Best Practice to Vet a Real Estate Operator
We are in an environment at the moment, where many investments are under-performing. In some cases, this may be because of market timing and circumstances – interest rates and inflation spiked much faster than anyone would have predicted, and even the most experienced of operators would have seen impacts from these macro trends.
In other cases, underperformance may stem from poor operations, inexperienced operators, or worse still, fraud and misconduct.
Amongst this backdrop, we have been having many conversations with investors lately on the topic of vetting investments and vetting operators. Based on these conversations, we thought it may be useful to provide a summary of best practices to ensure that you partner with a reliable and competent operator.
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