The Fort

#278 - Moses Kagan & Rhett Bennett - Co-Founders of ReSeed Partners - Building the Y-Combinator for Real Estate Operators


Listen Later

 We'd appreciate you filling out our audience survey, so we can continuously work on providing relevant content to our listeners. 


https://www.thefortpod.com/survey



Moses Kagan is co-founder and partner at Adaptive Realty, a Los Angeles-based real estate development and property management company with $200MM in AUM and more than 1,000 apartments under management. He is also a co-founder of Re-convene, a real estate private equity un-conference, and ReSeed, which provides mentorship and capital to early-career operators.

Rhett leads ReSeed's strategic direction and daily operations. He most recently served as Co-Managing Partner at Minot Capital, LP, where he led real estate investing. Previously, Rhett was President and Director of Research at Stillwater, a long-short hedge fund, and Chief Investment Officer at Arlington Family Offices. Rhett received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University with a double major in Business Economics and History.


On this episode, Chris, Moses and Rhett discuss:

➡️ How ReSeed works

➡️ What ReSeed is looking for in Partners

➡️ How ReSeed empowers Operators to build their own companies

➡️ What success looks like for Operators working with ReSeed

➡️ Thoughts on the state of the Real Estate Market


Chapters

(00:03:31) - Rhett’s career

(00:04:26) - Moses’ evolution in thinking over the past 5 year

(00:06:40) - Launching ReSeed Partners

(00:19:05) - Defining Subinstitutional

(00:20:58) - Cohort #1

(00:34:18) - The ReSeed Partner Track

(00:39:35) - Is this a renovation strategy or is there any ground-up involved?

(00:40:22) - What does a partnership with y’all look like in the first year?

(00:43:58) - What markets are you open to?

(0048:28) - How would you determine a successful year for an operator?

(00:53:44) - How does the partnership work? What does someone get from y’all and what do they give up?

(01:00:20) - Do partners have the opportunity to exit?

(01:01:45) - Holding assets for the long term

(01:04:40) - Autonomy for the operator

(01:07:18) - Is there anything that is off-limits?

(01:08:41) - Moses’ playbook

(01:11:16) - How are you capitalizing this?

(01:17:15) - How many people can be in one market before it's saturated?

(01:17:57) - Other members of ReSeed

(01:19:04) - Guaranteeing loans

(01:22:11) - What are the couple of things people spend the majority of their time on?

(01:25:39) - Is there a minimum size deal?

(01:27:06) - What can this business look like 10 years from now?

(01:29:06) - Thoughts on the current market


Additional Resources

👉 ReSeed Partners

👉 Moses on Twitter

👉 Rhett on LinkedIn


➡️ Learn more about BetterPitch

➡️ Fort Capital: www.FortCapitalLP.com

➡️ Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/

➡️ Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/FortWorthChris

➡️ Follow Chris on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/

➡️ Sign Up for our Newsletter: https://newsletter.thefortpod.com/

➡️ Subscribe to The FORT on YouTube

--

The FORT Podcast with Chris Powers is a place where you can find meaningful conversations about entrepreneurship, real estate, investing, and more.


Be sure to follow the podcast, so you never miss an episode!


The FORT is produced by Johnny Podcasts

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The FortBy Chris Powers

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

470 ratings


More shows like The Fort

View all
America‘s Commercial Real Estate Show by Bull Realty

America‘s Commercial Real Estate Show

138 Listeners

The Best Ever CRE Show by Joe Fairless

The Best Ever CRE Show

988 Listeners

Founders by David Senra

Founders

1,775 Listeners

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry by Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

815 Listeners

My First Million by Hubspot Media

My First Million

2,600 Listeners

The Weekly Take from CBRE by CBRE

The Weekly Take from CBRE

154 Listeners

The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show by The TreppWire Podcast, A CRE Show

The TreppWire Podcast: A Commercial Real Estate Show

214 Listeners

The Memo by Howard Marks by Oaktree Capital Management

The Memo by Howard Marks

411 Listeners

Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating by Bill D'Alessandro, Mills Snell, Heather Endresen, and Michael Girdley

Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating

243 Listeners

The Walker Webcast by Willy Walker

The Walker Webcast

149 Listeners

The Business Brew by Bill Brewster

The Business Brew

243 Listeners

Business Breakdowns by Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts

Business Breakdowns

339 Listeners

Acquiring Minds by Will Smith

Acquiring Minds

237 Listeners

Moneywise by Hampton

Moneywise

636 Listeners

The Rent Roll with Jay Parsons by Jay Parsons

The Rent Roll with Jay Parsons

37 Listeners