FAQ
Can I use Cactus as an email underwriting assistant?
Yes. Email Cactus your deal files and ask for a valuation or IRR analysis. Cactus replies with the results and a link to the full underwriting analysis within minutes.
Which deal documents can I send?
You can send an offering memorandum (OM), rent roll (RR), or trailing twelve-month operating statement (T-12). If you have the complete package, include it together with the property name and your question.
What does the email reply include?
The reply includes valuation or IRR results, depending on your request, and a link to the analysis. Open the linked report to review the income, expenses, assumptions, and financial case behind the result.
Is email underwriting a separate Cactus product?
Email is another way to start Cactus's automated underwriting workflow. Document extraction, financial analysis, valuation, and buyer returns remain part of that one workflow.
Does email-in, email-out include the complete underwriting analysis?
The email reply includes valuation or IRR results and a link to the full analysis. Open that report to review financial data, NOI, assumptions, and the investment property underwriting. Email-in, email-out is a way to access the Cactus platform, while the underlying automated underwriting workflow provides the financial analysis.
Start investment property underwriting automation by email: send an OM, rent roll, or T-12 and receive valuation or IRR results with the full analysis.
A broker sends you a deal package. You want to know what the property could be worth or what the investment's IRR looks like. With Cactus as your email assistant, you can send the offering memorandum, rent roll, or T-12 and ask that question directly. Cactus runs the underwriting and replies within minutes with valuation or IRR results and a link to the analysis.
The workflow starts where the deal already arrived: your inbox. The reply gives you the headline result, and the linked analysis gives you the financial detail to review before the next conversation.
For property investors and acquisition teams, email provides a direct entry point to investment property underwriting automation. The attachments supply financial data; Cactus takes them through document extraction, assumptions, and model calculation. The reply brings the result back to the conversation where the commercial property opportunity arrived.
Send the deal files and the question you need answered
Attach the documents you have to an email to Cactus. Include the property name and a short request, such as a valuation review or an IRR analysis. When you have several documents for the same property, sending them together gives the underwriting more context.
| Document | What it brings to the analysis |
|---|---|
| Offering memorandum (OM) | The property overview, broker's investment story, and stated financial assumptions. |
| Rent roll (RR) | The current unit or tenant schedule, rents, and occupancy information. |
| Trailing twelve-month statement (T-12) | The property's recorded income and operating expenses over the stated period. |
If your team already has a target purchase price, financing terms, or hold period, include that context with the request. It helps make the question specific to the deal you are considering.
A short email is enough to explain the task
For a narrower question, keep the request equally direct: ask Cactus to analyze the valuation from the attached deal package, or ask for the buyer IRR using the purchase and financing assumptions you provide. Name the outcome you need so the analysis has a clear purpose.
Get valuation or IRR results back within minutes
Cactus takes the attached documents through its automated underwriting workflow and sends the result back by email. The reply includes the valuation or IRR you requested and a link to the analysis.
- Send the OM, rent roll, or T-12 with your underwriting question.
- Receive Cactus's reply with valuation or IRR results within minutes.
- Open the analysis link to review the financial case and assumptions.
That handoff is useful when you are working through incoming opportunities or preparing for a broker call. You can read the result in your inbox, then open the report when you need to understand how it was built.
Follow the link from the result to the reasoning
The linked analysis is where you review the property's income, expenses, valuation, and buyer returns. Check the source periods and assumptions behind the headline figure, especially when the broker's projections differ from the operating history.
For a closer look at that review, our rent roll and T-12 guide explains how the documents connect to underwritten NOI. The same questions apply whether you started the analysis by email or in the Cactus workspace.
One underwriting workflow, accessible from your inbox
Cactus's email assistant connects to the same automated underwriting workflow that turns deal documents into a shareable report. Extraction, financial analysis, valuation, and returns belong to that workflow. Email gives investors and brokers another convenient way to start it.
Bring a representative deal package to a demo to see the full sequence: files sent by email, a reply with the results, and the analysis behind them.
About the author
Badreddine KarimiData & Model Integrations Lead
Badreddine leads the data and model integrations behind Cactus underwriting. His work connects source information, model inputs, deterministic financial calculations, and Excel outputs.
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