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Affordable Multifamily Lending

Our mission is to assist local governments, Public Housing Authorities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and nonprofit/for profit entities successfully carry out development opportunities. Barnett Consulting, LLC is experienced in real estate development training, neighborhood and community planning, developer capacity building and management, defining developer’s role and responsibility in project development, structuring joint venture partnerships, negotiating master development agreements, guiding development team selection, real estate finance, community development finance, loan underwriting, commercial development, financial modeling, and financing packaging.

- Managed regional teams, which included developing state business plans, marketing plans and investment goals and managing state agencies, lenders, and key policy makers relationships. - Underwrote multifamily Low-Income Housing Tax Credit projects and evaluated general partners’ and project financial guarantors’ development and financial capacity, which included credit risk, market risk, and operational risk. - Negotiated investment commitments, and presented investment decisions to NEF’s Investment Committee and Board of Directors. - Closed investments which required leading a team of owners, lenders, attorneys, and accountants through operating agreement and closing document negotiations.

Managed multifamily lending programs, federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, state housing tax credit programs, and multifamily architectural and construction review staff.