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I’m Carlos Yepes and I’m the co-owner of Belleair Development Group, a development firm operating throughout the southeastern United States. We have been developing properties since 1980 and have never encountered such a great mortgage broker such as Randy Efron. Skylatus raised debt and equity for two of our build-to-rent deals.

I’m Christian Yepes and I’m the co-owner of Belleair Development Group, a development firm with over 50 properties throughout the southeastern United States. Skylatus raised $12.5mm of debt and $6mm of LP equity for our first build-to-rent project during Covid which was a challenging time to raise capital in…

I’m Jay Mize and I’m the founder a Mize Capital, a real estate holding company with approximately $350mm of projects under development. Skylatus raised approximately $40mm of debt and $25mm of equity for two of our build to rent deals. After working with Skylatus on one deal, I rehired them for a second deal because…

I’ve been working with Skylatus for two and a half years and they’ve closed over 45 loans for me during that time. At this point, Skylatus handles nearly all of our financing and they are like my right hand man. One transaction that stands out for me is when Skylatus obtained three loans totaling $65mm. Two of the loans were acquisition loans to acquire a hotel and a management company…

I’m Dan Sefair and I’m the founder of Sefair Investments, a real estate holding company with approximately $350mm of projects under development. Skylatus raised debt and equity for two of my construction projects. I initially chose to work with Skylatus because I wanted to take my development business to the next level and Skylatus came highly recommended from someone I trust…

Randy Efron and I first worked together in 2017. One of the first investments in our commercial real estate fund was a ground-up self-storage development for which Randy provided the underwriting. In spite of its challenges through construction and lease up (a hurricane and a pandemic) that investment returned an IRR of roughly 20% to our investors over 5 years…

My name is Jeff Woodin and I’m a Senior Vice President at a regional bank in Florida. I’ve been working on deals with Skylatus for over 3 years. From my experience, what makes Skylatus different is that they are not transactional. They form deep relationships with their clients and advise them in ways that I’ve never seen a capital broker do before. Skylatus functions like a CFO for their clients rather than a broker…

Skylatus helped me finance 5 of my projects, including a partially constructed build-to-rent community. For the build-to-rent deal, Skylatus obtained a $5mm loan from a community bank that allowed me to pay off an expensive hard money loan and complete the construction of the project. Lenders don’t usually want to step into partially constructed projects but Skylatus convinced a lender to do so…

I own two industrial buildings in Jacksonville that I operate my business out of and Skylatus helped me finance both of them in two separate transactions. When I first approached Skylatus, numerous lenders told me that my business financials would not support the loan amount that I wanted. However, rather than give up on me, Skylatus worked with me for over a year until my financials were suitable…

My name is George Stellas and I’m a VP of Investments at the real estate investing arm of a multinational holding company. When I worked at my predecessor real estate investment management firm, I led a deal team that closed a $17 million LP equity investment for one of Skylatus’ build-to-rent deals. While many capital brokers simply facilitate introductions to equity investors, Skylatus plays a much more active role…

We have been working with Skylatus since 2001 and since then, they have been our go-to resource for debt financing. On our latest transaction, Skylatus helped us obtain financing for a portfolio of single-tenant triple-net-lease properties…