Why?
For newly hired REPE analysts and associates, getting up to speed and moving up the learning curve can be a daunting task whether you're fresh out of undergrad, graduate school, or made a recent career pivot. Learning the ins and outs of Excel modeling for Real Estate Private Equity while managing a new boss, a new job, and a new series of expectations is difficult and takes longer than if you could just focus on nailing down the Excel part and then tackle all the job nuances later. The aim of this tutoring-style bootcamp is to help you hone your Excel modeling skills in the context of real-life REPE work situations without a boss or a timeline breathing down your neck.
About me
Before getting started, a quick intro about me to help you understand my motivation to put all this together. I got into REPE from a non-traditional background, I started my career as an engineer in New York City designing and building high-rise residential & office buildings. After a few years of working for real estate developers and investors I decided to move to the ownership side by way of graduate school. When I landed my first job as an associate for a large institutional investor I quickly learned there were a lot of nuances to the job that graduate school, a high level of computational horsepower, or simply practicing excel modeling wouldn't prepare you for.
That is my rationale behind this course, practicing excel modeling is great, and this course does that, but it does so in the most real life contexts that you would experience as an analyst or associate when you first start your job in Real Estate Private Equity.
I hope that's enough to convince you, but incase it's not, the link to a free version of the first case study is below, if you like it I encourage you to buy the whole set, the future version of you just might thank you.
