# 131 Coombs St · The Rent Hacker

> Underwriting record for 131 Coombs St (North Bay): the published verdict at The Rent Hacker's defaults, plus a calculator that reruns it at your numbers.

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# 131 Coombs St

Ahead of renting and index funds on our cautious numbers. Whether it has enough room to pass our bar wasn't measured here.

94559 · North Bay

Underwritten as of 2026-08-24 · record v2

**Published at our defaults:** House-Hack wins by $151,804 · S&P breakeven 11.7% · crash floor 1.8% full underwriting, cautious case

C C — wins the conservative case, but the S&P 500 only needs 10–13% a year to tie.

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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.

## The three cases

Conservative

Base

Optimistic

Verdict

House-Hack

House-Hack

House-Hack

Margin vs the S&P path

+$151,804

+$345,835

+$545,423

Rent while you live in one unit

$5,100/mo

$5,550/mo

$6,000/mo

Rent after you move out

$6,800/mo

$7,400/mo

$8,000/mo

Modeled appreciation

3.0%/yr

3.5%/yr

4.0%/yr

Repairs allowance

$15,000

$8,000

$0

S&P breakeven

11.7%

13.5%

15.2%

Crash floor

1.8%

0.6%

\-0.7%

Wealth at year 10

$1,331,166

$1,525,197

$1,724,785

If you sold at year 10

$1,263,970

$1,454,667

$1,650,772

Conservative leads; base and optimistic are the accompanying range, never the headline. Margin is vs. investing the same money in the S&P 500; the S&P breakeven is the yearly stock return that would tie it, and the crash floor is the yearly appreciation below which the deal loses. Wealth at year 10 counts home equity at full value; the sold line subtracts selling costs.

## Property facts

Asking price

$1,000,000

Units

4

Beds / baths

4 / 4

Square feet

1,600

Year built

0

Property type

Multi-Family

Neighborhood

Soscol Gateway / South Napa Corridor

Strategy lane

fourplex

Nearest catalyst

Napa River / Napa Creek Flood Protection Project, Reach B (0.47 mi)

Modeled appreciation

3.5%/yr

Unit count verified: 4 units, corroborated by the listing itself.

fourplex — Soscol Gateway / South Napa Corridor · 0.47 mi from Napa River / Napa Creek Flood Protection Project, Reach B.

From the 2026-08-24 screen: 47 scanned · 22 beat the S&P at our defaults · 25 rejected; this one ranked #10.

## 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 Napa 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

2005→2015

−$268,669

Median window

1984→1994

+$563,896

Best window

1996→2006

+$2,037,912

10 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 $659,799 behind the never-buy path; the deepest point comes in year 7, $748,506 behind.

These windows track Napa County as a whole. Within the county, individual ZIPs' realized 10-year outcomes typically differed from the county's by about ±0.3 points/yr — one zip-decade in ten differed by ±0.6 points/yr or more, and the largest gap since 1975 was 0.8 points/yr. A specific building varies more than its ZIP, not less.

## Where these numbers come from

Of the 11 inputs behind this analysis, 6 trace to evidence (our listing feed, area comps, county records); 3 are standing conventions; 1 is derived from other inputs.

-   **Purchase price**: our listing feed · corroborated
-   **Rent while you live in one unit**: our listing feed · single source
-   **Rent after you move out**: an unclassified source · no independent witness
-   **The rent you would pay on the never-buy path**: area rent comps and research bands · single source
-   **Property tax rate**: our listing feed · single source
-   **Unit count**: our listing feed · corroborated

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

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Record v2 · engine aafb236 · profile fha-house-hack

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