

Working Capital Commercial Real Estate
Jesse Fragale
Working Capital features in-depth conversations with guests from a variety of areas in real estate, economics, education, investment and more. Host Jesse Fragale and guests discuss information about real estate investing that will actually help the average aspiring investor take the steps necessary to start and grow their real estate business.
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Jan 26, 2022 • 39min
From Tech to Real Estate with Tim Milazzo | EP88
Tim is the co-founder & CEO of StackSource, a tech-enabled commercial Real estate financing platform. StackSource has now completed over $250 Million of commercial financing transactions and they are in growth mode They are re-inventing the stagnant mortgage brokerage model with a tech-enabled marketplace/service. Tim speaks from experience when he says that the best possible financing for a commercial/multifamily real estate deal doesn’t have to be painful. StackSource brings transparency to commercial financing. In this episode we talked about: Tim’s Bio & Background Genesis of StackSource Platform StackSource Distinguishing Aspect Capital Markets Overview Underwriting Real Estate Inflation and Interest Rates Debt Market Residential Real Estate Space Tim’s Team Structure Promising Areas in Tech Space, Real Estate Tech and Property Tech Roll Up Strategy in Real Estate Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: tim@stacksource.com https://www.stacksource.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmilazzo/ https://www.facebook.com/TimMilazzo Transcriptions: 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. Or ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica gala. You're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is Tim Palazzo. He's the co-founder and CEO of stack source. A tech enabled commercial real estate financing platform. Stack source has now completed this hot off the presses over half a billion of commercial financing transactions and they're in growth mode. They are reinventing the stagnant mortgage brokerage model with the tech enabled marketplace slash service. Tim speaks from experience when he says that the best possible financing for commercial multifamily real estate deal doesn't have to be painful. Stack source brings transparency to commercial financing. Tim, how you doing today? Tim (1m 1s): I'm doing great, Jesse. Thanks for having me on. Jesse (1m 4s): Well, thanks for being here. I was going to say it in the bio here, but you might as well give listeners a little bit of a background because it seems that prior to stack source, you were in the tech space. It looks like Facebook, Google. Maybe you could talk a little bit for listeners about your background in real estate and how you got to the place that we're at today.

Jan 19, 2022 • 37min
Self Storage Investing for Beginners with Paul Moore | EP85
Paul Moore is an amazing contributor to BiggerPockets. Paul has launched multiple investments and developed companies appearing on HGTV and completed over 100 commercial & residential investments & exits in Real Estate. He has contributed in Fox business and Real Estate Guys™ Radio and is a regular contributor to BiggerPockets Producing live video and blog content. Paul also co-hosted wealth building podcast called “How to lose money” and he has been featured on a number, over 200 at this point. Paul is a 3 time Real estate author. His new book is “Storing Up Profits: Capitalize on America's Obsession with STUFF by Investing in Self-Storage Paperback” In this episode we talked about: Paul’s Bio & Background Entering Commercial & Multifamily Space Going Vertical in Self-Storage Rent Control Breaking into Self-Storage Self-Storage Performance and Risks within the recent 2 years Dislocation Aspect Underwriting of the Deals Thoughts on 2022 Outlook Why it is important to find your BIG WHY Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://www.wellingscapital.com/resources https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-biggest-opportunities-in-real-estate/id1505750263?i=1000534008754&l=en Transcriptions: So that's, that's what got me into real estate in the beginning. And then commercial, I ended up building a multifamily and operating it in the buckin oil rush of North Dakota. It was a multifamily quasi hotel. We did that for years. It was a lot of fun. Jesse (4m 34s): That's great. So you, like, I'm not dissimilar from, from some stories and multifamily is you started with these properties, realize that you can make a dollar to two going that way. And then at what point did you end up going into the commercial space or the multi red space? Paul (4m 50s): Yeah, so that was 20. So in 2010 we threw a bunch of friends and I threw over a million dollars to the bottom of a hole in the ground expecting about 50 times as much oil to come back out and nothing came out. And so I don't think we, I can almost certainly say we didn't think it through as well as it might sound now, but we thought, well, who made money in the gold rush? Well, those who sold the picks and shovels. So we noticed that there was a massive, massive housing shortage in North Dakota. I mean, like 10 or 20,000 people in a town of 3000, you know, sleeping in their trucks. So we created this multifamily, which, which we ran as a, you know, sort of an extended stay hotel in 2011. And that was our entree in. And I ended up writing a book on multifamily about five years later and I was off to the races. Jesse (5m 42s): Yeah, fair enough. I'm sure the, the Western Canadians can, can appreciate the throwing money in a hole in terms of the, so that moved from initially in Detroit, working with Ford motor

