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Active Partnerships and Passive Partnerships
Active Partnerships and Passive Partnerships With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So, let’s say that you’ve found a property with a few of your friends and you all want to invest in that property, you’re all playing a role in that property and you’re playing an active role where each, let’s say, each person in that…
Read MoreReal Estate Partnerships Provide Scalability
Real Estate Partnerships Provide Scalability With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So when you’re coming into, let’s say, a fund or a syndication that’s purchasing a property, you would typically do that to purchase a larger property than you would be able to buy by yourself. You know, the properties that are typically purchased are 100 units,…
Read MoreWhat is A Limited Partnership in Real Estate?
What is A Limited Partnership in Real Estate? With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So there is a structure known as a limited partnership where there is a LP, which is typically the investor and there’s a GP which is a general partner. And that is typically the sponsor. So the sponsor is the one who is…
Read MoreWhat is A Real Estate Partnership?
What is A Real Estate Partnership? With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So let’s say you want to make an investment in a property and think of it as though you have found this property with some friends or co-investors that you want to invest together in this property. What you would typically do is create an…
Read MoreThe Biggest Risks in Real Estate Investing
The Biggest Risks in Real Estate Investing With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder The biggest risk would be finding the right deal, by doing your due diligence, making sure there aren’t any hidden surprises, so to speak. You always try to mitigate part of that when you’re finding the deal, underwriting the deal. I’d say just making…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Real Estate Investing
The Benefits of Real Estate Investing With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder Real estate is an asset class I really like and, I guess, over the years, having invested in stocks and bonds, to startup companies, to cryptocurrency … You name it, I’ve dabbled in it. I’ve just gravitated towards real estate for a variety of reasons.…
Read MoreSurviving and Thriving During a Recession
Surviving and Thriving During a Recession With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder It goes back a while. I started in the early 2000s … Actually, let me take a step back. Throughout my life, I’d always been exposed to some form of real estate. Luckily, my father was a successful businessman, and he always had real estate.…
Read MoreScaling a Private Real Estate Portfolio with Partners
Scaling a Private Real Estate Portfolio with Partners With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder Primarily, when I first started, around 2000-2001, it was the single-family houses – buying them, flipping them, renting them. Then, after doing that for a while, it just becomes hard to scale that, after you get to a certain point. Scaling single-family houses…
Read MoreLocking in Profit During a Real Estate Downturn
Locking in Profit During a Real Estate Downturn With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder When I was in financial services, one of the things I also used to trade were options. I would do covered calls and all sorts of different trading strategies on stocks to make sure that once you start getting profit on a particular…
Read MoreHow to Scale a Real Estate Business
How to Scale a Real Estate Business With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder We finance it, but, again, that was all still focused on single family. Then, when you get to a certain point, I had a construction crew; I had focusing on fixing these properties, but we would still be backed up. I would have three,…
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