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On The Hotel Investor Playbook, Alexander Cartwright explains how he left a tenured economics professorship to buy distressed hotels and convert them into workforce housing through HotelSHIFT. The strategy rests on a simple valuation gap: hotels trade at higher cap rates than apartments, so the same building can be worth dramatically more once it’s rezoned […]

Alexander Cartwright joins Jimmy Atkinson on the Opportunity Zones Podcast to unpack how investors can redeploy capital gains into a Qualified Opportunity Fund — weighing the self-directed “captive” QOF against a professionally managed sponsor QOF, and which structure fits whom. Alex is the founder of HotelSHIFT and Vilicus Capital, converting distressed hotels into workforce housing […]