Nitzan Mosery is a serial entrepreneur, coach, investor, and host of the Traveling Investor radio show. With decades of experience across diverse industries—including renovation, hospitality, and jewelry—Nitzan eventually found his calling in multifamily real estate. Through firsthand trial and error, he built a powerful investing career focused on passive income, team scalability, and creative financing strategies. Nitzan is the founder of Multifamily Empire and teaches others how to build long-term wealth through value-add multifamily assets in emerging U.S. markets.

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Key Takeaways

• Always verify tenant quality, market conditions, and neighborhood dynamics before acquisition

• Don't fall in love with the property, fall in love with the numbers

• Build systems and hire around your own zone of genius to scale effectively

• Trust is built by consistent visibility, social proof, and delivering real hands-on performance

• Capital raising only works if you've invested time building authentic investor relationships

Topics

From Restoration to Rentals

• How Nitzan transitioned from flipping houses and restoration to multifamily rentals

• The cash limitation problem that pushed him toward syndication and scaling

Hard-Earned Lessons from Early Deals

• His early duplex in Chicago and fourplex in West Palm, and what went wrong

• Why failing to verify tenants, management, and neighborhoods cost him

What Passive Investors Really Care About

• How he used mistakes to refine screening, team-building, and due diligence

• The red flags with PMs who own local units, and how to ask smarter vetting questions

Demographics, Market Research, and Value-Add That Actually Works

• Why Nitzan relies on a dedicated demographer to track population flows

• How his team validates value-add returns by examining proven rent comps

Raising Capital with Intent

• Why "money will come if the deal is good" is only half true

• Why educating and nurturing your network before a deal is critical to raising capital

Positioning Yourself for Institutional or Family Office Capital

• The exact conversation that unlocked a relationship with a family office

• Why showing up consistently (online and in-person) builds trust over time

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Round of Insights

Failure that set Nitzan up for success: The duplex and fourplex deals early in his career. He broke even but learned key lessons on market due diligence, tenant screening, and vetting teams.

Digital or mobile resource recommended: Opus Clip (for content creation), ChatGPT (for caption writing), GoHighLevel (for automation), and Audible (to read and listen simultaneously).

Book recommended most in the last year: Flip the Script and Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff.

Daily habit that keeps him focused: Nightly task review and scheduling. In the morning, he practices silent breathing meditation and begins his day with intention.

#1 insight for scaling a multifamily portfolio: Use other people's money, time, skill sets, and track records. Build your team around complementary zones of genius, success is a team sport.

Favorite restaurant in Florida: Boca Grill.

Next Steps

• Follow Nitzan at MultifamilyEmpire.com

• Try his 55-question "Multifamily Money Maker Role" assessment

• Join his free Skool community: Multifamily Moneymakers

• Download our 35 Hacks to Find the Best Submarkets guide

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