A surgeon's precision, an investor's patience

For more than twenty years I have practiced vascular surgery, a field where precision and trust are the whole job. As a board-certified surgeon and the owner of Surgical Associates Chartered, a practice serving more than 44,000 patients, I know firsthand the financial pressures physicians face: high income, higher taxes, and almost no time to manage either.

That understanding is what pushed me into real estate. I applied the same analytical rigor I use in the operating room to the question of where a physician's money should go, and kept arriving at the same answer: professionally managed multifamily properties, held for the long term, with a sponsor who has skin in the game.

Training and practice

I graduated in the top 4% of my class from the University of Michigan and completed medical school at Marshall University, followed by general surgery and vascular surgery residencies at Allegheny General Hospital. I later served as an Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery at George Washington University before building Surgical Associates Chartered into the practice it is today, a growth that included a private-equity transaction.

I established the Dr. Rodeen Rahbar Scholarship at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine to support incoming medical students from West Virginia.

Real estate

As a Director at The Laager Group I sit on investment review, capital allocation and strategic oversight. Laager is a boutique sponsor: my partner Andrew Tischer leads acquisitions and financing, Hugh Sales leads underwriting and asset-level oversight, and the three of us stay close to every asset and every investor for the life of the deal. I co-invest in the opportunities I present, so my outcome is tied to yours.

My particular focus is what physicians and other busy professionals actually need from a private real estate investment: clear terms, direct access to the people making decisions, honest reporting, and tax efficiency that is real rather than promised.

Why I do this

The goal is simple. I want fellow physicians to be able to practice medicine because they want to, not because they have to. Passive income from durable, well-run assets is the most reliable way I know to get there.

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