Guides for Los Angeles apartment owners.
We buy apartment buildings in LA County for our own account, which means we underwrite this city's rules every week. These are the guides we wish owners had before they went to market. Written for owners, and for the attorneys and CPAs they call. Every figure cited to its primary source with the date we checked it.
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Why these are different from the usual seller content.
We cite everything.
Every dollar figure, deadline, percentage and code section on these pages carries an inline link to the primary source it came from and the date we verified it — LAHD, LADBS, the LA Municipal Code, the Office of Finance, the California codes, the IRS. If we could not verify a number from a primary source, we say so on the page instead of estimating. Municipal figures move constantly; a guide that does not tell you where its numbers came from is a guide you cannot check.
We flag what is about to change.
A lot of these numbers adjust on a schedule. RSO rent increases and relocation amounts reset every July 1. ULA thresholds move with the Chained CPI. HUD income limits update in the spring. Where a figure has a known expiry we name the date, so you know whether you are reading something current or something that lapsed.
We write from the buy side.
We are a principal buyer acquiring for long-term ownership. That is a bias and you should know about it. It also means when we describe what a buyer does in diligence, we are describing what we do — the reports we order, the documents we ask for, and the specific findings that make us move a number. That is more useful to you than a general article about selling real estate.
We do not give legal or tax advice.
These pages explain how the process works and where the money goes. They are not a substitute for your attorney or your CPA, and on anything involving an exchange you need a qualified intermediary engaged before the sale closes. Every guide says so, and we mean it — the mistakes we see most often are the ones an owner made confidently, alone.
What is not here yet.
We are building a quarterly report on the LA small and mid-market multifamily segment — the four-to-hundred-unit range where we actually transact — drawn from our own deal flow rather than aggregated listing data, with the methodology stated plainly so you can judge it. Offers reviewed, what we bid versus what traded, where sellers and buyers kept getting stuck.
It is not published yet because it is not ready, and we would rather publish nothing than publish numbers we cannot stand behind. When it goes up it will be here.
Working on a specific building?
Send the address and a rent roll. We buy four to 100+ unit apartment buildings across Los Angeles County for our own account — as-is, tenants in place, orders attached. Written offer in one business day, or a straight answer about why it is not a fit.