About this episode

Christine Kwasny discusses the Risk Radar, a tool for LP investors to evaluate risks in private real estate deals.

Risk Radar: https://netzeroisawin.substack.com/p/introducing-the-risk-radar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share In this episode, Chris Lopez welcomes Christine Kwasny back to the show to break down the Risk Radar, a visual due diligence tool she built to help LP investors better understand where risk shows up in a private real estate deal. The tool grew out of Christine’s Substack, Net Zero Is a Win, where she publishes retrospective deal analyses on what went right, what went wrong, and what investors may have been able to identify in the original offering materials. Christine walks through the Risk Radar’s three major categories: what is fixed at closing, what is sponsor driven, and what is market driven. Chris and Christine discuss how LPs can evaluate GP team history, “cockroach” risks, going-in cap rates, debt terms, reserves, expense assumptions, capital stack structure, waterfalls, exit cap rates, supply and demand, rent growth, absorption, and vacancy. They also explore why retrospective analysis is one of the best ways to test whether risk was visible up front, why market timing can dominate long-term outcomes, and how tools like AI may help…

Topics covered

• risk assessment
• real estate investing
• due diligence
• LP deal reviews
• market analysis
• investment strategies

Keywords

• Risk Radar
• LP investors
• due diligence
• real estate
• investment risk
• market timing
• AI in investing

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