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As a successful real estate investor in over 1700 units, Gary Lipsky helps friends invest in C-Class Value-Add Multifamily opportunities. Gary typically finds deals in Phoenix and Tucson. He runs several meetups and is a regular on real estate podcasts and at conferences. You can count on Gary for integrity, strong operations and excellent communication, which have been keys to everything in which he’s been a part of. Gary has always been a self-starter, taking on entrepreneurial endeavors and succeeding in his efforts. At the end of 2016, he sold arc, an after-school program, leadership development and outdoor education company he founded in 2001, which served over 9,000 students daily throughout Southern California. He is a founding board member of the non-profit CORE Educational Service, has been a member of Vistage since 2013 and is an alumnus of the Leadership Southern California program. In this episode, we talked about: Asset management How he raises capital How Gary went from simple single-family rentals to $17M in multifamily properties Multifamily syndication Value Add strategies Handling tenants And much MORE! Resources and Links: https://www.aptcapitalgroup.com/podcast/ Connect with Gary Crucial Conversations (book)

Dave Dubeau is a Real Estate Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author, Speaker and Investor Attraction Expert based in Kamloops, B.C. Canada. He began his real estate investing career in 2003 doing 18 deals in 18 months. He later switched his focus to client-first rent to own deals, and nowadays he invests in multi-family (apartment building) properties. For the last several years Dave has been the World’s #1 Investor Attraction “Imple-Mentor”. Using his proprietary 5 Step Money Partner Formula™, Dave helps his real estate entrepreneur clients to grow their portfolios significantly and in record time by attracting investors (instead of chasing after them). In this episode, we talked about: Rent-to-own strategy Dave’s current deals - Multifamily properties Steps in raising capital Choosing the right investing strategy Managing property  And much MORE   Resources and Links: The Ultimate Sales Machine https://www.daviddubeau.com/ Connect with Dave

Jorge Abreau has been Investing in Real Estate full time for over 14 years. He started in Single Family and small Multifamily properties. He has wholesaled over 200+ Properties, Fixed & Flipped over 100+ properties and developed several new construction projects, over $8M in ground up. For the past 3 years he has been solely focused on large Multifamily properties. Jorge is currently an Active & Passive Full Time Multifamily Real Estate Investor. he has 1,720 Doors on the GP side & over 1,400+ doors on the LP side. He currently has another 850 Doors under contract on the GP side as well. He is the CEO of Elevate Commercial Investment Group. Also, owns a construction company, JNT Construction, that focuses on helping Multifamily Investors with their full renovations. He is based out of Dallas & currently owns properties throughout Texas & Oklahoma but open to other areas as well. His strong points are Locating Deals, Due Diligence, Executing CapEx & Raising Equity. In this episode, we talked about: Jorge’s move from single family to large multifamily deals Portfolio building Raising capital Asset management And more…   Resources and Links: Three Feet from Gold Connect with Jorge https://www.elevatecig.com/

Mauricio is the founder and CEO of Premier Law Group, a premier boutique securities law firm.  As a nationally recognized expert on private placements, Mauricio works with elite entrepreneurs who seek to increase and protect their wealth through syndications. Mauricio specializes in Reg D exempt offerings and educates investors from around the world on how to navigate the complex world of securities laws. Known for taking complex matters and making them simple to understand, Mauricio is sometimes, jokingly, referred to as one of the few lawyers who actually speaks English. With over 18 years of experience, Mauricio has previously been selected as a “Southern California Rising Star” by the Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine, recognizing him as one of the top 2.5% up-and-coming lawyers in Southern California. A graduate of The University of California at Berkeley, Mauricio obtained his Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Scott Moot Court Honors Board. In this episode, we talked about real estate syndication, importance of SEC securities law to real estate investors, Rule 506(b) Versus 506(c) and much MORE! Resources and Links: Email: CS@PremierLawGroup.net www.PremierLawGroup.net  

