This is Terry O-Media.

Everybody wants to raise $20 million.

I mean, everybody wants to raise a ton of money, and that is just probably not a great idea.

In fact, one of the things I always say is And that is just probably not a great idea.

In fact, one of the things I always say

is the best way to raise $20 million is

go get a half a million dollars

and go do some good.

And then go get another half a million

or a million and go do some good.

You know, if you promise that you were going to do whatever it was, go do it, return the money,

and then you go back to people and say, look, now we're raising 3 million.

Well, all of a sudden those people are going to come back, they're going to give

you their friends are going to come back and then go do let's say 5 million and then after

you've done that you can raise all the money you want. Hello, I'm Matt Terrio of Epid Real Estate, and welcome to another episode of Thought Leader Thursday.

So today I am joined by an entrepreneur who began his career as a CPA with the

prestigious firm of Pricewaterhouse and during his time with the company's

entrepreneurial services group he immersed himself in the real estate

syndication business.

After reviewing his many tax returns, he left Pricewaterhouse in 1986 to start his

own syndication firm and raised several million dollars in three very short years.

By 1990, he had built a property management firm

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