#354: Leveraging Technology, establishing rapport, and so much more! -with Mike Sowers
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
4.9 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sowers is a commercial real estate investment expert commercial real estate expert.
As the Founder and CEO of Commercial Investors Group, he leads the acquisition of a variety of assets and closes on value-add real estate deals in Minneapolis. Commercial Investors Group’s core business is repositioning commercial real estate assets across the country.
In addition to his real estate endeavors, Mike is the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling book "Commercial Real Estate Investing: A Step-By-Step Guide To Finding & Funding Your First Deal" and host of the "CREative Commercial Real Estate Podcast"
Quote:
“…There are true real estate operations and then there are properties where it's kinda like there’s a business embedded in the real-estate operation.”
“I never got into niches that required me to move from being a landlord into being a business owner.”
“I think the key here is looking at it and figuring out: how am I capitalizing on it instead of letting it create fear within me… So, how do I take the data and the understanding of what’s happening in the market and use it to my advantage?”
Highlights:
01:42 - Mike tells listeners more about the Commercial Investors Group and how he got into real estate.
07:24 - Mike discusses Commercial Investors Group’s first value-add property.
11:17 - Mike tells us about public databases for MLS.
20:36 - Mike describes finding the necessary expertise in pivoting to a different type of deal.
24:00 - Mike about having a niche and how COVID has shifted his interest in suburban real estate.
27:52 - Mike speaks about COVID’s impact on his opportunities and marketplace.
30:35 - Mike talks about how his company creates opportunities.
33:33 - Mike discusses the importance of banking relationships in the industry.
Guest Website:
https://www.commercialinvestorsgroup.com
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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 |
| 0:06.6 | and heard that real estate is a great way to do it. |
| 0:09.5 | But you're tired of all the so-called gurus who are all talk and no substance. |
| 0:15.3 | 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. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey guys, Kevin Bup here, and I want to welcome you to another episode of the Real Estate |
| 0:33.5 | Investing for Cashflow podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Our mission is to help you build and maintain massive amounts of cash flow through income producing real estate investments. |
| 0:41.3 | And our guest for this week's show is commercial real estate expert Mike Sowers. |
| 0:46.3 | Now Mike is the founder and CEO of Commercial Investors Group, whose core businesses repositioning commercial real estate assets across the country. |
| 0:53.3 | In addition to his real estate endeavors, |
| 0:55.4 | Mike is the author of the number one Amazon bestselling book, Commercial Real Estate Investing, |
| 1:00.1 | a step-by-step guide to finding and funding your first deal. He's also the host of the creative |
| 1:05.2 | commercial real estate podcast. And so with that, guys, it's my honor to welcome Mike Sowers to the show. |
| 1:10.7 | Mike, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:11.9 | Hey, I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, excited to have you here. We've had many |
| 1:17.4 | challenges over the last couple months of rescheduling on each other, but we're here now. So hopefully |
| 1:21.0 | it's going to be a kick-ass show. So just excited to dive into your background and learn a little bit more about you, your business and, |
| 1:27.8 | you know, everything related to it and also how you got into real estate, right? |
| 1:31.5 | Like we're going to tell the whole story today. So maybe to start off, Mike, for those that |
| 1:35.3 | aren't familiar with you, don't know anything about you, your background, maybe start there |
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