Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast, Kevin brings in real estate and retail expert David Puchi. David is the founder and partner of Baceline Investments, a private real estate investment and management company with a focus on strengthening communities by acquiring and revitalizing neighborhood shopping centers. David has been responsible for raising approximately 300 million dollars for Baceline-sponsored funds. In the podcast, David talks extensively about the retail sector and how he centered his focus on it. He explains the management structure at Baceline and the stability in their tenant base, which consists of a lot of mom-and-pop retailers. He talks about why it's actually beneficial to help their tenants succeed. David also shares the financial strategy behind their business and goes on to explain what physical improvements his team adds to properties to increase value in the market. He shares how their business survived the financial crisis, which circles back to his focus on the retail sector. David shares what the future plans are for Baceline Investments. QUOTES: "Our company today, really carries on a lot of the traditions that I started with when I broke free from practicing law and primarily, it has never been a transactional type of company, we've always been more of an operating company." "Our niche in the world is owning and operating multi-tenant neighborhood shopping centers that are primarily unanchored." "You know the small mom-and-pop tenants may not be considered credit from a Wall Street perspective, but from a reality perspective they're actually really good credit because these are family businesses that people fight for everyday." "The reason we like to be in the middle of the country is that we find great stability in the cities that we're in, we also find that there's less competition…" "Rolling through the recession, we saw the resilience of our tenant base and then basically turned that to the sole purpose of our company moving forward, as far as investing is concerned." HIGHLIGHTS: 7:17 David's background and getting into real estate 11:01 Asset classes and credit ratings 17:35 Baceline's geographic focus and seller profiles 21:42 How David adds value to their properties 26:46 Debt, equity and the financial crisis 34:36 SWOT analysis of the retail sector 45:46 Long term plan for Baceline Investments Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here http://www.bacelineinvestments.com/ Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and note investment expert, Jim Maffuccio. Jim is co-founder and CIO of Aspen funds, an investment fund that provides returns without the volatility of traditional investment options. He is a 30 year old real estate veteran and deeply networked in the secondary mortgage industry. In the podcast, Jim covers how he bounced from the recession and got into the note business. He talks about secondary mortgages and the profit strategies he and his team employ when capitalizing on note investments. He explains the process of restructuring distressed debt to benefit investors. Kevin and Jim also discuss the dynamics of working remotely and having a headquarters for business. QUOTES: "Aspen Funds was started in 2012, really kind of born out of the adversity and the lessons that I learned in what debt can do to you if you're a small developer, a small fish in a big pond. So that's what launched me into the mortgage space." "If you're gonna buy one offs, you can be picky about what you buy in terms of the equity profile of the deal that you're buying. At our scale, we have to be ready to pretty much buy everything.." 'We're at about 65% of the time, we are able to modify the loan, keep the loan, get it re-performing and sell it to an income fund or another cash flow buyer. Another 10 or 15% of the time we actually get a settlement.." "We've seen the quantity of deal flow has definitely diminished in the residential mortgage space in general. Most of that is first leads where most of the players have been, and margins have shrunk as price points have increased for mortgages in general." "If 10% of our loans, at any given time, stop paying, all the metrics of our fund are set up such that the fund investors don't miss a blip and our management don't miss a blip. We have that built into our pricing model." HIGHLIGHTS: 8:13 Jim's background and how he co-founded Aspen Funds 14:11 Buying and selling real estate notes 18:41 Different investor profiles 21:10 What would be an ideal loan acquisition? 