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Conti & Costanzo Fire Up 2,000-Unit Buying Plan

DALLAS-The principals close their first deals: 351 units in back-to-back buys. They've won a 172-unit deal and hope to get another 150 units in a hard push to reach their 2008 goal.

By Connie Gore | Updated on April 11, 2008

[IMGCAP(1)]DALLAS-Two principals, banding together eight months ago, have their shirtsleeves rolled up and are pushing hard to collect 2,000 class B and class C apartments by year’s end. They’ve grabbed their first two deeds, totaling 351 units, in back-to-back closings, placed a contract for another 172 units and are waiting to hear if they’ve won a 150-unit deal.

Carlos Vaz and Brad Costanzo of Conti & Costanzo LLC, backed by a growing list of various equity backers, have picked up the 208-unit Huntington Apartments at 5700 Boca Raton Blvd. in Fort Worth’s struggling Woodhaven section and 143-unit Arbor Terrace at 1029 W. Arkansas Lane in Arlington. As they step up their drive to buy, they say they’ve bumped up their sweet spot to the $5-million to $10-million range to make it easier to secure financing and attract new equity investors.

They acknowledge to GlobeSt.com that they’re “doing it the hard way,” but they say it’s a thought-out plan based on cost-segregation analyses to wring the most value in the quickest way possible from their acquisitions. “At the end of the day, it’s not about cap rates, but the property itself and how much a dollar is going to make us,” Vaz says. “We are the ones who have to prove something to theDallas community and it’s not the other way around.”

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