Jan 12, 2022 • 52min
Investing in Real Estate; A Global Perspective with Colin Lynch | EP86
Colin Lynch os the Head of Global Real Estate Investments at TD Asset Management. Colin is responsible for Global and Canadian Real Estate Strategy, overseeing fund design and structuring, implementation and oversight of acquired assets for the Global Real Estate Strategy. In this role Colin manages Investments in over 1000 properties located in over 20 counties worldwide. In this episode we talked about: • Colin’s Bio & Background • Financial Crisis • The Canadian Market from a Global Perspective • Post-COVID Real Estate Market Overview • Pricing & Affordability • Effects of Inflation • Commercial Real Estate Culture • Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinkrlynch/?originalSubdomain=ca 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, welcome to working capital the real estate podcast. My special guest today is Colin Lynch. Colin is the head of global real estate investments at TD asset management. Colin is responsible for global and Canadian real estate strategy, overseeing fund design and structuring implementation and oversight of acquired assets for the global real estate strategy. In this role, calling manages investments in over 1000 properties located in over 20 countries. Worldwide. We just updated that now. Colin, how's it going Colin (53s): Kid. Good. Thank you for having me here. Jesse (56s): Thanks for, thanks for being on the show. I'm really excited to talk with you today. I think there's a number of things that we'd like to cover, but before we do, as with every guest that we have on the show would love to get a little bit of more information on your background, how you got into real estate. We talked a little how it was a bit of an unconventional approach or entrance into real estate. So take us back, take us back and give us a little bit of a, of your background. Colin (1m 23s): Absolutely certainly unconventional approach to real estate. So first things first, I actually grew up as very much into music as a musician. And so I was one of those children that was in every sort of music class. By the time it got to high school was performing in a ton of ensembles through the, by the a hundred concerts a year, got to the end of high school, said time to explore something else. Cause I figured I, I had learned all that I could possibly learn in music, which was incorrect, but I figured I'd at least explored app. And so I went into a business and history. So I did three things in undergrad. I did the world concerned for a music. I did a bachelor of commerce at Queens, and I did a bachelor of arts in history at Queens. And, and then, you know, graduated and it was the heyday of the leveraged buyout, boom. And my mom who said, I was way too all over the place said, you got to get a skill. You've got to focus and you should go work for those banks because they never run into any issues, their board to stability. And so that's what I did I do to fleet, went out to investment banking and went

Jan 7, 2022 • 10min
Just Ask Jesse - How To Hire The Right Property Manager
Hiring the right property manager to manage your real estate investments can truly make or break your business. You've probably heard horror stories of nightmare property managers leaving your rental property vacant, destroyed, or simply taking your money and running. In this Just Ask Jesse I share the pros & cons to property managers & tips for hiring the right one to manage your rentals!

Dec 29, 2021 • 44min
How Brie Schmidt Grew her Real Estate Portfolio by 50 units in 1 year | EP85
Brie Schmidt acquired her First Investment Property in 2011 and left the Corporate World in 2014 when she became a Full Time Real Estate Investor. Brie is the Managing Broker of Second City Real Estate, a Full Service Brokerage Working with new Investors and Seasoned Investors Looking to Expand their Knowledge of the Industry and their Portfolio. In this episode we talked about: Brie’s First Steps in Real Estate Switching to Real Estate on a full-time basis 2021 Portfolio Review Capital Deployment The Difference Between Chicago and Milwaukee Property The Active Investment Strategy Property Management 1031 Exchanges Regulatory Environment from the Landlord-Tenant Prospective Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: http://www.secondcity-re.com/agent/brie/ Transcriptions: 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. Hey, my name is Jesper galley and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. We have a special guest today that is Brie Schmidt. Brie acquired her first investment property in 2011 and left the corporate world in 2014. When she became a full-time real estate investor is the managing broker of second city real estate, a full service brokerage working with new investors and seasoned investors, looking to expand their knowledge of the industry and their portfolio. I had the special pleasure of being on a panel with Bree in new Orleans at the bigger pockets conference. Bree, how are you doing I'm Brie (54s): Dan. Great. Thanks. How are you? Jesse (56s): I'm doing fantastic. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show. I thought just, you know, we were talking before the show. I think it would be really interesting to have you on because we talked a lot, but you know, across that panel and I think it would be a treat for listeners to talk not just about multiple larger units when it comes to multi residential, but to talk about the mid and lower size units or smaller size units and kind of approach it from the perspective of the kind of unique markets that you're in. So maybe to kick us off, why don't you give us a little bit of a, of a background for yourself, for listeners, how you got into real estate? Brie (1m 35s): So I always say I used to be a normal person. I used to have like a normal job and normal, you know, grind go to the grind kind of goals in life. So I used to work in advertising sales. I used to work in business development and advertising sales never really saw myself doing anything different. You know, it was really had aspirations of being a female CEO one day. So I live in the Chicago market, which we were talking about before show is a somewhat unique market, as far as housing stock. There's very few cities in this country that have a large portion of two to four unit multi-units. So depending on the neighborhood in Chicago, it can be between 50 and 70% of our housing stock is two to four unit properties. And they're generally about a hundred thousand dollars, less than a single family home. So at the time I was think I was just getting engaged and my fiance and I were talking about, and you're like, what are our

