Mastering Real Estate Investing
Your Complete Investor Training
You're discouraged with the roller-coaster stock market. Your bank pays you peanuts and calls it interest. You know that real estate has historically been the best way to build long-term wealth.
But how and where do you get started?
Your Return on Real Estate Investment Begins Here
Knowledge is your most valuable asset in the business of real estate investing. And that's exactly what you've found here. Since its original launch, this online course has grown to be much more than just an "introduction to real estate investment analysis," evolving into a complete, self-paced education in real estate investment, development, and finance.
Real estate expert Frank Gallinelli — ivy-league professor, best-selling author, and founder of RealData Software — teaches this comprehensive video course, where you'll develop the skills and confidence to evaluate investment property opportunities for maximum profit.
What's New?
We frequently add new content to the course. In fact, the course now provides almost twice as many lessons as when we first released it! Whenever we add new material, it becomes available immediately to enrolled students. Some of our recent additions:
- Can a Single-Family House or Condo (or a small multi-family) Work as a Rental Property Investment?
- Yield on Cost (a metric used often by developers and value-add investors)
- Phantom income
- A module on value-add investing
Master the techniques, metrics, terminology, and skills used by successful real estate investors
- Learn how to make smart income-property investments, and how to separate potential winners from losers.
- Become fluent in the language of real estate investment and finance.
- See how experienced investors approach due diligence, valuation, financing, pro forma projections, resale, and more.
- Learn how to figure and interpret the metrics that are most important to income-property investors.
- Maximize your return and minimize your risks.
- See how different property types might present different opportunities and challenges.
The Only Course You’ll Need
Master these Key Concepts:
- The Four Basic Returns
- The Vocabulary of Real Estate Investing
- The APOD and Income Capitalization
- Time Value of Money
- Real Estate Pro Formas
- Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
- Real Estate Investment Metrics
- Mortgage Financing and Underwriting
- Case Studies: Apartment, Mixed-Use, Triple-Net, Retail Strip Center
- Real Estate Partnerships
- Real Estate Development
- Value-Add Investments
Become Skilled in Important Techniques:
- Estimate current market value
- Calculate and interpret key rate-of-return metrics
- Evaluate a property's long-term potential to meet your investment goals
- Understand what lenders look for and how much you can expect when you ask for financing
- Recognize the warning signs of a dicey investment
- Learn how to structure a partnership that profits everyone involved
- Plan out and evaluate a development or rehab project
- Explore the profit opportunities with value-add investments – and more
Invest in your future with our step-by-step approach — and pursue your investing goals with confidence.
- Each topic area features a series of short videos that focus on critical concepts. Move ahead at your own pace.
- Sample problems and simple spreadsheet tools will help you master essential calculations.
- Try your hand at property analyses with relevant case studies that feature a variety of property types and practical, real-life issues.
- Did you know? You can watch the video lessons on your smartphone or tablet as well as your computer.
- Earn an e-certificate that you can attach to your professional and social media profile.
When you complete this course, you'll know how to look at a potential real estate investment with a critical eye and how to "run the numbers" like a professional to decide at what price and on what terms a particular property makes good sense to you. Success belongs to those who take the time to learn to do things the right way.
And speaking of running the numbers... Enroll now and I'll give you a coupon worth $100 off the purchase of our time-tested investment analysis software. (applicable to new orders only)
"The Real Data Intro to Real Estate Investment Analysis* is an outstanding course for all real estate professionals! The course is thorough, clear, concise, and professionally delivered. The content is very relevant to actual real life real estate investing. The case studies are particularly valuable as Frank Gallinelli walks you through the thought process of an investor when making high level decisions. I highly recommend this course to anyone working in fields related to real estate and especially for those looking to invest themselves."
Brad Trauth
Owner/Investor/Developer/REALTOR
Trauth Property Group
Who Should Take This Course?
