Tue, 20 July 2021
Brad Shepherd is a real estate expert and the founder of Sugar House Investments. Having graduated college with a degree in Finance, Brad purchased his first rental property within months of graduating and quickly found his career take-off with a retail and hospitality startup in Utah. Playing a key part in this company's foundation, he spent his last four years there as president of the organization, guiding it through monumental growth. With well over a decade in the field, his experience includes management of hotel and vacation property, retail and café operations, development of retail and hospitality space, and raising capital from both domestic and international investors. Quotes:“My very first step into the commercial space was investing as a limited partner, and if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have made that investment. But I learned a ton from it, and I'm glad I did do it… it's helped me quite a bit as I’m going out there and talking to other potential investors.” In regard to good sponsorships: “whatever systems need to be in place to work with an insurance adjuster to get things settled quickly, those things have to be in place.” “When somebody asks me how to vet an opportunity, start with the team. What’s their track record, get to know them, what's their style.” “A good sponsor can make a mediocre deal, [and] do better than a mediocre sponsor can with a good deal.” Highlights:02:05 - Brad gives us an overview of his college background, his internship in Seattle, and how he got started in the real-estate space. 04:54 - Brad tells us how he transitioned into commercial real estate. 11:15 - Talks about the role teams play in the real-estate space, especially in Texas. 14:10 - Brad discusses how he’s attracted limited partners towards investment opportunities. 16:50 - Brad talks about the vetting process in regard to sponsors and how he figures if they can meet the expectations of his team and investors. 17:56 - Brad delves into what he thinks went wrong during one sponsor partnership that wasn’t the right fit/did not go well. 22:06 - Brad tells us where he believes he could have done better with this sponsor partnership. 24:16 - Brad tells us his answer to this question—what’s more important: the sponsor or the deal? 25:56 - Brad talks about how his investment activities have changed during 2020. Guest Website:Learn About Investment and Partnership Opportunities with Kevin and His Team Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 13 July 2021
Prashant Kumar is a real estate expert and syndicator. As Founder and Managing Partner at MyRealityGains, he applied his 25+ years of experience in corporate America to analyzing opportunities and managing his real estate operations. He acquires and holds stable, income-producing multifamily apartment complexes in emerging US markets with long-term capital appreciation. In addition to his investment activities, Prashant also runs a real estate meetup in NY as well as participating in numerous industry masterminds. Quotes: “I feel like the assistant living space, which can be explored further…is there but it’s not like everyone is rushing there towards it because it's more of an operation intensive business.” “[The senior assistant living space] is a very operation-intensive business. We come in as investors, we get it built, but even to do the operation [everything] has to be correct. So we have to find the right operation efficient company to do the work.” “The biggest challenge with residential is to do the operations…number one operations and number two, from a scalability standpoint, getting a loan on those properties.” “From a conversion standpoint, you will buy as a residential home, you will put the money to modify it… so you are talking about nine months worth of delay before you can go into the operation. And then filling up time can be anywhere from 3 to 6 months depending on what you do.” “The biggest factor [at play in hotel to senior housing conversions] is the zoning. You know, if the hotel is empty doesn’t mean you can go in and convert it. It depends on the town and if they’re going to allow for assisted living in that area or not. Number two is the general population, the age group, and what is their income and the demand.” Highlights: 2:04 - Prashant gives us an overview of his background in India, working in the corporate world, and how he got started in real estate. 5:23 - Prashant tells us how he went about managing his first single-family and multi-family investments. 7:30 - Prashant talks about his progression—how he went from his first single-family investment to the world of larger syndications and multi-family investments. 10:42 - Prashant describes his experience obtaining a property out of outward-bound marketing/cold calling efforts. 14:45 - Prashant tells us all about the senior housing space, his growth plans, and what attracts him to this sector. 18:40 - Prashant discusses his first two projects in the assisted living space. 19:18 - Prashant briefs the terms on SPA loans. 20:28 - Prashant talks about the distress aspects of residential and senior assistant investments. 23:24 - Prashant discusses where he’s at in the turnaround process of his assistant living investments. 25:40 - Prashant discusses the challenges of residential housing versus the benefits of the larger scale senior housing space. 28:11 - Prashant tells listeners how single-family to senior care facility conversions work. 30:52 - Prashant dives into senior housing conversions out of extended stay/hotel spaces during the pandemic and what makes a good hotel for this type of conversion. Guest Website:https://multifamilyrealtygains.com/ Learn About Investment and Partnership Opportunities with Kevin and His Team Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 6 July 2021
Mike Zlotnik is a real estate investment expert. Beginning his career in Information Technology, Mike successfully managed many aspects of this business sector such as Risk, Business Intelligence, and Quality of complex systems, software, and processes. After 15 years in IT, however, Mike knew his passion lied within the Real Estate Investment space due to its predictability of outcome and well-understood risks. Mike dove headfirst into real estate in 2000 and now holds the title of CEO at TF Management Group. Under his leadership, the company has seen transformation and growth, delivering strong returns for the fund investors. Quotes: “The strengths of the open-ended fund [are that] you can keep raising capital on a periodic basis quarterly and you can keep making investments and reinvest capital that comes back from the files. It’s got its positives. One of the major negatives with any open-ended fund is mark to market on however often you raise capital…you’ve got to be able to value the portfolio. It’s called mark to market concept.” “One thing I can tell you [is] that when you mix growth and income strategies, the growth projects create tax efficiency… and it creates yield drags on the income projects. So mixing growth and income projects in the same fund has a little bit of that tax efficiency a little bit of yield drag as the result.” Highlights 02:23 - Mike Gives us an overview of his background in real-estate 04:29 - Mike tells us what TF Management Group does, what they fund, and who they invest with. 05:38 - Mike gives comparisons between open-ended/evergreen funds and closed-end funds as well as the types of assets in each. 07:40 - Mike gives us Examples of opportunities and assets in their most recent funds. 13:54 - Mike talks about the process behind hotel to multi-family conversions! 21:40 - Mike tells us what he thinks about the future of the hospitality space. 26:47 - Mike speaks about business strategies during the pandemic. Guest Website: Learn About Investment and Partnership Opportunities with Kevin and His Team Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 29 June 2021
Chay Lapin is a real estate investment and 1031 exchange expert. Chay is a leader and specialist within the 1031 DST and real estate offerings market. In this role, he offers insight to clients nationwide concerning multifamily and commercial real estate, DST, TIC, and fractional NNN Properties. Chay has also sponsored and co-sponsored the syndication of over two million square feet of DST properties in the multifamily, net lease, industrial, and office sectors and invested in and operated multiple net lease asset residential properties throughout the United States. As the president of Kay Properties and Investments, a national Delaware Statutory Trust investment firm, Chay and his team provide their clients with access to the marketplace of DSTs from over 25 different sponsor companies, custom DSTs, independent advice on DST sponsor companies, full due diligence and vetting on DST and a DST secondary market and so much more. Prior, Chay was a four-time Academic All-American water polo athlete breaking records and receiving athletic awards at UCLA. As a top-ranked water polo athlete, Chay represented the United States in the 2012 London Olympic Games on the U.S. Men's National Water Polo Team. Quotes: "You're ultimately a passive investor, that's become very popular over the last decade, and then very popular with the acceptance that we are not a crowdfunding site but the whole crowdfunding world and the big companies getting involved in venture capital has allowed people to get comfortable with the passive investing." "In the DST's you can also do a cash investment into them. It's not just for 1031 exchange funds... So you do a cash investment today, there's that liquidity event, you can have an option with the current tax law to do a 1031 exchange." "And that's the biggest difference between the DST structure and your typical GP structure or other funds is there's no waterfall split with the trustee; 100% of the upside goes to the investors, but the sponsor, the trustee, gets a disposition fee." Highlights: 03:05 - Chay gives us insight into his background and education being a former Olympian, and how he got started in the real estate world. 06:42 -Chay tells us more about his internship experience. 08:08 - Chay tells us what a DST is and what role they play in real estate investment. 11:08 - Chay breaks down the DST structure. 12:45 - Chay lists out the investor profiles that he typically works with as a 1031 exchange expert. 16:54 - Chay tells us more about the technicalities of being a beneficial owner. 20:33 - What are some of the profiles of these properties in the DST world? 21:50 - Chay speaks about Kay's Secondary Market and options for people who need to quickly get liquidity in an illiquidity market. 24:10 - Talk about leverage and debt on DST properties. Guest Website: Learn About Investment and Partnership Opportunities with Kevin and His Team Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 22 June 2021
Bill Ham a is real estate investment expert. Bill is the Chief Operating Officer and the driving force behind Broadwell Property Group. He has upwards of 20 years’ experience in the Real Estate investment world with a proven track record of identifying, acquiring, operating, and divesting large footprint Multifamily Housing. Quotes: “The cap rate compression is too great at the moment. We are looking for a good deal like everyone else and we’re going to sit tight until we find one.” “One of the biggest mistakes I’m seeing people do right now is to really just buy into this ‘the rent is below market’ conversation. I am strongly cautioning everyone against that. What I’m seeing are the people that are basically mathematically looking at a deal and saying this is not a good deal mathematically speaking, but that’s okay because I can raise the rent and as soon as I raise the rent this will be a good deal.” Highlights: 1:27- Bill talks about his background and how he got into real estate 5:56- Bill gives his opinion if things are a little too frothy right now and if he’s concerned that something may happen to impact pricing 12:00- Bill talks about core cycles and where they pertain to 14:20- Bill shares his investment strategy in the ‘COVID world’ 17:05- Bill talks about some tactics that he wrote about in his book 23:25- Bill talks about what he’s doing at this point in time to prepare for a potential future recession 26:59- Bill shares his most challenging deal and what he learned from it Guest Website: |
Tue, 15 June 2021
Sterling Anderson is a real estate investor. Sterling is the President & CEO of Red Oak Development (Formerly Sterling Capital Investments), a Real Estate Development/Investment company based in Omaha, NE. The company invests in and develops single-family, Multifamily, and Hotel properties Quotes: “It starts with the parent company. It starts with having to adhere to what they feel. You can have any idea in the world that you want, but if it’s not approved by AHG or Hilton or Radisson, then that’s an uphill battle that you’re facing.” “You always explain to your investors that there is a risk of you not receiving your capital back.” “I’d rather raise too much for deals and have to give some back than not raise enough.” Highlights: 2:04- Sterling talks about his background and how he got into the real estate space 7:01- Sterling talks about where he finds distressed hotel sellers and pandemic pricing 13:04- Sterling gives stats on what he's planning for his hotels and what he’s hoping for 17:43- Sterling talks about hotel conversion to multi-family 19:10- Sterling shares what markets he is excited about 25:50- Sterling talks about day-to-day management with his hotels and how he avoids losing money with it 30:06- Sterling talks about being with a flag and if it brings buying power 33:11- Sterling shares his most challenging deal and what he learned from it Guest Website:
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Tue, 8 June 2021
Jill DeWit & Steven Butala are real estate and raw land experts. Since 1999, Jill and Steve have completed the acquisition and sale of more than 16,000 properties without incurring leverage or debt and continue to purchase property daily for immediate resale. Quotes: “The seller just doesn’t want it anymore. They are tired of getting the tax bills. They’re in a situation and need cash right now. They inherited it and didn’t even know they had it. There are all kinds of situations and they just don’t know what to do.” “I love that we can buy and sell property all over the country and I don’t have to be there. We have members all over the world that are doing this very successfully.” Highlights: 2:25- Jill and Steve talk about how they got into the real estate space and how they ended up in land investments 10:00- Jill and Steve share how they come up with the land value and what formula is used 17:16- Jill and Steve talk about their program and the kind of results you can expect from it 21:07- Jill and Steve talk about who the buyer typically is on the back end 29:49- Jill and Steve talk about the due diligence they do on their properties prior to buying 32:17- Jill and Steve share their most challenging deal and what they learned from it Guest Website:
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Tue, 1 June 2021
Vince Guzzo is a businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Vince is a Canadian entrepreneur who currently serves as CEO of Guzzo Cinemas, Guzzo Construction inc., Guzzo Medical, and Guzzo Hospitality. Vince received national attention in 2018 when he joined the cast of the CBC Television business reality shows Dragons' Den as one of the investors. Additionally, Vince’s group is the largest movie operator in Quebec, with 141 screens and 10 locations, and the third-largest in Canada. Quotes: “Movie theatres have been competing with some form of in-home entertainment for about 120 years. At the end of the day, content is king. What does that content cost you? What is your talent in storytelling?” “The deals that I did do, whatever mistake I made, I managed to turn the mistake into a learning lesson and at the end of the day, I don’t regret the bad deals. It’s the ones I didn’t do that I regret.” Highlights: 1:32- Vince talks about his background and how he landed in the cinema space 9:15- Vince talks about if a business owner or idea itself is more important 11:46- Vince shares how COVID has impacted the cinema business 14:47- Vince talks about design changes prompted by COVID 19:08- Vince shares if cinemas have a plan to get people comfortable and excited for theatres again 26:27- Vince talks about how malls are doing in Canada and how that impacts cinemas 33:00- Vince talks about how streaming services have impacted the cinema industry 44:28- Vince shares his most challenging deal and what he learned from it Guest Website:
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Tue, 25 May 2021
