The Insider's Edge To Real Estate Investing

You'll learn about gauging risk and spotting opportunities in this conversation with Kaitlin McCarthy. Kaitlin established Ionic Development Company, which is a certified Woman Business Enterprise, in 2022. She has more than 10 years of experience managing large development and construction projects in downtown Boston. Before she founded Ionic, Kaitlin served as vice president at The HYM Investmen...

You'll gain insight into playing an innovative role in real estate in this conversation with Laura Rapaport. Laura is the founder and CEO of North Bridge, a company offering financing solutions that serve the intersection of real estate, technology, and sustainability. North Bridge is a one-stop-shop for clients nationwide and covers all asset classes, providing support to both improve the built e...

You'll learn how to strive for the next level while maintaining a healthy balance in this conversation with John Hopfensberger. With more than 30 years of experience in the commercial real-estate industry, John is the founder and president of CMK Properties, and has developed more than $200 million of real estate. In addition to his business accomplishments, John is a triathlete and a two-time Iro...

You'll gain incredible insight on how to jump in, surround yourself with high performers, and communicate in this conversation with Ryan Tseko. Ryan is the Executive Vice President at Cardone Capital in the Miami metro area and has completed acquisitions with a transaction value of over $2.9 billion, secured more than $1.9 billion of debt financing, and has been actively involved in launching ever...

You'll gain a wealth of ideas on how to think outside the box and have a positive social impact in this interview with Matt Blesso, a serial entrepreneur and self-made real estate developer. Throughout his career, Matt has sought opportunities that generate outsized returns and has also focused on modeling a healthy environment and community. He has conceived, developed, and managed a diverse and...

You'll learn incredible insight into getting a feel for a neighborhood and developing expertise in a niche market in this interview with Wendy Berger, principal of WBS Equities, LLC. For more than 30 years, Wendy has been involved in the real estate business as a developer, lender, property manager, broker, and investor. She began her career at American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago i...

Whether you're interested in active or passive investing, you'll get key takeaways on how to expand your footprint from this episode featuring Charles Carillo, a real estate investor and entrepreneur. Charles has been involved in multifamily and commercial real estate investments since 2006. He is the managing partner of Harborside Partners, a real estate syndication firm, and has invested in more...

You'll gain incredible insight in this conversation with George Giannopoulos and Jeffrey Znaty, co-founders of Kings Capital. They share the power of following a regimen, both personally and professionally, which can help you gain an advantage in the real estate world. They advise starting small and taking on bigger deals as you grow, a strategy that has helped them gain an outstanding track recor...

On this episode of The Insider's Edge to Real Estate Investing, I speak with Oren Neria, a real estate investor and principal of MY BK Investments. We discuss the competitive landscape for brokerage in neighborhoods around Manhattan and the success of targeting smaller, more efficient areas like Northern Manhattan and submarkets in Brooklyn. We also delve into Neria's experience in acquisitions an...

You are going to get a tremendous benefit from this conversation I had with Alex Budney, who shares how to start off in real estate investing and ultimately build your own platform. Alex is the founder of Ennismore, a real estate investment, management and consulting firm. Since its beginning, Ennismore has advised on or sponsored more than $2.1 billion of active real estate projects. In addition...

In this episode of The Insider's Edge to Real Estate Investing, Jeremiah Shamess and James Nelson discusses the importance of having a strong team when it comes to real estate investing and talks about finding trusted professionals to save time and money. James shares insights on financing options for real estate projects, equity distribution, and the different asset classes, such as multifamily,...

In this episode, we delve into the world of real estate and the importance of having the right team. Jeremiah Shamess and James discuss the importance of building trusted relationships with specialists, finding capital relationships, cultivating an investor base, evaluating properties, and finding great opportunities in the real estate market.  James emphasizes the importance of finding a partner...

You are going to be inspired by today's show. Drew Breneman, founder of Breneman Capital, started early. A natural-born entrepreneur, Drew started his first business at 14. He then launched a highly-successful internet business while in high school. His ambition for finding the best investment vehicle for his earnings from his internet business is what led him to real estate, purchasing his first...

