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  • 046: The Golden Nuggets in Multi Family Property Investment with Chris Pomerleau and Stephen Sykes

    Mitigating risks and optimizing performance - these are just two of the cornerstones of a great multi family investor. These 2 things coupled with some of the golden nuggets in multi family property investment from our guests today, Chris Pomerleau and Stephen Sykes, will give you a higher degree of success… no doubt!

    Chris is the co-Founder and Director of Investment Strategy for Park Ave Capital, LLC. He oversees the acquisitions of assets and business development activities and directs the overall investment strategies of the company.

    A Principal Broker at Cascade Real Estate Group and Partner at Park Avenue Capital, Stephen Sykes on the other hand seeks to leverage his experience in real estate investing and development for the benefit of clients and partners.

    Join John Brackett as he let these 2 knowledgeable real estate professionals talk you through some of the successful multifamily assets investment transactions that they have handled and the winning factors that helped make it.

    Episode Highlights:

    • Thinking of yourself as your own first best client
    • Finding and placing the correct buyer
    • Listening: A paramount skill towards understanding your clients
    • The importance of viewing different situations through different lenses
    • How to do deals better
    • Components of a good deal
    • How to make the first right impression
    • “Menu of Offers” and what to include in it
    • Understanding seller motivation
    • Biggest lessons that Chris and Stephen have learned about property management

    Connect with Chris

    • LinkedIn
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Park Avenue Capital

    Connect with Stephen

    • Park Avenue Capital

     

    About our Guests:

    Chris Pomerleau

    Chris is Co-Founder and Director of Investment Strategy for Park Ave Capital, LLC. He oversees the acquisitions of assets and business development activities. He also directs the overall investment strategies of the company.

    In addition to Park Ave Capital, LLC, Mr. Pomerleau is an attorney and mediator at Nebraska Legal Group. Mr. Pomerleau has practiced family law exclusively and handled cases throughout Nebraska and Iowa; he is an experienced litigator and a determined advocate for his clients.

    As founder and Director of Park Ave Capital, he originated the concept, developed the operating plan, created the company’s products and has raised over $100 million oforreal estate assets. Over the past seven years, he has acquired 1,400 Apartment Units within a three-hour radius of Omaha and completed over 50 real estate transactions.

    Prior to his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Pomerleau served in the United States Army. He played college football at Augustana College, where he graduated with his bachelor’s in sociology. Furthering his education, he completed both his M.S. in Negotiation and Dispute resolution and his J.D. at Creighton Law School. He is a proud father to two children, with his wife, Shivani.

    Stephen Sykes

    With roots in the Midwest, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest Stephen Sykes began investing in real estate in 2005 in Portland and in Omaha in 2015. In his roles as Principal Broker at Cascade Real Estate Group and Partner at Park Avenue Capital, Stephen seeks to leverage his experience in real estate investing and development for the benefit of clients and partners.

    Stephen has acquired positions in multiple projects across the Midwest and holds real estate Broker’s licenses in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa. In his role at Park Ave Capital, Stephen focuses on acquiring and operating multifamily projects that create near term and long term wealth for his partners and clients. In his role as managing broker at Cascade Real Estate Group Stephen, with his partners Collin Schwartz and Chris Pomerleau, run a real estate investment studio designed for passive investors, real estate entrepreneurs, and top producing agents. We structure real estate projects for long term wealth generation.

    Reach out to Stephen directly to discuss upcoming partnership opportunities, collaborations for raising funds for larger projects, real estate brokerage, and discussions about the long term tax and wealth creation benefits of multifamily investing.

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    6965 El Camino Real Suite 105-190

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    58 min
  • 045: Building Your Real Estate Brand with John Casmon

    Having a brand helps deliver your message to your audience. It’s the who, what, how, why, and where of any company. When done right, it can help set your business apart from your competitors and attract ideal clients and investors.

