Multifamily Insights

Chris Miles is a leading authority on how to quickly create cash flow and lasting wealth for thousands of clients, entrepreneurs, and others internationally. He has been featured in US News, CNN Money, and Bankrate.com. He has a high reputation for getting his clients life-altering financial results with his company, Money Ripples. Chris consistently practices and teaches small business owners how...

Jim Biggs' newest venture is the GOB Network of Apartment Investors. This is an open-sourced, democratized platform for apartment investors to source deals, partners, and capital. Jim himself serves as the GP, KP, LP, and JV on all sorts of deal structures. We talked to Jim about investing, partnerships, the GOB Network, and his upcoming GOB Conference.   Announcement : Download Our Sample Deal an...

Sarah Weaver is a coach, speaker, real estate investor, entrepreneur, and business owner. Nothing thrills Sarah more than helping real estate agents and investors design the life of their dreams whether that is making more money or working fewer hours (or both!). Sarah's Real Estate Agent Coaching Business is focused on helping agents build wealth through real estate investing and hiring the right...

Simon Castillo is a real estate investor & business development executive from San Antonio, TX. Simon began investing in real estate in 2004 and is currently invested in more than $22 million of single family and multifamily assets. Simon's experience includes providing safe, stable returns for investors, real estate development, value add investing and investing for long term cash flow. Simon is...

Joseph Wilkins founded the marketing agency ProCreative around 20 years ago, and from that grew FunnySalesVideos.com , where he and his team create refreshingly entertaining sales videos that turn to view into buying.   His campaigns are extremely successful and he has previously worked with the likes of Google, McDonald's, and Linked In (among others).  Now he's looking to share his ideas and suc...

Sonya Rocvil is the Principal and Founder of Bedrock Real Estate Investors, a privately-owned real estate company, specializing in the acquisitions and asset management of multifamily apartments in the United States. She has syndicated and operated multifamily deals totaling 422 units and valued at over $21.5m. She has also been an equity partner for multifamily investments totaling 438 units and...

Jacob Carter has a background in software and product development of B2B Marketing Technologies. He spent the first decade of his career building platforms and tools to automate and facilitate effective marketing for businesses. It was his personal experience as a renter that led him to create Nurture Boss to help solve some of the pain points he consistently experienced. Once diving in head first...

Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com. She is a partner in $700MM of real estate including over 5k residential units, and more than 1400 self-storage units across eight states. She also has experience flipping $3 million dollars worth of residential real estate. We talked to Whitney about the four pillars of wealth generation and passive investing.   A...

Darren Krakowiak has 20 years of commercial real estate experience racked up at firms like CBRE and JLL in Australia and Korea. He has been a country head responsible for 300 employees, a top-1% agent representing office tenants, and a thought leader in research. After more than a decade in Asia as an ex-pat, he returned to Melbourne and founded CRE Success to help commercial real estate firms dev...

Deepa Akula (Ah-kuh-lah) is a full-time real estate investor and multifamily syndicator based in Seattle, WA. I am a GP on over 1000 units and an LP for about 1350 units in TX, AZ, and FL. She is a licensed Professional Civil/Structural Engineer and was a Principal Engineer leading teams of engineers and retired after serving as Head of Engineering for a utility pole manufacturer. She holds a Mast...

Daniel Kwak first immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 5. Due to a financially disadvantaged upbringing, at the age of 20 he had a negative amount of $187.65 in his bank account. Motivated by continued financial hardship throughout his life, he started learning about Real Estate Investing. The first two years he learned everything he could and at the age of 22 he did his f...

Charles Carillo, unlike other real estate investors that take a "hands off" approach to property management, 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 complet...

Joey Mure, Founder and Partner at Wealth Without Wall Street, brings impact, integrity, and generosity to the company every day. He hopes to be remembered as a lover of Jesus, a devoted husband, and a faithful father.  We talked to Joey about building financial freedom, the importance of investing in what you love, and his GPS process (goal, plan, support).   Announcement : Get Your Ticket for MFI...

