ABOUT US
The Connected Companies is a real estate investment firm based out of Los Angeles, California. Our mission is simple - to leverage our real estate expertise to connect our communities - its residents, businesses, and investors alike. Our value proposition is a vertically integrated ecosystem aimed at cutting unnecessary costs for our investors while maintaining personalized real estate solutions for community stakeholders. From acquisition to disposition, our end-to-end management oversight ensures that our communities realize their full asset values. Ultimately, maximizing profits all.
INVESTMENT CITERIA
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
Brokers are invaluable for our growth. We seek lasting partnerships with dealmakers.
FULL SERVICE
Our full-service approach places us at the intersection where value meets efficiency
Where do we invest?
90-minute radius from our home base in Los Angeles, California.
LOS ANGELES
INLAND EMPIRE
ORANGE COuNTY
MEET OUR TEAM
Tim Chen
Principal
EDUCATION
University of Southern California
Bachelor's of Science
Accounting
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)
Principal
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
James Mu
Principal
EDUCATION
California State Polytechnic, Pomona
Bachelor's of Science
Business Administration
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Urban Land Institute (ULI)