Multifamily Insights

Jules and Ange Mckenzie have been investing in residential real estate in the Orillia and Barrie areas of Canada for over 20 years. His strategy has been buying and holding. He's currently holding 13 investment properties. His portfolio is a mix of small multifamily buildings. He has raised the money to buy properties from Joint Venture investors. Jules and Ange manage their own properties. Jules...

Jake Wiley is an entrepreneur, CPA, former CFO, and real estate investor. Jake was the founder at Solar Inverted LLC, a Louisiana-based Residential Solar Finance and Installation Company, which was later acquired by Palmetto Group, where Jake led strategic initiatives until late 2018. Jake's diverse industry experience in both corporate and startup companies, as well as his layered work experience...

Rob Beardsley founded Lone Star Capital in early 2018, a multifamily investment firm focused on acquiring and operating workforce housing throughout Texas and the Southeast. Since then, Rob has been involved in over $100MM of multifamily acquisitions and published the number one book on multifamily underwriting, The Definitive Guide to Underwriting Multifamily Acquisitions. He has written over 50...

Before founding Groundbreaker, Jake Marmulstein held a number of roles involving real estate and technology, supporting the growth of early-stage digital technology ventures. In 2011, he started his real estate career while underwriting distressed hotel investments for Watermark Capital Partners, a private REIT based out of Chicago. He graduated from The Hotel School at Cornell University with a c...

Mike Verrett has spent over 25 years in the brand marketing business and the hallmark of his career is his ability to understand an audience. Now he shows businesses how to talk about themselves To THEIR audience. His guiding philosophy honed with time and experience is simple: When it comes to your audience, you have to be seen as one of three things: - First - Best - or Different. We talked to M...

Ben Lapidus is the Chief Financial Officer for Spartan Investment Group LLC. He has applied his finance and business development skills to construct a portfolio of over $100M assets under management and $200M of debt capital. In addition to completing over 50 real estate transactions, Ben is the founder and host of the Best Ever Real Estate Investing Conference and managing partner of Indigo Owner...

Jay Conner has been buying and selling houses since 2003 in a population of only 40,000 with profits averaging $67,000. Rehabbed over 300 houses and been involved in over 52 Million Dollars in Transactions. For the past 7 years, Jay has completely automated his 7-Figure Income Business to where he works in his business for less than 10 Years per week. He consulted one on one with over 2,000 Real E...

Ryan Webster and Warren Dresner are the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Equity Yield Group. The firm specializes in institutional grade, A/B class multifamily assets. We talked to Ryan and Warren about their partnership, the markets they focus on, and institutional capital. Announcement : Download Our Sample Deal and Join Our Mailing List [00:01 – 03:12] Opening Segment  Ryan and Warren talk...

Zain Jaffer is a lifelong entrepreneur who founded his first startup when he was just a teenager. He co-founded mobile advertiser Vungle, which was acquired by Blackstone in 2019 for $780M. Shortly afterward he started Zain Ventures, his family office that boasts a diverse portfolio of real estate investments and proptech startups. He is currently a partner at Blue Field Capital. Zain's success as...

Whitney Sewell is a seasoned real estate investor, podcast host, and philanthropist. He is CEO and founder of Life Bridge Capital, a multifamily syndication investment firm with 1,000 doors and $300 million in assets under management. Whitney was able to scale his business at a groundbreaking pace - starting from nothing in 2017 to now consistently raising over $10 million in a few hours. His dail...

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...