Old Capital Real Estate Investing Podcast with Michael Becker & Paul Peebles

Back in March, at the beginning of the coronavirus, many apartment owners thought that rental collections would fall substantially. No Job, No Income, and then No Rent paid…made landlords very nervous. Today, rental collections on many properties have been not been affected significantly. Michael Becker has purchased over 10,000 apartment units between Dallas and Austin Texas. He is a former comme...

Julie Peterson with Old Capital speaks with first time apartment sponsors Gary VanBortel and John Bilinski on their recent purchase of a 48-unit building right before the coronavirus hit. These former single-family investors met at a national multifamily conference and decided to become partners in acquiring apartments. This journey took a few twists over a few months. The seller was in legal trou...

Bill Brancucci wanted to get into real estate. After spending almost 30 years in New York doing investment analysis, management, and sales…he jumped into real estate investing a few years ago. Bill discusses his first purchase and his last few acquisitions of apartments. He gives us insight on what mistakes he made and how he eventually recovered. Also, Bill gives useful knowledge on why he purcha...

David Moore never does interviews and rarely shares his secrets in buying apartments. The co-founder of Knightvest Capital has purchased over 110 large apartment buildings and 40,000 units in the last 12 years. He learned a few things that he wanted to share with you. He answers questions about: 1) How we bought his first deal for $12K in 2008 2) Starting his property management company 3) Raising...

Maurico Rauld is an attorney that advises real estate sponsors on how to legally raise money. Mauricio is the founder and CEO of Premier Law Group, a boutique securities law firm based in southern California. In today's podcast, we reveal a growing concern that some deal sponsors have raised equity through unlicensed capital raisers. To legally raise capital for a partnership you need to be a lice...

Hunter Thompson invests in different types of real estate, but only as a passive investor. He invests in other sponsors transactions. He is NOT an operator or daily manager of real estate investments. Before he places money into someone else's partnership; he does incredible amount of due diligence. He is a 'horse picker'; he looks at the quality of the JOCKEY (operator), the HORSE (apartments, se...

Over 50,000 real estate investors; in 7 countries; are members of the LifeStyles Unlimited. LifeStyles is an award winning, national education and mentoring group that has been teaching real estate investors for over 30 years. LifeStyles mentors teach you how to invest in single family or multifamily properties; or both. They instruct you how to successfully operate your rental property with eithe...

Michael Becker discusses what he is seeing in the apartment investing market today. Michael Becker has purchased over 10,000 apartment units between Dallas and Austin Texas. He is a former commercial banker and has a unique perspective of being of a 'loaner' and now a "owner" of commercial real estate. Please leave us a 5 STAR RATING on iTunes; if you enjoyed this podcast.

Advice from a Self-Made Man. Could you go to a foreign country and be extremely successful in real estate? Reed Goossens came to America in 2006 and assembled a large portfolio of apartments. It was not easy. In this podcast, Reed gives us a map to how he did it. He started with a small single family home and then leverage that into a larger property. He discusses the challenges some foreign inves...

We assembled apartment operators that have 37 YEARS, 25 YEARS, 29 YEARS of apartment ownership experience. Experience Counts.  Learn from the operators that have gone through a few severe economic challenges in the past. Been There…Done That. In the last 5 years many NEW apartment operators have popped up and bought apartment buildings BUT…not too many of these operators have seen a 'Black Swan' e...

Brad Sumrok is the 'Apartment King.' He teaches investors the correct way to acquire, rehab, operate and sell apartment buildings nationwide. He has been investing in apartment for over 18 years and was the 2012 National Apartment Association apartment Owner of the Year. His goal is to "Retire You in 5 Years" by investing in apartments. He has thousands of students in his education and mentoring p...

LIBOR (London Interbank Offer Rate) is a very popular index that many adjustable rate mortgages are based on. Many residential and commercial mortgages are based on this index. When the LIBOR index goes down; the all-in interest rate goes lower. Lower interest rate means a lower debt service. With many other indexes down; how come the LIBOR index is still relatively high? JP Conklin with Pensford...

