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We are here to learn about real stories from our guest experience in real estate. Not every property is a great one. Every investment in real estate isn't perfect. Hear the challenges we went through so you can avoid the same mistake!
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Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with John Rubino. John returns to talk about the importance of building relationships with investors before a deal is available. He goes on to talk about the importance of clear communication.
About John:
John is the COO, Founder & Co-Managing Partner of JID Investments LLC (JIDI). JIDI is a real estate private money & equity investment firm which seeks to secure high yield returns with medium risk by providing investment capital to individuals & businesses with viable residential, commercial & mixed-use real estate business and/or investment opportunities.
John’s primary responsibilities include executing daily operations of JIDI to include marketing & advertisement, website & social media design, investor & client relations, extensive due diligence review of all prospective investor & business clients, financial & revenue analysis, & securing of investment source for project funding resulting in investment of over $28.2M for the company.
JIDI has over $20.9M invested on eight executing projects (three in Washington, DC, one in Frederick, MD and in Richmond, VA, and three in Atlanta).
John is a graduate of New York Maritime College and holds a 3rd-Mates License in the U.S. Merchant Marine. After graduation he received a commission as a U.S. Naval Officer. He served honorably as a Naval Aviator for 20 years. In 2008 he received his Master of Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Connect with John:
jrubino@jidinvestments.com
http://www.jidinvestments.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnarubino1975/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jid-investments-llc/?viewAsMember=true
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Z7lQgEOj_PQbgaSDAv4hg?view_as=subscriber
Instagram: jarubino1975
Twitter: @investmentsjid
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Anthony Vicino. They discuss how Anthony struggled with working with a friend on their first multifamily property. Anthony talks about the struggle you can run into when working with a friend in a partnership and offers some suggestions if you're going into a similar relationship.
About Anthony:
Anthony Vicino is a serial entrepreneur who has helped build multiple multi-million dollar companies from the ground up by creating efficient systems that scale, utilizing value-based content marketing strategies, and always focusing on providing exceptional end-user experiences.
He is a Best-Selling Author, Investor, and Small Business Owner who successfully managed his own personal portfolio of multifamily assets spread across the country before joining forces with Dan Krueger in 2019 to create Invictus Capital.
Together, Anthony and Dan, are driven to help people achieve financial security by providing solid multifamily-based investment opportunities in an environment of trust, transparency, and clarity.
Connect with Anthony:
https://www.instagram.com/anthony_vicino/
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Melanie McDaniel. They discuss how Melanie went against her gut feeling, which ended with losing $10,000. Hear how she's still working on trusting her gut today and why you should too!
About Melanie:
Melanie is the Founder of Freestyle Capital Group, a private equity firm that provides education and passive real estate investment opportunities to accredited and sophisticated investors. She partners with strong operators with extensive experience and a solid track record to bring investment opportunities to investors. She offers an extra layer of scrutiny on every opportunity through third-party underwriting, sponsor vetting, market research, and reading the fine print in the sponsor documents. Melanie offers a boutique experience to her investors and aims to have a personal relationship with each investor-friend.
Melanie's real estate journey began in 2015 when she read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. It completely shifted her mindset about money and wealth. She was a law enforcement park ranger at the time, and it took until 2017 for her to prepare to leave the W-2 government job to jump into real estate full time. She started as a real estate agent and went full time into multifamily syndication in early 2020. Melanie owns a 24-unit property in Norfolk, Virginia with partners, she is a limited partner on a 276 unit apartment in Huntsville, Alabama, and she is excited to have investment opportunities for her investor-partners.
Connect with Melanie:
https://www.freestylecapitalgroup.com
https://www.facebook.com/freestylecapitalgroup
https://twitter.com/FreestyleInvest
https://www.instagram.com/freestylecapitalgroup/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjooQOXNa2GikHG0ilncRuA
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Coach Trevor McGregor. They discuss how Coach Trevor found his way into real estate after other investments had went south. Coach Trevor goes on to talk about dealing with tenants, construction challenges, and more. Stay through the end to hear about his thoughts on the law of polarity
About Coach Trevor:
Trevor McGregor is a globally renowned business success coach, who is responsible for advising and mentoring Fortune 500 executives and household names such as The Tony Robbins Group and Joe Fairless.
For 25 years, Trevor has helped entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals shift from feeling worried, frustrated and overwhelmed to growing their confidence and achieving phenomenal levels of success.
Trevor works with some of the world’s top real estate investors, leaders and even high profile celebrities. One client in particular, personally acquired more than $300 Million dollars in real estate assets in less than 4 years under Trevor McGregor’s guidance.
Connect with Trevor
trevor@trevormcgregor.com
trevormcgregor.com
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Bikran Sandhu. They discuss how Bikran struggled to find ways and properties to invest out of state. Ultimately this led to finding a partner that not only knew the area but the brokers making deals!
About Bikran:
Bikran Sandhu is the COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Rise48 Equity. Bikran's main responsibilities as COO includes overseeing underwriting, transaction management, and investor relations for all assets acquired by Rise48 Equity. Bikran's main responsibilities as CFO include overseeing accounting, treasury, distributions, financial planning and analysis for Rise48 Equity. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with his fiancée Alice.
Bikran has a professional background in audit and assurance services where he worked at PwC LLP and audited Fortune 100 companies as well as pre-IPO companies. Bikran also worked at CNM, LLP and has a professional background in management consulting services related to SOX compliance, risk advisory, and transactional accounting advisory services for Fortune 500 companies.
Bikran holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with an emphasis in Accounting and graduated Cum Laude from the University of California, Irvine.
