All Forum Posts by: Gagan Sehgal

Jack and Kishan
I’d be keen to hear about what tools are there in the market as well. I totally agree that these tools are no substitute for experience and judgement. Any underwriting is basically as good as your assumptions. I find it critical to test those assumptions under different scenarios when I’m looking at a deal. These tools are just meant to help save time and perhaps provide additional data that you can utilise in your decision making process.

Hi Vince 

Totally agree finding good deals def needs a lot of networking. I am a multifamily investor/syndicator and we mostly focus on Midwest and Southeast. We’ve mostly relied on broker relationships for sourcing on and off market deals so far.

What markets are you active in?

Cheers

GS

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Hi - I’d be curious to see what you have built.

Are you looking to source deals or for passive investment opportunities?

Hey Vessi - I would love to hear about the tools you are using as well.

I worked for decades as a trader at top tier Wall Street firms before focusing on Real Estate PE. I know from experience that finding the right deal takes time and effort but the right tools can help you analyze more deals in the same time, making you more productive. They aren’t a substitute for experience but they can help find deals you are not even looking at now because they don’t hit some filtering criteria you are currently using.

For example, one poster above suggested you should use short cuts like NOI/price to figure out a the cap rate and if the cap rate is too low you don't look into it any further. With our AI-based tools, we can actually take the analysis one or two steps deeper to understand why NOI is low before deciding to reject the deal or pursuing it further. In some cases you will find grossly mismanaged deals with bloated expenses which can easily be fixed to boost NOI or in other cases it could be that some units were offline for several months because of a fire perhaps which hurt revenues.
Any seasoned investor will be able to spot these quickly but the issue is as a human you can’t possibly analyze all the deals that come your way without using such tools.

Hi all - I am an investor who is looking to share ideas and opportunities with fellow real estate investment enthusiasts.