Ben Miller – Forging Technology into Real Estate Investing (Part 2) (#20)

Icons of DC Area Real Estate · Jul 5, 2020 · 1h 18m

“First ask ‘What is the conflict of interest?’,” Ben Miller

Ben Miller Bio

See Episode #19

Show Notes (cont.)

Ben Miller talks about lens for risk (2:30)

Think about scenarios that “could go wrong” (2:45)

World class downsider

What if the developer goes bankrupt?

Planned for downturn

In 2017 he thought it was too frothy

Seth Klarman thinking (3:45)

Inversion thinking- What’s the worst that could happen? (4:10)

Dynamics in private market are different than the public markets (5:00)

Process of investment (5:50)

Invest as a secondary or preferred lending investment- 55%-80% (6:30)

Preferable to…