Omar is a CFA charterholder with 10 years of investing across real estate and commodities. He advised on $3.7 billion of capital financing and M&A transactions and syndicated large multi-million dollar deals across the US. He has advised high net-worth advisors and entrepreneurs on real estate portfolio allocations. We talked to Omar about the strategies he followed for his accelerated growth, wha...

Dan is one of the managing partners with PassiveInvesting.com which is a national passive real estate investment firm based in the Carolinas. He has led his real estate syndication company to acquire 4,200+ units with a portfolio valued at over $1 Billion with just over 1,750 investors active in those assets. Dan and his wife are also passive investors in 57 different passive real estate syndicati...

Tom Shallcross is a born and raised Chicagoan specializing on the North and Northwest side of Chicago. Tom is director of Acquisitions and Operations at Drexel Properties, which owns and operates over 500 units on Chicago's Northside, a licensed realtor with Second City Real Estate, and an avid investor/flipper himself. Tom is also the co-host of the Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast and an act...

Terry Painter, is the author of "The Encyclopedia of Commercial Real Estate Advice"  – A Wiley Publication, and a Number 1, New Release on Amazon in 2020. He is also a contributing writer for Forbes.com. Terry is the founder of Apartment Loan Store and Business Loan Store - commercial mortgage banking and advisory firms that have closed over four billion dollars in commercial loans since 1997. We...

As co-founder and managing principal of Vision & Beyond, Stas Grinberg leads with the intent of achieving success for both the company's investor-partners and the communities where Vision & Beyond operates. Prior to founding Vision & Beyond, he most recently worked for two Israeli investment firms that targeted and financed new construction opportunities in Birmingham, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, a...

At the age of 23, she retired from nearly a decade of playing tennis professionally and competing on the world's largest stages - including the 2008 Beijing Olympics -  with a sixth-grade education, quite literally no money, and very little knowledge of how the world worked outside of her sport.   Fast forward a little more than a decade, she has earned a bachelor's in business and finance and an...

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Alan began defying the odds at a very young age. After graduating from St. Martin de Porres High School, Alan received a full scholarship to the University of Illinois, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in communication. Shortly after he was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the 7th round of the 2007 NFL draft. Alan, an undersized cornerback, spent much of h...

After a successful collegiate football career at Texas A&M, Terrence Murphy was drafted in the 2nd round by the Green Bay Packers. An injury forced his retirement from the league and he eventually found a new focus and passion in real estate. Terrence has personally brokered $1B+ in sales volume over the past 10 years and has successfully started over 20 ventures and companies that he's currently...

Dre is on a mission to inspire others and uplift communities through real estate education and leadership. A native of Chicago, his passion stems from his background as a former gang member. He is a U.S Naval Academy graduate, President Truman Scholar, and MIT Fellow. Dre has over 98 doors under management valued at over $13M. He is the host of the Multifamily by the Slice podcast and co-hosts the...

Suzy Sevier and Michael Barnhart are the founders of Adventurous Real Estate Investors. They specialize in a different sort of ROI "Return on impact" Through real estate investing they create a measurable impact with the residents they serve, and they also host the "Adventures of a Real Estate Investor Podcast", and a monthly meetup for investors overseas, who are looking to invest in the US. We s...

Timothy Lyons brings years of real-world management and leadership experience to his real estate investment career. His initial goal with real estate was to create passive income and in turn, be able to spend more time with his wife and three little girls. After partnering on a multifamily property he saw first-hand the power of real estate investing as an opportunity to create passive income and...

Matt Drouin is Partner at OakGrove Development, a real estate investment and development firm with a special focus on value-add commercial and residential properties in Rochester, NY. Over the last 15 years, Matt has been in real estate management, brokerage and development, and has grown his portfolio to 120 units of residential and commercial property. Matt believes that you can do well and do g...