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Kathy Fettke helps people build and secure wealth through cash flowing real estate. She is a real estate developer, fund manager, and educator. She is a regular guest expert on FOX News, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, CBS MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal, and was named among the “Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs two years in a row. Kathy and her husband Rich are active real estate investors in single family homes, apartments, commercial property, land development and homebuilding.

- Getting into real estate
- Outlook on the current economy and its impact on multifamily space
-  Top 3 trends in the multifamily space
- Demand for rentals in the coming months
- Best and worst investing experience

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Website: https://realwealth.com/

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Principals Rob Beardsley co-founded Lone Star Capital, the New York City based firm in 2018 to focus exclusively on B and C class multifamily in Texas with an investment philosophy to create returns by creating value.  Rob oversees acquisitions and capital markets for the firm and has acquired over $300M of multifamily real estate. He has evaluated thousands of opportunities using proprietary underwriting models and published the number one book on multifamily underwriting, The Definitive Guide to Underwriting Multifamily Acquisitions. He has written over 50 articles about underwriting, deal structures, and capital markets and hosts the Capital Spotlight podcast, which is focused on interviewing institutional investors. 

Key Highlights
- 3 takeaways underwriting 1000+ deals for better acquisitions
- Deciding whether to choose a direct lender or a broker
- Best practices on approaching a direct lender
- Downside with 3rd party management 
- Challenges operating a vertically integrated business model

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-beardsley/
Get his book: https://www.structuringandraising.com/salespage
Website: https://lscre.com/

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Stefan Tsvetkov, Founder, RealtyQuant is on a mission to bring data-driven and quantitative techniques to the real estate industry. Financial engineer turned multifamily investor, analytics speaker, and live webinar host, Stefan holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, and during his finance career managed ~ $90 billion derivatives portfolio jointly with colleagues.

Key Highlights
- Finding good undervalued deals
- Recovering of the fundamentals after the financial recession
- How often should you analyze markets

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Jennings Smith from  My First Million In Multifamily,  realized the power of cash flowing real estate early on, and decided to educate himself on how to grow that business, not with single family homes, but by going after multifamily properties. He studied for years to learn the industry, taking multiple courses online.

 He landed his first apartment deal in 2019 with a JV partnership. From there it grew until he has a portfolio of 500+ units so far. His passion is creating time freedom in his life so that he can focus on leaving a legacy for future generations. 

Key Highlights
- Power of scale
- My first million in multifamily FB group
- Deriving a budget for renovation projects
- Don't sit on the sidelines waiting for the bloodbath
- Seeing people close deals

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 Yosef is a successful litigation attorney and an avid real estate investor. Yosef specializes in multifamily assets and manages overall process of multifamily investments from sourcing competitive deals, underwriting, due diligence, financing, and structuring partnerships. While working as a busy litigation attorney, Yosef successfully acquired more than 560+ units across 7 multifamily assets as a syndicator/general partner, and he is actively involved in asset management.    Yosef is licensed to practice law in the State of New York, New Jersey, and Florida, and a licensed real estate broker in the State of New York. 

Key Highlights
- Freedom of TPO
- Challenges closing a deal during the beginning
- Reviewing documents and contracts with seller and 3rd party vendors
- Right now it is tough for buyers to find deals 
- Choosing a right partner for your deals

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Kavitha Baratakke, Founder of Cherry Street Investments is an Austin-based Real Estate Investor with over 12 years of real estate investing experience. Prior to real estate, she spent almost 20 years as a Technology Professional working for IBM and Atlassian in various roles across Software Development, Customer Services, Partner Relations and Technical Account Management. Kavitha brings strong project management, problem-solving and presentation skills from her Technology background to Real Estate. 
As an investor, Kavitha has successfully acquired, rehabbed, managed, owned and operated several single-family and multi-family investment properties in the Central Texas area. She sponsors real estate syndications in Multifamily, Build-to-Rent, Townhome Communities, Senior Living and Land Banking investments. She prefers strong growth markets like Austin, DFW, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Atlanta.

Key highlights
- Know your sponsorer & location before investing in syndication
- Investing in assets with bigger profit margins
- Educate yourself before you invest
- Positioning yourself to attract capital
- Common mistakes while raising capital

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Stephanie Walter is a Capital Raiser, Syndicator, and the CEO of Erbe Wealth.She recently retired and sold her insurance agency of 16 years by following the key principles she teaches professionals-- to “unlearn” what most of us have been wired to think about money and re-educating people to learn the secrets of the wealthy investor that can be life-transforming. She has authored the e-book "The Business Professional’s Guide to Real Passive Income" which outlines five steps any busy professional can take to reach financial freedom through passive investing. 

Key Highlights
- What do the wealthy do differently in regard to money and their investment
- Advantage of using 1031 exchange
- Important factors to consider when raising capital for investments
- Positioning yourself to attract investors
- Common mistakes when raising capital
- Best and challenging investing experience

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Website: https://erbewealth.com/

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Bob Lachance is the founder and CEO of premiere Virtual Assistant staffing company REVA Global. He specializes in helping customers automate their business through the use of trained Real Estate Virtual Assistants. Before founding REVA Global, Bob played professional hockey for 8 years, 4 years in the United States and 4 years in Europe, before diving into real estate in 2004. Bob acquired his first flip shortly after and has since completed over 800 real estate transactions. His entrepreneurial drive has led him to start two successful real estate coaching programs, two technology companies, and various real estate products. Bob is also a co-host on the Friday Coffee Break Unfiltered Podcast that is dedicated to real estate professionals and entrepreneurs and puts an unfiltered spin on your typical podcast.

Key Highlights
- How playing professional sports relates to a business
- Success formula in business and sports
- Building a team of VAs 
- Communicating with VAs to maintain alignment

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblachance/
Website: https://revaglobal.com/
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Today's guest is Mark Willis, CFP® is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy, and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his financial objectives and those of his clients. 

Key Highlights
- Using the concept of collateralization to grow wealth
- Different ways to use an insurance policy  and leverage wealth
-Utilizing a life insurance policy to syndicate apartments
- Finding a good bank on yourself financial planner

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kickstartwithmark.com

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Daniel Felt is the Founder & CEO of Kura Home. He is growing a team to surpass the workmanship and industry standards while caring for his clients' homes.

Key Highlights
- Scaling through systems and processes
- Benefits of routine home maintenance
- Challenges hiring qualified trained employees
- Best and most challenging experiences running a routine maintenance business
- Process to bring on board the best talent
- How inflation is impacting the industry and services offered at Kura Home

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Website: https://kurahome.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-felt-43272947/

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