Episodes
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Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.
In this episode, we talked about:
Genesis of “Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation” Book with Edy BranzeiWhy Housing Regulations?Gino’s View on Financial IntelligenceHousing Shortages Despite Ample Land for DevelopmentUrbanisationAffordibilityRent ControlUseful links:
First episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/education-economics-and-real-estate-with-bryan/id1505750263?i=1000624154266
Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Bryan-Caplan/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ABryan+Caplan
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Gino Barbara is a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. Gino Barbaro is the co-founder of Jake & Gino, a multifamily real estate education company that offers coaching and training in real estate founded upon their proprietary framework of Buy Right, Manage Right & Finance Right
In this episode, we talked about:
Government and Economic PoliciesGino’s View on Financial IntelligenceReal Estate Investment ChallengesHappy Money ConceptReal Estate Market ReactionsWealth Building through Real EstatePurpose-Driven Financial GoalsUseful links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gino-barbaro-03973b4b
https://jakeandgino.com/
Transcription:
Jesse Fragale (00:01.767)Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jesse Vergali and you're listening to Working Capital, the real estate podcast. Our returning guest today, Gino Barbaro, as a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. We could do a long -winded introduction here, but we've done it before and let's get it from the horse's mouth. Gino, how's it going?
Gino (00:23.35)
I'm doing good, Jesse. How you doing, brother?
Jesse Fragale (00:25.509)
I'm doing great. It's been a while. I think over a year since we last spoke. So I'm really excited to talk about what's going on in your corner of the world. In terms of where you're recording today, are you still in Florida? Do I have that
Gino (00:40.182)
Yes, I'm still living in St. Augustine, Florida. I would not leave it for the world. Best place on the planet to live, in my opinion.
Jesse Fragale (00:47.281)
So from, what was it, pizzas, pizzas on the East coast and now in Florida in the sun.
Gino (00:51.342)
Yeah. It's been a big transition. used to live in New York. I left back in 2017. I have six kids. So the kids were the older kids and the younger kids loved it. The two in the middle were like, Dad, what are you doing? You're killing me. Took them a couple of years. But then when COVID hit, everything changed. We're living in the land of freedom down in Florida. And they're like, OK, Dad, now I see why you moved down here. Then I started talking to them about property taxes and about no state income tax. And they're like, how much are you saving?
Why didn't you move sooner, dad? I said, I didn't know. What you don't know, you don't do it. So we love living down here, Jesse.
Jesse Fragale (01:25.339)
Yeah, we're just joking before the show about kind of the Canadian environment versus, you know, Florida obviously being a red state, very different, different experience being a landlord in that, in that state. So we haven't talked like I said, from the outset in a little while. So why don't you give us an update? You know, what, what's going on in your world right now in terms of, you know, what you're seeing in the market and the deals you're working on. I know
Gino (01:33.059)
Yes.
Gino (01:37.035)
I
Jesse Fragale (01:53.179)
from up north here, we see a lot in the news right now. You guys have kind of a crazy presidential run going on. There's the economies on the top of the list for a lot of business people and landlords. So what are you seeing out there and what's been going
Gino (02:08.398)
Well, the first comment that I'd like to make is I never thought I'd have to go on X to get my news. I never thought I'd have to do that. And I'll tell you, Jesse, I was never
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Bob Knakal. Bob is a New York city broker. He has been doing this since 1984.
Over that time, he has brokered the sale of over 2 ,300 buildings, having a market value of approximately $22 billion. For 26 of those years, he owned and ran Massey Knakal Realty Services, which was eventually sold to Cushman Wakefield, moved into JLL for a period of time. And then recently, an investment sales and capital market brokerage firm that Bob has started.
In this episode, we talked about:
• Bob’s First Steps in Real Estate
• Geographic Expansion
• Post-9/11 Growth
• Service Diversification
• Approach to Sales
• Client Relationships
• Current Market Trends
• Office Market Dynamics
• Macroeconomy and Interest Rates
Useful links:
Bobknakal.com
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Chad has been in the industrial Real Estate industry since 2005 as a global commercial Real Estate company member and a partner with his local firm. Chad has completed over a thousand deals with clients ranging from small companies to large institutional owners as an active investor. Since 2014, Chad is co-owner of 150,000 square feet of industrial properties. Chad and Jesse also speak with Tyler Cobble once a month or once every two weeks on his podcast.
