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Real Estate Deal Structuring: Introduction to the Waterfall Framework

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Overview

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Partnering with other investors? Learn how to use the waterfall framework to track and share the profits from real estate deals involving multiple investors.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Course overview
1. Investing with Others
  • Why invest with others?
  • Risks of investing with others
  • Intro to the waterfall framework
2. The Waterfall Examples
  • Waterfall examples overview
  • No waterfall
  • Two-tier waterfall
  • Three-tier waterfall
  • Four-tier waterfall
  • Waterfall example summary
  • Which waterfall to use
3. Money-Losing Investment
  • What happens if the investment loses money?
  • Waterfall example: Money-losing investment
4. Additional Examples
  • Rental income with waterfall
  • Fix and flip with waterfall
  • Restaurant startup example
  • Parking garage example
  • Other situations ideal for waterfall
5. Closing Thoughts
  • Closing thoughts on investing with others
6. Bonus Materials
  • Waterfall modeling deep dive overview
  • Modeling out the preferred return
  • Modeling an IRR hurdle and cash multiple hurdle
  • Modeling out the catch-up
  • Wrapping up the waterfall model

Taught by

Symon He

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