Dec 22, 2021 • 44min
How to Use Real Estate to Reduce Taxes with Amanda Han | EP84
Amanda is a CPA Specialising in Tax Strategies for Real Estate, Self-Directed Investing, and Individual Tax Planning for over 18 years. She’s been Investing in Real Estate herself for over 10 years with a Focus on Long-term Hold Residential and Multifamily Assets across Multiple States. As both a Tax Strategist and Real Estate Investor, Amanda Combines her Passion of Real Estate Investing with her Expertise in Tax. Her Goal is to Help Investors with Strategies Designed to Supercharge their Wealth-Building Using Entity Structuring, Self-Directed Investing, and Income Offset Opportunities In this episode we talked about: Amanda’s Journey in Real Estate Structuring Real Estate for Taxes Depreciation of Real Estate Investing Opportunity Zones Real Estate Investment Opportunities for 2022 Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://www.instagram.com/ahan127/ https://www.keystonecpa.com/About-Us

Dec 15, 2021 • 45min
Real Estate Market Analysis with Shaun Hildebrand of Urbanation |EP83
Shaun Leads the Team at Urbanation, Armed with a Background as an Economist and 15 years of Experience in Residential Market Analysis. Shaun is a Thought Leader in the Residential Development Industry and his Unique Perspectives on the Market Guide Urbanation's insights, Analytics and Research Strategy In this episode we talked about: • Urbanation Background • Shaun’s Bio and First Steps in Real Estate • Overview of Toronto Condo Market • Shaun’s Thoughts on Purpose-built Rental Housing • Rent Control • The Size of Toronto Condo Market • The Outlook on How Immigration Will Impact the Real Estate • Inflation and Asset Growth • Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned • Book or Podcast Useful links: https://urbanation.ca 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's Jennifer Gallan. You're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is Shawn Hildebrand. Sean is the president of urban nation, Inc. For those that don't know, urban nation was founded in 1981 by Eve Lewis, an industry leader and visionary. That's an emerging market opportunity for high rise condominiums in Toronto at a time when they were considered a niche product, how's it going? I'm doing great, Sean. We we're just chatting a little bit before the podcast and wanted to have you on for a little while for those that don't know urban nation. Maybe you could give a little bit of a background as to what you guys do and kind of how that company has evolved over the years with your involvement. Shaun (1m 7s): Sure. Yeah. So as you mentioned, Urbanation was founded basically 40 years ago and began actually from Eve Louis's graduate thesis at the time. So condos were sort of a new product in the housing market in Toronto, and, you know, she studied the market, collected all the data and realized that there was a business at that could be formulated out of this research. And over the years, Urbanation continued to collect on a quarterly basis, new condominium apartment market activity by serving directly the developers that were active in the market, putting out our quarterly condo market survey publication. And eventually over time, as, as technology evolves, moving the data and reporting into an online format. I joined the company almost nine years ago in early 2013. So at that point we were, we were just sort of really launching the full database. So that was kind of my first initiative as I, as I began to take over leadership in the company. And over the years, we've, we've continued to expand that database and the technology behind it. We've also sort of branched out our research into more than just condominiums, but now tracking what's happening in the purpose-built rental markets. That

