Recession Resistant Commercial Real Estate Properties with Mark Khuri - CRE PN #438

12/21/23 • 36 min

Today, my guest is Mark Khuri. Mark is the co-founder or co-founder SMK Capital Management in 2010. SMK is a boutique private equity real estate investment firm, focusing on recent recession resistant investment opportunities. Mark has created and managed over 65 Real Estate partnerships with investors. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Mark Khuri about strategies to create a recession resistant real estate portfolio.

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BIGGEST RISK with Mark Khuri

J Darrin Gross

I'd like to ask you, Mark Khuri, what is the BIGGEST RISK?

Mark Khuri

I'd say today J, a lot of people think economy, recession, downturn, asset values dropping, etc. All of that is top of mind, but it's not the biggest risk for us, the biggest risk has, for many years has been the same. And it remains today and its people. So we are a private equity firm. We are inherently trusting others to operate the assets that we're investing in. And so people risk number one for us, Jay, and one of the hardest to, to mitigate against because people by definition can be mysterious and difficult and hard to understand and complicated. And so a lot of that risk for us is reduced by working with people for a number of years, it takes a long time to get to know them, see if they're really good. And if the business plan wants you to go left, but the economy is telling you to go right what do you do? Do you have the right people that can steer the ship that can adjust in the middle of the the operation and continue to always have the investors best interest in mind? So for us, it's definitely people risk.

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BIGGEST RISK with Mandy McAllister

J Darrin Gross

I'd like to ask you, Mandy McAllister, what is the BIGGEST RISK?

Mandy McAllister

I really believe that the BIGGEST RISK is doing nothing, that there's risk all around us. And no matter. I'm a very risk adverse person, I have followed the script. I am a farm kid who does stuff the right way. And it wasn't until I realized that no matter what it takes not taking a risk is the is a risk. It's a choice boards, leaning into my money getting eaten by inflation. So there was a book that was kind of all the rage recently through governance women called the psychology of money. And my primary takeaway there is I don't need to be perfect in my decision making. I just need to be reasonable enough. And if I'm reasonable enough in that risk mitigation, and the idea of real estate, everybody always needs a roof over their head. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, tells me that this will have demand till the end of time, right? You don't need to buy a Bitcoin, you don't need to buy a stock certificate, you need a roof over your head. So how can I lean into the thing with the strongest demand ever? And be reasonable enough in the process, so that I am winning, rather than just leaning back in letting inflation eat away at my mouth?