About Us

Real Estate Financial Modeling courses designed to teach you everything you need to know to be successful in the industry.

 
Top Shelf Academy - About Us

Our Background

Top Shelf® Academy was founded by Eric Bergin who wanted to create an academy of classes to help students break into the private equity real estate industry. Our courses include examples of how to apply that knowledge to underwriting models so students are prepared to use their newly learned knowledge to advance in their careers.

Top Shelf® Academy’s real estate financial modeling courses are created by industry experts to teach you about private equity real estate and underwriting.

Our industry experts have over 200 clients with $26 billion of underwriting experience in the last 18 months.

 

Schools We’ve Taught At

 
 
 
 
 
  • Our Real Estate Finance Course is composed of over 100 real estate finance and financial modeling lessons carefully crafted to teach you about key Excel functions, acquisitions, debt, waterfall modeling, and many other fundamental topics that will help you kickstart your financial career.

    Created by industry experts, this course will teach you everything you need to know about private equity real estate and underwriting.

  • Take the Top Shelf Academy Real Estate Finance Certification Exam to earn your certificate. By completing this exam, you will earn our certification to add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

  • Our Excel for Real Estate Course is composed of over 50 lessons carefully crafted to teach you about key Excel functions and other fundamental topics that will help you kickstart your financial career.

    Created by industry experts, this course will teach you everything you need to know about private equity real estate and underwriting.

  • Take the Top Shelf Academy Excel for Real Estate Certification Exam to earn your certificate. By completing this exam, you will earn our certification to add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

  • Our Distribution Waterfall Course consists of 6 chapters that will teach students topics that are critical to understand in order to be successful in the real estate private equity industry.

    This course is part of our Experienced Professional series, which goes into more detail about industry-specific subjects. By completing this certification course, you will gain knowledge of the key fundamentals of waterfall modeling as well as add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

  • Our Multifamily Development Course is composed of 10 chapters created to teach you about topics like revenue, NOI, unit mix, construction budget, and much more.

    This course is part of our Experienced Professional series, which goes into more detail about industry-specific subjects. By completing this certification course, you will gain the knowledge required in the real estate industry as well as add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

  • Our Senior Living Development Course is composed of 10 chapters created to teach you about topics like gross sales proceeds, cashflows, lease-up, and much more.

    This course is part of our Experienced Professional series, which goes into more detail about industry-specific subjects. By completing this certification course, you will gain the knowledge required in the real estate industry as well as add value to your resume when applying for jobs.

  • Our Townhome Development Course is composed of 6 chapters created to teach you about topics like presales, deposits, cashflows, and much more.

    This course is part of our Experienced Professional series, which goes into more detail about industry-specific subjects. By completing this certification course, you will gain the knowledge required in the real estate industry as well as add value to your resume when applying for jobs.