Dec 9, 2021 • 44min
Raising Private Capital: Build Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People's Money with Matt Faircloth | EP82
Founder and CEO of DeRosa Group Matt is a Regular Contributor and Podcast Guest on Bigger Pockets.com, Has an Active YouTube Channel Dedicated to Educating Investors, and the Author of the Amazon Best Seller, Raising Private Capital, how to Build your Real Estate Empire with Other People's Money In this episode we talked about: • Matt’s First Steps in Real Estate • Scaling: the jump from 49 Units Up • Raising Private Capital • Advice to Individuals Who Haven’t Raised Capital yet • Matt’s View on the Real Estate Market Useful links: https://derosagroup.com https://www.instagram.com/themattfaircloth/ Transcriptions: 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's Jesper gala and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guests today are returning guests, Matt fare, cloth, founder, and CEO of the DeRosa group. Matt has been a full-time investor for over 15 years. Just talked a little bit about the deal volume here over a hundred million in real estate transactions and controlling over 1000 units in multifamily mats, a regular contributor and podcast guests on biggerpockets.com has an active YouTube channel dedicated to educating investors and the author of the Amazon bestseller. Highly recommend raising private capital. How to build your real estate empire with other people's money. Matt, how's it going? Matt (59s): Good. I'm good, Jesse. It's great being here, man. Am I, did I, did you tell me a bit at BiggerPockets conferences? This is that I'm your first repeat appearance on your podcast? Jesse (1m 8s): No, the first repeat appearance was definitely the BR Brandon Turner. So Matt (1m 13s): Yeah, you're right. Yeah, Jesse (1m 15s): But you're there though. You know, you're very generous in the, the first, first few episodes. I think you were you're right on. I think that was right when you started marketing the book, but you know, I think at that point I read half of it completed it a long time ago. A great book. I thought it was, I thought it was just for us, at least it was very perfect timing, which is fine. Matt (1m 37s): I gotta be here, man. I should get like, we should do like the SNL jacket thing, like finding it loud when there's repeat guests, you know, like we should do like the, like the special, like the number five collab or whatever it is. I'm in the number two clubs now at Brandon. So I want to, I'm glad to be back here with you, man. Thanks for that. Jesse (1m 52s): It's great to have you, you know what, I didn't even ask before we started. Are you still, are you still in out of Jersey right now or Matt (1m 59s): So we have an office building in Jersey, but we, we work, but my

Dec 1, 2021 • 45min
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

Nov 24, 2021 • 37min
Finding & Funding Real Estate Deals with Anson Young | EP80
Anson Young is a Real Estate Agent and Investor with Hundreds of Transactions Completed in Each Category of Real Estate. Anson and his team Specialize in Marketing directly to Sellers for Off-market Deals, Using Many of the Methods that can be Found in his Book Finding & Funding Great Deals. When not Working, Anson can be Found Exploring the Wilds of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains with his family, Reading Favourite Books to his Son, and Attending Loud Rock Concerts. In this episode we talked about: • Anson’s Bio & Background • Anson’s First Steps in Real Estate Business • Becoming a Real Estate Agent • Anson’s Main Focus in Real Estate • Raising capital • Private Landing • Sourcing Deals • Building an Off-Market List • Prospecting and finding Opportunities • Anson’s Thoughts on Inflation and Interest Rates • Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned Useful links: https://www.instagram.com/younganson/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/c/ansonyoung Transcriptions: 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. Right? Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica galleon. You're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. Our special guest today is aunts and young Anson is a real estate agent and investor with hundreds of transactions completed in each category, real estate Anson, and his team specialize in marketing directly to sellers for off-market deals, using many methods that can be found in his book, finding and funding great deals when not working ants and can be found exploring the wilds of Colorado with his family and tending loud rock concerts. And I can see you got a twig behind you there, and son, how you doing? Anson (54s): I'm good. I'm good. Thanks for having me, Jesse. Jesse (56s): Yeah, my pleasure having you on, what do you got there? Is that a base? It's hard to tell because Anson (1m 1s): That one's a five string bass. Jesse (1m 4s): I like it. Fantastic, man. Well, thanks for coming on. We were just chatting before the show, like a few of the most recent guests you were speaking at BP con this year, what was, what was your topic? Anson (1m 17s): So my topic this year was finding the deals in any market and it focused on kind of out of state investing or long distance real estate investing, building a team, you know, how basically how to go ahead and find those deals, whether it's networking or off market. And, and yeah, that's seems to be a hot topic. Everybody'


