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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…

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…

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…

Real Estate Cold Calling: The Toughest Part of Winning the Real Estate Game With Ed Rogan, Co-Founder I grew up in Pennsylvania, Scranton, P.A. I came from a middle class blue collar background, basically taught myself financial management and financial investing after I left the military. So I got into…

Nuances of Financing for Real Estate Partnerships With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So, when it comes to finance, I’d say it’s a little different than your normal single family house. I wouldn’t say it’s easier or more difficult. I think it’s, if you try to do it by yourself, it’s a…

Managing Apartment Expenses with A Good Staffing Plan – Multifamily Real Estate Investing With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder Then, when it comes to expenses, we look at a number of things; namely … Obviously, payroll is a big part of that. As part of the due diligence, we come up with…

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…

Leveraging Tax Advantages and Forced Appreciation with Multi-Family Real Estate With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder The other benefit you get is the … Like many of the real estate classes, you generally are using leverage, as well. So, if you are wise about leverage, and you use a good loan-to-value ratio,…

How to Use Debt to Mitigate Risk With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So in purchasing these large multi-family assets, we do use debt. Debt is actually a it’s a tool. It’s a powerful tool. But it has the two sides of it. So if it’s used wisely, it’s it definitely helps…

How to Take Your Investments to the Next Level in Commercial Real Estate With Percy Nikora, Co-Founder So as I was looking at ways to diversify the portfolio. Going back to my earlier childhood, I had always seen how real estate could be leveraged and should be a part of…