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, it's either small business or real estate. The economy goes up...

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 Industrial. It is any industrial building in an industrial park used...

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 happening in the industrial asset class? What I find so...

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 rentals, and in the last decade, short-term rentals have been...

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, I don't want to worry about it because doing something...

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 into a rental and moved into an ugly, disgusting house and...

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 similar to a lot of people around the country, transaction...

What is the current state of the real estate market and is there a recession coming up? What are some investment strategies for healthy investments? Jeremy Roll, president of Roll Investment Group, shares his knowledge. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/ykutphd6 What do you think is the state of the market now? What's on your mind in terms of the economy and your investments? On the economic side, one of two dominoes has fallen that is going to impact investors in...

Today we celebrate our 200th episode of the Commercial Real Estate Investing From A-Z podcast, I will share some of my most recent learnings and observations, some are in mindset, some are related to real estate investing. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/2vy2tnhz Real Estate Every single deal has multiple problems you will have to overcome, a friend of mine that has been building multi family projects in California for several years told me that for each problem you...

How to overcome the largest problems and issues in land development? What are some tips in creative financing, collaborative problem-solving, and long-term planning for infrastructure development? We continue the interview with Pike Oliver and Michael Stockstill, authors of Transforming the Irvine Ranch book. Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/y8dvzpbf Buy the Transforming the Irvine Ranch book here:...

How did Mr. Donald Bren buy, manage, and expanded the company that made him the wealthiest real estate investor in the world? Read the entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/46m22v7b Buy the Transforming the Irvine Ranch book here: https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Irvine-Ranch-William-American/dp/103212783X You both participated in writing a book called Transforming the Irvine Ranch which one of the heiresses, Joan Irvine, also participated in, how did you get to write a book and...

How to find and assemble large projects? What are the real estate market trends? Victor Menasce, an author, real estate developer, and host of the Real Estate Espresso Podcast, shares his knowledge. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/nut4m6b8 You have many projects right now, one in particular is huge. How did you get it? How did you put it together? And what are some of the good, bad and the ugly so far? Every single one of our significant projects has landed in our lap....

How is self-storage doing today? What are the benefits of joining a mastermind? Scott Meyers, founder and CEO of Self Storage Investing , shares his knowledge with us. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/rt4pvac2 You have been doing self-storage for 20 years, how is self-storage doing today? We're bullish on storage. It doesn't matter what the economy's doing, because our asset classes are largely unaffected by what's happening when things are good, people buy more stuff and...

Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring some of the top names in the real estate investment world. In this video, you'll hear from industry veterans Steffany Boldrini, Tom Wilson, Beth Azor, Irwin Boris, and Sarah Sullivan as they share their experiences and strategies in the dynamic world of real estate. Discover how these experts have navigated the ever-changing real estate landscape and learn about their investment portfolios, which span various asset classes such as retail,...

Today, I'll discuss my second syndication, which was fully committed 2 hours after the webinar, and how this partnership came about. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/bden8yy4 I met my partner for this syndication six years ago at the Real Estate Guys Summit at Sea. I've always emphasized that the expensive events are the best because everyone there is serious about real estate investing; they are industry veterans who want to connect with like-minded individuals. Most...

What are some ways to increase income on a commercial property? Joseph Woodbury, CEO of Neighbor, shares his knowledge. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/wewybvt5 What kind of fees do you charge and how does it benefit the property owner? We only make money when our partners make money. We don't charge any upfront or recurring fee, free to use the service. Just like an Airbnb or other marketplace, will take whatever you decide to charge as a host and we'll charge the renter...

How to find, analyze, and convert small boutique hotels? What are the systems and tools to use and the processes for hiring top people? Blake Dailey, a real estate investor, owner of boutique hotels, and founder of BoutiqueHotelCon, shares his knowledge Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/yevhs2u3 How long did it take you to surpass your W2 income after you started investing? It took 13 months from the time of purchase. Short-term rentals helped me achieve that goal more...

What are the top lessons learned over a four-decade real estate investing career? What are his thoughts on the current real estate investing market compared to other difficult markets that he has been through in the past? Is there such a thing as work-life balance? We are chatting with Stephen Bittel, Chairman and founder of Terranova Corporation, he manages their sizeable portfolio of properties in several asset classes such as retail, multi-family and office. Read this entire episode here:...

We continue our education of the history of The Irvine Company, picking up where we left of  in the 1980's through 2013. Excerpts from the book: The Irvine Ranch: a Time for People" by Martin A. Brower. Read this entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/y6s85em4 About 4,000 residential ground leases made over a 15-year period were coming up for renewal. The new rent, set at 5, 6, or 7% of the fair market value of the land, had been written so that rent would remain flat for an original 20...

We continue the introduction to the richest real estate investor in the globe, the owner of The Irvine Company, Donald Bren. Read the entire episode here: https://tinyurl.com/m2ehfys7 1970's At that point, cities and the County were increasingly imposing costly demands on the developer. These demands included roads, flood control channels, parks, and schools — all of which were previously provided by the cities and the County. The James Irvine Foundation became serious about selling The...

A little background on the history of The Irvine Company. Read this entire episode here: http://tinyurl.com/55zadwbj In 1864, James Irvine and three partners bought a 101,000-acre ranch, for around $26k. Much of that is now a city called Irvine, in California. It was initially a ranch focused on agriculture and it also encompassed coastal land. In the early 1900’s they started developing some of the real estate, and in the 1950’s they started large scale planned community development, also...

How to canvass tenants for retail properties? What are some techniques to get a new tenant? Who to target? Beth Azor, the "Canvassing Queen", CRE leasing coach, developer, investor, author/speaker, and CEO of Azor Advisory Services shares her knowledge. Read this entire interview here: http://tinyurl.com/2jdstyra How to canvass tenants for retail properties? Canvassing is when we knock on doors to find tenants to lease spaces in our vacancies. I was taught very early in my career not to sit...

Will interest rates come down in 2024? What is the economic outlook? What will happen with inventory by the time the rates go down? Should you buy real estate right now? Chad Zdenek, real estate investor, and owner of CSQ Properties, shares his knowledge. Read this entire interview here: http://tinyurl.com/8y6b9k57 You are in tune with the economy and economics. We have some interesting news on interest rates recently; let's dive into that and see where your thoughts are for 2024 and...

What are some ways that real estate operators and syndicators could market themselves in today's world? What are the benefits of a mastermind? Kyle Wilson founder of Jim Rohn International, YourSuccessStore, and KyleWilson.com, shares his wisdom. Read this entire interview here: http://tinyurl.com/3z7wnnd2 What are some ways that real estate operators and syndicators could market themselves in today's world with all the technology, and now even ChatGPT? After I sold my companies, I retired...