FAQ
How should a CRE team use this article?
Use it as a checklist for the questions to ask during underwriting, not as a substitute for source-backed deal review. The final model still needs document citations, market checks, review states, and clear assumption ownership.
Where does Cactus fit in this workflow?
Cactus reads deal-room materials, checks assumptions against market context, surfaces conflicts, lets users approve the facts that drive the model, and preserves the logic as Proprietary Memory for the next deal.
YourWay Storage partner with Cactus to provide clear financial insights to their asset investors and team.
The comparison that matters
We are delighted to share some exhilarating news: Cactus is teaming up with YourWay Self Storage, a 3 year old newcomer in the self-storage industry with multiple facilities across the United States, including locations in Colorado, Idaho, North Carolina, and Utah. This partnership marks a significant step forward for both companies as we join forces to elevate portfolio management, reduce manual work in underwriting processes, and offer real-time insights to investors.
A Personal Testimony: Leveraging Cactus for Success
Reflecting on this exciting partnership, YourWay Self Storage's CEO, Skyler Hartman shares their journey:
"In a mere 3 years, I've navigated through a failed marriage and two unsuccessful business relationships, contemplating a return to the W2 world. Instead, I opted for massive action in the self-storage realm. Today, I proudly own and manage multiple active facilities and juggle a handful of ground-up development projects. Thrilled to explore how Cactus can power our real-time decision-making, propelling our growth and business strategy to new heights!"
Cactus Integration with Hummingbird and Quickbooks: Unleashing Efficiency
YourWay Self Storage are embracing the full potential of our platform by integrating it with Hummingbird (Tenant Inc) property management solution and Quickbooks. This strategic move enhances efficiency, saving tons of hours building reports and communicating internally. Yet, Cactus investor relations tool simplifies operations, and ensures that real-time insights are cleanly integrated into their existing workflows.
What Lies Ahead: Exciting Times for Enhanced Efficiency and Growth
This partnership with YourWay Self Storage is buzzing with excitement. Together, we're set to unlock new opportunities for YourWay and offer savvy source-backed choices that help path the direction the business needs for their ambitious goals.
Stay tuned for the incredible strides we'll make together as Cactus and YourWay Self Storage redefine the landscape of self-storage technology!
Excitedly,
Tyler Sellars CEO - Cactus www.trycactus.com
How Cactus turns this into defensible underwriting
A comparison only matters if it predicts which workflow can stand up in diligence. Cactus is built for teams that still need ARGUS-level analysis, but want source-backed extraction, premium third-party market intelligence, public records, review controls, and reusable firm memory around every assumption.
- Extract relevant facts from OMs, rent rolls, T-12s, leases, PDFs, spreadsheets, and customer templates.
- Check rents, expenses, growth targets, cap rates, sales comps, and site context against market intelligence from premium data providers, public records, and firm history.
- Surface conflicts, confidence states, reviewer comments, and assumption overrides before the model becomes the memo.
- Populate Excel or Cactus models, then store approved facts, templates, comps, and decisions in Proprietary Memory for the next deal.
The point is not to make the model less sophisticated. The point is to make the source, market check, assumption owner, review state, and output path visible before the number reaches a partner, lender, client, or investment committee.
Defensible underwriting
Defend every number before it reaches IC.
Cactus gives CRE teams ARGUS-grade underwriting intelligence with document extraction, market checks, source trails, reviewable assumptions, Excel-ready outputs, and Proprietary Memory around the workflow.
- Rent rolls, T-12s, OMs, comps, and assumptions live in separate files.
- Market evidence gets copied into the model without a durable source trail.
- Reviewer decisions disappear after the memo, email thread, or spreadsheet version changes.
- Extract deal facts from OMs, rent rolls, T-12s, leases, PDFs, spreadsheets, and customer templates.
- Check rents, expenses, growth targets, sales comps, and other assumptions against market intelligence.
- Populate Excel or Cactus models and preserve approved logic as Proprietary Memory.
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