21 Projects and $1.3Billion in 4 Years In this interview, Andrew Young, the founder and CEO of NorthRock Companies, shares his journey in the real estate industry, starting from his false start in the space to building a substantial portfolio of over 6,000 units and a billion dollars in acquisitions in just a few years. He talks about the challenge…

$4 Billion in AUM, Raising $474 Million in One Year, Building an Elite Organization Starting a real estate business is challenging, but with the right advice and support, it can be a rewarding experience. In this episode, I speak with Don Wenner, the founder of DLP Real Estate Capital and the author of a new book entitled “Building an Elite Organiz…

13 Deals & $400 Million in AUM in 4 Years, Integrating Property Management, Strategies for Navigating 2023 Are you looking to transition into real estate investing but don't know where to start? Today's guest Sam Rust is a managing partner at Life Bridge Capital and a full-time investor in commercial real estate. Sam graduated from Thomas Edison St…

21 Projects & 1.5B in Acquisitions; Ground Up Multifamily Development; Opportunity Zones; Transition from Broker to Developer For many brokers, transitioning into investing can be a natural career progression, but it may be difficult to take the first step. In today's episode, I talk with Ryan Tobias, a Founding Partner at Triad Real Estate Partner…

In this episode of the "The Lead Sponsor" podcast, Andy McMullen, Managing Partner at Legacy Acquisitions, explores the benefits of Build-to-Rent (BTR) developments. BTR is a new concept in the real estate world, where purpose-built rental properties are designed to provide long-term, high-quality housing to tenants. Andy walks us through how legac…

Dan oversees all aspects of the Progress Realty Partners’ Based out of New Jersey, operations, including investment strategy, asset management and tenant negotiations. June 2019, 7 Properties, 220MM Total 70 Lead sponsor. Show Highlights: Business Overview Yield Driven Private Equity Firm Industrial, Retail Centers, Multiamily East Coast, Demograph…

Brian C. Adams is the President and Founder of Excelsior Capital, Based out of Nashville TN. Excelsior is a private equity firm that has acquired over 65 Total Projects worth over $450M in Acquisition Value Show Highlights: Business Overview Syndication Model versus Fund Model Type of assets they focus on. How his leadership team is structured Mark…

Bruce Fraser is a former hedge fund manager who, after trading to all-time highs during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, directed his attention to building a portfolio of hard assets. Bruce has been a full-time entrepreneur and investor fiduciary since 2000. He oversees the management of approximately $750M in investor assets. He has overseen over o…

Rob is a Principal at Lone Star Capital where he oversees acquisitions and capital markets for the firm and has acquired over $350M of multifamily real estate. He has evaluated thousands of opportunities using proprietary underwriting models and published the number one book on multifamily underwriting, The Definitive Guide to Underwriting Multifam…

Iven Vian is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Anthem Capital. Having retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the Air Force after 20 years, he is passionate about the operational excellence and execution of his apartment communities and their impact on their surrounding communities. Iven’s mission is to grow Anthem Apartments to 300 commun…

Guest Bio: Tom Staub is the CEO and Managing Principal of Red Oak Development Group, overseeing project underwriting, financial planning, debt and equity strategy, company expansion, and project development. Tom has 15 years of business expertise and focuses on project viability, partnerships, and investor relations. Red Oak has funded eight projec…

Guest Bio: Gideon Pfeffer serves as the CEO and Managing Partner for The GSH Group, a full-service real estate investment firm focusing on existing residential multi-family apartment communities. Gideon is responsible for strategic partnership initiatives and ventures, equity and debt opportunities, overseeing investment performance, and approving …

Guest Bio: Matt Burk is the CEO of Fairway America and Chairman of its affiliate, Verivest. Originally founding Fairway Financial Services in 1992, Mr. Burk has led their growth from a small operation to the robust market leaders they are today. He is a passionate industry coach, advising many middle-market real estate entrepreneurs, fund managers,…

Sam Hales is a Private Equity Real Estate fund manager with $300M+ AUM and Founder of the Saratoga Group. Saratoga Group was established in 2011 and is exclusively focused on the purchase, revitalization, and operation of Mobile Home Communities. Show Highlights: - Overview of Sam's company (Saratoga Group) - 6100 lots - across 17 states - 97 commu…

Stewart Beal is a serial entrepreneur who brings extensive management, marketing, and leadership abilities to all Beal Capital projects. Stewart has been actively involved in real estate, construction, acquisition, development, and management since 1997. When he was nineteen years old, Stewart founded Beal Properties, LLC, and has since founded mor…

Jeremiah Boucher is a value investor who specializes in the acquisition and development of alternative commercial real estate assets. He learned the real estate business from the ground up and currently owns and operates a $350M portfolio of high-performing commercial properties. He has had a hand in retail, office, industrial, multi-family, single…

