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The questions real investors ask us most, answered plainly and written to apply to any offering, including the ones that were uncomfortable to answer.
Nothing is softened and nothing is left out.
Our offerings have carried a minimum investment of $100,000 per investor. In return, limited partners receive a preferred return paid quarterly and, depending on the share class, a share of the upside at the end of a roughly five-year business plan. Each offering's memorandum sets out its own minimum, preferred return and targets, so check the documents for the deal in front of you.
Yes. Every offering's deck, financial model and memorandum live in our investor portal, and we send them to anyone who asks. If you would rather go through them with someone, say so and we will book a call instead.
Our general partners invest their own capital in every deal and our raises have historically been oversubscribed, so we do not plan around equity gaps. Once a raise fills we move to close as soon as the lender's timeline allows. The exact timeline is set out in each offering.
We hold ourselves to a strict acquisition discipline, so the deals that pass our screen are rare and we do not run a deal every quarter. When one does pass, the window to invest is usually a matter of weeks, because once the numbers and the vision line up we move to close. The best preparation is to be ready before the next one opens: portal account set up, funds identified, and any retirement account already self-directed.
Open an investor account on our portal, where you can review each offering memorandum and submit a soft commitment when a deal is open. If you would prefer a one-on-one conversation first, reply to any of our emails or reach out directly and we will set up a call.
The value plan starts the day we take over, which is why we move quickly. Operational control lets us capture rents that are already trending above underwriting, put our management in place and begin the exterior work. Closing dates are set in each offering and we work toward the earliest date the lender allows.
The minimum applies per investor, but there is precedent for pooling. Groups of investors have put their capital together through a single entity to participate. Some of our own partners started exactly that way, pooling with a colleague before investing on their own. Reach out to the team if you want to explore that route and we will walk you through how it has been done.
Limited partners come first. LPs receive their preferred return before the general partners take anything, and at exit LPs are paid until they reach their target return before the sponsorship team shares in the upside. That order forces us to outperform: to make a dollar ourselves, we have to deliver what we promised you.
We only buy when the entry basis sits well below what comparable communities have recently traded for, and far below replacement cost. Buying below the trailing comps and below the cost of building new means equity is built in on day one rather than hoped for later. Every offering memorandum shows the price per unit against recent sales and replacement cost so you can see the discount yourself.
Where we offer two share classes, the cash-flow class is designed for predictable distributions and is paid first; it does not share in the upside but carries priority for the life of the hold. For the growth class, the sensitivity table in the deck shows worst-case, target and best-case scenarios, and those translate directly to what an investor can expect in each market condition. Distributions follow the capital stack: the lender is paid first, then the cash-flow class, then the growth class. Read the sensitivity table before you invest; it is the honest answer to this question.
We use fixed-rate senior debt sized to the business plan, so the mortgage payment is known for the full hold and does not depend on where rates go. Our acquisitions have used agency financing (Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac) amortised over 30 years, and we intentionally do not over-leverage: senior debt has run at roughly 60 to 70 percent of value. We size leverage from sustainable property-level cash flow and downside scenarios rather than from the maximum a lender will offer.
Distributions come from the property's cash flow, so they begin once the property is under our control and the first full quarter of operations is complete. From there they are paid quarterly through the life of the deal. Each offering states its expected first distribution date.
Our offerings have used two classes. A cash-flow class pays a straight preferred return with no profit split, for investors who want predictable income. A growth class pays a lower preferred return plus a share of the upside at sale, for investors who want their capital to grow alongside the cash flow. In the growth class, part of the preferred return may be held back during the capital-intensive renovation years and paid later along with the upside. The minimum has been $100,000 in either class.
We commission a cost segregation study on every acquisition. It accelerates depreciation and typically produces a substantial first-year paper loss relative to the amount invested, delivered on your K-1 for your CPA to apply. Depending on your income and tax situation that can be a meaningful offset. Always run it by your CPA first.
Through a self-directed IRA. Old IRAs and old employer plans can be moved to a custodian that allows alternative assets such as multifamily syndications. The transfer is tax-free as long as the money stays inside the retirement wrapper, and distributions from the investment accumulate inside the account. Most of our investors use cash, but a growing share use a self-directed IRA. Our Invest with your IRA page walks through the whole structure step by step.
More than most expect. Twenty to forty thousand a year is a common figure from straightforward planning alone, before any investing at all, and compounded across a career the gap gets large. The honest answer is that it depends on your situation, which is why it is a question for a planner rather than a general answer.
Commonly around 25%, so roughly $25,000 on $100,000, allocated to you according to the operating agreement. It varies by asset and by study.
