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In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and self-storage expert, Kris Benson. Kris is a managing principle at Reliant Investments, a subsidiary of Reliant Real Estate Management, a top 30 operator in the self-storage space. Kris oversees investor relations and equity contributions for Reliant’s portfolio expansions. In this podcast, Kris shares his inspiring decision to leave his job and pursue business in real estate. He explains how and he got into self-storage real estate and talks about advantages of getting into this asset class. Kris also talks about his involvement with Reliant real estate management and explains how and why he stays with the company. Kevin and Kris dive further into self storage real estate and discuss the current market in comparison to other asset classes. Kris shares some perspective on the business and talks about value-adds, supply and demand, the risks, opportunities and other things to be considered when acquiring space f

In this episode of the Real Estate Investment for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin brings in his good friend, James Kandsamy. James is a real estate and multifamily home expert with years of experience in asset management. He is also the director of acquisition and investor relations at Achieve Investment Group, a multifamily investment firm dedicated to acquiring and operating properties with significant value-add components located in high growth top tier US MSA’s. In the podcast, James talks about why and how he ventured into multifamily real estate. He explains why his property management structure is vertically integrated into his company, a feature which is somewhat unique in multifamily properties. Kevin and James discuss acquiring leads with today’s online capabilities. James talks about finding and adding value in properties and shares some tools and resources that real estate entrepreneurs can utilize to acquire information about the market. QUOTES: “I realized that there’s a lot of magic in multifamil

In this episode of Real Estate Investing for Cashflow, Kevin welcomes his good friend, Adam Adams, otherwise known as Adam Triple A Adams. Adam is a real estate expert and founder of Real Blue Spruce. Adam is also a fellow podcaster, the co-host of The Creative Real Estate podcast. In this podcast, Adam talks about his interesting background, how he made a million dollars for his boss in a span of twelve months, and how he eventually focused on multifamily syndication after the financial crisis. Kevin and Adam discuss multifamily investing and what it takes to succeed in that niche and in other asset classes as well. Adam also breaks down their team’s management structure and strategy at Real Blue Spruce. He also talks about strategies on how to find and properly contact brokers in a given market.   QUOTES: “If you want to get into multi-family and you’re thinking ‘it’s too competitive, it’s too this or too that’, you’ll definitely not do too well at it but if you go into it focused on ‘how can I? What a

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast, Kevin brings in real estate and retail expert David Puchi. David is the founder and partner of Baceline Investments, a private real estate investment and management company with a focus on strengthening communities by acquiring and revitalizing neighborhood shopping centers. David has been responsible for raising approximately 300 million dollars for Baceline-sponsored funds. In the podcast, David talks extensively about the retail sector and how he centered his focus on it. He explains the management structure at Baceline and the stability in their tenant base, which consists of a lot of mom-and-pop retailers. He talks about why it’s actually beneficial to help their tenants succeed. David also shares the financial strategy behind their business and goes on to explain what physical improvements his team adds to properties to increase value in the market. He shares how their business survived the financial crisis, which circles back to his f

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and note investment expert, Jim Maffuccio. Jim is co-founder and CIO of Aspen funds, an investment fund that provides returns without the volatility of traditional investment options. He is a 30 year old real estate veteran and deeply networked in the secondary mortgage industry. In the podcast, Jim covers how he bounced from the recession and got into the note business. He talks about secondary mortgages and the profit strategies he and his team employ when capitalizing on note investments. He explains the process of restructuring distressed debt to benefit investors. Kevin and Jim also discuss the dynamics of working remotely and having a headquarters for business.   QUOTES: “Aspen Funds was started in 2012, really kind of born out of the adversity and the lessons that I learned in what debt can do to you if you’re a small developer, a small fish in a big pond. So that’s what launched me into the mortgage spac

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin interviews real estate and property management expert, Josh Weidman. Josh has been an active real estate investor for over 10 years, and has successfully founded and grew Atlas property management into a multimillion dollar firm with his partners, then later sold it to TCS Property Management. He is now director of turnkey investments at TCS Investments.  Josh shares his background in wholesaling row houses in Philadelphia and how he and his partners developed a business model for large scale property management. He dives into the business plan at TCS and how his team drives big value, receiving mostly a hundred percent rent premium by converting single family family homes into three or four unit apartment buildings. Josh also talks about the cost of these renovations, other challenges and future expansion.   QUOTES: “I was introduced to this concept called wholesaling, and wholesaled my property, made thirty grand on my first year

