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Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

RCRE - From 100+ Hour Job to Time Freedom through Passive Investing with Travis Watts

Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

Jake & Gino

Commercialrealestateinvesting, Realestateinvesting, Cashflow, Smartinvesting, Apartmentinvesting, Investingsmart, Management, Buyingrealestate, Entrepreneurship, Business, Realestateinvestment, Multifamilyrealestateinvesting, Makingmoney, Buyingapartmentbuildings, Jakeandgino, Investing

4.9842 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Full-time Passive Investor Dylan and Mike interview Travis Watts discussing how he went from an active investor to a full-time passive investor. Travis has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family and vacation rentals, while working on an oil rig. Travis is also the Director of Investor Relations at Ashcroft Capital. Travis has invested in over 25 passive syndications between 14 different firms Key Information: Travis moved to a passive investor once he built enough liquidity to invest and being actively in several single family homes Try to meet the sponsors in person or on Zoom to build trust with sponsors Investors need to understand more than the pro formas Ask the sponsor your questions, there are no dumb questions Self educate yourself through podcasts, books, and networking Ask tough questions on the front end Review rent growth to see if it is conservative  Review debt structure  Does your investing philosophy align with the sponsor? Understand the full story of the deal Expert Pro Tip: Have people within your network review the deals before investing & be fully transparent when working with investors   Contact Information: Travis@AshcroftCapital.com  Free Resource   For more information/to connect with Rand CRE: www.randcre.com   To register to invest with us: https://invest.randpartnersllc.com/invexp/accounts/login/     Rand CRE's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randcre Rand CRE's Twitter: https://twitter.com/randcre Rand CRE's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/randcre Rand CRE's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/randcre

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0:00.0

Welcome to the RAND-CRE show, commercial real estate with no stone left unturned.

0:10.0

What's up everyone? This is Dylan Marma, bringing to you the RANDCRE show, joined by my co-host, Mike Terravella. How you doing today, Mike?

0:17.0

You know, just living the dream, making it happen and excited to give our viewers

0:21.1

our guests today for the podcast. Very excited about today's episode. We oftentimes are

0:27.5

presenting information for both active and past investors. And I really believe that today shows

0:32.9

me a very special episode for the past investors, whether you're a new past investor or you're an

0:38.1

experienced LP that's been part of many deals. You're going to learn a whole lot of information.

0:42.5

And just real quick, before we get started, we always want to remind you, the RAN series show

0:46.0

is hosted by RAN commercial real estate, a vertically integrated real estate investment and

0:50.4

advisory firm, providing opportunities for investors to create passive streams through

0:55.2

investing in real estate, as well as providing active investors with the ability to source

0:59.9

debt and equity across the board.

1:01.7

So if you have any questions about how to fund your next deal or if you are interested

1:05.1

in partnering with us through investing passively, you can always reach us at rancere.com.

1:10.8

And our guest today is Travis Watts, who's a full-time

1:14.3

passive investor. He's been doing real estate since 2009 from multifamily, single-family,

1:19.6

and vacation rentals. He is also the director of investor relations at Ashcroft Capital and has

1:25.0

been a part of over 25 syndications between 14 different firms.

1:29.9

So Travis, welcome to the show. How's it going?

1:32.1

Hey, thanks so much for having me. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Happy New Year when this gets released.

1:38.9

Yeah. We're right in the middle of it, right? Kind of coming, coming off of Christmas and on to New Year's now.

1:45.1

But this is a, what a better way to, you know, what a better time to have this show than a time

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