Gene Guarino is a real estate and senior living expert. Gene is a certified financial planner in the US and Australia as well as a full-time real estate investor with over 30 years of experience in just about every area of real estate including both residential and commercial, with his primary focus today being in the senior living space, or more specifically known as, residential assisted living homes, which is very different than your typical large multi-story senior care facilities you might be familiar with. Quotes: “Basically, it will boil down to: if you have a two thousand sq ft house, you could have ten people in it. Ten seniors in it. Now for me, that’s not big enough. I want luxury, I want more space. So, our rule of thumb is 300 sq ft of living space per resident.” “No matter what is going on, pay attention to what is important. The people in your life; your spouse, your kids, your friends. Those relationships, that stuff is much more important than any business, real estate, money, any of that.” Highlights: 2:07- Gene talks about his background and what he does now 4:57- Gene gives insight as to what the need is for senior living each year and how we can meet those needs 8:25- Gene talks about how the pandemic has impacted move-ins vs move-outs in senior living 12:42- Gene talks about changes that have and will be made to building design to help diminish the spread of germs 13:58- Gene gives examples of things they consider with the home itself before going through the conversion process 16:07- Gene talks about what the fastest path for this model is 20:03- Gene walks us through a typical transaction 22:36- Gene shares what kind of debt is available in this industry and funding options 32:05- Gene talks about the other spaces that he’s involved in 36:45- Gene shares his most challenging deal and what he learned from it Guest Website:
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Tue, 18 May 2021
Steven Waldman is a real estate and ground lease expert. Steven is the founder and president of Ground Lease Capital Partners, LLC; a national leader in Acquiring, Originating, and Investing in Ground Lease transactions as well as an Advisor to Institutional Investors who are seeking exposure to this asset class. Prior to founding Ground Lease Capital Partners, LLC, Steven was the Co-Founder of Spectrum Advisors, a family of companies consisting of a Mezzanine Fund, a Title Insurance Agent, and a 1031 Exchange company, where he represented both High Net Worth and Institutional Investors in the acquisition of Ground Leases and Lease Hold positions. In this capacity, Steven successfully transacted over $700 million in acquisitions for his clients Quotes: “The ground has separate interest so the leaseholder can buy, sell, or keep as long as they like, and really the same goes for the ground.” “What you’re really buying here is a super secured stream of income.” “The beautiful thing about a ground lease is that if something goes wrong at a leasehold level with your tenant, you don’t have to foreclose and go through a lengthy process, you evict. Because it’s a lease and there are no landlord responsibilities to operate anything so there is nothing that the tenant can claim that the landlord did or didn’t do.” Highlights: 1:58- Steven shares his background and how he got into the real estate space 4:09- Steven gives insight about where the capital comes from on the ground lease side 5:44- Steven shares the type of debt that is available for a ground lease today 6:45- Steven clarifies the type of assets that ground leases are under 9:42- Steven talks about the typical yields today In ground leasing 13:08- Steven shares the most challenging deal he’s done and what he learned from it Guest Website: |
Tue, 11 May 2021
Ray Alcorn is a real estate expert and president of Park Commercial Real Estate. Ray has extensive experience in business and real estate development, including hotels, restaurants, single- and multi-family housing, shopping centers, and office buildings. He is responsible for the overall direction of the Company, and the development and implementation of the Company's strategic plan. Quotes: “To me, there are four prices in the macroeconomy that matter. The first one on the list is the US dollar. Believe it or not, everything we do from wages to what we pay for a head of lettuce at the grocery store is tied to the value of the dollar.” “Some of the failures taught the best lessons. Life is supposed to be accumulative. That means you’re going to make mistakes and the real sad part is if you don’t learn the lesson that mistake holds.” Highlights: 1:56- Ray shares his background and how he got into the real estate space 8:55- Ray talks about how his business is doing and gives his opinion on other businesses in light of the pandemic 21:50- Ray talks about retail assets and what the future looks like in his eyes 30:42- Ray talks about his venture in hospitality 41:17- Ray shares what he’s doing to prepare for opportunities that may arise from the pandemic 45:03- Ray talks about his most challenging deal and how he got through it Guest Website:
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Tue, 4 May 2021
Brent Sprenkle is a real estate expert and senior managing director at Berkadia. Berkadia is a leader in the commercial real estate industry, offering a robust suite of services to the multifamily and commercial property industry. Berkadia was formed in 2009 as a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National Corporation (now Jefferies Financial Group) - both of which are renowned for their capital strength and sophisticated investment strategies. Brent has more than twenty years of experience and expertise in commercial real estate at nationally recognized firms such as Berkadia and Sperry Van Ness, where he has been involved in more than $1.2 billion worth of commercial real estate transactions In addition to his real estate activities, Brent is also a published author with the upcoming release of his book, Billion Dollar Portfolio. In this new book, Brent takes a deep dive into the certain personality type and key attributes it takes to thrive in and build a substantial portfolio of commercial real estate. Quotes: “If you underwrite 2-3 deals a day, and write 1 deal a day, that 5 offers a week. You’re going to end up landing way more deals than you know what to do with. At the end of the day, you’re going to lose all of your money by the down payments. You’re going to go broke, but then you bought all of these incredible deals and other people are going to see what you did and you’re going to be able to go out and get investors for these properties. So, at some point, you will spend all of your liquidity, but if you’re buying amazing properties, and other people see you’re able to source deals, manage them, turn them over, and prove them, you’re going to wind up with more investors than you know what to do with.” “You have to have a developer’s mindset to the property. In this competitive market, where commercial real estate is so highly valued, you have to come in like a developer thinking how are you going to improve the asset. What are you going to do to take it from a 4 cap to a 5 ½ cap? How are you going to add value?” Highlights: 2:44- Brent talks about his background and how he found himself in the real estate world 8:45- Brent tells what separates the successful from the unsuccessful in the brokerage world 16:40- Brent shares what makes a top-notch investor and talks about some of his best clients 19:41- Brent talks about how new investors can grab the attention of someone like himself 25:06- Brent talks about market-specific direct impacts that he’s seen on pricing with multi-family assets 33:48- Brent shares about how he stepped into the investment arena and how he juggles that along with brokerage Guest Website: |
Tue, 27 April 2021
Gene Trowbridge is a nationally recognized securities attorney. Gene has been in the commercial and investment real estate business continuously since 1972 and in the legal profession since 1996. He is a member of the California Bar. And as the founding partner of Trowbridge Law Group LLP, Gene’s law practice concentrates on the syndication of commercial and investment real estate, through both debt and equity. As a former syndicator, who for ten years raised investor capital; he served as the sponsor of sixteen investment groups, by raising equity from investors, through registered representatives in the broker-dealer community, once sending out 1,676 K1s in a single year. He was responsible for the organization of those investment groups; the acquisition, management, and disposition of the real estate; and communications with the investors. Quotes: “The biggest mistake for new syndicators is trying to draft your own documents.” “Investors need to take it upon themselves to get knowledgeable about mobile home parks, self-storage, multifamily. You need to have some education on the real estate.” Highlights: 1:45- Gene shares about himself and how he got into the real estate space 6:46- Gene gives his opinion on if there are any changes coming down the pipe with the new administration that will impact syndicators 21:30- Gene shares some of the big mistakes that new syndicators make 29:44- Gene shares the advice he’d give new limited investors or passive partners Guest Website: |
Tue, 20 April 2021
Mike Conlon is CEO and majority owner of Affordable Communities Group (ACG), LLC based in Cary, NC. ACG currently owns 22 manufactured home communities totaling 4,000+ spaces in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia with a market value exceeding $110 million. Mike has also bought, rehabbed, and sold 20 mobile home parks during the last 11 years for profits exceeding $15 million. Prior to ACG, Mike owned Southeast Financial, LLC based in Orlando, Fl from 2002-06. At Southeast, Mike and his team bought, rehabbed, and subsequently sold 10 affordable apartment complexes, resulting in over $5 million of profits. In the 1990s, Mike grew a financial planning broker-dealer from $1.2 million in gross revenue to over $40 million in five years and sold it to a large national insurance company. Mike also owned a financial planning practice that he grew to over $100 million in assets before selling in 2002. Mike received his law degree from the U. of Minnesota in 1990. Mike published his first book in January 2015 called Unconventional Wealth, which is available on Amazon.com. He also co-authored a book in September 2014 with sales guru Brian Tracy called Transform. Mike has been featured on ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox, NBC, and The Wall Street Journal. Mike is a current member of the Board of Directors at the Wake Tech Foundation and the Housing Authority of Wake County. Quotes: “If you buy it right, you make your money at purchase. If buy it right, you can always get out of it if it doesn’t work out for you and not take a significant hit.” “If you’re newer to the business, and you have a limited amount of capital, the opportunity is in that 40-90 space park. You’re not going to run into the competition of the big boys because nobody really wants less than 100 if they don’t have to. So, that’s where to start.” Highlights: 1:47- Mike shares his background and how he got into the real estate space 5:16- Mike tells how his business has evolved in the past 5 years 7:23- Mike talks about his preferred markets 12:37- Mike shares the biggest mistakes made on the operations side 19:12- Mike talks about used homes vs new homes 22:42- Mike tells how he adapted to the pandemic within his business 29:43- Mike shares his most challenging deal and how he handled it Guest Website: |
Tue, 13 April 2021
Tom Burns is a surgeon and Real Estate Investment Expert. Tom is an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He received sports medicine training at the prestigious Steadman Hawkins Fellowship in Vail, Colorado and he is a physician for the United States Ski Team. He has over 25 years of real estate experience, both locally and internationally, involving acquisition, development, and management of multifamily, student housing, land, manufactured housing, and medical office projects. In addition to his real estate experience, he has co-founded, managed, and sold a free-standing, full-service hospital. Tom was a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council and is listed in the acknowledgment section of Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Rich Dad Poor Dad. He is frequently featured in nationally circulated print articles and popular real estate-oriented podcasts and has spoken to thousands of fellow physicians about how to achieve financial independence. Quotes: “HUD is very nice once you get it put together. In fact, you get 40 years and 20 months of fixed-rate, because you can get 20 months of construction financing.” “Go work for someone that’s doing it and find out if you really like it, and you start learning there because it’s a big learning curve. Sometimes I go to bed at night and wish I could just buy something finished and cash flow it like the old days. But it’s got its rewards. It does feel good to take a piece of dirt and have a big hit.” Highlights: 1:42- Tom talks about his background and how he found his way into real estate 6:00- Tom talks about the first properties he bought 10:34- Tom shares what his real estate business looks like today 16:36- Tom talks about his big challenges and how he overcame them 19:30- Tom talks about downward impacts as a result of the pandemic 22:54- Tom shares his most challenging deal and how he handled it Guest Website: |
Tue, 6 April 2021
Donna Serdula is the creator of LinkedIn-Makeover.com and one of the most sought out LinkedIn experts. Donna pioneered the concept of LinkedIn profile optimization and is the author of LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies. Through her Website, LinkedIn-Makeover.com, Donna and her team of over 20 writers, help thousands of LinkedIn users strategically write their profile in order to engage with their audience and grow their brand. Donna is an in-demand speaker throughout the US and she has been featured on Business Insider, Time’s Money Section, Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, LA Times, NBC, SiriusXM Radio’s the Focus Group and many other news outlets. Quotes: “If you can organically work those keywords into your content, into your narrative, that’s when you’re really going to see that trifecta. You’re going to start seeing yourself popping up.” “You want to make sure that your profile is relatively fresh. So, if you haven’t updated it in 3 months, in 6 months, in 3 years, you want to make sure that you update your profile because that shows LinkedIn that you’re paying attention to your brand and it’s fresh. It’s not stale.” Highlights: 1:43- Donna shares her background and how she became a LinkedIn expert 5:56- Donna gives insight as to how the LinkedIn algorithm works and LinkedIn Live 9:53- Donna gives tips on what to be focused on with optimizing your LinkedIn profile 15:47- Donna shares her LinkedIn hacks 19:57- Donne gives advice for the person that gets overwhelmed by LinkedIn Guest Website: |
Tue, 30 March 2021
Darin Garman is the president of Heartland Investment Group. Darin is a published author, former bank owner, and currently owns and manages a $50+ million-dollar portfolio. He is widely recognized as one of America’s top “Go to Guys” for all things multi-family investing. His experience spans more than 30 years and is hyper-focused on investments in the Heartland region of America. Quotes: “What I tell people when they’re trying to get into their first investment properties, is I really encourage them to do a lot of the management themselves. At least for maybe the first year or two. Because, after you do that, to your point, the experience is invaluable in knowing what you need to know to be a really good manager/owner/investor moving forward. “ “There is not going to be any such thing as a perfect property. Even the most perfect property you look into buying, you will find a surprise or a few surprises here and there. However, you also want a certain set of criteria. That criteria isn’t necessarily etched in stone that you can’t waiver from that at all, but on the other hand you just can’t waiver from it too much just to get a deal done.” Highlights: 1:34- Darin shares his background and how he found himself in real estate 7:35- Darin talks about the benefits that he gained long term from doing every job in the beginning 10:28- Darin gives his opinion on how the pandemic will impact the office space 12:44- Darin shares pricing differences he’s seen in his area in multi-family housing since last April 20:05- Darin talks about the most challenging deals he’s had Guest Website:
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Tue, 23 March 2021