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and multifamily expert, Jesse Worcester. Jesse is the co-founder of Worcester Investments, a family owned real estate company based in Kansas City, Missouri. He also sits as director of fundraising for capital, building and maintaining investor relationships. In this podcast, Jesse talks about the market in Kansas and why Worcester Investment decided to move their business from Oregon to the midwest. Jesse describes value investing and the intrinsic value of real estate dependent on things that can be controlled instead of speculation. He explains why he prefers a vertical structure to outsourcing property management and construction. Jesse also offers some perspective on hiring and management, and even recommends books that helped him develop his philosophy on real estate.   QUOTES: “The most boring average markets often times are where you’re going to see your greatest cash flows assuming it’s not a dying city

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes commercial real estate and finance expert, Ira Zlotowitz. Ira is the founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, one of the largest national real estate firm with over a hundred real estate professionals and they have closed more than $2.5 billion in just the last twelve months. Ira talks about Eastern Union Funding as well as one of his more recent ventures, The Ira Group and shares how he built one of the largest brokerages in the country. He explains how lending can actually help in commercial real estate investment and clarifies the advantages of investing from the debt side of things in lieu of the usual syndicated equity investments. Kevin and Ira also discuss how one can be successful in commercial real estate. QUOTES: “Over time we grew into all other deals, but we don’t forget our roots and we start this way, we find our niche and we double down on that area.” “As Eastern Union as the broker, we’ll typically wor

This episode of The Real Estate Investing for CashFlow Podcast is joined by Omar Caraballo, CEO & Co-Founder of Arch Real Estate Holdings. Omar's experience dates back to as far as he can remember. Born and raised in the RE development space, he has a long generational history of family in the business, spanning back to being mentored by his father. With the growing advancement of blockchain technology and dozens of industries ripe for disruption however, Omar struck out on his own. Arch Real Estate Holdings went on to become one of the first RE holding companies with assets digitized and exchanged using blockchain technology; one of the biggest benefits being immediate liquidity for a traditionally non-liquid asset class. Omar goes on to elaborate and clarify what the blockchain is, how it's useful in the RE space, and why it's here to stay. QUOTES: "A lot of people associate blockchain with cryptocurrencies or bitcoin. But that's really just a very minor component." "Blockchain is just a technology,

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin talks to real estate expert Ian Formigle. Ian is the vice president of investments at CrowdStreet, an online commercial real estate platform that helps diversify portfolios with institutional-quality, expertly reviewed, commercial real estate investments. He is also the author of the book “A Comprehensive Guide to Real Estate Investing”. In this podcast, Ian shares how he got into the business as a multi family home investor. He talks about the 2008 financial crisis and gives some insights into what could have been done better. Ian explains what they do at CrowdStreet and breaks down the process of how they connect and work with sponsors and investors. He also differentiates between three ways investors can invest through CrowdStreet. QUOTES: “Just because something is going better than you think it could go, well maybe you should ask yourself what’s going on there because probably it’s unsustainable.” “For every one hundred potenti

In this episode of Real Estate Investing for Cashflow, Kevin welcomes real estate and technology expert, Diane Vrkic. Diane is the founder and CEO of Waypoint, a platform whose mission is to build tools that let real estate owners and operators capitalize on their data and maximize performance of their teams and portfolios. In the podcast, Diane talks about finding her calling in real estate while being a medical student and how she came to identify some problems in the way the business operates. Diane then gives a detailed outlook on how Waypoint works and how the platform’s operational services differ in terms of the client’s company size. She also shares some important values in Waypoint’s company culture and how their team is motivated. QUOTES: “What you really have to do is to find something that you really love doing, it can’t just be the idea of what you’re doing, it has to be the day-to-day..” “What’s really interesting to me about real estate is that all the information is done manually, and it’s

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing For Cash Flow Podcast, Kevin brings in Andy Poticha. Andy is involved in the unique and independent niche of designing and building cannabis facilities across the country. His team has designed and built twenty different cannabis specific projects.  Kevin and Andy dive into the topic of the cannabis industry and the unique nuances involving it. Andy shares how he got into the business and how this venture differs from the others. He also addresses certain challenges due to cannabis’ reputation and shares some insights about the industry’s rapid growth and what the future holds for his company’s niche in the business. QUOTES: “The judgement of the success of a project for us is solely based on the unqualified recommendation from our clients.”  “We didn’t at the time ever think we were ever going to be a national business and lo and behold, new industry, new direction.”  “Right now, medicinal cannabis is legal in thirty-three states and recreational cannabis is

