Welcome to Your First 90 Days in CRE

You enrolled because you want to perform at a higher level - faster, with more confidence, and with fewer costly mistakes. That's exactly what this course is built to deliver.

This isn't theory. Every framework, every tool, and every lesson in this course comes from real Class-A operations - the same situations you're navigating right now.

What This Course Teaches You

By the time you complete First 90 Days, you will know how to:

  • Establish credibility with ownership, tenants, and your engineering team quickly

  • Assess your property systematically so nothing critical falls through the cracks

  • Prioritize competing demands without second-guessing yourself

  • Build operational control from day one - even without full authority

Time investment: 3–4 hours of lessons, applied directly to your building as you go.

How to Get the Most Out of This Course

Each lesson ends with a specific action or reflection tied to your actual property. Don't skip those. The property managers who get the most out of this course are the ones who apply each framework - not the ones who complete all the lessons fastest.

Work through the lessons in order. Each one builds on the last.

Put the templates and tools to work immediately. A framework sitting on here does nothing. A framework applied to your building this week changes how you operate.

Start with Your First 90 Days in Commercial Real Estate

No matter your experience level, this is your on-ramp.

This course teaches you how to establish credibility, take control of your building, and operate from day one - not six months in.

Even if you've been in the industry for years, the frameworks here will sharpen how you sequence, prioritize, and lead.

Start here. Then branch out.

Move Into the Unlock Your Potential Courses

Once you've completed the First 90 Days, choose your next domain based on what you need most:

  • Core CRE Operations & Building Systems – Learn how physical systems behave, fail, and interact. Master the building itself.

  • Emergency Preparedness – Lead under pressure. Understand failure modes before they happen.

  • Leadership & Decision Making in CRE – Build influence without authority. Navigate tradeoffs. Lead the human system.

  • AI in CRE – Use AI as a force multiplier for operator-level work. Build leverage, not dependency.

Each course is a domain. Together, they build CRE leadership mastery.

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The newsletter has timely content on emerging trends, lessons learned, and industry shifts.

If you want to stay sharp on what's happening now, this is where to look.


A Note From Matt

I built this course because I spent years figuring out what nobody formally taught me. The first 90 days in a building or a new role are the highest-leverage period of your entire tenure there and most property managers waste them reacting instead of establishing.

You now have the system I wish I'd had. Use it.

Ready? Let's get into it. Move to Lesson 1 below.