- Real estate investing novices — Learn the techniques used by seasoned, successful investors so you can decide what to buy, how much to pay— and learn to avoid common, costly mistakes made by beginners
- Real estate professionals — Experienced investors and brokers recognize the benefit of updating, refreshing, and perhaps even enhancing their core skills. Never stop learning.
- Math-o-phobes — If you’ve avoided studying investment analysis because you’re afraid of the math, this is definitely the course for you. Clear and simple explanations, examples, and practice exercises will take you over that hurdle.
- Forward-thinkers — If you have an eye on your retirement, see how to leverage your portfolio and avoid costly pitfalls.
- Students — If you're carving out your path, we can start you off right to reach your potential. For more than a decade, Frank has taught material like this in his graduate school classes at Columbia University. You'll access quality education in this course.
Scroll below to the course curriculum to preview several of the lessons.
Your Instructor
Frank Gallinelli is the author of the best-selling book, What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... now in its third edition, as well as other books and numerous articles on real estate investing and finance. He is a graduate of Yale University with a degree in psychology, holds a Master's degree in education from Southern Connecticut State University, and served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Real Estate Development at Columbia University for over a decade. Gallinelli has been involved in real estate for more than 40 years and is the founder and president of RealData, providing real estate software to equip and educate investors and developers for success. RealData's flagship product, Real Estate Investment Analysis (REIA), uncovers the value and potential returns of any income property, and the company's development applications guide you through multifamily, commercial, subdivision, and condo projects. With Gallinelli's video courses, you'll develop the confidence and skills to evaluate investment opportunities for maximum profit.
Course Curriculum
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PreviewCourse Overview and Certificate Program (4:45)
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PreviewAbout the Syllabus (8:49)
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StartBONUS For students in my course: Save $100 on RealData's software for analyzing and evaluating real estate investment property
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StartWhat is an Investment and Who is an Investor? (12:46)
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StartWhat Do Income-Property Investors Really Buy? (12:00)
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StartThe Four Basic Returns of the Income-Stream (10:46)
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StartQuiz Lessons 1 to 3
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StartProperty Analysis (11:50)
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PreviewFinancial Terminology (9:58)
Frequently Asked Questions
We make no assumptions about your prior background or experience. The course will start with the basics, and from there it will move gradually into topics of greater depth.
Not at all. You'll find the math to be surprisingly simple, and I take special care to explain it clearly, with plenty of examples. Real estate investing is all about the numbers, and success comes to those who understand how the numbers work and what they mean.
The course includes more than sixty videos -- and growing. Don't worry about falling asleep, because each video is about 7 to 18 minutes long. You can watch each lesson as many times as you like to master its content. You will be able to access additional video lessons as they are added.
No. For lessons that focus on metrics or calculations, we provide a good number of practice problems and answers. We also include several spreadsheet templates that you can use to make many of the calculations and perform some of the analyses discussed in the course. We also provide quizzes so you can test your understanding of the material you've studied.
You don't need any outside software to take the course, although we do recommend you have Excel or a similar spreadsheet so that you can take advantage of the templates we provide. When you begin working on real deals of your own, we hope you'll take advantage of the powerful and sophisticated tools offered at realdata.com
"The course taught the most important concepts that I need to know in my early stage of learning real estate finance. The instructor has a keen talent for explaining the initially mind-boggling concepts in a painless way through easy-to-understand language and examples. I recommend this course to anyone who has any interest in the real estate field."
—Erica Lee
Professor Gallinelli has the magic to make complicated concepts easy to understand. ... I feel much more confident to analyze a property based on all the available information and to make informed decisions with limited information.
—Christina Chao
I found the course to be the perfect complement to your book. I appreciated the fact that each video is short which allows the user to digest the material in a simple fashion. I also like the fact that you incorporated a quiz to test my knowledge of each concept. All in all it was really what I was hoping for and I have way more confidence today when analyzing income properties than I did before the course.
—John Cameli