In this episode, we talked about:
• Chad’s Bio & Background
• First Steps in Real Estate Space
• Asset Classes Outlooks
• Investing Side of Business
• Financing Deals Structure and Challenges
• 2024-2025 Opportunities in Real Estate
Useful links:
Tyler Cauble channel https://www.youtube.com/c/tylercauble
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadgriffiths/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc7fHYWp9ThYaReiz8jhyQ
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Kevin Katigback, Strategy Director Principal at Gensler. As the Strategy Director and Principal in Gensler's Toronto office, Kevin specializes in using place-making to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable environments. In his role, Kevin delivers workplace and design strategies to help his clients adapt to disruption and the changing nature of work. For more than 20 years, Kevin has worked with innovative companies to help create and implement high-performance people-focused spaces that capitalize on new technologies and cater to the shifting needs of employees.
In this episode, we talked about:
• Kevin’s Bio & Background
• Client Acquisition
• Global Workplace Survey
• Geography Differences
• Latest Trends in Remote Work vs Office Work
• Hybrid Working
• Company Productivity Measuring
• Must have Amenities
• Resources
Useful links:
https://www.gensler.com/
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Walter is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama
In this episode, we talked about:
• Walter’s Bio & Background
• Friedrich Hayek Works
• Austrian Approach to Business Cycles and Economy Recession
• Free Speech
• Monopolies
• Rent Control
Useful links:
Friedrich Hayek “Prices and Production”, “Human Action”, “Man Economy”
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real. Estate Podcast. It is my special honor to have Walter Edward Block on the show. Walter is an American, Austrian School economist, and anarcho capital theorist.He was the Herald e worth eminent scholar, endowed chair in economics at the School of Business at Loyola University in New Orleans, and a senior fellow of the non profit think tank, Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. How's it going? Walter? Pretty
Walter (50s): Good. I want to add, I'm not just an American economist, I'm also a Canadian. I worked for the Fraser Institute for about 12 years from 1979 to 1991. And I am a, a Canadian citizen, so I'm, I'm also, I don't know how to say out and about yet correctly, but otherwise I'm a Canadian as well. You're
Jesse (1m 12s): Out of the, out of the closet. Out of the closet on the Canadian front that, yeah, that is, that is news to me. Were you born in, in Canada or just citizenship?
Walter (1m 22s): Brooklyn.
Jesse (1m 23s): Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn. Okay. That's what I thought. Interesting. Okay. Well, you know, for those that don't know on the podcast, we mainly talk real estate with, as listeners know, we sprinkle in economists. I think you're, you're definitely unique in the sense that some of your thoughts may not be in the mainstream of, of your typical left right kind of political ideology. I, I kind of discovered you in, in high school actually, with, with some of the works that I think you wrote in the seventies, if I remember correctly.
And I just think that the, some of the concepts that you talk about touch on real estate, rent control, some of the economic aspects, minimum wage. But for those that that don't know your work, don't know you Walter, maybe you could give a bit of a background, you know, how, what was your journey, you know, become an economist and, and what you do today?
Walter (2m 14s): Well, it all started with me and Bernie Sanders. Bernie and I went to high school together for, we overlapped for four years, and we were sort of buddies because we were on the same track team and we ran the same events. I have to tell you, my Bernie Sanders joke, it's not at his expense. Bernie Sanders joke is that Bernie doesn't run away from much, he didn't run away from socialism even before socialism became as popular as it is now.
Banks, in part to his efforts, he didn't run away not only for ex-cons voting, but even convicts voting. But there's one person that he ran away from, and that's me. Why? Because we both did the same event about a mile, and his time was about four 30 and I never broke five minutes.
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Brian Burke is President & CEO of Praxis Capital, Inc., a vertically integrated real estate private equity investment firm, which he founded in 2001. Brian is also a member of the Praxis Investment Committee. Praxis operates on multiple platforms, currently managing active syndications for the acquisition of single-family, multifamily and opportunistic residential assets in US growth markets.
Brian is the author of “The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in Passive Real Estate Syndications” and is a frequent speaker at real estate investment forums and conferences across the country.
