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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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Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis for a conversation with special guest, Mark Cira, as they discuss the importance of a diversified investment and project portfolio.
Mark is the co-founder of Cira Capital Group, a firm focused on curating diverse private real estate investments. As the CFO of a consulting firm and a registered CPA, Mark understands the difficulties that busy professionals face when seeking quality real estate operators and sponsors.
For more than 10 years, Mark has focused on finding, vetting, and developing relationships within the real estate industry. With this foundation, Mark co- founded Cira Capital Group to help other busy professionals like himself invest in private real estate. With its curated funds, Cira Capital Group is helping investors free up their time, grow their income, and build wealth while maximizing capital preservation through diversification.
Download Mark’s free e-book packed with valuable tips to help you diversify your portfolio with private real estate. You’ll learn why diversification is so important to achieving stellar returns, how real estate can help diversify your traditional portfolio, the options available in both public and private real estate investing, and much more.
Connect with Mark and Cira Capital Group on the Web and LinkedIn.
Key Takeaways:
- Keep focused on diversification.
- Don’t get focused on one type of investment or project.
- Make slight adjustments along the way on your journey. Unexpected things happen.
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Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis and a special guest, Michael Stohler, as they discuss how Michael overcame a massive failure in his first real estate experience. Hear what Michael went through after having to give back 8 single family properties and being forced to move in with his in-laws. Be sure to take notes on Michael's advise to prevent the mistakes he made early in his career!
Mike Stohler is a former commercial airline pilot, Navy veteran and co-founder at Gateway Private Equity Group, a real estate investment firm whose portfolio has included hotels, multifamily, and residential properties. Between apartment complexes, houses, and hotels, Mike has owned or operated over 1300 units. Seeking value-add opportunities and higher returns, Mike pivoted from multi-family to hotels and now focuses exclusively in this niche.
When Mike first started in real estate investing in 1999, he lacked experience and failed. Through committed action to learn, grow their skills, and help others, he has created immense change in his business and life.
Since his early beginnings, Mike has seen significant financial gain and wealth- generation through powerful real estate investing. Passionate about the impact real estate investing has had on his life, Mike leverages his experience to help busy professionals generate long-term wealth through hotel real estate investments.
Main Takeaways
You’re either going to pay through your mistakes, or pay to learn and not make those mistakes
They don't teach you how to be a landlord!
Connect with Michael
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstohler/
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis and a special guest, Chad Sutton, as they discuss dealing with buying a heavy lift property, eviction moratorium, and much more. Chad talks about the importance of being able to “think” through the challenges. One of the most important lessons learned was fully funding all the needs for the property.
Chad is one of five Managing Partners of Quattro Capital, leader of the Acquisitions team and the host of the #RealEstateRunway Podcast. Chad is a “recovering engineer” who spent most of his profession in corporate America in spaceflight with NASA and aircraft with GE before following his passion as a real estate investor. He is an “old soul” and a genuine “family man” passionate about building a time quality lifestyle and quality communities for residents.
Main Takeaways
Plans are useless after day one. Be comfortable being uncomfortable.
You’re buying a business but it’s filled with people, and dealing with people is messy.
Capital and Time can weather all storms.
Connect with Chad
chadsutton.info
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Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis and a special guest, Raphael Collazo, as they discuss using the compound effect to cover imposter syndrome in real estate. Raphael's story of making small changes consistently led to the biggest results! From starting a blog to now publishing his sixth book early this year. From there, it is possible to get creative with the action plan.
Raphael Collazo is a commercial real estate specialist with the Grisanti Group. He’s passionate about helping business owners and investors achieve the American dream!
Transitioning from a career in software, he brings a strong technical background and a love for dissecting complex problems during his client interactions. These characteristics enable him to provide innovative and effective real estate solutions to help his clients get the most out of each transaction.
Main Takeaways
Small consistent actions make massive changes over time
Get granular in your day to day activities
Connect with Raphael
www.raphaelcollazo.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelcollazo/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7nC1jzYjuwdKOV4BZh3c7A
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999334875/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk
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Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Sandhya Seshadri. They discuss how Sandhya did not have a great experience with an asset manager. She tells our listeners some good ways to avoid the same situation! Sandhya
About Sandyha:
Sandhya Seshadri has invested as a Limited Partner, Key Principal or General Partner in 3000+ doors totaling $200M in assets throughout the United States.
Sandhya has been a leader in the equities markets for over 20 years, and had moved into commercial real estate due to the tax advantages and the ability to uniquely “force appreciate” each asset. It’s become her mission to help other people capitalize on all of the benefits of real estate investing.
Sandhya is active in the Dallas-Fort Worth Multifamily real estate community, and has a network of investors throughout the United States. She has shared her inspiring story, knowledge and investment criteria on multiple real estate investing events and podcasts. Sandhya is passionate about personal and professional growth. She is active in multiple mastermind groups focused on apartment investing to continuously stay abreast of these changing times, and their impact on multifamily. Sandhya has lived in Dallas-Fort Worth for over 30 years and this is her primary market for investments. Her knowledge of the local market and neighborhoods makes her the ideal “boots on the ground” asset manager for properties in Dallas.
Sandhya has a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering as well as
an MBA.
Connect with Sandyha:
https://multifamily4you.com
https://www.facebook.com/sandhya.sseshadri.9
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Neal Bawa. They discuss how Neal took a loss on an investment in Chicago, then turned it into a tool to help him find markets. Neal goes through the whole story and where you can find his updated tool!
