When GPs ask us, “What’s the best entity structure for a real estate fund?” they usually mean the fund entity itself. Should it be an LLC or a limited partnership? That’s the wrong question. Or at least, it’s an incomplete one. Your fund isn’t one entity. It’s a stack of entities, and each one serves […]
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Your chart of accounts is the skeleton of your fund’s financial system. Every transaction, every report, every K-1 traces back to how your accounts are set up. Get it right, and your books are clean, your reports are accurate, and your CPA’s life is easier. Get it wrong, and you’ll spend the next two years
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Cost segregation is one of those strategies that every real estate fund manager has heard about, but few fully understand at the fund level. Most of the content online explains it for individual investors. Buy a rental property, run a cost seg study, take a big first-year deduction. At the fund level, it’s more nuanced.
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Real estate fund accounting is not the same as property-level bookkeeping. If you’ve been managing individual rentals or syndications and you’re stepping into a fund structure, the accounting requirements change significantly. It’s not just “more” accounting. It’s a fundamentally different discipline. You’re tracking capital across multiple entities, allocating income through a waterfall, maintaining individual investor
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If you manage a real estate fund, you already know that depreciation is one of the most powerful tax tools available to your investors. What you might not fully appreciate is how dramatically the rules just changed, and what that means for how you acquire, hold, and communicate the tax benefits of your fund. The
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Carried interest is how real estate fund managers build wealth. It’s the promote, the performance allocation, the share of profits you earn above and beyond your capital contribution. For most GPs, it’s the single most valuable component of their compensation. And most GPs don’t fully understand how it’s taxed. That’s not a criticism. The rules
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When you’re setting up a real estate fund, one of the first structural decisions you’ll face is whether to use an LLC or a limited partnership (LP). Your attorney will have an opinion. Your CPA should, too. Both structures work. Both are pass-through entities for tax purposes. Both can accommodate a waterfall distribution with preferred
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If you’re a GP who’s done a few syndications and you’re thinking about launching a fund, the question isn’t just “which is better?” The question is: which one fits where you are right now, and which one fits where you want to be? We work with GPs who run syndications, GPs who run funds, and
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If you’re transitioning from syndications to a fund, or launching your first pooled investment vehicle, there’s no shortage of advice about the legal side. Get a securities attorney. File a Reg D. Draft your PPM. All of that matters. But what most first-time fund managers overlook is the financial infrastructure. And that’s where things break
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Most people think real estate funds fail because of bad deals. A property doesn’t appreciate. A market turns. Cap rates compress. Those things happen. But in our experience working with real estate fund managers, that’s rarely the real cause of failure. The deals often are fine. What kills the fund is everything around the deal.
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