Cubedup Underwriting · Acquisition underwriting

From offering memorandum to decision in minutes.

Upload the broker package. Cubedup Underwriting reads every document, restates the numbers the way an operator runs the asset, and prices it at today's rates. You get one answer: proceed, negotiate or walk, with the ceiling and the opening bid.

5underwriting methods
11financing structures
LiveTreasury, SOFR and prime
Illustrative Street Underwriting · 18,000 NRSF, Southeast
Pursue at price

One offer at or below the ceiling, with conditions.

Asking priceUSD 1.05M
CeilingUSD 933K
Opening bidUSD 893K
Ceiling vs ask88.9%
Bid 893KCeiling 933KAsk 1.05M
  1. Two-source revenue: T-12 reconciled to bank deposits.
  2. Tax reset stress before the deposit goes hard.
  3. Bind a buyer-side insurance quote.

Only what a committee needs

Every deal opens on one panel. The full model is one click away for whoever wants to check the work.

The verdict

Proceed, negotiate or walk, with a 0 to 100 score against the bar for that kind of deal.

The ceiling

The lowest of independent valuations. It is the most you pay, and it never leaves your firm.

The opening bid

Where to start, read against how long the listing has been out and how far the ask sits from value.

What to verify

The three conditions that move the price most, and the documents still missing.

Five methods, one discipline

The asset and the size of the deal pick the method. Only one method ever governs a deal's numbers.

Drive-up self-storage rows: one roll-up door opens. CSU

Street Underwriting

Self-storage under USD 5M and under 40,000 NRSF.

Broker NOI restated on an operator's cost card.

  • Broker P&L next to the Cubedup basis, line by line
  • Tax solved inside the price where the state resets on sale
  • Market cap floored at what today's debt will accept
Open the Street demo
Multi-story climate-controlled storage building: the floors light up one by one. CBU

Boardroom Underwriting

Self-storage at USD 5M and up, or 40,000 NRSF and up.

Ceiling = lowest of direct cap, five-year DCF and debt-supported value.

  • Institutional expense load and management fee
  • Levered and unlevered IRR, multiple, DSCR, debt yield
  • Sensitivity, sources and uses, risk register
Open the Boardroom demo
Small-bay flex building: a bay door rolls up and a contractor van backs in. CFU

Flex Underwriting

Small-bay industrial, multi-tenant flex, contractor bays.

Ceiling = lowest of cap, lease DCF, stressed debt and replacement cost.

  • In-place contract rent; upside only as leases roll
  • IG versus NNN decides who absorbs the tax reset
  • TI and leasing commissions reserved inside NOI
Open the Flex demo
Truck parking yard: a rig backs into its stall as the yard lights come on. CTP

Truck Parking Underwriting

Land approved for industrial outdoor storage, operated as truck parking.

Ceiling = lowest of cap, DCF, debt and land value per usable acre.

  • Fleet contracts by the month, driver bookings by the night
  • Zoning and a clean Phase I are kill tests
  • Price per space and per usable acre against comparable land
Open the Truck Parking demo
Storage development site: a staked parcel with the building footprint drawn in. CDU

Development Underwriting

Self storage land: ground-up development and expansion of an existing facility.

Ceiling = lowest of four residual land values: yield on cost, spread over the exit cap, a 20% levered IRR, and comparable land.

  • Today's comp move-in rents, untrended; mature rent shown, never priced
  • Monthly construction draw and lease-up carry, with the loan sized by cost and coverage
  • No budget in the files: location cost research from two dated sources
Open the Development demo

Every way to pay for it

Each structure is sized at today's rates on the same NOI, so you see which one clears and what it does to equity and returns. Seller paper is converted to its cash-equivalent price.

Lender terms are market conventions until replaced with a term sheet. Rates carry an as-of date on every deal.

  • All cashcertainty
  • Bank5-yr Treasury +
  • Credit union5-yr Treasury +
  • SBA 7(a)prime +, 90% LTV
  • SBA 504bank + CDC
  • CMBS10-yr Treasury +
  • Life companylow leverage
  • BridgeSOFR +, interest only
  • Seller notecash-equivalent price
  • Loan assumptionin-place rate
  • Mezzanineon CMBS
  • Binding testLTV, DSCR, debt yield

How it works

Nothing to type. Drop the package and press Underwrite.

Upload

OM, T-12, rent roll, tax bill, owner reports. PDF, Excel, Word, images or a zipped data room.

Read

Every figure is transcribed with its page. Conflicts between documents are flagged, never averaged.

Price

The method applies: buyer's tax and insurance, operator expense load, live rates, financing.

Decide

One panel, saved as a version in your firm's pipeline. Reopen, adjust, compare.

The rules behind every number

The same five rules apply to every deal, whatever the broker's package says.

No pro forma in price

Projections inform the plan. Price is paid on in-place income only.

Two sources

A material number needs two independent confirmations before it sets price.

Buyer's basis

Tax and insurance reset to what the buyer will actually pay after closing.

Evidence tiers

County record, data service, broker claim or estimate. Every figure says which.

Supply first

Oversupply cannot be fixed by operations. It ends the analysis.

Your deals stay yours

Firms put live deal numbers here, so the access rules are strict.

Firm workspaces

Each firm sees only its own deals. A private deal is visible only to its creator.

Approved sign-in

Google or Microsoft accounts, and every new person is approved before seeing anything.

No admin back door

Administrators see usage counts, never deal content.

Same rules in Claude

The Claude connector signs in as you and reaches only your firm's workspace. Connect

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