Going Big! Investing in Large Multifamily Real Estate with Ashley Wilson | EP70

Ashley Wilson is Co-Founder & Co-Owner of Bar Down Investments, and HouseItLook. Bar Down Investments owns and operates large apartment buildings, and offers opportunities for investors who are looking to passively own real estate. HouseItLook flips primarily higher end homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to Real Estate, Ashley worked in Clinical R&D for GSK, Wyeth, and Sanofi-Aventis.

 In this episode we talked about:

• How Ashley got into Real Estate Investing
  
• Her Experience on Short-time Rentals
  
• Buying Larger Scale Commercial Properties
  
• The Deal Ashley is Working Right Now
  
• Deal Structure and Terms
  
• Debt and Equity Financing
  
• Real Estate Funds vs Syndications
  
• Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned
  

Useful links:
https://www.bardowninvestments.com
https://www.instagram.com/badashinvestor/?hl=en

Transcription:

Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. All right, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jesse for galley. I am host of working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is a special guest that I'm speaking with a little bit later this year.

Her name is Ashley Wilson. She is the co-founder and co-owner of bar down investments and house it look bar down, investments owns and operates, large apartment buildings and offers opportunities for investors who are looking to possibly own real estate. How's it look flips primarily higher end homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA prior to real estate. Ashley worked in clinical R and D for GSK. Why? If I hope I said that, right. And Sanofi-Aventis Ashley, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (60s): Great. Thank you so much for having me, Jesse.

Speaker 0 (1m 2s): My pleasure. You know what? I didn't even give you the last introduction. She is the new owner of a adorable boxer, Harold. So if you hear anything in the background, that's just Harold messing around. But yeah, thanks again, Ashley. I really appreciate it. I'm excited to, to meet up again in person a little bit later this year at BP con, where we're both talking, I believe correct me if I'm wrong. It's October 3rd for anybody that is interested.

Speaker 1 (1m 32s): Yep. First week in October.

Speaker 0 (1m 34s): Perfect. Well actually, why don't, why don't I give it over to you in terms of a little bit of a background of your career, we can talk about, you know, deals right now and a little bit about the market, but before we do, maybe you can give listeners a little bit of a history of how you got into real estate.

Speaker 1 (1m 51s): Absolutely. So as you mentioned, I was working in the pharmaceutical industry and my husband was a professional ice hockey player. So we were both looking for ways to diversify our retirement strategy. We weren't heavy believers in the stock market. We didn't like that. It wasn't an asset backed investment. It didn't have tax advantages. It wasn't, you know, a hedge against inflation. It just there's a lot of differen