The Real Estate Takeoff

When looking for where to add value to your multifamily property, have you ever considered the closets? Our guest today has built a business around the concept of renovating closets to increase the unit's desirability and rent!  The multifamily closet space has not changed for the last 50 years. Take a look at most multifamily properties and you'll find the same bland, uninspired, standard wire ra...

How quickly can you build a multifamily portfolio of 1,000 apartment units? Today's guest was able to do it in just 2 years! Think you can do better? Listen in and see how our guest was able to scale so quickly.  Today's guest is Justin Fraser. Justin bought his first single-family rental 6 years ago. He started with using his own money, then moved on to borrowing private money to buy more single-...

Today's guest is Josh Sterling. Josh is the founder of Epic Property Management, where he owns and manages a portfolio of over 1,000 units in Southgate, Michigan.  Josh started his career as an airline pilot. One day he showed up to work to find a letter in his mailbox that stated his pay would be cut in half in order to help keep the company afloat. Josh knew he had to make a change and take more...

How much of your success is tied to your mindset? If you ask today's guest, he'd tell you ALL OF IT! Today we brought on the one and only Rod Khleif. Rod lost everything in the market crash in 2008; $50 million in real estate.  He lost his beach-front mansion, his Mercedes… all the stuff that ultimately doesn't matter, but that is quite painful to lose. He'd made the mistake of buying single famil...

Have you been contemplating investing passively in an apartment syndication? We brought on veteran passive investor Tavis Watts to discuss the many facets of passively investing in apartments.  Travis Watts is an investor and leader in the real estate industry. He has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family and vacation rentals . Travis's first experience making mon...

How many people do you know that lost a $30M portfolio in the 2008 crash, and we're able to rebuild to an even larger portfolio in a different asset class? Today's guest may be the first person you've heard of that did just that.  Today's guest is Kevin Bupp. Kevin Bupp is the Founder & CEO of Sunrise Capital Investors, which invests in mobile home parks, parking lots, apartments, offices, and sin...

Gary Spencer-Smith is an internationally recognized real estate investor and speaker with over 20 years of experience. He is the co-owner of RevNYou, a growing real estate education platform. 
 Originally from the UK, Gary served in the Royal Navy for over 11 years. During his time in the Royal Navy, he had over 100 foreign visits and saw active conflicts. He worked in Naval Intelligence before ob...

Today's guest is THE Brandon Turner. Brandon Turner is a real estate entrepreneur and the VP of Growth at BiggerPockets.com, one of the web's largest real estate investing communities. He is host of The Bigger Pockets podcast, the most popular real estate podcast in the world. He is also the author of the best selling real estate book of all time, The Book on Rental Property Investing , as well as...

Today's guest is THE Brandon Turner. Brandon Turner is a real estate entrepreneur and the VP of Growth at BiggerPockets.com, one of the web's largest real estate investing communities. He is host of The Bigger Pockets podcast, the most popular real estate podcast in the world. He is also the author of the best selling real estate book of all time, The Book on Rental Property Investing , as well as...

Today's guest is THE Brandon Turner. Brandon Turner is a real estate entrepreneur and the VP of Growth at BiggerPockets.com, one of the web's largest real estate investing communities. He is host of The Bigger Pockets podcast, the most popular real estate podcast in the world. He is also the author of the best selling real estate book of all time, The Book on Rental Property Investing , as well as...

Today's guest is Chris Porter. Chris Porter is Chief Demographer at John Burns Real Estate Consulting. He helps his clients understand the role demographics plays in shaping the demand for housing in the short and long term. He co-authored Big Shifts Ahead: Demographic Clarity for Businesses , which is now available for purchase. Chris was instrumental in developing their Housing Demand by Price P...

Our guest today is Matthew Burk. Matt founded Fairway Financial Services, Inc. in 1992 and has led Fairway's investment team for more than 25 years. He began his career in real estate finance in 1986 after graduating from the University of California, Davis with a degree in economics. His extensive experiences as a real estate lender have provided him with wide-ranging exposure and deep expertise...

