With 40 years of experience, Brian will guide you through a comprehensive, hands-on program over twelve weeks, equipping you with the practical knowledge and disciplined strategies needed to successfully invest in commercial real estate and achieve your financial goals.
The Mission Behind the Work
Why is he doing this? According to Brian, “It’s frustrating to see people make costly mistakes, wasting time and money chasing the wrong opportunities in the wrong ways or worse, never trying because it’s too complicated, risky, and scary. Commercial real estate investment can be a life altering opportunity to change lives for the better, if properly and intelligently implemented. I want to work with good people, that have good intentions, and want to give their families a great life. I can help them have that.”
Some of the Topics Covered
- Commercial real estate vocabulary and principles
- Preliminary deal analysis and when to walk away
- Investment strategies
- How to be a developer, if you want to be
- Distressed assets
- Finding the right investment opportunities
- Finding the right parties and making contact
- Industry resources and tech for finding opportunities
- Analyzing investments, determining the right purchase price and strategy, structuring the deal
- Considerations when purchasing property (existing conditions, property rights and encumbrances)
- Negotiating for the purchase of a property
- Underwriting investment opportunities and due diligence
- Financing the transaction/Sources of capital
- Finding investors
- Maximizing value and return
- Working with the brokerage community
- Knowing how to work with banks, lenders, and mortgage brokers
- Why you need legal support and how to work with lawyers (legal considerations)
- Real estate accounting considerations
- Local considerations
- Property management and leasing
- Personnel management, hiring practices, best management practices
- Cost controls (critical to making a profit)
- Leasing strategies
- Negotiation considerations
- Keeping cool and focused at all times
- Good business principles, ethics, and ideas to live by
- Pitfalls and rookie mistakes to avoid and when to get out
- What to do when a deal wobbles/workout considerations and strategies
- The Urban Property System of minimizing risk and maximizing returns
Urban Property Advisors, LLC, 5649 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60659, L/# 481013862, Brian Pesmen, Managing Broker, L/# 471021672, (847) 510-3148, [email protected]
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