Multifamily Investor Situation Room

If you think you are busy, wait until you hear from Chris Roberts.  He is actively invested in many businesses and real estate investments, yet he still seems to have enough time in the day to not only accomplish all essential business tasks, but he also has enough time to spend with his family and maintain his physical health.  To date, Chris has successfully invested in over 2,200 units across the country and has a wealth of know...

Nick Ameluxen is a partner at Quantum Capital heading acquisitions and asset management.  After spending years pursuing safety in his  W2, he realized he had not reached his full potential and he wanted more.  Shortly after beginning real estate investing in 2015, he has achieved the elusive freedom so many desire.  Now, his goal is to help others understand the benefits from owning multifamily complexes and show them how they can ...

Jason Yarusi is a real estate syndicator and founder of Yarusi Holdings, a multifamily real estate investment firm.  He is currently a general partner on over 800 units with 450 units under management.  He is also co-host of The Jason and Pili Project, a project to serve those looking to lead a Fit, Rich Life.  With 15 years of business under his belt, Jason shares with us how tracking your market can give you an edge and set you o...

Rodney Thompson has worked in IT for 36 years and management for the last 20 years.  He started out investing in single-family homes and soon realized the challenges with scaling the single-family business model.  He eventually changed his strategy and began investing in commercial real estate.  Early on, he was the lead sponsor on his first deal, when several days before closing, he realized they were short on the capital raise.  ...

Tim Kelly is an active duty Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy and has been serving his country for 14 years. Now stationed on shore duty in Pensacola, Florida, he is fully pursuing his dream of owning and operating multi-family real estate and helping others realize their financial freedom goals!  Through his years in the military, Tim has not only learned the power of high-level leadership, teamwork, discipline, and gr...

Brian Briscoe is cofounder of the real estate investment firm Four Oaks Capital, LLC, which currently holds nearly $8 million in assets under management. He is the host of the Diary of an Apartment Investor podcast, which brings together experienced and aspiring investors in its weekly “ask the expert” episodes. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps stationed at the pentagon until he retires in 2021.  Jo...

Kyle Mitchell is a real estate entrepreneur that focuses on syndicating multifamily properties and currently has over $17 million in assets under management.  He is also the co-host of the weekly real estate podcast, Passive Income through Multifamily Real Estate.  His background in operations, management and logistics has given him insight into the importance of systems, and in our case, asset management.   You can have an outstan...

Matthew I. Paletz is the Chief Executive Officer of Paletz Law, located in Troy, Michigan.  Matthew practices in the area of real estate litigation in Michigan and Ohio with an emphasis in landlord-tenant law, protecting the rights of creditors in bankruptcy and national fair housing defense of property owners. He also regularly presents training sessions for his clients on both legal best practices and the technology that is offer...

Shannon Robnett is a real estate developer, and CEO of Shannon Robnett Industries, and he has completed over $200 million in construction projects ranging from multifamily, office buildings, schools, industrial, mini-storage, and more.  Shannon sees tremendous value in development strategies versus value-add.  In this episode, he shares some snapshots of his 40 years in the real estate business, including how he works with city gov...

Dugan Kelley is co-founder of Kelley Clarke, PC, which is a boutique law firm with a national presence.  He chairs the firm’s securities and real estate practice group, where he focuses on assisting clients of multifamily, commercial, and residential acquisitions and sales.  He has structured acquisitions in excess of $2 billion.  With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Kelley helps us understand some of the important legal aspe...

In our industry, we are typically told to stick with larger MSA’s that have a minimum population of one or two hundred thousand, has had consistent growth in population, income, and jobs over the past ten or more years, consistent rent growth and more.   The challenge is there are so many investors throwing money into those markets that cap rates have compressed to a point where it’s becoming increasingly difficult to make the numb...

San Eng is an international investorpreneur that has an institutional investment background in venture capital, private equity, and family offices.  In his early days as an entrepreneur, he raised over $100m, and he has deployed more than $500m in capital as an investor.  Many of us out there working on syndicating real estate investments typically focus on attracting HNW individuals, which could be either accredited or sophisticat...

Cody Laughlin is just like many of us out there that grew up in a household that stressed the importance of education and its relevance to earnings power.  In 2008, after seeing first-hand how people he knew having worked for 30-40 years were unable to retire because their retirement funds were wiped away, he knew there was something wrong with the narrative society had framed over the years.  After becoming an accidental landlord,...

After acquiring 20 rental properties, Venkat sought to quickly scale up his portfolio with multifamily syndication.  Even though he had a lot of success in the single-family space, it was challenging for him to convince brokers in his target market to give him and his partner a chance at some apartment communities that were on the market.  They shifted strategy and a few months later, took down their first 100 units, and 120 units ...

Joseph Bramante decided that if he were going to invest in real estate, he was going to go big or go home.  People he knew were buying up single-family properties at rock-bottom prices and he wanted in on the action.  The only thing was he wanted to buy 80 properties at once rather than buying one property at a time.  After running into repeated roadblocks with lenders, there was one lender that suggested he simply by a multifamily...