Dick Anagnost is the president and CEO of Anagnost Investment Group. Dick has been recognized as a transformational leader and a dynamic force in the ongoing renaissance of Manchester, New Hampshire as he continues on his mission to revitalize the state’s largest city and change its skyline. Dick has over 40 years of demonstrated achievements in industrial, commercial, residential, and land development. Through a public-private partnership with the city, he spearheaded the conversion of more than 40 significant properties in the downtown and renowned Millyard districts. Quotes: “A lot of people are known as real estate developers, but they really aren’t developers. What they are, is they’re following a mold or a trend that developers have set.” “Real estate is a commodity like anything else. It’s definitely going to go up at some point, but it’s also definitely going to come down at some point.” Highlights: 4:01- Dick talks about his background and how he made his way into the commercial real estate space 10:41- Dick tells us when he decided to get into the development side of the business and step into real estate full time 13:59- Dick talks about if he had mentors that helped him to learn the ropes 17:48- Dick shares challenges that he has faced with his business 20:51- Dick gives his opinion on if the pandemic will bring any new opportunities to New Hampshire 26:31- Dick tells us about challenges he has faced due to the pandemic Guest Website: |
Tue, 16 March 2021
Thomas Jorglewich is the president and CEO of Toben Partners. Toben partners is a Christian centered real estate investment and management company guided by Biblical principles and a servant’s heart. They specialize in strip and neighborhood shopping centers ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 square feet in size. Quotes: “I’m in the mode now where I’m trying to make a difference in something. I’ve stepped back to try to find out how I can give back something. I’ve been blessed, been very lucky.” “What worked for me, is put other people’s interest before you own.” Highlights: 3:18- Thomas shares his background 6:27- Thomas talks about some of the challenges he faced with his first development property 7:52- Thomas shares how his business has changed since he first began 10:47- Thomas gives his opinion on the changes that the pandemic will bring about 18:25- Thomas gives his opinion on if malls will be able to survive the pandemic 22:08- Thomas talks about the most challenging deal he’s ever dealt with Guest Website:
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Tue, 9 March 2021
Philip Morgan is the CEO of the Morgan Group. As Chief Executive Officer, Philip is responsible for leading MORGAN's strategic planning and growth across all business activities, including development, acquisitions, construction, and property management. Since joining MORGAN, Philip has been involved in the development and acquisitions of over 7,000 units at a cost exceeding $1.8B in Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado, and Florida. Prior to joining MORGAN, Philip co-founded BlueRoot Partners to take advantage of opportunities to acquire distressed real estate assets in Texas. Philip holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. Quotes: “It’s really tough to do what we do and it’s only getting tougher. So, when you have something great, it can be tough to part with and you take a new risk every time you start over. “ “In hindsight, I see that a lot of people put pressure on themselves for their first job out of school or their first couple jobs out of school, what they want to do with their lives. And, I think there is nothing more important than finding great mentors and something that you have a passion for.” Highlights: 3:34- Philip shares his background 8:49- Philip talks about the founding of the Morgan Group 17:53- Philip talks about the markets today that he is most excited about 19:27- Philip talks about collection trends in the industry 23:09- Philip shares if there will be any shifts in developmental models for the future 26:48- Philip talks about a challenging deal that he’s dealt with Guest Website: |
Tue, 2 March 2021
Spencer Cullor is a multifamily investor and syndicator. Spencer holds expertise in commercial, multifamily, and residential real estate. He also spent several years as a homebuilder before moving over to the investment side. Using his skills in project management, capital raising, financial analysis, construction, and contract management, he has successfully owned and managed multiple framing crews, has overseen numerous rehabilitations and flips of residential homes, multifamily properties, and started his own property management company specializing in multifamily and commercial properties. Quotes: “When you’re getting started or new to the business, take on mechanical systems that you understand and take on much less risk so you can understand the business side of it. Take on easy projects first and get to know it.” “The most important thing when we were getting started, is we really became a student of the industry. So, really really learn the business from the ground up.” Highlights: 3:41- Spencer talks about his background and how he got into real estate 13:24- Spencer talks about his property management business 22:36- Spencer talks about collections due to the pandemic 26:05- Spencer shares the most challenging deal he’s ever had Guest Website: |
Tue, 23 February 2021
Jay Several is a real estate investor and developer. Jay is the Principal of Several Properties Group, a Cherry Hill, NJ-based developer and asset manager of value-add retail properties. Several Properties develops and manages properties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Jay is involved in every aspect of the development process for each property including location logistics and metrics, acquisition, financing, entitlement, leasing, construction, tenant fit-out, and asset management. Since 2007 Mr. Several has been totally responsible for creatively re-developed vacant, obsolete, and abandoned properties into vibrant retail assets valued at over $ 40.0 million. Quotes: “Everything is about relationships. You can feel like you know what you’re doing, but to be able to confirm that, you have to have lots of friends in the industry. People that know you, they know what you can do. And when they have something, they will come to you.” “Listen, watch, and do as much homework as possible. Start small and think big. If you have a lot to lose, put it on the line.” Highlights: 3:38- Jay tells us about his background, how he got into real estate, and what he does 6:13- Jay talks about what point he made the transition from family housing to commercial projects 11:56- Jay shares how he knows he has found a strong candidate 17:30- Jay tells what his typical business model looks like 21:06- Jay gives his opinion on if new opportunities will arise from the pandemic Guest Website:
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Tue, 9 February 2021
Brian Carberry is the senior managing director and editor of apartment guide & rent.com. Brian has more than 15 years of experience as a content creator and award-winning journalist and is currently the senior managing editor of Apartment Guide and Rent.com. His work has been featured on CNN, Search Engine Land, Campaign Monitor, and a number of other organizations around the world.
Quotes: “If you’re not paying rent, bank that money. Invest it in some way, put it in a CD, whatever you’re going to do, and get a little bit more for a down payment.” “There’s always going to be a risk involved, as everyone knows with investing. Right now, that risk might be slightly higher, but I do think the market is going to rebound. I don’t think we’re always going to see these trends of these hot cities coming down. Just find that level of risk that you’re comfortable with. Whether it’s with investing, or really anything. And if you are comfortable with something, go ahead and do it. Don’t play the what-if game.” Highlights: 4:27- Brian shares about his background and how he got into the real estate space 8:28- Brian talks about trends pertaining to rental rates 14:54- Brian talks about which parts of the country have seen the “boom” 20:44- Brian gives his opinion on if the new shared housing trend will cause an oversupply of rental properties not being utilized Guest Website:
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Tue, 2 February 2021
Kyle Herring is a public adjuster and partner at Strategic Claims Consultants. Kyle has nearly 2 decades of experience as a public adjuster and has worked on major disasters across the country. This is one of those topics that a lot of investors don’t think about until disaster strikes. I think we can all agree, owning investment property is a great thing when things are going well, but what happens if your precious investment property sustains major damage or a complete loss? In today’s show, Kyle and I will discuss how to successfully navigate the claims process should you encounter an unfortunate loss to your investment property.
Quotes: “100% of the time we can get you more money than your private insurance adjuster can. Just like you wouldn’t send your 1099 to the IRS and ask how much your taxes are, it’s the same with insurance. You need to tell them this is my benefit; this is my claim.” “Don’t be penny-wise and dollar foolish. A few dollars saved on premiums could cost you tens of thousands on the backend whenever you actually need it to come to fruition.” Highlights: 4:00- Kyle shares his background and talks about his firm and what they do 9:50- Kyle tells us what the important aspects are of hiring a public adjuster 15:55- Kyle gives interview tips for hiring and adjustor and tells what red flags you should look for
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Tue, 26 January 2021
Adrian Washington is the CEO and founder of the neighborhood development company. Adrian has more than 30 years of experience in urban real estate development, construction, and management. Since founding NDC in 1999 he has led the development of over 1 million square feet of real estate in the Washington DC area with an active pipeline of another half-million. NDC is also a partner in the District’s City Center DC project and in Baltimore’s State Center project. From 2005 until early 2007 Adrian took a leave of absence from NDC to serve as the President and CEO of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (AWC), which is the entity charged with leading the redevelopment of the city’s Southwest and Anacostia Waterfronts, including Nationals Stadium, the Yards, and the Wharf. Adrian grew up in the city’s Anacostia neighborhood and is a lifelong resident of DC. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Business School.
Quotes: “We like variety from both an economic portfolio balance perspective, but also from an interest perspective. I’ve done this for a while now, I want to have that variety and my team likes different kinds of projects. So, we do for-sale condos, market-rate rental buildings, market-rate commercial buildings, and we also do affordable housing because it’s a good business, but it’s also a good way to give back.” “The supply and demand imbalance, if anything, has gotten worse for the buyer. The prices have gone up tremendously there (single-family homes) and the selling cycle has gotten shorter, and for the condo project we had, the same type of thing." Highlights: 3:24- Adrienne talks about his background and how he made his way into the real estate space 11:03- Adrienne tells us about what he builds to keep and builds to sell 16:09- Adrienne talks about the impact of COVID in the area that he does his business in 19:45- Adrienne tells us about the most rewarding project that he’s ever been a part of Guest Website: |
Tue, 19 January 2021
Larry Lieberman is the president and founder of the Barrington Group. For more than 40 years, The Barrington Group's company philosophy has been to provide excellent quality maintenance service, good clean, well-manicured grounds, well-prepared apartments, friendly courteous professional staff members, and a genuine real concern for the health, safety, and well-being of their residents. Quotes: “There were companies out buying everything in sight, but we couldn’t compete because we wanted cash flow absent of the tax benefits. We weren’t players. We weren’t out building and developing and buying because we couldn’t compete with the tax credit mentality.” “The basic components that we adhered to, to turn properties around in the ’60s, was I believe in giving a good, well maintained and clean apartment for a reasonable price. And for which, I expect my rent, and I expect it on time. We adhere to that, and we’ll do our part first so that you’ll do your part second.” Highlights: 5:22- Larry tells us about his background and how he found his way into real estate 13:39- Larry shares how prior to 1987 he kept from falling into the trap of bad deals due to inflation 18:53- Larry tells us about changes in his property management style that helped him manage his business more efficiently in the 60s after acquiring 2000 assets 21:23- Larry shares the struggles he has faced in his career and how he has overcome them 27:04- Larry tells us how he makes determinations in large rehab projects as to not over renovate 30:40- Larry talks about the best-valued lifestyle commodities in communities 32:27- Larry tells us about shifts and changes he’s made due to COVID Guest Website: |
Tue, 12 January 2021
Janine Yorio is head of the real estate group at Republic. Republic is a leading alternative investment platform open to all investors and has closed over $150 million in investments in 200+ companies throughout 100 countries. Republic is backed by both strategic capital partners and traditional venture capital firms including Binance and Passport Capital. Founded in 2016, Republic is based in New York City and has 50 employees.
Quotes: “This is a platform where people are looking to fill their bucket with alternative investments. Different people want to see different things. They don’t come to Republic looking to invest in public equities and stocks, but they do come to Republic looking for unique investment opportunities that are uncorrelated. Some of which have really high potential risk rewards that would be very difficult to find in a public market type of platform.”
Highlights: 3:40- Janine tells us about Republic, what they offer, and her background 6:54- Janine tells us about how cross-pollination in their userbase with niches and sectors 8:23- Janine explains what separates the Republic platform from the multiple other real estate crowdfunding platforms that exist today 17:50- Janine gives her viewpoint on trends and patterns in her business due to COVID 23:00- COVID impacts on different industries Guest Website: |
Tue, 5 January 2021
Joe Muratore is the co-CEO of Grace-ada Partners. Grace-ada is a commercial real estate investment firm that specializes in Large-Scale Value-Add Commercial Real Estate in California’s Central Valley. More specifically, Grace-ada focuses on Central Valley office buildings and shopping centers and currently has over $150 million in assets under ownership and $300 million under 3rd party management. Quotes: “It’s a negotiation, but our job is to start, like with any negotiation, with letting our tenants feel heard. We can’t force them into a box and if we do, it will backfire.” “Success favors the bold. There is a lot of value in just taking that next step. There is a great book called The Hard Thing About Hard Things and the core value there is if it were easy to get from A to B, that’s a commoditized thing and it’s going to pay very poorly. In this business, there is very rarely a clear path from A to B, but after a while, you develop 4 or 5 different bread crumbs that you’re able to spot, and you’re able to make a path from A to B that others can’t see.” Highlights: 4:04- Joe tells us about his background and how he found himself in real estate 14:50- Joe tells us if he thinks that COVID is the nail in the coffin for traditional retail and why 23:56- Joe shares how he approaches his tenant’s intentions to continue working and innovate through COVID 27:44- Joe explains what things look like from the lending side of things 35:39- Joe shares and direct impacts that correlate to his investors
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Tue, 29 December 2020
Ajay and Manu Gupta are the CEOs and managing directors of Indus Communities. Indus was founded on a simple, yet powerful idea: to transform neighborhoods and lives. Since 2002 their team has been committed to making neighborhoods stronger and safer by revitalizing communities in the greater Houston area. As a family-owned business, we have made a conscious choice to pay our success forward by helping our residents who live in our properties along with their family and friends. This philosophy also extends to our employees who proudly own 25% of the business.
