Once you have that then you align your team with your goals and have straight forward conversations with them on expectations.We manage over 1,000 properties in Houston and DFW and 50-60% of our owners are out of state.

If the operator doesn't have a track record, then vet the team who he is aligned with.

In an ideal world every agent and broker would have an agenda that aligns with their buyers.

Look for agents that align with your interest.

If the deal still makes sense under these assumptions, then the return assumptions of your project are more aligned with and driven by operations, while simultaneously reducing correlation to market downturns, then you are looking at a solid deal.

Some of my units are in SOMA and East Cut and I bought them to align with expanding office space and tech employee base with the likes of Salesforce and Facebook buildings etc.

this is probably one of the most fundamental challenges to managing a PM--the incentives of the PM are rarely aligned with the incentives/goals of the owner (and often, the incentives of the PM are in direct opposition to the goals of an owner!)...

Make sure you are 100% certain that you are buying this 2nd HELOC at a steep discount in order to align the equity position with your goals. 

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