Attract & Connect With Commercial Real Estate Investors on Linkedin with Yakov Smart - CREPN #266
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Release Date: 09/17/2020
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is Blake Rogers. Blake Rogers is the co founder at Steel Peak Properties. Steel Peak is a Southern California based real estate investment firm focused on acquiring and improving industrial outdoor storage assets throughout the western US, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Blake Rogers about outdoor storage properties.
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J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Blake Rogers, What is the BIGGEST RISK? Blake Rodgers Sure. So I think in in our space, we say this all the time to to our investors, because they ask us this question as well, what? What's, what do you think the biggest risk is here, guys with this asset class? For us, it's really, since we're buying single tenant deals. I think it's the single tenant nature of these deals. We're buying vacant sites a lot of the time. So the risk for us is you either lease it or you don't, and you either do it in the amount of time that you said you would or you...
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Today, my guest is George Otel. George is the seasoned entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in real estate and finance, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with George Otel about business finance.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, George Otel, what is the BIGGEST RISK? George Otel The biggest risk when it comes to funding, is not looking for funding early enough, because the biggest risk is when people call me that they need funding yesterday. So it's I tell people you always have to look for funding, even if you don't need it, because when you need it, you may not find it where you may be. Tweaks. Expensive because of your situation. Let's say you got to look for funding when you're doing good, when you're doing great, because the lenders see less risk in...
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Today, my guest is Pete Neubig. Pete is the co founder and CEO of VPM solutions, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Pete Neubig about the Benefits of Hiring a Remote Team.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Pete Neubig, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Pete Neubig So the biggest risk for VPM, well, I would say for us, the biggest risk is, at the end of the day, we're a payment processor, okay? You know, even though we have all these whistles and bells where you have this marketplace and you have these searches and you have this training, you have this video, if I can't pay people, I'm out of business. And so my biggest risk is that we are connected to stripe, and if stripe decides to cancel or go belly up. You know that I cannot process...
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Today, my guest is Marcy Sagel. She's the founder and principal of MSA interiors, with over 30 years of experience shaping multifamily housing, student living and senior housing and more. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Marcy Sagel about From Blueprints to Brilliance, designing multi family spaces that rent.
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J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Marcy Sagel, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Marcy Sagel I'm going to answer that in a few parts, because there's different aspects of the job that can be different risks. So when we pick materials for a project, we have to make sure we're working with tried and true materials, okay, materials that are not going to fail on a job, for instance, in the units, if we select a, you know, vinyl plank flooring, we want to make sure it's going to last. So we only work with manufacturers that we know are going to give us a solid product, not we're not trying to test...
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Today, my guest is Lissette Calderon. Lissette is the founder and CEO of Neology Group, a vertically integrated, lifestyle driven residential and commercial real estate firm that specializes in transforming undervalued neighborhoods into sought after communities, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Lissette Calderon about solving for housing's greatest need, a focus on workforce communities.
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J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Lissette Calderon, What is the BIGGEST RISK? Lissette Calderon Well, I think in today's world, probably the biggest risk you have is uncertainty. And how do you underwrite uncertainty? You know what happens next? How do you underwrite whether it's Harris insurance numbers, construction costs, what does that uncertainly look like, and what, how do you underwrite that? So, you know, how do we do it? You know, we really can't avoid it because, you know, we're developers. So of course, our job is, you know, we really think about a how...
info_outlineToday my guest is Yakov Smart. Yakov is considered to be the leading expert when it comes to attracting A list investors and raising capital using LinkedIn. He is the author of Disrupting LinkedIn and a sought after authority by top business owners and sales leaders worldwide. Yakov has shared the stage with Samantha DeBianchi of Bravo's hit TV show Million Dollar Listing. And he's been a guest on numerous media outlets. As a resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, today, Yakov is a proud leader of LinkedIn Enterprises, where his webinars on demand training programs and strategic consulting accelerators give people proven tools and techniques for transforming their LinkedIn profiles into priceless relationship building assets. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with jack off about how To raise capital and attract high net worth investors using LinkedIn.