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Andrew Greer’s name is synonymous with multi-family development, property zoning, real estate growth and success!
After attending college Andrew decided to venture into real estate investing and sales. Finding early mentorship with a previous employer turned investor Andrew learned the ropes about investing. With an immense desire to run his own business Andrew quickly ventured into real estate investing and purchased his first flip with partners. After several months of working and learning the hard way they sold their first project and since then have never looked back.
On today’s show, Andrew walks though his experiences being an asset manager, zoning and city planner, real estate investor and an overall entrepreneur who just want to help build great apartment communities. Lots of takeaways!
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CEO- Thomas Strafford Investments
While completing his degree in Economics at San Diego State University, Andrew began his career in Finance focusing on private equity in 2009-2011. in early 2011 Andrew directed his focus to becoming the asset manager vs salesman. Starting in 2011 Andrew and Keith joined forces buying assets that were below the highest and best and re-positioning them for disposition. With a desire to grow into larger assets Andrew began putting his energy towards zoning and city planning to create the best opportunities for the company and its investors to build value. The partners in Thomas Strafford have since completed several entitlement sub divisions, including one of the first small lot subdivisions, and built homes and multi units in San Diego County
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
Originally from Africa, Leslie started his medical career in 2008 as a healthcare provided and eventually found his passion and another calling as a real estate investor.
In today’s episode, Leslie will walk us through his real estate journey, how and why he started off as a limited partner including some of the deals that he made so far and the takeaways he got from them.
Leslie Awesome is the Director of Operations at Xsite Capital Investment -a rapidly growing Multifamily Investment company with over $20million under management.
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Leslie is the Director of Operations and Co-founder of Xsite Capital Investment LLC. He manages the company operations, market/data analysis, cash flow and budget analysis. Leslie bought his first investment property in 2017 and transitioned to multifamily investing in 2019.
In 2019, Leslie partnered and invested in a 192-unit apartment project as a Limited Partner. In 2020, Leslie and his partners Julius and Tenny, acquired a 49 units Class A, institutional grade asset in Washington, DC. Leslie is a Nurse Anesthetist in Baltimore, Maryland, and his team hosts a rapidly growing multifamily focused meetup in Maryland where they provide resources and add value to individuals interested in growing their wealth and changing their financial future.
Leslie is a husband and father of two beautiful girls and loves to spend his spare time reading and drone flying.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
In today’s episode, we are graced by Amy Wan - one of the most prominent legal tech and blockchain attorney to talk about where technology and real estate really intersect!
Prepare to be amazed and inspired by this marvellous achiever’s accomplishments, current projects and future endeavours!
Amy Wan is CEO & co-founder of Bling, which rewards mobile gamers with bitcoin. Previously, she founded Bootstrap Legal, which helps real estate syndicators get legal document faster and more efficiently. Amy is a securities attorney and has been in-house and outside counsel for various fintech startups.
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Amy Wan is Founder & CEO of Bootstrap Legal, which automates real estate syndication legal documents. She hosts The Law and Blockchain Podcast (a show on The Bitcoin Podcast Network) and has authored the Bloomberg Law practice guide to ICOs and Lexis Nexus' Private Equity practice guide. Previously, she was a Partner at a boutique securities law firm and General Counsel at a real estate crowdfunding platform. Amy founded Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014 and one of 18 millennials changing legaltech by law.com in 2018; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal.
Amy has also worked in international regulatory and trade policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
So what does it really mean to use your intuition in making decisions? Does is mean walking away from a million-dollar deal just because you do not like how the investor talks or walks? Or does it mean complementing your gut feel with facts… or rather complementing the facts with your intuition?
In today’s episode, Adapia D'Errico joins us and talks about her perspective on how to leverage your intuition to help you arrive to better decisions.
Adapia started her career in financial services when she was 18. She has worked in banking, financial services, insurance, hedge funds, real estate, fintech, and private equity.
She is a visionary leader with 20+ years of experience across countries, cultures, and both corporate and start-up environments. AdaPia is VP of Strategy and principal of real estate private equity firm Alpha Investing, an author, and a powerful keynote speaker.
