REady2Scale - Real Estate Investing
Join Blue Lake Capital's Jeannette Robinson as she puts the spotlight on some of the most successful investors across the globe on REady2Scale. Increase your real estate investing knowledge, be inspired to drive towards higher goals, and get ready to scale your portfolio, business & life. With REady2Scale, you’ll meet like-minds sharing wisdom and passion to help you grow your wealth and live an extraordinary life! REady2Scale is brought to you by Blue Lake Capital, a private equity real estate firm focused on large multifamily properties. To learn more about Blue Lake, visit: www.bluelake-capital.com
Episodes
May 31, 2023 • 24 mins
Jenny Gou traded a successful corporate career for real estate, where she discovered limitless possibilities & achieved unprecedented growth.
Now managing partner at Vertical Street Ventures (VSV), Jenny shares a story of balancing priorities, finding opportunities, and creating a thriving business that should inspire those seeking to make a career shift & achieve financial independence.
For the video interview, visit: https://yout...
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Real estate markets in 2023 have seen many changes compared to the previous year. To gain a better understanding of these developments, we were joined once again by our own Ryan Rasieleski to share his insights on how '23 is playing out differently.
He discusses the stabilization of the multifamily real estate market, rental growth trends, transaction volume & the impact of the Federal Reserve's actions. Additionally, since we're b...
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May 17, 2023 • 25 mins
Are you a real estate investor seeking high returns without the headaches?
Learn how Johnny Wolff's innovative approach to "home sharing" is disrupting the market and attracting investors nationwide.
Johnny's interest in real estate investing began in 2008 when he purchased a single family home in Midland, Texas. Recognizing the exceptional investment potential, he ventured into buying multiple single family homes in Austin, renti...
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May 10, 2023 • 26 mins
Imagine a journey that starts with a 12-year-old entrepreneur mowing lawns and ends with a visionary CEO overseeing multimillion-dollar real estate acquisitions, all while navigating the complexities of partnerships and exploring unique investment opportunities like opportunity zones.
Nick Simpson, the founder and CEO of Mentis Capital Partners, shares his remarkable trajectory and reveals unconventional strategies to tackle the ch...
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We don't want real losses but it's great to get a tax loss that doesn't actually represent an economic loss.
If anyone knows how to make the most of real estate tax strategies and benefits, it's Bernard Reisz.
Bernard is the Chief Education Officer of ReSure Financial Services, which specializes on investor tax tools to accelerate and protect the growth of investors assets and wealth, and he helps ensure his clients are maximizing...
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April 26, 2023 • 25 mins
If you're a US based real estate investor looking north of the border, it's helpful to know the differences in commercial real estate investing between the countries.
Who better to talk to than Riley Oinkle; the CEO & Founder of RO Capital Investments Inc.
Rley has build a hybrid portfolio of short term and long term rentals and shares some of the investing tips that have made his businesses so successful.
He uses short term and...
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April 22, 2023 • 17 mins
When you invest in real estate, do you want to get in at the market top or at the bottom?
Blue Lake Capital's CEO, Ellie Perlman, looks at the current environment and breaks down what you need to know to successfully invest in real estate today.
The current market has been pretty difficult, but we know we're usually at or close to the bottom when the feeling is overly pessimistic & gloomy and everyone feels like real estate is a ba...
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April 19, 2023 • 24 mins
Arn Cenedella knows that real estate is a long-term game.
The founder of Spark Investment Group began his real estate career in 1978 and worked in residential brokerage until 2014. Over that time, he's been through at least 3 or 4 economic cycles, and he knows they repeat themselves.
While there have been tremendous boom times over his career, there has also been disruption and pullback. As Arn likes to say: "A little rain must f...
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April 12, 2023 • 21 mins
Bob Lachance thought he would play hockey forever.
The former St. Louis Blues wing knew that wouldn't really happen, of course, but after he hung up his skates for the last time he's certainly kept himself busy. The key was to just get started, and now he's focused on being "in the game" on a daily basis.
As Bob tells us, "If you're interested in real estate, get started because you never know if you're going to end up buying into...
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April 5, 2023 • 27 mins
Red Sea Capital's Caleb Johnson learned early on that real estate is a team sport.
