Launching Real Estate Syndications - Ep 13 - Finishing the Acquisition
Tilden Moschetti: All right,
liftoff is almost complete,
you're almost in order, it just
got a few things left to do. So
you're collecting money from
your investors right now. And
now it's time to finish it up,
get into orbit and make that
process complete. So that's what
this module is going to go
through. Just what are those
last minute things that you need
to do in order to be in orbit
comfortably?
Alright, so you are almost in
orbit. Now, what's the next
step? Well, first, you're
collecting money. So the first
thing we need to do is keep an
eye on money coming in and
making sure that you're
committing. Now you're gonna,
it's kind of a scramble as you
get towards the end, making sure
that everybody's money is there,
and that it all happens before
the deadline, I have never done
a deal. And I've never seen a
deal that just kind of skated in
and there wasn't a few things
really urgent that was left to
do in the last few days. It's
always the way. So if it happens
to you, you know, hopefully it
does, hopefully, it doesn't, but
in my experience, it's gonna
just know that this is normal,
and it's kind of a scramble at
the end, it's gonna all work
out, you've done all the hard
stuff. Now, it's just getting it
done. So as money's coming in,
you're keeping track, keep an
eye on those wires, you should
be talking to the bank
regularly, you should be
verifying your wiring
information with people
investing the money. Now, why am
I going on and on about wires
this check? Okay? Look, I
wouldn't do check. If I were
you. I've never had a problem
myself, I really don't take
checks anyway. So that's
probably why I haven't had a
problem. But it is possible the
way checks are set up for
somebody to give you a check for
you to deposit it. And then for
them to reverse it even for a
year afterwards, it could put
you in a really, really bad spot
wires, there's no backtracking
on. Plus, there's a huge amount
of security put in place for the
person sending the wire, if the
escrow company or the bank or
whatever is set up in such a way
to always verify with you your
routing information and your
deposit your your deposit
information, before they send
the wire, you're gonna be good.
So I also tell my, my investors,
when you're gonna wire me money,
call me from the bank, have the
banker verify that all my
information, there have been
cases where people have
interrupted wiring information
that was coming through the
internet, and they slipped in
alternative wiring information,
you don't want that to happen to
you, you don't want to lose
millions of your clients money.
So check the wires provide the
wiring information and keep
track of okay, this person's in
this person's in this person's
and I don't have this money from
this guy yet will let me find
out what the situation is. I've
had situations where the bank
had the wrong wiring information
that they that the investor
brought them something else,
I've had all sorts of strange
things happen, you just want to
be on top of it. If you're on
top fit, and just do one step at
a time, you're gonna get there
and it's gonna be successful. So
that part is going on. You also
want to make sure that your bank
and your accounting system is
ready for this new project. So
you want to make sure that
you're if you're using
QuickBooks or whatever you're
using to keep track of your
expenses, it's ready to go so
that way, from the minute it's
your property, you know how to
do it, you can organize
everything. I also like to set
up my distributions way early
way ahead of time, just so that
I'm all ready to go as soon as
possible. We're going to talk
more about distributions in the
next set of modules. I also want
to make sure that I'm ready to
have the conversation with my
investors not only about well,
we closed awesome job great
we're done, which definitely
should be doing as soon as you
were closed, but I also like to
be ready for whatever however
frequent my regular
communication is with them,
whether it's quarterly or
monthly, or hopefully not
annually, but at least
quarterly. I also want to be
make sure that I'm totally ready
for onboarding with property
management. So if I'm the
property manager, I want to make
sure that everything is ready
notifying tenants Things like
that are already my accounts are
all set up, I'm ready for my
utilities to be switched over,
everything is ready. This
shouldn't be new to you. This is
just normal stuff that takes
place in every transaction.
Now, when it comes to tenants,
so most of the deals that I do,
I don't do a lot of apartment
buildings, I do some, but it
applies also in apartment
buildings. But most of the time,
I find that there is been a
situation where there haven't
been proper pass throughs if
you're in a location to Where
there any kind of sale affects
the assessed value of the
property and property taxes is
going up, and tenants are
responsible for paying for it,
they're going to be hit with
more expenses, chances are your
tenants are going to get hit
with more expenses, or they
haven't been getting the
increases that they should have
been charged from the beginning.
That is normal. And tenants
freak out and they don't like
it. Know that that's the
situation, don't be overly
aggressive on lease tenants
unless you want to drive them
out anyway, if that's your plan,
to in order to clear the space,
then you can certainly can just
within the bounds of whatever
the lease is not overboard. But
just whatever the lease is, the
lease is the lease. I say that
all the time, that's part of the
thing I tell my law clients all
the time it's in the lease, the
lease is the lease. So that's
the rules of the road that they
they're facing. So but when
you're ready to just have the
thing for clients or for
tenants, be mindful that this is
a major change for their
business, if it's their business
or their home, this is a
substantial change that is
affecting them. So we want to be
mindful of it and not overly
aggressive again, unless you're
trying to clear out the space
anyway. But just be ready for
challenges that come up. As soon
as you do that. Because a lot of
times it happens, suddenly
getting hit with all these
changes can be disruptive,
especially if you're like if
those tenants are like how I am
with my business, I am obsessive
about every detail about my
business. And if something is
changing, I'm going to be a
little bit nervous about it.
Because it's a change. And it's
my business, I don't like that.
So just be mindful, that's the
case. Oh, always invite, you
know, reasonable dialogue. So
always be happy to have a
conversation with those tenants.
Because that will get you set
off on the right foot. My mentor
told me when I was getting
started in the business, he
said, the number one job of a
property manager. And I would
say this is true of an asset
manager, which is definitely you
as a syndicator is risk control.
You want to understand risk,
control the risk and make sure
that everything's fine. Now
those tenants and how they're
feeling their emotions are part
of the risk that just as
inherent in real estate, so just
be mindful of it. And with that,
you are going to close this
property, you are going to start
having that income in and you're
going to start earning that
reputation as a great syndicator
that you deserve. So that is
awesome. Congratulations. That
is terrific. Please send us a
message and tell us how that
process is going for you and and
how well it's working. And that
concludes liftoff, you're done.
You've lifted off you are now in
orbit. Now you just need to run
the syndication until it's time
to sell it. And then you're
going to be going into reentry.
So with that the next set of
modules is going to go through
that orbit process. It's how we
do those investor communications
that asset management, property
management and distributions so
that is what we're going to
cover in the next set of
modules.