Quotes: “We’re closing on a 400-unit property, 396 exactly. It’s a great opportunity. We actually looked at this property in March and had it under LOI and not because of the Corona Virus, but because of property taxes here. Their property taxes tripled this year, so the underwriters couldn’t underwrite it anymore so we had to drop it and things got mitigated and things got better, so we got the deal. So, there is some action out there, and we think in the next 6 months it will improve and there will be more transactions.” “Don’t stretch yourself too thin. Invest only what you can invest. Don’t re-mortgage the house, don’t take out a second loan. Sometimes you see that investment and it looks great, but you have to be careful because at the end of the day you have to make sure that you're comfortable and safe in your financial planning.”
Highlights: 4:47- Ajay and Manu tells us about themselves and their backgrounds 9:19- Ajay and Manu tell us what asset class they typically buy 13:43- Ajay and Manu share if they saw a downtick after stimulus checks ran out 18:54- Ajay and Manu explain how their business has changed on the acquisition side of things 23:06- Ajay and Manu give a prediction on how the commercial market will fair through COVID in Houston
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Tue, 22 December 2020
Yoann Hispa is the CEO and co-founder of Landgate.com. LandGate is an open Property Rights Marketplace that provides free listings of mineral assets, wind, water, solar, timber, cell tower rights, and more. Prior to founding Landgate, Yoann was President of Optimix Energy Corp where he worked as COO for Private Investors, Private Equities, and small E&P companies in their oil and gas evaluations, acquisitions, divestitures, and drilling operations. Yoann has 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry mainly with Operators in various technical roles from Geoscientist to Reservoir Engineer.
Quotes: “We need to calculate how many resources are in place and how much can be exploited, how many more wells can be drilled to exploit that resource. And, when those wells will likely be drilled based on recounts and activity from operators. Then, based on SEC reserves, we need to tie these future cash flows to a reserve category and risk them. At the end, you just add up all of those cash flows and you end up with the market value.” “Diversify your portfolio with a lot of real estate investors and get some actual resources in there.”
Highlights: 4:27- Yoann gives us his background, tells us about landgate.com, and how it came about 14:50- Yoann tells us the likelihood that landowners have some type of mineral or water under their land that increases the value and what the evaluation method looks like 19:32- Yoann tells us how much accuracy he’s able to tell how much oil can be exploited from a location that has never been drilled 25:35- Yoann compares his services to buying gas stock 31:31- Opportunities in solar and wind investments
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Tue, 15 December 2020
Matt Faircloth is a Real Estate Investor and founder of the Derosa Group. Under Matt’s leadership, DeRosa has completed over 30 million in real estate transactions including apartments, mixed-use buildings, office buildings, fix and flips, and tax lien investments. Matt has extensive expertise in connecting passive investors to lucrative investment opportunities through syndications, private loans, and joint ventures.
Quotes: “With the smaller deals, it was easier in that sense because once they filled out the form, it’s a smaller base, it’s manageable. I can close in a day. With 85 investors, it’s just more heads to manage. In some ways, it becomes like herding cats. You have to respect that when investors want to invest a significant amount of money with you, $50,000 is a ton of money. And so, they are going to want to discuss that with you. So, you have to set aside the time to have those calls. With larger raises, you have to set aside more time. “ “Don’t quit. When things get tough, don’t quit. Just try on something new. Have faith, and just try something new to get you to where you want to go. When times get tough, it’s not a time to drop your goals. It’s a time to just try a different method to get there.”
Highlights: 4:02- Matt tells us about his background and how he got into real estate 8:34- Matt talks about transitioning from a small or medium to larger assets 15:32- Matt tells us about the steps he took to double his revenue 20:27- Matt shares his methods 23:41- Matt tells us about the changes he made to increase the number of investors that are interested 44:45- Matt shares about changes in the way he runs his business as we roll through COVID.
Guest Website: https://www.derosagroup.com/
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Tue, 8 December 2020
Mike’s early real estate experience comes from the family construction business where he worked his way through college and was able to gain the skills necessary to manage all aspects of construction and project management. After college, Mike entered the corporate world and has had a successful 20+ year career in Medical Sales with the last 15 years spent in the Medical Device Industry. This unique combination of skill sets served him well as he built a personal real estate portfolio of over $6M across multiple asset classes while working full time. He enjoys educating people on real estate investment and has been featured on multiple podcasts and speaks at local REI meetups. Mike currently lives in Springfield, MO with his wife Aline and their two children. He enjoys spending time with family, hunting, fishing, and snow skiing. Mike has a heart for mission work and believes that “We are blessed to be a blessing to others”. He lives this out through serving others locally, nationally, and internationally.
Quotes: “Having such a long solo investment career, you get used to making all the decisions, and making them quickly and decisively and not having to discuss and walk through them with anyone. Which, can be good and bad. If you make decisions on your own, you don’t have someone to bounce it off of and you can prone to mistakes whereas partners give you that option.” “Especially in today’s COVID world, stay persistent, and don’t give up. Both of my last two deals took us 6 and 9 months just to get to an LLI stage, so especially with everything going on right now, keep your eyes on the prize, stay persistent, keep trudging ahead, and don’t give up.”
Highlights: 4:20- Mike's background and how he found his way to multifamily investing 10:30- Mike shares some of the challenges he faced when bringing on partners and how he overcame them 13:51- Mike talks about how he and his partners work together 27:17- Mike tells us what assets are trading at in today’s world
Guest Website: https://tridentmultifamily.com/
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Tue, 1 December 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Charles Carillo. Charles Carillo is a licensed Florida real estate professional; an Eagle Scout and he first became a multifamily real estate investor in 2006. He is originally from a small town in Connecticut and moved to Florida in 2012. While he was growing up, his father owned dozens of commercial and multifamily properties that he self-managed with a small team. This experience was priceless in shaping his future business and real estate investing career. During college he started an online payment business that took him to dozens of countries in Europe and Asia to meet partners and clients, forging his passion for traveling. He ran his online business full-time until 2016 when he decided to switch his focus to his real estate investing company. It forced him to hire assistants and start delegating tasks for both businesses. This transformed both companies by freeing up valuable time that could now be used for “high value” activities. Unlike other real estate investors that take a “hands-off” approach to property management, he self-managed his properties for years before hiring his first professional management company. During that time, he learned the intricacies of dealing with; tenants, contractors, superintendents, brokers, lenders, and attorneys. He purchased and renovated multifamily properties; some completely vacant and turned them into profitable investments that he still owns today. In 2016, he founded Harborside Partners, a real estate syndication company that offers other active investors and passive investors alike, the ability to partner with him and purchase larger, more profitable assets. Currently, he has invested in over 250 units, worth over $25 million. He has designed an easy to navigate website that delivers volumes of free education along with a blog that features educational articles and the latest real estate news. Additionally, he hosts a real estate investing podcast called Global Investors Podcast. After years of traveling the world for work, he realized that there were many foreign investors who were interested in investing in U.S real estate but did not know how to go about it. His podcast focuses on international (and U.S investors alike) looking to invest into cash flowing U.S real estate and features detailed essential information in interview format from; attorneys, active investors, passive investors, syndicators, bankers, brokers, real estate professionals, etc. who work with the U.S and international investors. For international investors looking to be set up in the U.S to invest, he’s able to walk you through the process and direct you to the correct professionals to make the process as simple as possible.
Quotes: “Just by pulling knowledge off and a couple of hours online, you can really figure out and kind of see the growth of different areas and compare it to the U.S. average and then compare it to other areas that you’ve invested in and then kind of figure out your plan.” “We like long term debt and we like doing it with pretty substantial solid reserves. And, that allows us to go in and be confident when we’re working on the property, value-adding on the property, and we have a business plan that we can execute on and that will meet or exceed our expectations on the property.”
Highlights: 3:47- Charles tells us about his background and his business 13:08- Charles tells us how he identifies markets outside of his area 16:54- Charles discusses if he’d consider investing in Orlando based on the current state of the pandemic 28:36- Charles speaks about management inefficiencies with properties Guest Website:
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Tue, 24 November 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Evie Brooks. Evie is a Real Estate Investment Educator, Keynote Speaker, Investor, Coach, Mentor, Entrepreneur, and former Advanced Trainer for “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, who now specializes in “All Things Panama”, including real estate and organic agriculture investments. With over 24 years of real estate investment experience, she’s educated and guided thousands of investors through the process of locating, evaluating, and analyzing transactions for cash flow and ROI (Return on Investment) in 13+ countries and 30+ states in the United States. During the global pandemic, Evie continues to close deals every week, primarily due to the soaring demand for organic smart farming investments in Panama, where 85% of the food is imported. Quotes: “After watching and seeing a lot of investors really happy with the returns that they were seeing on this, I was like this is a really good opportunity because food is going to become more and more in demand and airable land is becoming less and less available, and therefore creating a higher value for that land.” “Co-op is what most people in the agriculture business know. A co-op is where a big broker that has accounts around the world with go out and find smaller farmers collectively in places such as Peru that are growing, but they don’t have the connections nor the volume to be able to deal with the big boys (whole foods, etc.) so the broker will come in and co-op with all those small farmers to buy the food from then they will ship it and carry it out to the rest of the world.”
Highlights: 4:11- Evie gives her background and how she got started in investing abroad 13:46- Evie tells us about the different types of investments that she’s involved with in Panama 15:55- Evie explains the mechanics of co-ops in an investment sense 23:10- Evie tells us about the risks and tax benefits of the agriculture industry abroad Guest Website: https://eviebrookspanama.com/ |
Tue, 17 November 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Jason Walter. Jason has extensive experience in both land development and land brokerage. From 2003-2007 he headed acquisitions for land development projects totaling more than $300 Million in 31 different states. In 2007 Jason founded Carolina Land Realty and by 2012, Jason expanded his vision by turning Carolina Land Realty into National Land Realty with the intention of creating a Land Brokerage firm with a national footprint. National Land Realty offers the finest farm, ranch, plantation, timber, and recreational land for sale in the US and around the world, including hunting land and timberland, farmland and ranches, lake and river frontage, fishing ponds, acreages, and commercial development.
Quotes: “For us, this year has been unusual in good and bad ways but didn’t always have to do with the pandemic.”
Highlights: 3:23- Jason tells us about National Land Realty and himself 12:36- Jason talks about the expansion in his business 19:55- Jason tells us about his best marketing method 22:16- Jason talks about the pandemic’s impact on land sales 26:08- Jason talks about the opportunities in land investments
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Tue, 10 November 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Jason Yarusi. Jason is the founder of Yarusi Holdings, a multifamily investment firm with over 800 units under management. The firm specializes in repositioning multifamily properties through operational efficiencies, moderate to extensive renovations, and complete rebranding. In addition to his real estate investing endeavors, Jason also Hosts The Multifamily Foundation a podcast, which covers all things multifamily from finding deals to raising money, to asset management. And if that wasn’t enough, Jason also runs the New Jersey Multifamily Foundation Club with over 2,000 members that focus on Real Estate Syndication and Multifamily Investing. Quotes: “We get to this New Year’s resolution effect where it’s like, today I’m gunna lose 30 lbs. within the month, and it’s so outside of who you are, that you can’t accomplish that because it doesn’t become your life. That’s where, even if you do lose that 30 lbs., so many times people put it back on because they haven’t created that life mission.”
“You want to know your market, know your where the drive is, and know where your potential is.”
Highlights: 5:27- Jason tells us about himself and his background 17:29- Jason tells us about positive shifts in his life as a result of the pandemic 23:32 Jason tells us his long-term perspective on the residential housing industry if there is not another stimulus bill passed 39:24 Jason tells us if there are asset classes and opportunities that he’s considering now, but wasn’t prior to the pandemic Guest Website: https://www.yarusiholdings.com/website |
Tue, 3 November 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features Jillene Helman. Jilliene is CEO and Co-Founder of RealtyMogul. She's responsible for the company’s strategic direction and operations. Jilliene has underwritten over $5 billion of real estate and was previously a Vice President at Union Bank, where she spent time in Wealth Management, Finance, and Risk Management. Jilliene is a Certified Wealth Strategist, holds Series 7, Series 63, and Series 24 licenses, and has a degree in Business from Georgetown University
Quotes: “Retail was in a world of hurt pre-COVID. Right? We over built retail in this country. That’s just a fact. Now, this recession is different though, than a lot of the historical recessions in that, this is very micro-market. Even property level specific.” “We invested in a shopping center transaction in Florida, and we were projecting double digit cash on cash returns in the first yea. This is a closed investment, not an open investment. But I think there is opportunity in retail because of the fear, but you have to be a very good operator and you have to have very very localized knowledge. We’re not afraid of retail with the right operator and the right knowledge.”
