Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated Nov 2024)
Prior to launching the Accelerator program, Michael and I fielded email after email requesting a more structured real estate financial modeling training program on the site.
Over the years, we've covered hundreds of real estate modeling…
MarketSpace Capital – A.CRE Real Estate Sponsor Series
Here we feature MarketSpace Capital in the third article of a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interviewed Sohail Hassan,…
The Elephant in the Room – Recession and the Real Estate Job Market
The impacts of a potential recession have certainly already affected the real estate job market. You may have already been a part of the nationwide layoffs. Or you may be a part of the upcoming nationwide layoffs that have already plagued many…
Real Estate Hiring Lessons from the Executive Perspective
This year our team has facilitated a total of six webinars with companies that were in the midst of hiring their new intern, analyst, and associate classes and learned multiple real estate hiring lessons. These companies ranged from publicly…
Blue Lake Capital – A.CRE Real Estate Sponsor Series
This post is the second in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interviewed Blue Lake Capital’s Director of Investor Relations,…
Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group – A.CRE Real Estate Sponsor Series
This post is the first in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interview Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group’s Lane Beene.…
LinkedIn Networking Tips that Get you Results in Commercial Real Estate
Building your network is a proactive way to gain an advantage in the hiring process and to hedge against uncertainty when you are struggling to find a job. This article is part of our LinkedIn 101 networking series, aimed at providing you with…
Top 4 Challenges when Hiring Real Estate Talent
Our goal with this article is to help real estate hiring managers receive higher-quality applicants interested in their positions. With the A.CRE Accelerator, our team has trained over 3,000 real estate candidates to be great at real estate…
Top Advice for a Freshman Considering a Career in Commercial Real Estate
So, you start your first year, or freshman year here in the U.S. You don’t know much about commercial real estate, but you feel like it could be an interesting career path. What do you start to do to learn more about the CRE industry? And…
Should I take a year off after high school before college?
The cliche path we’ve all been told is, “once you finish high school, you go to college, and right after college you get a job.” But what if you were able to give yourself a leg up and come in more confident and prepared than other incoming…
Important Considerations for International CRE Students
For you job candidates who are international CRE students and want to get a job in the U.S. in the industry, here are my three biggest tips to help you find success:
Set Specific Goals for Yourself
Network Persistently
Don’t Lose…
Marquette Real Estate Strategies Conference Takeaways
Marquette University recently held its 11th annual Real Estate Strategies Conference. Our Co-Founder, Spencer Burton, had the privilege of being the Keynote speaker so a few members of our team came up to support him.
A quote from Jack…
4-Tier Equity Multiple Waterfall – Download and Watch Me Build (UPDATED APR 2022)
Here is a simple, yet very powerful, 4-tier equity multiple waterfall module. This post contains both a completed version of the module ready to plug into a real estate financial model as well as a 'Watch Me Build' template and companion video…
3 Tips for When You’re Unhappy in Your Current Job
As a CRE recruiter, I often get questions from people who are unhappy in their current job. This is a very common situation for people to have - in both commercial real estate and in other fields. However, I want to let you know that this isn't…
How to Gain a Unique Advantage in your Post-College Job Search
Here’s the status quo for most college students. You find yourself balancing a social life, 12+ hours of school, extracurricular activities, athletics, jobs, unexpected life curveballs, and parents’ high expectations for you. For those of…
Pro Forma For Multifamily Renovation (Updated 11.17.2021)
I'm excited to share the Pro Forma for Multifamily Renovation model with all of you. This multifamily renovation model is made to analyze value add apartment acquisition opportunities and has a lot of functionality that is meant to provide you…