126: From 0 to 400+ Units Through Value-Add Investing with Brian Murray

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Building a real estate empire takes time, effort, and significant amounts of capital. However, as our guest today shares with us, it’s not beyond your reach! Learn how Brian Murray built a real estate portfolio to over 400 units using a variety of strategies and intelligent techniques. If you plan on building a large real estate portfolio in your future, this is a CAN’T MISS episode! In This Episode We Cover: How Brian got started with real estate Why he invested in commercial office space The techniques he used to get the place rented What exactly assuming the loan of the seller means A discussion about Capitalization Rates Value added investing How to use the 50% Rule with commercial properties The value of putting money back into the property How he manages his properties and his specific views on it How to find great deals Tips for real estate investors on getting started His biggest success and biggest mistake And SO much more! Links from the Show #AskBP Podcast The One Thing You Need to Achieve Your Biggest Goals [#AskBP] BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Podcast show 100 with Josh Dorkin BiggerPockets LinkedIn Profile BiggerPockets Facebook BiggerPockets Twitter Books Mentioned in this Show The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings by Steve Berges Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson Tweetable Topics: “You can’t expect anyone to treat your property as well as you do yourself.” (Tweet This!) “You’re gonna see far better returns if you invest yourself and your time into your properties.” (Tweet This!) “A lot of people they think that a property is not for sale, everything is for sale.” (Tweet This!) “Grit is living life like a marathon, not a sprint.” (Tweet This!) Connect with Brian Brian’s BiggerPockets Profile Brian’s LinkedIn Brian’s Company Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast, Show 126.
0:05.6	He's got jagged yellow teeth and he's got no shirt on, baggy pants,
0:10.1	and he's got a baseball bat in his hand,
0:12.1	and he's like, what the bleep are you doing in here you
0:15.2	know get the heck out of my apartment.
0:17.2	You're listening to bigger pockets radio simplifying real estate for investors
0:22.4	large and small.
0:24.0	If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing, without all the height,
0:28.0	you're in the right place.
0:30.0	Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited from bigger pockets.com.
0:35.8	Your home for real estate investing online.
0:39.1	What's going on everybody? This is Josh Dorkin, host to the BiggerPockets podcast here with my
0:44.2	co-host well he's not really here he's not really where he's supposed to be
0:49.8	frankly nobody really knows where he is.
0:53.0	It's Brandon Turner.
0:54.0	What's up, everyone? How's it going?
0:56.0	What's up, dude? Where are you today, man?
0:58.0	Like, you know, you're supposed to be somewhere, but you're not there.
1:01.0	You're like yesterday, you were in New York the day
1:03.2	before Washington and then you know Seattle where are you going to be next what's going
1:06.8	on what's what's this thing you're doing all right so let's see so we started in
1:11.5	we started in Seattle drove out to Minnesota up to Michigan down to Detroit down to
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