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Build a comprehensive operating budget for your coliving property. Adjust room counts, rents, and see expense breakdowns instantly.
Monthly Revenue
$8,000
Monthly Expenses
$9,321
Net Income
$-1,321
Operating Margin
-16.5%
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Enter your room count, average rent, and property type to establish your revenue baseline and cost structure.
See pre-populated expense categories tailored to coliving, from utilities and cleaning to community events and technology.
Download a complete operating budget with monthly projections, cost-per-room breakdowns, and margin analysis.
Coliving operators love revenue forecasts and hate operating budgets. Forecasts are exciting (look at all this growth) and budgets are uncomfortable (look at all these costs). But the operators who consistently hit their numbers are the ones who treat the budget as the contract: every line item has an owner, a benchmark, and a quarterly review.
An operating budget that lives is the difference between negotiating with a landlord from a position of data ('our utilities are running 12% above benchmark in this asset class') and negotiating from vibes. It is also the only way to spot the slow-leak costs, turnover cleaning, software sprawl, ad-hoc maintenance, that quietly turn a 25% NOI into a 14% NOI over 18 months.
Treating utilities like rent hides the fact that one scales with occupancy and the other doesn't. Split them and your scenario planning gets dramatically more useful.
Operators routinely budget 1-2% of revenue for repairs and capex, then bleed margin as appliances die. Plan for 5-8% and you'll stop being surprised.
Cleanouts, repaints, and 5-7 days of vacancy per turn add up to a real percentage of revenue. If it's not on the budget, it's eating your margin in silence.
PMS, CRM, payments, comms, IoT, marketing, operators routinely spend 2-3% of revenue on tools they barely use. Audit every line annually.
Markets shift. Energy spikes. Wage inflation lands. A budget you wrote in January and never reopened is a fiction by Q3.
Take the budget and roll it into a 12-month cash projection across three scenarios.
Try it free →Find the occupancy threshold where your budget actually starts producing free cash.
Try it free →Pin down the variable utility costs that are usually the biggest budget surprise.
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