Investor education
Understand it before you fund it.
An informed investor is a better partner and a harder client to mislead. Everything below is the education we give privately before a first allocation — the vocabulary, the markets, and the honest mechanics of a syndication.
Section one
The vocabulary
Six terms carry almost every conversation in this asset class. Understand these and you can interrogate any sponsor, including us.
After Repair Value is what a property is worth once the renovation is finished and the asset is performing — not what it is worth today, and not what the seller believes it should be worth. It is established by comparable sales of finished, stabilized properties within a tight radius and a recent window, typically six months and half a mile.
ARV matters because it is the number every other number is measured against. Your total basis is the acquisition price plus the renovation budget plus carrying costs. If that basis is not meaningfully below ARV, there is no margin — and no margin means the deal has no tolerance for the ordinary things that go wrong.
A sponsor who inflates ARV can make a bad deal look excellent on a single page. We underwrite ARV using only closed sales, never active listings, and we discount the resulting figure before it enters the model.
Our standing rule
75% of ARV
Total all-in basis must land at or below three quarters of the discounted After Repair Value before a position clears committee.
Section two
Where we operate, and why
Three states, chosen for the same three reasons: net domestic in-migration, landlord-workable statute, and a basis that still clears our margin rule.
Atlanta remains the deepest rental market in the Southeast with a genuine employment base underneath it — logistics, film production, healthcare, and a corporate headquarters cluster that keeps household formation running ahead of new supply in the submarkets we buy.
Our focus is the inner-ring corridors east and southwest of downtown, where 1940s-to-1960s stock trades at a basis that still permits a full renovation and a defensible margin. Georgia statute also permits a workable eviction timeline, which materially affects the reserve we must carry.
The constraint is competition. Institutional buyers have been active here for a decade, which is exactly why every Silver Crest acquisition in Georgia has been sourced off-market through direct relationships rather than through a broker listing.
Georgia allocation
46%
Of capital deployed to date, concentrated across four inner-ring Atlanta submarkets.
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The Silver Crest Investor Guide.
The same education we give every client before their first allocation — written so a CEO with no real estate background can interrogate any sponsor in the market, including us.
- The full underwriting model we run on every position, with the margin rule and reserve assumptions stated
- A worked ARV and cap rate calculation on a real Atlanta acquisition, start to exit
- Market briefs for Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee with current basis-to-value spreads
- The eleven questions to ask any sponsor before you wire, and the answers that should stop you