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Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Ep #945 - Immigration From Russia To The US Now Successful Real Estate Investor

Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing

Rod Khleif

Education, Investing, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Igor Shaltanov, founder and managing partner of Avista Fund, transitioned from professional athletics to successful entrepreneurship and real estate investment in Southern California. Since 2015, Avista Fund has focused on raising capital and investing in income-generating multifamily properties, with a mission to provide investors with access to US real estate. With over 3,050 multifamily units valued at $483.5MM, Avista Fund prioritizes conservative underwriting and meticulous due diligence, delivering value to investors and communities alike through a values-driven approach.

 

Here's some of the topics we covered:

  • Igor's Immigration From Russia To The US

  • Why He Decided Not To Go Back To Russia

  • A Quick "Seminar" In The Stock Market

  • How To Align Yourself With a Partner

  • What to Look For In a Partner

  • Igor's First Real Estate Deal & The Lesson Learned

  • Investing In California (Don't Do It)

  • Lessons In Self Storage

  • The Importance Of a Healthy Mindset 

 

To find out more about partnering or investing in a multifamily deal: Text Partner to 72345 or email Partner@RodKhleif.com 

 

For more about Rod and his real estate investing journey go to www.rodkhleif.com

 

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0:00.0

Welcome. This is the Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing Podcast.

0:06.0

This is where you learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through real estate investment.

0:12.0

Your host Rod Cleef has owned over 2,000 homes in apartments.

0:17.0

And he brings experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show.

0:22.0

Now, here's your home. investment and

0:25.1

Now here's your host

0:37.1

Welcome to another edition of lifetime cash flow through real estate investing. I'm Rod Cleef and I am thrilled you're here and today we have Igor Sheltonov and Igor is from Russia as evidenced by the name Igor and we've had a nice little pre-chat here about Russia and my some of my experiences in

0:45.4

Russia but we're gonna have a wide-ranging conversation mostly about raising

0:50.2

money which of course is really important right now. Igor welcome the show brother.

0:54.0

Thank you thank you Rod and it's my honor to be on the show and I would love to share as

0:58.0

much as I can with people. Thank you. You bet. I'm glad you're here.

1:02.0

Well so why don't you you are a former professional

1:04.8

athlete I'm dying to hear about that so tell us your story and what you did

1:10.0

previously and why real estate and just the whole shebang yeah I will so and I'm

1:17.2

always thinking how far go back I want to you know I want to go with my story

1:22.1

but I want to go back to Russia right this in 1995 let's say or so and that's a tough times because it was civil war, right, and civil arrest right outside and then my dad was a police officer and my mom was a doctor.

1:40.0

Moscow, and Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, yeah, it was Moscow was yeah, it was Moscow and then I I wouldn't say I didn't know if my dad comes back home it was like the tough times to the point so you go. You were worried about him making it back. Yeah. I was worried about making him back and I didn't really understand the scope of the thing because I was still pretty young but then it was a big big deal right and then every time the news comes up

2:06.6

You want to make sure you see what's going on and then like who's bombarding what we're shooting and blah blah.

2:12.8

So anyways what I'm talking about and my story comes from there

2:19.6

because it was the space when there's no business, there's no education, right?

2:24.7

There's no financial background.

2:26.7

So it was really relying on, okay, my mom and my dad and what they work for, right,

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