Four strategies, one discipline

Each strategy applies the same plan to a different kind of real estate.

How every deal moves

  1. Source
  2. Underwrite
  3. Acquire
  4. Improve
  5. Refinance
  6. Hold
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Covered land

Flagship strategy. Cash flow today, land value over time.

Cash-flowing manufactured housing and RV communities, infill properties and underutilized sites where the current use covers the carrying costs. The land, density or expansion potential creates a second layer of value.

Property types
MHC, RV parks, infill and underutilized sites
Typical deal size
$1.5MM–$10MM
Scale
25–150+ sites
Geography
All 19 target metros and ~75-minute radius

Entitlement is upside, never the requirement. Every covered land deal has to work on its current use, even if zoning never changes. We look for communities with resident-owned homes, room to fill vacant pads or add sites, utility and operating improvements, and land that should be worth more over a long hold.

What a buyer looks for in a mobile home park or RV park

Three-storey brick garden-style apartment building beside a quiet street

Workforce multifamily

Quality building. Quality location. Distressed situation.

Sub-institutional workforce apartment buildings where basis, renovation and active management materially increase net operating income and value.

Units
6–50 units (no duplexes)
Typical price
About $1.5M–$5M
Focus markets
Kansas City, Columbus, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City
Business plan
Buy, stabilize, refinance, hold

We target established workforce neighborhoods, where demand is durable and the buildings are older, smaller and often owned by individuals. The best opportunities usually combine a sound building in a good location with a seller situation that has held it back: deferred maintenance, below-market rents, management fatigue or a partnership that needs to unwind. Larger deals will come into scope as the program scales.

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Select opportunistic

Below replacement cost, with operating, lease-up or excess-land upside.

Small-bay, shallow-bay and flex light industrial, selective self-storage, and fee-simple special situations where owned real estate carries the value.

Industrial
Small-bay, shallow-bay, flex, light industrial
Self-storage
Selective, with lease-up or expansion upside
Special situations
Operator exits, deferred CapEx, lease resets
Excluded
Ground-lease assets

These assets serve local businesses and households and are often overlooked by larger buyers. Special situations are fee-simple real estate where an operator exit, deferred capital expenditure or a lease reset creates the entry point. We do not buy ground-lease positions.

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Self-storage: selective, where lease-up or expansion adds value. Representative image.
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Debt & notes

Performing to non-performing. Loan-to-own.

Performing, sub-performing and non-performing loans secured by real estate that fits our buy box, purchased as a route to ownership.

Loan types
Performing, sub-performing, non-performing
Collateral
Buy-box assets in or near target metros
Sellers
Banks, credit unions, special assets groups, private lenders
Resolution
Workout, deed in lieu, receivership or foreclosure

We buy notes only where we would be glad to own the property behind them. Our background in lender-side workouts, receiverships and enforcement means we can evaluate a loan file quickly and work with borrowers professionally. Information for lenders and note sellers.

Underwriting discipline

The same rules apply to every strategy.

  • Underwrite the downside case first.
  • Size debt to sustainable NOI, not to maximum proceeds.
  • No reliance on cap-rate compression or a sale to make the deal work.
  • Buy below replacement cost and recent comparable trades wherever possible.
  • Favor core and secondary metros backed by durable infrastructure demand (or, in growth-driver secondary metros, large investment already operating or under construction), with a constructive regulatory and entitlement backdrop, lender and operator depth, and a basis that works if growth slows.

What we avoid

Outside our mandate, so we can respond quickly and honestly.

  • Office. Not part of our mandate in any form.
  • Hospitality. Hotels and motels are outside our mandate.
  • Strip retail. Not a strategy we pursue.
  • Operating businesses. We buy real estate, not businesses that happen to occupy it.
  • Ground leases. We do not buy ground-lease assets.
  • Duplexes. Our multifamily strategy starts at six units.

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