@Ester TellezYou have come to the right place to connect with the wide array of real estate professionals and investors.

It will help you to know there are many forums available on a wide variety of subjects. 

Aaron R.You have come to the right place to connect with the wide array of real estate professionals and investors.

Danielle, what you are about to enter in is Miles Wide and Inches Deep.

Also find some sponsors are too optimistic on their pro-forma so the real money I get is a little lower then they projected it's like 9% vs the 10.5% they projected but it changes widely where the last quarter they did much better and best the projection so just another thing to watch out for when doing equity.... your ACTUAL returns will vary ;).

Also that is a pretty wide range.

When I'm looking at various deals across platform and even deals on the SAME platform seems these can be calculated quite differently.For instance since IRR is calculated based on the capital invested if a cashflow shows that in a particular year they estimate that they will be ABOVE the pref and return some of the capital then the IRR in the subsequent year is likely higher since now the capital invested is lower but the return is the same thus boosts overall IRR for the deal.For this reason, it seems referring to the multiple as an additional point is helpful as at the end of the day it tells me how much real money is coming back to me.I find the calculations non-consistent especially on fund deals, where they can be open ended dates with a wide range of hold periods so you can really cherry pick your numbers to make the IRR and multiples look good.Any tips?

@Uchenna IbekaYou have come to the right place to connect with the wide array of real estate professionals and investors.

I know BP has a list of books they recommend covering a wide variety of real estate topics (I've read several of them and they've been very helpful).

Consider setbacks (from the property line), etc as they will control how wide and deep the house may be and how it will sit on the lot.