Sandy Schmid oversees the firm’s acquisition and development departments. Sandy has over 20 years of real estate experience as an acquisitions officer, developer, builder, and architect. He has sourced over $1B of development projects for residential units and has led entitlements on over $1B of development. Prior to StarPoint, he sourced land acquisitions and managed diligence, entitlements, and construction for several of the country’s leading multifamily merchant developers. His roles included Director of Acquisitions and Development at JPI; Development Director at Blueridge Multifamily; and Development Associate at SummerHill Apartment Communities. Sandy started his real estate career as an architecture draftsman and builder for Habitat for Humanity, and received his dual degree MBA/MRED from the University of Southern California and his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.