There’s a lot you can accomplish when you invest your time, education, and resources in the right place.  It requires discipline.  It requires focus. It requires making the right relationships. All of this takes time. 

Ahmed Seirafi is a Commercial Real Estate Developer and founder of Ahmed Builds Better helping bring passive and active real estate dreams to life for many investors and shareholders.

Today, Patrick and Ahmed jump in and start lining out the game with industrial construction, from sourcing locations to securing financing.  Ahmed shares how he approaches each opportunity without putting his family and investors in jeopardy when sourcing properties.  Ahmed is very candid about his mentality as it pertains to growing a team, overleveraging, and the best way to scale aggressively, and carefully. He shares how he started his CRE investment firm out of college with his father diving headfirst into building offices, warehouse buildings for clients, high schools, colleges, universities, and theaters.  Ahmed shares the smart way to create opportunities through investing in Real Estate actively and passively. He shares how he’s teaching others how to develop commercial properties. Bring your notepads. You’re in for a great education today. 

 

What You’ll Learn:

• How Kent Clothier helped Ahmed change the game in his business
• Why Ahmed doesn’t want to build a team after 20+ years in business 
• The easiest part of sourcing opportunities and landing contracts 
• Why it’s important to scale smartly and with intention 
• Patrick taps into Ahmed’s expertise and shares how much land you need to have in an industrial zone to efficiently build a 100,000 square foot building 
• The cost per square foot of building a 100,000 sq foot building 
• The variables you can expect as it pertains to financing 
• How to obtain 90% of the financing 
• The amount you have to come up with out of pocket to build 
• Why getting with an architect is crucial to building from the ground up
• Why we need 1 million housing units per year  
• How many housing units we’re behind right now in the United States and how it’s impacting the Real Estate Industry 
• The many factors you have to consider before you purchase a commercial property
• How to buy right, design, entitlements, budgeting, and taking it through completion 

• And much more! 

  

Favorite Quote:

 “If everything goes to robots and computers in the next 20 years, people will always need a place to live. They will downsize from homes to apartments. They’ll go from going to the grocery stores, to ordering from home from a warehouse.”

-Ahmed Seirafi

 

Connect With Ahmed: 

Ahmed Builds Better

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries. 

After college, Patrick’s career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you’re selling and why it’s important to believe in it. 

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group.  With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life. 

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what’s now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You’re in for a real-life education. 

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