by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve been teaching real estate finance for years, and as a result, people like to send me things that are screwed up and then ask me for my opinion. See below. It’s an example of how not to write a waterfall structure. Depending on how you read it, you’re either...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
In addition to my regular Excel for real estate analysis class that I do in New York City, I’ll be doing a 1/2 day basic class for non-financial professionals at two locations in March and April. Both are sponsored by the Urban Land Institute. I do this for them...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Nov 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m very excited by the strides that are being made by Assess+RE. If you’ve ever used competing commercial real estate cash flow modeling tools, you know how hard they can be to use and also how poorly designed most of them are. This new product is not...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve been teaching Excel for real estate financial modeling for years. Periodically, someone will say something to me like, “I can do everything I need to do on a napkin. Why would I need to take a class?” In concept, I agree. There’s nothing...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Apr 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are many reasons why I teach real estate finance, but the main reason is that I get to meet interesting people. A former student of mine from almost a decade ago, Jake Jopling, has launched a really good podcast on being an entrepreneur. In any event, he...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
I can’t tell you how often someone asks me how to “unprotect” an Excel workbook. Rather than send out the same email again, just do the following: Instructions on How to Break Excel’s Workbook Protection Personally, I wonder why people even...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of the more common questions that I get from students is: “What is the first step to building a financial model?” The first step to building a financial model in Excel can be scary. You don’t want to spend time going down the wrong path and then...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
In addition to my usual once every 5 week Excel for real estate analysis class that I do in New York City, I’ll be doing a 1/2 day basic class for non-financial professionals at two locations at the end of March. Both are sponsored by the Urban Land Institute....
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We just delivered an Excel for Real Estate modeling class for a private equity client in Nairobi, Kenya. This isn’t to say that we haven’t done international classes before; I did a lot of them back in 2007 (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, etc.) before...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Oct 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Don’t like paying for electricity? Here’s an interesting angle. With “community solar”, instead of putting a solar panel on your house, you buy a panel in a pool and then the production is credited to you. The company, Arcadia Solar, does this...
