Commercial Real Estate Investing From A-Z

Why is diversification important in your investments? How to find and vet great operators and partners? Patrick Grimes , CEO of  Invest on Mainstreet , shares his advice after being in the business for over a decade. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/2m8jh277 Why is diversification important? What are the asset classes that you picked to diversify and why have you picked th...

How to raise $43M in a year? What kinds of non-recourse loans are available? Patrick Grimes , CEO of Invest on Mainstreet , shares his best practices on how he was able to raise millions last year, and how he overcame the hurdles along the way. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/39wmxf8y What does the journey to raising $43 million really look like? I started back in 2006, I...

What is the state of industrial investing today? Are the rising interest rates affecting some properties? What can you do to fix this problem? Chad Griffiths , Partner at NAI Commercial Real Estate, has been working in the space for over a decade and shares his insights. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/yc82y696 What is happening in the industrial world today? My overarching in...

How to manage an industrial portfolio? How to compensate managers? What are the key things to keep in mind? Chad Griffiths , industrial investor and Partner at NAI Commercial Real Estate, shares his insights. Read this entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/mr2ch5x2 How do you manage an industrial portfolio? I have a property that we bought two years ago, it's a $3 million building and there’s a...

How to find a retail deal, negotiate, buy, develop all while dealing with all the curveballs that are thrown at you? Beth Azor , CEO of Azor Advisory Services, has been investing in retail for the last 36 years and shares one particular deal from beginning to end. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/3755w9hd Let's talk about a deal of yours, how did you find it and what happened t...

What is happening in the flipping world today? How do you prepare as a flipper when the rates are high? How to buy deals with future expectations being low? Elisa Covington , founder and CEO of Transform Real Estate Investments  shares her insights. Read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3iq0BgU What is happening in the flipping world today? It's interesting that people perceive what's happe...

Today we'll go over some tips for setting your real estate goals for the year, how to look at them on a daily, weekly, monthly and on a yearly basis, how to organize your day, and when is the optimal time to hire a full time VA. Bronson Hill, principal at Bronson Equity has been in the real estate investment world for the last four years, he has raised over $30M and shares his insights. You can re...

What’s going on with hotels in this economy? Which markets are they thriving now? What are the benefits of investing and operating hotels? What are some types of hotels that may be great investments today? Julie Surago, Vice President at Olive Tree Holdings shares her insights. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3G2PLVO What is going on with hotels today? Through COVID, you would expe...

Do you feel like you're way behind other investors regarding your real estate goals? Do you look at others and sometimes feel like you haven't made much progress compared to them? Today I'm going to remind you to just focus on your journey because you don't know what others are really going through! You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3v40ASh Watch the detailed explanation about Matt Ono...

What is the state of commercial real estate? Who will be selling next year in 2023? Which asset class do we think will hurt the most next year? Deidre Wollard, a writer and editor at The Motley Fool will share her insights. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3uxdx70 What is the state of commercial real estate today? It is an interesting time. It has always an interesting time in real es...

How to find what a property is zoned for in the city's website? What are some tips on working with the city to get your project approved? How to go about rezoning a parcel? Scott Krone, principal at Coda Design + Build and Coda Management Group is a developer with over 30 years of experience and shares his knowledge. Watch this interview here: bit.ly/3XJZg45 Read this interview here: bit.ly/3ucrMh...

What is happening in the retail space given the high interest rates? Are national tenants still leasing at the same speed as last year? What are some things to keep in mind when negotiating leases in today's environment? James Chung , founder of the econic company shares his insights. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3Xg8pkE What is the state of retail and leasing with national tena...

What is happening with commercial property prices in this market given the latest interest rate hikes? What are some of the lessons learned over the last few weeks? You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3V9hfig Has our time to buy commercial properties finally arrived? I think so. The prices for commercial real estate are going down, I am getting at least one email per that that says “pr...

What is cost segregation? Are there asset classes that have better depreciation than others? Cindy Blumenfeld, Director of Client Development at Engineered Tax Services shares her knowledge. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3VzZIks What is cost segregation, and when should people get that study done? It's a study for depreciation of an investment property, not the primary residence th...

What are some major items you should keep in mind when negotiating and reviewing an industrial lease? What are some potential major pitfalls? Chad Griffiths a commercial real estate broker and industrial investor will share his knowledge with us. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3e0P84Y Let's review things people should keep in mind regarding industrial leases. A lease is going to spe...

How to find a good general contractor for your commercial projects? What questions should you ask? What’s a typical timeline for a medium to large project? Aaron Saunders, Managing Director of Spartan Investment Group has 16 years of experience in the construction management industry and shares his knowledge. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3BxQD2p What are some questions you recomme...

What questions should you ask operators who will be managing an investment? Whether you’re a syndicator or a passive investor, it’s important to know what questions to ask in order to vet them properly. Camilla Jeffs, Principal at Steady Stream Investments shares her knowledge. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3epLwt3 As a syndicator, how do you find good operators for your deals? One...

Almost two years after investing in a few car washes, what are the results? Would I invest in car washes again? What are the pros and cons? Is there any upside in this asset class? You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3cnH25O The last time I spoke about the car washes they were going great. We had 36% cash on cash returns. And last year we had a full year of managing the entire thing. And...

What items should you go over when you're talking to a self storage broker? How to present an offer? Kathryn East has several years experience in the self storage space, she is the Founder of Sopapta Consulting, Management & Auditing, and shares her knowledge. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3dHeNiR How do you present an offer that is 30% below what they are asking for? You expla...

How to underwrite a self storage property? How to look at an OM? Kathryn East has several years experience in the self storage space, she is the Founder of Sopapta Consulting, Management & Auditing, and shares her knowledge. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3JMFgay We are going to underwrite a deal together, and see where Kathryn's mind is at when she gets an OM, I will let you...

Why should anyone invest in car washes? What are the pros and cons? What are some ways to add value in car washes? Whitney Elkins-Hutten, Director of Investor Education at passiveinvesting.com shares her knowledge. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3zV7qvF What are some of the pros and cons of car washes that you have invested in so far? A pro would be that we are looking to buy prop...

Today I will be talking about the recent interest rate hikes. How crazy is it that just the latest rate increase was a whopping .75%? But... is that actually good or bad? Have you done the math? I have, and I will let you know how does that look for us, awesome investors.  You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3Ja6yre One super important thing that I want to talk about that I haven't...

Top lessons learned from a bad industrial investment. How to analyze an industrial property? What's the state of industrial investments today? Chad Griffiths has been an industrial real estate broker since 2005 and investor since 2014. You can read this entire episode here: bit.ly/3APQyIK What is your success criteria for selecting an industrial property for purchase? I am a big believer in lookin...

What are the steps you should take to develop a self storage facility from the ground up? Skyler Hartman, CEO of Capitaline Ventures will generously share his knowledge with us. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3bEbUya Let's go over the process of developing a self storage facility from the ground up, you can start from the decision on where to find the land, all the way to the begi...

What are the top 5 things you should keep in mind when negotiating retail leases? What kinds of tenants are leasing retail space today? Drew Kristol from Marcus & Millichap shares his insights. You can read this entire interview here: bit.ly/3OwCHub What is the state of retail right now, and what kinds of tenants are leasing a space? Florida came back very quickly after COVID, we have a govern...