Ford Investment Group’s Principal &key management have actively managed over 1,250,000 SF of commercial retail and office properties collectively over the past 7 years.  Our portfolios have focused on multi-tenant properties that could be categorized as both stabilized and value-added opportunities.

As a result of our experience we have developed the following primary and key skills:

1. Financial Modeling – that forecasts property performance before and after the acquisition.  This offers a relatively accurate forecast of return on assets with many variables that directly affect income.

2. Financing – is a key strength of our team. We know how to shop, negotiate, and place favorable debt financing on our acquisitions

3. Property Selection – We use specific acquisition criteria through which we analyze each property with a matrix of variables to derive an acceptable score.  By applying the same factors to each potential investment, we can select the property that will likely provide the best performance over the long term.  If a property does not make the “cut”, we do not buy it.

4. Operations – Our past experience, and hence our expertise, is in actively managed multi-tenant properties.  When it comes to re-leasing, build-out and/or capital improvements, we know who to call and how to handle it.  We’ve developed many of our current acquisition criteria to avoid the pitfalls associated with these types of properties.  We are aware that a building’s physical condition, market conditions and existing rental rate are all components of risk.

We have two office locations: Stuart, Florida and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but we will be consolidating to a single office in Stuart, Florida by end of 2009.  We are actively acquiring high quality net-leased real estate in states east of the Mississippi for Ford Properties Group Net Leased Portfolio III Fund, LLC.