Frank Gallinelli

I am the founder and President of RealData® Inc., www.realdata.com, a software firm serving real estate investors and developers since 1982. Our flagship product, "Real Estate Investment Analysis, Standard Edition," is now in its 20th edition. This program is designed to help income-property investors analyze such properties, structure partnerships, and produce presentations to buyers, sellers, lenders and equity partners. We also produce analysis software for commercial and residential development projects, as well as a variety of financial tools. I now offer an online video course, "Mastering Real Estate Investing." The course has almost doubled in content since its first release in 2015. You can find out more about the course, including a syllabus, at http://learn.realdata.com I am also the author of "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow...," now in its third edition, and "Mastering Real Estate Investment: Examples, Metrics and Case Studies." I taught real estate finance in Columbia University's Master of Science in Real Estate Development program for more than a decade. Experience: After about a decade in residential and commercial real estate, I founded RealData, Inc. in 1982 to produce software for real estate investors and developers. Somewhere in the middle of all this I found time to invest in income property for myself, to teach as an adjunct professor in Columbia's MSRED program, and to develop online video courses. Real Estate Goals: My focus, in recent years, has turned more toward trying to help other investors understand their income-property investment deals so they can make smarter choices -- negotiate good deals, avoid bad ones. One part of that goal involves constantly working to improve our investment- and development-analysis software, so we can give folks the best possible tools for making decisions and for delivering information convincingly to other key players in a transaction. Beyond that, I spend more and more time writing, and giving classes -- not just my official grad school teaching, but also continuing ed classes and occasional public speaking events, which I especially enjoy. I believe it's essential for our industry to raise the level of financial literacy so that we all can do better.