    With proper marketing, you can bring your brand to a whole new level and bring in more opportunities for yourself and your business.

    Learn how you can build a brand as John Brackett interviews John Casmon, the host of Target Market Insights podcast!

    John is a Real Estate Entrepreneur and an expert in marketing. After realizing the value of real estate in helping him take control over his finances, he left his corporate 9 to 5 and dived into real estate. Now, he has integrated his marketing skills and expertise into his real estate brand in order to help busy professionals create wealth and passive income through multifamily investments!

    Leverage your business today as John talks about branding, raising capital, why it’s relevant to your business, and how to attract great investors through your brand!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • How John got into the field of marketing and why he shifted to real estate
    • How took control over his future (career, finances, and business)
    • John’s takeaway from the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
    • Becoming a better marketer
    • The value and power of constantly developing your skillset
    • How and why branding is relevant to the real estate investing
    • Debunking misconceptions about branding
    • The 3 C’s to raising capital and building relationships
    • Using branding to attract great investors
    • How to become an effective marketer
    • How to create a brand that communicates who you are

     

    Where to reach John

    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Casmon Capital
    • Target Market Insights: Multifamily + Marketin‪g‬ Podcast



    About our Guest:

    John Casmon launched Casmon Capital Group to help busy professionals invest in real estate without taking on a second job. He and his team have helped families invest close to $90M in multifamily apartments to create passive income and generational wealth. 

    John hosts the Target Market Insights: Multifamily + Marketing podcast and is the co-founder of the Midwest Real Estate Networking Summit. As a former marketing executive, John oversaw marketing campaigns for General Motors, PepsiCo, and MillerCoors.

     

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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

    44 min
  • 044: The Dynamics of Partnerships for Multifamily Investments with Ashton and Chris Levarek

    Partnerships can be complicated when the distribution of power isn’t clear or talked about or -- but for brothers Chris and Ashton Levarek, they’ve managed to build a roadmap to success for their business.

    Join John Brackett in this episode as he interviews the Levarek brothers on how to navigate the complexities of partnerships in real estate!

    Make sure you stick to the end to get tips on how they're managing their employees and their 90-day sprint journey!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • How the Levarek Brothers started their partnership in real estate
    • Ashton and Chris talks about when did their company start to pick up
    • The book that Ashton and Chris used as a roadmap for business
    • How the brothers divided the work between their partnership
    • Partnering up with more firms for first projects
    • How Ashton and Chris crafted their operating agreements
    • Ashton and Chris share their vision and values
    • The 90-day Sprint
    • How the Levarek brothers funded one of their projects
    • How Ashton and Chris manage their people

    Connect with Ashton:

    • LinkedIn

    Connect with Chris:

    • LinkedIn

    About the Guests:

    Chris was a former firefighter in the United States Airforce, he graduated from Arizona State University and holds an information technology leadership role in the banking industry.

    His brother, Ashton, was an Air Force Special Operations pararescue jumping with a Bachelors in Sports, Health, and Science. He currently works as a full-time real estate investor managing partner.

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Valkere Investment Group

     

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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

    51 min
  • 043: Humble Beginnings: How Small Investments can Work for You with Michael Ealy

    Not everyone has the privilege to start on stable ground, there will always be different factors that affect our situations. But even with this, the best we can do is learn from others and make informed investments to hopefully pull us up from where we started.

    Working from humble beginnings, one good investment was all it took for Michael Ealy to gain his footing and letting his money work for itself. Making his profit first on multifamily homes, Michael earned his fortune and has recently delved into the hospitality industry.

    Join John Brackett in this new episode as he interviews Michael Ealy on how small investments can be the stepping stone into a profitable multifamily and property portfolio!

