Scaling in Real Estate, Genuine transparency, and Risk Tolerances ft. Tim Kelly

The Best Ever CRE Show

Best Ever CRE

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ash and Amanda has a conversation with Tim Kelly, and his journey from active-duty military to successful commercial real estate syndicator is packed with actionable insights. He discusses how he identified market opportunities during deployment, leveraged local networking to secure deals, and learned vital lessons from early mistakes, including the importance of hiring slow and firing fast. Despite market turmoil, Tim continues to find lucrative niches like mobile home parks and self-storage, proving that with the right team and discipline, you can adapt and thrive. Tim Kelly Certified High Performance Coach, Real Estate Investor, Author Based in: New Port Richey, Florida Where to find them: https://thetimothykelly.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetimothykelly Book your free demo today at bill.com/bestever and get a $100 Amazon gift card. Visit https://malabarhillcapital.com/ for more info. Podcast production done by⁠ ⁠Outlier Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Best ever listeners, welcome back to the best ever CRE show.
0:03.6	This is Beyond Multifamily.
0:05.8	I'm Amanda Cruz, joined by Ash Patel, and we're here every Wednesday with investors and stories.
0:13.0	And sometimes the two of us just chat about things that are not multifamily.
0:17.8	Today we had a capital razor on.
0:20.1	So we were talking more about lessons learned. He
0:21.8	happens to do some multifamily. Ash, what is going on? Amanda, great to see you. By the way,
0:27.0	your hair got lighter over your travels out west. You look great. So audience, find her on
0:33.2	YouTube. She looks like a million bucks. But today's episode with Tim Kelly, we covered a lot.
0:39.6	Capital raising, investing while he was in the military, going from a couple small two,
0:45.8	three, four units to very quickly being able to raise money, had some tough lessons learned
0:51.2	along the way. So this was a conversation that covered a lot.
0:56.2	And he was willing to share. I think a lot of investors scaled very quickly in that same
1:02.5	time frame and are currently in deals that aren't going well. And a lot of people don't want
1:07.8	to share the details. And he was open about what's going on. So a lot of context and lessons to be learned in here. Yeah. Let's get to it, Amanda. All right, Tim Kelly. Let's bring him on. Tim Kelly, welcome to the best ever CRE show. How you doing today? Appreciate it. Man, I'm doing great. Been looking forward to this conversation. It's an honor.
1:28.8	Thanks so much for having me back.
1:30.1	Yeah.
1:32.6	And you know, I kind of want to dive right in with you.
1:34.5	So you were military.
1:39.0	You were investing actively in commercial real estate for 10 years.
1:43.3	And now you're sort of capital raising and coaching others in real estate.
1:45.7	And we were just kind of, you know,
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