No BS Apartment Investing

As we wrap up the final episode of the No BS Apartment Investing Podcast, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our incredible listeners and guests who've joined us over the past four seasons. Together, we've explored various real estate topics and shared true stories, pitfalls, and heartaches that real estate investors face, providing valuable insights and lessons for new and seasoned investors. 

But this isn't the end of our journey together - it's the start of an exciting new chapter! We're undergoing a rebrand with a fresh new name and logo, exploring every aspect of real estate, from residential and commercial to flipping properties, investing in REITs, and using retirement accounts for real estate investments. As we embark on this thrilling new adventure, I invite you to join us and share your input on who you'd like to hear from, and what you'd like to learn. Here's to the future of our real estate investing community!

In this episode we sit down with real estate developer Justin Smith, we discuss his journey into  development, and what ignited his passion for it. We also discuss the need to know about development, how to get started in the space, and how to build your team, connections, allies and the ways to approach a development deal from a numbers perspective. Justin also shares the most common mistakes that people make when getting into the development space and how you can avoid them. 

Justin Smith is the founder of Relequity Enterprises, a Private Equity & Real Estate. Relequity.com acquires Multi-Family Real Estate in the SouthEast and MidWest Markets. He is currently general partner on 360 units of housing in Des Moines, Iowa.  He is set on increasing that ownership level to over 1000 units in 2021. He also advises on private client developments in TX, CA, and OH.

Smith leads projects through the predevelopment stages, design management, construction and finally asset management life - cycle.  Under his direct leadership 1,356 units of housing or (3,200 beds) were constructed over the last 6 years, exceeding $422M in project value. He is particularly proud of projects such as Hale Mahana in Oahu, HI and Union on Elizabeth in Fort Collins, CO.

On this episode, we chat with Aharon Goins about using what's around you to succeed. Many times we get caught in the paralysis by analysis phase and fail to get anything done, we get caught up in the next "big thing". Aharon shares tips to help avoid these pitfalls. Resources surround us everywhere, its up to us to make the best use of them in order to find success.  

Aharon is an active real estate investor and retired military veteran. Aharon hosts the weekly All in on a real estate meetup every Thursday at 7:00 pm EST.  The mission of the meetup is to teach the attendees the benefits of real estate investing.

Aharon got into real estate because he wanted to get out of the “Rat Race” of working for someone else and to change lives for the better. He is determined to help people build generational wealth through real estate not only for them but for their families.

CASHFLOW is the name of the game and in this weeks episode,  we speak with Jennifer Beadles about why she is Addicted to ROI, why she looks for assets that cashflows Day 1, buying assets in areas that are less desirable which has helped her amass a portfolio consisting of over 265+ doors and counting.

Jennifer is a multifamily investor and coach, specializing in value-add multifamily. She owns just under 265 units in 8 different states. With just under 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, Jennifer has experience with many investing strategies including BRRR, value-add multifamily, build-to-rent, and investing out of state. 

Through the company she founded, Addicted to ROI, Jennifer helps hundreds of investors build and scale their own rental portfolios using her proven framework for achieving financial freedom

On this episode we sit with Lisa Hylton as she details her journey to becoming a fund manager in the multifamily space. We discuss topics such as the A to Z's of starting a fund, the proper way to manage a fund, avoiding securities issues, SPVs and much more. 
She is the host of the The Level Up REI Podcast, and VP of Finance for a Real Estate tech start up and founder of The Fund Manager Accelerator Course and  Lisahylton.com - A commercial real estate Fund management firm that was created to help accredited investors gain diversification across private commercial real estate investments. 

In this episode, we sit down with Tommy Brant as we discuss his investing journey as well as almost getting into a bad deal that could have ended up catastrophic for the duration of the deal. Tommy shares some key points that new investors should consider when looking at deals as well as some marketing tactics that have helped him get a better conversion rate.
Tommy is a ‘recovering‘ electrical engineer and data scientist turned full-time Real Estate Investor. He started TB Capital Group as a tool to buy real estate with family, friends, and partners. He helps busy professionals accelerate their wealth through passively investing in real estate. 
His goal is to help others achieve ULTIMATE freedom (which can’t be done without being financially free)
Portfolio of LTR, STR, and apartments - invested in 356 units, totaling $33M in assets.

