About Us
Our mission is to create value for all parties we are involved with, starting with sellers, residents, and investors. Our focus in multifamily assets is to provide a comfortable living community for residents through value-add renovations and dedicated management. In return, we seek to offer our investors consistent passive income from our investments. Our goal is to have transparency and integrity in our dealings so that our investors feel comfortable entrusting us with their money as if it were our own.
FIRST Core Values
FOCUS
Brookeast Capital is dedicated to providing a comfortable living community for all locations we invest in. We believe that our value creation starts with the focus we have in our main business endeavor of repositioning underperforming multifamily properties.
INTEGRITY
Brookeast Capital is committed to high standards of ethics and morals. We hold ourselves to do what is right and expected. Every step in our business, we take into consideration what impact it will have on others. Thus, building effective interpersonal relationship on the basis of trust and honesty.
RELATIONSHIPS
Brookeast Capital is devoted to cultivating long-lasting relationships with our investors. With the utmost transparency and integrity in our dealings, we want our investors to trust us with their money and return investment after investment.
SUSTAINABILITY
Brookeast Capital is dedicated to serving the needs of our investors, residents, and communities with excellence and care. We prioritize delivering value through attentive communication, proactive problem-solving, and a commitment to exceeding expectations. Our focus on sustainability is rooted in building a company that lasts—guided by strong principles, high-quality service, and a steadfast dedication to creating long-term value for all our stakeholders.
TRANSPARENCY
Brookeast Capital believes that fostering long-term relationships with our investors stems from being open and honest in how we conduct business. We strive to offer periodic updates that detail what is being accomplished and what goals we are working towards.
Our Team
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David Shentu - Managing Partner & Principal
David Shentu is a real estate entrepreneur and principal managing partner at Brookeast Capital LLC. David has been investing in real estate since 2008, with a variety of investment experience in different asset types from residential to commercial, property management, and value-add repositioning. He brings his years of expertise at finding underperforming assets, strategically creating different deal structures and utilizing various funding sources to create value for investors. David is seasoned at evaluating, acquiring, managing and operating rental properties and has excellent track records of generating and maintaining positive cash flow holdings. In the multi-family projects, David plays the important roles at building broker relations, acquisitions, coming up with business plans, doing due diligence, working with lenders for loan and closing process, and participating in asset management with PM. Prior to real estate investing, David was a professional in the engineering field and information & technology field for a total of 15 years. He has a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering as well as in Computer Science & Technology.
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Michelle Wang - Managing Partner & Principal
Michelle Wang is a passionate real estate investor for over a decade. Joining as the principal managing partner at Brookeast Capital, LLC. She applies her over 15-year experience in management and operational excellence into the real estate business. She has sound records of renovating and value-adding to reposition different types of properties. She is very experienced at evaluating and underwriting multifamily apartment deals and has worked closely with other apartment syndicators for the past years. In the multi-family apartment projects, Michelle plays the important roles at underwriting deals, coming up with business plans and capex budgets, doing due diligence, discussing with lenders for loan programs and asset managing with PM. Prior to being a real estate professional, she held management roles in the pharmaceutical industry. She has a Ph. D degree and an MBA degree, and has the reputation of excellent people management skills as well as timely delivery of projects on tight timelines, which is very applicable to multifamily acquisitions and management.
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Richard Shentu - Associate
Richard Shentu serves as a vital team member at Brookeast Capital, specializing in the technological and marketing aspects of the firm. With a background in property management and financial analysis, he brings a unique blend of hands-on operational experience and data-driven decision-making to the role.
Driven by a passion for innovation, Richard is also deeply engaged in exploring the intersection of real estate and technology, leveraging AI and data-driven insights to enhance operational efficiency. A dedicated advocate for creating opportunities, Richard is committed to building lasting relationships and empowering clients with tailored strategies that lead to long-term success. Prior to getting into real estate, Richard graduated from Villanova University with a degree in finance and real estate.