Episodes

Anyone who’s been following the trajectory of commercial real estate over the past few years knows there’s a lot of distress in the market. If you’re in the enviable position to deploy capital, however, this can be good news....

Passive investing in private offerings can yield above market returns, it can also be a complete disaster. Apart from evaluating proforma numbers, it’s critical to evaluate the General Partner and the team. The numbers are ge...

The multifamily business has been brutal for most operators over the past few years, especially for ones who took on bridge debt. There’s been too much new supply, and skyrocketing interest rates caught most operators off gua...

The multifamily space has many niches and myriad ways to maximize invested dollars. One of the more specialized multifamily niches is government voucher programs, otherwise known as Section 8. These can be great properties t...

One asset class within commercial real estate that many people don’t think about is luxury Short-Term Rentals. Houses that cost between $2 and $5 million typically rent for $500-$1,500 per night and generate $200,000 or even ...

Investing in private real estate deals can be fraught with pitfalls, so you need to get to know who you’re investing with before investing. In the past five years, many multifamily operators in particular, paid too much for p...

Investing passively is a great way to generate cash flow and appreciation, without having to deal with day-to-day operations. You just need to develop the skills at vetting operators and specific deals. David Shirkey, a fello...

Over 90% of U.S. businesses generate less than $5 million profit per year, yet these businesses are the backbone of our economy. Although the majority of Private Equity investments are in larger companies, many smaller compan...

In the last several years, industrial Real Estate has become a highly favored asset class, largely because of ecommerce. A thriving subset of this category is Industrial Outdoor Storage, a 2 billion asset class. Industrial Ou...

In certain markets, you can buy suburban office property for as low as $10/ft where it costs $200/ft to build. What’s more, you don’t have to go through the toil of finding off market deals, they’re listed publicly on LoopNet...

If you’re entrepreneurial and looking for a way to generate a lot of income with little initial capital requirements, flipping homes is an age old, timeless formula. It just requires courage and tenacity that many don’t have....

In Real Estate, and multifamily in particular, you need to have boots on the ground to ensure things are running as expected. It also helps to live in the market in order to have intimate knowledge of the investment. This is ...

The forecast for industrial real estate is bullish in growth markets for the foreseeable future. As long as you can buy the right properties, and don’t overpay or overleverage, it’s a recipe for success. Single-tenant propert...

Buying properties in tertiary markets with five to ten thousand residents within a 30–40-minute drive from a larger city can generate outsized returns. Often times long-time owners in these markets aren’t aware when their ren...

Despite the escalation of asset prices over the past decade, there’s still great value In Midwestern tertiary markets. In multifamily, you can still buy properties for $65,000-$75,000 per unit that generate strong cash flow. ...

There’s a big difference between investing and speculating. Speculating is exciting. Investing is less exciting, but more predictable over time. Great investors like Warren Buffet, Charles Munger, Howard Marks and others, are...

Apart from Real Estate, there are many private placement vehicles to invest in, including Oil and Gas, pre-IPO companies, and many others. Some of these opportunities are less well known, but present higher returns than comme...

Given pricing corrections over the past couple years, some of the best mid-market multifamily deals in the last decade are now being acquired at well below replacement cost. There are more buyers that need to sell and there’s...

Submarket-specific focus, complete vertical integration, and 20 years of experience mitigates a lot of risk. Chicago has been the number one market for multifamily rent appreciation in the country over the past couple quarter...

Prices on most value-add workforce class B and C multifamily properties are too high to execute successful business plans. Construction costs have escalated and obtaining higher rents is not a certainty as renters are being s...

Current events and policy will determine inflation levels and interest rates that effect our broader economy and Real Estate values and investments. Volatility around tariffs and other decisions will make a significant impact...

Although prices have come down as much as 30% or even higher on Class B and C Value-Add multifamily, they haven’t come down enough for most seasoned investors to want to jump back in. There still needs to be further concessio...

Investing in real estate syndications from 2015 – 2018 resulted in highly positive outcomes, including major appreciation and double-digit returns, often times as high as 30%-40%, or even higher. Investing in 2020 to 2022, ho...

There are many alternative investments you can invest in, but one centuries-old asset class almost no one knows about is claims investing. When companies such as Sears, American Airlines, Big Lots, or even Madoff Investment S...