Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barberto, one of the co-founders of Jake in Gino. And in this how-to

video, we're going to be discussing how to align your interests and set goals as a past investor.

So if you're looking to see how you can align your interests and how you can really scale your

portfolio as a past investor. I want you to listen

on. This is such an important topic right now in the current market. We have general partners,

sponsors of deals that are pausing distributions. They're having capital calls. There's even some

foreclosures out there. Well, what to do? I look at it as there's problems in the economy.

There's problems in these deals. What's the opportunity? And some of you may be saying right now,

there is an opportunity. I've lost my money. Well, guess what? I've been there too. My first

passive investment was a total disaster. Not only did I invest once with this sponsor, with this sponsor, I invested in a second deal

because I was getting checks from the first one. So I'm getting checks after three months

and he comes over. He goes, I've got to know the park to invest in Gino. Oh, great. I'm getting

deals, getting money coming in. Why not? So I put money. I ended up losing $172,000. That was a huge

problem. But that led to my opportunity and the opportunity was,

I need to learn this business the right way. I need to understand multifamily. I got onto a couple

of mentorship groups. I invested a ton of money to my education. And then the opportunity after that

arose when I met my business partner Jake and I started investing in multifamily.

I don't think if I had that cataclysmic loss of money, because for me, back then, $172,000 was everything that I had saved.

So I had made so many mistakes.

That's why it's important in this lesson right now.

We're going to be discussing

alignment of interests and setting goals for yourself as you being the investor. And this can be

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