Investing Methodology — Specifics

Add Value Through Superior Underwriting Practices

Our underwriting process is a highly personal one.  When it comes to assessing the value of a potential asset, instead of counting on third-party Property Condition Reports or advice from parties not invested in our success, we do it ourselves.  We send out our own in-house experts to walk the building, evaluate its components, and interview the tenants.  We often bring in contractors — not consultants — with whom we have a proven history to appraise its systems and uncover any deficiencies.  And we analyze its potential based on what we know about the building and its submarket, not from what we surmise from broad based comparable data.

In understanding an asset down to its base components we are better able to judge its investment potential and better prepared to manage it, should we choose to add it to our portfolio.