Mike Taravella is a CPA, and he graduated from Michigan State University in 2014 with a Master of Science in Accounting. He has worked 5 years professionally in accounting. He started at Ernst & Young in public accounting and then transitioned into Detroit’s startup community at Rock Ventures. He began his real estate investing career in 2016 by owning and self-managing investments in Michigan. He also took an interest in real estate development before joining Rand Partners in 2019. Mike is currently an associate that is responsible for underwriting deals, investor relations, and asset management. In this episode, Mike shares his love for numbers, analysis, single and multifamily deals.  We discuss Ratio Utility Billing Systems (RUBS), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), property management and investment philosophy. Resources and Links: https://randcre.com/ Jake and Gino episode with Mike Connect with Mike

Chris Picciurro has been a CPA for more than 20 years, and spent the last 16 years as founder and executive officer of Integrated CPA Group. Since 2003, Integrated CPA Group has grown from a small, one-office operation to a multi-state firm servicing well over 3,000 clients. He is a member of the ProConnect™ Tax Customer Council. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the tax and liability issues in real estate.  Topics include foreign investors investing in the US, LLC formation, tax planning and growing your real estate assets.  Enjoy.   Resources and Links: http://www.realestatecpa.guru/ Connect with Chris

Darin Batchelder started as a CPA with PriceWaterhouse and PepsiCo. He transitioned into sales selling software applications for several technology companies. He then transitioned to institutional loan trading with ABN AMRO, an international bank based in the Netherlands, with main focus on trading large jumbo residential portfolios and multifamily portfolios bank to bank. He then founded TZK Capital in 2007 focused on trading clean credit performing loans to include residential, multifamily and commercial real estate loans bank to bank. He has traded in excess of $4 billion in loans. In this episode, we talked about his journey on how he got into real estate, multifamily deals, real estate syndications, partnering, raising capitals, how he got invested in over 4,000 multifamily units and much MORE! Resources and Links: https://darinbatchelder.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/darin-batchelder-8855b620

Justin Kivel is a Real estate investor and founder of Break into CRE, an education platform that helps aspiring real estate investment professionals advance their careers and do better deals through real estate financial modeling and analysis training. In this episode, Justin shares how he helps real estate professionals who are trying to break into the commercial real estate market.  We discuss development, brokerage, private equity and more.   Links and Resources: Real Estate Finance and Investments Risks and Opportunities by Peter Linneman Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur by James Randel Connect with Justin Kivel https://breakintocre.com/

Charlie and Kristina are the founders of Akras Capital. Charlie Stevenson is an experienced entrepreneur and leader, before Akras, he founded and operated three businesses in the travel and marketing industries in the United States and Europe. With deep experience working with startup and growth ventures as both a founder and consultant, he’s able to recognize and support promising businesses and provide them with the strategies, tools and support needed to ensure success while Kristina Knight brings over 10 years of experience in the capital markets, having most recently worked as a senior investment analyst with portfolio management responsibilities at Longfellow Investment Management Company ($9BN assets under management). In this role, she ran the $1BN Agency Mortgage Portfolio strategy, managing over 30 separate accounts to ensure the client needs and objectives were met. She previously worked in the structured products group at State Street Global Markets. In this episode, Charlie and Kristina shared their journey in real estate, multifamily deals, growing their portfolio, how to generate passive income and great cash flow, how their bond and partnership has led them to success and their mission to produce freedom in the lives of their investors and partners. Resources and Links: Joe Fairless Matt Faircloth https://www.akrascapital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevensoncharles/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristina-knight-cfa-9b592b2/  

With 44 years of real estate industry experience, Glenn Mueller is a professor for the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at Denver University, one of the oldest and largest programs in the country. Mueller’s research experience includes real estate market-cycle analysis, real estate securities analysis, real estate capital markets, portfolio and diversification analysis, seniors housing analysis and both public and private market-investment strategies. He is also the real estate investment strategist at Dividend Capital Group, where he provides real estate market-cycle research and investment strategy for Dividend Capital’s Real Estate Securities, Private Real Estate Investment, Private REIT and Real Estate Debt groups. He is also the co-editor of the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. In this episode, Glenn shared his knowledge on research, analysis, and development in real estate. We also talked about real estate market cycles, growth statistics, employment growth, retail, how COVID affected different industries, supply and demand in commercial real estate and industrial population growth. Glenn also showed us visual data and graphs to make his presentation more understandable and informative.   Resources and Links: Real Estate Development: Principles and Process https://www.du.edu/ Connect with Glenn Mueller's chart