“Be open to anything yet attached to nothing.” – Wayne Dyer

This was Logan Freeman’s mantra. When life threw him curveballs, he needed to reinvent himself from being an athlete into a student and eventually into a commercial real estate investor. He is the founder of LiveFree Investments, a successful real estate investment firm that ensures strong returns on capital from secure, collateralized real estate investments. He has found a process and relies on his most valuable priorities to guide his profit-producing activities. A husband and a father based in Kansas City, Logan continues to reinvent himself through self-improvement strategies.

In this episode, we listen to our guest’s almost 20 years’ worth of experience in the real estate industry. Edward Grey is currently the director of lending at Greystone & Co. and has been helping people find their lending needs since 2002. His specialties have evolved over time from funeral homes to skyscrapers. Tune in as he talks about the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic and how the industry could bounce back from this downturn. Learn from his insights on the market shifting that affects lending nationwide and market-specific focused. Listen to his point-of-view as far as rent collections, sponsorships, spreads, and inspections are concerned.

The doctor is in! From looking after patients to investing in real estate syndications, Dr. Cherry Chen, a full-time Internal Medicine hospitalist, is on a mission to empower fellow physicians to move to greater financial independence through commercial real estate for passive income. She founded ‘TheRealEstate.com’ and designed it to be a physician-forward resource that provides education and knowledge for those in the medical field who wants to invest in real estate without sacrificing the freedom to practice medicine in their own terms. This is something she wished she had then and now provides to over 700 members. Today, Dr. Chen’s pool of experience encompasses 2,500+ units across 9 properties including multifamily, self-storage, and mobile home asset classes, as well as raising private equities through real estate syndication.

With the right mix of circumstance and opportunity, Joseph Bramante has grown his portfolio from 26 units to 11,000 units. Living with modest means as a student, his main focus was to get a job after graduating and he never really thought of going into the real estate industry. It was pure happenstance that he landed in this industry when his company, ExxonMobil transferred him from Houston to Papua New Guinea. He discovered how many of his managers are investing in real estate and that piqued his interest. He purchased his first multifamily property in 2011 and the rest is history. Tune in to hear his story of starting from the bottom to making it to the top and how you can also be successful in this business even without prior knowledge or interest in it beforehand.

Wanting to preserve the professional legacy of his grandfather and mother, Josh Plave made sure through extensive research and careful structuring, that he knew how to deploy and manage the retirement package left to him and his sisters. This landed him to real estate investment and eventually to multifamily investment. He founded Wall to Main where he helps investors move their retirement off of Wall Street to Main Street, educating them on the potential of their existing retirement accounts and how they can diversify and leverage the funds in their IRA. In this episode, he talks about three retirement options, structure of a self-directed IRA, and the holy grail of retirement vehicles. Learn also how to maximize your retirement investments in different scenarios that can possibly play out.

Ex-Wall Street investor of 13 years, Ryan Nunes now leads Life Changing Capital, LLC to provide investors with an opportunity to grow their wealth by investing in apartment buildings. Dubbed as one of the youngest Managing Directors, he once led derivative sales teams and generated over $210 MM in gross margin by providing commodity price risk management solutions to senior oil & gas executives.

In this episode, we’ll hear about Ryan’s work in taking a sizeable amount of income to zero to neutralize it from a tax perspective, his company’s unique approach of providing mentorship with newbie investors and how he is guided by the principle that “sometimes the simple method is the best one.”

Ryan Nunes is also the host of the Multifamily Rockstars Show

Taking the typical path most responsible adults take – getting an education, a job, and saving for retirement – is only good as it gets. But take away the weekly paycheck, then it’s downhill from there. That’s what our guest for today realized that made him shift to multifamily investing to create income and wealth without relying on his full-time work. Jens Nielsen, an immigrant from Denmark 24 years ago, had no prior knowledge about real estate when he started. He educated himself through reading books, listening to podcasts, and joining a coaching program. Today, he has invested in over 800 apartment units, 500 mobile park lots, and over 4500 plus storage units. His long career in IT gave him the analytical skills to assess risks and complex deals. In this episode, he talks about his investments in Albuquerque and Pennsylvania, investments in mobile home parks, finding a good partner to make deals with, how to add value and give a good return to his investors, and the company he founded, Open Doors Capital.

Today, we live in a world where data is unlimited and accessible. But what are its implications to real estate investors? Raj Tekchandani, founder and managing principal of Smart Capital Management, talks about his background in data analytics and how we leverage software tools to analyze markets and deals in order to maximize returns and minimize risks. Under this premise, he used data to dig around his neighborhood which eventually led him to purchase his first multifamily property in the Massachusetts area. He brings his significant experience from tech startups, single-family investment, to him forming a team of experts, up to his big plunge to real estate property syndication.

Our guest is a real estate investor and syndicator, who is the founder of the Indianapolis Multifamily Investing Meetup and the current Vice President of Investor Success for the Birge and Held Asset Management.

A father of three young kids, Kent found his passion in helping others own their financial freedom by investing alongside him. Commonly, investors start their journey in real estate investing by having mentors. Contrastingly, Kent started through passive investing and by getting himself out there, looking for sponsors, creating networks, and finding people to invest with. He shares how he bounced back from a punch-in-the-gut deal that didn’t work well and the lessons he learned along with that.

Also, with more than $1 billion in assets currently under management and a 12-year track record, discover the three things that set apart Birge and Held Asset Management from the rest. Kent reveals the reasons behind building communities primarily in the midWest from criteria, yield, market, and property standpoints.

Multifamily housing partners face risks every day. To limit liability choosing the right insurance that will help clients navigate the complexities of the insurance process is, in reality, critical and imperative. Skylight Insurance is one of the modern-day insurance concierges with 75+ years of expertise and integrated capabilities. In today’s multifamily insurance space, customer insights, and sometimes partnerships with new carriers can offer innovative protection options that can address specific issues quickly, efficiently, and with ease.

Dive into this episode with Matthew to learn more about innovative risk mitigation solutions and protection options.