The Signet Podcast

Today, Mark Crawford, CEO of Land Income, and I sit down to discuss farmland real estate as an investment. Not being familiar with this asset class in real estate I was blown away with the returns, rationality, and risk profile. We spoke about water shortage, population growth, supply chain effects on farmland, and many other interesting topic. Please see below for more information:Mark helps investors of all sizes - from individuals, to institutions and trust funds - revamp vanilla port...

Lorna Auerbach oversees the asset management functions of her family’s multi-state commercial investment portfolio as President and CEO of Auerbach Realty Holdings, LLC. In Part 1 of our interview, we discuss the benefits of viewing core company values, employees, and entrepreneurship through a long-term lens, and what matters most in mentorship and family business. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Lorna is a fitting example of the kind of impacts generational success can...

Today, on the Signet Podcast, I interview Keith Wasserman, Principal of Gelt, Inc. Besides being incredibly intelligent and extremely entrepreneurial, Keith tactics and minset have a lot to learn from. Keith is one of the most inspiring people I've interviewed. He's also one of the youngest. He started out during the great recession buying a small property in Bakersfield with $5,000 down (on a credit card), but has been able to consistently accelerate his investment holdings using solid ...

This episode I have a great conversation with my friend Brian Shirken, who is the founder of Mountain Pacific Opportunity Partners, and the founder of it's precursor, Mountain Capital Partners, as well as Columbus Pacific. Brian has broad experience across various asset classes and is one of the reasons he is so interesting. His Real Estate investments include retail, student housing, multi-family, hotels, affordable housing, and senior house. Through his activities, Brian has provided mezzan...

Today I am talking to my long time friend- Jeff Hudson. He specialty lies in Commercial Real Estate Debt and Financing at Walker Dunlop. Jeff has helped to finance more that 10 billion in loans across many property types including office, industrial, retail, apartment, hotel, mobile home park, and mini-warehouse. Today he structures loans throughout the country that ranged from $1 million to over $500 million dollars in size.Part of Jeff story is buying out George Elkins Mortgage Bankin...

In todays episode, I have an exciting and informative conversation with someone very close to me. Besides being my father, his real estate investment strategies and business savviness provide a lot to learn from. Jose Sigal is the founder and owner of J S Signet, a boutique real estate investment company. He has been investing in real estate since the 80’s when he immigrated from Mexico with very limited resources. It was with those resources and the right strategies where, he created a...

Luis Maizel is the founder LLJ Ventures (Private Equity with a Real Estate Focus), LM Capital (institutional fixed income), and LM Advisors (Money Management for high net worth families). Luis has raised in the hundred of millions of dollars for real estate projects just in the last few years and manages well into the billions of dollars in fixed income assets and equities for various public and private clients. He has done this since 1984. Luis has been on MSNBC, Bloomberg and other sho...

Welcome to The Signet Podcast. This show is all about helping you make better decisions through hearing from the experiences of highly experienced investment professionals. Listen to this introduction to hear more about the show.