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All Forum Posts by: Blake Dailey

Blake Dailey has started 44 posts and replied 282 times.

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Simmy Ahluwalia:

@Blake Dailey - Good stuff!  How long is the LP investor hold?  I have a similar product in NE GA, turnkey, going in 9 cap.  Needs an owner-operator to manage.  Rustic with lodges/cabins/restaurant, 117 acres.  $12.5M.


 It's a year 3 or 4 refi to return 100% of the principal and then projecting a 10 year hold because it's great cash flow and all the money will be out of it. 

Send me the deal. I have a few people who'd be interested to take a look.

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Jordan Ray:

Congrats @Blake Dailey!!! I sent you a connection request. Looking forward to seeing the project updates. 

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Post: Boutique hotel buyer

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205

Hey Christy, would love to hear more. Feel free to message me directly

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Michael Thach:
Quote from @Blake Dailey:

So excited to announce to the community that as of last month, I acquired my largest deal to date which is a 130-Unit Hotel and Resort in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee! I'll include all details below.

THE LOCATION: The hotel is conveniently located in the breathtaking Smoky Mountains, just minutes away from the Great Smoky Mountain NP entrance. And it doesn’t end in closing the deal; it's the beginning of an extraordinary transformation to come with a full renovation and redesign!

THE VISION: With 130 units and 8 buildings plus a wedding and event venue, our vision includes revamping this space into a dream hotel. Picture this: 3 pools and hot tubs, a dynamic game room, a versatile venue, pickle-ball courts, outdoor theater, mini-golf, and more. We are going to create a vibrant experience for our Guests!

THE NUMBERS: With a purchase price of $7M, my Investors and I put down $2.7M as the down payment on the property. With our vision mentioned above, we're allocating a whopping $3M into the complete renovation, re-brand and makeover of the hotel.

THE INVESTOR: For those of you who don't know me, I'm Blake Dailey and this is my 6th Boutique Hotel investment! My first purchase was back in 2021 with a small little 8-unit Boutique Hotel in Florida. Since then, I've documented the process as a Boutique Hotel investor and have a deep commitment to sharing my knowledge around Boutique Hotel Investing with others who are looking for a path to financial freedom, and Boutique Hotels is the best path to get there in my personal opinion. Let's connect!


 Wow this is very inspirational. Can you share how the deal is structured, how you got the investors on board and a more about the financials ? This is for sure an interesting journey. 


Thanks man. It's structured as a syndication, 60/40 LP/GP split with a 7% preferred return. The investors are people I've made relationships with over the years and I brought on partners to help raise capital as well. We just closed in late Dec so the financials are a work in progress but we're projecting and tracking closely to a 55% expense ratio and should have about 11% CoC in year one through the renovation period as we get more renovated units online.

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Hari Mann:

Congrats on this sick deal! Your journey since 2021 seems bonkers!

Hotels and hospitality are a super interesting sector to me. I would love to eventually look more into hotels and perhaps the restaurant industry. I like starting small so maybe a food truck in 10 or so years :)

I'm currently looking for investors to do what you did except focusing on commercial residential property in Kansas City. How did you first start working with investors to allow you to raise ~$1-2M?


It’s so much in networking. Meetups, conferences, social media - connecting with as many people as makes sense and just discussing investing and what you do and if you found X would they be interested in investing with you. Then you have to stay in touch and keep them engaged. That’s the very simplified version but raising capital is always your biggest limiting factor so the more investors you can connect with the better. 

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @James McPherson:

Would you have time to speak with me? I am new to this and I would like to benefit from your experience please.


 Yep!

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Cliff Benner:

@Blake Dailey That is amazing!!!

I am looking to get my first one in the mountains of Colorado here! 

What kind of resources do you recommend for finding a good first choice?


 I DM'd you! Colorado is awesome and a good place to start with the strategy.

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Paul Azad:

Beautiful property Blake, and great growing area, i drove through a few years ago, amazing scenerey and perrenial vacation spot, would you feel comfortable sharing the structure of the syndication for the investors, fees, projected IRR, or time weighted avg returns etc from a potential passive investor perspective? Best of luck, would love to stay there if ever passing through again.

Hey Paul. It is a very cool area! The IRR will be around 19-20% with a 3X equity multiple and 14% CoC. A big reason why I like hotels so much - I can buy cool properties in awesome destinations and get returns like that.

Post: I Bought A 130 Unit Hotel and Resort!!

Blake DaileyPosted
  • Investor
  • Ogden, UT
  • Posts 294
  • Votes 205
Quote from @Marc Rice:
Quote from @Blake Dailey:

So excited to announce to the community that as of last month, I acquired my largest deal to date which is a 130-Unit Hotel and Resort in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee! I'll include all details below.

THE LOCATION: The hotel is conveniently located in the breathtaking Smoky Mountains, just minutes away from the Great Smoky Mountain NP entrance. And it doesn’t end in closing the deal; it's the beginning of an extraordinary transformation to come with a full renovation and redesign!

THE VISION: With 130 units and 8 buildings plus a wedding and event venue, our vision includes revamping this space into a dream hotel. Picture this: 3 pools and hot tubs, a dynamic game room, a versatile venue, pickle-ball courts, outdoor theater, mini-golf, and more. We are going to create a vibrant experience for our Guests!

THE NUMBERS: With a purchase price of $7M, my Investors and I put down $2.7M as the down payment on the property. With our vision mentioned above, we're allocating a whopping $3M into the complete renovation, re-brand and makeover of the hotel.

THE INVESTOR: For those of you who don't know me, I'm Blake Dailey and this is my 6th Boutique Hotel investment! My first purchase was back in 2021 with a small little 8-unit Boutique Hotel in Florida. Since then, I've documented the process as a Boutique Hotel investor and have a deep commitment to sharing my knowledge around Boutique Hotel Investing with others who are looking for a path to financial freedom, and Boutique Hotels is the best path to get there in my personal opinion. Let's connect!

www.youtube.com/@BlakeDailey

www.instagram.com/BlakeJDailey


 Great stuff! My business partner and I are developing a 60 acre 15-unit glamping/wedding boutique resort in Asheville, NC right now and learning a lot along the way! Seems like 130 units is a beast to manage, I'd love to hear about your on-site management systems and "experience management" process to stand out amongst the fierce competition in the smokies.


 Awesome man, that sounds like a sick project. I have a good developer friend in the area who has a similar type property I should connect you with if you don't know him. I really like Asheville too! Would be happy to connect sometime, shoot me a DM.