All Forum Posts by: Colton Hahn

Definitely agree with @Anthony L Amos Jr that columbus is a city that is positioned well. Would recommend you look at some other midwest areas like Indianapolis, Ft Wayne, Evansville, Des Moines. 

We have multiple multifamily properties in these regions and have found tremendous value there. Best of luck :)

The SEC determines the qualifications. A CPA or lawyer can sign off that you meet the SEC accredited requirements, which will satisfy the sponsor you are considering. 

Hope that helps :)

 Hey Justin, happy to have you! We are a syndicator in the midwest and am open to chatting if you have any questions :)

 Hey Callaway,

I hope I can shed some light on the benefits of syndication. The reason people choose to invest in syndication vary but from my experience in this field it boils down to a few reasons:

1. They are too busy to operate the property on their own and want someone else to do it.

2. They want to trust professionals who have experience operating high level commercial properties, and have a track record of creating great returns. They could do it, but trust the experts to do it better.

3. This is the biggest one I see, they want the returns of owning real estate without the hassle. I will use a client I talk to frequently as an example, he is selling his properties and investing a large % with us so he can finally live his life. He got into real estate to get away from his W2, and 14 properties later he was basically in another W2 with the work they took. When you take into account expenses his properties took, the returns we provide were actually 1% higher without any of the work.

At the end of the day, I do not work on my HVAC I hire a trained professional to do the job. I could learn how to do, but is the juice worth the squeeze? 

Hey BP fam,

Wanted to post something interesting for you guys to ponder that I saw on Linkedin. 

According to this Record Highs For Home Equity, we are seeing record highs for home equity. 

I talk to a lot of investors and some are talking about a housing market crash akin to '08 or compare the economic anxiety we see now to that time period.

Juxtapose the record highs in home equity now to 2008, when everyone and their dog was taking out highly leveraged loans tying up their assets in debt. 

This is not to say everything is hunky-dory, obviously not. 

But many people are flush with cash tied to their homes, and an even larger number of people locked in bottom of the barrel near zero interest rates on their homes.

Look forward to the discussion :)

 We are an Indianapolis based multifamily syndicator, and we are doubling down on the Indianapolis market. The influx of cash from coastal cities seems to be agreeing with us, and we do not plan on leaving anytime soon.

 We syndicate deals in the midwest and love the region. Fully doubling down going forward, and the influx of coastal city cash backs us up :)

Hey BP Fam,

I wanted to share my what my experiences have been so far in these uncertain times talking with investors and what I have noticed from the big money investors we have.

Every day I talk to retail investors who are having a hard time deciding what to invest in during these shaky economic times, often times they watch the news and see nothing but doom and gloom and it reflects in their initial opinion of investing.  

More often than not they are more skittish to investing at all, and their initial reaction is to keep their money on the sidelines.

Juxtapose that with what our big investors are doing, I will use a conversation I had a few days ago with one of our larger investors. He had no issue dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars into our current syndication fund because of two reasons:

1. Real estate is NOT correlated to the bond or stock market.

2. When you do your due diligence, real estate has a higher rate of return than either bonds or stocks.

Curious what others are seeing and your opinions :)

Would absolutely approach them about it in a respectful manner. 

We look in the midwest exclusively. We have found it's the turtle vs the hair approach, with at least 3% consistent rent growth in Indianapolis for example, we have been able to hit consistent returns and do not plan on changing anytime soon :)