The capital plan your inspection report doesn't include.
See the capital picture before you get to the closing table: what's overdue, what's coming, and a capex estimate for your pro forma. Bring it into your underwriting to inform how you negotiate, structure the deal, or walk away.
Get your Capital Forecast — $99Capital Forecast Estimates are based on the contents of your uploaded inspection report and industry reference data. Not a substitute for professional inspection, appraisal, or financial advice.30-day money-back guarantee.
Where your inspection report leaves off
Your inspector walks the property and flags what's aging, what's damaged, and what needs attention now. That's valuable, but it's a snapshot of today. It doesn't tell you that the HVAC, the water heater, and the electrical panel are all hitting end-of-life within the same three-year window, or that the total replacement cost for everything due in the first decade is more than you budgeted. The report checks condition. It doesn't model cost over time.
Upload your inspection report and we pull the systems we track — 100+ components across HVAC, building envelope, mechanical, exterior, interior finishes, appliances, plumbing fixtures, and safety devices — project when each one comes due across your hold period, and ground the replacement costs in real reference data. The output is a component-level capital plan with line-item estimates, not a percentage-of-rent placeholder.
How it works
Upload your inspection report.
We extract the systems we track — 100+ components covering HVAC, roof, water heater, electrical, appliances, exterior, and more — along with age and make/model when the report includes them.
Review what we found.
We match what the inspector documented against a component database with reference costs and useful life data. You’ll see what we extracted, what we estimated, and where you might want to add detail. A partial inventory still produces useful numbers.
Get your Capital Forecast.
Components approaching end of useful life flagged with replacement cost estimates. A reserve trajectory across your hold period. Download a report you can share with your agent, your lender, or your partner as part of your due diligence package.
See what you get
Here's an actual Capital Forecast generated for a 1939 duplex with 35 tracked components and a 10-year planning horizon.
This property came in at a 26% capital burden ratio, about a quarter of gross rent going toward future capital needs. 4 components were past their expected useful life, with $9,050 in immediate capital needs. The report's replace-at-closing scenario brings ongoing reserves from $527 to $244 per month. That's the kind of leverage the report can surface.
What this replaces
The common approach to capital planning is a rule of thumb, a spreadsheet, or nothing at all. They all break down the same way: they don't account for what's actually in your property. A 2016 build with a tile roof and newer mechanicals has a completely different capital profile than a 1939 duplex with original plumbing. Flat percentages and empty spreadsheets treat them the same.
This does the work you'd skip: inventories your systems from photos and reports, fills in costs and useful life when you don't have them, runs the reserve math forward, and produces something that looks like it came from a professional.
Pricing
Capital Forecast
A complete Capital Forecast for the property you're evaluating. Immediate capital needs, components approaching end of useful life with replacement cost estimates, reserve trajectory across your hold period, and what-if scenarios for replacements at closing. Re-run anytime as your numbers change. No per-report fees.
Get your Capital Forecast30-day money-back guarantee.
Capital Forecast Estimates are based on the contents of your uploaded inspection report and industry reference data. Not a substitute for professional inspection, appraisal, or financial advice.
After you close
Your property is already set up in the system with every component, cost, and timeline from your Capital Forecast. If you want to keep it current — log replacements, update costs, regenerate reports as things change — you can continue with CapEx Reserve at $19/mo + tax, covering up to 10 properties. No commitment, cancel anytime.
No per-report fees. Generate fresh reserve reports whenever components change or you want an updated number. The data is already there when you replace a component, refinance, or revisit your plan. No re-entry needed.
Inspection PDFs are retained while your account is active and for 90 days afterward. Active CapEx Reserve subscribers retain full source documentation indefinitely. Extracted data and reports are retained per the Privacy Policy.
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