How to Raise Capital the LEGAL Way with Attorney Bethany LaFlam
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!
Just a heads up - if you plan on raising capital to fund deals… you NEED to listen to this episode.
We hear it a lot in real estate investing - “you don’t need your own money to get into real estate invest!”, or “get into real estate investing with low or no money!” So of course this means securing capital to do deals from another source - this means using other people’s money, or OPM.
Seems pretty straight forward… you have a deal, know the numbers, and know how much capital you need to secure to execute, and now you just need to secure that capital from others. Now enter the U.S. Government and regulation… (that escalated quickly!).
This isn’t some big scary warning meant to discourage you from using OPM or raising capital, but it is a statement - as with anything, you need to know what you’re doing to ensure you do things right. Which is why we have an incredible guest on the podcast today my friend and attorney Bethany LaFlam.
Bethany brings with her today over 20 years of experience in law centered around real estate syndication and funds. If you plan on raising money to fund your deals this is the episode you won’t want to miss. We talk everything from the various structures in which you can form a deal and raise money, to the importance between these structures, what you can and can’t do within those structures, and more.
If you’d like to connect with Bethany and her team with Premier Law Group, you can do so here:
https://www.premierlawgroup.net/
Thanks everybody!
AJ
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| 0:00.0 | Looking to create wealth and income through high cash flowing real estate, self-storage is the fastest growing and the newest real estate asset that has outperformed all others. |
| 0:10.0 | What's it secret? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm A.J. Osborne and with over a million square feet that we have built, acquired, expanded, and even converted big box stores, |
| 0:19.0 | from small third tier markets |
| 0:21.2 | to large 100 plus thousand square foot facilities, |
| 0:24.6 | we have seen it all. |
| 0:26.0 | This is the podcast that we're going to discuss |
| 0:28.4 | and bring on the best investors and operators |
| 0:31.2 | in the nation to show you |
| 0:33.5 | how to create wealth and income with self-storage. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to self-storage Income with Self Storage. Welcome to Self Storage Income. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome everybody to Self Storage Income. |
| 0:49.9 | Today we have a topic that is probably, I don't know, top three on. |
| 0:55.7 | It's a big one, especially right now, and how to raise funds. |
| 1:01.1 | More importantly, how to do it right. |
| 1:03.8 | And this is a topic that we kind of enter into. |
| 1:07.3 | And then I always quickly get out of it because there's a lot of legality and I'm not an attorney. So I threw your massive disclaimer in there. Yes, every time I begin to talk about it. Like, I don't know what I'm talking about. So instead, we got someone who does, which I'm really excited about because Bethany LaFlemm is my attorney as well, |
| 1:30.6 | well, our attorney for Cedar Creek wealth. So we could not be more excited to have you on. |
| 1:36.0 | Bethany, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:37.3 | Thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:38.7 | Yeah. This is a wild time when it comes to raising capital. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this before. |
| 1:48.6 | No, it's kind of crazy. And I know there are people sort of skating by. It's why I love you as a |
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