#366: Investment Strategies, Specializing, and so much more! -with Michael Episcope
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
4.9 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Michael is a principal at Origin Investments, a private real estate investment firm that operates more than 5,000 multi-family units in 14 cities, across 8 states.
Michael brings 25 years of investment and risk management experience to the company and believes that calculated risk-taking in inefficient markets is the key to building wealth. After a 16 year trading career, Michael retired from trading in late 2005.
In 2007, Michael and business partner founded Origin Investments. In the 14 years since, Origin has executed more than $2.3 billion in real estate transactions, with an average equity multiple of 2.4x, and has never produced a realized loss for any of their 1,400 investment partners.
Quote:
“We always say at our company: you only need to get rich once…we are really good risk managers, and our job is to make sure, number one, that we don’t lose money and number 2 is that we position ourselves in a way, make really good choices, put ourselves in good assets, and let the upside take care of itself.”
Highlights:
03:05 - Michael tells listeners how he got started in real estate.
10:45 - Michael discusses being disciplined at Origin’s inception during the 2008 recession.
14:40 - Michael describes asset classes Origin has explored.
17:20 - Michael explains strategy and how Origin acts as an LP.
23:22 - Michael provides insight into the markets they love and those they’re avoiding.
27:47 - Michael touches on retention strategies.
34:07 - Michael answers Kevin’s golden nugget question and what he should have done differently.
Guest Website:
https://origininvestments.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. |
| 0:25.3 | Now, here's Kevin Bup. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey guys, Kevin Bup here, and I want to welcome me to another episode of the Real Estate |
| 0:33.3 | Investing for Cashflow podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | We're missions to help you build and maintain massive amounts |
| 0:38.1 | of cash flow through income producing real estate investments. Our guest for this week's show is |
| 0:42.8 | real estate investment expert Michael Episcope. Michael is a principal at origin investments, |
| 0:47.8 | a private real estate investment firm that operates more than 5,000 multifamily units in 14 |
| 0:52.6 | cities across eight states. |
| 0:55.1 | Michael brings 25 years of investment and risk management experience to the company and believes |
| 0:59.2 | that calculated risk-taking in inefficient markets is the key to building wealth. |
| 1:04.5 | After a 16-year trading career, rising through the ranks of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and twice |
| 1:11.4 | named one of the top 100 traders in the world by Trader Monthly Magazine, Michael Cashin and |
| 1:16.5 | his chips and retired from trading in the late 2005. His new focus was on managing the wealthy |
| 1:21.4 | accumulated and enrolled in the real estate master's program at DePaul University. |
| 1:26.0 | Now in 2007, Michael and his business partner |
| 1:27.9 | founded Origin investments in the 14 years since its inception. Origin has executed more than |
| 1:33.3 | 2.3 billion in real estate transactions with an average equity multiple of 2.4x and has |
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