Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

Today, my guest is Rich Lee. Rich Lee is a top lawyer, or was a top lawyer for two companies, and richly experienced the reality that dispute resolution today is driven by pain due to legacy dispute resolution forums and courts. Rich set out to change this with New Era Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with rich Lee about dispute resolution.    https://www.neweraadr.com/  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you Rich Lee, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Rich Lee I'll answer that kind of in like two parts really quickly, right? The first is, I think, you know, in the real estate industry, and actually in business in general, I think the biggest risk, you know, in a lot of just kind of business dealings is the relationship, right, and and maintaining good relationships, whether it's with an existing, you know, Counterparty, or, you know, a future counterparty or a former Counterparty. Relationships are everything you know. And so all the things you do right to mitigate that you know both before, and then, of course, you know during a relationship. And then, God forbid, you know if something sours in that relationship, I think that's, you know, it's critical. And something that I think is is often overlooked for us as a business, right? The thing that I will think about all the time, and that we obsess about is, you know, frankly, and it's, it's still related to the relationship, it's the

Today, my guest is Kelly Stratton. Kelly Stratton is the President and Chief Product Officer and founded Quire in 2010 to transform the manual, air prone Technical Report development process she experienced for more than the first 10 deck the first decade of her engineering career. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Kelly Stratton about three trends that will define technical report management for project driven businesses in 2025. https://openquire.com/ Kellys@openquire.com  

J Darrin Gross I like, to ask my guests if they can look at their own situation. Could be your clients, the economy, you know, whatever it is that you, you identify and consider to be the BIGGEST RISK?   Kelly Stratton Yeah. And when you ask, like, the first thing that pops in my head, because I, you know, as the chief product officer, and I kind of help drive like, what is our product going to be, you know, today, versus, you know, six months from now, a year from now, and you know, we have a really strong feedback loop with our users, and they have a mandate for us about, how can we make a difference in their work lives and in their work product? And both those things are really important to me, because this is a bit like our platform, is a space they spend a lot of time in. And, you know, so, so you have that, but then you also have this, this powerful energy around AI, and how do we incorporate that intelligently and effectively into our product? And again, the mandate from our customers is, you know, is

Today, my guest is Steve Austin. Steve Austin is the founder and CEO of Revitalization Unlimited, where he focuses on structuring the company's investments to maximize value for the portfolio. He has a diverse entrepreneurial background and has started companies in several different sectors. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Steve Austin about preserving historically significant real estate. https://www.revitalizationunlimited.com/

J Darrin Gross  I'd like to ask you, Steve Austin, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Steve Austin That's a good question, I think right now for specifically for us, there's a tremendous uncertainty around the future tax policy. There's a lot of talk about, you know, closing the IRS and putting in tariffs, and so there's a lot of speculation and and stuff swirling around right now. So I think that presents a significant risk to us, but, but just, you know, kind of getting away from, you know, the regulatory risk, you know, I think, for for anybody who's out there in business, in in particular, raising investor capital right now, the, I think the biggest risk is, is just, you know, are you able to build a repeatable, scalable process in your business, you know? So for us, that's, you know, how do we source deals? How do we underwrite deals? How do we close deals, you know, what? What are the right structures for the deals, you know, and kind of systematizing that is, is kind of my view of risk mitigation from from a

Today, my guest is Tudor Vasiliu. Tudor is an architect turned architectural visualizer and the founder of Panopticon, an award winning high end architectural Visualization Studio serving clients globally. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Tudor Vasiliu about virtual storytelling, how narrative driven property marketing is replacing traditional showrooms. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tudorvasiliu/

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you Tudor Vasiliu, what is the BIGEST RISK?   Tudor Vasiliu Oh, that's that's a hard one. Um, I mean, I can speak about so many things, but at the end of the day, the base of of of how we how we interact with people and how people interact with each other. I believe, you know, from my standpoint, is empathy, empathizing with your with your family, with your friends, with your clients, with everyone around you. I think that's a great way to navigate life and the loss of empathy is when the bad things happen. And I think, you know, we can be seeing that across the world, and nowadays it's everywhere, and we're asking ourselves, why is that happening? I don't think there's a, there's a easy answer to that, but there, you know, the the answer for me is try to keep that, keep alive that old sense of of old time, empathy that we were educated with, you know, the values that our parents instilled in in us and the education instilled in us, and even if you know the wo

Today, my guest is Mike Cossette. Mike is a world traveler and a REMAX broker, owner in Central Texas. He has 20 years as an agent investor who owns and manages multi family, short term rentals, commercial assets, a Florida Island and recently has had four kids in less than four and a half years. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Mike Cossette about long term success with market volatility.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecossette/ YouTube: askmikecoss@gmail.com

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Mike Cossette, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Mike Cossette Well, Darrin, I appreciate all your insight, and I really appreciate that that question. And I like the three phases that you just went through, because that is going to help me restructure how I think about my own risk. I really that that was a nice little light bulb you gave me my personal risk. And I think a lot of investors might be seeing this now, and if they're not, if they're new investors, this is something that is vitally important is over leveraging. I think everyone you know says, Keep X amount of dollars, six, nine months of you know, costs, you know, capex, or what have you in the account I want. I think everyone should increase that because, as you mentioned with the global warming and fires and hurricanes and those black swan events. Everything can be going perfect, but it's what you don't and can't expect or predict that can sink the ship. And we're experiencing that now. Everything you know, even tou

