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The map looked clean until the market pushed back. We share the real pivot: why we narrowed our focus to one flagship asset, rebuilt our capital strategy from the ground up, and chose strength over shortcuts while the clock kept ticking. Serenity Point becomes the proving ground for an ultra-luxury, cash-flowing asset in a jittery real estate climate—and the lens for every decision we made about investors, leverage, and execution.

You’ll hear how advice from a founder who scaled through private equity sharpened our strategy, pushing us to cut complexity and aim for a single deliverable that could stand up to scrutiny. We break down the shift from retail-first fundraising to a hybrid path that courts institutional validation without abandoning individual investors. That meant assembling an institutional-grade data room in days, engaging smaller funds aligned with our check size, and designing a capital stack that protects covenant headroom. When a lender tried to leverage our deadline with riskier terms, we walked—because overlevering is not a plan, it’s a trap.

On the growth side, we lit up the funnel with a Minneapolis agency running Meta, LinkedIn, and Google campaigns and a slate of webinars that trained and qualified leads nationwide. The response has been energizing: real conversations with investor-savvy partners who value discipline and upside. We also get honest about constraints—like an eight-partner LP cap—and how listening to market feedback shapes future structures without watering down the core thesis. With an extension to late January, the mandate is simple: convert warm interest to signed commitments, finalize terms with specialized real estate counsel, and close Serenity Point with conviction.

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