Your uncle passed away and left you $10 million with the stipulation that it be invested in real estate in the next 90 days. As word of your newfound wealth leaked into the real estate brokerage community, a line of brokers formed outside your door. “You should buy this office building” said the first broker, Ira Our. “At $20 million you’ll have to borrow money to buy it, but I know an Office Building REIT that wants to buy it for $21 million. The problem is that their Investment Committee doesn’t meet until next week and the Seller needs a binding Letter of Intent this week. You can flip the building in 45 days to the Office Building REIT and, after all expenses, pocket a quick $500,000. It works out to a 32.5% Internal Rate of Return. How are you going to beat that?” What are the practical and theoretical weaknesses in the investment/valuation methodology of Ira Our?

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Your uncle passed away and left you $10 million with the stipulation that it be invested in real estate in the next 90 days. As word of your newfound wealth leaked into the real estate brokerage community, a line of brokers formed outside your door.

“You should buy this office building” said the first broker, Ira Our. “At $20 million you’ll have to borrow money to buy it, but I know an Office Building REIT that wants to buy it for $21 million. The problem is that their Investment Committee doesn’t meet until next week and the Seller needs a binding Letter of Intent this week. You can flip the building in 45 days to the Office Building REIT and, after all expenses, pocket a quick $500,000. It works out to a 32.5% Internal Rate of Return. How are you going to beat that?”

What are the practical and theoretical weaknesses in the investment/valuation methodology of Ira Our?

 

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