Highlights: :55- Jillene's background 6:08- Jillian gives her opinion on the overall outlook for commercial real estate post COVID 14:30- Jillian tells us what the long-term projection looks like in the office segment 20:38- Jillian gives her opinion on the long-term impact of manufacturing and multi-family housing space
Guest Website: www.realtymogul.com
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Tue, 27 October 2020
This week's episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Brian Hamrick.& Brian Hamrick is the owner of Hamrick Investment Group, which controls over $32 Million in assets, including Multifamily and apartments, Self-Storage, Office, and performing and Non-Performing Notes. Brian currently asset manages 370 apartment units in Grand Rapids Michigan and successfully transitioned from his W-2 job to full-time real estate investing in 2014. In addition to his real estate endeavors, Brian also hosts a popular real estate investing podcast which can be found on iTunes and all other listening platforms. Quotes: “So, I had all this money that was sitting in a bank account and I realized; I don’t know what to do with this. I didn’t even know what a Mutual Fund was at the time and I was 30 years old. So, I just starting learning and investigating.” So, automating it really just made things so much easier, streamlined everything, and now we don’t need to have anyone on site except maybe a couple times a week to make sure it’s clean and sweep out empty units. Highlights: :40- Brian's background 9:28- Brian tells us what his favorite market is 15:27- Brian talks about if his new model is scalable and replicable 22:11- Brian gives his opinion on foreclosures and non-performing notes skyrocketing as a result of the pandemic 26:15- Brian tells us what asset classes he thinks will thrive in the pandemic 30:53- Brian tells us about a bad deal he had and how he got through it |
Tue, 20 October 2020
This week’s episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast features Dan Genzel. Dan has nearly 20 years of experience over a variety of commercial asset classes and has participated in more than $100 Million worth of investment transactions. Dan's experience runs the spectrum including industrial properties, student housing, condo conversions, office, multifamily, and just about everything else.
Quotes: “That is such a good long-term asset. My kids will deal with that property. Because once these tenants get into that university, and the university continues to get bigger and bigger, it’s just such a good long-term tenant that just builds good customers whether they’re students or faculty. Since the university isn’t going anywhere, it’s a good property to own.” “I bought a 40-unit apartment building very close to the college and I and determined that there were no condos available for this particular neighborhood and area around the university. So, what I did is I bought that apartment building for about 50 a door and I think I put in about 15 or 20 on average per door then I turned around and sold them for about $130,000.00 and I’ll tell you what; every one of those were bought by a student’s parent. It’s a phenomenal investment and goes up about 5-10% every time one of those things turns.”
Highlights: :58- Dan's background 6:00- Dan tells his preference in which deal he’s drawn to the most 12:07- Dan tells us about his first deal 15:33- Dan tells is which commercial real estate class he thinks will thrive as we move past the pandemic 21:00- Dan tells us about a deal that went wrong and what he’s do differently a second time around
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Tue, 13 October 2020
This week's episode of the Real Estate Investing For Cashflow podcast features Scott Lewis. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Spartan Investment Group, LLC (SIG) and has led several successful real estate projects ranging from single-family flips to ground-up development of self-storage. To date, SIG operates over 5500 storage units, 200 RV pads, has completed $11M in development projects, has $110M more underway and raised over $30M in private equity. As the Chief Executive Officer, Scott is responsible for developing business strategies and plans ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives. In addition to Spartan, Scott is also in the US Army Reserves and is an Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran. Scott graduated from Michigan State University with degrees in Chemistry and Marketing, from Catholic University with an MS in Management, and from Georgetown University with a Certificate in Project Management. Quotes: “So, one of the things I asked my boss was, “Hey can I do this informally and just ask some people to provide some input both from across, up, and then down as well?” To give me this really holistic feedback so I can look at gaps in my personality or wherever I need to improve.” “I know that having an understanding of leadership both in theory and in practice is vitally important to be able to lead a team.” Highlights: :50- Scott's background 11:20- Scott tells about what attracted him to the self-storage space 20:27- Scott gives us a case study example on self-storage 27:50- Scott gives his prediction of COVID’s impact on self-storage 31:55- Scott talks about the other businesses he has his hands in as well Guest Website:
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Tue, 6 October 2020
David’s chief responsibilities include the oversight of the Company’s strategic planning, business development, and fundraising functions. His expertise is derived from over 30 years of residential and commercial real estate experience as a licensed Pennsylvania realtor, investor, title company partner, and commercial fundraiser. In addition to his role as President and CEO, Dave’s biggest passion is teaching others how to build and preserve wealth. Dave is a co-founder and board member of Strategic Investor Alliance, a purposeful planning and networking group for accredited investors in the Philadelphia area. Dave is also a national speaker, author, and investment blogger on BiggerPockets.com. Recommended Resources:
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Thu, 24 September 2020
After graduating with an engineering degree and an MBA from Ohio State, Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm five years later. After a brief “retirement”, Paul began investing in real estate in 2000 to protect and grow his own wealth. Paul has completed over 85 real estate investments and exits, rehabbed and managed dozens of rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a subdivision, assisted with the development of a Hyatt hotel and finally a very successful multifamily project in 2010, all of this collectively convinced him of the power of commercial real estate. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 15 September 2020
Jeremy leads Roll Investment Group's efforts to seek passive alternative investment opportunities in Real Estate and Businesses in the $500k-$25M range. His focus is on low-risk, non-institutional cash flowing equity investments that are managed by experienced syndicators and low-risk secured (collateralized) short-term loan investments. Current investments include traditional asset classes such as multifamily, retail, and office, as well as niche asset classes such as mobile home parks and self-storage facilities. Additionally, Jeremy has investments in residential real estate and notes, ATM machines, cash flowing websites, hard money real estate loans, and other relatively low-risk cash flowing opportunities. What You’ll Learn:
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Fri, 4 September 2020
Our guests for this week’s show is Chairman and CEO of Post Harvest Technologies and Growers Ice Company, Dr. Jim White. Dr. White is a serial real estate entrepreneur and author of Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban and Rural Communities with Opportunity Funds. He achieved international recognition as CEO of Blount World Trade Corporation and owner and Managing Director of ACEC Centrifugal Pumps NV, Belgium. Throughout his career, he has bought, expanded, and sold 23 real estate companies, operating in 44 countries. What You’ll Learn:
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Thu, 27 August 2020
Michael began his real estate career in (TIC) Tenant-in-Common and Condominium development in 1996 and has since developed over 20 apartment buildings and 40 (TIC) projects. His niche specialty is converting rent controlled buildings into market rate condominium units. Growing up in Ventura, California; with a Grandfather who was a real estate developer along the Southern California coast, Michael attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a B.A. in Psychology and then worked in medical research at UCSF. When not wearing a hard hat or closing business, you will find Michael focusing on fitness, at cultural events, visiting wine country and traveling globally. What You’ll Learn:
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Sat, 22 August 2020
Sean is a serial entrepreneur and accidental AirBNB host. After discovering the earning power of short term rentals, Sean, within three years, built a $3 million per year real estate business with no debt or financing. Sean is now the host of the popular YouTube channel AirBNB Automated where he’s taught thousands of people, for free, how to realize their potential and build their own successful AirBNB-based businesses. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 11 August 2020
Mark, or “Skipper” as his employees and teammates refer to him as, is an experienced entrepreneur and one of the leading voices in the sharing economy technology landscape, supporting his vision of sustainable, mobile business practices. In his past, Mark was both a successful Real Estate developer as well as a software industry veteran with 20+ years of experience at previous companies including Wyle, Altera, Toolwire and Venga Ventures. What You’ll Learn:
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Wed, 5 August 2020
Matt is the managing partner at Equity Velocity Funds, a boutique real estate private equity fund based in Columbus, Ohio. There he is responsible for deal sourcing, structuring, analysis, and post acquisition strategic planning. His focus is on value-add and opportunistic healthcare & retail assets. Equity’s current portfolio consists of approximately $400-$500 Million AUM. What You’ll Learn:
Direct download: Matt_Lasky_-_Is_Covid_the_Death_of_the_American_Mall_Final.mp3
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Tue, 28 July 2020
Tom is a seventh-generation Kentuckian who grew up in Lexington. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1971 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and went on to receive his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tom began his career in real estate development and after 18 years with four different companies and building upon those experiences, he started his own home building business in 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona. The T. W. Lewis Company built approximately 250 homes per year from 1991 through 2011 and received many awards during this period, including America’s Best Builder and the National Housing Quality Gold Award. In addition to his real estate endeavors, Tom and his wife formed T.W. Lewis Foundation to support higher education, children and families in need, youth education and a variety of community nonprofit organizations. What You’ll Learn:
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Fri, 17 July 2020
Andrew Campbell is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wildhorn Capital, a Multifamily Investment firm focused on buying value-add assets in Central Texas. Today, he controls and manages a portfolio of over 1850 units valued at over $220,000,000. A native Austinite and father of four, Andrew is focused on Acquisitions and maintaining Investor Relations at Wildhorn, amongst all the other hats required to build and support a growing business. Andrew’s background is in Market Research & Brand Strategy, spending time in both advertising agencies and emerging technology consultancies, where he was most recently a Partner at an award winning app developer. He received a BS in Advertising from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Baylor University. Recommended Resources:
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Thu, 9 July 2020
Chris is the president of 7E Investments, a distressed note investment firm operating out of the Virginia/DC area. Chris has been a real estate professional for more than 20 years and outside of his note business has developed over $750M in real estate. And to add some additional context, Chris operates his note investment fund while working a full-time job as a Director of Construction for a Washington DC based development firm. Chris has built systems and processes that allow him to operate a multimillion-dollar note investment firm all while maintaining a full-time occupation that he loves in the development sector. Recommended Resources:
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Thu, 2 July 2020
Spencer’s investment firm, Madison Investing, has co-sponsored deals totaling more than 5000 units equaling more than $600M. As a former technology leader, Spencer built a 13 year track record of growing high-performing teams across five companies - three of them, "unicorns" - valued at more than $1B. In November 2019, Spencer “retired” from his lucrative technology career - leaving behind the $4B loan origination teams he built at LendingHome, which funds an average of 600 fix/flip transactions per month. Now, he is focused on spending time with loved ones and growing Madison Investing by helping passive investors achieve their goals." Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 24 June 2020
Adam is the founder of Gower Crowd, published author, and host of The Real Estate Crowdfunding Show. He has more than 30 years of real estate development and finance experience and has held senior management positions at some of the largest public and private companies and institutions in the world. Additionally, Adam is a highly sought-after expert in crowdfunding investment and finance, providing advisory services to sponsors raising capital and access to exclusive opportunities to a private syndicate of investors. He is founder of the National Real Estate Forum where he hosts the only internationally syndicated podcast series focused on the crowdfund real estate industry. What You’ll Learn:
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Thu, 4 June 2020
Our guests for this episode is Multifamily investor and friend, Tim Bratz Tim began his career more than a decade ago in the competitive New York City real estate market working as a broker leasing ground floor retail units. Here, he saw the true potential of real estate to transform lives and create massive wealth. Although Tim was limited in means, he spent his time reading, attending workshops, and networking with accomplished entrepreneurs learning that being resourceful was the ultimate path to becoming successful. In 2008, shortly after the real estate bubble popped, Tim quickly adapted and using a credit card, increased his limit and then wrote himself a balance transfer check to acquire the cheapest property he could find. Armed with his personal investment and plenty of sweat equity, Tim transformed a rundown duplex and turned a profit on his first deal. He then took those proceeds and reinvested them, while seeking private capital to expand his growing company. Today, he and his team have amassed an impressive multifamily portfolio consisting of more than 3,000 units across multiple different markets. Recommended Resources:
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Thu, 28 May 2020
At the age of 20 Matt got his real estate license, sold his childhood home for a tidy profit, and has been hooked on real estate investing ever since. Matt began his real estate investing journey acquiring and renovating single family and small multifamily properties, forcing value through physical improvements and efficient property management. His strategy has been to purchase undervalued properties in desirable neighborhoods and improve them, thereby increasing cash flow and the value of the underlying real estate. Matt brings this same simple but effective approach to larger commercial properties via Driven Capital Partners. Prior to his real estate endeavors, Matt spent 6 years at Facebook where he developed programs to introduce the internet to the poorest countries in the world via Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, developed Facebook’s original Facebook for iOS app and launched a subscription business model for video content creators. Prior to Facebook Matt founded two music technology companies after beginning his career as an investment banking analyst. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 19 May 2020
Michael is a Principal at SPI Advisory LLC and heads SPI’s Dallas, Texas office where he oversees all aspects of property operations, including asset management, property management oversight, accounting and taxation, capital improvement and renovation projects and investor relations. Michael is a 15 year veteran Commercial Real Estate Banker and has originated and managed numerous portfolios of permanent and bridge loans in all major asset classes. What You’ll Learn:
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Wed, 13 May 2020
AJ has been in the storage industry since 2003. In 2012, he co-founded Bitterroot Holdings, which is the operator of the Keylock brand that operates 11 facilities throughout Idaho, Oregon and Washington. AJ holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 6 May 2020
Brandon Silveira is a fourth-generation farmer and real estate investor. He graduated from California Polytechnic University with an agricultural degree. After graduating, Brandon started his career in the agricultural industry, and has experience managing and farming a variety of crops. Brandon has bought and sold millions in real estate and currently manages over $100 million in assets. Brandon’s farm management company was recognized in 2012 for achieving over 900% growth, and was listed on the “INC. Magazine” list of fastest growing companies at number 701. It was the only agricultural company on the list. Brandon’s specialty is in farm management, land acquisition and a variety of farm and land financing and strategies. His passion is to bridge the gap between the farm and the consumer. Brandon launched the platform FarmFundr.com in pursuit of that passion. FarmFundr makes investing in farmland, simple. Investors can rest assured they are working with a professional that has a demonstrated history of thriving in the farming industry. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 28 April 2020
Adam has worked on over $1 billion of real estate transactions with a wide spectrum of real estate professionals, sponsors, lenders, investors, developers and institutional clients. His experience led him to conclude that current real estate practices are rife with inefficiencies and in need of a major technological overhaul. As CEO of Real Crowd, he leads the day-to-day charge of growing the platform and ensuring its position as the premier solution in the industry. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 21 April 2020