Connect with Bikran:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bikransandhu/
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Maurice Philogene. They discuss what Maurice learned from one of his early partnerships. Learn how he balances his underwriting to do organic rent growth and not increasing the rent growth all at once.
Maurice's Bio:
Senior Executive, Real Estate Investor & Entrepreneur, Restaurant Owner, Explorer of 100 Countries, Public Servant (Federal Agent & Police Officer), Philanthropist and Lifestyle Design/Wealth Coach. He is a Founding Member of Quattro Capital and his passion is living life leveraging freedom principles - financial freedom, time freedom, geographic freedom, freedom of purpose and freedom of relationships. He uses real estate and professional careers to generate passive income and build legacy all while empowering communities and helping others live their best life now through lifestyle design.
Maurice is based in Washington DC and the Mediterranean Region.
• 300+ acquisitions & dispositions over 17 years
• Built a portfolio of 35 single family homes by age 30.
• Formed Quattro Capital in 2019
• 13 Apartment Complex Acquisitions in 18 month period starting Jan 2020
• Owner of Apartment Complexes and Mobile Home Communities across 8 states
• International Real Estate Developer operating in the Mediterranean Region (Island apartments and townhomes communities)
• The really cool stuff – Sponsors aspiring investors and, so far, coached them to close 17 complexes and parks over the past two years. He loves this part the most
Connect with Maurice:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricephilogene/
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Monick Halm. They discuss one of Monick's first syndication deals ended up being more of a D property than a C. She talks about the struggles with maintaining the property. Hear how she used this experience to generate better metrics for measuring a market and submarket.
Monick's Bio:
Monick Halm is the founder of Real Estate Investor Goddesses. She is an educator and advocate for female real estate investors, and has a mission to help 1 million women achieve financial freedom through real estate. Monick is herself a real estate investor and syndicator, and owns, together with her investors, over 1300 rental doors across seven states.
She is also a #1 bestselling author, podcast host, Real Estate Strategy Mentor, wife, and mother of three amazing kids.
Connect with Monick:
https://www.realestateinvestorgoddesses.com
https://www.facebook.com/RealEstateInvestorGoddesses/
https://www.instagram.com/reigoddesses/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_xuBDoWBe_j0-OtCaaJcnA
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Gino Barbaro. They discuss one of Gino's first deals when he passively invested with a sponsor without understanding the deal at all. Hear what Gino says anyone looking to passively invest should do before they invest in a deal.
About Gino:
Gino Barbaro is an investor, business owner, best-selling author and entrepreneur. He has grown his real estate portfolio to over $100,000,000 in assets under management, and is the co-founder of Jake &Gino, a multifamily real estate education company that offers coaching and training in real estate founded upon their framework of Buy Right, Manage Right & Finance Right®. He currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida with his beautiful wife Julia and their six children.
He is the best-selling author of three books, Wheelbarrow Profits, The Honey Bee and Family, Food and the Friars. Gino graduated from IPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) where he earned his designation as a Certified Professional Coach. He currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida with his beautiful wife Julia and their six children.
Connect with Gino:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gino-barbaro-03973b4b/
https://www.instagram.com/jakeandgino/
https://www.facebook.com/jakeandgino
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc3wzHivzXxcgSTtDam4vnw?view_as=subscriber
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Kent Ritter. They discuss how Kent lost money passively investing in his second deal ever. Kent talks about the importance of vetting out a sponsor even if you're passively investing! Be sure to listen until the end when Kent tells us what you should look for in a sponsor and understanding the deal!
About Kent:
Kent is CEO of Hudson Investing, a multifamily private equity firm. Kent's skillset as a multifamily operator draws from a successful career as a management consultant and startup owner. Now, he applies this skillset to transform apartment buildings and create modern, affordable housing for America's workforce. Kent's career pivot was driven by a desire to free his time and focus on being a great husband and father to his three kids. Now, having found financial freedom through real estate investing, Kent wants to help others do the same. He serves as a thought leader and educator through his podcast, Ritter on Real Estate; monthly networking event, Indianapolis Multifamily Investing Meetup; and his website, kentritter.com, which acts as an informational hub for other investors.
Connect with Kent:
https://www.kentritter.com
https://www.instagram.com/ritteronrealestate/
https://www.facebook.com/RitteronRealEstate/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentritter/
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Angel Williams. They discuss how Angel grew up in a real estate family as well as her husband. Learning from her youth, she saw the benefit of having property managers for her investments. Angel also talks about the importance of vetting out syndication operators!
Angel has been involved in real estate investing her whole life but began her personal real estate investing journey in 2003. She is a Co-Founder of The Academy Presents and a Managing Partner of Lorren Capital, LLC. Angel has experience in Single Family Home Rentals, small Multifamily Home Rentals, and Passive Investing in Multifamily Syndication deals. Angel graduated from Baylor University in 2000 with a BBA in Economics, and in 2002 with a MS in Economics.
Angel is a mother to three daughters and one special needs son. While she is now a full time Real Estate Professional, she only recently retired from teaching middle school. Not giving up on educating altogether, she still teaches economics on the college level part-time. Providing educational opportunities will always be her heart and theacademypresents.com is the vehicle for her passion of spreading real estate investing education.
The Academy Presents REI Rocks brings together industry experts from around the nation, and beyond, to share their knowledge and experience with others in the REI space. With a goal of becoming one of the top sources for real estate investing information and connections across the many facets of real estate investing, Angel hopes to break down perceived barriers in investment types and tools.