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February marked this year’s Mortgage Bankers Association Conference & Expo. The annual summit serves as a chance for those involved in the real estate lending industry to discuss trends, market cycles and forecast conditions.

Trying to make sense of the real estate lending market?

For the uninitiated investor trying to make sense of real estate lending and financing options, it came seem like a lot to take on. There are a lot of factors that play into the overall conditions of the real estate lending market. The MBA conference is a great way for you to get a gauge on current lending conditions and alternative financing options as well as an idea of what you can expect to see coming down the road via legislative and regulatory changes.

If you can’t attend these conference, that’s okay! Each year, we talk with an industry insider who attended the conference to bring you key takeaways and insights into the world of real estate lending.

This episode, we talk with Casey Siggins, a loan origination expert with Franklin Street specializing in real estate debt and equity. Casey gives us his takeaway from the conference and we discuss what’s going on with the big players: agency debt, CMBS, and bank loans. We also talk alternative financing and lending options as well as construction loans.

Don’t miss this episode for your real estate lending outlook!

About Our Guest:

Casey Siggins is the Director of Loan Origination with Franklin Street Capital Advisors. Casey specializes in the origination of debt and equity for all income-producing properties. Previously a Senior Analyst with Franklin Street, Casey assisted in the transactions of more than $200 million in assets. Casey is actively involved with the Tampa Bay real estate investing community.

You can reach Casey directly at casey.siggins@FranklinST.com or by calling his office at (813) 397-1638. You can find out more about services offered by Franklin Street through their website.

 Resources

• 2018 Real Estate Lending Outlook

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Want to transition your single family portfolio to multifamily investments?

It might seem like a lot to take on, but it can be done! If you are a regular listener, you have heard past episodes with guests discussing their transitions to more scalable asset classes. While each investor has their own, individual strategy for making the transition, there is a common thread throughout most of these stories: they didn’t do it alone. Scaling your real estate investment goals through a transition to a different asset class might seem intimidating, but forming strategic partnerships can empower you to realize and achieve those goals.

The Power of Strategic Partnerships

This episode, we learn how a focused vision and a strategic partnership helped one investor successfully transition from a single-family portfolio to multifamily and promoted mutual growth.

Our guests this episode are Kurt Westfield and Jon King.

Kurt is a returning guest to the show, who has spoken about his own multifamily transition in the past. He is the co-founder of WC Companies – a full service real estate investment firm, as well as an active investor in the Tampa Bay area.

Jon is a single-family investor currently transitioning to a focus on multifamily. Jon connected with Kurt’s story of transition and reached out about possibilities of his own. Thus, a strategic partnership was born. Jon and Kurt are in the process of liquidating Jon’s SFR assets and purchasing multifamily properties. Jon is also forming a syndication fund – Dreamstone Investments to leverage other people’s capital into managed assets.

This episode, Jon and Kurt discuss this transition and how strategic partnerships have enabled them both to explore new opportunities on their real estate journeys. Check out this episode to find out how you can leverage and scale your investment strategy!

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Multifamily investing is often the next step for real estate investors – typically those with single-family experience – looking to scale their investing and increase earnings through investment real estate. However, current market levels in major MSAs throughout the country are causing many multifamily investors to wonder how to continue adopting sustainable growth strategies.

While many multifamily markets may be reaching dizzying heights, you shouldn’t let that deter you. For the investor willing to put in the work, opportunity awaits. A little creativity and diligence can go a long way if you are looking to scale your multifamily investments. Just ask our guest this week.

Joseph Gozlan moved from Israel to Texas in 2007, quickly realizing the single-family investment potential available at that time. From there, he asked himself how to continue scale his real estate operations, finding multifamily investments to be the desirable vehicle.

Founding Eureka Business Group, Joseph has continued to scale and his multifamily investments, applying creative strategies in secondary and tertiary markets to find sustainable growth.