Brad serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hotel Equities, an Atlanta-based, full-scale hotel ownership, management and development firm. He’s responsible for developing the long-term vision for Hotel Equities and supports all aspects of the firm’s growing business. Prior to joining Hotel Equities, Brad co-owned a successful portfolio of Hilton and Hyatt branded hotels in the Southeast. He got his early start in the hotel space as bellman working to put himself through school. Throughout his early years he made his way up the ranks through progressive executive level positions with Sheraton, Hyatt, Wyndham and various independent resorts. Brad serves as a member of the Towne Place Suites by Marriott Franchise Advisory Committee and Hilton’s Hampton Inn and Suites Owners Advisory Council. He earned a B.S. degree in Communication Arts with a minor in marketing from the University of West Florida. He and his beautiful wife, Tricia, have five children and reside in Fulton County, north of Atlanta, GA. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 15 April 2020
For the last decade, Sunrise Capital Investors has focused exclusively on the niche of mobile home park investing. The niche aligns with our investment thesis and has served our investors well for many years. Our team was ahead of the curve, touting the merits of the asset class long before mobile home parks became the darling of private equity. Today, we see similar opportunity in another under-the-radar, niche real estate investment: parking. Parking aligns with our investment thesis, and we feel the niche is roughly ten years behind mobile home parks in terms of the industry’s consolidation phase. This provides sufficient runway to roll up a nice portfolio of parking assets while the niche is still overlooked. The remainder of this special report outlines the top ten most attractive aspects of parking investments. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 7 April 2020
Ari is the Founder and CEO of Rastegar Property Company. He has earned a reputation as a thought leader in real estate with his innovative, technology-driven investment strategies. He specializes in recession-resilient real assets and multifamily real estate developments, building portfolios designed to reduce risk and maximize capital appreciation potential. Ari is a frequent contributor to popular publications like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBS, and International Business Times. He started his first real estate investment company in 2006 while still in law school at St. Mary’s University. He completed his undergraduate work at Texas A&M University. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 31 March 2020
Max Sharkansky is the co-founder of Trion Properties and oversees all aspects of acquisition, disposition, and property analysis for the firm. Since founding Trion Properties, Max has led the acquisition, renovation and disposition of over $300,000,000 in mismanaged and distressed assets. Prior to co-founding Trion Properties, Max was a Senior Associate at Marcus & Millichap from 2002 through 2006. While at Marcus & Millichap, Max managed the sale of several million dollars in real estate throughout the continental United States, specifically in the multifamily arena, elevating him to one of the top-ranking brokers in Los Angeles.
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Wed, 25 March 2020
Ken is a world-renowned authority on Real Estate investment and development and has completed more than $1.35 billion in development in New York City. In addition to his real estate activities, he is also an author, educator, and a professional engineer with advanced degrees from New York University and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 17 March 2020
Santosh is the Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of Convergent Capital Partners. He is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the company. His responsibilities include negotiating acquisitions, overseeing all investment activities, financial affairs, investor relations, and forging partnerships with other firms in the industry. Santosh is a member the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, The Committee on Foreign Relations, and Leadership Florida. He serves on the board of directors of the IndoUS Chamber of Commerce, the board of directors of Asian American Chambers of Commerce of Tampa Bay, the board of directors of Chinmaya Mission Tampa Bay, and the board of trustees at Academy of the Lakes, all of which are in Florida. Santosh graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School, a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Engineering from the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and minors in Theater Arts, Mathematics, and South Asian Studies. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 3 March 2020
Josh began his career in commercial real estate in 2004, and a few short years later ventured out on his own to start SimonCRE. As Founder and CEO, Joshua leads the company’s growth strategy while directing the daily operations. He carries the torch for a team committed to developing projects that benefit clients and the communities they serve. SimonCRE now develops retail properties all across the country totaling roughly $120 million a year. To date, the company has completed over 170 projects in 22 states. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 26 February 2020
Justin specializes in hotels, motels, inns, and lodges, in addition to commercial and multifamily properties. In addition to his real estate investments, he has published, edited and written for over a dozen international investment newsletters. He launched the US version of the Fleet Street Letter, the oldest continuously published newsletter in the English Language. One of his employees was a young Porter Stansberry. Justin is the founder of Seeds of Wealth, a program for getting children to adopt good money habits from an early age. He is the editor of the Seeds of Wealth Quarterly Investment Update Bulletin. His investment approach to real estate can be summarized as follows: 1) I only buy income-producing properties at cash-flow prices; 2) I adequately capitalize each property. 3) I buy at or below market value. 4) I follow cash-flow fundamentals to avoid bubble markets. 5) I finance conservatively, preferring fixed-rate loans; 6) I choose our tenants as carefully as we choose our properties. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 18 February 2020
Mark has sponsored the acquisition, ownership, and development of nearly 40 properties in the Bay Area. Mark’s main focus has always been locating value-add properties in changing urban neighborhoods and then re-working them into higher-quality buildings with higher incomes, improved tenant profiles, and higher resale values. Mark has considerable experience in partnership formations and operations, project planning and implementation, asset management and management oversight, landlord-tenant and rent-control issues, risk management, and zoning and building department matters. Before forming his own commercial brokerage and investment business in 1994, Mark worked in the San Francisco office of Marcus & Millichap, subsequently co-founding Property Resource Group (real estate brokerage) and Quantum Land Company (development) What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 11 February 2020
Ellie is the founder blue lake capital, a multifamily real estate investment firm based in southern California. Ellie holds Masters in Law and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. She started her career as a commercial real estate lawyer, leading real estate transactions for Israel’s largest real estate company. Later, she transitioned to a property manager role and oversaw properties worth over $100MM. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 28 January 2020
Jim is Senior VP & Principal of Acquisitions for Bascom Group and is responsible for analysis, due diligence, equity and debt financing, and transaction execution functions for the acquisition of new assets, as well as the management and disposition of existing assets. As a member of the acquisition team he has been directly involved in the acquisition of 35 multifamily properties located in California, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas totaling 7,751 units and $1.2 billion in project cost. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 7 January 2020
Our guests for this week’s show is Real Developer and founder of Rooney Properties, Jim Rooney Rooney Properties is a Wisconsin-based development and management firm, specializing in multifamily, senior housing and student housing projects. Over the last 25 years, the team has been responsible for the development of hundreds of millions worth of projects. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 31 December 2019
Tom is a leading wealth and tax expert, global speaker, Entrepreneur Magazine Contributor, and Best-Selling Author of Tax-Free Wealth. Tom is best known for making taxes fun, easy and understandable, and specializes in helping entrepreneurs and investors build wealth through practical and strategic ways that permanently reduce taxes. As a Rich Dad Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad), Tom frequently speaks at conferences worldwide to entrepreneurs on these topics. In this show, Tom and I will be diving into some of the most overlooked deductions that came out of the tax reform of 2017, more specifically, the tax cuts and jobs act. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 17 December 2019
Brian is a Leading Educator and Asset Protection Attorney for High Risk Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Real Estate Investors. Brian’s firm focuses on adding value for clients and educating them on what they don’t realize they don’t know. What Brian does for clients is act as an advisor and focuses on setting up systems and strategic teams to protect your assets and manage your wealth. The goal is lifestyle preservation, peace of mind, changing the way predators view you, along with better tax planning, risk management and decreasing your taxable estate. Brian also acts a Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) for firms helping to maximize their value of existing and new products, along with technology integration. Brian was selected to the Lawyers of Distinction List 2019, Super Lawyers Rising Star List 2015, nominated to America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators List, nominated to the 2017 Law Firm 500 Award. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 4 December 2019
Our guests for this week’s show is real estate & multifamily syndicator, Reed Goosens Reed is originally from Australia and moved to the US in 2011 for the love of two things: Firstly, his wife and secondly the big apple, NYC! Within the first year of living in the US he had purchased my first duplex for $38,000. This experience taught me a lot about the benefits of Investing for cashflow here in the US. Barriers to entry are a lot lower compared to his homeland of Australia. Fast forward to today, Reed has gone on to start RSN Property Group, a multifamily syndication investing firm which has been involved in the acquisition of over $60 mill worth of real estates to date. In addition to his real estate investing endeavors, Reed also launched the podcast, Investing in the US, in early 2016 and is the author of two top selling real estate books. What You’ll Learn:
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Wed, 20 November 2019
Alan is a real estate investor based in Houston who currently specializes in Value-Add anchored retail centers throughout the US. Over the years, he has put together an impressive real estate portfolio, which has consisted of more than 2,000 apartment units, hundreds of single-family houses, self-storage investments, industrial, and his favorite today, retail shopping centers. Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 12 November 2019
Ryan is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Spartan Investment Group. At spartan, Ryan is responsible for investor relations and capital raises for projects. To date, Ryan has raised $14M for various investments including self-storage facilities, RV parks, and boat and RV storage. Ryan graduated from Mercyhurst University with a bachelor's degree in Business, with concentrations in Marketing, Management, and Advertising. Ryan is also an airline pilot and enjoys spending time with his wife & daughter in Seattle, WA. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 6 November 2019
Todd is a co-founder and partner at Tanenbaum Equity Partners (TEP), which is a private equity firm formed by highly experienced principals focused solely on producing attractive risk-adjusted returns through domestic commercial real estate investments. Todd’s primary focus is sourcing and executing all investment directives for the firm’s individual and institutional investment partners. In addition to his involvement with Tanenbaum equity partners, Todd is also a principal of Metropolitan Capital Advisors (MCA), where he focuses on raising debt and equity capital for commercial real estate projects. He has arranged over $2 billion of capital on behalf of his clients for commercial real estate transactions comprising of all product types. Recommended Resources:
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Wed, 30 October 2019
Sarah is a true powerhouse in the Texas commercial real estate world. And ever better is the fact that she got her start right out of college as a young, driven woman fighting against a male dominated and sometimes-cutthroat industry. After a blistering 10 years of working her butt off and making her way to the top of various firms, she took entrepreneurial leap and starting her own commercial investment and brokerage firm and set her mark in the Texas Commercial real estate world. What You’ll Learn:
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Tue, 1 October 2019
Gary is the Founder & CEO of Alliance Building Services, one of the largest privately held building service providers in North America. In addition to his business endeavors, he is also the Principal Owner of Baseball America, CEO of Alliance Omaha Soccer Holdings - part of the United Soccer League (USL) - CEO & Owner of the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers - affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, which he purchased from Warren Buffett - General Partner of the Double-A Richmond Flying Squirrels & the Montgomery Biscuits. Gary is the son of prominent New York City real estate owner, Steven L. Green, but don’t that that fool you. Gary built his fortunes on his own two feet and worked his rear-end off to build Alliance into the company that it is today. |
Tue, 24 September 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin brings in real estate expert, Lee Kearney. Lee’s business is primarily in single family residences and he’s one of the nation’s most active and successful investors. He is known to be a master at scaling real estate businesses. In the podcast, Lee talks about how he got started in real estate. He tells the story of how he recovered from the financial crash and what he learned from it. Kevin talks about the importance of laying down processes and implementing management strategies for maximum returns. Lee explains how he scaled his real estate business and how his team conducts and manages in-state and out-of-state deals successfully. Kevin and Lee discuss single family and commercial real estate with Lee sharing some marketing strategies and explains how to find opportunities in the market. They also discuss Lee’s prediction of an imminent downturn. Lee shares his philosophies on hiring employees. QUOTES: “I recommend to everyone out there, don’t start off trying to rehab houses out of your own market.” “I learned a lot of things from the way institutions approach business, I’ve tried to institutionalize my business and I think that’s what makes us different.” “Rather than chasing assets, I’m chasing sellers.” “So I’m seeing a lot of new operators come in to the business and I think they’re over leveraged.” “I focus on three things: systems, processes and people. All three are important.” HIGHLIGHTS: 8:36 Lee’s background and his start in real estate 15:51 Businesses processes and strategies 18:06 Out-of-state deals and scaling the business 24:01 Marketing strategies in single family and commercial real estate 30:15 Lee’s predictions 36:21 Hiring and attracting new talent
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Tue, 10 September 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and self-storage expert, Kris Benson. Kris is a managing principle at Reliant Investments, a subsidiary of Reliant Real Estate Management, a top 30 operator in the self-storage space. Kris oversees investor relations and equity contributions for Reliant’s portfolio expansions. In this podcast, Kris shares his inspiring decision to leave his job and pursue business in real estate. He explains how and he got into self-storage real estate and talks about advantages of getting into this asset class. Kris also talks about his involvement with Reliant real estate management and explains how and why he stays with the company. Kevin and Kris dive further into self storage real estate and discuss the current market in comparison to other asset classes. Kris shares some perspective on the business and talks about value-adds, supply and demand, the risks, opportunities and other things to be considered when acquiring space for development. Kris also tackles marketability and pricing in this highly competitive and dynamic market. QUOTES: “I’m a big believer that everything in the market that’s going to happen has happened in the past and so for us, it was a function looking at what happened in the last recession and understanding how the asset class was affected.” “My role is managing and kind of institutionalizing he equity arm of our business so that as we’re growing our portfolio, we have access to equity along the way.” “At some point, you have to jump in, even if you’re uncomfortable, that’s where you’re going to do the most learning.” “Our sweet spot really is not too similar than multifamily where you’re trying to find kind of that C property in a B+ or A area.” “Our pricing definitely changes depending on what we’re seeing because when a facility opens up, most of the time they’re going to drop the rates to get you in the door, and then slowly burn off those discounts and concessions as they go.” HIGHLIGHTS: 6:07 Kris shares his background and perspective on deals 9:58 How Kris got into the self storage asset class 15:26 Kris’s involvement with Reliant Investing 21:56 Kevin and Kris talk about self-storage space 34:18 Retrofit projects 39:40 Self-storage pricing 43:57 Buying opportunities
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Tue, 3 September 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investment for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin brings in his good friend, James Kandsamy. QUOTES: “I realized that there’s a lot of magic in multifamily commercial real estate because of the fast appreciation so I said ‘I’m moving to commercial real estate.’” HIGHLIGHTS: 9:24 James’ background and how he got into multifamily real estate
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Tue, 27 August 2019
In this episode of Real Estate Investing for Cashflow, Kevin welcomes his good friend, Adam Adams, otherwise known as Adam Triple A Adams. Adam is a real estate expert and founder of Real Blue Spruce. Adam is also a fellow podcaster, the co-host of The Creative Real Estate podcast. In this podcast, Adam talks about his interesting background, how he made a million dollars for his boss in a span of twelve months, and how he eventually focused on multifamily syndication after the financial crisis. Kevin and Adam discuss multifamily investing and what it takes to succeed in that niche and in other asset classes as well. Adam also breaks down their team’s management structure and strategy at Real Blue Spruce. He also talks about strategies on how to find and properly contact brokers in a given market.