On this episode, we sit down with Albrey Grimsley, CEO of Life Legacy Capital, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Synergy Paradigm Capital, a privately held commercial real estate investment company. We discuss the aspect of thinking outside the box by not following what the crowd is doing, learning to see the bigger picture in everything as well as being your own bank.

As an investor, she has gained a wealth of knowledge in commercial real estate acquisitions and asset management. This has led to extensive operating expertise and an intimate understanding of each of the submarkets in which we acquire property to identify underperforming assets and solve the root issues that represent a significant value-add play for our investors. 

In addition to being an entrepreneur, she has a strong background in facility management, real estate, education, and sports. She is well-versed in nonprofit capital leadership, mentorship, public speaking, event hosting, and commercial real estate investments. She is the owner of the nonprofit, Like It R Love It Inc, which houses the L.I.F.E Sports Academy program and operates in several locations within the United States and abroad. 

While creating mentorship opportunities through her organizations, and community partnerships, and serving as a former collegiate coach for over a decade, her leadership has led to building champions in their respective professional fields and communities. Her passion for adding value to others has led to her creating the Life Legacy Capital Investor Club which allows working professionals and entrepreneurs to leverage her team’s capital to continue building generational legacy wealth. This passion for adding value to others has also led to being the managing partner with YouthServ Academy, a private school that focuses on academics and mentorships which allow students to prepare for potential careers while in high school.

Albrey is ALWAYS looking to connect with phenomenal individuals!

In this episode, we sit down with Amy Tiemann, a syndicator out of the Texas area who shares with us what she looks for when investing with operators and how to effectively vet an operating team. She also shares with us how she carried over her HR skills to the Multifamily space and her craziest scary story that can potentially make you question if you'd rather be a passive investor over an active one.

Amy has a long history in construction - her grandfather started a glass company in 1960, and her father took it over in 1972. Amy spent a lot of time going to job sites with her father. After graduating from Purdue, with a degree in Organizational Leadership, Amy returned home. Her father asked her to join the family business, but she had other plans on her mind.
Amy made the move to tech and worked in HR. Amy worked for major companies such as Phillips, IBM, and Applied Materials. Suddenly, in 2001, she found herself going through a painful tech downturn, with the burst of the dot-com bubble. After surviving several rounds of layoffs, Amy found herself burned out in tech and HR. At the time, her husband started a small construction company. Amy realized this was her opportunity to return to a field she knew a lot about, and she was looking for a new challenge.

The new construction company was created in 2004. Over the course of 12 years, she built Tiemann Construction into a national retail construction firm servicing 16 states. From there, the company pivoted to multifamily renovations – along with a real estate investing arm of the business, in 2008. Tiemann Construction was named the multifamily vendor of the year for the Austin and San Antonio market for a large real estate investment association in 2012. Tiemann Construction renovated over 50 multifamily properties in Austin, San Antonio, and Bryan/College Station areas.
Amy’s first multifamily investment was in 2010. Amy and her husband became active in multifamily investing and real estate investing while managing their construction business. By 2015, made the decision to focus on real estate investing, and in 2017 went out on her own.

With decades of experience in the real estate industry, Amy brings a well-rounded perspective to the company. A graduate of Organizational Leadership from Purdue University, Amy is able to collaborate cross-functionally in order to bring an unrivaled service level to her properties.

Lawrence Latty AKA Mr INTERNATIONAL retired from the New York City Transit Authority where he was a dedicated public servant for four decades as a train operator in the New York City subway system.  As a train operator he has trained over 900 personnel in safe train operation. 

He is now focused on growing his real estate portfolio that he has managed for the last 30 years that was started by his parents when they purchased their first investment property in the Bronx NY in 1971.

To integrate his passion for real estate and people he founded one of the most popular and value intense meetups in 2020, Finacial Independence Through Small Multifamily Investing. A weekly virtual meetup, with guest speakers, and investors from around the country and 
sometimes the world. We come together to network, discuss projects, and work on personnel development.

Lawrence also created the 4P system that was developed through the training of over 900 personnel to help improve likability, and develop trust among students and others. This has allowed him to develop an amazing network, and become known as a master connector.

