Due Diligence Isn’t a Checklist. It’s Control Mapping.

Corey Muldrow
M&A | Multifamily Operator | $100M+ Assets

September 25, 2025

If you’re still treating due diligence like a checklist, you’re missing the entire point.

Collecting documents doesn’t mean you understand the deal. It just means you’ve seen the paperwork.

Due diligence isn’t about files. It’s about function.
You’re not buying a property. You’re purchasing a system with people, processes, friction points, and failures built in.

If you don’t know how the machine runs and what happens when it stalls, you’ve got no business closing on it.

We’ve reviewed thousands of pages across dozens of deals. Financials. Surveys. Lease audits. Service contracts. Environmental reports. Vendor logs.

You can have all that data in hand, and still have no clue what you’re walking into if you don’t know what to look for.

That’s why we built a different approach.

Not just a list. A full control map of the asset, what we’re inheriting, what breaks when we change it, and what can’t be replaced on Day One.

If you want to see how we actually break down a deal, from revenue systems to ops risk to post-close liabilities

I put it all in a no-fluff, high-utility due diligence tool.

Click the link below to get the full version.

Click Here: Due Diligence Checklist