OBJECTIVE
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Identify and purchase under valued real estate at below replacement cost.
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Transform and manage real estate into income producing assets for appreciation.
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Achieve the highest return for investors & both short and long term.
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Emphasis on both short and long term profits.
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Primary investment in mixed-use multi-family and senior housing.
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Use of options to entitle large parcels of land.
Sid Afshar- CEO, Founder
Sid's experience includes over 30 years of successful real estate development in California, Nevada, and Arizona. His knowledge and drive have enabled him to direct numerous joint ventures in real estate and business.
He has acquired, entitled, constructed, and sold many single family, multi family, and commercial projects. Sid's accomplishments include receiving awards for quality work, as well as recognition in developing more than 40 projects, ranging from single family homes to apartment and commercial buildings. Some of the awards he has earned include the 2005 Presidential Business Advisory Council Award, as Business Man of the year. He was also nominated by the West Los Angeles Board of Realtors as Honorable Developer of the Year for quality and volume.
Sid holds a graduate and post graduate degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He studied urban planning in the school of environmental studies at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Sid is also the founder of an architectural design and development firm in Santa Monica California.
Several of his accomplishments include developing numerous apartment buildings in the following locations: Culver Blvd, West Los Angeles; Studio City, West Los Angeles; North Hollywood; and Inglewood Blvd, in West Los Angeles. A luxury condo development in Playa Del Rey; a Santa Monica Inn/ Holiday Inn Express, a 14 Acre Office Complex known as Palmdale Plaza in Palmdale CA; and a San Bernardino Office Complex have also been developed by Sid.
Joshua Safran- Vice President, Development
Joshua has been navigating complex real property projects through the entitlement and development process for 14 years. He has been the Deputy Port Attorney for the Port of Oakland for the last 6 years, serving as in-house counsel for America's 5th largest container port, Oakland International Airport, and the redevelopment and management of thousands of acres of commercial and industrial property along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. Before that, Joshua was an associate and counsel at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, a global law firm, specializing in land use, real estate, development, and local government law. There, he represented a wide array of governmental agencies, Fortune 500 companies, landowners, and developers in real estate transactions, planning, land use entitlement, environmental review, permitting, the political process, and litigation.
Joshua is also an author and nationally recognized advocate for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned. His 7-year legal odyssey to free a battered woman from prison was featured in the award-winning documentary film CRIME AFTER CRIME, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The film won over 25 awards, including the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Safran has also received numerous awards and national media coverage for his pro bono advocacy work. His critically-acclaimed memoir, FREE SPIRIT: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid (Hachette), about his childhood on the dark side of the Age of Aquarius, has been called a “beautiful, powerful memoir. . . reminiscent of David Sedaris’s and Augusten Burroughs’s best work: introspective, hilarious, and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW) and "a remarkable account of survival despite the odds" (Kirkus Reviews).