Brian’s Bio & BackgroundAbout PraxisGetting DealsHow “The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in Passive Real Estate Syndications” Book was BornInvestor’s Capital DeploymentDebt Fund2025 Outlook
In this episode, we talked about:Useful links:
https://praxcap.com/
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In this episode, we talked about:
• Convincing Orders to Sell
• Land and Marketing Listings
• Finding Buyers
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Kane Willmott is the Co-Founder and CEO of iQ Offices, a luxury coworking company with locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal. Kane has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, assisting in the startup of multiple real estate brokerages as well as a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Kane’s Background & First Steps in Real EstateCo-Working Workspace EvolutionEnterprise Co-WorkingCo-Working vs Sublease/LeaseOffice Market OverviewResources
In this episode, we talked about:Useful links:
https://www.iqoffices.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kane-willmott/?originalSubdomain=ca
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Ali, and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. My guest today is Kane Willmott. Kain is the co-founder and CEO of iQ Offices, a luxury coworking company with locations in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal Kane, how you doing?Kane (37s): I'm good, Jesse. How are you doing?
Jesse (39s): Doing great today. So for, you know, for those that don't know, iQ Offices the largest Canadian node coworking operator with eight locations in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal. And I think I've got e everyone there. Is that right? Kane? You
Kane (52s): Got it. Perfect.
Jesse (54s): So, Kane, for those that you know, for those that don't know who you are, are iQ, Offices. What we'd like to do with most guests is basically have a little bit of a backgrounder on how you got into the real estate space, and then maybe we could talk a little bit of about iQ and how you got into that world after.
Kane (1m 10s): Great. Yeah, well, I'll try and make it a short story because I've been in the, in the business quite a while, but I started at a university at Pricewaterhouse, large accounting firm, and I found out very early on that that, that, that really wasn't for me in terms of the job and what I was doing every single day. And, but it, it taught me a lot about, about what I wanted to do really with the rest of my career. And I moved to Toronto that I, I went to school in Waterloo, moved to Toronto, and got into brokerage in 1998 and had the great fortune of working for Craig Smith and Brian Murphy.
Craig Smith started Asher Urban Realty. And I went over and started that with him about a year into my career. So I had the opportunity to really go through, starting up a business very early on in my career, in a fairly low risk way from an opportunity cost perspective. And, and I had a lot of great mentorship and guidance from Craig Smith. So from there started another brokerage with another partner, ultimately took a company public, and then started a company called Spire Commercial Realty, another brokerage with Alex Sharp, who's my business partner now in iQ Offices.
So we started Spire in 2009, focused on investment sales, and then in 2012 we got into iQ. So that's like the, the short genealogy of, of how we got to where we are now. But I can say in terms of why we started iQ, I started in office leasing in 98. And what I found in 2011 when we started looking at this as a business model, is that office space was transacting in t
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Chris Picciurro is a highly respected expert in US-based Tax Planning and Strategy for Real Esate Investors, with international recognition as a presenter on the subject. He is based in Franklin, TN, where he currently resides with his family. Chris holds several accreditations, including a CPA, MBA, PFS, and ARA. He is an accomplished public speaker, recognized for delivering informative and engaging presentations at notable events hosted by organizations such as the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP), Michigan Association of CPAs, and the Memphis Investment Group. He also previously participated as an Adjust Professor at Baker College and Davenport University.
In this episode, we talked about:
Chris’s Bio & BackgroundCanadian Investing in the United StatesDealing with Losses in Real EstateDepreciationOffsetting Gains Tax ConsiderationsAsset DispositionResourcesUseful links:
https://www.chrispicciurro.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/picciurro/
https://www.facebook.com/YourRealEstateCPA/
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Alii. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. My returning guest today is Chris Paterno is a respected expert in US-based tax planning and strategy for real estate.Investors with international recognition as a presenter on the subject. He's based in Franklin, Tennessee, where he currently resides with his family. Chris holds a number of different accreditations, including CPA, MBA, PFS and ARA. Chris, welcome back to the show. How you doing?
Chris (53s): I am amazing, Jesse, thanks so much for having me back. I really enjoyed our episode a few years ago and, and we still get people asking questions about it. So, you know, I'm, I'm excited to be back here honored and there's been some changes over the last few years that we wanted to make Canadian residents that are doing business in the United States aware of you have a an amazing following, amazing community. So I'm always, again, always honored to come back on the show.
