Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Genesis of “Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation” Book with Edy Branzei
• Why Housing Regulations?
• Gino’s View on Financial Intelligence
• Housing Shortages Despite Ample Land for Development
• Urbanisation
• Affordibility
• Rent Control

Useful links:

First episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/education-economics-and-real-estate-with-bryan/id1505750263?i=1000624154266

Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Bryan-Caplan/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ABryan+Caplan

Gino Barbara is a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. Gino Barbaro is the co-founder of Jake & Gino, a multifamily real estate education company that offers coaching and training in real estate founded upon their proprietary framework of Buy Right, Manage Right & Finance Right 

In this episode, we talked about:

• Government and Economic Policies
• Gino’s View on Financial Intelligence
• Real Estate Investment Challenges
• Happy Money Concept
• Real Estate Market Reactions
• Wealth Building through Real Estate
• Purpose-Driven Financial Goals
  
  

Useful links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gino-barbaro-03973b4b

https://jakeandgino.com/

Transcription:
Jesse Fragale (00:01.767)

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jesse Vergali and you're listening to Working Capital, the real estate podcast. Our returning guest today, Gino Barbaro, as a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. We could do a long -winded introduction here, but we've done it before and let's get it from the horse's mouth. Gino, how's it going?

Gino (00:23.35)

I'm doing good, Jesse. How you doing, brother?

Jesse Fragale (00:25.509)

I'm doing great. It's been a while. I think over a year since we last spoke. So I'm really excited to talk about what's going on in your corner of the world. In terms of where you're recording today, are you still in Florida? Do I have that

Gino (00:40.182)

Yes, I'm still living in St. Augustine, Florida. I would not leave it for the world. Best place on the planet to live, in my opinion.

Jesse Fragale (00:47.281)

So from, what was it, pizzas, pizzas on the East coast and now in Florida in the sun.

Gino (00:51.342)

Yeah. It's been a big transition. used to live in New York. I left back in 2017. I have six kids. So the kids were the older kids and the younger kids loved it. The two in the middle were like, Dad, what are you doing? You're killing me. Took them a couple of years. But then when COVID hit, everything changed. We're living in the land of freedom down in Florida. And they're like, OK, Dad, now I see why you moved down here. Then I started talking to them about property taxes and about no state income tax. And they're like, how much are you saving?

Why didn't you move sooner, dad? I said, I didn't know. What you don't know, you don't do it. So we love living down here, Jesse.

Jesse Fragale (01:25.339)

Yeah, we're just joking before the show about kind of the Canadian environment versus, you know, Florida obviously being a red state, very different, different experience being a landlord in that, in that state. So we haven't talked like I said, from the outset in a little while. So why don't you give us an update? You know, what, what's going on in your world right now in terms of, you know, what you're seeing in the market and the deals you're working on. I know

Gino (01:33.059)

Yes.

Gino (01:37.035)

I

Jesse Fragale (01:53.179)

from up north here, we see a lot in the news right now. You guys have kind of a crazy presidential run going on. There's the economies on the top of the list for a lot of business people and landlords. So what are you seeing out there and what's been going

Gino (02:08.398)

Well, the first comment that I'd like to make is I never thought I'd have to go on X to get my news. I never thought I'd have to do that. And I'll tell you, Jesse, I was never

Bob Knakal. Bob is a New York city broker. He has been doing this since 1984.
Over that time, he has brokered the sale of over 2 ,300 buildings, having a market value of approximately $22 billion. For 26 of those years, he owned and ran Massey Knakal Realty Services, which was eventually sold to Cushman Wakefield, moved into JLL for a period of time. And then recently, an investment sales and capital market brokerage firm that Bob has started. 

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Bob’s First Steps in Real Estate
•⁠  ⁠Geographic Expansion
•⁠  ⁠Post-9/11 Growth
•⁠  ⁠Service Diversification
•⁠  ⁠Approach to Sales
•⁠  ⁠Client Relationships
•⁠  ⁠Current Market Trends
•⁠  ⁠Office Market Dynamics
•⁠  ⁠Macroeconomy and Interest Rates


Useful links:
Bobknakal.com
BKREA.com

Chad has been in the industrial Real Estate industry since 2005 as a global commercial Real Estate company member and a partner with his local firm. Chad has completed over a thousand deals with clients ranging from small companies to large institutional owners as an active investor. Since 2014, Chad is co-owner of 150,000 square feet of industrial properties. Chad and Jesse also speak with Tyler Cobble once a month or once every two weeks on his podcast.

