REI124: Jumping Right into CRE w/ Robert Rivani
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.3 | I already had a Dunkin Donuts in one suite, had a dentist suite, a tenant, another suite, |
| 0:05.8 | and there was one vacant suite. |
| 0:06.9 | So for me, it's like, okay, if I could at least have one space, have the potential to make three times my money. I'm going to go knock on every single door in the entire city if I have to, until I find that right tenant to take the space. In this week's episode, I talk with Robert Rivani about how he built his self-funded |
| 0:24.1 | single-owner commercial real estate company, Black Lion. |
| 0:27.7 | He's the president of Black Lion and got his start in entrepreneurship with a footwear |
| 0:31.4 | company as his first business, which he sold for $150,000 when he was only a teenager. |
| 0:37.4 | He first entered the real estate world during the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009, |
| 0:42.4 | where he found a unique opportunity to buy, flip, and resell inexpensive buildings |
| 0:47.4 | in areas that needed development. |
| 0:50.1 | In 2014, Rivani created Black Lion. |
| 0:53.3 | To date, the company has transacted $500 million in real |
| 0:56.3 | estate deals across the United States. I have a lot of people who reach out to me requesting |
| 1:01.8 | to be guests on the show, but very few of them actually stand out. Robert stood out because |
| 1:07.5 | of his quote-unquote edgy style, and that's what he describes it as in this |
| 1:11.6 | episode. For the longest time, only people wearing suits and ties were seen as successful by society, |
| 1:17.8 | but that's just not really the case anymore. I personally like wearing a suit and dressing up every |
| 1:22.8 | once in a while, but I don't see it as necessary or as any indication of someone's abilities. |
| 1:29.1 | Like Robert, the guest today, I have my own style, which includes riding dirt bikes, |
| 1:34.0 | wearing a backwards hat, and being a bit of a fitness junkie. |
| 1:37.9 | So all of that is to say when Robert reached out to be on the show and I saw that he was |
| 1:42.0 | also breaking the mold of what success is supposed to look like. |
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