    Listen in as Michael walks us through his thoughts and mindset when deciding where to put money into specific niches. There’s a lot to learn from him, so be sure to take notes and apply it in your own life and investments!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • How Michael started in the real estate industry
    • Michael's first few investments
    • Looking for new ventures in hospitality
    • How Michael handles his investment allocation
    • Michael's most profitable multifamily investments
    • The biggest challenges Michael faced in the industry

    Connect with Michael Ealy:

    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram
    • Nassau Investments

    About Our Guest:

    Michael Ealy founded and currently stands as the Chief Executive Officer of Nassau Investments operating in the Cincinnati area. With over 20-years experience, he has applied his knowledge in real estate and asset management to negotiate hundreds of real estate transactions.

     

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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

    39 min
  • 042: Finding Your Niche Till Your Rich! with Willi Mandrell

    One of the common mistakes people in the rental property business make is not knowing what market to commit and focus on. After all, you as an entrepreneur and investor should thoroughly understand your product.

    Today's episode is about a successful real estate millionaire who has built a niche in the multifamily space, particularly in the Boston area.

    Join John Brackett and Willie Mandrell for another great episode packed with lessons and strategies that'll allow you to scale and leverage your business!

    Willie Mandrell is a self-made multi-millionaire real estate investor, broker, coach, lecturer & author! And he is going to talk about his real estate journey, how you can build a profitable rental portfolio that'll allow you to achieve financial freedom!

    Create your own path as Willie shares his expertise and experience on the beauty of niching down plus some dealmaking skills, I'm sure you don't want to miss!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • What inspired Willie to go into real estate?
    • Financial freedom is different than what they teach you in school
    • Going the opposite direction of masses
    • Understanding economic cycles
    • The greatest lesson that Willi learned inside and outside of academia
    • Spend less time talking about yourself and more time on asking questions, and follow-ups
    • Why your ego is your greatest enemy
    • Sourcing and closing
    • Treat your company like a company
    • Leverage, network, and build relationships with like-minded people who wants the best for you and your business
    • Construction, an area of complexity with a lot of opportunities

    Connect with Willie:

    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Willie's Website

    About Our Guest:

    As a buyer, seller, and broker he's been involved with well over 200 million in real estate transactions. He has been featured in numerous trade magazines and he is a frequent guest on real estate and wealth-related podcast, television, & radios shows across the US. Willie is the author of Cash Flow Secrets, a book on real estate investing & finance tips most people are never taught but need to know.

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Cash Flow Secrets: Real Estate, Investing & Wealth Management Principles They Failed To Teach

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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

    48 min
  • 041: Loving Chicago with Amy Duong Kim

    Are you looking to invest in the Chicago real estate market? If you're wondering where to buy and look with Chicago's unique and diverse neighborhoods, today's episode is going to guide you to your answer!

    Join John Brackett, CEO – Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Business Partners and Host of We Build Great Apartment Communities Podcast as he interviews Amy Duong of the Kim Duong Kim Global at Compass!

    Amy Duong Kim is the Senior Broker and Founding Member at Compass Chicago, a technology-driven real estate company.

    You're definitely going to learn some really cool things about Chicago in this episode! Find your home, know where to invest and how as Amy shares how she got into real estate, built up her business, grow her portfolio, as well as the things you need to know when investing in Chicago!

    Episode Highlights:

    • How Amy got rooted in Chicago and into the field of real estate?
    • Finding your niche and understanding what your international client is looking as well as why they'd want to invest in the United States
    • Diversifying your portfolio
    • Why Chicagoans love Chicago
    • Things to look for when investing in a metro like Chicago
    • Investing trends in Chicago
    • How COVID-19 changed the real estate investing landscape in Chicago
    • Multifamily in Chicago
    • Greystones and Brownstones in Chicago
    • Places in Chicago that's attracting more investments

     

    Connect with Amy:

    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Duong Kim Group

     

    About Our Guest:

    Amy is an alumna of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science. Prior to her real estate career, she worked as an actuarial consultant. 

