The Capital Shift

Everybody was chasing the same $100/door multifamily deal. Tim Woodbridge made a hard left turn - from bedside nurse to mobile home park operator with 30 communities, 1,400 pads, and $55M AUM. This week, that contrarian bet spins the Compass. Tim didn't run a hundred spreadsheets. He heard Frank Rolfe on a podcast, found a park an hour outside Charleston, and took it down to "figure it out." His l...

SteelPoint Capital was built on a simple premise: real estate investors need fast, reliable financing. Traditional lenders take weeks or months and come with red tape. Hard money lenders understand the asset and the operator. Here's what that means in practice: 10-12% fixed returns paid monthly (or compounded), 24-48 hour underwriting, first lien position on every deal, and a lender who's actually...

Self storage has historically gotten a bad rep for being on the low end of real estate holdings, and while there are still more mom and pop highway storage facilities than ever, professional real estate investors recognize how partnering with operators in ground up self storage development present a bounty of opportunity for interested real estate investors. In this discussion, we cover the finer...

You know recurring revenue. You've sold it, pitched it, and fought for it every quarter. But what if you could own it?   Triple Net Leases — known in the industry as NNN properties — are the commercial real estate equivalent of a contract that auto-renews, where the tenant handles the overhead and you collect the margin. No midnight maintenance calls. No chasing down repairs. Just predictable, lon...

Debate rages about the cost v. value of a professional property management partner for your short term rental holdings.  Fouad Bazzi weighed that decision for himself and his personal holdings, and decided the best strategy was to spin up a brand new business dedicated to supporting his own needs as an owner.  The Owner Hosts were born shortly thereafter.  Join us as Fouad talks about his view of...

This episode is not tax advice. It’s an educational discussion intended to clarify how mechanisms function, where assumptions often break down, and what tradeoffs deserve more attention before capital moves. Bonus depreciation and the short-term rental tax classification are often discussed as powerful tools for reducing taxable income—but they’re rarely examined in the full context of how they in...

With more than 6 years experience accumulating RSU's since joining Google Cloud in 2020, Melisa Burnett joins us for a discussion about her stock-grant strategy, how the laws of compounding worked in her favor and the vehicles she's leveraging in her current stock holdings for the sake of additional real estate assets