#334: Management Technology, Portfolio Expansion, Getting Started in Real Estate, and So Much More! -with Kent Ritter
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kent Ritter is a real estate + multifamily expert, and a Senior Director for Birge & Held.
Kent co-leads the Private Select Portfolio within Birge & Held and specializes in many of its social, economical, and analytical facets in order for it to run smoothly. He has a passion for how technology can change multifamily investing and is spearheading the adoption of PropTech across the portfolio.
Kent is also a leader in the multifamily space. He hosts a podcast titled Ritter on Real Estate, where he untangles complex topics to empower others to invest. Additionally, he hosts a monthly multifamily investor networking event and has been a featured speaker at many industry conferences and podcasts.
Prior to joining Birge & Held, Kent was a successful real estate investor with a multimillion-dollar portfolio. And before falling in love with real estate, Kent spent 12 years as a management consultant.
Quotes:
In regard to the markets his company is attracted to: “Job growth and rent growth are correlated 1:1… we like job growth, job diversity, and job diversity among jobs that are non-cyclical…if you look at Birge and Held’s entire portfolio, we are in cities like Indianapolis, Columbus Ohio, Minneapolis.. these cities all share common traits: there’s a huge healthcare base, there's a huge higher education base.”
“The goal is to create efficiencies in these smaller properties that usually wouldn’t exist.”
“Just get started, real estate is the right place to be…and then improve through iteration, don’t expect to be perfect the first time.”
Highlights:
02:19 - Kent dives into his background in business making, real estate investing, building his portfolio, and consulting.
09:55 - Kent gives us insight into being a senior director at Birge and Held as well as running his own subsidiary, Private Select, at the company.
15:03 - Kent gives us a general sense of the underlying fundamentals of tertiary markets and the types of markets attracts his company.
18:24 - Kent tells us about the expansion of Birge and Held’s portfolio.
22:00 - Kent goes through his thoughts on technology and how that plays in the efficiency of managing smaller properties.
38:40 - Kent talks about two barriers he’s met when getting into the industry.
49:00 - Kent offers listeners his two golden nugget pieces of advice for those who are pursuing their own real estate investment careers.
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Kent's Podcast: Kent on Real Estate
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You've been searching for the best way to generate passive income in your life and heard that real estate is a great way to do it. |
| 0:09.4 | But you're tired of all the so-called gurus who are all talk and no substance. |
| 0:15.2 | Get ready to celebrate because Kevin Bup has spent 14 years successfully making it happen. |
| 0:21.7 | This is the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | Now, here's Kevin Bup. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey guys, Kevin Bup here, and I want to welcome me to another episode of the Real Estate |
| 0:33.6 | Investing for Cash Flow podcast, where our mission is to help you build and maintain massive |
| 0:38.2 | amounts of cash flow through income producing real estate investments. Now, our guest for this |
| 0:42.9 | week show is a real estate and multifamily expert and managing director of Burge and held Kent |
| 0:47.9 | Ritter. Now, Kent co-leads the private select portfolio with Burge and held and specializes in |
| 0:53.0 | building relationships with quality investors, raising capital, developing investment strategies, and overseeing project |
| 0:59.2 | execution. He is a passion for how technology can change multifamily and it's spearheading |
| 1:04.1 | the adoption of PropTech across the portfolio. Ken is also a recognized thought leader in the |
| 1:09.2 | multifamily space. He hosts a podcast titled Ritter |
| 1:12.0 | on real estate, which breaks down complex topics to empower people to invest like pros. Additionally, |
| 1:17.5 | he hosts a monthly multifamily investor networking event and has been featured speaker at many |
| 1:22.0 | industry conferences and podcast. Now, prior to joining Burgeon held, Kent was a successful |
| 1:26.6 | real estate investor with a multi-million |
| 1:28.4 | dollar portfolio, including multifamily assets, single-family rentals, and industrial investments. |
| 1:34.2 | Now, before falling in love with real estate, Kent spent 12 years as a management consultant |
| 1:38.4 | providing strategic and technical guidance to many of the country's largest hospitals and health systems. |
| 1:44.1 | And so with that, guys, it's my honor to welcome Kent Ritter to the show. Kent, how you doing, |
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