Frank Gallinelli, Author at RealData Software

Extend RealData Programs To Fit Your Investment Property Or Development Analysis

Posted on April 20, 2009 (May 2, 2022)

One of the great advantages to using Excel as a development platform for our software products is the ability for you, the user, to make customizations to fit your analysis objectives. We encourage our customers to add to the software rather than changing formulas so the base product remains unchanged. It is very easy to […]

Spring Thaw for Real Estate?

Posted on March 25, 2009 (May 2, 2022)

The first sign of of happy news, of course, was that the stock market actually went up recently more than one day in a row. Then, on St. Patrick’s Day, Reuters reported that housing starts jumped an unexpected 22.2% in February, “the biggest percentage rise since January 1990 and the first gain since April.” It’s […]

Cash Flow Analysis — Annual or Monthly?

Posted on February 10, 2009 (May 2, 2022)

A reader of one of my books wrote to me recently with a very worthwhile question. When we build a pro-forma analysis of future cash flows from a real estate investment, why do we annualize those cash flows instead dealing with them on a monthly basis? After all, rent is typically collected and bills paid […]

New Review of “What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know…”

Posted on January 12, 2009

I want to thank Prof. O William Evans from the University of Alabama for his review of my book, What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow… We all appreciate receiving praise, but this is humbling. You can read the review on Amazon here […]

Making the Case for Your Commercial Refinance

Posted on January 7, 2009

Many of you surely have commercial property loans that are coming up for refinance during 2009. We have a new article (actually, the first installment of a two-part piece) on realdata.com that we think you’ll find helpful. In Part One of “Making the Case for Your Commercial Re-Finance,” we tell you what information you must […]

Excel 2007 – New File Types, Macro Security and Other Mysteries

Posted on December 15, 2008

When Microsoft released Excel 2007 it deployed some of the most extensive changes to the product in many years. It introduced an entirely new user interface, a new menu format called the “Ribbon,” enhanced security, and an entirely new data structure for its files. With this new data structure came an array of new file […]

New investment analysis service — and data form

Posted on November 23, 2008 (May 2, 2022)

If you subscribe to our e-newsletter, the RealData Dispatch, then you know that we just launched a new service where we will run a property analysis for you, using your data and our software. All you do is download a questionnaire, fill it in with the particulars about the property you want to evaluate, and […]

Download sample chapters from my new book, “Mastering Real Estate Investment”

Posted on November 12, 2008

Hello All — I thought you might like an opportunity to see some sample chapters from my new book, so I’m making two downloads available. The first section of the book is devoted to 37 key formulas that every real estate investor should understand and know how to use. One of the most important of […]

Is Now the Time To Buy Real Estate for Investment?

Posted on November 5, 2008

“Give me a one-armed economist!” That’s what Harry Truman said as he grew weary of economic advisors who seemingly could never give a straight-out recommendation without adding, “…but on the other hand….” I believe serious investors understand that they can succeed in both good economies and in bad. They also know that they may have […]

My latest: Mastering Real Estate Investment

Posted on October 28, 2008 (May 2, 2022)

I’m hoping that, by now, you’ve heard I have a new book out: “Mastering Real Estate Investment: Examples, Metrics and Case Studies.” It was released just a few weeks ago, and like any proud author I’m pleased to say it’s doing well. And so… what’s it’s all about? An why did I think anyone would […]

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