Real Estate Investor Podcast

On today’s Friday Edition of The Passive Income Through Multifamily Real Estate podcast, we welcome Kenny Wolfe of Wolfe Investments. Kenny has been investing in multifamily real estate since 2010 and co-founded Wolfe Investments in 2012. He has been involved in over $130MM+ worth of commercial real estate transactions throughout Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Ohio and is here today to...

Alain Villegas is a full-time real estate investor based in Dallas, Texas who has over $60 million of properties under asset management, just under 900 doors spread across seven apartments. He has also invested as a limited partner in eight properties, just over 1,200 doors in total. In this episode, Alain talks about real estate reporting, from the reports acquired from property managers to the o...

In real estate, as in other lines of work, data and information is power. Here to discuss the irreplaceable utility of key performance indicators or KPIs, is Merrill Kaliser. Merrill uses KPIs across his multiple businesses and they make up the foundation of how he stays on top of his different ventures. He speaks to the most important indicators for the real estate business and how he and his tea...

Brandon Hall is a CPA who runs a firm called The Real Estate CPA, and in today’s episode, he talks to listeners about taxes. His first recommendation is for syndicators to understand what they are trying to accomplish with their deals and whether they are aiming to tax optimize or simply break even. He goes on the explain the importance of knowing the 2013 tangible property regulations and how it...

Creating air-tight budgets, which factor in all expenses, no matter how small, is no easy feat. It requires patience, commitment, and an eye for detail. Danny Randazzo, our guest today, certainly possesses these skills. As an asset management and budgeting whizz, he knows how to get the maximum NOI on properties. In this episode, Danny walks us through the current budget he is doing, and how his c...

Our guest today is Mauricio Rauld, the CEO and founder of Premier Law Group where he also acts as one of the syndication attorneys who help real estate syndicators to raise the capital to pursue their dreams of financial independence. Mauricio gives listeners some helpful advice around signing purchase and sales agreements, setting up LLCs, and keeping the asset management entity separate from the...

If you are in the real estate game currently or are thinking about diving in, chances are you have heard the term 'refinancing'. If you have not, do not fear, we have James Kandasamy from Achieve Investment Group here to explain the idea and share his wisdom on the subject! James joins us for this edition of Asset Management Fridays and we go through all the important points about refina...

The period that follows the closing of the deal is vital in the outcomes of your investment. Here on this edition of Asset Management Fridays to talk of their practices in the 30 to 90 days following a purchase is Mark Hentemann! Mark is a television writer, having worked on high-profile shows such as Family Guy and with David Letterman! Mark explains his particular type of investing and how he go...

For this edition of Asset Management Fridays, we are joined by the up and coming Spencer Hilligoss from Madison Investing! As a relatively young mind in the multifamily game, Spencer brings enthusiasm and a sense of purpose to his work, believing strongly in communication and authenticity. Our conversation today centers on relations with investors and Spencer shares some great lessons he has learn...

With the right approach to your value-add strategy, you can be sure that your dollars are being well spent, you’re up to speed with your competition, and that you’ll lease up faster! Today on the show, Kyle interviews Gary and the two talk shop about best practices for value-add! It’s important to start your value-add process from the very beginning, and Gary tells us that he’s already thinking ab...

Our guest for this episode, Drew Kniffin, is the president of Nighthawk Equity, a syndication group focused exclusively on buying C plus and B class multifamily assets. The topic today is leasing, and as an expert in this field, Drew shares what a good leasing strategy should look like, including the performance indicators for leases and leasing agents and how they have had to temporarily adjust t...

Today on the show we welcome Andrew Campbell, the co-founder at Wildhorn Capital, a multifamily operations group in Central Texas. Currently, they have 1,800 units that are all value ad and within the B to A-minus asset class range. Andrew shares with listeners how they have been doing in-house renovations with great success, partly due to the savings they make on bulk purchases and focusing on th...

With all the different concerns that go into real estate investing and the multifamily business, the human element can sometimes be understated. After all, managing a residential property is first and foremost about providing people with a place to stay! This is the attitude of our guest today, Jamie Gruber, who has a strong philosophy of putting people first. This does not mean that he is not bus...

It is so important to explore every avenue when trying to generate more income from your properties. This requires creativity and outside of the box thinking. Today’s guest, Ben Suttles, of Disrupt Equity, is here to share some of the top strategies he and his team use to increase their property returns. In this episode, Ben sheds light on why implementing RUBS is a huge boost to property revenue....

Now more than ever, due diligence is a vital part of the real estate business. Greg Dickerson is an expert on the subject and has a mammoth amount of experience in the game, having started out back in the 1990s! We hear from Greg about his history in the field of real estate and how he made his way into multifamily before getting into his due diligence process and how he has refined it over the ye...