Jesse (1m 22s): Well, I appreciate it. Yeah. you know, from time to time I get these questions about the, the original interview we did. So we'll have some link in the show notes for that. I think we also put it out on YouTube. If you just type in investing in US real estate from Canada and you put my name Jesse Fragale or Chris's, you'll probably be able to pop that video out. But to make things easy, we'll also put a link in the show notes on that one. So, Chris, we've, we probably haven't talked, if I look at this episode, that was December, 2020, which is crazy to think it's been that long.
Wow. So I always say there's a lot has happened over the last couple years, but before we even kind of get into it, why don't you give a little bit of a backgrounder for listeners, kind of who you are, how you got into, into real estate, and, you know, what you do today for, for individuals.
Chris (2m 22s): Absolutely. So, yeah, my name, my name's Chris Picciurro, again, CPA Love Real estate investing. I and I have been a CPA here in the States for well over 20 years, the last 15 years niching in helping real estate investors
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Nick Hill is a host of the Canadian Real Estate Investor podcast. He’s a mortgage agent, Real Estate investor, and works in brokerage and lending services through their company, LandBank.In this episode, we talked about:
• Nick’s First Steps in Real Estate
• Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast
• Specifics of the Canadian Real Estate Market
• Interest Rates Environment
• 2024-2025 Opportunities for Real Estate Investors
• Resources
Useful links:
https://www.instagram.com/mybuddynick/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hill-337a8762/?originalSubdomain=ca
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica Galley and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real. Estate Podcast. My guest today is Nick Hill, an investor real estate professional mortgage broker, and one of the hosts of the Canadian Real Estate Investor Podcast Nick.How's it going?
Nick (39s): Very well, longtime listener. Honored to be, honored to be a, a guest. So yeah, happy to be here. Happy to, happy to chat. And man, the bio makes me sound pretty good, I guess. Eh,
Jesse (50s): It's not bad, eh, I don't know. Was it the, was it the mic or the content?
Nick (55s): Maybe the guy saying it. I'm not sure.
Jesse (58s): Oh, that's, you're too, you're too nice. So, Nick for, for those that don't know, maybe you could give a little bit of a, of a background for, for basically how you got into real estate, and we could talk a little bit more about kind of social media and, and the, the podcast that you guys have. But why don't we start with a little bit of a, a background on yourself?
Nick (1m 18s): Yeah, appreciate that. I don't know how far I'll go back here. I've, I've kind of always just been attracted to the entrepreneurial side of things. Started a lot of businesses, kind of my late teens, early twenties, originally wanted to be a lawyer. Started talking to lawyers when I was in university. I was watching a lot of suits at the time and realized that that was nothing like reality. So quickly. Finished up my degree, went into construction engineering management, which kind of put my career trajectory into the construction side of things.
So I worked on condos as a project coordinator. I worked at Sanofi Past, which is a big pharma company in, in north Toronto on the CapEx team. Did that for a few years and kind of wanted to get more in the business side of things. So I transferred out of the construction side of things, making a really good salary, and decided to get into commercial real estate where, you know, Jesse, there is no such thing as a salary.
So did that for, for a while as a junior associate at Ellington, which kind of little offshoot of of Collier, some of the top guys there, went and started their own shop. Did that for a while. Great experience, great exposure. Got into the business development world kind of within the tenant fit out space in, in commercial real estate. And from there, just kind of coasted along for, for several years when the pandemic hit, I actually just before the pandemic hit, I decided I was gonna finally dip my toes in and start trying to build my own personal real estate portfolio.
So started buying small cap residential properties, couple duplexes here and ther
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Mr. Gordon Wadley is the Chief Operating Officer of Dream Office REIT. Mr. Wadley provides leadership to the overall asset strategy of Dream Office REIT’s Toronto portfolio. Mr. Wadley has held progressively senior positions within the company since he joined in 2011.
