Our guest for today may not have continued on his family’s business in the baking industry, nonetheless, until today, he continues to ‘raise dough’, as he puts it, through the real estate business. Bruce is the founder and owner of Bakerson whose passion is to ‘serve the underserved’, those permanent renters who may never have a home but may want to live in one. He talks about the Five Pillars of his business: its passion, focus, mission, desire, and promise. Learn how he mitigates risk with his proven track record of 16 years with thousands of units bought, repositioned, and sold. Hear about how he balances among customer relations, property management, and investor relations.

Cash is the crux of any business and raising capital is one of the most challenging aspects in real estate management. Jason Wisniewski, a seasoned capital raiser who helped generate nearly 15 million dollars for multifamily projects, walks us through the process of looking for properties and sheds light on how business planning shapes the way investors look at a property. Through his experience, discover how he branched out from his local area, North Dakota, to the equally wide opportunities for real estate investing in Florida and Texas. Learn his secret on how to remain capitalized in a downturn of events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Persistence and education. That is how John Batey and Cody Laughlin approach the challenges of being multifamily syndicators. John and Cody talk about the recent gloomy economic performance brought about by Coronavirus and how the real estate market responds to it in terms of rent collections, lending, and distributions. Compare and contrast the pros and cons of single-family investment and multifamily deals. Hear their “war stories” and how they got back up after a fall. Discover also the important role of collaboration and community in building your network profile and how you can start your way into real estate investment.

Real estate property management has long been ripe for market disruption and technological platform innovation. Dana Dunford gives us an in-depth view of how her company, Hemlane Technology set an example and raised the bar by streamlining and automating the entire lifecycle of rental management. Learn some hints and tips on how to tackle system inefficiencies and the current best in class practices in solving property-tenant relationships as well as how the market is transforming itself in the wake of the global pandemic.

With 20 years of experience in real estate financing and over $1 billion in transactions, Brandi Shotwell gives us an inside look in this episode at the current lending market’s situation amidst the economic slowdown brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. She talks about projections made at the beginning of the year and how that changed over the months and what could be expected towards the end of the year. Learn about the inside look at real estate lending and how you can use the current economic situation to your advantage.

Yonah Weiss shares with us how to lower your taxes with cost segregation. With 15 years of experience in the world of education, Yonah applies his skills to the realm of real estate investing for both passive and active real estate investors. Yonah has tried his hand at single-family fix and flips, commercial mortgage brokering, and multi-family syndication. He now works for Madison SPECS, a leader in cost segregation.

Rob Beardsley, a co-founder and principal of Lone Star Capital Group Inc., talks about his journey from a computer technology background into multifamily real estate. As a real estate syndicator, he has evaluated thousands of opportunities using proprietary underwriting models and has published over 50 articles in his newsletter about underwriting, deal structuring, and capital markets. In this podcast, he talks about what underwriting basically is, areas of consideration when evaluating deals, the process of making an underwriting model, and the timeline for its execution. Discover the metrics that Rob uses

when evaluating proprietary deals and how to determine the duration of a model. Learn the different types of loans and how that shapes business models and the risks that the Covid-19 pandemic brought

to the market.

Paul started by working with international students and flipping houses. After flipping dozens of houses Paul learned about multifamily syndication and the power of commercial property investment. Paul will walk us through a number of examples of adding value to commercial properties using the value formula. Adding extra services and removing inefficiencies will allow us to boost the income and provide returns for our investors. How much is adding a Uhaul contract to your self storage facility? What are the returns on converting a K-mart building to self storage? Paul also mentions a number of tax saving strategies that can be used in commercial properties.

Bronson Hill started with investing in single-family homes and had the revelation that he could invest in larger properties by partnering with investors. He could use OPM (other people’s money). Now Bronson Hill works with Michael Blank and has raised capital for multiple multifamily deals. Bronson tells the story of his first property that he invested in Texas and how his mentor continually challenged him to grow as an investor.

Finding the right lender is key to making your multifamily deal provide a great investor return. Angelo Christian speaks to us about multiple types of mortgage loans in a lending business that he’s built which operates on multiple types of real estate projects. Learn about ground up construction loans, value add deals and loans in the mobile home park market. Learn the criteria that Angelo uses to evaluate a lending opportunity. As well as how the mortgage lending market has responded to the current Covid19 crisis.