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Anatomy of a Deal

Every cashflowing real-estate deal runs the same eight stages, start to finish. The point of this page is total clarity on all of them — and on the one thing that matters most for us: which stages are ours, and which belong to a partner.

We own the brain work — finding, verifying, structuring, and paying out. Partners own the labor — closing, building, operating. Nobody is confused about who does what.

The eight stages of a deal — and who owns each
FIND Source a property that already throws off cash. OURS 1 UNDERWRITE Prove the numbers — rent, costs, cap rate — actually pay. OURS 2 STRUCTURE & RAISE Set up the entity, split it into shares, pool the capital. OURS 3 CLOSE Title, escrow, inspection, purchase — the property changes hands. PARTNER 4 IMPROVE Any rehab or value-add work, if the deal calls for it. PARTNER 5 OPERATE Tenants, rent collection, maintenance — the day-to-day. PARTNER 6 DISTRIBUTE Rent flows to owners + our fee, automatically, on a schedule. OURS 7 EXIT / REFINANCE Optional: sell or refinance; return capital + any upside. OURS 8 Ours — the finding, verifying, structuring, paying A partner — the closing, building, operating
Fig. 1 — The deal lifecycle. We own five stages of brainwork; partners own the three of labor.

Where we add value

Four stages are ours, and they're the ones that take judgment, not labor:

Where partners do the work

Three stages are pure labor — and we hand every one of them to a specialist:

Meet everyone in the-cast, and see exactly how the dollar moves through all of this in following-the-money.

The takeaway: we sit at the front and the back of every deal — finding it and paying it out — and we outsource the heavy middle entirely. That's the whole model in one diagram. → the-connector