In this episode, we talked about:
Gordon’s First Steps in Real Estate SpaceAsset Classes OverviewThoughts on Co-working Space in 2024Interest RatesOffice Space Conversion2024 Outlook Advice to Individuals who Consider Making a Career in Real EstateUseful links:
https://dream.ca/office/
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Lauren Cohen is a cross-border lawyer, realtor, best-selling author, international speaker & business immigration strategist with over 25+ years of personal and professional experience, thousands of clients successfully invested in and relocated to the U.S., and tens of millions of dollars in investments secured:
Lauren’s Bio & BackgroundImmigration InvestmentBest Timing for Real Estate InvestmentGeography of InvestmentTypes of Visa
In this episode, we talked about:Useful links:
https://www.eb5investors.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-a-cohen-9b54b11a2/
https://www.instagram.com/laurenesq1/
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale and you're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. We have a returning guest on the show today, Lauren Cohen.Lauren is a US immigration lawyer, Lauren a US immigrant from Canada is a serial entrepreneurial realtor, cross-border. Legal strategist. Bestselling author and global keynote speaker. Lauren is the founder of Investing Across Borders, the only concierge full service, investment and immigration advisory company helping clients navigate through the complex journey of cross-border real estate investing business set up and expansion and securing us visas. Lauren, how you doing?
Lauren (1m 1s): I'm pretty good. How are you doing? How's the weather? Ah,
Jesse (1m 5s): You know what? It's not bad. It's okay. We're not in the, we're not in the negative weather, but it's very, I feel like we've been in London in Toronto for the last month.
Lauren (1m 14s): Oh, that much rain, huh? A lot of gray. Huh?
Jesse (1m 17s): Rain a lot of gray. It's dreary, but you know what? Can't complain. you know, I'm not, the winter jacket isn't fully out yet, so we're okay. How about you? You're still in Florida?
Lauren (1m 28s): Yes, sir. I will not be there in January. Anytime in any January. Anytime soon.
Jesse (1m 36s): Fair enough. Yeah, I'm sure it's, it's a lot different right now in terms of the weather there. Yeah. Lauren, it's been, it's been quite a while since we last spoke. We had you on the podcast and we can link to that probably, I'm gonna say two years ago, if not, if not more. During,
Lauren (1m 53s): During Covid, was it the last time?
Jesse (1m 55s): It was, it was definitely during some sort of lockdown.
Lauren (1m 59s): Yeah, at the tail end I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's, well, you know, you have so many lockdowns in Toronto, which were good for me, but not so good for you guys, so, yeah.
Jesse (2m 9s): Well it's funny when people say the C word on the podcast, we, we don't know if they're talking like if it's a US individual, I don't know, you know, when it took place. 'cause it was different for us than, than down south. Very,
Lauren (2m 21s): Very, very.
Jesse (2m 23s): Yeah. So Lauren for, for those that you know, didn't listen to the first podcast and, and you know, just want to know kind of yo
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Omar Khan is a Returning Champion - the Founder and Managing Partner at Boardwalk Properties. Omar has advised on $3.7 billion in capital financing and M&A transactions, as well as securing $50+ million in equity from private and institutional capital. He is a graduate from the Rotman School of Business (University of Toronto), and a CFA charter holder with 10+ years of investing experience across real estate and commodities. As the principal of Boardwalk Wealth, Omar is primarily responsible for developing strong relationships with private and institutional investors, brokers, and strategic partners. He has closed on over $450 million of assets across TX, GA, FL, and SD.
In this episode, we talked about:
• Omar’s Bio & Background
• Canada vs America's Entrepreneurship
• Initial Steps in Real Estate Investing
• Asset Classes
• Agency Debts
• Forecast for Retail, Industrial, and Multifamily Asset Sectors
• The Impact of Current Macroeconomic Changes on Omar’s Investment Philosophy
• 2024-2025 Outlook and Opportunities for Investors
Useful links:
https://www.boardwalkwealth.com
Transcription:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. My Returning guest today is Omar Khan. Omar is the Founder and Managing Partner at Boardwalk.Properties. Omar has advised on 3.7 billion in capital financing and M and a transactions, as well as securing over 75 million equity from private and institutional capital. He's a graduate from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto and a CFA charter holder with 10 plus years experience in investing across real estate and commodities. As, the principal of Boardwalk Wealth Omar is primarily responsible for developing strong relationships with private and institutional investors, brokers and strategic partners, and has closed on over 500 million of assets in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and South Dakota.
