3170 students

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Using a true-to-life Case Study, this mini course teaches the student how to read a typical real estate income statement and rent roll for multifamily properties. This skill is essential for any professional working in, or considering working in, multifamily investments – either as an acquisition, asset management, portfolio management, or development professional.

Knowing how to properly dissect and categorize the income and expense items typical to multifamily properties, is an important step to properly modeling multifamily cash flows. As is being able to quickly and accurately analyze a multifamily rent roll in Excel.

CASE DESCRIPTION – PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW

You have recently been contacted by a friend working at one of A.CRE Advisors competitors, Burton Belasco, LP (BBLP). She is reaching out because there is an exciting job opportunity to become part of their underwriting team. You’ve been at A.CRE Advisors for a few years and it’s crowded at the top, so it’s been tough for your career advancement.

This job opportunity would be a bump in both title and salary. You decide to send her your resume and a few days later, a member of the BBLP team reaches out to you for a first round interview.

In anticipation, you call your friend to ask her for a few tips to prepare. She informs you that in her interview process last year, they wanted to know that she understood fundamental concepts and particularly grilled her on her understanding of line items in the income statements.

She said to make sure you review these items for each asset class and come prepared to answer questions about them.

PROPERTY TYPE

  • Multifamily

SOFTWARE RECOMMENDED/REQUIRED

  • While we recommend using Microsoft Excel, as that is the industry standard, this course will work with most other spreadsheet software such as Google Sheets and OpenOffice Calc

EXCEL PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT

  • The course assumes you have at least a basic proficiency working with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or OpenOffice Calc

Instructor(s)

Spencer Burton is the Co-Founder and CEO of CRE Agents, a Vertical AI Agentic Platform changing how work gets done in commercial real estate. With over 20 years of experience as a fiduciary, principal, and founder in real estate, he is a recognized expert in applying AI to CRE. His mission at CRE Agents is to give people back life’s most precious asset—time. By pushing repetitive tasks to AI-driven “digital coworkers”, CRE Agents empowers professionals to focus on high-impact work, driving better returns and more fulfilling careers.

Prior to CRE Agents, Spencer served as President and founding team member of Stablewood, a multi-strategy institutional real estate investor leveraging AI, machine learning, and data analytics. At Stablewood, he co-developed an AI-enabled digital coworker that underwrote and created investment memos for 50,000+ CRE transactions, equating to four years of work for 20 full-time analysts.

Spencer is also the co-creator of Adventures in CRE (A.CRE), the industry’s leading platform for financial modeling, education, AI learning, and career development. Through A.CRE, he’s trained thousands of professionals at some of the world’s top companies and universities.

Spencer has built a reputation as an innovator and thought leader in CRE. He has held senior roles at top institutional firms, helped launch two successful startups, and deployed automation across brokerage, development, acquisitions, debt production, and management.

Spencer holds a Bachelor’s in International Affairs with an emphasis in economics from Florida State University and a Master’s in Real Estate with a concentration in finance from Cornell University.

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