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The Rich Somers Report

Buying and Selling a 32 Unit Apartment Building For 3X Returns and Lessons Learned | E9

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Investing, Business

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rich talks about his experience buying a 32 unit apartment building in Indiana, his value-add strategy, repositioning the property, and the business plan. He describes forcing the equity & appreciation, then exiting and selling the property 2 years later for three times what it was purchased for. Rich shares a lot of useful information in this episode, including his experience 1031 exchanging out of that deal into more real estate. Join our investor waitlist and stay in t...

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0:00.0

The property had all the problems.

0:02.8

So not only did it have the down units,

0:04.8

but the rents were really, really low

0:07.4

because she was mama pop and she didn't want to push the rents.

0:10.5

And so when that happens, you're typically attracting a certain demographic when your rents are like the cheapest in the market

0:18.0

And so I remember being out there for the inspection day and we had a drug deal go down there was prostitution

0:27.2

on the property there was definitely a lot of drugs going on on the property

0:30.9

middle of the day I think it was like a Monday, and I remember

0:34.6

being the parking lot and the cops pulled up in the middle of our inspection.

0:38.4

Welcome to the Rich Drummers Report where we talk real estate, business, and wealth building all while keeping it real.

0:45.0

No fluff, no BS.

0:46.5

I hope that you enjoy the show.

0:50.1

All right guys, welcome to another episode of the reports in this episode. I am

0:57.6

going to talk about what it was like buying a 32 unit apartment building, value add, repositioning it, the business plan, forcing the equity,

1:07.6

forcing the appreciation, and then exiting and selling the property two years later for 3X of what we bought it for, having a nice payday,

1:15.6

and then 1031 exchanging out of that deal into more real estate.

1:20.1

So be sure to stick around to the end.

1:21.3

There's a lot of useful information in this episode.

1:24.3

So why 32 units and why Indianapolis?

1:28.0

This is going back a little bit.

1:29.0

This is 2019.

1:31.1

Right when I was first getting into real estate, I had just bought an 11 unit apartment building in Cincinnati, which was my first deal, and I had cashed out my 401k to fund the down payment and renovations for that property. And I had some left over and I also pulled out a home equity line of credit from my

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