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The Best Ever CRE Show

JF1540: Grow Your International Portfolio By Passively Investing In Another Country with Eric Berman & Sam Miller

The Best Ever CRE Show

Best Ever CRE

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sam and Eric are partners and working together to grow their own real estate investing business - by helping other investors also grow theirs. If you’re trying to grow your own portfolio, they have an opportunity for you. You can passively invest in vacation rentals in Columbia with their company. They also chronicle their adventures on their popular YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/samaza. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review!   Best Ever Tweet: “Providing new opportunities for our investors, but also providing new locations for our travelers and guests to experience” - Eric Berman   Eric Berman & Sam Miller Real Estate Backgrounds: Both work to scale and grow their company Lifeafar, which is a collective of visionaries, business experts, and adventurers They are using their success to show how a new lifestyle and investment abroad can work Eric serves as the CIO, he has advised a wide array of lenders and developers on over $2B USD of mixed-use real estate and hotel transactions Sam fled the 9-5 in 2009 when he took off on motorcycle across the Americas Currently Sam is chronicling travel, lifestyle, real estate and investing in Colombia for Lifeafar Based in Columbia Say hi to them at https://www.lifeafar.com/ Their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/samaza Best Ever Books: War of Art   Get more real estate investing tips every week by subscribing for our newsletter at BestEverNewsLetter.com   Best Ever Listeners: Do you need debt, equity, or a loan guarantor for your deals? Eastern Union Funding and Arbor Realty Trust are the companies to talk to, specifically Marc Belsky. I have used him for both agency debt, help with the equity raise, and my consulting clients have successfully closed deals with Marc’s help. See how Marc can help you by calling him at 212-897-9875 or emailing him mbelsky@easterneq.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The end of the day is guests who will come into an apartment.

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They know what Airbnb is.

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They know that in general it provides higher returns and in a market like

1:14.4

Colombia like Puerto Rico that rings true as well. Best ever listeners I'm so

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excited to share today's sponsor with you it's Eastern Union Funding and Arbor Realty Trust. If you're in the

1:26.0

multi-family space, you likely recognize these names, but have you used them? I'm guessing

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if you haven't, then you probably know someone who has. I can tell you personally we have used Mark Belsky.

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He is a point person at Eastern Union funding as a partner with us and he has helped us secure debt for actually a deal we closed on this month and we've worked with him in addition my clients my program my consulting program have worked with him to successfully close on deals

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When we were starting out Ashcroft is starting out We had somewhat of a track record, but we weren't fully as

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established with our investor network. I went to him and we secured some equity, $500,000 in equity to fund one of our deals.

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While he works with more institutional partners, he's brought $200 million in equity over the last 12 months.

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He was able to help us out there and we built a relationship with him

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