170. How to Raise Capital & Start Funds for Real Estate or Private Equity w/ Bridger Pennington
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Raising money for real estate deals can seem overly complex. It's not easy to raise hundreds of thousands - even millions - of dollars for your investment or private equity deal.
When it comes to raising capital, there's many ways to do it. There are private equity funds, hedgefunds, syndications, and more. How do you know what to use, and, more importantly, how to use them?
So we're inviting Bridger Pennington, the cofounder of Fund Launch and the host of the Investment Funds Secrets podcast. Check out his website: https://www.fundlaunch.com/
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| 0:00.0 | It's funny when you start to learn about something, you start to recognize that thing in your life. |
| 0:05.2 | And it's like all things you start, you know, Tony Robbins preaches that. I won't get into that concept. But you guys understand what I'm talking about. I started to recognize opportunities for funds in my life. So I was at college at the time. I was working in internship and starting to start a company. at that company I was working out I had an idea for a fund we could the clients |
| 0:21.9 | that were coming through this company needed financing I thought we could give them a internship and starting to start a company. At that company I was working at, I had an idea for a fund. |
| 0:21.0 | We could, the clients that were coming through this company needed financing. I thought we could give them a financing product. We can make a debt vehicle and give them debt. I pitched the, I pitched the founders company that loved it. I pitched my daddy loved it. We started to put this fund together. All the pieces together and I'm 22 years old at that time. And we got the structure of the fund put together. |
| 0:39.1 | And then I hit this wall. |
| 0:39.8 | I was like, crap. |
| 0:42.7 | Now I got to raise money. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, what is going on everybody? Welcome back to the self-storage income podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | Today we have a special episode lined up because today we're talking about raising capital. |
| 0:53.8 | Raising capital is a huge part of any investment and it's absolutely essential and it's something |
| 0:59.4 | that has a lot of nuances involved that you might not be aware of either starting out or |
| 1:04.2 | even if you've done multiple funds before or syndications or hedge funds. |
| 1:09.4 | There's so many ways to do a deal and to raise capital that it |
| 1:12.7 | doesn't just stop with one. So today we have a special guest, Bridger Pennington. He's helped over |
| 1:18.6 | 20,000 students get started in funds, and he's the co-founder of Fun Launch, and he's the host of |
| 1:24.3 | the Investment Fund Secrets podcast. And there's just a lot of insights in today's episode that you're not going to want to miss. |
| 1:31.3 | But first things first, we have our live event coming up here in just a couple weeks. |
| 1:36.5 | The self-storage income live event is September 20th through the 23rd in Cordillane, Idaho. |
| 1:42.6 | If you haven't been to one of these before, definitely |
| 1:44.6 | come, come meet the team, come meet AJ and Connor. We'd love to say hi. And for those of you who |
| 1:49.8 | don't know, Forge Building Company is a company that we personally contract and use all the time, |
| 1:55.5 | and they're a sponsor of this podcast, but they're offering a free consultation and a |
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