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Real Estate Investment Software, The Story Behind ProAPOD®
Colleagues often ask how ProAPOD® Real Estate Investment Software came to be developed.
Most of my colleagues, after all, know me as a real estate professional, football fanatic, father, and proud grandparent. They find it amazing that such a good real estate investment software program was developed by, shall we say, just a normal guy.
It Started With My Discovery of Excel
In 1995, just after purchasing my first computer, I discovered Excel and therein the tremendous potential spreadsheet software offered to rental property analysis. It was magical. Of course, I had no thoughts of developing my own real estate investment software, so I set out to purchase one.
In 1996, I purchased a real estate software program for $350. But in time became somewhat disenchanted because it was difficult to work with and created horrible reports, so I found another software program for $500 and purchased it.
This second real estate investment software program was head and shoulders above the first, but was overloaded with stuff beyond multi-family analysis, and quite honestly, the software was cumbersome to work with.
As I became more familiar with Excel spreadsheets, I decided to omit the weaknesses and take the benefits offered by the two other investment software programs and developed my own Excel-based spreadsheet. ProAPOD was conceived, but only for my own rental property business.
It wasn't until other real estate agents begin asking for my spreadsheet that I considered converting it into true real estate investment software. Six exhausting months later ProAPOD Real Estate Investment Software was born and ready to be distributed.
Since 2000, ProAPOD® Real Estate Investment Software has become a major player in the real estate software market; was featured by REALTORŪMagazine as a "Cool Tool" in May 2003; is used by real estate agents and investors nationwide from Florida to Hawaii; and most recently, our mortgage calculator software was selected by Southwestern College in Kansas as a requirement for Corporate Finance.
Today's version of ProAPOD® is much improved from the original program, now offers several real estate investment software solutions, and continues to be, as one customer said, "the best and most affordable real estate software of its kind on the market."
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