Multifamily Insights

Sam Sharp is a seasoned originator, licensed in 40+ states, who has funded over $2.5 billion in loans. Sam and his team are a true full-service mortgage lender well equipped to handle your business seamlessly from start to finish while providing an elevated standard that clients and partners have come to appreciate. Sam is a regular among the country's top-producing home loan originators with a de...

Rashauna Scott is a millennial thought leader who strategically uses her influence to raise awareness about wealth building through investing in real estate. She is the founder of Flippin' In Heels, Inc. a community for women real estate investors that hosts conferences, property tours, online summits and much more. With over 30,000 Instagram followers, Rashauna is an expert at building IG engagem...

Doug Stout helps professionals and executives across the United States who are interested in learning how to transition from traditional employees in corporate America into small business or franchise owners. He not only helps his clients find options that are the right fit for them personally, professionally, and financially, but he also assists in helping his clients find financial and legal res...

Brent Bowers is the owner of The Land Sharks and is an investor and coach with a focus on buying and selling vacant land. As an Army Officer with over 8 years of service, Brent Bowers was spending a great deal of time away from his family, and he knew he needed to make some changes in order to be more present with his wife and children. His interest in real estate began in 2007 when he purchased h...

Eddie Symmonett is the President of Symmonett Multifamily, a private equity company, which began in 2017. They are invested in over 130 units across 5 properties in Birmingham, AL. They are vertically integrated, also managing these units.  He started his real estate investing career in 2016 as a wholesaler, before acquiring his first properties (2-unit and 4-unit) in 2017. In 2019, he raised fund...

Ray Higdon is a bestselling author, renowned inspirational speaker, earner of multiple seven figures in the home-based business industry, and founder of the Higdon Group, an Inc. 5000 company, where he's helped clients generate over 300,000 new customers through his proven coaching programs (https://rayhigdoncoaching.com). As a top keynote speaker, Ray has shared the stage with world-renowned thou...

Drew Breneman is a real estate entreprenuer who founded Breneman Capital (formerly Rise Invest), The Blackhawk Investment Group, and Dwelle, a Chicago-focused real estate investment and property management group Drew has honed an ability to foresee trends and identify favorable opportunities, resulting in asymmetric returns relative to risk.  This foresight is precisely why Breneman Capital has ta...

Dan Barrett is Head Nerd at AdWords Nerds, the world's largest Google Partner agency working only with real estate investors. He's managed over 5 million dollars a year in client ad spend, found hundreds of real estate deals online for his clients, and been behind extensive industry experimentation and original research. He's worked with investors and companies like Joe McCall, Alex Joungblood, To...

John Warren owns 154 apartments in the Chicago MSA, and he also manages a total of 189 units. John is the managing broker at Forte Properties, Inc, and he runs a team of four agents that focuses on helping investors buy, sell, and manage their residential investment properties.  We talked to John about the competition in the 12+ units space, deep value-add properties, keys to scaling your portfoli...

Tamara N. Jones is the CEO & Founder of Bucket List Stays LLC. She is passionate about the delivery of vacation rentals to investors for a completely passive investment. Tamara provides full-service management to property owners worldwide, including Property Management, Online Services, Vacation Rental Marketing, and Community Growth to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom...

James Nelson is the Principal and Head of Avison Young's Tri-State Investment Sales group in New York City. During his 25-year career, Nelson has sold more than 500 properties and loans totaling over $5 billion. His accolades include being named Commercial Observer's Power 100, CoStar's Power Broker, and receiving the Deal of the Year award by REBNY.  Nelson hosts "The Insider's Edge to Real Estat...

Toby Mathis advances his client's interests by combining expert tax advice with his personal experiences investing in over 200 real estate projects in the United States. His expertise reaches many others through his award-winning publications, including Tax-Wise Business Ownership and Infinity Investing: How the Rich Get Richer and How You Can Do the Same. Toby continues his crusade daily to help...

Amy Sylvis has always been drawn to freedom, growth, and expansion and knew that she could serve even more people by investing in multifamily real estate. She is continuing to grow her portfolio with the goal of achieving the 5 freedoms.  Prior to working in multi-family real estate, Amy spent 13 years in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. She was attracted to the industry because of her p...

