Job Offer at REPE - need to take a crash course

I was lucky enough to get a job offer to be an analysts at an REPE firm. Currently I work on the asset management side of a owner/ operatir and do very little modeling.

What should I try and learn quickly to make myself not look like a complete idiot when I get there ? Should I know how to do waterfalls, etc.

Any tips would be helpful

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Adventures in CRE

Haven't pulled the trigger on their Accelerator but will likely do so soon. Their free content is very insightful. Model alongside the video and then try to do it with the video as training wheels, then try to do it yourself.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

If using Argus, they have an online course pack that costs like $1000. Was helpful to me when I made the transition. Also, search the Argus manual pdf when you have questions.

For Excel, Adventures in CRE is pretty good.

I'm sure it's not expected for you to be a modelling whiz, but if you can be self reliant with the above and can avoid asking questions that can be solved with a simple google search then you'll be all set.

 

Lol believe me man your firm is going to have an incredibly automated underwriting template that you're merely going to plug Argus data into and then tweak a couple of assumptions/pull a couple of comps for. You're not going to be building waterfalls from scratch. Argus will take you a bit longer than Excel but even that really isn't necessary. Again, you'll likely be working off of old templates that already have your default assumptions plugged in.

 

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