The Real Estate Life Podcast

Welcome to The Real Estate Life Podcast, where we create a life of passive income through real estate and doing what we love. In this episode we have Robert Preston, Co-founder of Climb Capital. Robert specializes in buying and selling RV Parks. He searches for and acquires value-add properties that produce a durable yield through the life of the investment.

While Robert got his start by flipping single family homes, this quickly escalated to

recruiting investors and purchasing multifamily housing and then eventually Mobile

Home Parks. In this episode, Robert will share the significant upsides that owning and operating RV Parks bring. We will also discuss how you can invest into an RV park yourself, actively or passively. All this and much more, up next.

(00:03) Introducing Robert Preston

(00:43) Robert’s background

(02:37) Getting into commercial real estate

(03:00) Focusing on RV parks

(05:57) The different types of RV parks

(08:24) The difficulties of building a new RV park

(09:50) Adding new sites

(11:50) How do you expect your assets to perform during a recession?

(15:50) What are you looking for location-wise?

(18:24) The best amenities

(20:37) Financing an RV park

(22:35) Investing actively into RV parks

(25:10) Investing passively with Climb Capital

(28:01) Where to find out more

Hello everyone!

Recently I had the chance to meet the founders of Estating, a new and very innovative way to invest in real estate. They define themselves as a global digital marketplace providing direct access to real estate.

We had a long conversation with Martin Halblaub, co-founder, CEO, and Chairman; Kristina Jahn, Chief real estate officer; and Daniel Vegue Dominguez, COO, and co-founder, where they explain their business model make real estate acquisitions all over the world.

You can listen to this new episode of The Real Estate Life podcast by clicking on the link below!

One of the most pressing questions for multifamily investors is how long should they keep their assets. Should you keep them for 3, 5,10 years? Should you sell quickly? Should you sell at all, or keep them as part of a growing portfolio? These answers depend on many factors, from your future investment plans to your acquisition strategy, your taxes strategy, and more, and every case is different.

In the latest episode of The Real Estate Life podcast I welcome seasoned multifamily investor Tom Dunkel. He’s Co-Founder and Managing director of Belrose Asset Management, a firm specialized in real estate investment with a focus on multifamily and self-storage.

In this opportunity, we focus the conversation on the self-storage asset type, since it’s becoming so popular in recent times, and investors see it as a possibility for generating extra income on their properties.

Tom also discusses his process to identify cities or locations to invest, all the hard data behind his decisions, and how new technology has become his ally in real estate investing.

(He actually describes a very clever hack to determine geographical need for storage, you need to check it out!)

Welcome to The Real Estate Life Podcast, where we create a life of passive income through real estate and doing what we love. In this episode we have Jeremy Gomez. Since 2006, Jeremy has been catering to local and international real estate clients. He currently is the Principal Broker and the cofounder of G World Properties, a real estate firm based in Central Florida.

Today Jeremy will share his view on the different sides of the business and how to have a great relationship with clients. We will also discuss the importance of leveraging your network and why being on social media is crucial to your business. Lastly, Jeremy will talk about the 200% philosophy and how to think outside the box. All this and much more, up next.

Hello everyone!

As many of you know may remember, a few weeks back SAR Apartment Capital was mentioned in the local news in Augusta, Georgia, right after we announced the acquisition of 95 units in three completely vacant buildings in that city. The report mentioned how housing shortages and new investors coming from out-of-state were creating a gentrification trend in the area.

For this week’s blog, I decided to explain briefly how these communities actually benefit when investors rebuild and rehabilitate abandoned or empty buildings, using the example of the Augusta acquisition.

Up next.

Hello everyone!

For this week’s podcast, I’m describing briefly the logic behind one of our recent transactions, which raised some eyebrows when made public a few weeks ago.

I decided to partner with multifamily investor Rene Sanchez to acquire a 10.6-acre piece of land in Covington, GA, for US$ 1,800,000.00.

The land, located in Newton County, GA has an approved zoning permit for residential development and a proposed multifamily property plan for 176 units and is surrounded primarily by commercial and residential land use areas.

This was a very special and rather unexpected acquisition because we hadn’t bought land before, so it was kind of a surprise to a lot of people.

Please check out this short episode to get an idea of our reasons for this transaction.

Hello guys!

After some long weeks of extensive work, I finally have some time to get back to creating more blogs and podcast. Today I’d like to share some insights on a recent transaction we did in Gainesville, Florida, where we had to execute a very challenging 1031 exchange.

This was a very particular acquisition, because it wasn’t just one single property under one owner, but several different properties with several owners. We also had to execute a 1031 exchange, which due to time constraints, proved to be extremely challenging.

In this episode I describe these challenges and more important, how we finally pulled it off!

Hello everyone!

In this week’s episode, I am giving you the lowdown on a very particular transaction we finalized recently. We purchased 110 houses in a Class B community in Tennessee that we are stabilizing to reach the local market’s rent levels.

While we have mostly focused on apartment buildings, this complex of houses offered a unique set of opportunities, even while having HUD restrictions. The nature of the property allows us many different options for capitalizing in the near future.

All the details, up next

“I KNOW I’M RIGHT… right? Well, that has cost me a lot of headaches, and a lot of money in my life, when being the only decision-maker or just being stubborn about something and saying “I know I’m right”...”

Hello everyone!

In this week’s blog, I’d like to talk about one of the most common and costly mistakes you can make when conducting any type of business, especially when investing in multifamily real estate.

That is the notion of falsely knowing all you require to know to make a sound decision. I have said it myself, and I have heard many others saying it: I KNOW I’M RIGHT! And I was wrong.