Before starting Inman Equities 3 years ago, Ben was Head of Acquisitions for Grant Cardone's eponymous multifamily platform. Since going off on his own, Ben, alongside his partners and investors, has amassed a multifamily portfolio of over 2,500 units at a valuation exceeding $200,000,000. Learn how Ben got his start as a landscape architect learning the business literally "from the ground up", and his takeaways from one of the most prolific (and outspoken) multifamily investors today.

Books:

Emerging Real Estate Markets by Dave Lindahl

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00174GMZ0&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_ZCDKFb29KKCRS

Jorge Abreu started his real estate investing business in 2005 during the peak of the market that would come crashing down a few years later. He flipped single family houses for 10+ years and realized that he wasn't completely satisfied doing what he was doing. He wanted to scale his business and started investing in larger multifamily apartment buildings in Texas and Oklahoma. Hear how Jorge amassed a portfolio of 3,100 apartment units in both an active as well as a passive capacity, and leveraged his  construction business to win more deals and attract more passive investor capital.

Book recommendations:

"Traction" by Gino Wickman

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936661845/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_lx.vFbR2C1D9C

Drew Whitson started amassing a single family real estate portfolio during the Great Recession of 2008-2009. He quickly realized that in order to scale his investing business, he would have to move on to larger multifamily assets. Drew sold off his single family and smaller multifamily holdings to focus on acquiring larger apartment buildings through joint ventures and other strategic partnerships. Today, he and his strategic partners control approximately 2,200 units around the country. Hear how he did it on today's episode.

Book:

"Progress" by Johan Norberg

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1786070650/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_yf.vFbSFAXKWQ

Dan Schoenbaechler is a residential real estate agent in Keller Williams northern New Jersey office. Dan is also the founder of Schoen Capital, a Ridgewood-based multifamily real estate investment firm.

Dan talks about how the residential market in his covered areas of NJ have experienced tremendous growth since the onslaught of former NYC residents looking to escape for greener pastures. We also dive into how Dan leveraged his time as a caddy at the local country club into now having those folks on his investor roster on his various multifamily projects.

"Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004H4XL7E/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_92euFbTPEWT2G

"Flip the Switch" by Oren Klaff

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MPTXZ59/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_X5euFbSWY8BCR

Todd Robinson is the founding principal of The Robinson Law Firm, an Atlanta, GA-based law firm that serves clients in the financial services, real estate, investment and technology industries. Todd and his team offer his clients a one-stop shop for all things legal including transactional services, securities law, and capital-raising documents.

This week we sit down with Terry Judge, Founder and CEO of Detroit, MI-based Core Solutions. Core is a tax and engineering advisory firm specializing in commercial real estate cost reduction, more specifically in performing cost segregation studies to mitigate tax liability when purchasing income producing commercial real estate.

Books:

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (https://www.amazon.com/dp/193787950X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_sVYhFbCRPT5DR)

Charity Work:

Transportation Equals Transformation (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transportation-transformation-tickets-111075728494)

Born and raised in the Boston suburbs, Chris Nebenzahl moved west to attend the Unversity of Denver and never looked back. Still residing in Denver, Chris is a Director with Yardi Matrix, a commercial real estate data analytics platform that provides accurate, timely data to operators, investors and debt and equity sources in the multifamily, office, industrial and self-storage asset classes.

We sit down with commercial insurance broker and Texas Tech Red Raider alum JT Lynch to discuss the importance of finding the right insurance broker to not only find you the cheapest coverage, but the best coverage that's tailored to your needs. He also explains the importance of being part of the acquisitions team as a company is underwriting specific deals.

Books: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01COR1GM2/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_zxa7EbAFNX0AK)

Event: https://bradsumrok.com/about-brad/