The Real Estate Takeoff

With nearly a decade of experience in construction, Senior Project Manager Matt Storey has worked in a variety of market sectors, from multifamily to office to retail. He graduated in 2001 from Auburn University with a BS in Building Science/Construction Management. Since joining Hoar Construction, Matt has been a valuable addition to the company's Tennessee Division. Notable projects he's worked...

Tom Lafferty has invested in approximately 25 multifamily properties, including 10 syndications and approximately 4,000 units as a general partner. Tom spent 23 years as a firefighter and retired as a Captain of a Station in the DFW area. He started real estate investing in 2012 and shares his experience and also discusses the difference in wealth building when comparing his firefighter pension to...

Nathan Guinane brings an entrepreneur's eye to the real estate investment space. For the better part of a decade, Nate has successfully invested in and developed single, multi-family homes, and apartment buildings. He has been especially adept at extracting value from properties in need of rehabilitation or more effective managerial practices, and has an exemplary track record of enhancing propert...

Juan Vargas is an accredited multifamily investor based out of Houston, TX. He has been involved in all aspects of real estate investing within multifamily since 2016. He has transacted on 1,600+ units valued at over $125M throughout Austin, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix and he is a JV partner on an additional 500 units throughout Texas and Georgia. In addition, he is a limited partner on over 1,000...

Brian Orr was a licensed financial professional before the 08 crash. However, he was financially illiterate and knew nothing about saving, spending, or investing opportunities beyond his company's offered funds. He then traveled internationally as a DJ and happened to stumble across real estate by accident. At the time he had escaped a mound of bad debt and saved to invest. Brian split $90,000 int...

Grant Gardner has worked at AppFolio Investment Management for the past three years and currently serves as a Manager of Onboarding Services. He's had the pleasure of working with many clients and seeing how each one is unique in what they do. Grant enjoys everything related to investing in the real estate space and hopes to break into the industry himself someday. In this episode, Grant talks abo...

Victoria Rose is a solution-driven Executive Assistant, turned serial entrepreneur, specializing in creating revolutionary virtual business and workforce solutions for entrepreneurs and administrative professionals alike through Executives Extension™ and Virtual Victorias™, respectively. She is a positive and friendly natured, team player who is proactive, adaptive, detail-oriented, well-connected...

Matt grew up in small town Wisconsin and graduated from Beloit College in 2013.  He has lived in Spain, Boston, St. Maarten in the Caribbean, and now San Diego and started investing remotely in multi-family properties in Wisconsin in 2018.  Since then he's focused on growing a short term rental portfolio with 7 properties in Nashville, Scottsdale, Wisconsin and San Diego.  Leveraging that operatio...

As a principal of both WhiteHaven and WhiteHaven Construction, Ben oversees new acquisitions, asset management, and investor relations. Ben has been a multifamily real estate investor since 2006 and maintains a private portfolio outside of WhiteHaven. Ben is a published author and a prolific blogger on the subject of real estate. He resides outside of Phoenix in Mesa, Arizona with his wife, Patris...

Sarah May is the co-founder and president of Regency Investment Group and has over a decade of multifamily investing experience in her home state of Colorado. Sarah is the founder and managing partner of Regency Investment Group which focuses exclusively on value-add multifamily apartment acquisitions and operations. Regency's goal is to help their investors grow their wealth faster through passiv...

Hayden Harrington is a real estate entrepreneur focused on large-scale multifamily syndications. He currently has $85MM AUM and actively growing the portfolio. He is one of the managing partners at Momentum Multifamily, a commercial real estate group focused on buying institutional quality assets for their investors. In this episode Hayden talks about the beginning of his career in real estate inv...

Tyler Watkins is a third-generation real estate & construction entrepreneur that has worked on development & acquisition projects within the grocery-anchored retail, hotel & theme park, and non-institutional multifamily segments of the real estate industry.  He has purchased & sold over $10,000,000 worth of apartments located throughout the state of Arizona, where he also owns short-term rentals,...