Omar, welcome back. How's it going? Hey man,
Omar (1m 13s): I prefer the term Returning. Champion.
Jesse (1m 15s): Yeah, we'll put that in the, in the show notes. Yeah, it, it's been a while man. I think we were just talking before the show. January, 2021. Nothing has happened between then and now.
Omar (1m 27s): Yeah, I mean, you're a big hotshot Toronto broker, you know, so nothing's happened. I mean, I know things are exciting for you, but I'm just steady, Eddie.
Jesse (1m 35s): I like it. So for those that that did not listen to the first episode, which I think was number 40, if you want to go to working capital podcast.com, I'm sure you can find it or wherever you listen to podcasts. But Omar, what, what has been going on in your world? Maybe you could give the, the listeners a bit of a background as to kind of how you got in the industry and add a little color to the, to the Bio.
Omar (1m 59s): Look, my family is a business family. That's not why I got into the industry, but I guess that's why I might have had the bug to have my own business, as you may, I live in the US now. I live in Dallas, but obviously what a school in Canada, Canadian citizen did all of that stuff. Worked at R-B-C-C-I-B-C. Enova is an oil and gas firm and had great set of experiences in Canada. And then I moved to the
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Ashley Kehr purchased her first rental property in 2014 and since then has grown her buy-and-hold portfolio to over 30 units. She has experience in residential and commercial properties. She accredits much of her success to the use of partners on several real estate deals and creative financing. Ashley developed a passion for real estate after quitting her staff accountant job to work as a property manager. Within several years, she had created two property management companies, which she ran for over five years. Her speciality was creating systems to work efficiently and remotely within the companies. Ashley Kehr is the co-host of the Real Estate Rookie Podcast. Just a few years removed from being a beginner herself, Ashley is now helping newbies figure out actionable steps to get their first deal. She has a dual degree in finance and public accounting and recently became a licensed insurance agent.
In this episode, we talked about:
Ashley’s Background and First Steps into Real Estate Journey with Bigger PocketsDecoding Asset Class Shifts Over TimeLong Term vs Short Term RentalsInterest Rates2024-2025 OutlookUseful links:
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wealthfromrentals/?hl=en
https://www.ashleykehr.com/
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Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real Estate Podcast. Our returning guest today is Ashley Kerr. Ashley purchased her first rental property in 2014 and has since then grown her portfolio to over 30 units.Ashley is the author of Real Estate Rookie, 90 Days To Your First Investment. So for those that you know, didn't listen to the first conversation, it's been a few years since, since we last chatted, maybe you could give a little bit of a background for the listeners of, you know, how you, how you kind of came into real estate and more specifically what you've been doing the last couple years. 'cause I know you're fairly active online and I know that, you know, you've been affiliated with BiggerPockets for the last few years, so if you could speak to that, that'd be great.
Ashley (1m 5s): Yeah, sure. So to get my start, I actually was an accountant. I hated my job and I quit it and I was just gonna be a stay at home mom. My husband, he was a dairy farmer. And so right after I quit as an accountant, I decided to get pregnant, have a baby. And my neighbor growing up, who was a really good family friend, I was best friends with his kids growing up. He said, I have a 40 unit apartment complex I'd love for you to manage. So that was my first kind of insight into real estate.
Growing up, I knew the family was very well off that, you know, he had made investments And, he owned a couple businesses that I knew about, but I never knew about the real estate part of it. And so that was my experience as to like what you can actually do. And when I first started working for him, he had me sit in and help him acquire another business. And the way he was able to acquire this business was actually leveraging his multifamily property. He had refinancing it, pulling the equity out And, he used the cash to buy this new business, And.
he took me to the closing table. He let me like write out the checks of this huge amount and like right there, like I can still, you know, see the orange shag on the atto
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Tyler Cauble is an Investor and Broker in Commercial Real Estate
In this episode, we talked about:
Tyler’s Background and First Steps into Real Estate First DealsRetail Real Estate ChallengesBroker - Investor Transition2024-2025 OutlookUseful links:
https://www.instagram.com/commercial_in_nashville/
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Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Galley and you're listening to working capital, the real estate Podcast. My guest today is Tyler Codwell. Tyler is an investor and Broker in commercial real estate from Nashville.Tyler, welcome back.
