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Heading to RealShare tomorrow

Tomorrow, am headed to RealShare, which is the premier LA multifamily event. Why?   A huge part of doing deals is having the relationships necessary to get your offer picked over others’. Those relationships generally get created during deals. The more you close, and the better you behave, the more brokers like you. But it’s easy

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Restaurants and bars and Historic Filipinotown

At Adaptive, we’re 100% focused on multifamily. But that doesn’t stop us from observing what’s going on with other asset classes in our little submarkets. And, recently, I’ve become convinced that there is are opportunities for smaller, food and beverage-driven retail along both Temple and Beverly, south of the 101 in Historic Filipinotown. Driven by the

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In, out, and (possibly) back into the brokerage business

Regular readers of this blog have probably noticed a shift in our business here at Adaptive. When I first started writing, roughly five years ago, we were knowledge-rich but capital poor. We knew a ton about buying, renovating, leasing, managing and selling apartment buildings from our experience doing 12 deals between 2008-2012 through Better Dwellings. But

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The importance of a diligence checklist

The diligence process for a multifamily building is complex. In essence, you are buying a small business, often using a lot of debt. And, if you’re buying the kind of beat-up buildings in which we specialize, often you’re doing the deal with missing / incorrect information from the seller. To make sure you don’t miss

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What a successful deal looks like

Just finished stabilizing a deal and thought you all would like to see some numbers. Bought this large, non-rent control property in late 2015. Renovated and re-tenanted it, with everything finishing up in the last week or so. All in for about $3.6MM. New rent roll is $369k (so, 9.8x GRM). Looking like roughly a 7.8% unlevered

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