About the Course

The Top Shelf® Academy Real Estate Distribution Waterfall Certification Course is created by an industry expert and consists of 6 chapters that will teach students topics that are critical to understand in order to be successful in the real estate private equity industry. The Distribution Waterfall Certification is part of our new Experienced Professional series,  which goes into more detail in industry specific subjects. By completing this certification course, you will gain the knowledge of the key fundamentals of Waterfall Modeling as well as add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

Requirements and Benefits

  • Requirements

    Purchase the course and go through each module to review all of the provided lessons. You will be prompted to complete short quizzes for each module before going on to the next one. Once you have gone through the entire course, take the Certification exam. Good Luck!

  • Benefits

    Enhance your industry knowledge, boost your resume, and show off your new certification on your LinkedIn profile. You will even have the opportunity to upload your resume to our resume book that we will send to top private equity companies!

  • Key Notes

    In this course we will thoroughly explain the fundamentals of distribution waterfall in real estate.

Student Reviews

Highly Recommend

Grace S.

I highly recommend this course! It provided me with a strong foundation in the basics of financial real estate. It covered many topics without assuming I should already know everything about certain topics.

Worth the Investment!

Zach W.

Top Shelf Academy gives you the most bang for your buck. I've found other courses 5-10x more expensive than Top Shelf Academy's and they offer essentially the same thing.

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Top Shelf® Academy's Real Estate Distribution Waterfall Certification

  • 2

    Chapter 1: Distribution Waterfalls

    • Chapter 1: What are Distribution Waterfalls?

  • 3

    Chapter 2: Major Waterfall Distinctions

    • Chapter 2: Major Waterfall Distinctions
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Waterfall Hurdles

    • Chapter 3: Waterfall Hurdles
  • 5

    Chapter 4: Simple Return Calculations and IRR Hurdle

    • Simple Return Hurdles and IRR Hurdles
  • 6

    Chapter 5: IRR Hurdles (Calculations and Compounding)

    • IRR Hurdles and Compounding
  • 7

    Chapter 6: Catch-Up Tiers

    • Catch-Up Tiers
  • 8

    Certification Exam

    • Top Shelf® Academy - Real Estate Waterfall Certification Exam

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