Ninth Week (AKA Hey I think I'm Onto Something)

Hey everyone, and welcome back to my blog! This week wasn't all that exciting; I've just really been working on my final presentation (May 6th, which, even though it's a little under a month away, feels like it's coming too fast).

The most exciting thing that happened this week was that Churchill hired a new analyst, Ryan, who started working on Friday. He seems cool! He also seems like he's doing a much better job than I was on my first day, so kudos to him.

Other than that, like I mentioned, I've been making real headway on my project. I've got a solid 70% of it finished, and the weekend just started. I hope to have a finished draft to show my on-site mentor, Mrs. Hammond, by Monday. I'm planning on structuring it so that I go over the commercial real estate process, from initial loan request, then to loan analysis, then to brokering, and finally to closing. After that, I'll base my analysis on common factors I found throughout all of my project, or in other words, I'll be looking at what things are important when we are trying to convince potential lenders to invest in a property. So far, I've found that it's property value, market conditions, personal and professional relationships, and expected rate of return for each loan that determine whether or not a loan is attractive to a potential lender or not.

I'm really excited about the way that my presentation looks. I don't want to really spoil anything, but there's a certain satisfaction when everything looks professional and put-together. I used a template from Slides Carnival, a website with a bunch of free powerpoint and google slides templates (10/10 would recommend for google slides, but not so much for powerpoint- there are certain features that are not available in the powerpoint template, so it's been a bit of pain figuring out how to get everything to look just how I want it to). I'm planning on putting together several maps with different radii that will help me explain what it is that makes my specific project valuable, but until I figure out how exactly to put radii on a map, I'll keep the specifics under wraps. The only issue is I'm not entirely done with it and it's already fifty slides, so I have to find a way to make both fit in fifteen minutes and not be boring.

Sorry this week's post was mostly boring, but I hope to have some new cool stuff to tell you about next week!