Elliot Horowitz's firm H Equities is a private bridge lender to borrowers of multifamily, mixed use and retail properties in NYC and other select markets on the east coast. Find out how his underwriting has changed since Coronavirus and his overall outlook on the market in the mid-long term.

I sit down with Erika Benson who went to the University of Southern California to study architecture. She then earned her masters degree in Urban Policy and Management from Columbia University. She is a former Director of Affordable Housing for the City of New York and founded Gokce Capital which invests in raw land around the United States.

This week's episode is a first for us, as I sit down with two guests, Jeanine Blake and Edmon Rakipi, Co-Principals of Clearwater, FL-based Opp Zone Capital. We talk about how their diverse backgrounds in the restaurant/hospitality, medical transportation, self storage and financial services industries have given them the broad set of skills to start an Opportunity Zone Fund that targets existing and ground-up development in various commercial real estate asset classes including multifamily, self storage and hospitality.

In this episode, we chat with Ron Riemer from Citi Bank about the similarities and differences in the residential lending market over his 15 year career. From the wild west of the mid-2000s leading up to the Great Recession, to Hurricane Sandy, to the obstacles we face as we dig ourselves out of the effects Coronavirus has had on the flow of capital into the real estate industry.

Ariel Sassoon co-founded the LS Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate four years ago with his business partner Devin Leahy, and over that time, they have become one of the emerging brands in the world of NYC residential real estate. Through their media company LS Media and their creative approach to marketing multi-million dollar NYC apartments, they are setting the bar on what it takes to get their clients' properties in front of as many qualified buyers as possible. 

Yonah Weiss talks to Nick about the advantages of employing a cost segregation analysis to recently acquired commercial real estate and how real estate professionals can reap the benefits of accelerated depreciation by working just part time in the industry.

I chat with fellow Douglas Elliman residential broker Jennifer Leahy, founder of her eponymous top producing team in Elliman's CT office. We discuss how Covid-19 has forced Fairfield County, CT into its first sellers' market since 2006 and how her marketing efforts have evolved over the years. 

Greg talks about his life as an entrepreneur since retiring from the US Navy. From building and exiting a dozen businesses, to developing multiple real estate asset classes, to growing a thriving coaching and mentoring business. 

Brian Burke is one of the most sought after multifamily investors, and today we get to chat with him about his humble beginnings, how he went from flipping homes while bagging groceries in the early '90s, to currently controlling over 3,000 multifamily apartments units. We talk about launching his real estate private equity firm Praxis Capital in 2001, how his firm has navigated (and been pleasantly surprised by) the effects of Coronavirus on their overall portfolio performance, and how much fun he has going to the office everyday.

This week we're thrilled to have the opportunity to chat with Julie Peterson, a San Diego-based commercial lender with Old Capital Lending. Julie talks about the struggles of being a self-managing landlord and how her experience fueled her desire to enter the commercial lending space, with a particular focus on giving inexperienced investors the tools and resources needed to take down their first multi-family deals.