What would you buy if you could access $3mm in equity?

I have a family friend who told me that he could capitalize deals for me to run for him and wanted to get people's thoughts on what they would buy at those levels. Everything seems to be super expensive now. Crappy apartment deals are selling at 5% caps.

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"maddux"

@jankynoname where would you buy aggregates quarries? I am fairly familiar with gravel.

Ha anywhere there's a seller... But seriously, those are great businesses. I cover Martin and Vulcan and as the CEO of MLM likes to say, "if I could just have one aggregates quarry, I could retire happy... just one". I'd say Texas but valuations are probably way too high given how much highway work they've been doing there. I'd honestly probably look at some secondary metro in the Pacific Northwest, e.g. Bellingham WA or Bend, OR. Colorado/Utah could also do well. Those areas should grow a lot as the boomers retire and they're going to need more road infrastructure. Tie up a rock quarry today and sit on it for 10 years and you'll be sitting pretty... Just stay away from the Mississippi lol.

 

Good question. I would invest into small unanchored retail strips with upside/opportunistic deal drivers. Let’s say you buy into a strip with 150K NOI at an 8 cap, Reno it, roll out the tenants with higher rents, then flip out for let’s say a 7.5 cap at 220K NOI. You would gross like a $1,000,000. There’s plenty of deals out there if you open your eyes to them.

You eat what you kill.
 

Many equity opportunities in my view come down to 1 thing - highest and best use. Find a property, any type of property, where the land isn't being used at its best use. For instance, there's a recent deal I saw which was on a beach in SoCal that financed a Manufactured Housing Community. That is such an opportunity for an equity investor to come in and convert it to Multifamily, or a Hotel.

If you can't afford a particular project, pool your 3M with other investors.

 
"sigan7"

Many equity opportunities in my view come down to 1 thing - highest and best use. Find a property, any type of property, where the land isn't being used at its best use. For instance, there's a recent deal I saw which was on a beach in SoCal that financed a Manufactured Housing Community. That is such an opportunity for an equity investor to come in and convert it to Multifamily, or a Hotel.

If you can't afford a particular project, pool your 3M with other investors.

Some of those MHPs on the beach in Orange County are as rock solid as real estate gets. There's a reason they're mostly owned by families that have sat on them for decades.

 

As the person above said, buy underperforming retail centers, renovate, push occupancy and flip. I would apply the same to hotels. Buy properties with low end flags, renovate, put an awesome brand to get access to significant base of guests, grow revenue, and flip.

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I understand the difficulty. I also didn't quote the exact time frame for that entire project. The key thing is to buy an asset that is 1) Being mismanaged 2) Has significantly below market rents 3) Has short term on the leases. You also need to take into account where we are in the market cycle and what vacancy in the trade area looks like. 13 months minimum from purchase and you could probably do it all within 24 months if you know what you're doing.

You eat what you kill.
 
"FirstPrize"

I understand the difficulty. I also didn't quote the exact time frame for that entire project. The key thing is to buy an asset that is 1) Being mismanaged 2) Has significantly below market rents 3) Has short term on the leases. You also need to take into account where we are in the market cycle and what vacancy in the trade area looks like. 13 months minimum from purchase and you could probably do it all within 24 months if you know what you're doing.

If it was this simple everyone would do it.

 

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