Alazar oversees all aspects of LAI investment strategies and is principally responsible for instilling company’s long-term value creation and cashflow centric investment philosophy. Through a short term opportunistic fund platform, Alazar has taken 18 investments in distressed and value add strategies from acquisition through exit. Prior to founding LAI, Alazar co-founded and ran a Los Angeles based commercial real estate brokerage firm, A-Squared Property Inc. As a managing director, his role was to facilitate transactions of commercial properties. Since the company’s inception in 2005, as of December 2015, Alazar and his team has completed over $200M in transactions of multifamily, office and retail properties. Alazar started his career in commercial real-estate at Grubb & Ellis Company and was a lead associate of the Multi-Housing Team (“MHT”); a team specializing in representing institutional and high net-worth individual clients buy and sell multifamily properties. Alazar received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Corporate and Real Estate Finance from California State University Long Beach, completed UCLA’s Investment and Real Estate finance extension program and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of California.