Conatus Real Estate Is A Single Family Rental Investment Consulting Firm That Helps Advise Investors On Best Practices & Tactics To See Higher Quality Yields On Their InvestmentsOur Passion Is Building Wealth With Our ClientsWhether you are already in the process of a 1031, thinking about starting one, or just looking for some guidance on purchasing out of your own market Conatus Real Estate can help you Identify the best possible and highest performing properties for you.Own Your Future With A Custom Tailored Single Family Rental PortfolioWe work with you to build the very best possible Single Family Rental Investment Portfolio available to you. The flexibility of building your wealth on SFRPs vs other Investments puts you in control of your future, not someone else.Sell Your Current Property & Let Us Do the RestWe are not a Turn-Key operation. We do not have a vested interest in the Single Family Rental Portfolio or Properties we help identify & Secure for you. We simply want to help you build your wealth, on your terms, for a better path towards a better future.Single Family Rental Experts You Can TrustConatus Real Estate is lead by a team with strong expertise in Analytics, Real Estate, Investment, and Entrepreneurship. We are passionate about building Single Family Rental Portfolios that bring More Durable Cashflow Streams to our clients.--CA DRE #01904984

True Investments, LLC (and its affiliated or managed entities) is a real estate private equity firm that invests in single family residential rental properties in select markets and submarkets nationwide. The firm’s focus is a long term buy and hold rental strategy. True Investments is responsible for acquisition, renovation, property management and disposition.Built and managed acquisitions team that deployed over $40MM on over 600 "one off" mls and off market Single Family Home purchases in 2014. Opened 11 markets during the year and increased monthly acquisition volume from ~$1MM to ~$7MM over a 6 month period. Over the course of two years, built out a national sourcing network across 16 states, built and developed all acquisitions systems and processes to support a high volume "one off" purchase targeted platform. Qualified in house Real Estate brokerage and represented the firm in its purchase of a 25,000 sqft corporate headquarters in Newport Beach, CA.

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Quantitative and Financial Analysis ConsultantProject: Development of a private money lending platformProject: Micro Finance "factoring-esqe" probability of default statistical analysis

Versatile role in analytics and asset management groups of an investment management fund that owned/managed as much as $3 billion in distressed residential mortgages and reo properties.AnalyticsManaged disposition strategies analytics group. Developed analytics tools utilized by asset management team in executive level reporting and profitability optimization. Spearheaded several strategic pricing recommendations, including a trustee sale pricing recommendation that netted the company an additional $1.5MM in profit in a single quarter on California assets alone.Priced over $1B of distressed residential mortgages for potential acquisition of pools being sold by large banks, mid-tier regional banks and government entities.Managed major statistical analysis project of firm. Included research of internal portfolio and purchased market data that encompasses 80% of mortgages in the country to extract intelligence about default tendency, workout timelines and geographical delinquency activity.Asset ManagementHarvested market intelligence by traveling to over 300 properties during a 10 month period in 21 states and over 50 MSA’s. Established an extensive nationwide real estate broker network. Utilized information to drive business strategy. Acted as an in house liaison to brokers.Acted as REO group property rehabilitation and repair authority. Responsible for making repair recommendations to maximize execution on assets nationwide. Determined expected buyer profile and made repairs to direct marketing to these individuals. Consistently increased REO property values and reduced marketing times.Managed Short Sale and Settlement disposition groups. Drove campaigns to establish borrower contact and increase pipeline of listed assets by leveraging extensive broker network and servicer partners. Responsibile for all proposed deals and best execution accountability.

Analyst in securitization group that created $6.5 billion of CMBS bonds (50% increase from previous year) in 8 deals, one of which was first commercial deal where company acted as issuer.Acted as deal manager for two deals, including: provided information to B-piece buyer, ensured rating agencies have all pertinent information, accumulated and “tied out” loan data with 3rd party accountants and counsel, created and assured quality of Asset Summary Reports (ASRs), coordinated with internal underwriting and origination teams, and managed servicing rights sale process. Developed and implemented Excel based servicing rights valuation model. Reverse engineered servicing vendor valuation models using Visual Basic program and historical bid data that targets various model assumptions. Application of the valuation model successfully predicted a portfolio servicing rights value centered among the four bids received for servicing rights of the portfolio. Created a process improvement model that dramatically reduced “strat table” production time. Model used in CMBS sales desk activity to provide information to potential investors of collateral statistics. During company’s initial venture as sole bond issuer, developed and implemented program that automated generation and transfer of loan pool collateral statistics into text of Offering Memorandum. Developed Excel based bond structuring model. “Tied out” to structure package of recent deal created by structuring team in Intex Dealmaker. Completed collateral statistics analysis projects for trading desk. With management team, allocated loans to deal pools based on credit characteristics, composition of loan type in deal, timing and other factors. Participated in credit committee.

Negotiated all contracts required to build out a 37 unit SFR infill project in Costa Mesa, CA. Work entailed negotiating contracts with potential partners, act as business liaison to partners through to completion of project, managing office staff to assemble bid packages (building plans, scope of work, etc.) and distribute to potential sub-contractor partners. Assisted with multiple design, negotiation and management aspects of several development projects. Attended a 2 month long construction training course at company headquarters in Denver, CO.

Managed following project types - Kitchen/Bathroom remodels, structural construction to move walls and open up floor plans, exterior landscaping and hardscaping, paint and other aesthetic work. Projects ranged from an average mid-city Los Angeles, CA SFR to a multi-million dollar Manhattan Beach, CA strand Duplex, and others of similar type. Contracted with sub-contractors and general contractors as needed. Pulled permits and satisfied all inspections when required. Managed and employed a labor crew.

Project management of critical aspects of multi-million dollar residential real estate development projects in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, CA. Managed required tasks from acquisition/demolition of existing home to design/planning/construction of new home. Worked on over 10 projects starting during summers off from undergraduate studies and returned after graduating to work full time until I started my own construction/development services business.