Patent ID: 7287008

Claim:
A method for facilitating approval of a real estate investment in a system having a plurality of remote members of a business entity, each of said plurality of remote members entering data associated with said real estate investment, the method comprising: periodically receiving and storing loan origination data from said plurality of remote members via a plurality of data input screens, said data including financial and physical data relating to said real estate investment; comparing automatically the input loan origination data with first data input rules and if any of said data input rules are violated, then displaying an information screen including a text message corresponding to a respective violated rule; comparing automatically the loan origination data with second pre-determined rules and, based on results of the comparison with said second pre-determined rules, dynamically determining a set of data input and dialog screens; comparing automatically the loan origination data with third pre-determined rules and based on results of the comparison with said third pre-determined rules dynamically calculating at least one or more profitability values, said third pre-determined rules including at least one of a debt model and an equity financial model; displaying at least one of said profitability values on said set of data input and dialog screens; inputting and storing user comments from at least a second one of said plurality of remote users via at least one of said data input screens; presenting said user comments, said stored loan origination data, and said at least one or more calculated values to at least one of said remote members for approval; and generating at least one loan origination and underwriting report, said report including said stored loan origination data and said at least one or more profitability values.