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Excel-based financial modeling is costing you deals. While you're manually updating spreadsheets, your competitors are leveraging AI to close more deals, faster. Here's exactly how the industry is transforming—and why many can't afford to fall behind.

Stop losing deals to outdated underwriting methods. This guide breaks down exactly how successful multifamily investors evaluate properties in today's market—with real metrics and actionable steps you can implement immediately.

In real estate investing, every dollar counts. Mispricing shrinks margins before closing the deal. While investors traditionally relied on historical comps, static cap rates, and outdated underwriting models, volatile markets demand real-time market intelligence to sharpen underwriting and stay ahead of the curve.

Manual underwriting isn't just tedious—but costing you deals. Let's examine how modern AI solutions like Cactus transform underwriting from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.

While you spend weeks analyzing deals manually, your competitors snap up the best opportunities. Research across top markets shows slow underwriting directly costs you millions in missed deals and lost revenue.

The difference between a profitable real estate investment and a costly mistake often comes down to one critical factor: choosing the right investment strategy. Our analysis of 1,000+ real estate transactions shows that investors who align their strategy with their resources and goals achieve 40% higher ROI on average.

AI-powered solutions are replacing outdated manual processes, driving faster analysis, greater accuracy, and better investment decisions. Two major players in this transformation are Cactus and InterCRE. Both platforms promise automation, efficiency, and smarter deal analysis—but which one delivers superior results?

Commercial real estate underwriting leaves no room for error. While a successful underwriting process leads to profitable investments, mistakes can turn promising opportunities into financial disasters. Despite technological advances, many professionals still fall into common traps that compromise their analysis. Here's how to identify and avoid the most costly underwriting mistakes.

Commercial real estate success hinges on understanding three critical metrics: Cash Flow, Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), and Loan-to-Value (LTV). Calculating these metrics traditionally required complex spreadsheets and manual data entry, modern solutions like Cactus now automate these calculations, ensuring accuracy and saving countless hours.

Artificial intelligence is transforming commercial real estate operations, making traditional spreadsheet-based underwriting obsolete. While Excel powered real estate underwriting for decades, modern deals demand modern solutions. Industry leaders are switching to Cactus's AI-powered platform in droves, achieving 92% faster underwriting times with 30% better accuracy.

Artificial intelligence is transforming commercial real estate operations, but one challenge remains persistent: manual data entry. While most platforms merely speed up spreadsheet work, platforms like Cactus eliminate up to 92% of manual data entry tasks through advanced AI automation.

Discover how understanding Internal Rate of Return (IRR) can empower you to evaluate investment opportunities with precision, optimize returns, and make confident decisions in self-storage and multifamily ventures

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Cactus vs. Argus - Commercial Real Estate Underwriting Software

Cactus vs. Excel for Real Estate Underwriting

Exciting news for the commercial real estate tech community!

We're in Beta, and this is what that means

This article will discuss profitability metrics in real estate, and why Cactus selected the ROE as the primary profitability metric for the portfolio section.

YourWay Storage partner with Cactus to provide clear financial insights to their asset investors and team.

Lighthouse and their 14 property portfolio joins Cactus

From 9k borrowed to $8M in assets in 5 years.

Cactus announce's a groundbreaking partnership with Safe Harbor Property Management

Cactus is your go-to solution for gaining a deep understanding of your self-storage investment performance