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ACG Launches Evening Argus Boot Camp
09/01/2010
ATLANTA – Effective September 29, ACG Professionals, Inc. will be introducing an after-hours Evening ARGUS Boot Camp as a new take on its highly successful ARGUS Boot Camp training program. With the dynamic and ever changing commercial real estate market, having the required skills and analytical experience is a necessity; however, finding the time to get this training can be a challenge. ACG’s ARGUS Boot Camp training is an intensive study of ARGUS instructed by experts who use ARGUS on a daily basis. Previously only available in a dedicated weeklong format during business hours, this new Evening ARGUS Boot Camp makes ACG’s proven ARGUS curriculum available to a broader group of current and future real estate professionals by offering a 5-week program with two evening sessions per week.
“ARGUS Boot Camp will fully prepare students to build Office, Retail, and Industrial models,” says Brenda Hurley, Vice President of ACG. “The Boot Camp itinerary focuses on knowledge retention by incorporating group instruction, self-paced modeling exercises, practice calculations, oral review, and take-home assignments. Additionally, students will be given over a dozen additional reference materials to maximize the goal of knowledge retention. The reference materials will also be a great resource once the students are employed as industry professionals.”
“We already have interest in the Evening ARGUS Boot Camp from employers who want current staff to become ARGUS proficient without having to hire new professionals or have them miss an entire week of work. It is less expensive to invest in existing staff than to pay a recruiter to find an ARGUS literate professional in the marketplace,” says Todd. “Additionally, this will be a tremendous program for either graduating students who are finding it difficult to land a job in the industry or people who are seeking a job change and need Argus skills to differentiate themselves in the marketplace,” adds Zeldin.
According to Chip Davidson, Chairman and CEO of The Brookdale Group, “The ARGUS training offered by ACG is an absolute essential for our people, and we have insisted upon it for anyone we have hired here at Brookdale. As for the Boot Camp, both of my sons have survived it, and while I’m not sure they were crazy about the hours, the skills and proficiency they now have with ARGUS as a result of having gone through it have proven to be invaluable to them.”
ACG Professionals, Inc. is an Atlanta-based consulting firm that helps real estate companies cope with today’s demands for reviewing legal and financial information quickly and accurately. By combining expert due diligence consulting services with technology, training and recruiting, the company can service nearly all of the financial, analytical and information management needs of real estate companies — from lease abstracts to financial modeling and budgeting to all aspects of financial due diligence.
For two decades ACG has been the industry leader in providing training programs to real estate professionals. From dynamic Excel and ARGUS programs to web-based real estate classes, ACG has taught more than 20,000 professionals including many of Atlanta’s real estate Evenings.
Students can register now for the Evening ARGUS Boot Camp at ACG’s website https://www.acgpro.com/training/registration/498/ or by calling ACG at 404-653-0049. The price for the Boot Camp is $1,995. Active full-time enrolled students or members of ULI, CREW, ICSC, or REGA are eligible for a 10% discount on enrollment fees (but must register by calling ACG to receive this discount). Contact Todd Zeldin (tzeldin@acgpro.com) with any further questions about this program.