Why Start Up University for Your
Real Estate Consulting Needs?

A lot of people offer real estate consulting services.  Some are qualified.  Some are not.   

However, most consultants offer help with just some particular aspects of your real estate portfolio.  With Robert Lee Goodman and Start Up Company University, you not only have help with your properties, but you also benefit from working with someone who can provide you with pivotal help to make your real estate company more effective and professional – someone who will help you slay the dragons that are blocking your path to success. 

With my 30 years of achievement, experience and an MBA from a top-rated, world class program along with 15 years as a CEO in commercial real estate investments, I have the very unique background, credentials and capabilities to both help your company fight your own, very specific real estate related dragons and help you achieve your strategic goals with your property portfolio.   

Whether you are a new company or an existing company that needs fee-based consulting on real estate issues from someone who is not paid to close a bad deal, Start Up Company University can help. 

Experienced Planning & Implementation 

My experience, background and credentials that relate to real estate include: 

• Over 15 years of direct, commercial real estate experience as CEO and managing principal who directly owned and operated nearly $100 Million of income property including multi-family, office, office-warehouse and self-storage facilities.
• Managed, through my wholly-owned subsidiary, over 45,000 rental units across five states.
• Successfully raised over $20 million from investors on real estate Reg D offerings I personally prepared and in which I served as General Partner.
• After founding the company, grew the real estate division into one of the ten largest self-storage operations in the nation.

With all of this experience, I am confident that I can help you with:  

• Business planning for starting or growing your real estate company. 
• Insights into operational issues you will face in slaying the dragons that will try to block your path to success.
• Developing a realistic strategy with the tactical details necessary for successful implementation.
• Identifying, evaluating, purchasing, managing and disposing of the right kinds of income property that meet your goals.

Start Up Company University specializes in cost effectively helping start up organizations, entrepreneurial ventures and new business formations slay the dragons that block the path to the success they envision.  To date, Start Up Company University has already helped almost 2,000 diverse companies in nearly three dozen countries with their business planning, fundraising and plan implementation.  

Real Estate Services  

My ImpleMentor Management Consulting Service for Real Estate includes two focal points:   

• The success of your real estate company and its effective operation.
• Your success with acquiring the right properties that match your overall company strategy. 

The investment, purchase, ownership, occupancy, and disposition of commercial real estate can be overwhelming complex – constantly producing uncountable challenges and opportunities – with new, potentially lethal, dragons challenging you at every turn.

Effectively identifying, analyzing and resolving even the most common issues surrounding real estate, and real estate organizations, can take expertise that is only gained through years of senior-level, hands-on experience and practice.  With my ImpleMentor Management Consulting Service for Real Estate, you have the benefit of my many years of experience helping you define and refine workable real estate objectives and realistic alternatives and solutions to meet your current and future goals.

Here are some of the ways I can help accelerate your own success: 

• Company strategy, tactics, business planning and implementation

  • Focused especially on helping start up or growing real estate companies by setting up the fundamental strategy and tactics of your new company
  • What kind of properties
  • Geographic locations
  • Ideal size of property
  • Develop and validate your general business model
  • Produce a realistic business plan and help with its successful implementation

• Acquisitions

  • Valuation analysis
  • Due diligence for property acquisition
  • Contract negotiations
  • Closing document analysis and business review

• Financial and investment analysis for

  • Acquisition opportunities
  • Financing / refinancing packages
  • Sales packages

• Operational issues – Your company and on site operations

  • Personnel
  • Organizational structure
  • Property management
  • Computerization
  • Property maintenance
  • Property supervision
  • Systems and procedures
  • Flow of Work
  • Fraud prevention
  • Contract negotiations – both buying and selling
  • Web site presence
  • General dragon slaying

• Virtual Chief Operating Officer Service

  • When 30 hour work days are just not enough for the CEO
  • When you need another senior level, experienced exec to do all that needs to be done.
  • When you need different skill sets and areas of expertise than those currently available from those in the org chart.
  • When there are too many opportunities - and too little time to capitalize on even the great ones.
  • When there are too many dragons - and too little time, and too few swords, to fight just the potentially lethal ones.
  • All the general “T” crossing and “I” dotting deviled details that are always part of real estate operations.

• Chaos Planning & Dragon Slaying

  • Bankruptcy avoidance or implementation
  • Debtor in possession operations
  • Foreclosure
  • Loan renegotiations
  • Employee theft
  • Legal / IRS issues
  • PR – When it hits the fan
  • Expert witness testimony
  • Shareholder / investor disputes and investigations
  • Condo association disputes and investigations
  • Strategic planning for underperforming, surplus and foreclosed / REO properties
  • Lease renegotiations
  • Litigation support
  • Assistance in resolving real property disputes

• Funding

  • Financing
  • Syndication and investor fundraising
  • Private placement, Reg D offerings
  • Securities laws / compliance issues
  • Investor and fundraising strategy
  • Investor relations
  • Investor-oriented web site development and content compliant with securities laws

Which of the above issues sound like either dragons or perpetually uncompleted tasks in your own organization?  How are you going to quickly and effectively handle these kinds of challenges before they interfere, or interfere more, with your success?  

I am not a broker or attorney or CPA but instead work with you and your other professional advisors to help you take care of your business so it not only survives - but thrives as you implement your vision. 

Fees and Levels of Service 

My hourly rate for my Real Estate Consulting Service is $275 for Standard Service.  Please click Service Levels for details on the differences between Standard, Priority and Top Priority Services. 

If you only need help with the analysis of a potential property acquisition or sale, the cost per property is $800 for Standard Service and $1,200 for Priority Service.  Click Sample Apartments for a sample analysis report.

Next Step 

If you are ready to move forward or have questions, please call or click my signature to email me so we can discuss your particular situation and needs.

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA
Ceo & Chief Dragon Slayer
www.StartUpCompanyUniversity.com