Episode 9: Discussing Current Strategies for Investing in Commercial Real Estate with Paul Moore

After graduating with an engineering degree and then an MBA Paul Moore decided to enter the business world working at Ford Motor Company. After a few years, he departed to start working with a partner who was interested in real estate investing just as he himself was. Three successful developments, including assisting with the development of a Hyatt hotel and a very successful multifamily project, led him into the commercial multifamily arena. 

On this episode of Multifamily Real Estate Investments with Don and Eden, Paul shares his strategies behind the steps he took to develop and successfully execute his real estate projects, and his reasoning for what lead him to move into the self-storage development area after being in multi-family units. 

Highlights: 

Paul’s Beginnings in Real Estate 

Past Deals with Multi-Family and Commercial Real Estate 

Why Paul invests in Self-Storage and Mobile Home Parks 

Benefits of Self-Storage and Mobile Home Park Investing 

Current Projects

Connect with Paul

https://www.wellingscapital.com

Bigger Pockets- Paul Moore

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Hey, guys, this is Don your host and today my guest is Paul Moore. Paul is one of the people that influenced me the most as I heard him talk over a different podcast a few years back and that was when I decided to actually make the move from residential investing to commercial real estate and what I like about Paul is that it feels like he's always one step ahead of everybody else. And after finishing the interview with him I decided to record this intro a little differently because I was really blown away from the more practical things we've talked about towards the last third of this episode. So I don't want anybody to miss out on that. We're going to talk about amazing value eight strategies in different asset classes so stay tuned and I hope you guys are excited. Let's get started. 

Welcome to the real estate investing podcast with Don and Eden where we cover all aspects of real estate investing with special attention to multi-family apartment buildings and off-market strategies. 

Hey Paul, welcome to the show. Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks, Don. 

Ok, so I got to say personally that you're one of the guests that I am excited to have the most on my show. And that's because listening to you on a podcast I can't remember which one exactly because it was a long time ago was what actually made me decide to do the transition from residential real estate to commercial real estate. And the reason for that is because I heard you talk about commercial real estate and you were so passionate about it. Well yeah. You were so excited about it that I was like wow well this man talks about this as if this is the best thing ever so I got to check it out. And so I hope you know this makes you feel good that you have an impact on people. 

Absolutely I am really honored to hear you say that Don. Thank you so much. 

Of course, of course, well you deserve any kind word. And what I'm so excited about is that really when I heard you talk then I could hear that you're an expert. You're really somebody that knows what you're talking about. So how about you tell our audience a little bit about who you are, what you do and what's your what is your main focus right now. 

Okay great. Well I got an engineering degree which was a big mistake because I didn't know who I was, what I wanted to do and I went out and got an MBA back in the mid 80s and went to Ford Motor Company for five years and then I just really loved Ford- still do, but just had an entrepreneurial bug and so I quit Ford, my buddy, and I started our own company and we just hit the timing just perfect. You know Bill Gates said, “the problem with early success is it makes people feel like that they're smarter than they are.” And I think that