Adrian is the CEO and Founder of St. Joseph’s Capital, a commercial multifamily
real estate syndication company with the purpose of inviting and educating faith
driven leaders into a world of new streams of tax-advantaged passive income and
impact.
St. Joseph’s Capital assists investors nationwide investing in real estate, while also
donating 50 percent of profits to assist missionaries committed to sharing the hope
and joy of the gospel with high school and university students on campuses around
the globe.
Adrian is also the host of the St.Joseph’s Capital podcast, which is a collection of
interviews with top experts in the real estate industry, with a focus on the synergies
between faith, personal growth, impact creation, and real estate investing.
Adrian is a member of the Active Duty Passive Income (ADPI) Military Multifamily
Academy, a tight-knit community of motivated military investors who have
collectively partnered on over $140 million in multifamily deals, and a member of
Raisemasters, the number 1 mastermind for elite capital raisers, who have
collectively assisted over 1,000 investors receive the advantages of investing in
commercial real estate.
In addition to his involvement in the real estate industry, Adrian is a Catholic
husband, father, and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Officer. Adrian has served in a
variety of roles for the USCG conducting and planning search and rescue, drug
interdiction, alien and migrant interdiction, illegal, underreported, and unregulated
fishing law enforcement, and planning international partnership-building missions.
Go to www.Stjosephscapital.com to receive access to their new course, “An
Introduction to Passive Real Estate investing”, which includes educational
resources including our new book 13 Advantages of Real Estate Syndication and
more.
Connect with him on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-chuquillangui

In this episode, we chat with Dan Fradenburgh about the importance tech plays in Real Estate and how to leverage it to get in front of various players in the Multifamily space, from sponsors, limited partners, operators, etc. Dan got into real estate from owning an e-commerce web development agency.  For six years he worked alongside securities attorneys to ensure everything online was in compliance and learned how his boss made enough to pay him.
Now, he's picking his deals by doing the same 15 min calls we all have to do in this business, but in podcast format.
With over 100 Chance Encounter interviews released in less than six months, he's confident that his new software platform, 506b.me will change how syndicators protect themselves from one of the vaguest but widely applicable laws.

As a passionate real estate professional and investor, Sean O’Rourke’s aim is to be the most trusted advisor and to direct people towards the right deals. For the last three years, he has acquired the necessary knowledge and experience that help him tailor his services to meet the unique needs of his clients. Sean understands that every homebuyer, seller, or investor has their own preferences and wishes that they would want to be fulfilled. He is attentive, energetic, and enthusiastic, hence he will be able to address all of your concerns and deliver, to the best of his ability, what you are looking for.
Sean’s interest in the wholesale business has seen him negotiate and close several deals, thereby helping people buy or sell single-family and multi-family houses and mini storages. His creative ability and strong business acumen have helped him establish and run a multi-million dollar business from nothing, an achievement that position him as a progressive individual who is always looking for opportunities to succeed. This is the same spirit that he aims to impart in others, especially by encouraging them to grab every opportunity that comes their way and make the most out of it. People enjoy working with him because of his keen knack for honesty, ability to cultivate immediate rapport, and a passion to maximize sales through caring and consultative business relationships.

In this episode, our guest speaker Vish Muni shares his journey which started from a goal of owning 10 duplexes in 10 years, over-leveraging, to finding out about syndications and a better way to achieve his success goals. Vish shares ways he builds valuable connections, to how he attracts partners to his various opportunities. 

Having migrated from Bangalore, India more than 20 years ago from a family of 5 siblings, starting as an IT professional, having multiple careers,  and being a small business owner.

He started investing in Single family homes 10 years before transitioning to multifamily investing in 2019 where he found his true passion. Since then, he has participated as a general partner and limited partner in over 6 syndications accounting for more than 1,000 doors.

His multifamily investment has opened many doors and has made some of his dreams and goals a reality. It has allowed him to be a lifestyle investor and live life on his terms, freedom to pursue other interests, and freedom from financial uncertainty for himself and his family, and it has given him a renewed sense of purpose. But most importantly, it has allowed him to give his daughter things in life that he could’ve only dreamt of.

In this episode, we sit down with Tim Little who sheds light on how he got into his first GP deal and the things you should consider if you are looking to get into your first one as well. Tim had a set plan laid out, but when an opportunity presented itself, he jumped at it and it opened many doors for him since. 

Tim Little is the founder and CEO of ZANA Investments, a real estate syndication firm named after his two daughters, Zara and Lana. He helps busy professionals keep more of their time and get competitive returns by offering them opportunities to passively invest in apartment buildings.

