{"id":2475,"date":"2025-12-01T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/patrick-carroll-opens-up-about-controversial-past\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:16:00","slug":"patrick-carroll-opens-up-about-controversial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/patrick-carroll-opens-up-about-controversial-past\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Proven Patrick Carroll Opens Up About Controversial Past: Mistakes to Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Things were not good for multifamily investor Patrick Carroll \u2014 that much the industry knew.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His volatility had been so public. He\u2019d fired guns from his boat and reamed out employees at car dealerships and restaurants. Then, two days before the Fourth of July in 2024, a Los Angeles news chopper caught him on camera fleeing from the police. After years of unstable behavior, this was his first clear step into the abyss. Footage from the chase shows a phalanx of officers swarming a tall man in an unbuttoned light-colored shirt and dark slacks. The cops had pulled him over and pursued him down an embankment near a Los Angeles highway. Carroll pretended to surrender, but then just took off.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When they finally caught him, police officers reportedly found two discarded weapons, a machete and a gun.<\/p>\n

Carroll has been one of the country\u2019s most successful multifamily syndicators since the 2010s. Self-made, not only did he lack family wealth, but he hadn\u2019t even gone to college. His path had not been smooth: There were arrests, lawsuits, restraining orders and a messy divorce, and in retrospect, the particulars of these cases anticipated what happened later. But by buying into the Sun Belt boom early, he\u2019d managed to do $9 billion in transactions by age 40.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023, he seemed to reach an apex, selling his Atlanta-based namesake firm, Carroll Organization, to RMR Group for $80 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other side of the sale lay a bleak period.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing in retirement, having nothing to do, sitting in my pool in Miami was not good for me,\u201d Carroll said in an interview with The Real Deal publisher Amir Korangy at the 2025 Miami Real Estate Forum last month. Since the sale to RMR, he\u2019s been adhering to a non-compete agreement, which expires on Jan. 1, 2027. It forced him to the sidelines in business. But his mind was going a million miles an hour, he said.<\/p>\n

In March of 2024, just nine months after the RMR deal, he \u201cwent into a full-blown manic attack,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd frankly, there\u2019s a lot of it that I don\u2019t remember.\u201d It turned out to be bipolar disorder, which had not yet been diagnosed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a grandiosity that you have,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cEverybody else around you notices it, but going through it, you don\u2019t notice your poor judgment. I didn\u2019t give a sh*t.\u201d Bizarre episodes followed, and his troubles made headlines for months.<\/p>\n

By that July, he was fleeing the Los Angeles police, who eventually arrested Carroll and charged him with three felonies: carrying a loaded firearm in public; fleeing a police vehicle and driving against traffic; and a disregard for safety by eluding an officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Carroll, now 46, said he is back on track. His candor in front of thousands was his way of normalizing mental health struggles, he said, making them okay to talk about. But he also wanted to underscore his newfound equanimity, to tell the audience that he was better and to position himself for a return to the industry when the non-compete expires. Carroll said that he still owns a stake in 20,000 apartment units.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In April, he entered a prosecution diversion program by agreeing to undergo mental health counseling for two years.<\/p>\n

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