# 4116-4118 Moraga St · The Rent Hacker

> Underwriting record for 4116-4118 Moraga St (San Francisco): the published verdict at The Rent Hacker's defaults, plus a calculator that reruns it at your numbers.

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# 4116-4118 Moraga St

At our cautious numbers, renting and putting the same money in index funds comes out ahead. It did not pass our bar.

94122 · San Francisco

Underwritten as of 2026-08-25 · record v8

**Published at our defaults:** loses to the S&P, behind by $409,630 · S&P breakeven 1.2% first-pass screen

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This record was published before we began recording the mortgage rate behind each verdict, so it cannot be re-run at your numbers.

## Property facts

Asking price

$1,295,000

Units

2

Beds / baths

3 / 2

Square feet

1,460

Year built

1910

Property type

Multi-Family

Unit count verified: 2 units, corroborated by county assessor records and the listing itself.

Nearby projects on our catalyst watch:

-   4114 Judah St (46th Ave) redevelopment · 0.4 mi · proposed
-   3601 Lawton Street (AB 2011) · 0.6 mi · funded
-   Ocean Beach Climate Adaptation · 0.8 mi · approved

From the 2026-08-25 screen: 71 scanned · 15 beat the S&P at our defaults · 56 rejected.

## If the market turns

Modeled appreciation is an assumption, so we replayed this deal against history: every 10-year window in the federal house-price index for San Francisco County (41 windows), each one swapping its actual price path in for our modeled appreciation.

History replay

Years

Ends vs the never-buy path

Worst window

1989→1999

−$1,618,375

Median window

1991→2001

−$7,900

Best window

1996→2006

+$2,123,283

21 of the 41 windows ended behind the never-buy path.

Replay the 2008 crash as it hit this area and the deal ends year 10 $725,391 behind the never-buy path; the deepest point comes in year 7, $804,494 behind. The replay holds rent growth to the local legal cap the whole way down.

These windows track San Francisco County as a whole. Within the county, individual ZIPs' realized 10-year outcomes typically differed from the county's by about ±0.6 points/yr — one zip-decade in ten differed by ±1.8 points/yr or more, and the largest gap since 1975 was 7.4 points/yr. A specific building varies more than its ZIP, not less.

## Where these numbers come from

Of the 10 inputs behind this analysis, 6 trace to evidence (our listing feed, area comps, county records); 1 is a standing convention; 2 are derived from other inputs.

-   **Purchase price**: our listing feed · corroborated
-   **Rent while you live in one unit**: derived from other inputs here · single source
-   **Rent after you move out**: local rent regulation · single source
-   **The rent you would pay on the never-buy path**: area rent comps and research bands · single source
-   **Property tax rate**: local rent regulation · single source
-   **Unit count**: county assessor records · corroborated

A standing convention is a deliberate modeling choice we apply to every deal. We flag it rather than dress it up as evidence.

## What we could not verify

-   How far these numbers could move: we run that spread only for the eight strongest properties in each ZIP, and this one was not among them. The cautious numbers above are the only ones we have for it.

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Record v8 · engine aafb236 · profile fha-house-hack

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