Tim started investing in real estate with a duplex in 2014 and has grown to a portfolio of 195 co-owned units valued at over $24.7 million. Practicing what he preaches, he is also passively invested in another 296 units. 

He has an MBA and an MA in Global Trade with his professional career includes several years as an Army Officer, a Strategic Communications Consultant, and Head of Multifamily Communications for the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 

Outside of real estate, Tim is the Commander of an Army Reserve Public Affairs unit. He enjoys dabbling in cryptocurrency and traveling with his wife and daughters in his free time.

In this episode, Todd Heitner speaks about having an online footprint for you and your business. In today's time, many people will instantly go online to look at a person's social media page, or business website to see how credible they are before giving them any form of business. That is why it is important to have a digital footprint that allows you and your business to be deemed reliable. A digital footprint has now become everyone's first impression.

Todd Heitner has been helping real estate investors tap into the power of the internet for over 18 years.  His focus is on assisting syndicators to boost their credibility and automate their capital-raising process.  His company, Apartment Investor Pro, is the only company we know of in the world that specializes in creating strategic websites for syndicators designed to maximize your positioning so YOU stand out in the most positive way so people are more eager to explore investing with you. This allows you to focus your time on finding deals and investors or on scaling your business.

In this episode, we talk with John Casmon who shares insight on branding which he learned throughout his career as a marketer for top companies such as GM, Nike, and many more. John also shares how Multifamily can truly provide amazing benefits, especially for busy professionals. He even shares how to approach potential partners with opportunities, a system that most tend to overcomplicate.

John Casmon is a real estate entrepreneur, who has partnered with busy professionals to invest over $100 million in apartments. John also consults active multifamily investors to help them start or grow their business. He hosts the Multifamily Insights podcast (formerly Target Market Insights) and is the co-creator of the Midwest Real Estate
Networking Summit. Prior to becoming a full-time investor, John worked in corporate
America, overseeing marketing campaigns for General Motors, Nike, and Coors Light.

In this episode, we speak to serial entrepreneur Maurice Philogene whose mission is to help people learn to live the lifestyle that they design. We dissected topics ranging from being intentional with what you want, wanting something bad enough that you'll do whatever needs to be done to attain it, and how Multifamily Real Estate provides all of these options.

Maurice is a Senior Executive, Real Estate Investor & Entrepreneur, Restaurant Owner, Explorer of 100 Countries, Public Servant (Federal Agent & Police Officer), Philanthropist, and Lifestyle Design/Wealth Coach. He is a Founding Managing Partner of Quattro Capital and his passion is living life leveraging freedom principles - financial freedom, time freedom, geographic freedom, freedom of purpose, and freedom of relationships. He uses real estate and professional careers to generate passive income and build a legacy all while empowering communities and helping others live their best life now through lifestyle design.

Maurice is based in Washington DC and the Mediterranean Region.

In this episode, serial entrepreneur Khalia Luff joins us to share her journey as a wholesaler as well as getting into her very first deal using creative financing and creating money in thin air.  Khalia has had the entrepreneur bug since college, going from selling hair, to making a massive amount of money selling Tee shirts. She eventually jumped into the Real Estate space wholesaling houses while learning the ropes. While amassing a ton of knowledge, and making a ton of valuable connections, she eventually took massive action applying all of her years of knowledge and "House Hacked" her first deal with much more exciting ventures to come.

In this episode, we sit down with the VP of Business Development for Title | Pipe™, Alicia Reinhard who shares with us her journey in the Real Estate space. But more importantly, she shares with our listeners facts that show how many transactions in the Real Estate space aren't as secure as most think, starting from the title process down to closing. Today many transactions occur via email and we have seen how easily emails can be hacked and people easily scammed. Alicia walks us through the benefits of the product she promotes as well as the levels of security provided to make sure EVERY transaction is secure for ALL parties involved.

In this episode, our guest Keishia Kennedy of Kennedy Remedy Investments joins us from Kuwait where she is currently a military consultant while investing in multiple Multifamily opportunities as a capital raiser. Keishia started her journey in the Residential space and pivoted to the Multifamily space, starting out as a Limited Partner and eventually being invited to raise capital for multiple opportunities. With a time zone difference, she has managed to raise millions of dollars for Multifamily opportunities and has no plans of stopping.