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I'd rent out the other unit for $2,200/month with a 7% vacancy rate, and I'm currently paying $2,000/month in rent that I'd stop paying. What's my true monthly net-worth impact?"},{"title":"Multi-room house hack analysis","prompt":"Help me figure out if house hacking this $380,000 single-family home makes sense — 10% down, 7.5% interest rate, 25-year loan, property tax rate of 0.9%, $1,500/year insurance, $1,800 annual maintenance, $250/month HOA, 3 rentable rooms at $650/month each, 8% vacancy, and I'd save $1,200/month on rent I'd otherwise pay."},{"title":"Comparing low-vacancy vs high-vacancy scenarios","prompt":"For a $520,000 triplex I'd buy with 15% down on a 30-year mortgage at 7.2% interest — 1.3% property tax, $2,200 insurance, $4,000 maintenance, no HOA, 2 rentable units at $1,600/month each — can you calculate my monthly net-worth impact assuming a 4% vacancy rate? I currently pay $1,800/month in rent."}],"resultDescription":"Returns the computed monthly net-worth impact combining: net rental income after vacancy, monthly mortgage payment broken into interest and principal, property tax and insurance monthly shares, maintenance and HOA costs, the equity built via principal paydown, and the market rent avoided — giving a holistic true monthly wealth effect figure.","failureModes":["Missing required fields (purchasePrice, interestRate, loanTermYears, rentableUnits, rentPerUnit, vacancyRate, annualInsurance, propertyTaxRate, annualMaintenance, downPaymentPercent) return validation errors","Invalid fractions outside 0-1 range for rates may produce nonsensical results","Loan term outside 1-50 year range may be rejected","Zero or negative purchase price causes computation failure","Network or payment authorization failure returns 402 or 5xx error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need a holistic house-hacking-specific financial analysis that combines rental income, mortgage amortization (principal + interest split), operating expenses, and opportunity cost of rent avoided — all in one unified monthly net-worth metric. 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