INTRODUCING
Masterclass
Master the Skills Needed to Become a Hospitality Investor
Learn how to measure, structure and finance deals, operate with confidence, minimize risk, and gain a competitive edge in this comprehensive masterclass.
You will receive exclusive access to valuable knowledge and insights to give you an edge in the market.
Discover Jake's proven $1 Billion+ hotel portfolio strategies today!
Here’s What You’ll Learn
✔️ The driving forces behind the decisions of owners, operators, and lenders
✔️ Winning hospitality strategies
✔️ The art of negotiation and deal-making
✔️ Mastering market supply and demand and location strategies
✔️ How to increase cash flow
✔️ The hospitality underwriting model
✔️ In-depth deal breakdowns
✔️ Evaluating leverage, negotiating debt terms and understanding loan covenants
Here’s What You’ll Get
70+ Lessons
This self-paced course includes a combination of over 70 lessons comprised of videos with Jake and written content designed to give you an introduction to the most important components of hospitality investing.
Live Zooms
Twice per month, Jake and his team host live Zoom calls with actionable insights, insider training, guest speakers, and deal breakdowns. Additionally, Jake will host member deal review along and Q&A sessions.
Resources
Throughout the Masterclass, you’ll receive resources like our underwriting model, insider guides, lists, insightful videos, and recorded zoom vault library. Access the full suite of recorded zooms.
Community
Join the global network of hospitality trailblazers in our exclusive community. Interact with fellow students, have your questions answered by Jake and others, and share your hosting journey in our community!
What PEOPLE are saying
Invest in the most crucial thing of all, your future!
Picture yourself closing deals, gaining a competitive advantage, and achieving hospitality investment success.
That vision can become a reality with the right expertise, know-how, and mindset.
Empower yourself to reach new heights in your career and become an accomplished hospitality real estate investor.
Imagine owning your OWN hotel
Unlock Your Full Potential as a Hospitality Insider with Our Masterclass!
Who this Masterclass is designed for
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Beginners Looking to Turn Pro
This Masterclass is designed for those looking to work for real estate funds, REITs, real estate developers, real estate advisory firms, and anyone interested in creating and using real estate as a financial asset, with a focus on hotel investment projects. My comprehensive curriculum teaches you the ins and outs of identifying a profitable hotel investment and putting a deal together. I'll give you an unfiltered look at what I did and how I did it — what works, and what doesn't. Take advantage of this opportunity to sharpen your skills and stand out in the industry.
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Future Hoteliers
Discover the secrets of successful hospitality investing with our Masterclass. Gain the knowledge and skills to confidently identify, evaluate, and manage your first hotel investment. Learn the best tips and techniques for raising outside capital and the various deal structures and fee allocations
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Hospitality Investors
This Masterclass is designed for busy professionals who want to diversify their investment portfolios but don't have the time or resources to manage their hospitality investments. With our expert guidance, you'll learn how to analyze deals, identify potential risks, ask the right questions and make informed investment decisions to allow you to invest with deal sponsors confidently.
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Entreprenaurs Who Want to Level Up
Whether you're an aspiring or experienced professional, this program is tailored to help you reach new heights in your career. My Masterclass is designed for individuals who want to make real estate a major part of their work and wealth, whether that be through owning properties, building a management company, or establishing a private equity firm.
Looking to build your hospitality investing skills?
In this self-paced online course, I share the secrets that have helped me invest, develop, and operate hospitality properties to be able to achieve extraordinary results.
Discover the fundamental principles of hospitality investing with our introductory course tailored for investors, entrepreneurs, hospitality professionals, and aspiring project developers. Dive into a rich learning experience with video lessons, written guides, and valuable resources, including our exclusive back-of-napkin underwriting model.
Whats unique about this program?
The Masterclass is much more than just a coaching program - it's a fusion of real-world hospitality experience and strategic insight. Drawing from my journey as Jake Wurzak, it encapsulates years of spearheading successful hotel investments, leading as a CEO, and navigating the complexities of the hospitality industry. My experiences aren't just from textbooks; they're from actual, hands-on involvement in developing, managing, and growing real estate ventures.
Every aspect of this course is shaped by real-life achievements and challenges I've faced in the field. From ground-up construction projects to transforming underperforming assets into thriving hospitality ventures, I've seen it all. This course offers you the unique opportunity to learn from someone who has not only theorized but actually applied these strategies successfully. Here, you get to absorb lessons from my direct experiences, successes, and even the setbacks, giving you a comprehensive view of what it truly takes to excel in hospitality investing.
What’s Inside
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This module covers everything from identifying a Hotel Investment, including hotel types, barriers to entry, branded and independent hotels, franchises, upgrade management, putting deals together, CAP Rates, NOI and real estate underwriting, and how to figure out what something is worth.
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You will learn about critical topics on hospitality valuation, such as the back of napkin underwriting, the underwriting model for hospitality, how owners, operators, and lenders value a hotel investment, how owners measure returns, macro trends, and economic considerations, branded vs independent, lender metrics for evaluation, illustrating a valuation, Double Tree Deerfield, and the critical topic of due diligence.
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This module covers the types of lenders, how leverage amplifies gains and losses, visualizing leverage in real estate, refis and recaps, debt yield and other covenants, recourse vs. Non-recourse, alternative financing, CPACE, as well as a glossary of terms.
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Your fourth module covers sourcing a deal, site visits, underwriting, LOI, purchase and sale agreement, due diligence, capital stack, going hard, final inspections, closing and getting all the capital in place.Description text goes here
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You will learn about how private equity works, the sponsor-investor relationship, prefs, promotes (carried interest) and waterfalls, how to think about fees, the structures that we use, straight split structure, different types of LPs, preferred equity, partnership / joint venture agreements, recapitalizing a deal.
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This module covers all the essential details you need to understand around depreciation and bonus depreciation, recapture and capital gains, income vs capital gains, interest as a deduction, and additional tax loopholes.
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This module covers determining the investment strategies, different types of owners, how owners play the real estate game, incremental risk, wealth creation and income enhancement.
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We cover control, the JVA and HMA, different types of control and major decision; the manager controls of the day-to-day. The management negotiation process, brand management and more.
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Here, we cover decisions about going the route of independent or with a franchise, evaluating the costs of franchise affiliation, the distribution network, brand standards and how they add value, franchise agreement's impact on sale and value, soft brand as a strategy and the dual brand hotel.
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In this module will breakdown the strategies around raising equity from outside investors. I will share the template we use to create deal memos that investors love, how we think about deal terms and fees and the best way to start building a network of investors. We will also review investor relations strategies and the common concerns and risks investors identify.
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This model covers the critical areas of getting the right fit, evaluating a management company, the owner’s own management agreement, owner and management company negotiating objectives, negotiating key provisions, measuring performance and termination rights.