Vinney Chopra

Bio:

Vinney Chopra came to the United States more than 40 years ago with only $7 in his pocket. Since then, he and his team have syndicated 28 properties worth more than $350 million. He’s a real estate syndicator, educator, and broker and the founder and C.E.O of Moneil Investment Group

Key Insights:

• How Vinney came to the U.S. with $7 in his pocket and started investing in real estate

• How Vinney transitioned from single family to multifamily investing

• One of the most challenging parts of getting started and scaling a portfolio

• How Vinney has transitioned into ground up development

• Vinney talks about his book “Apartment Syndication Made Easy”

• Vinney highlights some of the main markets to be investing in

• The strategies to find strong multifamily deals

• The keys to being conservative when underwriting a deal

Book Recommendations:

Vinney’s book - Apartment Syndication Made Easy –  Vinney Chopra

Think and Grow Rich– Napolean Hill

The Magic of Thinking Big -  David Schwartz

The Miracle Morning - Hal Elrod

The Miracle Equation - Hal Elrod

Contact Information:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.vinneychopra.com

Company Website: www.moneilinvest.com

Omar Khan

Bio:

At Boardwalk Wealth, a real estate private equity firm, he is responsible for capital raising, strategic planning and investor relations. He has over 10 years of global investment experience.

He has participated in capital financing and M&A transactions valued at $3.7 billion. He is a CFA Charterholder and graduated with honors from the University of Toronto with a B.Com in Finance. Omar moved from Canada and lives in Texas with his wife and kids.

Key Insights:

- Omar’s transition from working in mergers and acquisitions into multifamily investing

- Moving from Canada to the US and starting to invest in multifamily in a new country

- Is the CFA designation useful in multifamily?

- What is asset management and what do you need to know about it to be a successful operator

- How to go about building the business plan for a value add project

- When to start developing a business plan for a property and what are the key elements of the plan

- The next steps to take after closing on an acquisition

- How to build relationships to build a strong team and find the right property manager

Book Recommendations:

Black Swan –  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Contact Information:

Website:  www.boardwalkwealth.com

Email: [email protected]

Gino Barbaro

Bio:

Key Insights:

- Discussing the Jake and Gino community

- The mindset shift required to invest in multifamily

- The importance of partnerships and finding the right partners in real estate

- How real estate is a team sport

- The importance of hard work in and a growth mindset to have success in real estate

- The importance of focus, clarity, and a strong enough “why” to grow in multifamily

- Transitioning from joint venture partnerships into syndications

- The three pillars of real estate investing

Book Recommendations:

Think and Grow Rich – Napolean Hill

Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff

Pre-Suasion – Robert Cialdini

Influence – Robert Cialdini

Contact Information:

Website:  www.jakeandgino.com/honeybee

Email: [email protected]

Adam Carswell

Bio:

Adam is a real estate entrepreneur, new media marketer, and podcaster. Adam committed his career to real estate in 2015. He serves as Director of Media and Marketing for Concordia Realty, and Business Development Manager for Asym Capital. Combined, both firms have syndicated, redeveloped, repositioned, and revitalized more than $430mm worth of real estate across the US.

Key Insights:

- Adam’s journey into commercial real estate

- Raising “human capital” and the importance of networking in real estate

- How to be a great connector and build an influential network within the real estate industry

- How to leverage social media in real estate

- The power of authenticity when building relationships in the real estate industry

- Diving into the fundamentals of retail real estate

- Due diligence aspects on a retail property

- What is an anchor tenant in retail real estate

- Some of the top industries and types of tenants to look for when acquiring a retail property

- Key retail real estate term definitions such as “triple net lease”

Book Recommendation:

Zero to One  – Peter Thiel

Raising Capital for Real Estate – Hunter Thompson

Contact Information:

Personal Website: www.carswell.io

Shane Melanson

Bio:

Shane is known as the ‘Arbitrage Architect,’ where he helps high-income earners convert their income to net worth. He’s a commercial developer in Calgary, Canada, having completed more than $65 million in real estate projects and helping his clients buy and sell more than a quarter billion dollars’ worth of commercial real estate. Shane has invested in projects across Canada and the Southwest US.

Key Insights:

- Shane’s journey into real estate syndications

- How to get into the “club” of real estate syndications

- An introduction to ground up real estate development

- Some of the challenges of real estate development

- Some of the key milestones in a development project

- How to build a strong development team

Book Recommendation:

Your Stand Is Your Brand – Patrick Gentempo

Shane’s book is called:

Club Syndication – Shane Melanson

Contact Information:

Personal Website: www.shanemelanson.com

Garrett Hawk

Bio:

He has acquired over 550 units at only 28 years old. Garrett dropped out of college at 19 to start buying rental properties in the small college town where he lived. He has experience in working other businesses such as owning gas stations. He has become an expert on finding ways to partner with others to keep growing his portfolio and help others invest in real estate.