About Neal:
Neal Bawa is a technologist who is universally known in the real estate circles as the Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $508+ million-dollar multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in efficiency and optimization.
The Mad Scientist lives by two mantras. His first mantra is that, “We can only manage what we can measure”. His second mantra is that, “Data beats gut feel by a million miles“. These mantras and a dozen other disruptive beliefs drive profit for his 440+ investors.
Connect with Neal:
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Dave Allred on valuing opportunities, considerations in attaining financial freedom, and the value of sheer determination over motivation in attracting bigger goals.
Dave launched a highly successful 17 year career with Vivint, the nation’s largest smart home security company, where he served 8 years as a regional Vice President of Sales followed by 3 years with sister company Vivint Solar where he’s led over 100 sales teams across the country contributing to both companies eventually going public with multi-billion dollar valuations.
Dave now consults several small to medium size high growth businesses across the country helping increase profitability and expand their businesses through executive business consulting. Dave also created his unique “Lifestyle Design” program focused on living life fully with freedom and purpose. Creating value and inspiring others is his life purpose, and over the last two decades Dave has mentored and lead thousands of others to optimize their results and level up. Along with his wife and 4 young children, Dave recently launched the Allred Family Foundation which focuses on giving back to multiple humanitarian causes.
Dave first started investing in real estate 18 years ago and has since scaled his business into an impressive portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate across the country. His extensive experience includes single family, multifamily, joint ventures, hard money lending, equity and debt sourcing, self storage, senior housing, flips, land acquisition and entitlement, distressed acquisitions, inline retail, syndications, and fund management.
At age 30, Dave committed to building a portfolio with ownership in 1,000 rental doors by age 40. Having executed this goal, he’s now launched Axia Partners, a real estate fund focused on creating wealth through recession resilient passive income. His passion lies in helping inspire others to gain financial freedom through lifestyle investing, all things high adventure, and living life all in.
Main Takeaways
- Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
- How Dedication Trumps Motivation
Connect with Dave
Dave@axiapartners.com
Axiapartners.com
801-362-6386
https://www.instagram.com/daveallred/?hl=en
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Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to Real Estate (Un)Success Stories. Join your host Cody Lewis as discusses with J Scott about finding the right partners in the real estate business - the indicators of a good and a bad partner, the importance of discussing the vision, and why we shouldn’t look for a partner with similar attributes as ours.
J Scott (he goes by "J") is an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, author. An engineer and business guy by education, J spent much of his early career in Silicon Valley (California), where he held management positions at several Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft and eBay.
In 2008, J and his wife Carol quit their corporate jobs, moved back East, got married, started a family and decided to focus on real estate and investing. In the past twelve years, they have bought, built, rehabbed, sold, lent-on and held over $70M in property all around the country. J is also a strategic advisor and mentor to several companies, business owners and entrepreneurs.
J is partner at Bar Down Investments, focusing on purchasing and repositioning large multifamily project. He is the former host of the top-rated BiggerPockets Business Podcast and is the author of four books on real estate investing, including the best-selling, The Book on Flipping Houses. His books have sold over 300,000 copies in the past six years and have helped investors from around the world get their start with real estate.
J and his family currently live in Sarasota, FL. J can be reached at j@jscott.com and you can connect with him at www.ConnectWithJScott.com.
Main Takeaways
- Shifting Focus Towards the Business Perspective
- The Criteria for Finding an Ideal Partner
Connect with J
http://www.connectwithjscott.com/
https://instagram.com/jscottinvestor
https://facebook.com/jscottinvestor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jscottinvestor/
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Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Aaron Wong. They discuss how Aaron and his team took a referral for a property management group without doing much research. The property manager struggled to follow the business plan. Aaron talks about what he learned from the experience and how they apply those lessons now.
About Aaron:
Aaron is the Managing Partner of Operations at GW Capital Investments. Utilizing over a decade of investing and entrepreneurial experience, Aaron has developed a strong track record investing in real estate, focused primarily in multifamily properties. He was recognized by Utah BusinessQ Magazine as one of the top 40 under 40 while a business startup he founded was acknowledged by the same publication as The Best Kept Secret for his leadership. Aaron graduated from the University of Utah with dual bachelor’s degrees in Chinese and Asian Studies along with a Master of Business Administration. Aaron also has a master’s degree in Management with additional certificates in change management, organizational leadership, and project management from Colorado Technical University. In his spare time, Aaron enjoys spending time with his family, playing sports, and scuba diving.
Connect with Aaron:
www.gwcapitalinvest.com
aaron@gwcapitalinvest.com
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Join your host Cody Lewis as he talks with Jennifer Beadles. They discuss how Jennifer got started investing during an economic downturn. Jennifer shares the lessons she learned with our audience that helped shape her future strategies!
About Jennifer:
Jennifer Beadles is a value-add real estate investor, coach, and investment-focused real estate broker with a portfolio of just under 250 units across five states. Jennifer has 14 years of real estate expertise and has worked with a variety of investment strategies, including BRRR, value-add multifamily, build-to-rent, assisted living, private financing, and out-of-state investing.
Jennifer is passionate about helping families build wealth and passive income streams through real estate investing and living a life by design.
Connect with Jennifer:
https://addictedtoroi.com