Real Estate Underground
Real Estate Underground
Ed Mathews
"How Do I Lose Money on This Deal?" Vessi Kapoulian's Lender-First Underwriting
39 minutes Posted Jul 28, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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Vessi Kapoulian spent fifteen years as a commercial lender. She underwrote more than a thousand deals and managed a credit portfolio north of a billion dollars before she ever bought a building for her own account. That order matters, and it is the whole reason this conversation is different from most multifamily interviews.
Her framework has four parts, and she looks at them in a deliberate order: the operator, the market, the numbers, and last, the structure of the deal. Last. As she puts...