Vehano is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Dreamstone, a rapidly growing multifamily investment firm with bases in Atlanta, Nashville, and Tampa MSA’s. Under his leadership, Dreamstone has moved from emerging to an established player in the multifamily space. Prior to launching Dreamstone, Vehano, Chartered Accountant/CPA from Cape Tow…

Ryan Smith is the co-manager of multiple investment funds, which specialize in investing, both directly and indirectly, in mobile home parks and self-storage assets representing more than 20,000 units located in more than 25 states. Mr. Smith graduated from the University of Tampa with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. An athlete, he was h…

Alix has been involved in real estate, construction, and development for the last 20 years. Alix started his career in Colorado founding his own high-end construction company and grew it to be the largest and most successful firm in Southwest Colorado. After 20 years in Colorado, Alix had a successful sale and liquidity event in late 2019. Shortly …

Steven is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of all teams within Smartland. As EVP Steven is the catalyst for all department directors to ensure the Smartland vision and Smartland standards are being implemented and adhered to. Prior to joining Smartland, Steven was an Operations Administrator at the Cleveland Clinic, where he …

Ryan Lawless, Founder and Managing Principal of Renegade Capital, has over 12 years experience as a Principal in entrepreneurial real estate. His career started in 2011 with just $10,000 in capital saved from his college bartending job. That first investment, totaling just $35,000, became the framework of his thesis that still remains today - ident…

Mike is the CEO of Growth Capital Group a multifamily investment firm that has acquired 12 assets, over 1000 units and over $100M in value. GCP acquires cash-flowing multifamily properties in growing US markets. We specialize in value add properties that provide an opportunity to renovate units, bring rents to market values, and sell at a substanti…

Jacob Vanderslice is Principal at VanWest Partners, a Denver-based real estate investment firm focusing on the acquisition and management of self-storage centers and other opportunistic real estate throughout the United States. By focusing on this conservative and growing real estate sector, VanWest has established a track record with over $195mm i…

Bruce Fraser is a former hedge fund manager who, after trading to all-time highs during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, directed his attention to building a portfolio of hard assets. Bruce has been a full-time entrepreneur and investor fiduciary since 2000. He oversees the management of approximately $750M in investor assets. He has overseen over o…

Mauricio is the founder and CEO of Premier Law Group, a boutique securities law firm. As a nationally recognized expert on private placements, Mauricio works with elite entrepreneurs who seek to increase and protect their wealth through syndications. Mauricio specializes in Reg D exempt offerings and educates investors from around the world on how …

Andrew Keel is the CEO of Keel Team, LLC, a ‘MHU Top 100’ owner of manufactured housing communities with over 2,000 lots under management. His team currently manages over 30 manufactured housing communities and 9 self-storage facilities across more than ten states. Andrew's current commercial real estate portfolio totals $92M+ in assets under manag…

Michael Becker is a Co-Founder & Principal at SPI Advisory, LLC and heads SPI’s Dallas, Texas office where he oversees all aspects of the business. Over the last 10 years, Michael and SPI Advisory have acquired over $2 billion in Multifamily Real Estate and currently have about 6000+ units under management. Join Our Passive Investor Network Downloa…

Vikram is a trained cardiologist and functional medicine physician. He is an international speaker, high-performance coach, and avid real estate investor. He has been active in multifamily real estate since 2015 and is a Founding Partner and CEO of Viking Capital Investments. As a real estate private equity firm, Viking Capital over 5000 units and …

Preston is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Well Capital, an impact-driven investment firm. With the support of their Impact Investor Community, Well Capital has funded 5 wells in 3rd world countries through their charitable partner, Charity: Water. Well, Capital is also quickly gaining recognition for their 10-year investment model, a differen…

Kris is a Self-Storage Managing Partner at PassiveInvesting.com where he leads deal sourcing, broker relations, and overall strategy for their self-storage investment funds. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he served as a Fund Manager for the university’s private equity real estate fund. Kris resides in Charlotte, NC, where he enjoys spendi…

I have built a business from the ground up with my own capital while working as a w2( attorney) including affiliated property management and construction company. Spent close to a decade investing with my own capital before starting to pool capital 2 years ago, which allowed us to exponentially scale. We are on the path to closing $100m of real est…

Ryan Gibson is the Chief Investment Officer and the Co-Founder of SIG. He has organized over $30M of private equity for Spartan’s projects. Ryan has experience managing the development of SIGs projects in challenging markets. For SIG, Ryan is responsible for investor relations and capital raises for projects. Ryan is also a highly experienced comme…

Andrew Moore has over 8 years of real estate investing experience. He began investing in single-family homes while living in Northern Colorado. Andrew’s experience continued to develop as he managed from a distance and continued real estate transactions while living abroad. As a lead Sponsor, he has acquired 3 deals worth $65MM and 630 units. GUEST…

Alan Stewart is a full-time multifamily investor and Principal at Sapient Capital Group with over 20 years of real estate experience. Since 2012 he has invested in over 3,400 multifamily units across 17 multifamily properties in Texas and Georgia, 13 of which have sold / gone full lifecycle. Join Our Passive Investor Network Download Our Passive In…

