MapableUSA.com: Real Estate is an art – technology is a science, and until now, they were never really properly married. The JOBS Act has changed the crowdfunding landscape on how investment deals can be marketed and also opened the floodgates of opportunity within the real estate syndication model. In this podcast, CEO Daniel Summers from eVest Technologies explains how he has used his over 35 years of strong commercial real estate experience to create an effective online real estate platform that will digitize a PPM, save marketing costs, and do it all in a timely fashion that’s turning heads in the marketplace.

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MapableUSA.com: Some say about $6.2 trillion dollars in capital gains may be eligible for investment into Opportunity Zone funds. So for many, it makes sense to self-certify and create their own OZ Fund for themselves, right? Not so fast! How you structure your fund is of utmost importance and expert guidance is required to ensure you follow the appropriate criteria and obligations to legally reap the tax benefits. Listen to this Mapable USA podcast where David Sillaman, President at Eazy Do It Opportunity Funds, explains how you can create credibility with your project when you don’t have a track record of performance and how you get an investor to say “yes” to your deal!

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MapableUSA.com: Despite the growing popularity with Opportunity Zone investing, the potential for investor irrational exuberance exists. The truth is Opportunity Zone projects vary a great deal in quality, mainly because most Opportunity Zones simply do not have the income, population or jobs to support new construction projects. In this podcast, Neal Bawa from Grocapitus Investments and MultifamilyU explains how his company is using demographics and data-driven analysis to determine where the best Opportunity Zone investments are located, as well as some of the many myths and misconceptions about Opportunity Zones investing that most of the industry “experts” aren’t talking about.

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MapableUSA.com: Investors in a Qualified Opportunity Fund can defer, reduce and even pay as little as zero taxes on potential profits if their investment is held for 10 years. In this podcast, we spoke with Brett Messing, the Partner, President, and Chief Operating Officer of the Skybridge Opportunity Zone Fund, who have developed a differentiated, “research driven approach” to screen the various Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ) that make for interesting projects for those QOZ investors who like the REIT structure to invest in deals. Why a REIT? This podcast explains it all!

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MapableUSA.com: When an award winning brewery decides to turn to equity crowdfunding, craft beer lovers should all take notice. Because great craft breweries have such a loyal following, they make excellent candidates for crowdfunding deals, and in this podcast, Three Monkeys Brewing Co-Founders Michael Tate and Craig Meacham talk about how they are parlaying all their current success into some amazing plans in the future, including their own Opportunity Zone Fund. Beer drinker or not, the information you’ll get from this podcast is intoxicating!

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MapableUSA.com: When you’re ready to make an important investing decision, trusting your gut is important. But what if you had access to data that can help you make that decision more confidently? With all the Opportunity Zone projects and funds popping up each day, how do investors know where to put their deferred capital gains tax money? Listen to this podcast episode where Stefan Schimenes, the CEO at InvestReal, explains how his company is using data-driven technology to match investors with solid opportunity zone projects nationwide.

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MapableUSA.com: Gentrification is a serious topic that many community organizers always bring up with respect to Opportunity Zones. How do you redevelop and revitalize a distressed area when those very changes may be the cause of displacing current residents, many of whom are already skeptical of redevelopment efforts in the first place? Listen to this podcast as Sasha Favelukis discusses how his company – CoPlace – is addressing this issue with a “Social Impact” approach to stimulate investment, creativity, culture, and community... or as he puts it, “gentrification without displacement”

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MapableUSA.com: We’re seeing momentum gaining in the Opportunity Zones Marketplace as deal activity is on the rise. And now that the second set of revised guidelines has been issued by the Treasury, we’re going to see even more movement within the industry, especially on the actual business development front. In this podcast, we spoke with Attorney Paul Wassgren, a Partner with DLA Piper, to get his feel on what we can expect in the industry moving forward and how his clients are using “Blind Pool Funds” as an Opportunity Zone strategy for both real estate projects and for the creation of functioning businesses within Opportunity Zones

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MapableUSA.com: Taxes. Everyone hates paying them, yet taxes – capital gains taxes in particular - are the key ingredient that makes Opportunity Zones so attractive to everyone involved in the industry. But while everyone is talking about the great incentives Opportunity Zones investing provides to those investors seeking to defer their tax exposure, no one is talking about the consequences of non-compliance with the rules that investors and fund managers may not even be aware of! That’s why we brought on CPA Christain Blake from Holthouse Carlin Van Trigt, LLP in Park City, Utah to talk about what tax implications mean to everyone in the Opportunity Zones Marketplace – and why he calls Opportunity Zones “the most well designed, powerful tax provision” that he’s seen over his entire career as a CPA.

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MapableUSA.com: Everyone talks about crowdfunding like it’s easy, but the truth of the matter is if it were, more companies would be successful in their crowdfunding efforts. Then consider real estate crowdfunding which again sounds simple, but in reality it’s also very hard for developers to fund their projects. Now enter Opportunity Zones investing and you have an industry that’s begging for clarification and information. In this podcast, listen to Chris Fusco, the Brand Manager and Head of Business Development for the Opportunity Zone Expo, as he talks about where the industry is going and why education is so important to the success of Opportunity Zones and what he is doing to set up expos and conferences to educate people of all facets of the industry.

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