Thirty years of development time, and of listening carefully to what to our customers want. All this comes together now in the latest version of our most popular and powerful software app for real estate investors: Real Estate Investment Analysis, Version 16
What’s New in Version 16?
- The Decision Maker
The centerpiece of v16 is a new module called “The Decision Maker.” Here is how it works: Enter data about the property — revenue, expenses, financing, etc. — as you normally would. Then go to the new module. The top half of the page will display 12-18 of your key assumptions, like those shown here:
snippet 1 from Decision MakerYou can now toggle any or all of your assumptions up or down with the arrows, while watching the effect of each change as it displays instantly on the bottom half of the page.
There you’ll see more than a dozen key metrics, such as cash flow and IRR. These will update in response to your clicking the arrows to raise or lower any of the basic assumptions; the data will display going out 20 years.
snippet 2 from Decision MakerFor example, toggle the purchase price or the cap rate up and down, and watch the effect on your IRR. Toggle the mortgage interest rate, watch the impact on your cash flow. What better way to decide how — or if — you can make this deal work. Hence the name: Decision Maker
- Detailed Capital Improvements
Many users have asked to be able to provide a detailed break-out of anticipated expenditures for capital improvements. Here it is. You can now choose to fill out a complete year-by-year schedule of improvements, or simply enter an annual total.
- Detailed Closing Costs
Likewise, the ability to itemize acquisition closing costs has been another common request. You now have two options: itemize or enter a single amount.
- Improved Reports
We really do pay attention when users call and say things like, “Why doesn’t the partnership presentation show cash-on-cash return?” We keep track of those requests, and you’ll find several now implemented in v16.
- Import Data from Your Version 15 Analyses
Here’s a big one: If you’re upgrading from v15 to v16 you can run a special function that will read all of the user entries from an analysis you did in v15 and transfer that information into the new version. That’s no small trick, but our super-smart programmers did it.
Upgrade from Version 15
- If you’re currently a registered user of v15, keep your eye out for an email from us with an offer to upgrade at a nominal cost.
