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First off…WOW. Yesterday’s responses to my email was unprecedented!

(▶ Skip the reading, listen to this email in my voice instead.)

I’m grateful for you, thank you for showing up and helping my friend by following his LinkedIn business page. I really appreciate you, that was one of my week’s highlights.

I'm flying to Manhattan next Wednesday for the Single Family Office Summit.

The 28th and 29th, hosted by Richard Wilson and the Family Office Club. I land the afternoon of the 27th and the schedule is open until the first session kicks off.

I'm going to be on the ground with a client I advise, F6 Partners. They allocate into student housing near Power 4 universities, so this is not just a listening trip. We are actively looking.

I write this letter every week, and most of the time it goes one direction. I share what I'm seeing, you read it, maybe you reply, maybe you don't.

This week, the letter goes the other way.

I have a few hundred allocators and operators reading this who are either going to be in that room with me, know someone who will be, or have a question they would actually want a family office to answer in person.

So I'm asking.

Are you going to be there?

If yes, reply and let's grab 15 minutes. I keep the 27th afternoon and the gaps between sessions open for exactly this.

Do you want to go but the ticket is the wall?

I have an in with Richard and his team at Family Office Club. Just reply and I'll get you in at a better rate than the public number and make sure you're routed the right way.

Are you not going, but there's a question you'd want asked?

Send it. I'll be talking to family office principals, capital allocators, and operators on the ground for two days. If there's a question you've been sitting on about how the 2026 family office is screening operators, where they're allocating, what they're avoiding, send it. I'll bring it into the conversations I'm having and write up what I hear when I get back.

Are you a family office that will be there?

Reply. Let's coordinate a sit-down. I want to hear what you're seeing more than I want you to hear what I'm seeing.

Do you have purpose-built student housing near a Power 4 university that you're looking to sell, recapitalize, or bring a partner into?

Reply. We're in the market for exactly that. Scattered-site, purpose-built, near schools with strong enrollment trends. Everyone is talking about the demographic cliff. The data inside the Power 4 says enrollment is still at historic highs. That's where we're focused.

The reason I'm doing it this way:

Most operators show up to these things to pitch.

I show up to listen and to buy.

The deals I have closed, the partners I have raised with, the operators I have advised, almost all of it came from rooms where I shut up first and talked second. The Summit is one of the few rooms in the country where the right people are concentrated at that density for two days straight.

If you want me to carry your question into that room, I will. If you have a deal to show us, send it.

Reply to this email. That's the whole ask.

Hoping you have a great day and it's 1% better than yesterday.

Andrew LeBaron

P.S. If you want to skip the back-and-forth and just book time directly, the link is here: andrewlebaron.com/meetwithandrew.

Andrew LeBaron

P.S. If you're a Family Office or a manager wrestling with how to build consistent deal flow or raise new capital consistently, hit reply. I've been having more of these conversations every week and I'd love to compare notes and help out.

F6 Partners is an alternative real estate asset manager that I’m currently advising, specifically assisting in the buildout of their Investor Relations department to raise another $100M for Student Housing, and so far they are on a roll.

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