Whether it was learning from his parents or searching out a mentor, he realized that in order to scale his holdings the way he wanted to at a young age, it would take strong advice and guidance.
He started his entrepreneurial journey when he was just 18 years old. Now, at the age of 25, he's helping other investors realize their goals of building p...
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April 1, 2023 • 32 mins
If you're a passive real estate investor, are you making the most of your tax benefits?
We recently hosted Larry D. West, III for a webinar focused on making sure you can take full advantage of your investments.
Larry is the Founder & Managing Partner of Precision Business Strategies, a nationally renowned business strategy and consulting firm. Their team of accounting, tax, and business strategists have a strong niche focus in rea...
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March 29, 2023 • 26 mins
When Litan Yahav started investing in real estate, he quickly found that owning rental properties wasn't very passive, so he began to focus on investing in real estate syndications.
The biggest challenge he & his friends found with investing in syndications was finding people they could trust, and it was becoming too unwieldy managing all of the spreadsheets and post-it notes trying to track all of their investments.
That's when th...
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March 22, 2023 • 25 mins
People are looking for freedom right now.
For those with highly appreciated assets, they're facing 25-50% in capital gains tax and, if current proposals go through, that could increase by another 20%.
That's where Brett Swarts & the team Capital Gains Tax Solutions come in. They're passionate about helping people create freedom and making an impact by unlocking capital. Their team is focused on helping individuals sell their busine...
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March 15, 2023 • 19 mins
Mobile home parks may not be the most glamorous real estate sector to invest in but, as Voyage Investing's Amanda Cruise shares, it can be among the most profitable.
Voyage brings a mobile home value add strategy to the table, the look for parks where they can go in and get the infrastructure up to a better standard and, of course, improve the net operating income to force that appreciation.
With mobile home parks, the market can b...
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March 8, 2023 • 42 mins
As much as rents have risen over the past several years, the gap between home ownership and renting is the largest in history by a very, very wide margin, according to Neal Bawa.
Neal is the CEO and Founder of Multifamily University and Grocapitus Investments, he's a technologist who is universally known in real estate circles as the "Mad Scientist of Multifamily".
As he looks at the current state of the markets, he sees “Build To...
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For Kyle Bambu, age is just a number when it comes to his real estate investing career.
The 24 year old didn't originally mean to get into the real estate game, he graduated with an aerospace degree from Penn tate and immediately starting working on jet engines for Honeywell.
His engineering/analytical background paid off for him, however, when some friends were talking about the wealth building possibilities of real estate. When ...
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February 22, 2023 • 39 mins
The past several years have delivered phenomenal returns for real estate investors.
Today's markets are quite different, however, and there are a lot of people that have gotten in the game after the great financial crisis and they've seen nothing but a rising tide.
Jake Wiley has gone full cycle on his investments and he knows that, in real estate, the vast majority of real wealth is made during downturns and he's on a mission to h...
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February 15, 2023 • 42 mins
For the video interview, visit: https://youtu.be/UZmFSIYDwiQ
Garret Bedrin is a third generation real estate developer, sponsor, and operator with the Bedrin Organization. He's also been a top season ticket executive for the Golden State Warriors and has been recognized as a Franchisee of the Year by Salons by JC.
As Garret likes to say, you need to be interested and interesting.
He calls his approach having strategy with a little...
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February 8, 2023 • 30 mins
Blue Lake Capital's own Ryan Rasieleski joins Jeannette to examine the latest move by the Fed to raise interest rates by 25 basis points, plus the ongoing job cuts we've been seeing, especially at tech companies. He breaks down what it all means for the multifamily market.
For the video interview, visit: https://youtu.be/uRjenKOpHDg
With regards to seeing higher rates for longer, it will certainly impact transaction volume and we'v...
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February 1, 2023 • 19 mins
Ellie Perlman, Blue Lake Capital's Founder & CEO, joins Jeannette Robinson to talk about the main challenges and opportunities that we're seeing in the market. Right here, right now.
(For the video interview, visit: https://youtu.be/i4SeGbKXQfw)
One thing that everyone is talking about is debt. That's one of the main challenges right now because Loan to Value has gone down significantly. In the past, you know, operators & real est...
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