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AdaPia d’Errico is a visionary leader with 20+ years of experience across countries, cultures, and both corporate and start-up environments. She’s co-founded businesses, launched brands, and redefined industries. A respected thought-leader, entrepreneur, and female executive, she is a Principal and the VP of Strategy at Alpha Investing a private equity real estate firm. She is also a leadership facilitator, powerful keynote speaker and author of Productive Intuition: Connecting to the Subtle. AdaPia is passionate about empowerment at all levels: from intuitive to financial. Learn more about AdaPia: adapiaderrico.com.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
So how can one travel the globe, enjoy the world sceneries and be with his family 24/7 while still continuing to build his portfolio?
Well, our guest today, James Evans will let us in on the secret on how to accomplish all these!
James Evans is the Owner of Gladstone Capital with 6 years of real estate investing experience with a portfolio consisting of 20 rentals, condo conversions, limited partnerships, and creative joint venture deals.
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Background
I started in real estate by sleeping on a friend’s couch for a year to save up for a downpayment. I bought my first condo in the emerging Boston neighborhood in 2012. Spun that into a 20 unit portfolio using my own money.
Negotiated a 60% working capacity in my current job. Most people either invest as a side business or go full time, this is a bit of a unique hybrid model. I kept my full benefits and have a great balance of predictable salary and w2 income with time to focus on real estate.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
Loyal and dedicated - these are the qualities that set Vanessa apart from other realtors. Her strong and ever-admirable work ethics and compassion towards everyone is what attract people to trust her and in the long run, do successful business with her.
The experience that she has attained with distressed property sales carries over into traditional sales to benefit her clients with great negotiation skills, a more complete understanding of the entire sales process and great skills in problem solving when there are bumps along the way.
In today’s episode, let’s listen as Vanessa talks about humanizing real estate which can greatly guide us build great apartment communities.
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Vanessa Gonzalez, lights up a room with her enthusiastic professional personality!
If you were to ask clients what they think of Realtor Vanessa Gonzalez and what sets her apart from her colleagues, most would describe her loyalty and dedication, her powerful work ethic and the fact that she creates the type of relationship with them, in a way that makes them feel like family. Now, if you were to ask Vanessa about herself, she would tell you how proud she is to be a resident of Long Island. Having been raised in Ecuador, South America with Cuban Ancestry, she takes a lot of pride in who she is. Vanessa would also mention how passionate she is about her work, her clients and helping families, all across Long Island, reach the “American Dream” of owing a house.
Vanessa established her NYS Real Estate License in 2003.
Aside from the traditional transactions most residential real estate agents perform, Vanessa has become expertly adept at guiding both buyers and sellers. She handles, with extreme experience Property Management of Distressed Properties, REOs, Short Sales, Foreclosures. Even managing the Clean-ups and Construction of these homes. The experience that she has attained with distressed property sales, carries over, into traditional sales to benefit her clients with great negotiation skills; a more complete understanding of the entire sale process. With such experience, Vanessa has great skills in problem solving as is ready for any bumps
along the way making her very confident that she will be a part of the Long Island real estate market for the many years to come.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
Listen to Anthony Angotti’s real estate journey in our today’s episode. Learn how we jump from house hacking to being a successful full-time real estate investor!
Lots of stories about his deals and experiences along the way that will surely guide you through your next deals! And heaps of golden nuggets along the way!
Anthony Angotti is realtor in Deacon and hoover Real Estate Advisors specialising in investment real estate in the Pittburgh area. He own and manages multiple investment real estate properties in the greater Pittsburgh area through his own holding and through his own companies ADADO Properties and TGY Investment Group.
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Tony Angotti is a Realtor and real estate investor that got started by purchasing a duplex and living in one side and renting the other (House-Hacking). He continues to purchase rental real estate and works with investors to do the same. He currently hosts the real estate investing podcast Be Free RE
Tony has grown his rental real estate holdings to nearly 100 units which are managed by his own in house team and focuses on buying small to mid size apartment buildings. When he isn't working on Real Estate he enjoys ice hockey, back-country camping, learning new things, and exercising as much as is possible. He and his wife still live in a duplex and consider house hacking to be the cheat code to financial independence.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
We continue to build great apartment communities in today’s episode by talking to and learning from our guest today, Michael Glaspie.
Michael Glaspie is a Commercial Real Estate Broker in North Carolina. He served ten years in the US Army.
Michael currently holds rental properties, hotels, and short-term arbitrages in multiple states and cofounded an investment centric real estate team—all while serving full time in the military
Sit back, get your pen and paper of reach and get ready to jot down chunks and chunks of golden nuggets on how to be successful in your real estate endeavor… the military approach!
