JF 3872: House Hacking, Syndication Strategies, and Maximizing Real Estate Equity ft. Chris Lopez

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4.8 • 983 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On this episode of Next Level CRE, Matt Faircloth interviews Chris Lopez, a real estate entrepreneur who transitioned from a tech-savvy internet marketer to a successful real estate broker and investor. Chris shares how he built a modern real estate brokerage by leveraging digital marketing and BiggerPockets forums to attract clients in Denver. He discusses his evolution from active investing into passive syndication opportunities, including educating clients on return on equity and “lazy 1031” strategies. Chris emphasizes the importance of agents becoming real estate wealth consultants, helping clients optimize and redeploy their capital into higher-yield opportunities. Chris Lopez Chief Marketing officer Based in: Colorado Say hi to them at propertyllama.com/ vikingcapllc.com Capital Gains Tax Solutions Join the Best Ever Community The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria. Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on, Best Ever Community?
0:02.0	This is Matt Faircloth and this is the best ever CRE show in my segment called Next Level CRE.
0:09.0	That show comes out every Friday, guys.
0:11.0	So listen every Friday, park your calendar.
0:13.0	And I got a crazy special guest.
0:15.0	This is a friend of mine and a fellow Virginia Tech Hokie.
0:18.0	Go Hokies.
0:19.0	Go Hokies, man. So I don't get to meet too many Virginia Tech folks in my walks.
0:24.8	It's not something that comes across every day.
0:27.0	And so the fact that I've got a fellow real estate investor and Virginia Tech friend and you
0:31.2	and Chris Lopez, my guest today is really exciting.
0:34.3	So we will not bore the best ever community talking all about Virginia Tech
0:38.2	football, as tempting as it is. We need drinks to do that, by the way. I know. We might have a
0:43.4	cocktail show, which you and I have talked about about having a cocktail show, which maybe that'll be
0:47.0	in the future. He can indulge yourselves and talk football and everything like that. But I get into,
0:52.5	you and I were talking offline about your journey
0:57.5	as a real estate broker and how that transitioned into other facets of real estate beyond
1:02.7	brokering real estate. So give me your brief backstory a bit on starting out as a broker and
1:08.6	how things changed over time. Yeah, I'll actually rewind,
1:11.7	since we got the Hokie connection here. So I went to Virginia Tech for engineering and quickly
1:17.5	realized I was not smart enough to be an engineer. I cannot tell you how many real estate investors
1:22.3	I know that are former recovering engineers. Man, I went to school for engineering as well at Virginia Tech.
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