Scaling Your Multifamily Investments Through Secondary Markets

• Why Multifamily?
  • Major MSAs nearing top of market
  • Huge generational shift from buying to renting
    • Baby-boomers
    • Millenials
• Looking at Secondary Markets
  • Who are the major employers?
  • What are the major economic drivers? What are the risks?
  • What is the historical performance of the market?
• Finding the Right Property
  • Focus on sustained returns
    • A-class multifamily may be hot, but B+C properties can fare better in market downturns
  • Think locally
    • Boots-on-the-ground market knowledge is key
    • Work with boutique brokerage firms
    • Build a trusted team on the ground
  • Off-market properties
    • Form local relationships in your desired market

Contact Joseph

Joseph is always looking to form relationships with brokers, property owners and sellers. If you’ve got a multifamily deal or have a question for Joseph, you can reach him be following the link below:

• Website

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We’ve all heard talk and seen the headlines that the retail apocalypse is upon us. Listening to the news, it sounds like brick-and-mortar retail centers are going the way of the dinosaurs. However, that’s really not the case. While retail is definitely in the midst of significant change, it’s certainly not on the verge of collapse. As our guest this episode says:

“Retail isn’t dead, bad retail is dead”

Beth Azor is a commercial real estate broker and owner of Azor Advisory Services. She’s also a seasoned real estate investor focusing on retail properties. Joining Terra Nova in 1986, Beth got her start in real estate assisting with commercial leasing. She handled mainly office leasing but was also involved with retail leasing, which is where her love for that asset class formed. Eventually, she worked her way up to President at Terra Nova, but left to spend time with her family and to focus on her own real estate investing goals.

She now owns five retail centers and an office building that she plans to convert to retail. Beth doesn’t worry too much about the doom-and-gloom talk concerning retail investing, despite the worries of some, Beth sees a sunny future for retail. She has developed creative strategies for both finding and filling retail centers that offer strong returns.

5 Creative Strategies for Filling Retail Centers

• Feet-on-the-street canvasing and property searches
  
  • Make physical visits to properties; open a dialogue with retail owners
• The power of social media
  • “Networking on steroids”
• Dedicated involvement with local Chamber of Commerce
  • Build trust among chamber members
• Visiting corporate offices
  • In-person visits can go a lot further than a phone call
• Small group broker networking
  • Connect with small groups of brokers; find similar interests

Connect with Beth

• Website: bethazor.com
• Phone: 305-970-0416

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The real estate market is reaching a peak in its cycle. Investors are seeing a tightening market in many major asset classes, especially in residential and commercial multifamily markets. You may be wondering how you can find deals offering great value for your investment; it may be time to start thinking outside the box.

Did you know that buying notes can be a great alternative real estate investment strategy? Instead of buying a property, you buy and hold the debt on the property. With proper understanding of buying notes, this method can be a great alternative real estate investment strategy and maximize your cash flow.

Here to talk with us about note-buying is investor and educator, Tyler Sheff. We’re very excited to have Tyler on the show. A seasoned real estate investor as well as a licensed residential Realtor, Tyler is also the creator and host of The Cash Flow Guys podcast.

This episode, Tyler will share his transition from house-flipper to syndicator. He also discusses buying notes as an alternative cash flow strategy. He shares tips for developing sustainable investment strategies and pitfalls to avoid along the way.

Buying Notes

• Buying non-performing notes can be a great strategy during a real estate market peak
• Debt sold at fraction of value

How to Invest?

• Joint Ventures: private money or IRA
• Financing through local banks

Anticipating Returns

• 12-24 months before first returns
• Investors receive preferred returns and 5 & 10 year pro formas

Avoiding Pitfalls

• When buying notes, due-diligence is very important
  • note documents mean a lot more than the property
  • watch for missing or incorrect information on notes

Investor Resources

• For more info on buying notes and debt investing, check out the Cash Flow Guys podcast. They’ve got several episodes on note-buying.
• To get in touch with Tyler or the Cash Flow Guys team, email info@cashflowguys.com or visit www.cashflowguys.com

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There’s no doubt we’re seeing a tightening market. In Florida, especially in the Tampa Bay market, we’re seeing demand outpacing construction; leading to higher prices in asset classes across the board. For investors, this means choosing the right investment property for your portfolio may take a little more work. That’s not to say a great investment isn’t waiting out there for you, it may just require a little creativity.

