Taking a Leap to Multifamily Real Estate Investing with George Roberts | EP81

George Roberts III is a Data Scientist and a Principal at Horizon Multifamily as well a Real Estate Investor and Syndicator who focuses on Value at Opportunities in Central Florida

 

In this episode we talked about:

 

 • George’s Podcast Details

 • George’s Bio & Background

 • Pivoting to Real Estate

 • The First Real Estate Deal

 • Financing Deals

 • Capital Raising

 • Effective Networking 

 • Sourcing Deals Approach

 • Ways of Reaching Out to Brokers

 • Real Estate Market Opportunities

 • Macro Perspectives of Real Estate Space 2021-2022

 • Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned

 

Useful links:

https://www.instagram.com/groberts0429/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgerobertsiii/

 

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. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jennifer galleon. You're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My special guest today is George Roberts. The third George is a data scientist and a principal at horizon multi-family as well as real estate investor and syndicator, or he focuses on value, add opportunities in central Florida, George, how's it going?

 

George (41s): Excellent. And thank you for having on the show, Jesse. Yeah,

 

Jesse (45s): Well, I'm happy to have you on, we were talking a little bit before the show. We heard you on the syndication show with Whitney Sewell. If you haven't listened to that podcast, it's fantastic. But George, you have a podcast of your own. Maybe before we get started, you can tell listeners where they can find that.

 

George (1m 3s): Sure. We're located just about everywhere you find the finer podcasts. We've got Spotify, apple. I love to find it on audible as well. So just take a look. We're also on YouTube. You can find us at the horizon multifamily channel. So it's called the Foundry where leaders are forged a daily. And I like to talk not just about a commercial real estate, but also about entrepreneurship in general. And that's, that's where we get the theme. The idea that entrepreneurship is an outstanding proving ground for leadership talent.

 

Jesse (1m 36s): Fantastic. Well, you have a bit of an interesting background, I would say, not a lot of data scientists on the show. So maybe for listeners, you can talk a little bit about your background in, in business and how you got started in real estate.

 

George (1m 50s): Yeah, sure. Well, I guess just to back it up two steps, I'm a recovering PhD. And so one of the things that you can do with an unused PhD is go into data science. That's possibly the