ABOUT US
The Connected Companies is a real estate investment firm based out of Los Angeles, California. Our mission is to leverage our real estate expertise to better connect our communities of investors, residents, and businesses alike. At Connected, we pride ourselves on our end-to-end management approach. Our value proposition is a vertically integrated ecosystem that connects the real estate dots. From acquisition to disposition, our intensive investment and asset management oversight ensures that the full asset value is realized while developing real estate solutions and cutting unnecessary costs to deliver maximum value to our community stakeholders.
The Connected Companies primarily focuses on Multifamily and suburban Retail real estate within a 90-minute radius of our home base in Los Angeles, California. Most of our investment submarkets are in Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire. We welcome all brokers and partners on value-add and opportunistic deals priced between $2 to $10 million.
VALUE ADD
Whether it be renovating or repositioning, Connected’s Value-Add platform pursues undervalued opportunities and leverages our integration of services to enhance real estate values. We purchase under-performing Multifamily and Retail properties, perform capital upgrades, and increase cashflows through our end-to-end management oversight. Deal characteristics include but are not limited to the following:
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Moderate to Slightly Below Market Rents
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Moderate to Slight Vacancies
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Some Deferred Maintenance
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Operating Inefficiencies
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Poor In-place Management
OPPORTUNISTIC
The Opportunistic approach employs The Connected Companies’ “buy, build, sell/ hold” strategy to develop or reposition underutilized properties. This entails of entitling and constructing ground-up development projects, substantial re-developments, as well as repositioning distressed and/or underperforming assets.
Deal characteristics include but are not limited to the following:
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Severely Below Market Rents
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Moderate to Higher Vacancies
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Major Deferred Maintenance
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Larger lots primed for (re)development
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Infill & land-locked sites
MULTI-FAMILy
Our primary investment focus and roots are in the Mult-family space
RETAIL
We connect communities through quality food and shopping in suburban neighborhoods
$2-10 Million
Average capital deployed by Connected & our partners per deal
90 minute
We invest anywhere within a 90-minute radius of our home base in Los Angeles
BROKERS
We understand that good brokers are an invaluable asset and seek to create lasting relationships with solid deal makers
TRANSPARENCY
Our fiduciary is to our investors. Therefore, we maintain an open book policy for full investor transparency
Where do we invest?
90-minute radius from our home base in Los Angeles, California.
LOS ANGELES
INLAND EMPIRE
ORANGE COuNTY
Chaplon Mu
EDUCATION
Georgetown University
Master's in Professional Studies
Real Estate Development & Finance
California State University,
Los Angeles
Bachelor's of Science
Finance, Real Estate concentration
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
District of Columbia Building Association (DCBIA), 2016-2018
Tim Chen
EDUCATION
University of Southern California
Bachelor's of Science
Accounting
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)
James Mu
EDUCATION
California State Polytechnic, Pomona
Bachelor's of Science
Business Administration
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