27:44 How the landscape changed since the crash 34:25 Business and management structure at Aspen Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here www.aspenfunds.us Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin interviews real estate and property management expert, Josh Weidman. Josh has been an active real estate investor for over 10 years, and has successfully founded and grew Atlas property management into a multimillion dollar firm with his partners, then later sold it to TCS Property Management. He is now director of turnkey investments at TCS Investments. Josh shares his background in wholesaling row houses in Philadelphia and how he and his partners developed a business model for large scale property management. He dives into the business plan at TCS and how his team drives big value, receiving mostly a hundred percent rent premium by converting single family family homes into three or four unit apartment buildings. Josh also talks about the cost of these renovations, other challenges and future expansion. QUOTES: "I was introduced to this concept called wholesaling, and wholesaled my property, made thirty grand on my first year and I was like 'yeah, I could do this all day.'" "For me the biggest change in hiring was realizing that you get what your pay for and if you don't know what the role is, you're never going to find the right person." "We can take that 2,500 square foot family [home], gut the thing and rebuild it as a three-unit building and we can do it at a price point that makes a heck of a lot more sense than buying a triplex, gutting it and rebuilding it." "We've got some areas in the city where we have two or three houses on the block that are boarded up shells, if we can find a way to capitalize on that block, that is a huge impact on that block, on that neighbors, and on the city as a whole.." "By converting a lot of these properties to functional spaces, it provides a lot of opportunities for the neighborhood's continued development.." HIGHLIGHTS: 6:50 Josh's background and how he got into real estate 11:46 Josh talks about hiring partners and organizing his property management business 20:49 Josh expounds on their unique business plan at TCS 26:13 Costs for renovation and adding infrastructure to single family homes for conversion 30:19 Scalability, geographic targets and challenges Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here www.realestatetheeasyway.com Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and multifamily expert, Jesse Worcester. Jesse is the co-founder of Worcester Investments, a family owned real estate company based in Kansas City, Missouri. He also sits as director of fundraising for capital, building and maintaining investor relationships. In this podcast, Jesse talks about the market in Kansas and why Worcester Investment decided to move their business from Oregon to the midwest. Jesse describes value investing and the intrinsic value of real estate dependent on things that can be controlled instead of speculation. He explains why he prefers a vertical structure to outsourcing property management and construction. Jesse also offers some perspective on hiring and management, and even recommends books that helped him develop his philosophy on real estate. QUOTES: "The most boring average markets often times are where you're going to see your greatest cash flows assuming it's not a dying city." "In everything I'm doing, I want to be doing it thirty years from now so I don't want to be betting on market timing, there's a lot of risk factors that come into play when you're speculating." "Most great deals come from two situations: someone making a bad decision or it's just being a situation that's very unique where a great deal is able to be had." "The driver behind the numbers of the property are the people who are working on the site whether they're corporate officers or physically on the site." "Culture and for us, how we treat individuals has been the single best determinant." HIGHLIGHTS: 7:48 Jesse's background and how his company started 14:18 Jesse explains why they choose the midwest 17:35 What exactly is value investing? 24:16 Vertical management structure of Jesse's company 29:25 Jesse talks about deals 37:13 Importance of having good underwriting 40:09 On hiring and keeping talents 48:00 Jesse on simplicity Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Rich Dad Poor Dad -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham Good to Great -- Book by James C. Collins The Go-Giver -- Bob Burg http://www.worcesterinvestments.com/ Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes commercial real estate and finance expert, Ira Zlotowitz. Ira is the founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, one of the largest national real estate firm with over a hundred real estate professionals and they have closed more than $2.5 billion in just the last twelve months. Ira talks about Eastern Union Funding as well as one of his more recent ventures, The Ira Group and shares how he built one of the largest brokerages in the country. He explains how lending can actually help in commercial real estate investment and clarifies the advantages of investing from the debt side of things in lieu of the usual syndicated equity investments. Kevin and Ira also discuss how one can be successful in commercial real estate. QUOTES: "Over time we grew into all other deals, but we don't forget our roots and we start this way, we find our niche and we double down on that area." "As Eastern Union as the broker, we'll typically work through full transactions, some look at $5 million, $3million or $100 million, we'll find a lender for that sorts. Through the Ira group, it's when the lender is looking for participation in loans, primarily bridge loans.." "I'm gonna bring people that want to participate into loans and bring them to crowdfunding platforms or to individual lenders throughout the country." "What I also tell people is that the best deal that you should probably start with, if you're about to invest equity in the deal, if you're starting a bit nervous then it might be overpriced, maybe you can sit on that same deal and go to the debt side of that deal." "You only want to try to do deals that the initial term are officially only twelve months." HIGHLIGHTS 8:02 Ira's background and the Ira group 13:10 Ideal investor 19:01 Roadblocks in understanding debt in investment 24:04 Time span of bridge loans 27:26 Ira talks about staying focused, knowing one's strengths and weaknesses Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here www.easternunion.com Review and Subscribe

