#331 - David Moore - Co-Founder & CEO @ Knightvest Capital - Investing in 55,000 Apartment Units: Stories, Lessons Learned, and Insights On Current Apartment Market

David Moore is the founder and Managing Partner at Knightvest. Under David’s leadership, Knightvest has acquired over 55,000 units at a total capitalization of approximately $10.0 billion. Since inception, Knightvest has sold over 15,000 units with an average IRR and multiple of over 30% and 2.2x, respectively. On this episode, Chris and David discuss: Making key hires to grow the company The explosion of the Class B multifamily market  A walkthrough of a typical deal The American renter in 2024 Construction & labor cost hikes State of the market update 2022-2024 We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners.  https://www.thefortpod.com/survey Links Knightvest Capital - https://knightvestcapital.com/ David on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-moore-03005a39/ Topics (00:00:00) - Intro (00:04:45) - David’s first property  (00:13:08) - The decision to focus on multifamily (00:20:46) - Scaling Knightvest (00:24:01) - Multifamily is HARD work (00:27:25) - Becoming the best renovator (00:29:47) - Making key hires to grow the company (00:34:40) - The Class B MF market taking off (00:42:32) - Walkthrough of a typical deal (00:46:20) - The American renter in 2024 (00:54:09) - Thoughts on construction & labor cost hikes (00:58:17) - State of the Market Update 2022-2024 (01:19:22) - Technology innovations (01:21:32) - What do you think about often in multifamily? Support our Sponsors Better Pitch: https://bit.ly/42d9L0I RE Cost Seg: https://bit.ly/3oC7JcY Fort Capital: https://bit.ly/FortCapital Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Chris on Social Media: X: https://bit.ly/3BYIjcH LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/45gIkFd   Watch The Fort on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3oynxNX Visit our website: https://bit.ly/43SOvys Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0 Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO  The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts