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Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

RCRE - Investing in Relationships with John Okocha

Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

Jake & Gino

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

4.9842 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mike Taravella and Will Coleman Interview John Okocha of Elevate Commercial Investment group. Key Information: How to create an Investor Mindset: Surround yourself with people who have experience and success in the industry.  Real estate is a relationship based business. Invest in creating relationships with both brokers and other investors in your target markets. Give yourself options. The more deals you underwrite, the more opportunities you will have to find and close deals that fit your criteria. Real estate is the long game. Establish systems that will allow your company to adapt to new circumstances as you scale and grow. Expert Pro Tip: “Real estate is about relationships” Contact Information: john@elevatecig.com   Facebook & LinkedIn - John Okocha        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 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 RANCRE show, commercial real estate with no stone left unturned.

0:10.0

Hey, everyone.

0:11.1

Welcome to the RANCRI show.

0:13.1

I'm your host, Mike Tarvella, and I'm with my co-host, The Man, the Myth, the Legend, Will Coleman.

0:18.3

Will, how's it going today?

0:19.6

Good well, Mike, just running the marathon one step at a time, and I'm excited to have another

0:24.8

DFW guy on the podcast. Today we've got John Ococha. He's the vice president of acquisitions

0:32.0

for Elevate Commercial Investment Group, primarily focusing on acquisitions where he has helped

0:37.0

acquired over 1,600 assets within two years, which is pretty much. investment group, primarily focusing on acquisitions where he has helped acquire over

0:37.6

1,600 assets within two years, which is pretty incredible, especially in DFW.

0:43.8

DSW is very competitive, so I guess you guys might have some stuff all over Texas.

0:49.1

And we had, we had Jorge on the podcast here recently.

0:52.4

So definitely excited to catch up with you, John,

0:54.4

and learn more about your story. Definitely. It's great to be here. Glad to be on your show.

1:00.5

And yeah, it's great to be here. So, John, where did, you know, what does the start of your

1:07.6

real estate investing career? I feel like everyone has the, you know, the pivotal

1:11.6

point, but we love to hear kind of how you got started in real estate. Yeah, so it all started.

1:18.6

A really good friend of mine gave me the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And up until then, I hated

1:25.0

books. I did not read books. I took honors classes in high school,

1:30.4

and then teachers that would just force you to read, like, these books that nobody wanted to read,

1:34.9

and then it took all these tests, and I just hated reading. And he gave me the book,

1:40.2

and I finished the book in three days, and I've basically never been the same sense.

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