The consolidation loan is treated as a fixed rate loan within the weighted average interest rate formula used to calculate the interest rate on the new consolidation loan. (finaid.org)
You can certainly use the cap rate formula backwards and make it calculate return but it's still a poor measure of return. (biggerpockets.com)
The consolidation loan is treated as a fixed rate loan within the weighted average interest rate formula used to calculate the interest rate on the new consolidation loan. (finaid.org)