QUOTES: “If you want to get into multi-family and you’re thinking ‘it’s too competitive, it’s too this or too that’, you’ll definitely not do too well at it but if you go into it focused on ‘how can I? What are the ways to do this? How can I align with somebody who’s already doing deals..?’” “Make sure to learn and educate yourself about the asset class and if you’re tenacious enough, you can build a team.” “When you’re on the buying side of things, getting in and getting your first deal done whether it be mobile home parks or multi-family or shopping centers, what have you, you could pick any asset class, there’s always an opportunity out there and it’s your job to get in front to that opportunity, be prepared when it presents itself.” “If you can align yourself with a really good broker, and you’ll give them all the parameters and they can actually print you out something, pages and pages of information which can be a really good resource.”
HIGHLIGHTS: 6:30 Adam’s background and how he got into multifamily investing 11:05 Adam’s work as a property manager 16:16 Is it advisable to get into multi family real estate? 21:30 The team aspect of the business 27:56 Improving and over-improving facilities 39:34 How to find and contact brokers
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Tue, 20 August 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast, Kevin brings in real estate and retail expert David Puchi. David is the founder and partner of Baceline Investments, a private real estate investment and management company with a focus on strengthening communities by acquiring and revitalizing neighborhood shopping centers. David has been responsible for raising approximately 300 million dollars for Baceline-sponsored funds. In the podcast, David talks extensively about the retail sector and how he centered his focus on it. He explains the management structure at Baceline and the stability in their tenant base, which consists of a lot of mom-and-pop retailers. He talks about why it’s actually beneficial to help their tenants succeed. David also shares the financial strategy behind their business and goes on to explain what physical improvements his team adds to properties to increase value in the market. He shares how their business survived the financial crisis, which circles back to his focus on the retail sector. David shares what the future plans are for Baceline Investments.
QUOTES: “Our company today, really carries on a lot of the traditions that I started with when I broke free from practicing law and primarily, it has never been a transactional type of company, we’ve always been more of an operating company.” “Our niche in the world is owning and operating multi-tenant neighborhood shopping centers that are primarily unanchored.” “You know the small mom-and-pop tenants may not be considered credit from a Wall Street perspective, but from a reality perspective they’re actually really good credit because these are family businesses that people fight for everyday.” “The reason we like to be in the middle of the country is that we find great stability in the cities that we’re in, we also find that there’s less competition…” “Rolling through the recession, we saw the resilience of our tenant base and then basically turned that to the sole purpose of our company moving forward, as far as investing is concerned.”
HIGHLIGHTS: 7:17 David’s background and getting into real estate 11:01 Asset classes and credit ratings 17:35 Baceline’s geographic focus and seller profiles 21:42 How David adds value to their properties 26:46 Debt, equity and the financial crisis 34:36 SWOT analysis of the retail sector 45:46 Long term plan for Baceline Investments
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Tue, 13 August 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and note investment expert, Jim Maffuccio. Jim is co-founder and CIO of Aspen funds, an investment fund that provides returns without the volatility of traditional investment options. He is a 30 year old real estate veteran and deeply networked in the secondary mortgage industry. In the podcast, Jim covers how he bounced from the recession and got into the note business. He talks about secondary mortgages and the profit strategies he and his team employ when capitalizing on note investments. He explains the process of restructuring distressed debt to benefit investors. Kevin and Jim also discuss the dynamics of working remotely and having a headquarters for business.
QUOTES: “Aspen Funds was started in 2012, really kind of born out of the adversity and the lessons that I learned in what debt can do to you if you’re a small developer, a small fish in a big pond. So that’s what launched me into the mortgage space.” “If you’re gonna buy one offs, you can be picky about what you buy in terms of the equity profile of the deal that you’re buying. At our scale, we have to be ready to pretty much buy everything..” ‘We’re at about 65% of the time, we are able to modify the loan, keep the loan, get it re-performing and sell it to an income fund or another cash flow buyer. Another 10 or 15% of the time we actually get a settlement..” “We’ve seen the quantity of deal flow has definitely diminished in the residential mortgage space in general. Most of that is first leads where most of the players have been, and margins have shrunk as price points have increased for mortgages in general.” “If 10% of our loans, at any given time, stop paying, all the metrics of our fund are set up such that the fund investors don’t miss a blip and our management don’t miss a blip. We have that built into our pricing model.”
HIGHLIGHTS: 8:13 Jim’s background and how he co-founded Aspen Funds 14:11 Buying and selling real estate notes 18:41 Different investor profiles 21:10 What would be an ideal loan acquisition? 27:44 How the landscape changed since the crash 34:25 Business and management structure at Aspen
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Tue, 6 August 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin interviews real estate and property management expert, Josh Weidman. Josh has been an active real estate investor for over 10 years, and has successfully founded and grew Atlas property management into a multimillion dollar firm with his partners, then later sold it to TCS Property Management. He is now director of turnkey investments at TCS Investments. Josh shares his background in wholesaling row houses in Philadelphia and how he and his partners developed a business model for large scale property management. He dives into the business plan at TCS and how his team drives big value, receiving mostly a hundred percent rent premium by converting single family family homes into three or four unit apartment buildings. Josh also talks about the cost of these renovations, other challenges and future expansion.
QUOTES: “I was introduced to this concept called wholesaling, and wholesaled my property, made thirty grand on my first year and I was like ‘yeah, I could do this all day.’” “For me the biggest change in hiring was realizing that you get what your pay for and if you don’t know what the role is, you’re never going to find the right person.” “We can take that 2,500 square foot family [home], gut the thing and rebuild it as a three-unit building and we can do it at a price point that makes a heck of a lot more sense than buying a triplex, gutting it and rebuilding it.” “We’ve got some areas in the city where we have two or three houses on the block that are boarded up shells, if we can find a way to capitalize on that block, that is a huge impact on that block, on that neighbors, and on the city as a whole..” “By converting a lot of these properties to functional spaces, it provides a lot of opportunities for the neighborhood’s continued development..”
HIGHLIGHTS: 6:50 Josh’s background and how he got into real estate 11:46 Josh talks about hiring partners and organizing his property management business 20:49 Josh expounds on their unique business plan at TCS 26:13 Costs for renovation and adding infrastructure to single family homes for conversion 30:19 Scalability, geographic targets and challenges Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 30 July 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and multifamily expert, Jesse Worcester. Jesse is the co-founder of Worcester Investments, a family owned real estate company based in Kansas City, Missouri. He also sits as director of fundraising for capital, building and maintaining investor relationships. In this podcast, Jesse talks about the market in Kansas and why Worcester Investment decided to move their business from Oregon to the midwest. Jesse describes value investing and the intrinsic value of real estate dependent on things that can be controlled instead of speculation. He explains why he prefers a vertical structure to outsourcing property management and construction. Jesse also offers some perspective on hiring and management, and even recommends books that helped him develop his philosophy on real estate.
QUOTES: “The most boring average markets often times are where you’re going to see your greatest cash flows assuming it’s not a dying city.” “In everything I’m doing, I want to be doing it thirty years from now so I don’t want to be betting on market timing, there’s a lot of risk factors that come into play when you’re speculating.” “Most great deals come from two situations: someone making a bad decision or it’s just being a situation that’s very unique where a great deal is able to be had.” “The driver behind the numbers of the property are the people who are working on the site whether they’re corporate officers or physically on the site.” “Culture and for us, how we treat individuals has been the single best determinant.”
HIGHLIGHTS: 7:48 Jesse’s background and how his company started 14:18 Jesse explains why they choose the midwest 17:35 What exactly is value investing? 24:16 Vertical management structure of Jesse’s company 29:25 Jesse talks about deals 37:13 Importance of having good underwriting 40:09 On hiring and keeping talents 48:00 Jesse on simplicity Recommended Resources:
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Tue, 23 July 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes commercial real estate and finance expert, Ira Zlotowitz. Ira is the founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, one of the largest national real estate firm with over a hundred real estate professionals and they have closed more than $2.5 billion in just the last twelve months. QUOTES: “Over time we grew into all other deals, but we don’t forget our roots and we start this way, we find our niche and we double down on that area.” “As Eastern Union as the broker, we’ll typically work through full transactions, some look at $5 million, $3million or $100 million, we’ll find a lender for that sorts. Through the Ira group, it’s when the lender is looking for participation in loans, primarily bridge loans..” “I’m gonna bring people that want to participate into loans and bring them to crowdfunding platforms or to individual lenders throughout the country.” “What I also tell people is that the best deal that you should probably start with, if you’re about to invest equity in the deal, if you’re starting a bit nervous then it might be overpriced, maybe you can sit on that same deal and go to the debt side of that deal.” “You only want to try to do deals that the initial term are officially only twelve months.”
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Tue, 16 July 2019
This episode of The Real Estate Investing for CashFlow Podcast is joined by Omar Caraballo, CEO & Co-Founder of Arch Real Estate Holdings. QUOTES: "A lot of people associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies or bitcoin. But that's really just a very minor component."
