Creative Capital Podcast 193: Creative Fund Strategy For Build-To-Rent Development with Ray Mazzie
Creative Capital
Josh Ferrari
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ray Mazzie is a Managing Director at Southern Waters Capital (“SWC”) and focuses his time on sourcing and operating SWC’s investment opportunities. Ray graduated from Florida State University with an MBA, a dual degree in economics/political science, is a licensed attorney in the state of Florida, and is a former Gubernatorial Fellow for Governor Rick Scott.
Ray has extensive experience working with legislators and within government agencies from his time spent at the FL Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and the Florida Lottery. Before entering the agriculture and research space, Ray spent time advising corporate clients on business structuring and transactions which included real estate, asset & business dispositions, among other secured transactions.
Ray specializes in fostering collaborative business relationships and strategic partnerships that often emerge at the intersection of business and bureaucracy.
Today is a very unique topic where we dive into massive growth of 1,500+ units in less than 2 years! Talk about scalability...
His creative fund structure and institutional capital connections are ultimately what has allowed him to move so quickly.
If you're interested in institutional level capital partners, BTR, New Development, or creative real estate investing... you won't want to miss this one!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Creative Capital Podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | You're dying to learn about how you can create wealth and real estate investing, then you |
| 0:11.6 | come to the right place. |
| 0:13.7 | Join in every week as we go over the ends and outs of real estate investing. |
| 0:17.8 | And learn how you too can become financially free. |
| 0:23.8 | In fact, it's the one thing that some investor can trust me to do because really what I'm |
| 0:27.9 | saying is I can do site work and entitlement work because I don't have to build the homes |
| 0:31.8 | I just have to get delivered. |
| 0:33.5 | So it's like the ultimate pitch for a novice developer to a limited partner and saying, |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, I went to law school, you can trust me to get through the entitlement phase. |
| 0:43.2 | And really what you're asking me, what you really have to ask yourself is, do you trust |
| 0:47.4 | the land value and do you trust the guy like me to get the site work done? |
| 0:50.8 | What's going on everybody? |
| 0:52.1 | This is Josh Ferrari, host of the Creative Capital Podcast. |
| 0:58.1 | My goodness, excited to bring you another interview episode this Friday with none other |
| 1:04.5 | than Ray Massey. |
| 1:06.2 | Now Ray Massey's only 29 years old. |
| 1:09.1 | So once you guys keep that in mind, when you think about the success that he's been able |
| 1:11.6 | to see in a short amount of time, it just goes to show, does matter your age, does |
| 1:15.6 | matter your background, your financial position, it literally doesn't matter where you are. |
| 1:21.4 | If you want to get into commercial real estate investing, you can do it. |
| 1:26.7 | You can do it from anywhere. |
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