Founder & CEO of Honest Capital Group

Umang Mistry

Email: Umang@thehonestcapital.com
Phone Number: (313)-522-2345

Umang Mistry is the Founder and Principal of Honest Capital Group, a private real estate investment firm focused on high-barrier-to-entry, cash-flowing hospitality assets across the United States. With nearly two decades of experience in hotel operations, development, acquisitions, and franchise growth, he has structured, raised and deployed over $60 million across 19 hotel investments in the past three years with 170+ repeat accredited investors, partnering with brands including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Wyndham, and Choice Hotels.

Before founding Honest Capital, Umang held senior leadership roles with some of the world’s largest hospitality companies. At Choice Hotels International and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, he earned multiple President’s Club and Developer of the Year awards, leading multi-state development territories and building one of the strongest hotel pipelines in the country across brands such as Wingate, Baymont, Days Inn, Super 8, Travelodge, Howard Johnson, Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn. Most recently, as Regional Vice President of Franchise Development for Sonesta International Hotels, he helped expand the brand across California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Canada.

His foundation in hospitality began at age 13, managing his family’s motel. That hands-on experience still shapes his investment approach: strong fundamentals, disciplined cost control, and downside protection. Today he pairs that operating background with institutional relationships, experienced operating partners, and best-in-class brands.

 

At Honest Capital, Umang takes an investor-first approach built on transparency, aligned interests, conservative underwriting, and clear communication. Rather than a one-size-fits-all model, the team works to understand each investor’s objectives and risk profile, with the aim to under-promise and over-deliver.
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Managing Director

Dr. Tarak Patel

Email: Tarak@thehonestcapital.com
Phone Number: (678) 983-5700

Dr. Tarak Patel, MD, bridges the analytical precision of medicine with the strategic execution of institutional hospitality real estate to deliver high-yield, passive investment opportunities. As a physician turned commercial real estate principal, Dr. Patel is involved in a diverse portfolio of branded and boutique hospitality properties, transforming complex market data into predictable, passive revenue streams for his investment partners.

Dr. Patel started his investment journey with a clear mission: to empower busy professionals and fellow clinicians to build robust real estate wealth without the burden of daily property management. “Helping one professional or physician is helping the community at a higher level.” By applying the same rigorous, evidence-based diagnosis required in healthcare to real estate underwriting, asset management, and operational execution, he minimizes risk while maximizing investor returns.

Through institutional-grade hospitality investments, Dr. Patel handles the heavy lifting from investor management, overseeing the acquisition to optimization—allowing his partners to focus entirely on their primary businesses and careers with the peace of mind that their capital is working efficiently for them.
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Strategic Partner

Sunny Gill

Sunny Gill is a hands-on entrepreneur and operator who partners with investors to acquire, develop, and manage high-performing real estate assets. He specializes in industrial, warehouse, and logistics properties and focuses on turning them into dependable, scalable cash-flowing businesses.

With more than ten years of direct experience, Sunny has built and optimized complete supply chain platforms that include warehouse management, air, ocean, and ground freight, 3PL, fleet operations, and transportation solutions. His operational expertise gives him a unique advantage in real estate. He uses the same discipline to identify undervalued properties, execute strategic acquisitions and value-add developments, and run them at peak efficiency. This approach reduces operating costs, increases occupancy and throughput, and delivers consistent, risk-adjusted returns.

Originally from the Midwest, Sunny relocated to Texas to take part in its rapid industrial and population growth. He is known for his straightforward, no-nonsense approach that combines fair and firm negotiation, disciplined procurement, and strong supplier relationships. These qualities ensure that large-scale operations run smoothly and remain profitable.

Investors who seek more than passive ownership value Sunny’s ability to turn real estate into fully optimized businesses that generate reliable performance and long-term value.

Strategic Partner

Shariq Vastani

Shariq Vastani is a Principal at The Honest Capital Group, where he leads investor relations and oversees the firm’s compliance.

Before real estate, Shariq built his career as a licensed pharmacist. He spent years running his own independent pharmacy, working directly with patients every day, and that gave him a front row seat to something most people never notice up close. Healthcare professionals give so much of their time and energy to the people they serve that there is often very little left over to manage their own financial future.

Around that same period, Shariq was also helping his family manage their hotel investments. That gave him a different kind of education, one built around institutional real estate rather than traditional savings or the stock market. He began to notice a pattern that stuck with him. Talented, hardworking professionals were leaving real financial opportunity on the table, not because they lacked discipline or ambition, but because they lacked the right access, time, and guidance.

That realization is what led him to The Honest Capital Group. Today, his focus is simple. He wants to give healthcare professionals and accredited investors a clear, trustworthy path into institutional quality hotel real estate under well known, globally recognized brands, the kind of assets built for consistent cash flow, long term appreciation, and meaningful tax advantages.

Shariq brings a protection first mindset to every relationship he builds. His goal is to let capital work quietly and efficiently in the background, so the people he works with can stay focused on what matters most to them, their patients and their practice.