Equitas Investments, LLC

Equitas Investments, LLC (“Equitas Investments”) is a real estate investment company established on the core values of integrity, honesty, and trust. Through the knowledge, expertise, and relationships in commercial retail investments, it’s founder Aaron Swerdlow, created Equitas Investments to provide real estate investors with a unique opportunity to generate a diverse portfolio of high quality, low risk retail shopping centers, and single tenant retail assets that produce stabile income, with long term growth and wealth creation.

Our mission, simply stated, is to create and preserve generational wealth through an investment strategy centered on acquiring and holding long-term legacy real estate with a focus on retail shopping centers and single tenant retail assets. Our approach is to put together investors who share the same long term investment vision. That vision includes solid, risk adverse investment real estate in core urban markets with conservative debt ratios, and the goal of building a stabile real estate portfolio with consistent cash flow growth and equity appreciation. Summarized, we look to be a conduit based on the core values of integrity, honesty, trust and expertise for investors looking to create a steady stream of passive income while also possessing ownership of generational real estate.

Equitas Investments’ history is one whose origins stem from its founder. Mr. Swerdlow’s background is in the acquisition, development and investment of value-add retail opportunities ranging from repositioning to complete redevelopment as co-founding partner at Festival Development Partners, LLC. As a partner in that venture, he successfully purchased approximately 100 retail sites with the core focus on strategic value add business plans for each property. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Swerdlow has developed a successful track record of value creation and profit for his investors. Equitas Investments was derived from the vision of shifting from the value add arena to more risk adverse, stabilized core retail investments. The catalyst for this change was to service personal relationships looking to build a portfolio of high quality income producing properties with a low risk threshold and long term vision to hold quality assets, harvest cash flow and pay down debt. Equitas Investments organization is uniquely experienced and possesses the core values to create long term generational wealth for our investors.

Built around a core of Mr. Swerdlow’s past investment experience, investors benefit from our detailed understanding and relationships in all fields of retail investment real estate including underwriting, acquisition/disposition strategies, tenant relationships, broker relationships, leasing, and financing.

We believe in approaching business with integrity, honesty, trust and transparency as well as always maintaining a fiduciary to the investors. Equitas Investments understands, as owners and investors, that we are accountable in everything we do in achieving the vision of the company, and most importantly the trust of our investors.

Equitas Value Company

Equitas Value Company (“Equitas Value”) is an affiliate of Equitas Investments, LLC established on the same core values of integrity, honesty, and trust. Through the knowledge, expertise, and relationships in commercial retail investments, its founder Aaron Swerdlow created Equitas Value to provide real estate investors with the opportunity to achieve high investment returns while building a diverse portfolio of high quality, well located retail shopping centers, and single tenant retail assets.

Our mission is to create exceptional investor returns while building long term wealth through an investment strategy centered on acquiring distressed and undervalued assets in excellent locations, and creating significant value and profit through repositioning and stabilizing each investment. We look to be a conduit based on the core values of integrity, honesty, trust and expertise for investors looking to create significant returns in real estate while also building long term steady passive income opportunities.

Equitas’ history is one whose origins stem from its founding partner. Mr. Swerdlow’s background in the acquisition, development and investment of value-add retail opportunities ranging from repositioning to complete redevelopment as co-founding partner of Festival Development Partners, LLC. As a partner in that venture, he successfully purchased approximately 100 retail sites with the core focus on strategic value add business plans for each property. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Swerdlow has developed a successful track record of value creation and profit for his investors.

Equitas Value is built around the core of Mr. Swerdlow’s past investment experience. Investors benefit from a detailed understanding and relationships in all fields of retail investment real estate including underwriting, acquisition/disposition strategies, tenant relationships, broker relationships, leasing, entitlements, construction and financing.

We believe in approaching business with integrity, honesty, trust and transparency as well as always maintaining a fiduciary to the investors. Equitas Value understands, as owners and investors, that we are accountable in everything we do in achieving the vision of the company, and most importantly the trust of our investors.

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