And let's sit down right now and discuss some of the things that you can do when you're looking at multifamily and how you can get into the game.

The advantage that I had is, as Tony Robbins says, you're either moving away from desperation or inspiration.

Now, the reason, why am I saying all this? I'm trying to throw all these assets.

It seems as if assets have a cyclical nature. Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barbaro, one of the co-founders of Jake and Gino.

And in this how-to lesson, I really want to dive into how to get back in the multifamily game.

It's been a tough couple of years for multifamily investors.

Man, there was all the rage.

I remember when Jake and I started back in 2013,

same type of market cycle.

It feels as if what we're getting into ourselves over the last 12 to 18 months.

It was just slow. And then the mid 2015, 2016 things started to ramp up. The Jobs Act, the 2017, it's as if multifamily started to really ramp itself up.

COVID hits.

All of a sudden, the cost of capital is really low.

And you got private equity.

You got family offices coming in.

All they're doing is trying to chase yield.

They're trying to buy these assets, trying to flip these assets.

And at a certain point, the music stops.

And it feels as if the music is stopped for the last 12,

two years, 24 months. We did a really good deal this year in 2025. We did three good deals in

2024, smaller deals. But they were challenging. They were tough. And the reason why we did them is we had the

relationships. There hasn't been a lot of really good quality assets on the market in the last,

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