What has happened to the multifamily market and commercial real estate in general?

That's what we're going to be talking about in this lesson.

And we're going to be discussing options or ways to capitalize on what's going on in this

current part of the market cycle.

Hello and welcome.

This is Gino Barbera of Barbaro 360 and Jake and Gino.

And like I said, on today's episode, it's all about what's happened to multifamily.

I thought the slogan was, survive till 25.

Well, we're in 2026. I thought it's supposed to be thrive in 2026. A lot of operators are not thriving in 2026. What ended up happening? It's always important to know that

if you want to proceed to the future, you always need to look back into the past

and try to figure or try to understand what happened.

Now, a lot of people will say, well, this is different.

Now is different.

And they may be right in that aspect.

But there are always clues in the past to find out what happened. You know, history does

repeat itself. Market cycles do repeat themselves. On average, they last about 10 years. This one was

ready to go off the prepaces off the cliff back in 2020. But what happened? COVID happened.

Government injects all that money, all that cheap money. And what ends up

happening, it props up the real estate market. Interest rates stay low for too long. Private

equity jumps in and that's where we are right now. That is affected the market. And that's

why we're still stagnant. We're still sort of stuck. We can't move. But I want to go back

to something that happened back in 2017. We talk about the Jobs Act in 2017. And a lot of people

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