MB501: Interest Rates Down. Deals Up. Here’s What You MUST Know - With Brad Tacia and Jonathan Nichols
Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing
Michael Blank
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this special mentor roundtable, Michael is joined by long-time advisors Brad Tacia and Jonathan Nichols to break down what’s happening in multifamily right now. They share the latest trends in deal flow, investor sentiment, capital raising, and student success—plus the strategies that are working best in today’s market. If you want a clear picture of the current landscape and how new investors are getting deals done, this episode is for you.
Key Takeaways
- Deal flow is improving as interest rates stabilize and lenders stop granting extensions, pushing more assets to market.
- Investor sentiment is stronger than last year, and capital raising is easier with more certainty in the economy.
- Consistency wins — analyzing deals, making offers, and staying resilient through near misses is the path to success.
- Partnerships matter — deal finders and capital raisers together accelerate momentum and unlock bigger opportunities.
- Sample deal packages allow students to raise capital before they have a deal under contract, solving the “chicken-and-egg” problem.
- You don’t need years of experience to get broker attention — consistency, communication, and a clear playbook build instant credibility.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, dealmakers, welcome to the show where it's all about financial freedom with real estate. |
| 0:03.8 | Let's do this. |
| 0:12.0 | All right, today on the show, we're interviewing some of our mentors. |
| 0:15.1 | These are high-level syndication operators who are helping people do their first deal and become financially free. |
| 0:19.7 | And the cool thing about it is that they have so much experience, not only through their own businesses, their syndication business, but also through dozens of students that they've worked with. For example, on the call here today, we have Brad Tasia. He's been mentor since 2017, like long time ago. And he's got over 500 units that he managed this himself. And he has worked |
| 0:39.3 | literally, literally with hundreds of people at this point. Also joining us is not Jonathan Nichols. |
| 0:44.6 | He's been a mentor since May of 22. Got over 1,000 units, valued at $75 million. He's a co-founder |
| 0:50.0 | of Apogee Capital as well. Not all of our mentors were able to join us today, but that's okay |
| 0:54.9 | because we got a knockout episode for you today. Because what I want to know is I want to know |
| 0:58.7 | what's going on in the market today? Like what's been going? What are the trends on capital raising? |
| 1:04.3 | What is the investor sentiment? What about deal flow? Is it any better? What's the trend? |
| 1:08.3 | What's the outlook for that? And then I also know what's what's working now? |
| 1:12.3 | How are people raising capital? How are they able to raise $700,000 in 90 days? How is that possible? |
| 1:17.7 | What are some of the hacks that that we use and teach our deal makers and how to use? And how does that |
| 1:22.5 | look like? What does it look like to partner in joint venture? What are the roles and responsibilities in the syndication business as well? |
| 1:29.8 | And then how do you get deal flow, right? |
| 1:31.3 | How do you not need five to ten years of flipping a rental experience to be taken seriously by brokers? |
| 1:37.2 | And so we break that down here on our talk here with Jonathan and Brad. |
| 1:40.8 | And so with that, let's get into it. |
| 1:43.5 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show today. |
| 1:46.7 | Hey, Michael, good to see you. Hey, Michael, glad to be here. Glad to you guys are here because not only |
| 1:51.5 | are you guys doing, you know, if you've got sizable portfolios yourself, you've raised millions |
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