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JF1555: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
Today Theo will cover another important part of your apartment syndication team, finding and hiring real estate brokers. This will most likely be your best source for deals so getting in with a good broker is HUGE for you syndication business. If you...
35 min
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JF1554: Division 1 Baseball Player Hits A Real ...
After college, Paul thought that selling pizza and beer at a restaurant he opened was the answer to financial success. While that may work for some people, after 10 years, Paul was about $140k in debt. He always had an interest in real estate so he...
20 min
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JF1553: Cleared For Takeoff: Professional Pilot...
As a professional pilot and 16 years of real estate investing, Bill was doing really well. He took it a step further recently by syndicating a 216 unit apartment community! Joe and Bill will focus mostly on that deal, how it happened, what the...
25 min
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JF1552: Think Like A Programmer For A More Effi...
Tim and his company specialize in creating great apps for companies. He’s also made a connection for us as real estate investors, how thinking like a programmer can help us a scale a business faster. He can even build an app to help us with that! If...
15 min
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JF1551: Follow His Strategy To The Rich Dad Hal...
Stefan was “sick and tired of being poor” when he came across Rich Dad Poor Dad. He sold all of his rock band equipment and jumped all in with real estate investing. After a few years, he was elected into the Rich Dad Hall of Fame! Hear his...
27 min
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JF1550: Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book Q&...
In this episode of Follow-Along Friday, Joe and Theo answer a list of 6 questions submitted by readers of the Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book. The questions answered are: 1) Do I need to visit every property from the 200-property analysis? 2) If...
21 min
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JF1549: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
Today Theo is covering how to find a great property management company. This is a huge part of your business, to be a successful syndicator you’ll need a great property management company that you can count on to do outstanding work without you...
30 min
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JF1548: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
We’ve worked through finding our market and other aspects that lead up to completing your first apartment syndication deal. Today, Theo is covering the first part of building a great team. In this particular part of the four part series, we’ll...
34 min
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JF1547: Here’s How Commercial Lenders Are Looki...
Leslie has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. She works with commercial investors and helps them get their deals funded. She’ll get creative and they will finance in situations where a lot of banks will not. Hear what...
22 min
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JF1546: From State Employee To Home Building & ...
Anthony was an employee of the state for 19 years before becoming an investor and entrepreneur. As an employee, for some of the time, he was a property manager for the state of Mississippi. He moved on to create his own business and now he enjoys...
31 min
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JF1545: 7 Due Diligence Items For Passive Inves...
Hunter is back on the show today to share a valuable skill set for almost everyone listening. If you’re a passive investor, you can use this information to vet all the deals that come your way. For active investors, putting together deals and...
28 min
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JF1544: Sometimes We Just Need A Mindset Shift ...
Mark is a well known investor and he’s back to add more value to us again on the podcast. We’ll touch on a lot of different mindset tricks and tips and hear how and why some people have more of a “drive” towards investing or working more to...
15 min
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JF1543: Five Step Apartment Syndication Underwr...
Joe and Theo are back with updates on their apartment syndication businesses. Learn the five step process Theo is putting interested underwriters through in order to train them to become expert apartment underwriters. Joe closed on a deal and has one...
25 min
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JF1542: The Power Of Your Apartment Syndication...
If you haven’t listened to the first three parts of this series, I highly recommend you do so before listening to this episode. Those episodes were 1534,1535, and 1541. This episode is all about choosing and creating your thought leadership...
41 min
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JF1541: The Power Of Your Apartment Syndication...
For part 3 of this 4 part series, Theo will be focusing on your company presentation. If you haven’t listened to or we highly recommend you do so before listening to this episode. Those were episodes 1534 and 1535. Once you’re caught up, or if...
34 min
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JF1540: Grow Your International Portfolio By Pa...
Sam and Eric are partners and working together to grow their own real estate investing business - by helping other investors also grow theirs. If you’re trying to grow your own portfolio, they have an opportunity for you. You can passively invest in...
27 min
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JF1539: Navy Pilot ‘Flies’ Through The Real Est...
As a full time service member, Stuart can only commit so much time to his real estate investing ventures. Even with that, he has been able to grow and scale his business through partnerships and raising money with private investors. To make this even...
29 min
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JF1538: Return Massive Portions of Investor Equ...
Jason is back on the show to tell us about the execution of an apartment syndication deal in which he was able to return 75% of his investors’ capital in just 13 months. We have actually heard about this deal before, about 400 episodes ago when...
26 min
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JF1537: Grow A Huge Real Estate Business By Hel...
Aaron has been in the finance space for over 20 years, and has been in real estate for a long time too. One of Aaron’s goals and visions is to help as money other real estate investors grow a business that can allow them to live more comfortably,...
23 min
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JF1536: Growing From SFR To Multifamily & Priva...
We have a treat for you today with a live interview that took place at our Cincinnati meetup. Kay is a local Cincinnati investor who has been investing in real estate for about 10 years. She started with REO’s and short sales, grew into multifamily,...
28 min
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JF1535: The Power Of Your Apartment Syndication...
Yesterday, we opened the door on the branding topic. Today, Theo gets into the weeds a little more on the topic and focuses on website traffic and conversions. Your website is one of, if not the most important component to your apartment syndication...
39 min
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JF1534: The Power Of Your Apartment Syndication...
When raising money, which apartment syndicators are constantly doing, having a recognizable name or brand could make your job easier. Imagine having such a brand that people actually come to you offering to give you their money to invest in your...
35 min
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JF1533: From Wealthy To Homeless To Successful ...
Heidi and her family were doing well before it all fell apart around 2008. She was forced to move back in with her parents (with her own kids as well) but she didn’t let that keep her down. Joe and Heidi spend most of the conversation on her story...
28 min
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JF1532: Legal Apartment Syndication Jargon From...
Mark has been guest before, but we did our shows backwards. Usually, we’ll have a guest on to give their Best Ever Advice and then come back for a weekend show after that. Well, we’ve heard Mark’s Skill Set Sunday Episode already, now...
28 min
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JF1531: Why Commercial Real Estate Investing Is...
Ash is a returning guest and a friend of Joe’s. He has a ton of experience and real estate knowledge, especially on the commercial side of the business. Hear why he laid low for a while when the market was hot and how to have more fun with real...
25 min