and will email you directly. You are right – I didn’t get the reply, but I think the problem is at my end, as my ISP is doing something strange with my emails.
EZ-RENT
Hi,
I downloaded the spreadsheet last night and am impressed.However i have a question.Can you generate reports linking multiple profiles/properties for an overall portfolio snapshot?
Thanks for offering it for use.Very nice!
Joff
I never designed the program with this in mind. A new build is going to be released soon with some user requested enhancements. But I am soon going to cease further major development and start work on EZ-Rent version 2.
This will have this feature included.
EZ-Rent version 2 however will be a vastly different beast under the hood than version 1, and I expect this to take some time to design and code.