Summer Term Special

May 14, 2012 by Brandon in General

We’re fast approaching summer, and although most of us aren’t packing away for three months of responsibility-free leisure, we’re all entitled to our summer term schedule. REsheets would like to lend a hand by means of our summer term special: 20% off any product.

That’s $40 off the REsheets Toolbelt.

That’s $100 off the Apartment Cash Flow Model.

That’s $250 off the Cash Flow Bundle!

Please use Coupon Code SUMMER3 to take advantage of this discount. Hurry, the special ends July 1st. Continue reading >>

Simple Excel – Learning the Excel List

Mar 28, 2012 by Brandon in Excel, Resources

photo credit: terry

We all know Excel has tricks.

(don’t forgot the usual guide and homework!)

Sometimes we forget just how useful they are. Today we’re focusing on the Excel list function, a relatively simple tool with database-saving application. It’s part of Excel’s data validation functions, and here’s how it works:

The Excel list function creates a drop-down list of predetermined terms and restricts a cell’s input to only terms on that list. For example, a list can be as simple as ‘apartment’ or ‘commercial’. If you click the drop down list, you can select either of the commercial real estate class types.

Here are the practical applications:

1. congruence: If you’re thinking, wait a minute, it’s easy enough to just type either term, apartment or commercial, then you’ve overlooked the fact that excel will never let you type other than the term, for example ‘appartment’ or ‘comercial’ or any typos associated with the term once the list has been set. Continue reading >>

The Leprechaun of CRE’s Past

Mar 06, 2012 by Brandon in General

Here at REsheets, we have a secret.

Every year, just around the start of March, we’re visited by a very well intentioned and thoroughly confused Leprechaun. Typically, faery tale creatures of similar types show up just before Christmas, and in well read Charles Dickens novels, but not the Leprechaun of CRE’s Past.

Yesterday, as I was sitting in the REsheets’ office pondering Own vs. Lease scenarios, I was visited by the Leprechaun of CRE’s Past. I howled with surprise, but I was only fooling myself, the fifth of March is very late for the first Leprechaun sighting.

“No,” I pleaded with the Leprechaun, “We feed our families with these spreadsheets, stop trying to give them away for free!”

Wise as always, the Leprechaun posed a question, “That Famous REsheets Toolbelt you’re so fond of, the one with all the gadgets, shouldn’t every real estate agent own one of those?”

“Yes,” I replied without hesitation, “of course they should. It’s thirteen scenario specific analysis options, it’s easy to use, it’s easy to report, and it’s impressive!” Continue reading >>

An In-House Warming Gift From Us to You: The Cold Call Tracker

Jan 30, 2012 by Brandon in Excel, Resources

photo credit: splorp

We’ve all been there and it’s an essential part of most sales jobs

– especially in the Commercial Real Estate Industry. Unless you’re a seasoned professional with the clients contacting you, you’re on the phone generating business with a Cold Call.

So we’re making it easier. Why not give yourself every advantage you can? Click any of the links in this blog and you’re on your way to weekly stats. Think of it like fantasy sports, except you’re drafting yourself and good stats are Commercial Real Estate financial success. Continue reading >>

Intuition and Commercial Real Estate in 2012

Jan 09, 2012 by Brandon in General

We’re one week into 2012 and much has changed.

Thousands of articles are electronically printing the future: the growth of the commercial real estate market in 2012, a new recovery of our real estate funds. So what stems the positive change this New Year? Many things, the CRE market is amoebic and constantly reshaping, but really, nothing changes. It takes a few casual glances at the Dow Jones to know that when the market rises, promise lies ahead, and when it slumps, we’ll huddle around news snippets that have trumped our prosperity – and the quirk of it all: it can all happen on the same day.

So what can we know about the foreseeable future? Commercial Real Estate Property will always exist. Whether the economy is collapsing or reforming, property exchange will occur. Excepting the end of civilization, Commercial Real Estate will never fall under the evolutionary spell of the pager or lighting the fireplace with newspaper (newspaper?), and in regards to the 2012 end of the world prophecy, my gut says it’ll end similarly to Continue reading >>

15 Extraordinary Photos of Real Estate as Art (The Far East)

Dec 20, 2011 by Brandon in General

We’re proud to share the second edition of one of our most famous blogs: 50 Extraordinary Photos of Real Estate as Art. So sit back, relax, and enjoy as we visit the Commercial Real Estate visual spectaculars of the Far East!

A busy look at Singapore’s China Town | photo credit: rags1969 Continue reading >>