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Community Highlights: Meet Scott Yahraus

Today we’d like to introduce you to Scott Yahraus.

Hi Scott, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
After college, I began working in commercial real estate brokerage and then moved onto development. Within the next eight years, I had built and sold two businesses. I later went on to purchase multi-family assets for a large entity and transacted dozens of properties. When I burned out and it was time to move on, the company had amassed 75,000 multi-family units nationwide. At that time, I was approached to manage receivership cases at Receivership Specialists under my own flag. In the years that followed I managed over 115 receivership and referee cases learning about different industries, property types, and personalities.

Today I continue to handle receiverships as well as work with trustees, conservators, and business owners in a leadership support capacity. I am retained by trustees & fiduciaries and by small to medium-sized businesses in the capacity as a business consultant and/or board member ameliorate disputes and turn businesses around.

Based in Los Angeles, when not working, I spend time with my wife and four great-children.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
If a business or property has been run into the ground, it could be the case that there are not enough funds in the case to support winding it up. In-fighting from the business partners or family members is a typical occurrence.

Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I have a particular skill set of untangling messes that business partners or family businesses are involved in. I am hired to manage through distress when a business is failing or when business partners are in litigation against one another. I often work with trustees, conservators of an estate, and business owners to divorce the parties that are fighting so that they can move on with their lives. Often times real estate is involved. I step in to act as the adult in the room to lead and either get a business or property sold or shut down the business. Often times there has been commingling of funds, theft, and a freezing out of at least one of the business partners or family members. When needed I will bring resources in to help me with my work such as a valuation of a business, I will restructure the debt of a company or property, bring in the right real estate professionals or merger and acquisition broker.

Scott Yahraus & Associate is a diverse bunch with talented and experienced thought leaders who have managed and sold dozens of businesses and different types of real estate.

The cases that we are involved in span numerous industries and always exhibit beneficiaries who are stressed about the assets that they are poised to inherit and how to proceed or dispose of those assets. With stress comes anxiety. Individuals in stressful positions rarely make good business or economic decisions. We support and complement the trustee, fiduciary, or business owner who is working with beneficiaries, the settlor, or business partner during these trying times. We provide objectivity about the assets and assist the trustee, fiduciary, or business owner in selling complex real estate or the family business with the goal of obtaining the most proceeds possible.

So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
I often times work with trustees or conservators of an estate who need my skill set to be able to progress the case forward and divorce family members.

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