Key Insights:

- Garrett’s journey into multifamily investing

- Taking the risk of leaving college early to invest in real estate

- How to manage and scale up a multifamily portfolio

- The power of partners and your team to succeed in multifamily real estate

- Highlighting Garrett’s first multifamily deal

- Discussing seller financing, how to utilize it, and what are the benefits

- Why would you self manage instead of utilize a third party property manager

- How the first deal can create momentum into closing subsequent deals

- How relationships can accelerate your real estate investing career

Book Recommendation:

Am I Being Too Subtle - Sam Zell

Contact Information:

Email: [email protected]

Linkedin: Garrett Hawk

Danny Randazzo

Bio: 

- Danny controls over $225M in real estate 

- His First investment was a $1M building

- He Became a millionaire at 29

- He Quit his corporate consulting job at 30

- He is a National speaker

- Author of Wealth Lessons for Kids 

- He is also a managing partner at PassiveInvesting.com

Key Insights:

- Danny’s journey from corporate consulting into multifamily investing

- Why multifamily real estate is a stable investment 

- Background on PassiveInvesting.com

- Finding partners with complementary skillsets and “staying in your lane” to run a successful real estate syndication business

- Key steps for an asset manager taking over a new acquisition 

- Quick tips to add value to an apartment community 

- Building the right team as an asset manager

- What reports and discussions an asset manager need to have with their property manager 

- Building an effective business plan for a value add property

Book Recommendation:

Mistakes Millionaires Make -  Harry Clark

Contact Information:

Company Website: www.passiveinvesting.com

Personal Website: www.dannyrandazzo.com

Kyle Marcotte

Bio: 

He is a 21 year old multifamily syndicator. While still a student-athlete at UC Davis, Kyle was able to syndicate two multifamily apartment buildings. These two deals totaled 119 units and are valued at over 5.5 million dollars.

Key Insights:

- How Kyle jumped into multifamily real estate investing while in college

- Getting educated on multifamily real estate and taking the risk of leaving college to pursue real estate

- Discussing the Jake and Gino real estate community

- Putting yourself into a state of massive action to have success in real estate

- How having a mindset of thinking bigger and making larger acquisitions (100+ units) is so beneficial in multifamily real estate investing 

- Kyle highlights the first deal that he completed – the business plan and how he sourced the deal

- Some of the important skillsets necessary to be successful in multifamily real estate

- Finding ways to add value, and gain credibility with others in your network, and tips for raising capital

- Markets that Kyle is currently focusing on for new acquisitions, and how to qualify a strong market

- Kyle’s top advice for getting started in real estate 

Book Recommendations:

The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber

The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod 

Contact Information:

Website: www.kylemarcotte.com

Instagram: @kylemarcotte9

Tim Kelly

Bio:

He is an active duty Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy and has been serving his country for 14 years. Now stationed on shore duty in Pensacola, Florida, he is fully pursuing his dream of owning and operating multi-family real estate and helping others realize their financial freedom goals!

Through analyzing hundreds of multi-family properties, Tim has built an incredible network of real estate professionals, owns, controls, or has directly been involved in over 1,000 income producing units and looks forward to acquiring 5,000 multi-family units within the next three years.

Key Insights:

- Tim’s transition from serving in the Navy to investing in real estate

- What is “house hacking” and how to apply it

- The 5 profit centers of real estate

- Scaling up from house hacking into multifamily investing

- The BiggerPockets community and how it can help you as a real estate investor

- How serving in the military has helped Tim in business and real estate investing

- Benefits of investing in mobile home parks

- Discussing a specific mobile home park acquisition

- Defining a family office and what it’s like working with one

- Insight into managing a mobile home park

Book Recommendations:

Rich Dad Poor Dad – By Robert Kiyosaki

Cashflow Quadrant – By Robert Kiyosaki

The ABCs of Real Estate Investing – By Ken McElroy

Tax-Free Wealth – Tom Wheelwright

Loopholes of Real Estate: Secrets of Successful Real Estate Investing – By Garrett Sutton

Contact Information:

Website: www.TheTimothyKelly.com

Linkedin: Tim Kelly

Message Tim on Linkedin and say that you heard this podcast and he will give you a free coaching session

Facebook: The Timothy Kelly

Instagram: @TheTimothyKelly

Chris Salerno

Bio:

At 25 years old, he had sold over $40 million in real estate volume and helped lead the #1 real estate team in the Carolinas. He is named to Charlottes 30 under 30. He is the founder of QC Capital which is a national multifamily investment company acquiring complexes of 100 units or greater in the major southeast markets. Chris’s vision has led QC Capital to become a well respected high return investment firm.

Key Insights:

- How Chris transitioned from single family real estate sales into multifamily real estate investing

- Chris talks about his goal of becoming a billionaire and how he studies billionaires to help him move towards that goal

- How setting big goals and having the right mindset can help accelerate your real estate investing career

- The importance of taking massive action to succeed in real estate investing

- The importance of education and having a mentor or business coach to achieve a high level in real estate

- The importance of relationships in real estate, and how to build a strong network

- Discussing how a real estate fund works

Book Recommendations:

Mistakes Millionaires Make– By Harry Clark

Think and Grow Rich – By Napolean Hill

Good to Great– By Jim Collins

Contact Information:

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @chris_salerno_

Facebook: Mindful Multi-Family Network