All Forum Posts by: Bill Zahller

Please join us for our January 25th AMIC meeting featuring Brandon Hall.

Brandon is a Certified Public Accountant, national speaker, and is the Managing Partner of The Real Estate CPA. Brandon works with real estate investors, syndicates, and private equity funds to optimize tax positions and streamline accounting and business functions. He believes that real estate investing is critical to building sustainable and generational wealth.

Brandon worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young prior to launching his own CPA firm, Hall CPA PLLC (The Real Estate CPA). Through the knowledge gain by working with real estate investors, Brandon invests in multi-family and single-family rentals.

Join us for our online April AMIC (https://www.meetup.com/Ashevil...) meeting featuring Park Capital Partners Lead Underwriter, Terry Kipp.

TERRY KIPP is an active Real Estate Syndicator, Investor, and Capital Markets Consultant.
Terry teamed up with Bill Zahller and Richard Coyne to lead the underwriting and market research efforts for the firm.
Terry

is a commercial real estate professional who has closed over $1 billion

of real estate transactions on behalf of pension funds, endowments, and

high-net-worth investors. With experience across multiple real estate

disciplines, Terry’s underwritten over $6 billion of transactions of

multi-family, retail, office, and industrial assets across the country.

Terry started his career at Prudential Real Estate Investors (now PGIM),

J.P. Morgan’s Global Real Assets, and Pacolet Milliken Enterprises,

which allows him to bring an institutional discipline to the

underwriting and market research process. He is an active member of the

New York Private Equity Network –Real Estate in New York, NY.

@Sean Poulos Welcome to BiggerPockets, and Asheville later this year. Asheville is a good town with an active REIA (CREIA in the Carolinas) group. It would be nice to meet you at one of the meetings once you get moved.

I would also recommend Joe Fairless's book on syndication, a lot of good information in there from Joe and Theo.

You might want to attend your local REIA groups and find out who is doing syndication and talk with them. We run a monthly meeting in Asheville where we focus on multifamily investing and syndication, we have serval experts come in during the year to do a deep dive in different areas, underwriting, financing, PM...etc.
Look for multifamily MeetUp groups in your area to connect with syndicators and their underwriters. The good ones are passionate about multifamily investing and enjoy sharing what they have learned.

Best

@Alex Ramirez It might depend some on the size of deals you are going after, under a 100 units you will find more mom and pop sellers, I would go to local REIA meeting and network with other apartment investors, I would also talk to local bankers that like to make multifamily loans and local CPA's would also be a source for introductions, they might know of a client needing/ wanting to sell.

Once you get above a 100 units I find my time is best spent developing broker relations in the markets you are interested in, stay in contact with them, get on their blast list, go and tour properties that fit your criteria and give them sold feedback on why the deal will or will not work for you. If you stay active, tours, LOI's, closings you will get more and more off-market deals to look at. There aren't any short cuts, but if you put the effort in it will be repaid.

Best of luck.

Congratulations @Ben Leybovich It sounds like a good project.

The Best Ever Conference is one of the best conferences I have attended. A high caliber of attendees that are actively investing or syndicating.

For large conferences, I would also vote for Joe Fairless's Best Ever Conference. The Real Estate Guys also put on serval good events per year.

To build up your network and knowledge quicker then one or two national conferences a year I would get involved in your local REIA groups to meet like-minded people doing what you want to do. MeetUp is a good resorce to find local Real Estate clubs in your area.

Add 750+ units of value-add apartments to the portfolio. Goto and speak at three conferences this year. Continue to grow our Asheville Multifamily Investor Club. Grow our newsletter and investor list. Looking forward to a great 2020.

We are pleased to announce Jim Hitt as our speaker this month.

For 40+ years, Jim Hitt has been committed to all aspects of investing, using Self-Directed IRAs for his own investments since 1982.

Jim’s forte is the financing and acquisition of real estate, private offerings, mortgage lending, businesses, joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies using creative techniques. He has developed, owned, and managed everything from single-family homes to multi-unit commercial properties and million-dollar businesses.

Jim resides in Asheville, North Carolina, and is a past President of the Carolinas Real Estate Investors Association (CREIA). He teaches investing techniques in North and South Carolina at UNC Asheville, AB Tech and Lorman Educational Services.

Jim is the Chief Executive Officer of American IRA. Allowing their clients to invest in non-traditional assets, such as real estate, partnerships, limited liability companies, private loans, and many other investment choices, American IRA teaches you how to use your Self-Directed IRA or Self-Directed 401k plan to earn tax-free income.