Ken Rosen knows a thing or two about creativity. As one of the leading innovators of South Florida real estate investing, Ken was a pioneer of condo conversions, reinvigorating the area’s multifamily market. Mr. Rosen has continued to be a driving force in South Florida real estate, working with a variety of asset classes before focusing mainly on office investing.

With over 30 years of investing experience and insight and over $500 million in transactions, Ken has earned a respected reputation among investors. He remains an active investor, mentor and educator as well as a best-selling author.

This episode, Ken provides his insight into where the market is at, where it’s heading, and how the right buying strategies can help you make the right investment.

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“One good real estate investment is worth a lifetime of labor”

Buying Strategies for Smart Investments

• Properties with long-term owners of high return opportunities
  • Under-market rates
  • Room to increase rents
• Account for inflation when writing multi-year leases
  • Office, Flex, Industrial
• Look for “B” buildings in “A” locations

Investment Properties to Watch

• Self-storage
• Multifamily

Resources

Check out Ken’s best-selling book, “Investing in Income Properties: The BIG SIX Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate” for even more insight into Ken’s buying strategies.

For questions or investment opportunities, call Ken directly at (305) 469-6708 or email krosen@kendar.com

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Florida’s I-4 corridor has long been a focus of industrial investors and developers. Connecting Tampa, Orlando and the east coast, the I-4 corridor serves as major transit artery. With recent arrivals of big names, like Amazon and Walmart committing to massive industrial developments, interest in the market has only been growing among industrial investors.

Greg Ruthven is one man who knows what makes the I-4 corridor such a prime market for industrial development.

The Ruthvens, a family-owned and operated business started by Greg’s father, are one of the largest developers and owners of industrial real estate in and around the I-4 corridor. They currently hold 85 warehouse and industrial properties, totaling over 3 million square feet.

This episode, Greg tells us why he loves Central Florida and why the area is such a hot market for industrial investors.

Industrial Investors Love the I-4 Corridor

• I-4 is major transit artery
• Central Florida has a lot of available open land to accommodate large developments
• 10 million people live within 100 miles of Lakeland, FL

Florida Industrial Market is on the Rise

• Shift towards E-commerce is driving logistics and distribution demand
• Major companies are consuming warehouse and distribution space
  • Amazon
  • Walmart
  • Major companies drive industrial demand, attracting smaller companies

About The Ruthvens

The Ruthvens have been building and leasing warehouse and industrial space in Central Florida since 1957. Based in Lakeland, the Ruthvens have deep roots in the community and specialize in a commitment to individual warehouse space needs. They build, lease and sell industrial space ranging anywhere from 1,000-150,000 SF.

To learn more about The Ruthvens and their services, visit their website.

“If you need warehouse space, you call the Ruthvens” – (863) 686-3173

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Investor, author and real estate investing mentor, Rod Khleif has done it all.

Rod was introduced to real estate investing early on. He managed to find success fairly quickly and, by 2006, had acquired thousands of properties across the U.S., including 800 in Florida.

Rod’s taste for real estate investing lies mostly in multifamily investing.

With single family properties, you can run the risk of spreading yourself too thin. It can become difficult to manage a large portfolio of single family properties. You have the potential to earn greater returns while managing fewer physical properties.

Rod also found that, following the market crash of 2008, his multifamily properties fared much better than his single family homes.

In this edition of Landlord Tales, Rod talks how multifamily investing allows you to consolidate your bottom line. He also shares his outlook on the real estate market cycle.

Consolidating Your Bottom Line Through Multifamily Investing

• Easier Property Management
  • Stockpile spare/replacement parts for property maintenance
• Stronger Buy-and-Hold Strategy
  • Duplexes/Four-plexes considered residential real estate, eligible for residential financing
  • Income producing
• Commercial Multifamily Has Value-add Potential
  • You can exponentially increase your ROI through value-add features in your commercial multifamily investments.

Market Outlook

“What goes up must come down”

In his market outlook, Rod shares some uncertainty over the future of the real estate market. He cautions investors to be wary of those claiming that a crash isn’t going to happen.