Tyler (35s): Jesse. Honored to be here, man. Thanks for having me on.
Jesse (38s): Anytime, man. So, you are a returning guest. It's probably been about a year since you were last on the podcast, but we have been kind of going back and forth, I think biweekly or bimonthly, whatever the correct term is for that on kind of chatting basically commercial real estate from a broker's perspective, Broker and investors perspective. So that's been a lot of fun. So I thought it would be great to have you on and, you know, talk to my audience a little bit about kind of the background of what you do and chat a little bit about where we're at right now in the market cycle and, you know, where you're seeing opportunities.
Obviously, you know, there's a bunch of different markets that are telling different stories. You're in Nashville, I'm in Toronto, we, you know, we chat about all the cities in North America and kind of generally speaking, but yeah, I, I thought it'd be great to, to have that conversation. So for, for people that didn't tune into the first podcast, maybe you could give a little bit of a background of kind of how you got into real estate and, and what you currently do now, Ty.
Tyler (1m 38s): Yeah, man, it's gonna be a fun conversation. you know, appreciate you coming on the brokers round tables. Those have been a lot of fun. And you know, it's, it's, it's the content that you and I wish that we'd had when we first got started, right? I mean, that's, that's why I'm doing a podcast so much. And I know that's why you do it. It's because, you know, back when we were getting started, nobody was doing this stuff and so it was so frustrating to learn everything. So, so of course appreciate what you're doing and love the podcast. But yeah, man, I got started back in 2013 as the in-house leasing agent for a boutique development firm. Had zero knowledge about commercial real estate.
I didn't even know that somebody represented Chipotle and put them in there. Never even thought about somebody owning those buildings. Hmm. So it was quite the learning curve getting started. And, and of course I never realized how lucky I had it until probably three or four years into the business when I, most of my friends had graduated college 'cause I was a dropout. They were graduating college and trying to get into commercial real estate, and some of them were interviewing 50 times and not getting a job. So that's when I kind of realized like, oh man, I kind of, I might have struck gold here, but I focused, you know, solely on our in-house assets, some office retail and industrial, and got those leased up in about two years.
Then I started looking into development projects, put my first development deal together, which was 42 town homes and then left and started my own fi
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Ian is Chief Investment Officer at CrowdStreet, overseeing its marketplace, an online commercial real estate investment platform that has completed over 650 offerings totalling over $25 billion of commercial real estate.
Ian’s Bio & BackgroundInterest Rates PolicyReal Estate PricingPotential Opportunities in Real Estate 2024-2025Useful links:
Previous episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/2246698/episodes/13585761
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianformigle/https://www.crowdstreet.com/
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Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. My name's Jesse Ali. You're listening to working capital, the real estate Podcast. My guest today is Ian for Mely, chief Investment Officer at Crowdstreet.CrowdStreet is one of the largest online private equity real estate investing platforms. Ian, how are you doing today?
Ian (39s): I'm doing good, Jesse. It's great to be back on the podcast.
Jesse (42s): Yeah, it's fantastic to have you back on. I think, you know, you're one of the perfect guys to talk to right now in this current economic and, and real estate environment that we're in right now. So for those that that want to check the original episode, you can go back to that and I think it's, it's probably been close to two years now, maybe a little bit shorter than that, but it seems like time has been going by fairly quickly here, given the last couple years. But for those that don't kind of know Crowdstreet or your background, Ian, maybe you could just give a little bit of a, a backgrounder on, on what you do at Crowdstreet.
Ian (1m 19s): Sure, yeah, thanks. From a high level, first just high level on Crowdstreet is, you know, we're an online equity syndication platform credited investors, you know, typically in the US I think there's, we do actually have some Canadians Jesse that invests on the platform, if I recall correctly. But, you know, we're, we're, we're bringing deals to the, to a marketplace that are generally located in the United States. We have syndicated about 4.2 billion in, in, in total aggregate equity since our inception, which dates back to April of 2014.
That's been across a lot of deals, I think upwards of 800 deals at this point. I joined Crowdstreet in the summer of 2014 after the platform had gotten live, but essentially got its second deal on the platform. So I guess I've served as the key decision maker on, you know, two through N of deals since then. So been a, been a lot of work over those years. It's been, but it's been interesting to see a lot of deals come and go. Our platform is historically about 50% multifamily, 50% everything else, everything else being essentially we look at deals in the hospitality space, industrial, retail, you know, pretty much all the major food groups, even self-storage.
