The Multifamily Wealth Podcast

For this Multifamily Minutes episode, Axel is stepping away from tactical real estate to show scaling investors how he uses AI agents to earn back roughly 15 hours a week, covering six specific setups he’s running in his own business. This episode is essential listening for any investor who wants to grow but doesn’t have the time in their day to learn a market, underwrite deals, network, and sell....

Axel sits down with Steve Parry for a deal segment on a downtown Manchester, NH building that Steve bought as a 10-unit and turned into a 12-unit by converting unused ground-floor commercial space and a three-bedroom into four residential units. This episode is essential listening for any investor who wants to see how to underwrite a deal that depends on city approval to add units. It covers what...

Axel sits down with Steve Parry, a Massachusetts-based investor who has traded five of his six Boston buildings for roughly 45 units in southern New Hampshire, to talk about what pushed him out of the Boston market and what he learned buying in a new state. This episode is essential listening for any big-city investor who is priced out of their own market and wondering how to start buying a few ho...

Axel is back with Bill and Bob Murray of KB4 Property Group for a deal segment on their largest acquisition to date: a 24-unit, four-building portfolio in a small New Hampshire town, bought off-market with hard money and refinanced into more than $500K of cash out. This episode is essential listening for any investor weighing an aggressive hard money deal on a straightforward cosmetic value-add. I...

Axel sits down with Bill and Bob Murray of KB4 Property Group, two New Hampshire investors and former medical staffing colleagues, for a rare three-person conversation on how they went from a first six-unit purchase in 2020 to roughly 200 self-managed doors, with in-house construction and management. This episode is essential listening for any investor who wants an honest look at the realities of...

Axel sits down with Ryan Weiss, principal broker of Blue Door Living, for a deal segment on the first property Ryan ever bought: a Manchester, NH triplex he house hacked at age 21 with roughly $10,000 out of pocket, and which has since grown into hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity. This episode is essential listening for any aspiring investor who wants a concrete, real-numbers example of h...

Axel sits down with longtime friend and business partner Ryan Weiss, principal broker of Blue Door Living — the property management company they co-founded together — to unpack how Blue Door scaled from 45 units managed out of a spare bedroom to nearly 1,000 scattered-site units across six years, and the very different challenges faced at each stage of that growth. This episode is essential listen...

Axel welcomes back Rob Beardsley, founder and CEO of LSCRE and a Houston-focused multifamily owner/operator with roughly $1 billion in acquisitions since 2018 — for an unfiltered check-in 18 months after their last conversation on where the Texas multifamily market actually stands, and what's changed in how LSCRE operates, underwrites, and now uses AI. This episode is essential listening for...

Axel sits down with Jeff Duchesne for a deal-segment deep dive into one of the wildest closings in the show's history — a 12-unit, 1980-built Manchester, NH property that took five years, a three-day jury trial, and a New Hampshire Supreme Court appeal to actually close. This episode is essential listening for any investor who wants to understand what happens when a seller tries to walk away...

Axel sits down with longtime friend and fellow New Hampshire investor Jeff Duchesne — who, alongside his business partner, has bootstrapped a self-managed, ~198-unit portfolio concentrated almost entirely in Manchester, NH, without ever raising outside capital. This episode is essential listening for any investor curious what it actually looks like to build a serious portfolio with just two partne...

Axel sits down for the second time with Ross McArthur, Midwest multifamily operator and co-founder of Follow The Deal Investments and Thrive Property Group — for a candid update on how his portfolio grew from roughly 400 units to over 1,100 units in just three years, all while bringing property management fully in-house from 1,000+ miles away in Florida. This episode is essential listening for any...

Axel Ragnarsson goes into a stream-of-consciousness rundown of 11 lessons, mistakes, and hot takes on multifamily investing pulled from years in the trenches as both an active buyer and operator for this solo Multi-Family Minutes episode. This episode is essential listening for any investor — new or experienced — who wants a rapid-fire gut check on where they're wasting time, misreading risk,...

