Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin interviews real estate and property management expert, Josh Weidman. Josh has been an active real estate investor for over 10 years, and has successfully founded and grew Atlas property management into a multimillion dollar firm with his partners, then later sold it to TCS Property Management. He is now director of turnkey investments at TCS Investments.

Josh shares his background in wholesaling row houses in Philadelphia and how he and his partners developed a business model for large scale property management. He dives into the business plan at TCS and how his team drives big value, receiving mostly a hundred percent rent premium by converting single family family homes into three or four unit apartment buildings. Josh also talks about the cost of these renovations, other challenges and future expansion.

QUOTES:

"I was introduced to this concept called wholesaling, and wholesaled my property, made thirty grand on my first year and I was like 'yeah, I could do this all day.'"

"For me the biggest change in hiring was realizing that you get what your pay for and if you don't know what the role is, you're never going to find the right person."

"We can take that 2,500 square foot family [home], gut the thing and rebuild it as a three-unit building and we can do it at a price point that makes a heck of a lot more sense than buying a triplex, gutting it and rebuilding it."

"We've got some areas in the city where we have two or three houses on the block that are boarded up shells, if we can find a way to capitalize on that block, that is a huge impact on that block, on that neighbors, and on the city as a whole.."

"By converting a lot of these properties to functional spaces, it provides a lot of opportunities for the neighborhood's continued development.."

HIGHLIGHTS:

6:50 Josh's background and how he got into real estate

11:46 Josh talks about hiring partners and organizing his property management business

20:49 Josh expounds on their unique business plan at TCS

26:13 Costs for renovation and adding infrastructure to single family homes for conversion

30:19 Scalability, geographic targets and challenges

Recommended Resources:

• Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
• Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
• Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here
• www.realestatetheeasyway.com

Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and multifamily expert, Jesse Worcester. Jesse is the co-founder of Worcester Investments, a family owned real estate company based in Kansas City, Missouri. He also sits as director of fundraising for capital, building and maintaining investor relationships.

In this podcast, Jesse talks about the market in Kansas and why Worcester Investment decided to move their business from Oregon to the midwest. Jesse describes value investing and the intrinsic value of real estate dependent on things that can be controlled instead of speculation. He explains why he prefers a vertical structure to outsourcing property management and construction. Jesse also offers some perspective on hiring and management, and even recommends books that helped him develop his philosophy on real estate.

QUOTES:

"The most boring average markets often times are where you're going to see your greatest cash flows assuming it's not a dying city."

"In everything I'm doing, I want to be doing it thirty years from now so I don't want to be betting on market timing, there's a lot of risk factors that come into play when you're speculating."

"Most great deals come from two situations: someone making a bad decision or it's just being a situation that's very unique where a great deal is able to be had."

"The driver behind the numbers of the property are the people who are working on the site whether they're corporate officers or physically on the site."

"Culture and for us, how we treat individuals has been the single best determinant."

HIGHLIGHTS:

7:48 Jesse's background and how his company started

14:18 Jesse explains why they choose the midwest

17:35 What exactly is value investing?

24:16 Vertical management structure of Jesse's company

29:25 Jesse talks about deals

37:13 Importance of having good underwriting

40:09 On hiring and keeping talents

48:00 Jesse on simplicity

Recommended Resources:

• Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
• Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
• Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here
• Rich Dad Poor Dad -- Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham
• Good to Great -- Book by James C. Collins
• The Go-Giver -- Bob Burg
• http://www.worcesterinvestments.com/

Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes commercial real estate and finance expert, Ira Zlotowitz. Ira is the founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, one of the largest national real estate firm with over a hundred real estate professionals and they have closed more than $2.5 billion in just the last twelve months. Ira talks about Eastern Union Funding as well as one of his more recent ventures, The Ira Group and shares how he built one of the largest brokerages in the country. He explains how lending can actually help in commercial real estate investment and clarifies the advantages of investing from the debt side of things in lieu of the usual syndicated equity investments. Kevin and Ira also discuss how one can be successful in commercial real estate.

QUOTES:

"Over time we grew into all other deals, but we don't forget our roots and we start this way, we find our niche and we double down on that area."

