BONUS GIFT - Developer Deal Analyzer

The Developer Deal Analyzer

Run the numbers before you buy.

A bonus for readers of So, You Want to Be a Real Estate Developer?

You read the book. Now run a real deal.

This Excel workbook turns Module 4 into a tool you can use today. Enter a deal, and it adds up every cost the book talks about: acquisition, construction, soft costs, contingency, financing, carrying, and selling. Then it tells you whether the deal meets your target, and whether it survives a bad day.

What’s inside

• Development Budget: List every hard and soft cost, line by line. Your totals flow into the analyzer automatically.
• Deal Analyzer: Enter your purchase price, financing, timeline, and projected value. Get your total cost, the cash you need to bring, your profit and margin, and a clear verdict.
• Stress Test: See what happens if costs run over, the project takes longer, or the value comes in lower, and what happens when all three hit at once.
• Deal Pipeline: Compare up to eight opportunities side by side, just like Week 4 of your first 30 days.

Easy to use

Light blue cells are yours to fill in. Everything else calculates for you.

See it work

The workbook opens with an example deal so you can watch it run. It clears a 15% target on its own. But when costs run over, the project runs late, and the value comes in lower all at once, it loses money. That is the lesson: a deal needs cushion.

Who it’s for

Readers of the book who want to put Module 4 to work on a real opportunity, and anyone who wants to know whether a deal holds up before their money is at risk.

About the author

Valerie Sanderlin is a developer, licensed general contractor, consultant, and educator with 19 years of experience in construction and real estate development. Learn more at ValerieSanderlin.com.

Educational tool only. Not legal, tax, lending, appraisal, or investment advice. Example numbers are illustrative only, not market data.