Hey, dealmakers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom with real estate.

Let's do this.

In today's episode, we're talking with Ryan Kindred and Russ Cannon and two of our most recent dealmakers in our mentoring program that just raised $1.9 million, their first time they raised money, to close on an amazing $4.6 million deal. So if you want to learn how they did it,

then this is the episode for you. So Ryan Kinder is a former electrical engineer with an MBA from

UNC. And at one point, he was managing $200 million worth of power distribution assets at

BSF Corporation. I don't really know what that means. He sounds like a smart guy. And today, though, he's managing

over $7 million in real estate. That's pretty cool. Now, Russell Cannon is his business partner,

and he comes from a background in construction safety, managing massive $100 million industrial

projects. And they work actually at the same company right now. And today he owns and operates

a growing $5 million portfolio. And today he owns and operates a growing

$5 million portfolio. And together these guys closed a 240 unit self-storage deal. It's not a

multifamily deal, self-storage, which is very interesting in itself. And they raised $1.9

million to make it happen, which is even more interesting because they've never done that

before. And they did it all as first-time syndicators. So it's pretty cool, and really kind of go deep on this one and how they kind of got together, why they're partnering with each other, and then how they came about finding this deal. And again, you know, since I've been doing this since 2014, it has never been easy to find a deal. And that's the same thing here. You to, you've got to underwrite a number of deals than they did. And they were a bit opportunistic because while they were looking at multifamily deals, they also came across a self-storage. And the honest truth is that getting into a different asset class like a self-storage is actually not much different than getting into a multifamily. We talk about that as well. So hopefully you'll be inspired by this episode on getting started and doing a larger deal right up front. Let's get into it with Ryan and Russ. Hey, Russ and Ryan, welcome to the show today. Thank you very much, Michael. Thanks for having us. Great to see you guys here. Really excited that you hear with me today. Great success story. We want to understand kind of how you did it. But before we get into, let's get a little backstory. I want to know

from you, Russ, kind of what were you doing before you got into real estate? And Ryan, I got the

same question for you. What was going on? And why did you start getting in real estate?

Well, I mean, you know, first off, I guess the long of the short story, if there's such a thing,

is, you know, I was interested in ways to create generational wealth from my family, right?

So I began with the process of reading every book I could on equities investing in the stock market. And I've got a bookshelf full of probably 60 to 70 books that I've read, understanding how to evaluate stocks, et cetera. I started doing that and really enjoyed it. And then one day, I don't know why what happened. I picked up, you know, the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book, everybody's favorite purple book, right?

Started reading that thought, man, this is interesting.

Then before you know it, I filled up a bookshelf for real estate books with even yours as well, Michael, you know, the famous yellow book.

You know, started with single family, found a, found a smoking deal with a former,

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