I received an email from a potential student with a bunch of questions trying to figure out why the MFIA Owner Forum was a different type of coaching/consulting/mentoring program for real estate investors looking to own apartments. I figured that if I responded, he would just take anything I said as a sales pitch, so instead, I put it out there to my students and here is what one of them came back with . . . . . 

“Charlie forwarded your email below over so I thought I would jump in and answer your questions to the best of my ability as a student of his.  

“First, a little background on me...I was working a corporate job and investing in real estate on the side, but couldn't get over the hump into the bigger properties.  I left my job to take the plunge full-time investing in 2013, and at that point, had a vacation rental, a single-family townhouse rental and a 10-unit multifamily.  That may sound like a lot, but believe me, it wasn't enough for...

What are the biggest mistakes you should avoid when investing in multi-family properties? Hear that answer and much more in this awesome podcast interview with Charles Dobens. You can listen to it by clicking here.

Last week you got ot hear Part I. Here is the second part of the interviewing process.

I recently spoke with an old friend of mine, Ken Shephard of Creative Deals, regarding a client of his in Cleveland that needed assistance in getting a multifamily property under contract. He reminded me of a series of podcasts he and I had done several years ago.

I got them out of the archives, dusted them off and am posting them here in two parts for your listening enjoyment.

Enjoy!

Click Here for Part II

I recently spoke with an old friend of mine, Ken Shephard of Creative Deals, regarding a client of his in Cleveland that needed assistance in getting a multifamily property under contract. He reminded me of a series of podcasts he and I had done several years ago.

I got them out of the archives, dusted them off and am posting them here in two parts for your listening enjoyment. Part II will be next week.

Enjoy!

Click Here for Part I

One of the biggest fallacies that I hear many new investors talk about is how much money they are going to make by buying a C-class property in a B-class area and then reposition the property and cash out. Or it could be a B-class in an A-area. Regardless, they never understand what repositioning really means because the most important part of repositioning is never explained properly to them.

Just like with fixing and flipping single family homes, any problem can be fixed with money. You can take a C-class property and drop $6,000 per unit in rehab expenses and make it absolutely gorgeous with granite countertops and hardwood floors but that does not make it a B-class property. Remember what brings value to a multi-value business –  the contracts.

The only way to get more valuable contracts is to get higher-paying customers/residents. The fact that a unit has been completely rehabbed and is absolutely beautiful does not mean that a new tenant base is set to move in.

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