Michael Becker discusses what he is seeing in the apartment investing market today. Michael Becker has purchased over 10,000 apartment units between Dallas and Austin Texas. He is a former commercial banker and has a unique perspective of being of a 'loaner' and now an "owner" of commercial real estate. Please leave us a 5 STAR RATING on iTunes; if you enjoyed this podcast.

Jerry Seinfeld's, very successful television show, was based on 'nothing.' Today's podcast will be about 'nothing' too; no apartment sales, no new sales contracts, no lending….so…yada- yada- yada. Jakob Andersen, is a top producer at the Newmark- Dallas office. Is there blood-in-the-street, yet? Jakob says "not yet!…but possibly shortly" Jakob gives you an idea on what some Texas apartment operato...

Paul Esajian, with FortuneBuilders, discusses several challenges and opportunities in real estate investing for both single family and multifamily. As one of the founders of FortuneBuilders- Paul has over 15 years of professional experience in the real estate investment and lending industry. Paul and his partners have been involved in over $1 billion of residential and commercial real estate inves...

Nick Fluellen, with Marcus & Millichap and Paul Peebles with Old Capital Lending, lead a discussion with some of the experts in apartment investing during these Covid-19 times. John Chang, national director of Research Services with Marcus & Millichap discussed the big picture with the economy and multifamily investing. John Sebree, heads up the National Multifamily Sales Group for Marcus & Millic...

Michael Becker discusses what he is seeing in the apartment investing market today. Michael Becker has purchased over 10,000 apartment units between Dallas and Austin Texas. He is a former commercial banker and has a unique perspective of being of a 'loaner' and now a "owner" of commercial real estate. Please leave us a 5 STAR RATING on iTunes; if you enjoyed this podcast.

Imagine winning Best Property in the Country Award by the NAA (National Apartment Association) Yes…that National Apartment Association. Their review looks at thousands of apartment properties in the nation. She won the 2019 award for Independent Rental Owner of Year with less than 250 units. She won on a 52 unit property called The Brix in Dallas. Supriya Sriraman tells you how it was done. She wa...

Gene Trowbridge is a syndication attorney. He helps general partners legally raise money through a Private Placement Memorandums to invest in real estate or other investments. Gene gives you a breakdown on structuring questions what general partners should be discussing with their syndication attorney. What's your business plan? Where are the raised funds going to be invested in? How are the distr...

Greg Willett, Chief Economist with Real Page, discusses the three phases of action that apartment owners have had to immediately implement: 1) safety for employees and tenants. 2) keeping continuity with the business through virtual leasing tours with a smaller staff and the business office shut down 3) assess the damage and how to mitigate. Greg, chats about tenant retention and the challenges of...

Old Capital had a conference call with hundreds of our borrowers last Friday. They, like you, wanted to know what is going on within the capital markets. How do you underwrite apartment transactions today? What are the new guidelines on replacement reserves? How are values holding up? Is it time to start buying again? We brought together the representatives from Dougherty Mortgage, a large balance...

These are crazy times, huh? The economy went from going 100 miles an hour… to ZERO. Now, our government is trying to get small business owners back to work. The SBA offers the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program ("EIDL"). What should you know? What are some of the benefits and challenges for both programs? James "The Professor" Eng shares with us the i...

Lane Beene is with Pilot Properties and owns almost 700 apartment units. This recently retired Lt. Colonel graduated from the US Air Force Academy and flew combat F16's for over 28 years. Less than 15 years ago, he started with one single family home and turned that into a large multi-million dollar apartment portfolio…all during the time he was serving in the military. He is direct. He is smart....

Don't you wish you knew 6 months ago…what you know today? What would you have done different? Would you do recourse commercial loans? Would you do higher leverage transactions? Would you raise more liquidity? James "The Professor" Eng goes into detail on what lessons commercial real estate investors learned on the last major melt down in 1989. This is a very interesting podcast that you will learn...

Who has money to lend on real estate these days? CMBS, Fannie, Freddie, regional banks? When the economy grinds to a halt; who lends money on commercial real estate? Are transactions actually being done? JP Conklin advises commercial real estate investors on the direction of interest rates. His group, Pensford Financial Group helps investors reduce interest rate risk. JP Conklin discusses pressure...