Today's guest is Mark Willis. Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his fi...

Today's Guest is Veena Jetti. Veena is a founding member and Chief Investment Officer of Enzo Multifamily. Her background includes 10+ years of real estate experience including management of $1b+ in real estate assets. Her expertise is in raising capital for various real estate ventures in addition to business acquisitions. In 2017, Enzo acquired over $100m of multifamily assets. Veena is often a...

Today's guest is Sterling White.  With just over a decade of experience in the real estate industry, Sterling was involved with the management of over $10MM in capital, which is deployed across a $18.9MM real estate portfolio made up of multifamily apartments. Sterling talks with us today about how he was able to go from rags to riches by building his brand from the ground up. He goes over how to...

Today we sit down with Yonah Weiss. Yonah serves as Business Director for Madison SPECS, where he coordinates engineer-based cost segregation studies for real estate properties. Cost Segregation is an IRS -approved process for reclassifying real estate components and improvements to accelerate depreciation deductions, defer taxes and improve cash flow. Yonah talks with us to clarify why cost segre...

Today's guest is Michael Becker. Michael serves as a Senior Director for Old Capital. Mr. Becker is actively involved in financing commercial real estate, developing new client relationships, and assisting clients with expanding their professional network. Mr. Becker has extensive experience in all aspects of the transaction process, including underwriting and marketing, financial analysis, due di...

Today's guest is Jens Nielson.  Jens has an IT back ground, and after losing faith in the 401K system, he discovered multifamily and bought his first four-plex back in 2016.  Since then, Jens has acquired 74 apartment units via joint venture and another 650 + units as a general partner.  Today Jens is the principal at Open Doors Capital, a private equity firm out of Durango, Colorado, that helps p...

Tyler lives in Maui, HI and has been investing in real estate for 13 years. At 21 he acquired his first student rental property, quickly understood the potential of the industry, and never looked back. In that time he's been a part of over 100 real estate transactions consisting of everything from small single family flips to larger multi-family repositions. Tyler currently controls assets through...

Today's guests are Hendra and Mercy Tambunan. Hendra and Mercy started a mentorship program one year ago and since then have acquired over 700 units both as a general partner and limited partner. They sit down with us today to discuss how they got their start and were able to grow so quickly.  Today's Topics Include: How they started in single family homes and transitioned to multifamily Why they...

Today's guest in Mike Vann. Mike's early real estate experience comes from the family construction business where he worked his way through college and was able to gain the skills necessary to manage all aspects of construction and project management. After college, Mike entered the corporate world and has had a successful 20+ year career in Medical Sales with the last 15 years spent in the Medica...

Today's guest is Lane Kawaoka.  Lane has a background as a Civil/Industrial engineer.  Like many others, Lane was taught from a young age to go to college, and become an employee.  He began investing in residential single family back in 2009 and over the years has built a portfolio of 3,000 apartment units primarily as a passive investor in multifamily syndications and private placements.   Today'...

Today's Guest is Joseph Bramante. Joseph is co-founder and CEO if TriArc Real Estate Partners. Joseph and his team specialize in syndicating heavy value-add multifamily deals. Joseph sits down to talk with us about how he tackles these heavy lifts. Today's topics include: What he means by "heavy" value'add The hairier the deal the more interested they are Why he avoids resurfacing What returns to...

Today's guest in Bruce Peterson. Bruce is a syndicator of large multi-family properties throughout Central Texas ranging in size from 48-292 units. He was awarded the Austin Apartment Association's Independent Rental Owner of the Year for 2016 and the National Apartment Association's Independent Rental Owner of the Year for 2017 as well as Think Realty's Multifamily Investor of the Year 2019.  Bru...

Today's guest is Ivan Barratt. Ivan Barratt is a multifamily owner, manager, and syndicator who specializes in large apartment communities in the Midwest. Since 2015, Ivan Barratt has raised nearly $80 million in equity, acquired over 3,000 units and grown Barratt Asset Management (BAM) to a best-in-class, two time Inc5000, private equity and management firm. Today, Ivan focuses his time on equity...