This episode of The Real Estate Investing for CashFlow Podcast is joined by Omar Caraballo, CEO & Co-Founder of Arch Real Estate Holdings. Omar's experience dates back to as far as he can remember. Born and raised in the RE development space, he has a long generational history of family in the business, spanning back to being mentored by his father. With the growing advancement of blockchain technology and dozens of industries ripe for disruption however, Omar struck out on his own. Arch Real Estate Holdings went on to become one of the first RE holding companies with assets digitized and exchanged using blockchain technology; one of the biggest benefits being immediate liquidity for a traditionally non-liquid asset class. Omar goes on to elaborate and clarify what the blockchain is, how it's useful in the RE space, and why it's here to stay. QUOTES: "A lot of people associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies or bitcoin. But that's really just a very minor component." "Blockchain is just a technology, like the internet. You can do all kinds of things with the internet, just like you can do all kinds of things with blockchain." "You can now buy and sell private placement securities through blockchain security trading platforms." "Puerto Rico is a hot opportunity zone for investors from all around the world." HIGHLIGHTS 6:28 Omar's Background 11:42 What is the difference between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency? 14:11 How is blockchain technology integrated into Arch's business model? 22:11 What risks are associated with utilizing blockchain technology? 28:15 What area of RE does Arch specialize in? Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here https://archsecurities.com/ https://openfinance.io/ https://www.tzero.com/ Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin talks to real estate expert Ian Formigle. Ian is the vice president of investments at CrowdStreet, an online commercial real estate platform that helps diversify portfolios with institutional-quality, expertly reviewed, commercial real estate investments. He is also the author of the book "A Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing". In this podcast, Ian shares how he got into the business as a multi family home investor. He talks about the 2008 financial crisis and gives some insights into what could have been done better. Ian explains what they do at CrowdStreet and breaks down the process of how they connect and work with sponsors and investors. He also differentiates between three ways investors can invest through CrowdStreet. QUOTES: "Just because something is going better than you think it could go, well maybe you should ask yourself what's going on there because probably it's unsustainable." "For every one hundred potential deals that show up on our doorstep, five of them actually make it onto the market place." "If we're going to be in a deal, there has to be a relevancy there, nobody's doing this for fun, we're doing it because there is a product market fit between sponsor and investor at the end of the day." "So what we do is we give investors good tools to analyze and track their portfolio in their own dashboard and so that's what the investors look in for, and so we are the communication infrastructure…" "These days, we're finding that the typical sponsor on the market place has started on average to over two billion dollar worth of deals, has been in multiple markets and has ten plus years of operating experience in the entity level." HIGHLIGHTS 6:46 Ian's background 13:09 Ian explains how CrowdStreet operates 25:49 Long term projections and sensitivity controls 34:21 What the future looks like with crowdfunding 38:26 Three ways to invest via CrowdStreet Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here https://www.crowdstreet.com/ The Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing by Ian Formigle (book) Review and Subscribe

