
Steven W
380 posts

Steven W
@kliwms
CFS Infill Developer/GC, Not a Real Estate Professional, but Globe Traveler. NC based



If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.


Local idiot @BeardyBrandon bought a 5-cap asset and loses his ass a few years later when rates went up. Moron didn’t get a fixed rate a credit bottom. And then decided that a 5-cap is a good return. Just a really stupid guy. 5-cap. Lmaoooooo. Who the heck has a cost of capital that low? What he fails to tell you is how much fees he got off this deal. Bad guy.


Lmaooo @BeardyBrandon is a fee machine. Look at this crap. He charges this kind of money for a 5% return and then blows up $15 million. He should be ashamed. Acq. fee: 2.5% of the purchase price - AM fee: 2% of revenue - PM fee: related entity - Promote is 30 over an 8, 50/50 of a 15. - Sale & refi fee (can double dip): 2% of sale price or new loan.








I'll say this as someone with experience in acquiring several billion dollars of multifamily: If you don't understand how floating rate debt and rate caps work, you really aren't ready to act in a GP capacity. (His comment here proves he didn't understand). If you don't understand how investing in a market with rents up 40% might affect the future returns you think you're getting and then shrug it off: "hey, I couldn't underwrite a 7% cap could I?!" you're really not ready to act as a GP. I hope that he's plugging as much of the gap with his own money as possible and definitely refunding his fees. I'm sure he's been aware of issues at this property for some time so hopefully he's been waiving the AM fee for some time. If you're an LP here's my advice: If you feel like you're in a marketing funnel, that's not the right GP for you.








I’d like to give Brandon Turner sincere credit for this post on IG. He fully owned up to the loss of LP capital publicly. Explained his responsibility, which is the most important, along with the market factors the affected the downfall of this deal. This is exactly how a sponsor should transparently communicate when something like this happens. It doesn’t make the loss of capital easier, but I have true respect for people that take ownership. The guru class has butchered the handling of their errors over the past 5 years. Brandon is the first one I’ve seen to step forward and address it. Credit where credit is due. Bravo.




I hope Midwestern cities make this work, but I would caution leaders in the Heartland against getting *too* optimistic about what's really just a downstream effect of supply constraints hitting the Sunbelt. wsj.com/us-news/akron-…


Landlords should not be able to increase rent unless they are upgrading the property/apartment.







