The 3 Pillars of Real Estate Start-Up Mastery
Through over a decade of starting various business and now working with students who want to get started with apartment building investing, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way you can master any new skill, start any new business, or change anything meaningful in your life is to address each of the following three […]
5 Real Estate Investing Lessons Learned From Building a Campfire
In this article, I talk about 5 lessons the boy scouts taught me about building a campfire that we can directly apply to real estate investing.
8 Steps to Getting Started with Apartment Building Investing
In this video, I talk about 8 steps a newbie investor can take in the next three to six months to get started with apartment building investing.
MB 017: From 0 to 1,000 units in 12 months
Michael Becker doesn’t think small! He describes how he overcame his fear and went from 9 to 1,000 units in just 12 months using other people’s money.
MB 011: Learn from Your Mistakes To Become a Successful Commercial Real Estate Investor – With Spencer Cullor
http://www.TheMichaelBlank.com/session11: In this episode I talk with Spencer Cullor who chronicles how he got started with commercial real estate investing. After educating himself, he got into his first commercial real estate deal which didn’t pan out the way he imagined. He stuck with it, licked his wounds, and learned from his experiences and got into apartment buildings, and he’s never looked back.
How To Be Taken Seriously as a Newbie Commercial Real Estate Syndicator
We syndicators have it rough: we try to buy apartment buildings without having the cash or credit ourselves to do so. Instead, we rely on a group of investors to put up most or all of the cash. Especially if we don’t have a track record, it’s tough to be taken seriously – by anybody, […]
How to Get Started with Apartment Building Investing
Hey everyone! In this article and Youtube video, I want to talk about what steps a newbie investor can take in the next three to six months to get started with apartment building investing. While the task can seem overwhelming, there are some well-defined and easy-to-do things you start doing today. Do a little bit […]
MB 006: Creating Value with Apartment Buildings with Tommy Bateman
I’m excited to be able to welcome Tommy Bateman to the show this week. Tommy started his career with a single town house in SE Washington DC that he bought with the help of his grandmother. His focus as been to find problem properties and add value in a short period of time, using the equity he creates to purchase more real estate. Today he owns apartment buildings, rentals, a property management company, and he loves development projects.
Estimating Acquisition and Closing Costs for Apartment Building Deals
Many beginning commercial real estate investors are shocked at how much it costs to perform due diligence for a deal and how high the closing costs are. While the latter are usually paid for at closing, the former must be paid with hard cash while doing due diligence. In the video below, I review the […]
MB 002: How I Got Started with Apartment Building Investing
In this Podcast episode, I talk about my story of how I started my apartment building investing career by buying a 12-unit building with a handful of investors. It took 5 months to close and then the fun started. People warned me about investing in Washington DC, but what happened next was even worse than […]