Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever

Joey is a partner at Wealth Without Wall Street, a financial advisory firm. He is from Birmingham, AL and started off his career in the mortgage business in 2003 learning how to become an underwriter and eventually started to see a niche of opportunity to lend money to individuals who didn’t qualify under the mortgage guidelines. He shares the pros and cons of private lending and also shares a unique deal he did with an auto loan. 

Adam Southey lost it all in the 2008 market crash and in this episode, he explains how he was able to come back strong from a big setback that took him from full-time investor to W2 employee back to full-time real estate investor all with a sole focus on his new niche, raw land.

In this episode, Theo joins the myth busters crew and helps you understand why the idea of “you must have a history of multi-family deals to raise money for syndication.” He explains why as long as you have experience in either 1 of 2 other options you can still raise money for your apartment syndication. Listen to the full episode to learn what those two other options are. 

In this episode, Theo shares how he would go about underwriting an apartment syndication deal when there are no LPs or maybe as a joint venture. He uses a simplified cash flow calculator to help him through this process and walks you through what he is doing along the way. Download the FREE calculator so you can follow along with Theo. 

Mark Owens is from Baltimore and has been an active full-time real estate investor for the past 14 years, owns over 100 units, 200 wholesales, and self manages all of his units. Mark believes his secret to having success and having more options than most investors is all due to the way he views decision making. He shares some great examples of how he has been able to separate himself from the heard of real estate investors when it comes to making decisions. 

Jacob is a real estate broker based in New York City and he also focuses on raising money for multi-family syndications and has recently completed his first hotel deal. In this episode, he shares how he has been able to build a business through networking by attending events, LinkedIn, and reaching out to others on Facebook.

Shoshana is a digital media veteran with 30 years of marking management experience on both the agency and client-side. She ran marketing for audible for 4 years before they were purchased by Amazon. She has the skills to help early-stage businesses grow through marketing. In this episode, she gives some great insight on how to think like a marketer when it comes to growing your audience base, whether that is listeners, investors, or distressed properties. 

Michael has been in career advising and business consulting for about 25 years now. Before he found his calling he was at a job he was good at but no longer had any passion for and in fact, was making him depressed. Michael went to a career counselor in search of some help because he wanted to find something different and all that did was make him more depressed because they had him apply to 150 jobs and he only had one response.

Leslie grew up around entrepreneurship and investing in real estate. Her family invested in real estate when she was growing up, and she and her brother had to clean the houses and paint them. Joe and Leslie discuss how and what she plans to do with her family when she passes the torch to her son and she shares the six steps from her book Legacy “A guide to successfully transferring wealth from one generation to the next.” 

This is part 2/2 of a Syndication Series Theo started in Episode JF2010 where he goes over the best tips and advice he gained from the speakers and conversations he had with other investors at the Best Ever Conference 2020 in Key Stone, Colorado. The Best Ever Conference hosts many great speakers who talk on multiple real estate investing topics but the ones Theo will be sharing today are focused on Apartment Syndication.

In this episode of Syndication School, Theo shares the best tips and advice he learned from The Best Ever Conference 2020. The Best Ever Conference hosts many great speakers on different real estate investing topics but the ones Theo will be sharing today are focused on Apartment Syndication. Enjoy this episode as he explains his takeaways from day one of the conference and what he felt was very helpful from different speakers.  

Spencer just recently went full-time real estate investor. He grew up with his parents both active in real estate and as a child didn’t find it as something he was interested in so he instead went into the world of Technology. During his journey in the Tech-Start-Up world, he landed in a real estate tech company and learned about real estate investing. He then started out in single-family houses and after about 6 investment properties decided it was to slow and started to research multifamily.

Michael’s background was in chemical engineering and after a while, he got tired of the rat race and started to find an interest in real estate. He began by first flipping small duplexes and now has grown the company to millions in assets. His company is now at 300 units, with a mix up of 10-12 buildings. In the beginning, he started out financing his deals with local banks by building relationships with them but more recently have partnered with Goldman Sachs to fund future deals. 

Chris Tuff is an expert in working with millennials and getting high levels of production from them. His new book "The Millennial Whisperer," explains that there are two different types of millennials; the "Snap-Chat" and "Oregon Trail". In this episode, you will learn about each of these two different types so you will be better prepared when you are looking to build your own business and hiring help for the first time.

Ellie Perlman started out as a  real estate lawyer and experienced the crash in 2008 which made her a very conservative investor because she saw how not being conservative can kill your business. Her focus is on buying MultiFamily properties across the US. She shares how she started her business with the mindset of “How do I create a process that can scalable” instead of “How do I get this deal done so I can move onto the next one?”