Mostly risk and scale. In a 100-unit building one empty apartment is a fraction of your income; in a single family home it is all of it. You also maintain one roof instead of many, carry one loan instead of many, and the value is set by the income the building produces rather than by whatever the neighbour's house sold for.
Most high earners in demanding careers do not qualify, and not because of the 750 hours. The test also requires real estate to take more of your time than your main profession, which for a working physician or executive it will not. A spouse qualifying is the usual route. If anyone offers to simply grant you the status, treat that as a warning rather than a solution.
A short-term rental is the common one. It requires material participation but not enormous hours, and the average stay has to be seven days or less. Long-term rentals are capped at $25,000 a year per property for most people. Confirm any of this against your own return with your CPA.
If you have something for a passive loss to offset, cost segregation is usually the largest single lever. If you do not, the cap on long-term rental losses limits what it can do, and a 1031 exchange tends to matter more because it defers the whole gain rather than a slice of it.
The partnership that owns the property initiates it at the entity level. The result then flows through to investors on the K-1, so it is not something you have to arrange yourself.
Not entirely. Depreciation recapture is normally taxed at your marginal rate, and a step-up in basis at death moves it toward capital-gains treatment, after which heirs can defer further with a 1031. It reduces the bill substantially. It does not erase it.
By self-directing the plan. Rather than holding public securities it makes the investment directly, and the proceeds return to the plan and keep compounding inside it. It has to be kept at arm's length, which is exactly the kind of detail to confirm with your own adviser before you move anything.
Yes, and they do not require hours. REITs, qualified opportunity funds and syndications all work passively. In a syndication, a cost segregation done at the entity level passes the losses through to you, and as a passive investor any you cannot use carry forward rather than going to waste.
There are really two. The first is backdoor Roth conversions reported incorrectly, which are expensive and slow to unwind. The second is simply waiting. Almost nobody tells us they started too early.
Find a tax professional who plans rather than one who only files. Filing tells you what you already owe. Planning is what changes the number, and it matters more than which vehicle you eventually choose.
Oil and gas comes up most often, where a large share of the investment is frequently deductible in the first year and can offset earned income. It carries a very different risk profile to what we do, so take it to your own adviser rather than acting on a general answer.
It is not the count but the proportion. Tax authorities hold benchmarks for what each expense category normally looks like as a share of revenue for your kind of business. Claiming 30% of revenue as rent where 10% is typical is what draws attention, not the number of lines on the return.
Above roughly $80,000 of net income an S-corp election starts to save meaningfully, often five to six thousand a year or more, because distributions are not subject to self-employment tax. Some states tax S-corps in a way that erodes the benefit, so check yours before you file the election.
The rate follows the type of event rather than the room. Price a large gathering against event spaces or hotel ballrooms, and a smaller meeting against hotel meeting rooms or coworking space. Document the comparables, keep real minutes, and treat it as an actual rental, because that is what makes it hold up.
You cannot write off the loan principal, which is not deductible. You take either actual costs, meaning fuel, repairs, interest and depreciation at your business-use percentage, or the standard mileage rate. Writing off the full purchase price in year one requires a vehicle over 6,000 pounds.
Not necessarily, and it often goes the other way. We get multiple insurance quotes during due diligence and budget the line conservatively, and real quotes have come in well below what we underwrote, which helps net operating income rather than hurting it. Age matters less than the condition of the roofs and systems and the claims history.
Yes. Before we commit we tour the asset, walk every unit and open every door and closet, walk the roofs with our general contractors and inspect the plumbing and mechanicals. We then run a full financial audit of the lease files and the historical operations.
For the same reason we plan to sell at the end of our own business plans. Buying an apartment community is buying a business: owners sell when their plan is complete and they move on to a bigger one. That is how the industry functions, and it is what creates the opportunities we buy.
We have them checked by specialists and our general contractor during due diligence, and we ask for the age and replacement history of every roof and system. Anything that will not hold through the business plan goes into the budget before we send an offer. If it is not in the plan, it is because we confirmed it will last.
That work is identified before the offer and built into the renovation plan. We buy assets precisely because there is work to do, so nothing about the required work should be a surprise. Our general contractor walks the property with us during due diligence and quotes the work on the same scale we carry in the underwriting.
Renovations are funded from the equity raise rather than from additional borrowing. Every line item is sourced and estimated up front, we carry a 10 to 20 percent contingency on top, and we hold a separate operating reserve in the bank that is touched only for unforeseen circumstances.
A renovation takes roughly twelve months end to end and runs in phases. Exterior work comes first, meaning fences, paint and curb appeal, so current residents see the improvement before any rent conversation. Interior work follows. We want residents to feel they are getting value for any increase rather than simply being charged more.
