Understanding Real Estate Syndication Through a Practical Example
Tilden Moschetti: When you're
putting together a real estate
syndication, a lot of your world
gets consumed by the world of
Regulation D, and the SEC and
syndication and funds and all
those things. But what we
oftentimes forget is that many
people in the world don't know
what we're talking about when we
say, real estate syndication,
and they would be interested,
but they just don't know. And so
a lot of times you'll get the
question, well, can you give me
an example of what a real estate
syndication would look like? So
in this video, we're going to do
just that.
My name is Tilden Moschetti. I'm
a syndication attorney with the
Moschetti syndication Law Group.
Let me give you an example of
what a real estate syndication
is. I understand that if you're
watching this video, you
probably already know what it
is, but many people don't. And
I'm oftentimes surprised myself
because I forget, you know, this
is my world that I live in 24
hours a day, seven days a week,
365 and one quarter days a year.
But most people aren't living in
this world that are thinking
about this stuff all the time.
So here is sort of an example
that I could use if I was asked,
you know, can you give me an
example of a real estate
syndication? So I probably would
say, let me tell you about one
of the first deals that I did.
So I found this piece of
property on that property, it
was already developed by a
developer, it was a medical
office property. And they had a
tenant lease already signed.
Now, I knew that who the
developer was, I already had the
relationship with them. And I
knew that they were interested
in just selling it pretty
quickly because they wanted to
move on to their next project.
So I immediately thought this is
a good opportunity to buy in at
a lower price, and get a nice
piece of real estate. I could
have bought this property for
myself. But I wanted to get
started in syndication. And so I
did this deal, right, so I
bought the property, I put the
property under contract. And
then I started looking for
investors. In this case, I have
a good network. So I was using
rule 506. B in order to find
investors. So which meant I
could take both non accredited
and accredited investors. So I
went around to all my everybody
that I know, and I talked to
them about this investment. I
said, I'm buying this piece of
real estate, I'm getting it at a
discount, because the developer
who's just finished it, they
already have the major tenant in
place and is ready to move in as
soon as development is over. But
they want to go off and do
develop another project for that
same tenant. So I'm getting it
at a good discount. Now I know
that in the area, there is only
one of these buildings and one
of this kind of tenant, this is
a medical tenant. And so I know
that this is only one. There are
some other reasons of why this,
this is a very specific purpose.
And that it's an underserved
community for the services that
this medical company provides.
So there was a there was a good
need in the marketplace for it,
which creates a value in that
tenant, right? So they want that
tenant there, the tenant is most
likely going to stay there for a
very long time and keep renewing
their leases. Also the economics
of the area, the demographics
were really, really strong. It
was strong in most areas, but it
was also uniquely strong in the
same medical service that was
necessary that was being
provided by my client by my my
tenant. So I had this great
opportunity, right? So what I
did is I divided it up, I think
it was approximately a $2
million raise. And I'm rounding
here because I don't remember
exactly. It was a $2 million
raise, and then I put financing
of another $2 million on it. So
I put a low got a loan had that
done $2 million, so I still
needed to raise $2 million. So I
divided it up into at that time,
I think I divided it up into
$50,000 shares. And then I
started selling those $50,000
shares out to people that I knew
people who were already in my
network. Now some people came in
through family some of it was
family and I would explain to
them what the family was and
they wanted to support me so
they came in others were friends
so friends were interested in
they wanted to support me as
well and they saw a good
opportunity. They knew I knew
the industry very well and so
they trusted me with their
money. The other was business
associates so business
associates knew that I knew what
I was doing that I knew the
property well and I knew what I
and that they stood to gain, you
know, well financially with it.
Some people chose to invest just
cash out of their savings out of
their checking accounts or what
have you. Some chose to invest
with their self directed IRA, at
the end of the day, we raised
that $2 million. So then at
closing, all $4 million, went to
the property, I manage that
property. I didn't hire a
property manager, it was on
basically a triple net lease, so
it wasn't very difficult to
manage. And then every quarter I
made distributions, I made
distributions to my investors,
it turned out that we were
making distributions, you know,
right around the amount that we
told investors we would be
making. And we made them very,
very regularly, we didn't let a
day go by when if we said it was
going to be probably on the
first of the month, it had to
happen on the first of the
month, or the first Monday of
the month. In order for them to
get their check. It was in we
didn't let a week go by in order
for me to make that
distribution. At the end of four
and a half years, I projected
that it was going to be a five
year term. At four and a half
years, I decided the market was
in a really good position at
that point. I wanted to sell the
property. I told all my
investors, I think it's now's
the time to sell what do you all
think? Everybody seemed to agree
with me, we, I marketed the
property I found, I did this
deal myself where I put put it
on the market. And I sold the
property myself. The first
transaction didn't go through
second one did made a lot of
money for my investors made my
final distributions. So that so
each investor, I was projecting
that each investor would make a
15% IRR, which is an internal
rate of return. So you can think
of it almost like it's 15%
annually that they were getting
from their investment. And at
the end of the day, that's they
got round like I think it was 15
and a half percent. So we
overachieved just by a little
bit. Investors got their money,
they were happy, and investors
came with me on the next round.
So that is an example of a real
estate syndication a very, very
simple one. I had one tenant, I
had a bunch of investors, I
think I had maybe 1617 investors
at that time in that deal, and
we made the money. So there is
an example of what a real estate
syndication is. Hope you found
that useful. My name is Tilden
Moschetti. I am a real estate
syndication attorney with the
Moschetti syndication Law Group.