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Thirty years of development time, and of listening carefully to what to our customers want. All this comes together now in the latest version of our most popular and powerful software app for real estate investors: Real Estate Investment Analysis, Version 16 What’s New in Version 16? The Decision Maker The centerpiece of v16 is […]
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BiggerPockets — an 85,000-member community of real estate investors — is having its first Real Estate Investing Summit in Denver, March 2012, and has invited Frank Gallinelli as a featured speaker. Frank is the founder of RealData Software and the author of What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow… and Mastering […]
One of our Facebook fans, Tony Margiotta, posed this question, which I’m happy to try my hand at answering here: “Could you talk about refinancing an income property in order to purchase a second income property? I’m trying to understand the refinance process and how you can use it to your advantage in order to […]
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In my nearly 30 years of providing analysis software to real estate investors, and almost a decade of writing books and teaching real estate finance at Columbia University, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with thousands of people who were analyzing potential real estate investments. Some of these people were seasoned professionals, many were beginners […]
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Recently, I was conducting the last class in my course on real estate investment analysis that I teach in Columbia’s MSRED program. I had assigned my 55 students a series of case studies (much like those in my book, Mastering Real Estate Investment) and told them to build financial pro forms and discuss the reasoning behind their analyses. After reading and commenting all those analyses, I felt there was one overarching theme on which I wanted to focus my final remarks to the troops: The theme was “clarity.” […]
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I want to invite you to a webcast interview that will be broadcast Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011 at 11AM PST (2 PM EST). The folks at Value Hound Academy asked me to discuss my insights into analyzing real estate deals: — how to be a “financial detective” when examining a seller’s representations — the biggest […]
We have just added some new videos to our home page, realdata.com Each video presents a brief overview of one of our main software products: Real Estate Investment Analysis Pro Edition, Commercial / Industrial Development, and On Schedule. Hope you’ll take a look and let us know what you think. […]
It comes as no surprise to those of us who are a bit long in the tooth: The recent economic environment has been bad for almost everything, but it’s good for multi-family investment property. When credit flows freely, almost anyone who can buy a house will buy a house. (Whether they can pay for it […]
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Finally! RealData’s on Facebook. Our goal is to make this a hub for networking with our customers and colleagues, and with readers of my books — and for them to network with each other. Find us at facebook.com/realdata You can also follow me — Frank Gallinelli — on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/frankgallinelli and Twitter at twitter.com/fgallinelli […]
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We’ve supported the Macintosh with Excel-based products since the Mac first came out in 1984. (In fact, way back then we received an award as one of “100 Most Important Companies on the Macintosh.”) But a few years ago, Microsoft threw us a real curve when they dropped VBA macro functionality from Excel 2008 for […]
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