• Flippers: be careful entering into high-dollar flips
• Multifamily investing: Avoid 5-year balloons

Whatever your market; single family or multifamily investing; focus on cash flow investments. Investing for value can leave you with little options in a downturn.

Investor Resources

To learn more about how multifamily investing can consolidate your bottom line and increase your cash flow check out Rod’s podcast Lifetime Cash flow Through Real Estate Investing, a real estate investing talk show with a focus on multifamily.

Rod is offering Invest Florida Show listeners exclusive access to his new book How to Create Lifetime Cash flow Through Multifamily Properties. To get your free copy:

• Text “ROD” to 41411
• Digital download at rodkhleif.com

Check out Rod’s past episode, in which he discusses the importance of implementing practical real estate goals into your investment strategy.

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We’ve covered just about every Florida real estate market on this show. From Naples to Jacksonville, we’ve covered all of Florida’s major markets at least once; except for one. The Florida panhandle real estate market has been one market that we haven’t really touched on.

We’d like to thank our guest this week for helping us change that:

Matt Robinson is a veteran real estate investor and a panhandle native. He is the founder of the Professional Investment Guild, which provides real estate networking and education to area investors. With nearly 15 years investing experience and homegrown insight, Matt is the perfect person to talk about what the Florida panhandle real estate market has to offer.

How much do you know about Florida’s panhandle?

Due to it’s virtual separation from the rest of the state, its often overlooked by investors looking for a potential market. However, the Florida panhandle real estate market has a lot to offer investors.

The panhandle has beautiful coastlines for vacationing and Pensacola is a major economic generator in the area. Plus, the various large-scale military bases throughout the panhandle offer a stable rental market.

If you’ve been wondering about the Florida panhandle real estate market, you won’t want to miss this episode!

• Strong military rental market:
  • Eglin Airforce Base (USAF)
  • Pensacola NAS (Navy)
  • Hurlburt Field (USAF)
  • Whiting Field NAS (Navy)
• Economic growth around $1 billion Navy Federal Credit Union Pensacola campus
• Investments seeing similar appreciation with Sunbelt, but home prices remain low
• Low inventory and increased demand having an upward pressure on rental rates

Want to learn more about investing in panhandle real estate?

Matt started the Professional Investors Guild in 2013 to help real estate investors network and learn more about current market trends. You can visit their website to find out membership information. Or, you can check their scheduled meetings.

You can contact Matt directly through email at matt@professionalinvestorsguild.com.

Tampa Bay investors:

Join us at our downtown office space every month for real estate networking and educational seminars! You can meet the hosts and past guests, network with real estate professionals and learn important investment tips from expert speakers.

For more information, join our Meetup!

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Fund Your Real Estate Deal

Did you know there is more than one way to fund your real estate deal? There are a lot of options available to investors, from mortgages, to bridge lending and hard money.

For our second live podcast event, we’re looking at two major avenues for real estate funding: institutional lending and hard money from private lenders. Our panel of experts answer questions from the audience and offer up tips and insight for finding and securing real estate funding.

Meet the Panel!

• Frank Coto, III
  • Frank is the Founder and President of Lincoln Lending Group. Based in Tampa, Lincoln Lending offers flexible mortgage solutions for real estate investors and home-buyers.
• Dan Feinman
  • Dan is a hard money lender and a real estate attorney as well as a hands-on investor, with a rental portfolio that he manages. He works with Starwood Capital Group as a capital partner. Through their partnership, he has transacted over $2.5 billion in non-performing notes and mortgages, and he is presently working with Starwood to raise a national hard money lending platform.
• Bob Tosi
  • Bob is Vice President of EquityPro. Heading up EquityPro’s Tampa team, Bob assists in the brokerage of real estate for his clients: real estate investors.
• Ben Yonge
  • Ben is the Founder and President of EquityPro. He heads EquityPro’s Orlando branch. He believes that the best real estate deals should benefit all parties.

Join us for our next live event Aug. 3rd!

Our next live podcast event will be focusing on commercial and residential evictions and will be hosted at our downtown Tampa office and conference space. For more information and event details, check out our Meetup page, Tampa Cashflow Meetup.

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