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Tue, 9 July 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin talks to real estate expert Ian Formigle. Ian is the vice president of investments at CrowdStreet, an online commercial real estate platform that helps diversify portfolios with institutional-quality, expertly reviewed, commercial real estate investments. He is also the author of the book “A Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing”. In this podcast, Ian shares how he got into the business as a multi family home investor. He talks about the 2008 financial crisis and gives some insights into what could have been done better. Ian explains what they do at CrowdStreet and breaks down the process of how they connect and work with sponsors and investors. He also differentiates between three ways investors can invest through CrowdStreet. QUOTES: “Just because something is going better than you think it could go, well maybe you should ask yourself what’s going on there because probably it’s unsustainable.” “For every one hundred potential deals that show up on our doorstep, five of them actually make it onto the market place.” “If we’re going to be in a deal, there has to be a relevancy there, nobody’s doing this for fun, we’re doing it because there is a product market fit between sponsor and investor at the end of the day.” “So what we do is we give investors good tools to analyze and track their portfolio in their own dashboard and so that’s what the investors look in for, and so we are the communication infrastructure…” “These days, we’re finding that the typical sponsor on the market place has started on average to over two billion dollar worth of deals, has been in multiple markets and has ten plus years of operating experience in the entity level.”
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Tue, 2 July 2019
In this episode of Real Estate Investing for Cashflow, Kevin welcomes real estate and technology expert, Diane Vrkic. Diane is the founder and CEO of Waypoint, a platform whose mission is to build tools that let real estate owners and operators capitalize on their data and maximize performance of their teams and portfolios. In the podcast, Diane talks about finding her calling in real estate while being a medical student and how she came to identify some problems in the way the business operates. Diane then gives a detailed outlook on how Waypoint works and how the platform’s operational services differ in terms of the client’s company size. She also shares some important values in Waypoint’s company culture and how their team is motivated. QUOTES:
“What you really have to do is to find something that you really love doing, it can’t just be the idea of what you’re doing, it has to be the day-to-day..” “What’s really interesting to me about real estate is that all the information is done manually, and it’s done on a one-off basis for individual assets, the information is not able to be leveraged in a meaningful way and the work kind of sucks.” “When you have wonderful, exceptional people, you have to enable them to be thinking above and beyond, so that you’re continuously driving value in ways that your competitors are not.” “Every investment professional needs to have all of the information about every one of their investments at their fingertips—they can do that within Waypoint, and then they can essentially have a system that’s also working to support some of the work around tracking, managing, identifying when things are not working according to plan, and just allowing for there to be a system that is essentially a record for the day-to-day performance management.” “The common thread at Waypoint is that folks are really intrinsically motivated.”
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Tue, 25 June 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing For Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin brings in Andy Poticha. Andy is involved in the unique and independent niche of designing and building cannabis facilities across the country. His team has designed and built twenty different cannabis specific projects. Kevin and Andy dive into the topic of the cannabis industry and the unique nuances involving it. Andy shares how he got into the business and how this venture differs from the others. He also addresses certain challenges due to cannabis’ reputation and shares some insights about the industry’s rapid growth and what the future holds for his company’s niche in the business. QUOTES: “The judgement of the success of a project for us is solely based on the unqualified recommendation from our clients.” “We didn’t at the time ever think we were ever going to be a national business and lo and behold, new industry, new direction.” “Right now, medicinal cannabis is legal in thirty-three states and recreational cannabis is legal in ten.” “The reality of it is, our approach to this part of the business is really no different than anything else that we had done..” “We function so that our clients can go off and do what they do best, which is to continue to grow their business and acquire more licenses and so on. And we, with their input, can handle all of navigating the minefields of the construction part of it.”
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Tue, 18 June 2019
This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features real estate investment expert Mitch Stephen. Mitch started out buying manufactured homes in mobile home parks that he did not own and has been buying storage facilities for 28 years and currently owns 14 facilities in Texas. Mitch talks about his background in mobile home parks and why he moved to self storage real estate. Kevin and Mitch dive into the economics behind storage real estate and Mitch’s unique niche in boat and RV storage facilities located in Canyon Lake, Texas. Mitch also talks about the risks and challenges in the business and how his company was able to survive the recession.
“I read a book called Nothing Down by Robert Allen and that guy had the audacity to suggest that I didn’t need money to, you know...you could be broke and still be in the real estate game.” “The entrepreneur rarely ends up with the business that he starts, he’s always morphing to the most money per least resistance.” “Storages are a perfect way to occupy some very valuable land and get paid while the city is growing to it.” “One thing you never want to say in the storage business is you’re full. If you’re full then your prices aren’t high enough.” “The biggest challenge is water and making sure that the water runs off in the worst case scenario where you have 5 or 8 or 15 inches in a day that it’s not gonna override your drainage.”
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Tue, 11 June 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin brings in real estate expert Greg Dickerson. Greg is a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer and mentor. Over the past 20 years he has bought, developed and sold over $200 million in real estate, built and renovated hundreds of custom homes and commercial buildings and started 12 different companies from the ground up. Greg talks extensively about hotel real estate and shares a lot of information about the business, market selection, franchising and financing. Kevin and Greg give tips on how to apply one’s self and bring value into any business. Greg also shares a little bit about his inspiring work ethic which is undoubtedly a key to his success.
“There’s no other way to get a gut feeling for the project than besides standing on the site, looking around, taking it in, I’ll visit at night, in the morning during the day, that’s how you do deals, that’s how the business happens— out in the field, on site, boots on the ground.” “The metrics are the same wherever you go, the drivers for hotels are the same for multifamily in anything else you’ll need.” “To this day, I do not guarantee debt, I do non-recourse loans.” “What I do is I stay away from deals where I refinance is part of the business plan. “The process starts with a vision, so it’s about being able to create a vision for a project and then leading a team to the finish line and getting that thing.”
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Tue, 4 June 2019
Ep #232: Repurposing Old Buildings into State-of-The-Art Self Storage Facilities -- with Scott Krone
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin brings in self-storage expert, Scott Krone. With a solid background in architecture, Scott co-founded Coda Management Group, an international award-winning design firm which specializes in sustainable building practices. Kevin and Scott dive into self-storage real estate, which has been Scott’s more prominent venture. Scott shares a lot of valuable information about the factors and challenges concerning self-storage and how to identify building candidates for potential adaptive reuse. He also explains other aspects of the market such as financing and some market strategies.
“The best way to make money in real estate is through the development process because you can control the acquisition price, you can control a lot more from the front end rather than trying to work the numbers backwards.” “The most important demographic that we look for is the amount of square footage of locker per capita.” “To me, the biggest factor in self-storage is not if the market is going up or down but it’s how many other facilities are coming into my competition.” “We’re looking for a building that’s as regular as possible so you don’t have any abnormal shapes or configurations that makes it difficult to put lockers in because the whole key to any building whether in self-storage, or apartments, or office is your efficiency and your rentable square footage.” “If we can build and buy below what our competition is, then we have a competitive advantage in terms of what we have to charge in order to get people into the door.”
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Tue, 28 May 2019
This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features real estate expert Michael Finch. Michael has been in the real estate business for sixteen years and he founded SVN | SFRhub Advisors, which is the leading SVN commercial real estate brokerage with a focus on single family rental portfolios and build-for-rent investment portfolios. Michael explains what they do at SVN | SFRhub Advisors and talk about the management of intermingling portfolios and how they have evolved over the years. He also explains what built-for-rent is and all other aspects related to its development and business model. Kevin and Michael also trade perspectives on single and multi-family rental portfolios, the advantages, disadvantages and the strategies involved in investing in either space. “We really have two divisions here at SFR hub, one is for built-for-rent new construction homes and the other is the existing single family portfolio homes.” “Every portfolio that comes in to our system, not only are we analyzing it from a evaluation standpoint, we utilize the number one AVN (automation valuation model)… but what we do that takes it even a step further is we pull in multiple data sources, we built in some AI in the background to red-flag some discrepancies.” “I’ve talked to some built-for-rent developers that have been doing this for a while and the recent quote from one said that thirty percent of his tenants have stayed for nine years when he’s built some of these communities, you know, back in 2009-2010 and he’ still got original tenants in some of them..” “The biggest inefficiency in the single family world is that when there’s issues, the homes are scattered around and you do have more rooftops than one building or two all in one spot but on the flip-side, you have typically greater appreciation in good markets because single family homes appreciate at a higher rate than a multifamily apartment building typically does.”
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Tue, 21 May 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin, along with his business partner at Sunrise Capital, Brian Spear, talk cost segregation with Kimberly Lochridge. Kimberly is the Executive Vice President for Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS), an industry-leading provider of specialty tax services in the United States. Kimberly’s business management skills have positioned her as a big-league tax expert for Fortune 500, ultra-high net worth individuals, single and multiple family offices, architects, engineers, and CPAs nationwide. In this informative conversation, Kimberly explains what cost segregation is and how it can help businesses. She also answers frequently asked questions asked by Brian to separate fact from myth surrounding cost segregation. The guests also present and discuss a case study to further shed light on how cost segregation works and tackle other topics pertinent to this business practice. “The difference between the 1040 and a 1040 EV is that the EV is the straight line or what you call the standard deductions and your 1040 is the itemized deductions, well, cost segregation is the 1040 for real estate..” “Essentially when you sell a building, you’re taking what you sold it for minus whatever the purchase price was, which is your gain, but you also have to add in to that gain your accumulated depreciation.” “There are different types of cost segregation studies and as you dig into this, you’ll have engineered based cost segregation and that’s where we actually rebuild the property from the ground up.” “I think of the CPA as the family practice doctor and EPS is the brain surgeon.” “When working with a third party property management company, you need to ensure that they have the information at the ready so that when they do those capital expenditures and do those capital improvements on your behalf, they’re actually handling the depreciation appropriately.”
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Tue, 14 May 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes real estate investment and self-storage expert, Bill Barnhill. Bill is the president of Omega Properties, Inc; a commercial real estate management and brokerage firm based in Mobile, Alabama. He has over 41 years of experience in the commercial real estate business and has specialized in self-storage for the last 24 years, having brokered over 200 million in self storage transactions. Bill gives some in depth knowledge as well as some statics about the self storage business. He and Kevin talk about managing self-storage on site and off site and the strategy of buying mismanaged storage facilities. They also discuss consolidations in the market, emerging technology and the future of the business.
“So storage has a lot of benefits I think, it’s lower maintenance, and one nice thing is you can raise your rent, they put a 30 day notice unlike a lot of other sectors in real estate, it’s a growing industry.” “Americans have a lot of things and they don’t want to get rid of them, you inherit them, then you store them.” “You want to study that particular market, and what you’re looking for is a certain population, a lot of houses and an area where it’s growing, might be where there’s new jobs being created.” “The main mistake I see they [mom-and-pop owners] are making, is they would rather be 95% occupied at a lower rent than be 80% occupied and have a higher rent, they think full is better but what’s better is more income.” “28% of millennials use storage.” HIGHLIGHTS
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Tue, 7 May 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes co-living expert Ellen Parry. Ellen is the director of real estate partnerships at Ollie, an all inclusive co-living setup that use small space design techniques to reduce entry level price points for class A apartments. Residents in Ollie-owned properties enjoy fully furnished units and complimentary hotel style conveniences. Kevin and Ellen discuss the booming business of co-living, especially in urban America. Ellen talks about many different aspects of co-living real estate and the future of micro-living development in the residential sector.
“Looking at the housing market, we realized that there’s this real mismatch between the multi family units that are available, and what people can afford primarily, and also what young professionals living and working in the city wanted to consume in terms of their lifestyle.” “There’s this insight that a lot of multifamily that has been constructed over the last fifty years in the US is repeating the same model that may have worked in that era but isn’t evolving and reacting to what urban life in America actually looks like today and what people really need.” “They don’t notice that their bedrooms are a little bit smaller than it might have been elsewhere because the functionality is what they’re getting.” “It’s challenging to convert commercial spaces in to co-living but we’re now starting to test some prototypes that could evolve that model.” “If the studios seem to be in higher demand than other unit types, that’s a really good indicator because that tells you that there’s people who need these more efficient lifestyle solutions.” HIGHLIGHTS
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Tue, 30 April 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin welcomes real estate investment and construction expert, Ira Singer. With over twenty years of experience in construction, Ira is currently the principal of Mosaic construction and he is involved in new business development, estimating, construction, production, project management of trade partner and vendor relationships. Ira talks about Mosaic Construction and shares the ‘secret sauce’ in how his team successfully expanded their market by molding their philosophy, being visible to the community and building relationships then communicating their story effectively.
“We prefer the design-build methodology, it helps the client, it helps the management team, it helps everybody streamline the construction process which how it all comes together for Mosaic Construction.” “The mosaic way is open communication, transparency, close the loop and when you’re doing that in construction and you have clients that understand the value of that so they don’t have to babysit the project, they can focus on their investment and their next deals…” “We’re really good at building relationships and working in the community, and having an impeccable reputation. That really helps.” “We have a branding and sales marketing consultant that work with us to make sure that we have a healthy culture, that our team understands what we’re trying to accomplish out there everyday.” “Our construction partner is key, and I don’t think there’s a tremendous amount of decision-making to bring that person early on in the process, when we’ve pre-walked the final two or three assets that are being considered so we can help with the due diligence process and create real numbers for various components for construction. That’s what a good construction partner will do.” HIGHLIGHTS
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