Kevin Bupp is a Florida-based Real Estate Investor, Top iTunes podcast host, and best-selling author with over $250 million of real estate transactions. His extensive investment experience spans apartment buildings, single-family portfolios, medical offices, self-storage, assisted living, and his three favorites and by far the most profitable, Mobi…

Zach Haptonstall was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Rise48 Equity and Rise48 Communities. Zach’s main responsibilities as CEO include overseeing all acquisitions, sourcing capital, and building strategic partnerships. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Grace Haptonstall. Zach’s …

Brian Burke is President / CEO of Praxis Capital Inc, a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm. Brian has acquired over 800 million dollars worth of real estate over a 30-year career including over 4,000 multifamily units and more than 700 single-family homes, with the assistance of proprietary software that he wrote himse…

In this episode, Joseph Bramante of TriArc Real Estate Partners shares how he transitioned from a corporate job as an engineer with ExxonMobil to a Multifamily Apartment Syndicator of over 1600 units in the Houston Texas Market. Join Our Passive Investor Network Download Our Passive Investor Guide to Multifamily Syndications ABOUT OUR GUEST: Joseph…

Glenn C. Gonzales, CPM is CEO, partner, and co-founder of Obsidian Capital Co. Glenn is an entrepreneurial individual with over 30 years of real estate experience. Over Glenn's time in the business, he has acquired and sold many multifamily properties on the ownership side, primarily in Texas, and is continuing to aggressively and profitably expand…

Tim is the Founder & CEO of Legacy Wealth Holdings. He focuses on vision-casting, marketing, & supporting his team of “A” players. He has built his company on integrity (doing what he said he was going to do), fairness (doing the right thing), & transparency (honesty is always the best policy). Tim has dedicated his professional life to studying we…

Karl Krauskopf is a real estate developer and Managing Partner of Auroras Investment Group. Obsessed with growth, he flipped himself out of a corporate job in the healthcare industry and is now focused on helping others make their money work extremely hard through townhome construction and adding value to operational apartments. Join Our Passive In…

Dustin is the managing partner at Momentum Multifamily based out of Dallas Texas. Over the last 10 years or so, Dustin and his team have acquired over 1900 units and over $180M in assets. WE DISCUSS: His early fascination with real estate. How he got into a networking group that exposed him to multifamily The process of officially leaving his W-2 c…

Phil Capron learned that real estate was the wealth builder for him after purchasing his first home in 2010 using a VA loan while on active duty. He cut his teeth in the business as a real estate agent and by flipping properties in Coastal Virginia. 10 years and over 500 apartment units later, Phil's focus is expanding real estate opportunities for…

Dan and his wife, Dennae, along with their 4 children (3 girls and a boy) and standard poodle, reside and work in Columbia, SC. Dan is one of the managing partners with PassiveInvesting.com which is a national private equity real estate investment firm based in the Carolinas. He has led the company to acquire 3,782+ units with a portfolio valued ov…

Prior to forming Red Knight Properties, Anthony Scandariato who graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics and Management, was a Co-Founder in Ridgeview Partners. He specialized in the retail space with a vertical model that provided flexibility to serve multiple customer segments with similar product lines thro…

Jorge is a Full-Time Multifamily Real Estate Investor and CEO of Elevate Commercial Group. He focuses on 100+ Units C & B class properties & also does new development projects. He acquired 5,812 Doors and has $400M + assets under management. He is also the CEO of JNT Construction which focuses on helping Multifamily Investors with their Due Diligen…

Jason Yarusi is the founder of Yarusi Holdings with his wife Pili. They have over acquired over 1110 multifamily units since 2017. He is an avid ultra runner and workout enthusiast. Hosts The Multifamily Live Podcast. Wakes up daily at 4:32am. Is an Aspiring Ukulele Player. And most importantly Father to three amazing kids and husband. Join Our Pas…

Matt Faircloth has been a full-time investor since 2005. In that time, he has successfully completed projects involving dozens of fix and flips, office buildings, single family homes, and apartment buildings. He controls thousands of units in multifamily in partnership with tens of millions of passive investor equity. He is a regular contributor an…

David Robinson discusses some exciting changes to the podcast as we celebrate 200 episodes. Listen in to hear what the future of the podcast looks like. ARE YOU A PASSIVE INVESTOR LOOKING FOR PRE-VETTING COMMERCIAL MULTIFAMILY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES? VISIT CANOVOCAPITAL.COM TO CONNECT WITH US LOVE THE SHOW? Please subscribe, rate, review and shar…

Dr. Jeff Anzalone is a full-time practicing periodontist in the great state of Louisiana, author and founder of DebtFreeDr.com. His focus is on helping doctors and other high-income professionals create passive income from real estate so that they can STOP trading their time for money. Join Our Passive Investor Network Download Our Passive Investor…