Courses · Introduction to Real Estate
The fundamentals, in the order you actually need them.
The curriculum is built around one skill: being able to look at a property and decide, with your own numbers, whether it is worth owning. Everything else supports that.
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How real estate makes (and loses) money
Cash flow, appreciation, principal paydown, and tax treatment. What each one depends on, and which ones you should never count on.
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Reading a property
Rent rolls, operating statements, leases, and the questions to ask when the seller's numbers look too clean.
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Underwriting
Building a model from scratch: income, vacancy, expenses, capital reserves, debt service, and returns. You leave with a model you built and understand.
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Financing
How lenders think, what a term sheet says, and how leverage changes both the upside and the risk.
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Due diligence
Inspections, title, zoning, insurance, and the checklist that keeps a good deal from becoming a bad surprise.
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Evaluating a sponsor or partner
For co-investing: how to read an offering, check a track record, and decide whether the people matter as much as the property. They usually do.
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Making the decision
Putting it together on a real deal, including how to say no. Students present a deal they underwrote themselves and defend the numbers.
Format
Taught live, with people.
Courses run as cohorts, in person with community partners or online in small groups. Sessions are working sessions: you bring a deal, or we bring one, and we underwrite it together.
Materials, models, and recordings stay with you afterward. What you learn is yours.