You know the drill. A new deal hits your desk or an asset needs a fresh plan, and you open a blank Excel file to rebuild an operating budget you have already built a hundred times. The friction is not the math. It is pulling rents into a clean schedule, mapping expenses to the right lines, choosing escalation drivers, and getting to NOI without a mess of one-off assumptions. Underwriting ~5 min to run Build Operating Budget Vic prompt Use Vic to build an operating budget for a property based on current rents and T-12 expenses. Purpose Produces a complete budget ready for underwriting or asset planning in minutes instead of the 45 minutes a manual build typically requires. Inputs Prior Year Financials Optional Property Type Optional Rent Roll Optional Property Details Optional Budget Year Optional Known Cost Figures Optional Staffing Plan Optional Outputs An Excel workbook with the annual operating budget structured to the property type's chart of accounts, from revenue to NOI, plus an editable inputs block and reserves set by property type. Time saved Turns roughly 45 minutes of manual work into about five minutes. How it works Run the task with a simple command: Use Vic to build an operating budget for a property based on current rents and T-12 expenses. Then hand over whatever you have. A rent roll, prior year financials, property details, a staffing plan, or known cost figures all help, but none are required. You can also set the property type and the budget year if you want the file tuned to a specific use. Vic builds a forward annual budget in Excel, starting revenue from in-place rents. Expenses are laid out line by line and escalated using each line’s own cost driver, with a dated source for the assumption. The workbook follows a chart of accounts that fits the property type, so multifamily does not look like office and vice versa. The file includes a clear inputs block you can edit without hunting through formulas. Management fee is included and calculated in line with the rest of the operating statement. At the bottom, you get NOI with standard CRE formatting, ready to drop into your underwriting model or your asset plan. Reserves are set by property type so you are not guessing at placeholders. This is where most teams lose time. Mapping a messy operating statement to a clean chart of accounts is tedious and easy to get wrong. Vic applies a standard mapping and keeps the structure consistent from deal to deal, which matters when you are comparing opportunities or tracking a portfolio. The escalation logic is set upfront. Instead of a single blanket growth rate, each expense line carries its own driver with a dated source. That keeps the budget grounded and easier to defend in an IC memo or an asset review. If you disagree with an assumption, change it in the inputs and the model updates cleanly. The result is a complete operating budget you can use right away. No reformatting, no cleanup, no chasing broken links. For teams that are constantly underwriting new acquisitions or resetting plans on existing assets, that time adds up. Five minutes for a first pass that is structured, consistent, and editable beats another blank sheet.