Apartment Investing Home Study Course
How to Buy, Finance, Fix, Operate, and Sell
Any Apartment Building
From a duplex to 100+ units. A complete online course taught by Frank Rolfe, built around The 7/9 Method.
What if you could own the asset class that has produced more American wealth than any other?
Apartments have created more wealth for ordinary investors than the stock market, single-family flipping, or any other side-hustle real estate strategy. The number of renters in this country has gone in one direction for sixty years, and that direction is up. Household formation continues. Homeownership keeps getting harder. And every renter in America sleeps somewhere. That somewhere can be your apartment building.
So why do most new investors never close a single apartment deal?
Because the apartment investing world has been overrun with $5,000 mastermind upsells, six-figure mentorships, and "no money down" fairy tales. Everything you actually need to know to find, evaluate, negotiate, finance, fix, operate, and sell an apartment property is buried under marketing for the next program.
The course is taught by Frank Rolfe, a commercial real estate investor with over three decades of operating experience across multiple asset classes. Apartments are among the most reliable and most teachable of the income-producing real estate asset classes. This course captures the operational framework, financing options, due diligence discipline, and value-add levers that drive apartment returns at every deal size.
It is published as a fact-based study course, not a sales funnel.
The 7/9 Method
The entire course is built around an apartment-specific value-add framework. The premise: buy stabilized or lightly distressed apartments at a 7+ cap rate. Grow the NOI through seven specific levers known as the Value Stack. Exit at the lower, prevailing market cap rate. Two compounding multipliers stacking.
Module 3 walks through the math on a representative 30-unit deal. Buy at $2,571,000. Run the framework for 36 months. New equity created: $743,000. Repeated cycles over a decade build a portfolio of cash-flowing properties with original equity recycled out at each refinance.
What You Get
A complete online course built for the new platform. Watch on your phone, your laptop, or your TV. Re-watch any module when a real deal lands in front of you.
The 20 Modules
Welcome & The Apartment Opportunity
Talk Like a Pro: Apartment Terminology
How Apartments Make Money: The 7/9 Method
Where to Find Apartment Deals
Evaluating Part 1: Property & Submarket
Evaluating Part 2: The Numbers
Making the Offer & Negotiating
The Re-Trade After Due Diligence
Financing: FHA, Agency, Bridge, HUD
The 30-Day Due Diligence Process
Value Stack Levers 1 & 2: Rent Push & LTL
Value Stack Levers 3 & 4: Other Income & Expense Trim
Value Stack Levers 5 & 6: Occupancy & Classification
Value Stack Lever 7: Refinance & Cash-Out
Operating: Management, KPIs, Systems
Operating: Tenants, Rules, Collections
The Apartment Turnaround Playbook
10 Mistakes That Wreck Apartment Deals
Selling for Maximum Gain
Your First 90 Days & Beyond
Strategies By Deal Size, Built In
Every module includes specific guidance for the size of deal you are actually buying:
The Apartment Investing File Library
Plus a working library of downloadable tools, customized for apartments:
- Apartment Property Evaluator - the same underwriting spreadsheet you'll use on every deal. Run the 7/9 math in 10 minutes.
- Apartment Underwriting / T-12 Cleanup Workbook - structured worksheets for auditing the seller's financials and building your normalized NOI.
- 30-Day Due Diligence Worksheet - day-by-day checklist that catches what bankrupts new investors.
- Apartment Letter of Intent template - ready-to-edit LOI you can send to a broker today.
- Apartment Purchase and Sale Agreement template - starting point for your attorney to finalize.
- Apartment Glossary (PDF) - every term you'll hear, defined in plain English.
- 30-Day Due Diligence Checklist (PDF) - print it. Tape it above your desk.
- 90-Day Action Plan (PDF) - week-by-week roadmap for the first 90 days.
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
This course is not like the typical apartment guru material. We do not fill it with stories about how you'll make a million dollars overnight with no money down. We tell you the whole story: the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly.
Our goal is simple: we show you how to invest wisely in apartments and, more importantly, what to avoid so you do not risk your entire investment.
If you are not satisfied with this course for any reason within 90 days, email us and we will refund your money in full. No questions asked.
Why $297?
Competing apartment courses charge $1,000 to $25,000 for the same body of knowledge, plus a lifetime of upsells. This course is sold without upsells. One product, complete, at a fair price.
The investment for the complete Apartment Investing Home Study Course, including all 20 video modules, all 8 downloads, and lifetime access, is set at:
One closed deal pays for the course a thousand times over.
What This Course Delivers
A complete, fact-based study course covering apartment acquisition, financing, due diligence, value-add operations, and disposition across deal sizes from 2 units to 2,000+ units. The framework is taught at 20 modules of video and reading, supported by eight working downloads including the Property Evaluator, Underwriting Workbook, Due Diligence Worksheet, LOI and PSA templates, and a printable 30-day DD checklist.
All for $297.
Note. The course is delivered online through the CRE University platform. Lifetime access. Download every template. Re-watch any module when a real deal is under contract.
Market context. A wave of multifamily loan maturities is now reaching market, producing distressed inventory across the Sun Belt and other supply-pressured markets. The current entry environment is constructive for prepared buyers.
