Commercial RE...Is it worth it? Serious Advice Needed Please

I received an offer to do an 8-month coop in Commercial Real Estate. This coop will delay my graduation for a semester and it will also require me to incur relocation expenses (and rent) in order to move to the middle of no where for a job that pays peanuts (not even $15 an hour.) They have various groups including asset management, underwriting, acquisitions. I'm willing to make the sacrifice, if when I do graduate I can land a ft ib offer. Is it worth being set back a year for this position? Also, I can request a group to work in, which group would provide me with the most transferable skill-set? I'm from a non-target state school w/ a 3.5 gpa. Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

The only group that will help you would be acquisitions. You do a lot of modeling, but the type of modeling does vary from the type you would do in IB.

I can't imagine a no-name commercial RE group would help you enough to sacrifice a year. Perhaps you could leverage it into a BB RE IB group via networking, but if you're actually interested in real estate, the buy-side is DEFINITELY where you should be.

 

no, i think iowa might be considered a popping place compared to where I could potentially be at. regardless, location doesn't matter to me. its just deciding whether or not the opportunity is worth it.

 

Wisconsin? That's a pretty dead state.

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Don't they have those dreaded "dry" counties?

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sorry to jack the thread but no dry counties in Wisco, atropolation. Plus plenty of moonshine up north. I said Iowa b/c prudential RE is a huge player but in the middle of des moines. Good guess though.

 

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