Right out of college, Joel went to work for a family real estate business in Chicago where he was mentored in all things real estate; specifically industrial brokerage. After some time Joel broke away from that company amicably and started his own brokerage business. At its height, Joel was managing over twenty brokers. These days his main focus is managing their existing industrial portfolio of 1...

Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil is the principal of Merlynn Acquisitions - a real estate investment and syndication firm. Merlynn Acquisitions' primary focus is to provide risk-adjusted value-add and opportunistic real estate investment opportunities to professional athletes, business owners, and W-2 earners. Yannik is also the host of The Mogul Marathon Real Estate Podcast. His experience in commercial real...

Travis Smith is the Founder and CEO of Tribevest, a platform that makes it easy to invest as a group and do deals together in as little as 48 hours. He started his career with Morgan Stanley but realized the most direct path to wealth and financial freedom wasn't through the public stock markets but by taking ownership in real assets.  To overcome the many barriers to entry into the private market...

Rama Krishna is the Founder of USHA Investment Group LLC. Rama Krishna is both an active and passive investor in multi-family apartment syndications. Equity partner in 750+ units' multifamily assets, in FL, MD, and NC markets. GP in 64 units. With more than 15 years of experience as an IT professional, Rama Krishna brings his experience in Analyzing markets, underwriting deals, raising capital, an...

Jason Lee is a highly recognized real estate broker in the multifamily real estate industry. He has worked with several eight to ten figure real estate investors in San Diego County, helping them acquire, sell, and 1031 exchange in order to improve their portfolio. In the last couple of years, Jason has represented over 100 investors and sold over $250,000,000 worth of real estate in San Diego Cou...

Over his career, James Prendamano has led a team that closed over 1500 deals, leased more than 1 million square feet of commercial space, and has effectuated more than 1 billion dollars in transactional real estate.  During this time James shepherded the completion of transformative projects literally reshaping Staten Island; NYC's commercial real estate landscape.  Through discipline and subscrib...

Paul Wakim, the founder of TwnSqr, taught himself how to code in Python to create an algorithm to predict who was going to sell their home next by identifying people who showed signs of 5 or 6 common selling traits. Later, he met his great friend and TwnSqr co-founder, Mitch Tracy. In mid-2019, Mitch quit his job to come work on TwnSqr full-time to refine and drastically improve the algorithm. Thr...

Isabelle Guarino is a graduate from Arizona State University, a former flight attendant, Walt Disney World intern and now Residential Assisted Living Academy's leading lady. She has been working as the COO of the company for the last 6 years, keeping everyone in line and on task. She's been featured in many magazines and articles on the topic of Senior Housing and most recently was given the title...

Pete is a strategic and passionate leader with a serving heart to bless those he serves.  Pete is an active father, husband and basketball coach with a hunger to empower people everywhere he goes. Pete's background includes launching 10+ companies spanning energy, fitness, franchising, youth athletics, real estate, and others.  He participated in multiple ventures including founding upstarts to le...

Aaron Fragnito is a Senior Managing Member and co-founder of Peoples Capital Group.  Aaron is also the host of New Jersey Real Estate Network (NJREN), the Cash Flow Podcast (YouTube), and an adjunct professor at Rowan University while being a Full-Time real estate investor. Aaron has built an 8-figure Real Estate Portfolio and is a well-known name in the Real Estate investment market throughout Ne...

Leslie Anne Morris began her Smoky Mountain investing journey while living and working in Los Angeles. Leslie had been a commercial banker for over twenty years and wanted to begin building true wealth. From the minute she closed on her first investment cabin she knew she had made the right choice. The cabin was an overnight success! The cash flow she made from her first investment allowed her to...

Jordan Fisher has nearly two decades of experience acquiring, redeveloping and managing multifamily properties. As Principal of Next Wave, Fisher spearheads the company's investment strategy, and oversees property selection, renovations, and repositionings. Prior to joining the executive ranks in commercial real estate, Fisher was the Founder and CEO of TPG Consulting, LLC, a web development and d...