As a Principal and Co-founder of REEP Equity, which she co-founded in 2012, Arleen Garza serves as the primary decision maker on acquisitions and company growth strategy.  In 2017, she co-founded a real estate management company that currently manages properties in San Antonio and Houston.  Her goal is to maximize investor returns by sourcing acquisitions in target markets that allow value add and...

Fred Moskowitz is a sought after speaker, advisor, and trainer on a variety of topics relating to entrepreneurship and investing. Fred has positioned himself as an authority on investing in alternative assets and on building wealth using Self-Directed IRA accounts. Fred combines a 15 year career devoted to entrepreneurship and investing with a mission to helping people attain a higher level of fin...

TJ Tijani graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2012. While working in the oil and gas industry, he bought his first investment property in 2015. Between 2015 – 2017, TJ went on to complete several wholesale and fix and flip transactions. He also purchased several rental properties as well. In 2017, TJ discovered the short term rental strategy and hasn...

Kimberly Radaker Bays has been managing and overseeing Exponential Property Group and its associated companies, with a focus primarily on multifamily Real Estate, for the past seven years. She has grown Exponential Property Group from 2 employees to more than 160 in that time. Her leadership helped to complete six transactions where properties were purchased, rehabbed, leased up and sold to provid...

Tim Wright, P.E. is the Founder of Peak Realty Partners, an investment management firm, and WRIGHT Management Inc. which performs construction management, development management, and real estate management services. He is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer, and a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited professional. After two decades of experience in construction manage...

Steven is a Managing Partner at Vertical Street Ventures, where he is responsible for acquisitions, sourcing capital, and building key strategic partnerships. As the founder of Vertical Street Ventures, he focuses his time on revenue-generating activities for the firm through Multifamily real estate acquisitions. Steven worked his corporate career in the Benefits / Consulting industry where he hel...

Hoa Nguyen is an entrepreneur, author, business leader, eye doctor, and an accredited real estate investor and syndicator. She is the CEO and co-founder of Blacksteel Investment Group. She has ownership in over $360M in real estate acquisitions and is invested in over 5,300 units as general partners and limited partners. She owns 2 successful eye practices in DFW named Eye Pieces for over 10 years...

Jimmy Edwards is the owner of the High Five Group. His experience includes property evaluation, underwriting, loan origination, rehab, asset management, finance, marketing and sales. Jimmy has a knack for taking worn down things and making them incredible. He's been buying distressed assets in Dallas Fort Worth since 2011, has rehabbed and successfully sold over 100 single family residences and no...

Chihiro Kurokawa started multifamily investing in 2017 and has been a principal in four multifamily transactions totaling 479 units and $28.9 million in purchase volume. He has also  invested as a limited partner in mobile home parks, development, multifamily, retail and self-storage. He was previously an analytics professional and holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson. He is training to qualify for the...

Elisa Zhang is the owner and principal of over $600M in multifamily apartment buildings. She is also a mother of two kids, an artist, an educator, and the breadwinner of her family. Elisa reached her financial independence retire early goal in 2019, 9 years after her first real estate investment, quitting her corporate IT full time career to focus on real estate and living her best life. She is on...

Ryan Nunes was the leading commodity derivatives salesperson at Wall Street banks for 13 years. He transitioned to multifamily in 2019 and is a general partner in $64 MM of assets and a passive investor in 3,195 units across Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia and Ohio. He is the founder of Life Changing Capital, a Houston, TX based Commercial Real Estate Private Equity firm and takes an institutiona...

Evan is a real estate developer and investor with over $225 million and 1347 units of multifamily real estate developed and invested. As the CEO he leads the vision, operations and development at Holladay Ventures. In this episode Evan talks about affordable housing investing and how to make it profitable for him and his investors. He touches on how difficult it is to secure this kind of funding a...

Michael is principal of Origin Investments, co-chairs the Investment Committee and oversees investor relations, marketing, and company operations. Origin is in the top 1% of private real estate North America-focused fund managers by Preqin. Michael brings 25 years of investment and risk management experience to the company and believes that calculated risk-taking in inefficient markets is the key...