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For the operator getting ready to sell

The real estate fund built for the operator 2 to 7 years from a sale.

If most of your net worth is locked in one business and you're starting to think about what comes after, this is for you. Run by an operator who's been there. Two exits, still building.

Brent Neely in the cockpit en route to a Boise deal
Brent Neely, en route to a Boise deal. He flies the plane that gets him there and takes the meeting himself.
The three real problems

Three problems a sale creates. Most investment products don't solve all three.

i.

The tax bomb hits twice. Sometimes more.

Selling a business is one taxable event. Every subsequent sale or distribution creates another. The structure of where your capital lands matters as much as the return it earns.

ii.

The active income disappears.

The day you sell, the W-2 and K-1 income that funded your life for 25 years is gone. A lump-sum return doesn't replace it. The shape of the cash flow matters more than the total dollars.

iii.

The legacy doesn't always transfer.

Most short-term investments are taxed and consumed in your lifetime. Long-hold real estate can pass to your heirs with stepped-up basis, the way wealthy families have used real estate for generations.

The approach

Three phases. One direction. Built around the after-tax outcome.

01Value-add

Acquire and improve. Years 1–3

Acquire workforce multifamily we can improve. Disciplined renovation, real on-site operations, and the tenant brand that drives rent premiums and retention competitors can't match.

02Refinance

Return capital, no taxable sale. Year 3

Refinance into long-term agency debt. Most of your original capital returns as a non-taxable return of capital. Your money keeps working without a second tax bill.

03The hold

Compound. Distribute. Transfer. Years 4–12

The remaining capital compounds in a stabilized, agency-financed asset. Quarterly distributions. Depreciation shelter against post-exit income. Eventual sale or generational transfer.

The Operator's AI Playbook by Brent Neely
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The Operator's AI Playbook:
AI workflows to get your business ready to sell.

The AI workflows I'm using to run multiple businesses without an ops team. The tax math nobody runs for you. Written for the operator 2 to 7 years from a sale.

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