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Chad’s Bio & Background
•⁠  ⁠First Steps in Real Estate Space
•⁠  ⁠Asset Classes Outlooks
•⁠  ⁠Investing Side of Business
•⁠  ⁠Financing Deals Structure and Challenges
•⁠  ⁠2024-2025 Opportunities in Real Estate


Useful links:
Tyler Cauble channel https://www.youtube.com/c/tylercauble
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadgriffiths/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc7fHYWp9ThYaReiz8jhyQ
https://www.instagram.com/chadgriffith5

Kevin Katigback, Strategy Director Principal at Gensler. As the Strategy Director and Principal in Gensler's Toronto office, Kevin specializes in using place-making to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable environments. In his role, Kevin delivers workplace and design strategies to help his clients adapt to disruption and the changing nature of work. For more than 20 years, Kevin has worked with innovative companies to help create and implement high-performance people-focused spaces that capitalize on new technologies and cater to the shifting needs of employees. 

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Kevin’s Bio & Background
•⁠  ⁠Client Acquisition
•⁠  ⁠Global Workplace Survey
•⁠  ⁠Geography Differences
•⁠  ⁠Latest Trends in Remote Work vs Office Work
•⁠  ⁠Hybrid Working
•⁠  ⁠Company Productivity Measuring
•⁠  ⁠Must have Amenities
•⁠  ⁠Resources

Useful links:
https://www.gensler.com/
https://www.gensler.com/people/kevin-katigbak

Walter is an American  Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Walter’s Bio & Background
•⁠  ⁠Friedrich Hayek Works
•⁠  ⁠Austrian Approach to Business Cycles and Economy Recession
•⁠  ⁠Free Speech
•⁠  ⁠Monopolies
•⁠  ⁠Rent Control

Useful links:
Friedrich Hayek “Prices and Production”, “Human Action”, “Man Economy”

Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real. Estate Podcast. It is my special honor to have Walter Edward Block on the show. Walter is an American, Austrian School economist, and anarcho capital theorist.

He was the Herald e worth eminent scholar, endowed chair in economics at the School of Business at Loyola University in New Orleans, and a senior fellow of the non profit think tank, Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. How's it going? Walter? Pretty

Walter (50s): Good. I want to add, I'm not just an American economist, I'm also a Canadian. I worked for the Fraser Institute for about 12 years from 1979 to 1991. And I am a, a Canadian citizen, so I'm, I'm also, I don't know how to say out and about yet correctly, but otherwise I'm a Canadian as well. You're

Jesse (1m 12s): Out of the, out of the closet. Out of the closet on the Canadian front that, yeah, that is, that is news to me. Were you born in, in Canada or just citizenship?

Walter (1m 22s): Brooklyn.

Jesse (1m 23s): Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn. Okay. That's what I thought. Interesting. Okay. Well, you know, for those that don't know on the podcast, we mainly talk real estate with, as listeners know, we sprinkle in economists. I think you're, you're definitely unique in the sense that some of your thoughts may not be in the mainstream of, of your typical left right kind of political ideology. I, I kind of discovered you in, in high school actually, with, with some of the works that I think you wrote in the seventies, if I remember correctly.

And I just think that the, some of the concepts that you talk about touch on real estate, rent control, some of the economic aspects, minimum wage. But for those that that don't know your work, don't know you Walter, maybe you could give a bit of a background, you know, how, what was your journey, you know, become an economist and, and what you do today?

Walter (2m 14s): Well, it all started with me and Bernie Sanders. Bernie and I went to high school together for, we overlapped for four years, and we were sort of buddies because we were on the same track team and we ran the same events. I have to tell you, my Bernie Sanders joke, it's not at his expense. Bernie Sanders joke is that Bernie doesn't run away from much, he didn't run away from socialism even before socialism became as popular as it is now.

Banks, in part to his efforts, he didn't run away not only for ex-cons voting, but even convicts voting. But there's one person that he ran away from, and that's me. Why? Because we both did the same event about a mile, and his time was about four 30 and I never broke five minutes.

Brian Burke is President & CEO of Praxis Capital, Inc., a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm, which he founded in 2001. Brian is also a member of the Praxis Investment Committee. Praxis operates on multiple platforms, currently managing active syndications for the acquisition of single-family, multifamily and opportunistic residential assets in US growth markets.

Brian is the author of “The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in Passive Real Estate Syndications” and is a frequent speaker at real estate investment forums and conferences across the country.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Brian’s Bio & Background
• About Praxis
• Getting Deals
• How “The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in Passive Real Estate Syndications” Book was Born
• Investor’s Capital Deployment
• Debt Fund
• 2025 Outlook

Useful links:

https://praxcap.com/

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠  ⁠Convincing Orders to Sell
•⁠  ⁠Land and Marketing Listings
•⁠  ⁠Finding Buyers
•⁠  ⁠Tips for Negotiating and Closing Transactions

Kane Willmott is the Co-Founder and CEO of iQ Offices, a luxury coworking company with locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal. Kane has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, assisting in the startup of multiple real estate brokerages as well as a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
 
 In this episode, we talked about:

• Kane’s Background & First Steps in Real Estate
• Co-Working Workspace Evolution
• Enterprise Co-Working
• Co-Working vs Sublease/Lease
• Office Market Overview
• Resources

Useful links:

https://www.iqoffices.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kane-willmott/?originalSubdomain=ca

Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Ali, and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. My guest today is Kane Willmott. Kain is the co-founder and CEO of iQ Offices, a luxury coworking company with locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal Kane, how you doing?