    Her ability to adapt quickly to the real estate market has allowed her to take each opportunity as a learning moment--- ultimately creating a stepping stone that really helped accelerate her career. She has been able to help many people find and sell their homes, and is also extremely proficient on the commercial side.

    Amy’s expertise speaks for itself, as she’s received accolades from the Chicago Association of Realtors, Chicago Agent Magazine, Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, and five-star reviews on Yelp, Linkedin, and Zillow. She’s won two Chicago Agent’s Who’s Who Awards, and has been featured in TimeOut Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Curbed, Yahoo, Wall Street Journal, ABC News and The Today Show with NBC.

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

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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

    29 min
  • 040: Scaling Real Estate Deals & Adding Value In It Through Technology with Feras Moussa

    Technology has definitely shaped and transformed the way we do business today. 

    From automated underwritings to social media, technology now is evolving and looking for more ways to create and add value to companies.

    Today’s guest is an entrepreneur at heart with a background in tech.

    On this episode John Brackett, CEO – Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Business Partners and Host of We Build Great Apartment Communities Podcast interviews Feras Moussa on how he utilizes technology to add and create more value in real estate and how he is scaling it!

    Find out how Feras is helping investors like you achieve passive income through real estate investments, and how he found his passion in the industry!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • How Feras found his passion in real estate
    • How Feras found a way to add systems into his business and create a greater layer of visibility
    • How Feras scaled his investments
    • Feras acquisition process
    • Don’t be a time vampire
    • The criteria that Feras use from the initial discovery phase of whether or not a deal advances to underwriting
    • How to leverage your VAs to help you underweight right
    • The challenge when you focus on efficiency
    • Is fresh capital healthy or not?
    • How Feras is capitalizing assets and financing it
    • How Feras utilizes technology to create and add more value

     

    Where to reach Feras

    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Instagram
    • Disrupt Equity
      • Twitter
      • Instagram

     

    About our Guest:

    Feras is an entrepreneur at heart with a tech background. Feras graduated from the University of Texas with a Computer Science degree, and worked at Microsoft straight from college. Feras later resigned from Microsoft to ‘bring tech to industries that lack it’, where he later found his passion for real estate. Feras quickly built a portfolio of rentals, completing 9 closings in his first 12 months.  After having seen the results of rentals, Feras later decided to scale up into apartment complexes, where he met Ben and started Disrupt Equity, a company focused on multi-family acquisition and investments for investors, and in doing so, help leverage his strengths in tech to better identify quality investments for investors. Feras has helped raise millions of dollars for multifamily syndication.

     

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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

    40 min
  • 039: Empowering Yourself to Succeed in Real Estate by Learning from Your Past Mistakes and Failures with Luminita Ispas

    We’re bound to make mistakes. 

    It’s an inevitable part of life. But we can’t become its loyal customer who keeps making repeat purchases of the same product.

    If you want to avoid repeating the same mistakes, you have to learn from them.

    On this episode John Brackett, CEO – Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Business Partners and Host of We Build Great Apartment Communities Podcast interviews Lumi Ispas on how she turned her past mistakes into her current success! 

    Luminita Ispas is a Real Estate Investment Specialist who has been creating wealth for her clients since 2002! She has then conducted over 1000 real estate transactions and was named as one of the Top Brokers in Chicago by the Chicago Association of Realtors.

    Avoid pitfalls in your real estate journey as Luminita shares how she began as well as the mistakes she did when she was starting so you can avoid them! She also shares learnings from her past experiences plus some investing tips and strategies you don’t want to miss!

    Episode Highlights:

    • Mistakes you need to avoid when investing
    • The difference between people who are become wealthier and those who lose everything
    • Adapting your strategy base on what the market is offering
    • How Luminita rebuilt her portfolio after the mistakes from the last recession
    • Challenges that gets overlooked by investors when they’re coming into the markets with cold weather
    • Best practices on investing, managing assets, and in real estate
    • Skill sets you need if you want to excel in your chosen market
    • How and why Realtor Associations reach out to Luminita to share her story

    Where to reach Lumi

    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Facebook

     

    About our Guest:

    Luminita Ispas is originally from the Eastern Europe, in Romania. As someone who came from a previously communist country, Luminita didn't know much about financial education or real estate. She started self learning from books written by the likes of Kiyosaki, and that paved the way to her, creating a portfolio, becoming one of the best realtors in the country!

