Apartment building sales are picking up in region Stan Bullard GHC Capital principals Michael Smith, left, and Bhavin Patel are updating a 1950s-era apartment complex in Shaker Heights and are among new groups of owners starting to make a mark in the regional apartment market. "That's a sign of a frothy market." That was the exchange between Bhavin Patel and Michael Smith, the principals of Green Harvest Capital of Akron, as a ballcap-wearing motorist in a BMW sped off after asking the two if the Shaker Crossing Apartments in Shaker Heights was up for sale or just changed hands. It was neither.