Turns out value-add investment strategies, in which developers renovate older apartment buildings, can make apartments too expensive for many lower-income renters, according to industry experts. “As an industry, we are taking too many class-C apartments and trying to make them class-As,” says Daryl Carter, founder and CEO of Avanath Capital Management, an investment firm based in Irvine, Calif., that focuses on renovating older apartments. FULL ARTICLE |