On this week's episode, Jamison Manwaring, co-founder and CEO of Neighborhood Ventures, shares about building out his real estate investment firm and his own crowd funding platform.  If you're interested in raising from non-accredited investors or how crowdfunding could boost your business, there will be many valuable takeaways. After years as a tech analyst, Jamison realized that everyone had the...

In this week's episode, Brian Ker shares with you his story from humble beginnings as a real estate broker to working for City government to owning and operating an industrial portfolio. His company acquired the New Jersey and Connecticut properties valued at $100 million dollars in less than two years! If you are just getting into investing or looking to get into a new asset class or geography, t...

I had the chance to meet John when I interviewed on his podcast and was happy to have him reciprocate and come on my show. John Casmon launched Casmon Capital Group to help busy professionals invest in real estate without taking on a second job. He has helped families invest in over $100M in multifamily apartments to create passive income, reduce their tax obligation, and foster generational wealt...

Gino Barbaro is a co-founder of Jake and Gino and the Rand Family of Companies, a vertically integrated real estate company that controls over $250 million of real estate assets.  He is a best-selling author of Wheelbarrow Profits and The Honey Bee, and have created an educational company that focuses on multifamily entrepreneurs. He has co-founded the Jake & Gino community to teach others their t...

Today it is my great pleasure to have my friend Carl Wright on the show, Founder & President of Wright Partners. Like many of my past guests, I got to know Carl through Bisnow's Escape conference. I have now been going for over 10 years and Carl was one of the first people I met there who I have stayed in touch with and gotten to know him better over the years. He's also a huge fan of this podcast...

On today's show, Beth Mercante joins me from StackSource, a tech-enabled commercial real estate loan platform that makes it easier and faster to find the right commercial real estate financing for your property, where she serves as Senior Managing Director.  She talked about growing up in a real estate family where her father was an incredibly honest developer. She talked about what lengths he wou...

For this week's show I had the chance to catch up with Craig Berger, Founder and CEO of Avid Realty Partners (ARP), a commercial realty firm focused on Hotel and MFU Apartment assets nationwide. Like Sondra Wenger on last week's show, I met Craig at the Bisnow Escape retreat when I had a chance to really get to know him in a relaxed environment. I really appreciated his approach to the business th...

In this week's show, I speak with Sondra Wenger, who is Head of Americas Commercial Operator Division for CBRE Investment Management. Sondra began her career in the commercial real estate industry in 1995 and has sourced, negotiated and closed over $10 billion of transactions in more than 35 cities. Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management in 2021, she served as a senior executive for instituti...

This is what Rod had to say.. "On this episode of the Massimo Show Rod sits down with one of the CRE top producers in North America, James Nelson. Now an author as well as being a speaker, investor, amazing broker and long time Massimo member, James is Principal and head of Tri-State Investments at Avison Young. With the launch of James' new book, The Insiders Edge to Real Estate Investing, Rod op...

On this week's episode, I am speaking with Will Ingraham, a partner at GDC Properties. Back in my Massey Knakal days we sold Will's company a loft conversion in Brooklyn. I have stayed in touch and have guest lectured for him at Fordham University where he teaches a class on affordable housing. I love how Will is a big picture thinker. When I asked if his knowledge base was his Insider's Edge, he...

On this week's episode, I interview my friend and client Scott Zwilling who is co-founder of Spirit Investment Partners. Scott focuses on acquisitions, equity and debt relationships, and firm wide strategy. Spirit has completed over $1 billion in transactions including 34 assets totaling 5,676 multifamily units across 11 states. I know you will get a lot out of this interview. I am calling it the...

On this week's show, I interview Anthony Scandariato, co-founder of Red Knight Properties, and host of the Discovering Multifamily Podcast. I had the pleasure of speaking on his show so was happy to reciprocate. We start off the conversation by talking about how podcasts can leverage your presence in the market and help build great relationships. Maybe you'll consider starting your own podcast aft...