We don't really do land deals. That would be the, probably the one, one area of real estate that we don't tread into. And we've done deals both from an acquisition standpoint and a development standpoint, and our general MO is to, you know, partner with operators and developers across the United States who are looking to gain access to syndication at a greater scale. Bring that into their, you know, the, their form of their capitalization of deal
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Andrew Drexler is First National's Assistant Vice President and Team Director in the Commercial Financing division. Andrew has originated more than $4 billion in Commercial Financing.
In this episode, we talked about:
Andrew’s Bio & BackgroundAbout First NationalAsset Class BreakdownCommercial vs Residential LendingCMHC FeesDebt marketsApartment Sector ConstructionInterest Rates OutlookReal Estate OpportunitiesUseful links:
Previous podcast with Andrew: https://podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/real-estate-financing-development-and-student-housing/id1505750263?i=1000539900581
https://www.firstnational.ca/
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Jackie Greene is Vice President of Economics. Jackie has been serving ITR Economics’ clients since 2005.
Over the years, Jackie has proved to be a critical member of the ITR Economics team. She has elevated her skills and expertise, reaching new heights in advanced forecasting, gaining a deep understanding of the business application of ITR Economics’ trend analysis, and developing a keen awareness of how to incorporate our insights into business strategy best.
In this episode, we talked about:
Jackie’s Bio & BackgroundPassion of EconomicsCurrent Real Estate EnvironmentInflationInterest Rates PolicyDebt Market OverviewDebt Income MetricsRecessionIndustrial SpaceEmployment IssuesUS Economy OpportunitiesUseful links:
https://hubs.la/Q023QSkD0
Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. All, right. ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to working capital. My name's Jesse Fragale and my guest today is Vice, president of Economics Jackie Green of ITR. Economics. How are you doing Jackie?Jackie (32s): I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
Jesse (34s): Pleasure to have you here. This is your first time on the podcast. So what we typically like to do with, you know, with new guests on the show is talk a little bit about your background as it relates to real estate and Economics and kind of how you made it through, through the journey to where you're at today.
Jackie (52s): Well, let's see. I have been with ITR Economics since 2005, so that means I was here prior to the housing boom and the housing bust, well actually the early part of the housing boom and the bust. So I've seen the whole runup, I've seen all sorts of crazy situations. It's been really fascinating from an econ standpoint. But I also am human and recognize that these are real. People realize everyone's actually skin in the game. This is not a real numbers only game, but I try and look at it from a numbers perspective so that you can make more informed decisions and help you put you and your family and your circle of who matters to you in a better position.
So that's the take I always have on is no emotional impact, but just helping you have the information so you can make a better decision.
Jesse (1m 37s): Right on. So was was Economics what I mean that was, I assume your path in in school and it's obviously a passion today. How did, what was that like, just kind of how did that roll out? I find that people in this field sometimes come from different, different places. Happy to hear that.
Jackie (1m 56s): Well actually, I've officially been working for ITR since 2005, but realistically I've been quasi involved with the company since I was probably about 10 years old. So it's been one of those things that I've always had interest in. I've always been trying to figure out what's going on and really I love this stuff because it helps me see what's coming next. It helps me know the future so I can plan better, be in a better position for me, my family and help the people around me. So once you kind of see that, you get to see the future first, you can't imagine doing anything else. Yeah,
Jesse (2m 25s): That makes sense. Okay, so let's dive into a little bit about kind of the current environment. It's topical right no
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Cadence Capital works with investors who are dissatisfied with the low returns from savings accounts and bonds and investors who are concerned about the volatility of the stock market.
Cadence Capital puts discerning investors’ capital to work for them by investing in exceptional multifamily properties in the best markets nationwide. Demand for multifamily rental units continues to grow and is driven by both the preference of certain demographics as well as unaffordable single-family homeownership options.
Cadence Capital is based in Toronto and partners with investors for whom the stability of real estate investment is appealing but the stress of property ownership is not. We give our investors the benefits of real estate investment through syndication, which is a group investment in a multifamily property.
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