In this episode of Real Estate Investing for Cashflow, Kevin welcomes real estate and technology expert, Diane Vrkic. Diane is the founder and CEO of Waypoint, a platform whose mission is to build tools that let real estate owners and operators capitalize on their data and maximize performance of their teams and portfolios. In the podcast, Diane talks about finding her calling in real estate while being a medical student and how she came to identify some problems in the way the business operates. Diane then gives a detailed outlook on how Waypoint works and how the platform's operational services differ in terms of the client's company size. She also shares some important values in Waypoint's company culture and how their team is motivated. QUOTES: "What you really have to do is to find something that you really love doing, it can't just be the idea of what you're doing, it has to be the day-to-day.." "What's really interesting to me about real estate is that all the information is done manually, and it's done on a one-off basis for individual assets, the information is not able to be leveraged in a meaningful way and the work kind of sucks." "When you have wonderful, exceptional people, you have to enable them to be thinking above and beyond, so that you're continuously driving value in ways that your competitors are not." "Every investment professional needs to have all of the information about every one of their investments at their fingertips—they can do that within Waypoint, and then they can essentially have a system that's also working to support some of the work around tracking, managing, identifying when things are not working according to plan, and just allowing for there to be a system that is essentially a record for the day-to-day performance management." "The common thread at Waypoint is that folks are really intrinsically motivated." HIGHLIGHTS 8:27 Diane's background and how she got into real estate 17:01 What led Diane to found Waypoint? 27:03 How Waypoint works 32:34 The ideal client size for utilizing Waypoint's services 37:32 Diane talks about company culture and hiring staff Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here https://waypointbuilding.com/ Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing For Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin brings in Andy Poticha. Andy is involved in the unique and independent niche of designing and building cannabis facilities across the country. His team has designed and built twenty different cannabis specific projects. Kevin and Andy dive into the topic of the cannabis industry and the unique nuances involving it. Andy shares how he got into the business and how this venture differs from the others. He also addresses certain challenges due to cannabis' reputation and shares some insights about the industry's rapid growth and what the future holds for his company's niche in the business. QUOTES: "The judgement of the success of a project for us is solely based on the unqualified recommendation from our clients." "We didn't at the time ever think we were ever going to be a national business and lo and behold, new industry, new direction." "Right now, medicinal cannabis is legal in thirty-three states and recreational cannabis is legal in ten." "The reality of it is, our approach to this part of the business is really no different than anything else that we had done.." "We function so that our clients can go off and do what they do best, which is to continue to grow their business and acquire more licenses and so on. And we, with their input, can handle all of navigating the minefields of the construction part of it." HIGHLIGHTS 6:17 Andy's background and how he grew his company 14:45 The current state of the Cannabis industry 17:05 Andy talks about entering the niche and managing growth 24:54 Challenges along the way 29:05 Opportunities and getting into the space Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here https://cannabisfacility.net Review and Subscribe

This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features real estate investment expert Mitch Stephen. Mitch started out buying manufactured homes in mobile home parks that he did not own and has been buying storage facilities for 28 years and currently owns 14 facilities in Texas. Mitch talks about his background in mobile home parks and why he moved to self storage real estate. Kevin and Mitch dive into the economics behind storage real estate and Mitch's unique niche in boat and RV storage facilities located in Canyon Lake, Texas. Mitch also talks about the risks and challenges in the business and how his company was able to survive the recession. QUOTES: "I read a book called Nothing Down by Robert Allen and that guy had the audacity to suggest that I didn't need money to, you know...you could be broke and still be in the real estate game." "The entrepreneur rarely ends up with the business that he starts, he's always morphing to the most money per least resistance." "Storages are a perfect way to occupy some very valuable land and get paid while the city is growing to it." "One thing you never want to say in the storage business is you're full. If you're full then your prices aren't high enough." "The biggest challenge is water and making sure that the water runs off in the worst case scenario where you have 5 or 8 or 15 inches in a day that it's not gonna override your drainage." HIGHLIGHTS 6:08 Mitch's background 11:24 How and why Mitch ended up in storage real estate 18:04 Mitch talks about economics behind his storage businesses for boats and recreational vehicles 25:02 Challenges, mistakes and risks in the business 28:35 How the financial crisis affects the boat and RV storage facilities Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here Recommended Resources: Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar. Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here Nothing Down by Robert Allen (book) Forever Cash by Jack Bosch (book) My Life & 1,000 Houses by Mitch Stephen (book) Visit www.1000houses.com Review and Subscribe