This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features real estate investment expert Mitch Stephen. Mitch started out buying manufactured homes in mobile home parks that he did not own and has been buying storage facilities for 28 years and currently owns 14 facilities in Texas. Mitch talks about his background in mobile home parks and why he moved to self storage real estate. Kevin and Mitch dive into the economics behind storage real estate and Mitch’s unique niche in boat and RV storage facilities located in Canyon Lake, Texas. Mitch also talks about the risks and challenges in the business and how his company was able to survive the recession. QUOTES: “I read a book called Nothing Down by Robert Allen and that guy had the audacity to suggest that I didn’t need money to, you know...you could be broke and still be in the real estate game.” “The entrepreneur rarely ends up with the business that he starts, he’s always morphing to the most money per least resistance.” “Storages are a perf

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin invites real estate expert Greg Dickerson. Greg is a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer and mentor. Over the past 20 years he has bought, developed and sold over $200 million in real estate, built and renovated hundreds of custom homes and commercial buildings and started 12 different companies from the ground up.  Greg talks extensively about hotel real estate and shares a lot of information about the business, market selection, franchising and financing. Kevin and Greg give tips on how to apply one’s self and bring value into any business. Greg also shares a little bit about his inspiring work ethic which is undoubtedly a key to his success. QUOTES: “There’s no other way to get a gut feeling for the project than besides standing on the site, looking around, taking it in, I’ll visit at night, in the morning during the day, that’s how you do deals, that’s how the business happens— out in the field, on site, boots on the ground

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin brings in self-storage expert, Scott Krone. With a solid background in architecture, Scott co-founded Coda Management Group, an international award-winning design firm which specializes in sustainable building practices. Kevin and Scott dive into self-storage real estate, which has been Scott’s more prominent venture. Scott shares a lot of valuable information about the factors and challenges concerning self-storage and how to identify building candidates for potential adaptive reuse. He also explains other aspects of the market such as financing and some market strategies. QUOTES: “The best way to make money in real estate is through the development process because you can control the acquisition price, you can control a lot more from the front end rather than trying to work the numbers backwards.” “The most important demographic that we look for is the amount of square footage of locker per capita.” “To me, the biggest factor in s

This episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast features real estate expert Michael Finch. Michael has been in the real estate business for sixteen years and he founded SFRhub advisors which is the leading SVN commercial real estate brokerage with a focus on single family rental portfolios and build-for-rent investment portfolios.   Michael explains what they do at SFRhub and talk about the management of intermingling portfolios and how they have evolved over the years. He also explains what built-for-rent is and all other aspects related to its development and business model. Kevin and Michael also trade perspectives on single and multi-family rental portfolios, the advantages,  disadvantages and the strategies involved in investing in either space. QUOTES: “We really have two divisions here at SFR hub, one is for built-for-rent new construction homes and the other is the existing single family portfolio homes.” “Every portfolio that comes in to our system, not only are we analyzing it fro

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin, along with his business partner at Sunrise Capital, Brian Spear, talk cost segregation with Kimberly Lochridge. Kimberly is the Executive Vice President for Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS), an industry-leading provider of specialty tax services in the United States. Kimberly’s business management skills have positioned her as a big-league tax expert for Fortune 500, ultra-high net worth individuals, single and multiple family offices, architects, engineers, and CPAs nationwide. In this informative conversation, Kimberly explains what cost segregation is and how it can help businesses. She also answers frequently asked questions asked by Brian to separate fact from myth surrounding cost segregation. The guests also present and discuss a case study to further shed light on how cost segregation works and tackle other topics pertinent to this business practice. QUOTES: “The difference between the 1040 and a 1040 EV is that the EV i

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cashflow podcast, Kevin welcomes real estate investment and self-storage expert, Bill Barnhill. Bill is the president of Omega Properties, Inc; a commercial real estate management and brokerage firm based in Mobile, Alabama. He has over 41 years of experience in the commercial real estate business and has specialized in self-storage for the last 24 years, having brokered over 200 million in self storage transactions. Bill gives some in depth knowledge as well as some statics about the self storage business. He and Kevin talk about managing self-storage on site and off site and the strategy of buying mismanaged storage facilities. They also discuss consolidations in the market, emerging technology and the future of the business. QUOTES: “So storage has a lot of benefits I think, it’s lower maintenance, and one nice thing is you can raise your rent, they put a 30 day notice unlike a lot of other sectors in real estate, it’s a growing industry.” “Americans hav