Why don't LP's share in risk earlier?

Have a small development deal we have been raising money for and at this point have 5 LP groups who are interested, but they want the deal permit ready which is going to take me 8-10 months to do and about $500k which I don't have. Is this a situation for a CoGp? What are some shops that do pre-development CoGp deals? 

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Their capital just isn't meant to be taking those risks with you. Sounds like you'll need a co-gp for sure as there are very limited LP groups that will share that risk with you unless it's a strong relationship or bulletproof deal. You will have slightly better luck with family office LP's. I can't think of any funds I know of that will take pre-dev risk. 

 

Developer in RE - Comm

We are willing to take a much lower promote for them to come in earlier. 

Then negotiate that. 

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Many things can go wrong in the permitting/entitlement process and LPs aren't willing to take on those risks, especially when there are plenty of shovel-ready deals in the market that need to be capitalized. By going into a CoGP you lose out on much of the upside through development fees and the promote; however, sometimes you don't have a choice - personally seeing this in a few deals I'm working on now

 

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