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Money Tree Investing

Choosing Real Estate Syndications Over Technology Due Diligence Investing Secrets

Money Tree Investing

Money Tree Investing Podcast

Stockmarket, Valuestocks, Investing, Finance, Passiveincome, Wealth, Business, Personalfinance

4.6658 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Have you considered investing in real estate syndications?

They can be a great way to invest if you do your due diligence properly.

Learn the secret questions to ask real estate syndicators to make sure it is a good investment for you. Are you focusing on financial offense or financial defense? Vetting values and more...

For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/choosing-real-estate-syndications-over-technology-due-diligence-investing-secrets

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

0:04.7

Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.

0:11.2

Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

0:13.4

Welcome to this week's show.

0:15.0

My name's Kirk Shizum and I am going to be your host today.

0:18.0

So today we have the pleasure of bringing on Spencer Hillegas. Hey, Spencer.

0:22.1

Hey, Kirk. Honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Spencer, why don't you tell us a little

0:25.7

bit about your background here? I actually am a full-time real estate investor these days who

0:30.0

helps other folks kind of get into this new space of real estate investing. But for 13 years,

0:35.0

I was out here in Silicon Valley, where I live now as a Silicon Valley tech leader across five different software companies.

0:41.4

That was my chosen path. I went across all those companies building big teams, operations groups, sales groups, just kind of the traditional narrative that people think of when they think of a Silicon Valley career.

0:53.1

The long hours came along with it. And so a very

0:55.4

traditional sounding path. But truth be told Kirk, I used to be embarrassed to also share with folks

1:00.2

that I did grow up in a real estate household as well. My dad was a broker out here for 30 years.

1:06.2

And I was working in his business. And that's part of the reason why I ended up running into tech.

1:10.4

I didn't really enjoy in doing open houses when I was 15 years old. And so technically,

1:15.3

I don't know if that scared me into the Silicon Valley world necessarily, but I didn't

1:20.0

really get the exposure to real estate on the investing side at that point. But I did get a lot of

1:24.7

learnings when I watched his business rise to great heights, one of the top brokers in the 90s.

1:30.5

And then it came back down and unfortunately kind of crumbled because we had a really hard patch as a family growing up.

1:36.1

We won't go deep into that now.

1:37.3

But just to mention that, I take all those learnings now and I apply that to our own business where we help other investors who are full-time tech folks,

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