Resources
Practitioner guidance for the work before the work
Short, plain pieces on preparing for acquisition diligence. Written the way we evaluate deals: no hype, no filler, nothing we cannot stand behind.
What "verified" means in a NorthScope report
Every hard figure in your report is traced to your own documents. What the number registry is, what the adversarial debate does, and why the gate refunds rather than ships a report it cannot verify.
Source traced · Calculated · Conflict
Read →Preparing a data room that survives diligence
Most data rooms do not fail because a document is missing. They fail because two documents disagree. The five documents that carry a deal, and the consistency rule that protects your price.
Read →Common add-backs, and which ones get challenged
Normalization is where asking prices get made and unmade. Which add-backs usually survive scrutiny, which get challenged every time, and the rule that decides between them.
Read →DSCR explained for a first-time buyer
The ratio your lender prices before anything else: what debt service coverage is, what it tells the bank, and what it cannot tell you.
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