• Use strategies and methods to guide you through the acquisition process.
• Evaluate the impact of using leverage to acquire commercial real estate.
• Identify various types of risks associated with owning commercial real estate.
• Calculate lease buyout costs from an owner's and tenant's perspective.
• Understand taxation issues that affect commercial investment real estate investments, including the impact of a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange.
• Evaluate various hold versus dispose alternatives such as do nothing, refinance, exchange, and sell and buy.
• Use modern investment fundamentals to make real estate decisions about acquiring property, owning and operating property, and disposing of property.

The Push for the Pin Scholarship was created to support qualified real estate professionals in their efforts to achieve the CCIM designation. Recipients should exemplify the high caliber of professionals that comprise the CCIM Institute.

Each recipient will receive a full tuition enrollment in one of the following CCIM designation courses: CI 103 or CI 104.

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Completed application form must be received by October 1, 2010.

Through the CCIM chapters, the Education Foundation provides a scholarship toward enrollment in the CCIM Institute's CI 101 course - Financial Analysis for Commercial Real Estate. CI 101 is a required course for those pursuing the CCIM designation.

See below for contact person and click the 'Click here to Register' for info and application form.

Completed application form must be received by October 1, 2010.

This flagship CCIM course offers an array of financial analysis concepts and calculations to help you make sound commercial real estate investment decisions. You will learn the fundamentals of profitable investing and apply these concepts to commercial properties. Advanced analyses covered throughout the course include real estate cash flow model and time value of money. In addition, you’ll learn how to accurately measure investment value and performance of a given property. Begin your journey to success by enrolling today.