Kane (37s): I'm good, Jesse. How are you doing?

Jesse (39s): Doing great today. So for, you know, for those that don't know, iQ Offices the largest Canadian node coworking operator with eight locations in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal. And I think I've got e everyone there. Is that right? Kane? You

Kane (52s): Got it. Perfect.

Jesse (54s): So, Kane, for those that you know, for those that don't know who you are, are iQ, Offices. What we'd like to do with most guests is basically have a little bit of a backgrounder on how you got into the real estate space, and then maybe we could talk a little bit of about iQ and how you got into that world after.

Kane (1m 10s): Great. Yeah, well, I'll try and make it a short story because I've been in the, in the business quite a while, but I started at a university at Pricewaterhouse, large accounting firm, and I found out very early on that that, that, that really wasn't for me in terms of the job and what I was doing every single day. And, but it, it taught me a lot about, about what I wanted to do really with the rest of my career. And I moved to Toronto that I, I went to school in Waterloo, moved to Toronto, and got into brokerage in 1998 and had the great fortune of working for Craig Smith and Brian Murphy.

Craig Smith started Asher Urban Realty. And I went over and started that with him about a year into my career. So I had the opportunity to really go through, starting up a business very early on in my career, in a fairly low risk way from an opportunity cost perspective. And, and I had a lot of great mentorship and guidance from Craig Smith. So from there started another brokerage with another partner, ultimately took a company public, and then started a company called Spire Commercial Realty, another brokerage with Alex Sharp, who's my business partner now in iQ Offices.

So we started Spire in 2009, focused on investment sales, and then in 2012 we got into iQ. So that's like the, the short genealogy of, of how we got to where we are now. But I can say in terms of why we started iQ, I started in office leasing in 98. And what I found in 2011 when we started looking at this as a business model, is that office space was transacting in t

Chris Picciurro is a highly respected expert in US-based Tax Planning and Strategy for Real Esate Investors, with international recognition as a presenter on the subject. He is based in Franklin, TN, where he currently resides with his family. Chris holds several accreditations, including a CPA, MBA, PFS, and ARA. He is an accomplished public speaker, recognized for delivering informative and engaging presentations at notable events hosted by organizations such as the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP), Michigan Association of CPAs, and the Memphis Investment Group. He also previously participated as an Adjust Professor at Baker College and Davenport University.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Chris’s Bio & Background
• Canadian Investing in the United States
• Dealing with Losses in Real Estate
• Depreciation
• Offsetting Gains 
• Tax Considerations
• Asset Disposition
• Resources

Useful links:

https://www.chrispicciurro.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/picciurro/

https://www.facebook.com/YourRealEstateCPA/

Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Alii. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. My returning guest today is Chris Paterno is a respected expert in US-based tax planning and strategy for real estate.

Investors with international recognition as a presenter on the subject. He's based in Franklin, Tennessee, where he currently resides with his family. Chris holds a number of different accreditations, including CPA, MBA, PFS and ARA. Chris, welcome back to the show. How you doing?

Chris (53s): I am amazing, Jesse, thanks so much for having me back. I really enjoyed our episode a few years ago and, and we still get people asking questions about it. So, you know, I'm, I'm excited to be back here honored and there's been some changes over the last few years that we wanted to make Canadian residents that are doing business in the United States aware of you have a an amazing following, amazing community. So I'm always, again, always honored to come back on the show.

Jesse (1m 22s): Well, I appreciate it. Yeah. you know, from time to time I get these questions about the, the original interview we did. So we'll have some link in the show notes for that. I think we also put it out on YouTube. If you just type in investing in US real estate from Canada and you put my name Jesse Fragale or Chris's, you'll probably be able to pop that video out. But to make things easy, we'll also put a link in the show notes on that one. So, Chris, we've, we probably haven't talked, if I look at this episode, that was December, 2020, which is crazy to think it's been that long.

Wow. So I always say there's a lot has happened over the last couple years, but before we even kind of get into it, why don't you give a little bit of a backgrounder for listeners, kind of who you are, how you got into, into real estate, and, you know, what you do today for, for individuals.

Chris (2m 22s): Absolutely. So, yeah, my name, my name's Chris Picciurro, again, CPA Love Real estate investing. I and I have been a CPA here in the States for well over 20 years, the last 15 years niching in helping real estate investors