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  • Home
  • Hotel Investment Library
  • Index of Topics
  • Hotel Ownership
  • Col Art Ownership/invest
  • Hotel Investment Textbook
  • Appraisals & Feasibility
  • Col Art App/Feas
  • Hotel Lending
  • Col Art Hotel Lending
  • Management Contracts
  • Col Art Mgt Cont/Franchis
  • Hotel Valuation Software
  • Mortgage-Equity Software
  • Hotel Operators
  • Col Art Operators
  • Hotel Property Taxes
  • Col Art Prop Taxes
  • Sample Hotel Studies
  • Restaurant Valuations
  • Coll Rest Val & MS
  • Collection of Articles
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Hotel Ownership & Investing

The following publications related to Hotel Ownership and Investing are available in this section:

  • Collection of Articles on Hotel Ownership and Investing
  • Hotel Investments Handbook: 2000
  • Hotel Investments: A Guide for Owners and Lenders
  • Hotel Valuation Software- 6.0
  • HVS Guide to Hotel Management Contracts
  • HVS Hotel Franchise Fee Guide
  • HVS Hotel Broker Survey
  • HVS Hotel Market Area Overviews
  • Research and Informative Publications
  • Restaurant Market Studies and Valuations
  • Free Article Downloads


See these Publications below:

Collection of Articles on Hotel Ownership and Investing

If you are active in any type of hotel investing as a developer, owner, lender, operator or investor this collection of 170+ articles is essential reading.  


Covering a wide-range of topics these articles focus on hotel ownership and investing issues such as how to make the ideal hotel investment, the art of renovation, profiting from a downturn, who needs an asset manager and how to get the best sales price.  Lenders need to read when will the bubble burst, shielding against incompetence, and living with recession.  Many people believe hotels are high-risk investments, this set of articles will help you minimize these risks.


Price for the Collection of 170+ Articles: $200


Price for individual articles: $25/article  (to order individual articles contact steve@hotelvaluationsoftware.com)

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Hotel Investments Handbook: 2000

If you have questions pertaining to the hotel industry- The Hotel Investments Handbook probably has the answers. This text covers a wide array of topics including site analysis, revenue forecasting, negotiating management contracts, capital sources and financing, buying and selling, casino gaming, hotel development, investment strategies and many more. It also has a variety of sample documents such as purchase and sale agreements, data collection checklist, ground lease and hundreds of clauses for hotel management contracts. While this 30 year old book has information that is somewhat dated most of its contents is still relevant. No other book has so much essential information for hotel owners, lenders, operators and investors.   


Price for the Hotel Investments Handbook: $99

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Hotel Investments: A Guide for Owners and Lenders- 1990

Everything you need to know to make profitable hotel investments. From site selection, project feasibility, financing, developing, finding an operator, negotiating a management contract, asset management and selling at the right time. Over 600 pages of invaluable hotel investing information. While this book was written a number of years ago, much of the its information is still relevant today.


Price for Hotel Investments: A Guide for Owners and Lenders- 1990: $99

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Hotel Valuation Software- 6.0

Hotel Valuation Software 6.0 is computer software designed specifically to assist in the preparation of hotel market studies, forecasts of income and expense, and hotel valuations. The software provides the framework, along with the mathematical calculations, to develop detailed forecasts of hotel occupancy, average room rates, revenues and expenses that can be used as a basis for hotel market studies and appraisals.  


 The tool consists of three separate software programs: 

  • Hotel Market Analysis and ADR Forecasting Model
  • Hotel Revenue and Expense Forecasting Model
  • Hotel Mortgage-Equity Valuation Model


If you have any involvement with hotel investing, finance, accounting or consulting Hotel Valuation Software is an essential tool for your business


Price: $99 for each model or $250 for all three models

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Negotiating Hotel Management Contracts

This publication contains everything you need to know to negotiate a hotel management contract.  The management contract is probably the most important agreement that a hotel owner will sign.  Unlike many agreements, hotel management contracts are highly negotiated requiring intimate knowledge of all the terms and conditions.  To negotiate a fair contract you must have a strategy for obtaining your desired contract provisions- many of which are not so apparent.


Negotiating Hotel Management Contracts covers a wide variety of topics including: 

  • The different types of hotel management companies 
  • How to select a management company
  • How to develop a negotiating strategy
  • What clauses are most important what are least important
  • Should the management company bring a flag


The publication contains over 70 pages of contract clauses from actual hotel management contracts arranged topically into 11 different sections.  Each clause shows its orientation- Owner Oriented, Operator-Oriented or Neutral.  This identification of orientation should allow the user to select the clauses that best represent their interest. 


Price: Negotiating Hotel Management Contacts:  $75 

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Restaurant Market Studies & Valuations

Very little has been written about how to perform a restaurant market study and valuation.  These articles provide a step-by-step procedure for evaluating a restaurant market and developing a restaurant valuation.  In addition, a while back I wrote a book that described "The Valuations and Market Studies for Restaurants."  The Articles and Book are essential reading for anyone interested in buying or building a restaurant.


Price: The Collection of 15+ articles on Restaurant Market Studies and Valuations: $80

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