Rob Beardsley of Lone Star Properties is a multi-family investor and preferred equity provider, primarily in Texas and the southwest. Rob and Lance get into the technical details of the relationship between risk and return, and why not all returns are created equal. Rob also discusses the preferred equity side of his business, and the underappreciated role that pref equity can play in lower middle-market deals.

This week’s guest
Robert oversees acquisitions and capital markets for the Lone Star Capital and has acquired over $100M of multifamily real estate. He has evaluated thousands of opportunities using proprietary underwriting models and published the number one book on multifamily underwriting, The Definitive Guide to Underwriting Multifamily Acquisitions. He has written over 50 articles about underwriting, deal structures, and capital markets and hosts the Capital Spotlight podcast, which is focused on interviewing institutional investors. Robert also helps run Greenoaks Capital, his family’s real estate investment and advisory firm