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Business Overview
RiverOak Realty Fund II, LLC (the "Fund")
is being formed by RiverOak Investment Corp., LLC (the "Managing
Member") to provide high net-worth individuals, corporations,
small pension funds, Individual Retirement Accounts, self-directed
401-Ks, and endowments access to professionally managed real
estate investments. Stephen DeNardo ("Mr. DeNardo")
and George Yerrall ("Mr. Yerrall") (together the "Operating
Principals") are the Operating Principals of the Managing
Member who will manage all aspects of the Fund's business. The
Operating Principals have extensive experience in all phases
of real estate investment sourcing, acquisition, management and
financing. The Fund will focus on multi-family residential, office
and retail properties located in Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York and Eastern Pennsylvania (the "Investment Territory").
No management fees, organization fees, acquisition fees, disposition
fees, placement fees or other fees will be charged to the investors
by the Managing Member or its affiliates. The total remuneration
for the Operating Principals will be derived from their salaries,
which are subject to Advisory Board review, and their share of
proceeds from the Fund's business. Any fees earned from the operation
of the Fund's business will be included in the revenue of the
Fund.
The Fund's strategy will be to invest in
niche opportunities in the Investment Territory in:
-Distressed assets with compelling value-added opportunities;
-Unique assets with strong upside potential;
-Properties in good locations with existing cash flow; and
-Real estate related operating and service companies.
The Fund will take a balanced approach
to maximizing risk-adjusted returns and long-term capital appreciation.
Assets are expected to be held three to five years.
The Fund will invest primarily in (1) smaller
properties (less than $15 million) and (2) complex situations
requiring significant asset management experience where operating
results and cash flow can be improved. The market for these assets
is relatively inefficient and is hard to access for private investors.
The Operating Principals, however, have extensive experience
with this market.
Investment Highlights
Management Commitment. The
Managing Member will invest $100,000 in the Fund.
Investor Returns. The goal of the Fund is to return
all capital plus an internal rate of return ("IRR")
of 15% on that capital by the time the Fund is liquidated. As
an added feature, Nonmanaging Members of the Fund (the "Nonmanaging
Members") will be entitled to a preferred return on initial
capital of 8% compounded annually for the amount of time capital
is outstanding (the "Preferred Return"). This amount
is earned by all Nonmanaging Members on each investment of the
Fund before any distribution to the Managing Member with respect
to that investment.
Market Knowledge and Experience. The markets of
the Investment Territory are quite familiar to Messrs. DeNardo
and Yerrall. The Operating Principals have acquired, managed,
underwritten, developed or provided capital with respect to over
13 million square feet of real estate in the New York region.
Access for Private Investors. Private investors,
due to factors such as lack of time, personal capital, experience
or expertise, seldom find opportunities to invest in sizeable
real estate transactions alongside professional real estate investment
managers who have personal capital at risk. Unlike large institutional
funds that require investment minimums of approximately $10 million
and sales loads are 5-20% of capital, the Fund provides access
to a professionally managed real estate investment vehicle for
investors on a no-load, "wholesale" basis.
Differentiation. The Fund will focus on
real estate investments that maximize capital appreciation. These
investments are unlike Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs"),
which emphasize an income approach to a capital-intensive business.
REITs (i) are subject to risks of the securities markets adding
an element beyond the fundamentals of basic real estate risk
and (ii) bear the burden of securities registration, public reporting
and the costs associated with being a publicly traded company.
The Fund is also different from an opportunity fund. Besides
the lack of access for most investors, opportunity funds are
high-risk ventures, in which tremendous stress is placed on transactions
in the pursuit of extremely high rates of return. Time is an
important factor in the calculation of the applicable IRR for
these ventures. A missed estimate or a slow-down in the marketplace
of just six months - extremely short in real estate terms - can
have a devastating affect on the rate of return. While the Fund
will respect the importance of the overall return to its Nonmanaging
Members, it will remain focused on managing real estate fundamentals
using a balanced approach to risk and return.
No Fees. There are no fees of any kind charged
to Nonmanaging Members by the Fund or to the Fund by the Managing
Member. There are no organization fees, management fees, acquisition
fees or disposition fees that are common to other investment
vehicles. The total remuneration for the Operating Principals
is derived from their salaries, which is subject to Advisory
Board review, and their share of proceeds from the Fund's business.
Any fees earned from the operation of the business will be included
in the revenue of the Fund. The Fund, however, will be responsible
for payment of its own expenses including sales expenses paid
to third parties and will reimburse the Managing Member for any
expenses advanced on its behalf.
Distributions. As favorable market conditions allow for
the liquidation of the Fund, assets will be sold. After paying
any Fund debts and expenses and retaining amounts permitted for
reinvestment, as set forth above, distributions of the proceeds
from the sale of an asset (other than on the sale of more than
95% of the Fund's assets) will be made:
-first, to the Nonmanaging Members to return their capital contributions
invested in that asset;
-second, to the Nonmanaging Members until they receive a compounded
annual return on their capital contributions invested in that
asset and not repaid pursuant to the prior clause of eight (8%)
(the "Preferred Return");
-third, to the extent that amounts distributed to the Nonmanaging
Members with respect to assets that were previously disposed
of did not fully return the Nonmanaging Members' capital contributions
invested in those assets plus the Preferred Return thereon, to
the Nonmanaging Members until they receive the amount of that
shortfall;
-fourth, to the Managing Member to return its capital contributions
invested in that asset plus any shortfall in such return with
respect to assets previously disposed of; and
-thereafter, 70% to the Nonmanaging Members and 30% to the Managing
Member.
"Wholesale" Investment Opportunity. There
are no sales loads or markups of any kind being paid to the Managing
Member related to an investment in the Fund. In effect, this
makes the Fund a "no-load" investment. The only costs
to the Fund are the actual costs to establish and operate the
Fund. These costs will be budgeted annually and are subject to
the approval of the Advisory Board. All investments in real estate
are made at actual cost.
Alignment of Interests. Nonmanaging Members are
investing with managers whose interests are aligned with each
other:
-The Managing Member invests its own capital into the Fund, such
capital will be returned on a pari-passu basis with the
other Nonmanaging Members.
-There is no separate fee revenue of any kind that flows to the
Managing Member.
-Investing is done on a "wholesale" basis.
The Managing Member's incentives are dependent upon the return
of capital plus the Preferred Return with respect to each investment
before any distribution is made to the Managing Member on an
incentive basis.
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