Reddit reviews Real Estate Finance & Investments + Excel templates CD-ROM (Real Estate Finance and Investments)

Some resources, assuming no background:

• Always start with Damodaran. I'm sure has at least a simple model for income generating properties in here. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/spreadsh.htm
  
  
• Most professionals won't touch real option pricing with a 20-foot pole, but if you haven't seen it yet in the context of financial modeling, here's some interesting insight on its use in a real estate context (from some quick googling; if you want more on this, feel free to ask. I did some work with it in b-school for valuing long-term projects) http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/33198/66144392.pdf
  
  
• You can get one of the basic textbooks on real estate from amazon for <$10 (I didn't use this in my courses, but some of my colleagues have it on their shelf) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072977361/qid=1105640396/sr=8-3/ref=pd_csp_3/002-4843471-7710429?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
  
  From there, we'd want to know what your experiences with modeling are, what a baseline model would look like in your eyes, specific questions or problems you might have. It's clear you have some idea of this stuff, so you know it makes it easier for others to help if you have specific questions or can provide something that gives us background on how to best help/guide.