San Diego Landlord Doubles Property Value, Treats Tenants Like Humans
Bought a trashed 24-unit building for $3.1M that everyone else passed on because it was loaded with rent-controlled senior tenants. Nobody wanted to touch it.
Building was infested, broken, a genuine disaster. We paid to move tenants into better housing, covered all costs, gave back deposits, paid 3 months rent at their new places. One stayed as onsite manager at $500/mo because she was great and needed the help.
Renovated, doubled the value to $6M, hit 7.25% unlevered yield. Tenants actually came out ahead, investors crushed it, building is fixed.
This is what happens when you treat people like people instead of extractable value. Wild concept, apparently.
Real estate deal that proves treating tenants decently and making serious money aren't mutually exclusive, which apparently still shocks the industry.
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