How to Buy Real Estate Big Funds Won't Touch w/ Nasir Ali

Real Estate Investing with RealDealCrew · Aug 4, 2026 · 43m · transcript

A 45-year mobile home park operator on why institutional funds won't touch his deal size, and why that's the edge.

Summary:

Ali Vahdat is an eighth-generation commercial real estate operator who has spent over 45 years buying, operating, and now exiting mobile home parks and manufactured housing communities, almost entirely across California. In this conversation, Ali explains the exact deal size where institutional capital stops looking and smaller operators can't scale, why the old rule that you have to start in residential before commercial doesn't hold up, and how a vertically integrated…