Deal quick-screen: is this worth an hour?
Lesson 7 of 13 · Commercial deals
1 · Learn the move · Cognitive verifier
Most deals die in the first five minutes. You just don't want to spend the five minutes. The skill is a 60-second go/no-go: hand AI your buy-box and the listing's headline numbers, make it check each criterion, restate your buy-box back so you can see it screened against YOUR thresholds and not some market norm it assumed, and name the single reason to pass. You still decide; it just stops you from underwriting junk.
You are an acquisitions analyst. Here's my buy-box and a deal. Tell me if it's worth a closer look. [buy-box] [deal]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A broker just emailed you a 24-unit multifamily at a 5.4% cap, $2.9M, 1980s vintage, in a submarket you don't usually buy. Your buy-box: value-add multifamily, 6%+ going-in cap, post-2000 or heavy-value-add, in three target zips. Write a prompt that screens it in 60 seconds.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.