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Mark S.
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American Homeowner Preservation (AHP) Fund

Mark S.
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Kentucky
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I stumbled across the American Homeowner Preservation (AHP) Fund ad on a podcast.  Upon going to their website and researching further, it appears it's a hedge fund that buys discounted mortgages and supposedly tries to let homeowner's stay in their homes (and obviously make a profit) in doing so.  This is now open to non-accredited investors (as well as accredited) for as little as $100.  They keep any profits above 12% and it appears they charge about a 2% fee plus a couple other nonsense items (based on my very brief skimming through some info).  Anyone familiar with AHP?  Thoughts?

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    The virus has impacted a fund like AHP mostly in administrative delays with foreclosing on properties and getting them converted to REO properties for resale. One large component of their business model is to acquire distressed mortgage debt then foreclose and resell the property as REO on the open market.

    Due to moratoriums on both foreclosures and evictions, as I understand it, AHP is essentially experiencing a log jam on the back end of their exit cycle to recover investor capital and profit.

    They've recently introduced a program called "pre REO" which gives them a strategy to help pull investment capital from these assets which are waiting for foreclosure and exit so that they can recover some of the investment capital from the assets to meet redemption and capitalization requirements for the fund.

    It's an innovative program, but seems like an over-complicated solution rather than just waiting for the moratoriums to be lifted and proceed was foreclosures and evictions. Even when the moratoriums are lifted there's going to be a backlog for scheduling especially in judicial states so exits on these assets will be much longer than anticipated.

    I suspect AHP has most of its investors capital deployed into these type of assets and now it's jumping through major hoops to meet their capital requirements. This may be why many of you are experiencing delays in redemptions and distributions.

    In the fund which I co-manage, we've stopped foreclosure activity on many of the non-performing assets since it doesn't make sense to pay our legal resources for activities that are in moratorium. We've also postponed any new capital raising activities since deploying new subscriber capital into distressed assets that we cannot resolve quickly does not make sense.

    This virus has definitely forced distressed-debt managers to become more creative and patient in a market that they cannot effectively control.

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