Today, my guest is Matt Buchalski. Matt is a serial business builder, sales leader and multi family investor with nearly two decades of experience, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Matt Buchalski about strategies for establishing quality returns and passive income in commercial real estate investing.    https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbuchalski/ matt@ownwell.com  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Matt Buchalski, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Matt Buchalski I think the biggest risk as an owner, slash general partner, is reputation risk. And I think reputation risk comes in two different forms. Right? Number one is your own personal reputation, right? How do you handle yourself during the hard times? How do you screen opportunities as they come into your inbox and really gage which ones are worthy of you putting your name reputation on, and frankly, capital into, because I put capital into every deal that we do, right? So I think there's reputation risk from that perspective, the other perspective, though, and this is kind of the little further downstream, but the reputation risk of. How you run your assets right? What happens to you and your community ecosystem by putting the wrong resident profile into your units? What happens if you're not screening your residents properly and they throw parties or they you know, they have bad actors that you know frequent your commu

Anne-Michelle Wand, an international real estate expert, discussed her journey to financial freedom and her investments in Panama. She highlighted the ease of property ownership for foreigners in Panama, the use of attorneys for contracts, and the stability of the US dollar. Anne-Michelle detailed her strategy of raising all capital upfront to minimize risk, avoiding mortgages, and ensuring solid land investments. She plans to build a multi-family project targeting the over-55 and digital nomad markets, raising $6-7 million. She emphasized the importance of minimizing risk through solid financial planning and the potential for passive income through real estate investments.   https://www.passive-profit-partners.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cr8grtsuccess/?originalSubdomain=pa  

J. Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Anne-Michelle Wand, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Anne-Michelle Wand Well, I think I touched on it before. I think the one of the biggest risks is over leveraging your product and the so that's how I've created this whole business model to minimize risk by having all the money paid up front and owning the building outright and then having the ability to refinance it when conditions are favorable, in order to pull out investors money that that's that's that allows you to to withstand any downturns, delays or economic factors that may be happening in the outside world. And still, you're still going to have cash flow the way I've designed the project. It's going to break even at 23% so anything above that should be cash flow back to the investors.  You know, it'll start out small, it'll grow and people will also have the ability there'll be a section in there where people can actually come and enjoy a vacation or or for the over 55 live there full time. So yo

Today, my guest is Carl Moose. Carl is a seasoned executive with nearly 30 years of experience spanning business development, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and energy solutions.  And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Carl Moose about how renewable energy can turn your property into a high performing asset.   Ph: 630-785-0031 Web: greenlightenergy.solar E: carl@greenlightenergy.solar

J Darrin Gross  If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Carl Moose, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Carl Moose Yeah, so as a property owner. And when I'm dealing with property owners, anytime you make a change to the building, or you install something on the building, like solar, you know, there's, there's some risk there. I mean, you know, obviously their first concern is, you know, are you going to put poke holes in my roof, and is my roof going to leak? So that's one of, one of the considerations. The other is, you know, weather, you know, they ask, well, you know, are these going to blow off if we get a, you know, big weather storm, or is hail going to damage these? And you know, the answer is, possibly, you know, if the storm is big enough, and if the hail is big enough, you have that, you have that risk. And then, of course, you know, they they ask about, are they going to work, right? And so there's enough data out there with regard to whether the solar panels are going to work, and we know the sun's going

Today, my guest is Matt Spagnolo. Matt is a former residential and commercial agent turned capital raiser now in capital markets with Colony Hills Capital as fund co manager, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Matt Spanolo about capital markets and alternative investments.   https://www.colonyhillscapital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-spagnolo/  

 J Darrin Gross: I'd like to ask you, Matt Spagnalo, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Matt Spagnolo: Yeah, I would say the biggest risk in multi family has to be interest rates, right? Interest rates are something in I like to say the biggest risks, at least with what we do at colony, is something that we can't control, right? We believe in our team and the systems and processes that we've put in place, what we can control, we can live with with that, right? But what's tough is the items that we can't control, like you said, insurance and interest rates. So we've made a shift to help on the insurance side of things. Right? If the properties we had invested in Texas and in Florida in the southeast that maybe are seeing a higher jump in insurance, we are going to these properties in the northeast, like I mentioned, we're making that shift geographically. The insurance number itself might be high in the northeast, but the only thing that we care about as an operator is what is the year over year change? As long as that

Today, my guest is Katie Kim. Katie Kim is a visionary real estate developer and educator specializing in transforming overlooked urban spaces into thriving community enhancing developments, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Katie about how to scale your real estate portfolio. https://www.katiekim.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/thekatiekim/ https://www.instagram.com/thekatiekim/ https://www.youtube.com/@TheKatieKim  

  J Darrin Gross: I'd like to ask you. Katie Kim, what is the biggest risk? Katie Kim: The biggest risk is it all not working out right and not going to plan, pretty much. So we when we step into a development, I want to answer in two parts.    I want to answer an insurance side of risk, because I think insurance is a great way to do risk, and it's definitely part of our risk mitigation plan. But when we and when we step into putting together the development structure, it's more than what are you offering your investors, right? It's who's on the team in the development and what are they seeing as a risk and putting all those feedbacks and comments into that risk mitigation plan for the development itself, and communicating that to our investors and our bank and all of our team, and then also contingency, contingency, contingency on the financial side, for sure, but how do you make sure you have plan? A, B, C, D, you know, really, EF all the way to Z for each item in the plan, in the process.    So, you know,