What Tract-PIE Users Say

Bill Fanning, VP Land Acquisition and Finance
Davidson Communities, Del Mar, CA

It’s not like the old days. Davidson Communities is a small company and I wear numerous hats. Tract-PIE is one tool for analyzing land acquisition, finance and sales all in one package. It’s ideal for quickly performing the initial feasibility analysis and then putting together packages for potential lenders to finance the project. Without Tract-PIE, I would have had to spend countless hours designing a spreadsheet for the same use—time that should have been spent financing new projects—and still not achieve the accuracy and confidence that we have now. Time is money, and we invested our money correctly and have reaped the rewards with Tract-PIE.

Steve Garrett, Director, Land Acquisition & Finance
Castle Construction, Concord, CA

As the Director of Land Acquisition, I don’t have time to waste or patience to play with spreadsheet models. Tract-PIE has been an invaluable tool to quickly and accurately evaluate potential investment opportunities. With time as a premium, Tract-PIE has helped us to focus in on potential problems and has highlighted opportunities. The impressive reports are easy to read and follow and have been a great help communicating with our financial entities – investors and lenders – giving them the confidence and comfort that is so important in any deal.

Scott Homan, CFO
The Olson Company, Seal Beach, CA

Tract-PIE provides the best solution for home building forecasting. Over the last six years, I have successfully modeled over 200 projects and have found that Tract-PIE was able to handle any capital structure I could come up with. The consolidation features are truly remarkable – 20, 30 and more projects can be consolidated in minutes. As a CPA, the consistency and reliability of calculations are a must. Tract-PIE provides those invaluable features much more so than some home-grown spreadsheet system.

And with the stress and pressure of this job, I don’t have time to attend several days of training or wade through manuals. I need answers now. The Tract-PIE input and logic are intuitive, yet when I’ve had questions concerning an especially complex deal, their customer support has always been extremely responsive and knowledgeable. That’s the type of service that is so critical when I’m making significant financial decisions that will impact the profitability of this company.

If you’re serious about your projections and business as I am, you have to use Tract-PIE.

Bob Irish, Partner
Buie–Irish Ventures, Solana Beach, CA

Speed, flexibility, structure, support – those are the keywords that best describe Tract-PIE. Speed because I don’t have time to waste, and using the Quick Feasibility approach within Tract-PIE enables me to quickly filter out the viable deals from the ton of bad ones. Flexibility because with the potential ones, I can perform the detailed, repetitive what-if analysis required for our due-diligence. Structure because Tract-PIE demands logical thinking. Important items that I might not consider -- much less forget -- in a spreadsheet model are prompted for in Tract-PIE. This check-off list approach gives me confidence that my numbers are right and nothing has slipped through the cracks to come back and haunt me later. Support because when I need help, I need it now, not in a couple of hours – and knowledgeable intelligent help.

Tract-PIE – there’s nothing in the marketplace I've found that can compare!