Preparing for investment sales interview

I have an upcoming interview with an investment sales company that focuses mainly on STNL/NNN and expanding to multi-tenant retail shopping centers. I have done a phone interview with them already, now I am meeting with two people from their HQ, then if I make it past that interview I will have an interview with the team. What kind of questions should I prepare to be asked? And I'm considering printing completed Excel spreadsheets I have modeled based off case studies from BIWS and bringing them with me. Should I do this or not? It was one of the talking points in the phone interview and will likely be one during this interview as I do not have any internships in CRE, and this was experienced I gained on my own outside of the classroom.

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