The Most Underrated Metric in Multifamily (Not Cap Rate/Cash Flow) w/Joe Root
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Release Date: 11/24/2025
The Most Underrated Metric in Multifamily (Not Cap Rate/Cash Flow) w/Joe Root
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
One key metric could tell you immediately whether a multifamily real estate investment is worth buying—but most people ignore it. It’s not cash flow, it’s not cap rate, and it’s probably something you’ve overlooked dozens of times. Joe Root helped grow his family’s multifamily portfolio and manages over 100 properties using this metric. Joe left the glitz of a corporate Wall Street career when he realized his family’s apartment portfolio was better than the big city life. Multifamily management quickly became his new obsession. During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, Joe...
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#962 Former Pro Snowboarder Dan Brisse’s Playbook for Durable Multifamily
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Pro snowboard legend turned operator Dan Brisse breaks down how obsession and discipline translate to durable multifamily returns covering capital calls, bridge debt pain, why he’s buying newer B+/A- locations, and where the next great deals are hiding. Connect with Daniel: Highlights: 1:50 - Daniel's Pro Snowboarding career 11:45 - Daniel's Wake up call 15:00 - Shift Your Mindset, Daniel's Specialty 20:39 - The Multifamily Landscape shift 26:59 - What to Buy Today Quote: “Obsession leads to greatness. In snowboarding or real estate, committed behavior over a long time...
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#961 Affordability Rates & the New-Build Advantage with Keith Weinhold
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
The housing market isn’t broken, it's shifting. And smart investors are shifting with it. Keith Weinhold returns to explain why affordability is squeezed, why owners aren’t selling, and why prices remain stubbornly strong despite lower sales volume. He also reveals where the numbers still pencil, which markets offer real yield, and why new construction is becoming one of the most overlooked investor opportunities right now. Connect with Kieth: Highlights: 03:10 - Affordability Squeeze — Inflation, prices, and rates 5:05 - Sales Volume Drop 09:15 - Rates In Context ...
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#960 Why Discipline Beats Deals: Lee Yoder’s Real Estate Journey
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Physical therapist turned investor Lee Yoder breaks down how he left a stable W-2, lived below his means, and scaled from a duplex to 800+ units in six years. We cover flipping vs. cash-flow rentals, the JV to syndication leap, deal discipline, and why he brought property management in house to operate better and grow faster. A clear roadmap for anyone eyeing the jump from career to full time real estate. Connect with Lee: Highlights: 4:35 — Golden Handcuffs 7:40 — 30% Pay Cut 13:30 — First 34 Units 16:05 — All-In Runway 30:05 — Vertical Integration Quote: “You...
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#959 Payments to Properties: Charles Carillo’s B-Class Multifamily Playbook
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Charles Carillo founder of Harborside Partners and host of the Global Investors Podcast joins Kevin to share how he went from building a billion dollar payments company to scaling a B-class multifamily portfolio. He breaks down lessons from early flips, why he exited C-class, refinancing a floating rate deal, and how he’s underwriting acquisitions again amid tighter debt and flat rents. Practical, no-hype insights on buying right, protecting downside, and playing the long game in today’s market. Connect with Charles: Highlights: 02:00 - Startup → Real Estate 04:00 - Flipping...
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#958 Hard Assets, Smart Money: MOB riches, safe leverage & the 2025–26 opportunity
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Ben Reinberg is the Founder and CEO of Alliance CGC. Ben’s journey began in accounting and has since grown into a commercial real estate career with decades of experience building and managing a diverse portfolio. Under Ben’s leadership, Alliance has grown into a firm recognized nation wide for its focus on medical, retail, industrial, office, and multi family properties. Today, we’ll dive into Ben’s roots, what fuels Alliance’s success, market trends shaping the future, and the challenges, and opportunities on the horizon. Connect with Ben: Highlights: 04:45 - First Deal...
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#957 House Hacks & Mobile Home Parks: Build a 7-Figure Portfolio
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Jordan Moorehead is a real estate power house who has built a diverse and impressive portfolio across multiple asset classes. Jordan Moorhead is a Louisville native, licensed sales agent in Texas, licensed broker in Minnesota, and an active rental property investor who now calls Austin, Texas home. He currently owns over 94 rental units, including mobile home parks, single-family rentals, and multi family properties acquired using the BRRRR strategy. Connect with Jordan: Email: Highlights: 5:00 — Turning a Park Around 11:00 — House Hacking 101 18:00 — Lessons from Passive...
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#956: Understand The Power of Corporate Sale-Leasebacks
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Karly Iacono is a Senior Vice President in CBRE’s Capital Markets, Investment Properties group, specializing in the acquisition and disposition of net-lease assets and large portfolio transactions nationwide. She’s a recognized expert incorporate sale-lease back structuring, multi-tenant retail investments, and development advisory where she guides both institutional and private clients through complex deals. Additionally, she’s the host of the popular 'Commercial Real Estate Now’ podcast where she shares expert insights on the news and trends shaping the commercial real estate...
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#955 FBF: Shifting Perspectives: How Dyslexia Inspired a Serial Entrepreneur, Designer, Solar Farm Expert, & Real Estate Giant
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Today's Flash Back Friday episode is from #732 that originally aired on Apr. 22, 2024. Jerry Rosengarten is a Brooklyn-born serial entrepreneur whose greatest skill is the extraordinary ability to perceive form and structure and opportunity from within disorder, including developing products to deal with dyslexia, reimagining real estate, and investing early and heavily in solar energy. Jerry's first big win came in the 1970s with the Leisure Suit, which became a cultural fashion phenomenon that stoked his confidence and staked his growing desire to build land mark New York projects like...
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#954 MHP: How Industry Experts Brandon Turner & Kolman Bubis have Built & Scaled MHP Investment Firms
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Today's episode is from Mobile Home Park #118 that originally aired on Jul 2, 2020. This episode is part of an ongoing webinar series that my team and I have been hosting where we invite a rotating panel of manufactured housing industry experts to discuss the state of our industry as it relates to not just the corona pandemic but also the general outlook of the manufactured housing industry and how you can not only survive, but ultimately thrive no matter what the current state of affairs are in our country. We were joined by Kolman Bubis, a top broker with Sunstone Real Estate Advisors and...
info_outlineOne key metric could tell you immediately whether a multifamily real estate investment is worth buying—but most people ignore it. It’s not cash flow, it’s not cap rate, and it’s probably something you’ve overlooked dozens of times. Joe Root helped grow his family’s multifamily portfolio and manages over 100 properties using this metric.
Joe left the glitz of a corporate Wall Street career when he realized his family’s apartment portfolio was better than the big city life. Multifamily management quickly became his new obsession. During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, Joe stepped in to manage (and buy) foreclosed properties that were barely staying afloat.
Through 20 years of multifamily experience, he’s pinpointed the most overlooked markets in the country, how to dodge rent control and get your own city government to actively fight against it, and the #1 mistake you can make when screening tenants. He’s sharing it all, plus his key multifamily metric, in this episode.
Insights from today’s episode:
The one screening metric Joe uses to determine if a multifamily investment is worth it
What to do when one of your tenants turns your building into a rave venue
An underrated area of the country that multifamily investors shouldn’t ignore
A sign that you’re managing your portfolio inefficiently (and it could cost you)
Why Joe’s team is moving into new development for even greater returns
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