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Mike Glaspie is a Commercial Real Estate Broker in Charlotte, NC. Mike received his bachelor’s degree in business management and is currently pursuing a master’s in business administration.
He served ten years in the US Army, with a majority spent in Special Operations as a Green Beret. Since purchasing his first investment property in 2014, Mike switched his focus to creative investing. In less than three years, he completed several transactions in a variety of ways such as Subject-Tos, seller-financing, wholesales, flips, syndications and buy and holds. Mike currently holds over 100 rental properties and short-term arbitrages in multiple states and cofounded an investment centric real estate team—all while serving full time in the military.
Now as a veteran, Mike continues to practice real estate with a focus on educating other veterans on how to build the lifestyle they deserve through creative investing.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
Sensei Gilliland graces our show today to talk about his very own proven strategies on how to manage a real estate business… remotely! A very interesting and timely topic, as in our pandemic world today, all aspects of life are starting to be governed by the digital space.
Sensie Gilliland is the founder and president of Black Belt Investors, a consulting and investment firm specializing in the art of creating cash and building wealth through all economic and real estate cycles.
Stay tuned for details about some of his deals, business values and the ultimate question that everybody might be asking him… “Is his name really Sensei?”!
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•Systems to use to manage construction remotely and effectively
•How to scope a project
•The importance of property inspection reports
•How checklist makes everything accountable and liable
•The scene of identifying good contractors
•Getting and having the right source for your construction project
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Sensei Gilliland is founder of real estate education, investment and consulting company Black Belt Investors.
After becoming one of the top ranked martial artists in the country, and establishing a chain of successful martial arts schools, Sensei discovered the huge rewards of investing in real estate for himself in 1995.
After making thousands of dollars on that first deal, he was hooked. He quickly scaled his investments and operations to wholesaling, rehabbing, and turnkey rentals properties. A journey you can read about in his book. You can get a free copy of Remote Rehabs: How to Make Incredible Real Estate Returns in the Best Property Markets, without Lifting a Hammer via Sensei’s website at BlackBeltInvestors.com.
Sensei is credited with founding the west coast’s top ranked real estate investors club, has received the Real Estate Wealth Battalion Award, has been featured on the cover of Real Estate Wealth Magazine, and is regularly sought out for commentary on the market.
Today Sensei is a national speaker, private consultant and active investor who has trained thousands of investors to find their own financial freedom through real estate.
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Fidelity Business Partners, Inc.
6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
Having real estate run in their blood, Jonathan Barr has significantly used the industry on how he views business and thus the world. At an early age, while helping his parents with their open houses putting up signages and even painting houses, it was already installed in him that the best path for a long-term wealth is real estate.
Join John Brackett today as he sits down with Jonathan and talk about his early journey in the world of real estate. Lots of stories and golden nuggets for you to lean and pick up!
Jonathan Barr, together with his brother Jeffrey co-founded JB2 Investments. Together they have two decades worth of experience investing in all types of real estate. Jonathan and Jeff have been involved in 400+ flips projects during that time period. Some of these projects being multi-family. They have deep knowledge of various markets, with financial analysis, construction and design.
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Started his Real Estate Career after the last 2008 great recession. Where he started in acquisitions of Single-Family higher end flips. A lot this coming bidding on foreclosure auctions. Eventually getting into ground up developments and repositioning of Multi-family buildings. When it comes to multi-family, he has been involved in property management, leasing and construction and has good grasp the business as a whole. Due to the current economic climate, he is seeing opportunities and the ability to lead JB2 in strategic growth.
JB2 Investments is founded by brothers Jonathan and Jeffrey. Real estate is in their blood growing up in a real estate family. Together they have two decades of experience investing in all types of real estate. Jonathan and Jeff have been involved in 400+ projects during that time period. Ranging from gut renovations, multi-family entitlement/development ground up projects. They have deep knowledge of various markets, with financial analysis, construction and design. What sets JB2 apart from the others is their ability to take on challenging projects and Value-Add construction all while incorporating the latest trends that people love. JB2 aims for markets that appreciate aesthetic design and open efficient layouts. JB2 will enter 50+ unit value-add projects on C property in emerging B neighborhoods in the 2-8 million price range
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6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190
Carlsbad, CA 92009
D: 760-301-5311
F: 760-987-6065
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