Commercial Real Estate Investing From A-Z
Getting started with Commercial Real Estate Investing, or an experienced investor? This is a weekly podcast on the steps that I take to make my Commercial Real Estate investments (Retail, Office, Self Storage, etc) including successes and lessons learned. We cover advanced techniques for purchasing, operating, and exiting your properties, from the best people in the industry. You will learn everything you need to know about real estate investing. We are based in San Francisco / Silicon Valley and also cover how technology affects Commercial Real Estate, and how you can stay ahead of the game. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/best-commercial-retail-real-estate-investing-advice-ever/support (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/best-commercial-retail-real-estate-investing-advice-ever/support)
Episodes
With regards to SEC exemptions and compliance, what are some of the common mistakes that syndicators make? What are potential consequences if the SEC finds out you paid a GP to raise capital? How would you structure a deal for the GP's and LP's to hold real estate forever and get infinite cashflow? What are some of the legal challenges and opportunities in real estate investing today? Jonathan Tavares, Managing Part...
What are the pros and cons of office, retail, and industrial? What should your real estate agent do for you as a buyer? How to get over fear in real estate investing? Trinity (Trent) Herrera, commercial director and real estate consultant of Black Tie Real Estate, shares his insights.
Read the entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/4dzzaart
The pros and cons of office
Professionals need an office, so it's a staple in downtown ar...
What should be your acquisition targets and goals as an investor? What are the pros and cons of different asset classes? What should your real estate agent do for you and what should you do as an operator? Trinity (Trent) Herrera, commercial director and real estate consultant of Black Tie Real Estate, shares his knowledge.
Read the interview here: https://tinyurl.com/54p9jcvm
How should people decide their acquisition ...
How to make sure a syndicator/operator cares about your money as an investor, what can you do to mitigate the risk of investing with a bad operator? Trinity (Trent) Herrera, commercial director and real estate consultant of Black Tie Real Estate, shares his knowledge.
Read the entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/mr4ces9c
How can a passive investor know that a syndicator/operator cares about their money?
We've all looked at de...
What is the state of syndications today? How to structure a syndication for protection purposes? Major differences between funds vs syndications and why are funds popular today? Jonathan Tavares, Managing Partner at Premier Law Group, shares his insights.
Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/25hhhjsf
What is the state of the market today? What are the IRRs looking like? Are you seeing more or fewer deals come across y...
How can new investors get started in the self-storage industry? What technologies are transforming the self-storage industry? What are the biggest challenges in self-storage management? Amy Jenkins and Kathryn East, co-founders of Omni Asset Management Group, share their knowledge.
Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/mrxzdtu9
What are some of the biggest things that we should keep in mind with regard to evaluating a p...
What are the terms for an SBA construction loan? Can you refinance from a conventional loan into an SBA loan? Is there an 100% financing option with SBA? How many SBA loans can you take? Anne Mino, Senior Loan Officer at LiveOak Bank, shares her knowledge.
Read the entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/yu5ufr49
Can we get an SBA loan for development?
For construction, these loans are even more attractive. We offer a 26-year ter...
Can you buy a property with 10-15% down payment? What are SBA loans and why do they matter? Which asset classes qualify for an SBA loan? Can you get working capital on your loan? Is there a prepayment penalty? Can an SBA loan be fixed or variable? Can an SBA loan be assumable? Can the SBA be a second loan on a property? Anne Mino, Sr Loan Officer at LiveOak Bank shares her insights.
You can read the entire interview here: https://ti...
Which real estate markets are growing more rapidly in the US, and why? What will happen to construction costs given the on and off tariffs? Pike Oliver, author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch shares his insights.
Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/5fxk6ydm
Regarding markets from your newsletter, the few growing cities are Raleigh, North Carolina, Gainesville, Georgia, and smaller, large metro areas.
There are ab...
Will there be real estate opportunities in the Palisades area of California after the fire? What is the current state of the real estate industry, and what is the outlook for 2025? Pike Oliver, real estate veteran in master planned communities, and co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch book, shares his insights.
How do you think that is impacting real estate professionals that are related to rebuilding in the are...
How to negotiate better loan terms and manage lender relationships? We will also cover top lessons learned at the latest conference and evens, and what is the current state of the market?
Read this interview here: https://tinyurl.com/yf53zdpu
Lessons Learned
- Some of the Dollar Stores that closed are now selling in bankruptcy for a huge discount.
- There are so many ways you can partner up with people, you can do a JV (joint v...
What are some retail trends that may not be so obvious today? Why should you add a retail component to your multi-family project? How to host a successful popup in your center? Edie Weintraub, Founder and Managing Director of Terra Alma, shares her insights.
Read this interview here: https://tinyurl.com/v25xssbn
We all know that retail is changing. It's a lot more service-oriented today, and it will be even more moving forward as...
How to repurpose real estate? How to negotiate a contract in an expensive area? How to work with the city to get your project entitled? These were notes from a development event we attended.
Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/9624cn5k
Smart developers are in touch with their city representatives. The city is a great resource for leads. If you meet with them, they will tell you: that’s a bad land owner, or we want thi...
What is the current state of the economy and real estate market? What are the opportunities and challenges in the commercial real estate market? Michael Ryan, an investor and loan broker with over 23 years of experience, shares his knowledge.
Read this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/49eua957
Based on all of your readings so far, what is happening right now?
The two fundamentals for generating wealth in the US have not changed, ...
What type of industrial building is Chad Griffiths investing in today? What are the downsides of the industrial asset class? Chad Griffiths, Partner and Commercial Real Estate Agent at NAI Commercial Real Estate shares his knowledge.
Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/mre9kmt4
What are you investing in right now?
I like very simple buildings that can be used for multiple purposes, and my favorite is Flex Industri...
What are the latest news in industrial real estate? How to predict what kind of industrial will be in demand in the future? What are some characteristics of an industrial building that would allow you to have different types of tenants? Chad Griffiths, Partner and Commercial Real Estate Agent at NAI Commercial Real Estate shares his knowledge.
Read this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/mvnjh5sp
What are some of the latest things hap...
Why should you have a mid-term rental? What are the pros and cons of mid-term rentals? What do corporations look for when looking for corporate housing? Angela Healy, CEO of AvenueWest Managed Corporate Housing shares her knowledge.
Read this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/4uaeke3p
What are midterm rentals? Why should someone have to offer a midterm rental as an investor?
Most people are very familiar with long-term unfurnished ren...
How to determine the highest and best use for a piece of land? What is a new product that is in high demand in certain areas? What systems to put in place to manage a growing company? Amy Johnson, managing partner of Y Street Capital, shares her knowledge.
Read this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/4ajk387f
How to find the highest and best use for a piece of land?
It comes down to vision. For us and our process, if it's under 5 acres...
How to form a successful partnership as real estate operators, what are some of the important tools and processes to make your company run smoothly? Amy Johnson, managing partner of Y Street Capital, shares her knowledge.
Read the interview here: https://tinyurl.com/bddxjmvv
How did you partnership come about?
My husband and I decided to get into the rental game market of residential houses and we turned our own little primary house i...
What are the lessons learned from the very first development? What factors to look out for when looking for a land to be developed? What is the state of retail sales and leasing today in a specific market and are prices coming down? Raphael Collazo, Associate Broker at Grisanti Group Commercial Real Estate, shares his insights.
Read the interview here: https://tinyurl.com/ymmwthzz
What is happening in your area and market?
Probably si...
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