We work from the outside in. Exterior work starts within the first few months and interior work later in the first year, and we only buy communities whose occupancy has held up through cycles. Because the plan is phased, a few units at a time with about a month of downtime each, income keeps flowing while the property is improved rather than dropping while everything is turned over at once. We also underwrite a break-even occupancy far below where our communities actually run.
We use two interior strategies. First, we renovate units as residents move out at the end of their leases. Second, in communities where people do not want to leave, we offer an existing resident the chance to move into an already renovated unit, then renovate the one they left. On-site teams tell us residents want in-unit washers and dryers, new countertops and new cabinetry, so either option appeals.
We create the appreciation through the work we do rather than by pushing residents out. Renovations are phased so the community is never turned over all at once, and residents who are paying at or near market and are good fits stay through their renewal.
Typically we renovate a few units a month once the exterior phase is done. Leases run about twelve months, so as they end, residents who do not renew free up units that we renovate and re-lease at market. If that does not happen fast enough, we offer residents an already renovated unit to move into and renovate the one they left. Due diligence tells us what residents want, and that is what we build.
We benchmark against the market rent of properties in the condition we plan to deliver: comparable assets of similar vintage and renovation level. The gap between their rents and the property's current rents is the lead we follow, and we underwrite to close only part of it.
We look for places people already choose to live: nearby employment, retail, recreation and entertainment, and the kind of family-friendly amenities that hold residents for years. We look at what is within a short drive today and what is coming, because those are the things that keep a community full. Where a property lacks its own amenities, we add them, such as a clubhouse, grills, a picnic area and a family-friendly playground.
Supply is the biggest risk to rents. When no new apartments are scheduled for delivery in a submarket for the next couple of years, everything that exists is all people have to rent, and existing communities can push rents toward market even before renovation. We check the delivery pipeline within a few miles of every asset before we buy.
The market sets the rent; we cannot assign a random number. When more people move into a metro and demand is higher, the comparable units around a property pull its rents up, and population growth into a metro and its suburbs is public data anyone can check. We underwrite to the market rather than to the moment.
Rents can freeze for a period, but look at any major U.S. city and it is rare to look back five years and see rents lower. Our underwriting starts with a property trailing the market, so the first step is catching up to what the competition already charges, before any market growth is counted. That is why we buy assets whose rents sit below the comparable set.
Yes. We meet residents on site during due diligence, learn who has been there longest and what they pay, and hear what they want from the community. We also work with the property manager on partnerships with nearby employers so local staff can live on the property, which strengthens the resident profile over time.
Our raises have consistently been oversubscribed and we keep them deliberately small relative to our investor base, so we do not foresee falling short. Our general partners also invest their own capital directly in every deal, so if an equity gap ever appeared, that capital and the network around us would close it. Get your soft commitment in early, because allocations go in order of commitment.
We buy communities whose occupancy stayed high through the last five years, a period that included a pandemic, high inflation and real uncertainty, because people need somewhere to live and in-place rents well below market hold up in a downturn. We underwrite conservatively, add the ancillary income streams a previous owner was not charging, and model a cap-rate-expansion worst case. History helps here too: in 2008, while single-family homes were losing value, apartment rent growth was strong as people moved into rentals, and the months after the initial COVID shock produced the highest rent growth of the decade. A deal only passes our screen if the worst case still sells at a profit.
It is the question we ask ourselves first. We start with the end in mind: the entry basis has to be covered by comparable sales before anything else. Population could stop growing, so we buy in metros that are growing. New construction could stall rents, so we check the supply pipeline within a few miles. Residents might not move out, so we underwrite rent lifts on renewals even if fewer units are renovated than planned. And we layer in operational efficiencies, contingencies and working capital. We have accounted for the classic ways things go wrong.
Yes, and the stress-test page is in every deck, available on request. We underwrite the exit at a cap rate above where the market is trading today, so no compression is needed for the plan to work, and we model a worst case with no compression at all. A deal only passes our screen if that worst case still sells at a profit and still outpaces the long-run stock market average.
We use best-in-class third-party managers already operating in the same submarket, chosen with our strategic operating partners, who have more than $250 million of multifamily assets under management. The relationship is proven on other deals in the same market before it is used on ours.
No deal Dr. Campbell has personally participated in has underperformed, because he underwrites to very conservative assumptions, and we partner with experienced operators with more than $250 million under management. We also invest alongside you in every deal.
Dr. Campbell is personally invested across ten deals, and our operating partners have taken multiple deals full cycle, with more than $270 million of assets under management, much of it in the Atlanta market. Real estate is a team sport, and plain value-add multifamily is the strategy that team has run many times.
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