Podcast Discusses Mezzanine and Preferred Financing On this episode, Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman and Philip Melton Managing Director of Cohen Esrey Capital Partners talk Mezzanine and Preferred Financing with Cohen Esrey Vice President of Acquisitions Matthew von Ende. They discuss Mezzanine and Preferred Financing products and the differences between them ..read more

How Customer Fulfillment impacts investor returns On this episode, Cohen Esrey President and Chief Executive Officer Lee Harris and Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman talk customer fulfillment with Cohen Esrey Director of Customer Fulfillment Karen Crouch. They discuss how customer fulfillment should be the center point of investments and operational platforms and how it greatly impacts investor returns ..read more

Podcast discusses Renovation Plans and Projects   On this episode, Cohen Esrey President and Chief Executive Officer Lee Harris and Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman talk renovation plans with Nexus5 Senior Project Manager Stan Phelps. They discuss the planning, execution, and lessons learned of renovations ..read more

On today's episode, Cohen Esrey President and Chief Executive Officer Lee Harris and Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman talk financing with Cohen Esry Capital Partners Managing Director Phil Melton. They discuss different types of debt products and the pros and cons of various options.  ..read more

In today's episode of the Cohen Esrey Apartment Investors podcast Fund Manager Lydia Kinkade and Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman are joined by Cohen Esrey Chief Technology Officer Mark Fletcher.  Fletcher discusses the latest artificial intelligence tools that Cohen Esrey is currently using.    Topics include: How AI has been used in a variety of ways to enhance our operations and processes.   How software companies, like Adobe and Microsoft are starting to use AI in their products.  How AI has streamlined programing.  What the future of AI in re ..read more

Today on the podcast, Fund Manager Lydia Kinkade discusses Cohen Esrey Apartment Investment opportunities with Cohen Esrey President and CEO Lee Harris. Opportunities discussed include: CEAI Fund 25, LLC - Our newest traditional co-investment equity fund. Investors own a diversified portfolio of 16-18 apartment properties, quarterly distributions are made as available, but the larger potential upside is at the end of the 5-year holding period when we sell the property. Park Edge Apartments offerings – 8% Guaranteed Return Offering through CEAI Park Edge Lender 2, LLC – Investors are guarante ..read more

On this episode, Fund Manager Lydia Kinkade talks with Cohen Esrey President and Chief Executive Officer Lee Harris and Cohen Esrey Chief Operating Officer Ryan Huffman about margins of safety. Topics discussed include:  How a disciplined approach to apartment investing is actually a margin of safety in itself; How our due diligence process creates margins of safety; Co-investment fund structure – how diversification enhances margins of safety; Underwriting margins of safety in our financial modeling process, including how we utilize debt; Building margins of safety into our operations ..read more

It's midyear report time for the CEAI podcast. Today Fund Manager Lydia Kinkade joined Cohen Esrey President and CEO Lee Harris and Cohen Esrey COO Ryan Huffman to share market trends and how they impact their Best B™ investment thesis. Topics discussed include:  Generational trends with home buying  Absorption Rent growth Cap rates Interest rates  Resident preferences  ..read more

In this episode, CEAI Fund Manager Lydia Kinkade discusses recent headlines with Matthew Von Ende, Cohen Esrey's Vice President of Acquisitions, and Ryan Huffman, Cohen Esrey's Chief Operating Officer. In this episode, the Cohen Esrey trio discusses the following topics:  How to delineate headlines that say rent increases are shrinking through specific markets and submarkets.  The importance of normalizing the conversation about slowing rent gains, and what historic rent increases look like.  The impact of multifamily starts on Class B portfolios.  The nuance of multifamil ..read more

Lee Harris, Ryan Huffman, and Lydia Kinkade discuss the evolution of Cohen-Esrey's apartment acquisition program in the second episode of Cohen-Esrey Apartment Investment Podcast. Episode Length: 15:00 Join Cohen-Esrey’s Team https://www.cohenesrey.com/careers View our Portfolio https://www.livewellce.com/ Interested to learn more on investing or talking to us https://www.cohenesrey.com/investment We Empower People to Thrive https://youtu.be/MjVN7_CZZpQ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohen-esrey-real-estate-services-llc/mycompany/ Follow Lee Harris’s Entrepreneurial blog https://ane ..read more