"As Eastern Union as the broker, we'll typically work through full transactions, some look at $5 million, $3million or $100 million, we'll find a lender for that sorts. Through the Ira group, it's when the lender is looking for participation in loans, primarily bridge loans.."

"I'm gonna bring people that want to participate into loans and bring them to crowdfunding platforms or to individual lenders throughout the country."

"What I also tell people is that the best deal that you should probably start with, if you're about to invest equity in the deal, if you're starting a bit nervous then it might be overpriced, maybe you can sit on that same deal and go to the debt side of that deal."

"You only want to try to do deals that the initial term are officially only twelve months."

HIGHLIGHTS

• 8:02 Ira's background and the Ira group
• 13:10 Ideal investor
• 19:01 Roadblocks in understanding debt in investment
• 24:04 Time span of bridge loans
• 27:26 Ira talks about staying focused, knowing one's strengths and weaknesses

Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here

Recommended Resources:

• Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
• Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
• Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here
• www.easternunion.com

Review and Subscribe

This episode of The Real Estate Investing for CashFlow Podcast is joined by Omar Caraballo, CEO & Co-Founder of Arch Real Estate Holdings. Omar's experience dates back to as far as he can remember. Born and raised in the RE development space, he has a long generational history of family in the business, spanning back to being mentored by his father. With the growing advancement of blockchain technology and dozens of industries ripe for disruption however, Omar struck out on his own. Arch Real Estate Holdings went on to become one of the first RE holding companies with assets digitized and exchanged using blockchain technology; one of the biggest benefits being immediate liquidity for a traditionally non-liquid asset class. Omar goes on to elaborate and clarify what the blockchain is, how it's useful in the RE space, and why it's here to stay.

QUOTES:

"A lot of people associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies or bitcoin. But that's really just a very minor component." "Blockchain is just a technology, like the internet. You can do all kinds of things with the internet, just like you can do all kinds of things with blockchain." "You can now buy and sell private placement securities through blockchain security trading platforms." "Puerto Rico is a hot opportunity zone for investors from all around the world."

HIGHLIGHTS

• 6:28 Omar's Background
• 11:42 What is the difference between blockchain technology and cryptocurrency?
• 14:11 How is blockchain technology integrated into Arch's business model?
• 22:11 What risks are associated with utilizing blockchain technology?
• 28:15 What area of RE does Arch specialize in?

Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here

Recommended Resources:

• Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
• Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
• Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here
• https://archsecurities.com/
• https://openfinance.io/
• https://www.tzero.com/

Review and Subscribe

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin talks to real estate expert Ian Formigle. Ian is the vice president of investments at CrowdStreet, an online commercial real estate platform that helps diversify portfolios with institutional-quality, expertly reviewed, commercial real estate investments. He is also the author of the book "A Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing".

In this podcast, Ian shares how he got into the business as a multi family home investor. He talks about the 2008 financial crisis and gives some insights into what could have been done better. Ian explains what they do at CrowdStreet and breaks down the process of how they connect and work with sponsors and investors. He also differentiates between three ways investors can invest through CrowdStreet.

QUOTES:

"Just because something is going better than you think it could go, well maybe you should ask yourself what's going on there because probably it's unsustainable."

"For every one hundred potential deals that show up on our doorstep, five of them actually make it onto the market place."

"If we're going to be in a deal, there has to be a relevancy there, nobody's doing this for fun, we're doing it because there is a product market fit between sponsor and investor at the end of the day."

"So what we do is we give investors good tools to analyze and track their portfolio in their own dashboard and so that's what the investors look in for, and so we are the communication infrastructure…"

"These days, we're finding that the typical sponsor on the market place has started on average to over two billion dollar worth of deals, has been in multiple markets and has ten plus years of operating experience in the entity level."

HIGHLIGHTS

• 6:46 Ian's background
• 13:09 Ian explains how CrowdStreet operates
• 25:49 Long term projections and sensitivity controls
• 34:21 What the future looks like with crowdfunding
• 38:26 Three ways to invest via CrowdStreet
  
  

Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here

Recommended Resources:

• Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
• Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
• Grab a free copy of our book "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them click here
• https://www.crowdstreet.com/
• The Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing by Ian Formigle (book)

Review and Subscribe