     

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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

    41 min
  • 038: Professional Athlete to Multifamily Syndicator Success with Dan Kennedy

    When you're playing the game of business, you can't just go on without having a concrete plan with you.

    In this episode, you're going to learn how to strategize a plan and create value in your business endeavors!

    Join John Brackett, CEO of Fidelity Business Partners and Host of We Build Great Apartment Communities Podcast as he and Dan Kennedy a former professional athlete, as they talk about Dan's shift into the real estate scene.

    Find out how Dan went from playing in the soccer field to playing in the real estate business as he shares his story. John and Dan will also discuss the importance of hard work and strategy in relation to real estate investing so you can plan out for your next move!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • How Dan got into the real estate space
    • What are transferable skills?
    • The strategy to diversify yourself
    • Why Dan moved from apartment product into the industrial warehouse product
    • How Dan is financing his current projects
    • Why and how Dan is structuring the equity on most of his opportunities
    • How Dan sources asset management or property management
    • What Dan’s company looks for in property management companies
    • How Dan’s company communicates to their third party property manager
    • Cultural challenges that can be overcome in property management

     

    About Our Guest:

    Dan Kennedy played professional soccer for 12 years in Major League Soccer for the LA Galaxy. And went on to pursue a path in real estate after retiring as a professional athlete. Dan invested in business school at USC before he started a company called Driven Capital Partners with Matt Seamus, which is focused on preserving capital, creating passive income and growing wealth for people through real estate investing.

     

    Connect with Dan: 

    • LinkedIn
    • https://www.drivencap.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

     

    42 min
  • 037: The Power of Deployed Knowledge with Dave Seymour

    If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you must know is how to let money go free and work for you, so it can come back with two or three more. 

    Join John Brackett, CEO – Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Business Partners and Host of We Build Great Apartment Communities Podcast on this episode as he interviews Dave Seymour.

    Dave Seymour started off as a firefighter and paramedic, that ran a construction company on his days off - flipping houses, that eventually turned him into a reality TV star for the hit show, Flipping Boston! And somehow, that helped him from having a little over 120 doors in his portfolio to raising millions of dollars in capital, which he is putting into work in the Gulf Coast Region.

    In this episode, they are going to talk about the HOW’S of starting a real estate business. As well as how to dive into the multifamily space investments.

    Listen to Dave Seymour as he shares his story on how he went from the ashes of his beaten spirit, to living a life that he would have not imagined having!

     

    Episode Highlights:

    • From paramedic to owning a real estate business
    • Why deployable knowledge is the most valuable thing 
    • How Dave moved himself out of a dark place
    • Dave's first step in his business
    • Acceptance and personal development
    • The first apartment building that Dave purchased
    • The power of property management
    • What Dave learned from transitioning into the real estate business
    • The rule of Five

     

    Connect with Dave: 

    • LinkedIn

     

    About Our Guest:

    Dave Seymour is originally from London, England who then migrated to the United States, a retired 16 year veteran of the Fire Service who rapidly became one of the Countries’ top investors in Real Estate.

    He is now the CEO at Danvers Firm: Freedom Venture Investments, where they plan to build a diverse pool of rental apartment complexes, focusing on Class B rental properties in Southwestern Florida.

     

    Resources Mentioned:

    • Freedom Venture Investments

     

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    D: 760-301-5311

    F: 760-987-6065

    41 min

About We Build Great Apartment Communities

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We Build Great Apartment Communities is dedicated to the process and strategies for transforming apartment buildings into thriving communities, and improving how people live.