#425 FBF: How This School Teacher Took Down a 50,000 sq. ft. Office Property on His Very First Commercial Real Estate Deal - with Brian Murray
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today's Flash Back Friday Episode is from Episode #135, originally aired January 30, 2017.
Our guests for this week's show is commercial real estate expert, Brian Murray
In today's show, we're going to be speaking with Brian about how he went from being a school teacher with absolutely zero real estate to full-time commercial real estate investor with a multi-million dollar portfolio valued in the 10's of millions. And if that isn't enough to impress you, what if I told you his very first commercial deal was a 50,000 sq. ft. office building. Strap your seatbelts on, kids, this is one ride that you'll want to hang on for!
Here's What You'll Learn:
- How he transitioned from school teacher with zero real estate experience to doing his very first commercial real estate deal, which was a 50,000 sq. ft. office building
- How he was able to creatively structure the financing on this property even though it was only 50% occupied at the time of closing.
- How he was able to quickly take the property from a point that it was just breaking even to making a substantial positive cash flow each month.
- Lessons on how to successfully own and manage a variety of commercial asset types versus just focusing on one type.
- The process of converting a prior extended stay hotel into a highly desirable apartment building.
- How Brian utilizes a "low pricing" strategy in one of his apartments in order to beat out the competition and why he feels this is the most profitable way to run this particular property.
- How to make the switch from smaller real estate investments and transition into larger commercial deals.
- A few tidbits on how to find the heavy hitter investors within a particular marketplace and how to establish a relationship with them.
- Why Brian feels that every investor needs to learn the landlord business firsthand prior to outsourcing to a 3rd property management company.
- And much more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Flashback Friday. It's your opportunity to get some good review by listening to episodes from the past that Kevin is handpicked to help you along your investment journey. If you like to partner with Kevin and join his team at Sunrise Capital Investors, head to invest with Sunrise.com to learn more. That's |
| 0:22.1 | invest with sunrise.com. Enjoy the show. Our guest for this week's show is commercial |
| 0:28.8 | real estate expert, Brian Murray. And in today's show, we're going to be speaking with Brian |
| 0:33.0 | about how he went from being a school teacher with absolutely zero real estate background. |
| 0:38.5 | And in just 10 years, has built multi-million dollar commercial real estate empire with a portfolio valued |
| 0:43.9 | into tens of millions of dollars. |
| 0:45.5 | If that wasn't enough to impress you, what if I told you his very first commercial deal |
| 0:50.6 | was a 50,000 square foot office building? |
| 0:53.6 | Yes, you didn't hear me incorrectly on now. That 50,000 square foot office building. Yes, you didn't hear me incorrectly on now. |
| 0:55.2 | And that 50,000 square foot office building was his very first real estate deal. That's pretty |
| 1:01.0 | badass, right? Well, then what if I told you that he pulled off this acquisition all by |
| 1:05.9 | himself with no partners by creatively structuring the deal and was able to get into it with only $40,000 |
| 1:12.3 | of his own money. |
| 1:13.9 | And last but not least, what if I told you that the building was 50% vacant when he purchased |
| 1:18.8 | it and he had barely a break-even cash flow, but he was able to get it fully leased within a very |
| 1:24.2 | short period of time. |
| 1:25.5 | If that doesn't impress you, then I don't know what |
| 1:27.8 | would. Anyway, we're going to dig into Brian's business and we're going to uncover his secrets to |
| 1:32.6 | success. And so here's what you're going to learn during the call. You're going to learn how he |
| 1:35.8 | transitioned from being a school teacher with zero real estate experience to doing his very first |
| 1:40.0 | commercial real estate deal, which was a 50,000 square foot office building. You learn how he was |
| 1:44.5 | able to creatively structure the financing on this property, even though it was only 50% occupied |
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