Axel Ragnarsson sits down with Matt Lefebvre once again for a deep-dive follow-up episode dissecting the deal that actually launched his portfolio — a same-day, two-building purchase in Concord, NH that looked like a home run on paper and nearly took him down before it made him money. This episode is essential listening for any investor about to do their first (or next) value-add deal who wants an...

Axel sits down with Matt Lefebvre, founder of Downtown Realty NH, active multifamily investor, and one of the most well-connected brokers operating in New Hampshire — for a wide-ranging conversation that spans his origin story, the realities of investing in tertiary markets, the current state of the New Hampshire multifamily market, and the value of local networking organizations for new and growi...

In this episode, Axel sits down with Zach Hoereth — real estate investor, operator of Midwest Storage, and one of the more entertaining (and polarizing) voices on real estate Instagram — for a genuinely unfiltered conversation about what actually works in this business. He brings a uniquely blunt, been-there perspective on direct-to-seller acquisitions, the limits of AI and technology in a relatio...

In this Multifamily Minutes episode, Axel breaks down why revenue management deserves far more attention than most multifamily operators give it. Using a simple 10-unit example, he shows how a single percentage point of recovered revenue — whether from reduced vacancy or lower delinquency — can boost net free cash flow by 5% or more, a magnified effect similar to how leverage amplifies returns.  H...

In this Multifamily Minute episode, Axel gets introspective on a concept he's been wrestling with personally: the psychological relationship investors have with money as their portfolio grows — and why the skill that helps you scale can quietly become the thing that costs you the most. Using poker as a framework, Axel maps the psychological arc of the growing investor — from the early-stage n...

In this Multifamily Minute episode, Axel pushes back on one of the most commonly repeated narratives in multifamily investing right now: that falling housing starts will automatically trigger rent growth and bail out investors who bought or underwrote aggressively.  It's a thesis Axel hears constantly — across Sun Belt, Southwest, Texas, and increasingly even in lower-supply Northeast markets...

In the first official Multifamily Minute episode of the newly rebranded Multifamily Hour, Axel introduces a macro economic concept that he believes every active real estate investor should be factoring into their deal-making right now: the K-shaped economy. Rather than leaving it as an abstract economic talking point, Axel translates it directly into a tactical framework for choosing deal types, b...

After six years, 340 episodes, and over 500,000 downloads, Axel announces the rebrand of the Multifamily Wealth Podcast to its new name: The Multifamily Hour. In this short solo episode, he explains the reasoning behind the change, what listeners can expect going forward, and why this evolution reflects where his business — and his focus — actually is today. The rebrand isn't a pivot in conte...

In another in-person episode, Axel sits down with Will Peck — multifamily broker at Horvath & Tremblay and one of the most active apartment building brokers in New Hampshire — for a wide-ranging conversation on the current state of the New Hampshire multifamily market, what it actually takes to build a successful brokerage career from scratch, and what separates the buyers and sellers that bro...

In this solo episode, Axel gets highly tactical on the one thing every real estate investor should be doing right now to get the most out of AI — regardless of which tools they use, how big their portfolio is, or how tech-savvy they are. The answer isn't a new app or a prompt hack. It's building context: the foundational informational backend of your business that allows AI tools like Cl...

In this solo back-to-basics episode, Axel steps away from the AI and current events conversations that have dominated recent episodes to refocus on the real estate underwriting process. He breaks down the entire game of value creation in real estate into one simple equation, using clear numeric examples that any investor can apply regardless of asset class or market. Axel walks through the three-s...

In this deal segment episode with Pat Carino we break down one of the most unique deals featured on the podcast to date: a 300-unit, five-building ground-up development on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, acquired through the state's 40B affordable housing program on a 20+ acre site. Pat walks through how the deal first surfaced through a social media message, how it came back to market through a bro...

Axel sits down with Pat Carino — a multifamily developer, acquisitions professional at NRP Group, and co-founder of DealNav — for a wide-ranging conversation that spans institutional development, deal sourcing at the highest level, and the origin story of a software tool that Aligned Real Estate Partners actually uses in their own business. Pat breaks down the three-bucket deal sourcing framework...