
Multifamily Missteps Hosted by Christy Keeton
Are you tired of the "rainbows and butterflies" approach in multifamily investing, where everything unfolds seamlessly, and everybody wins? You never see “behind the scenes” reality.
If you resonate with our perspective, acknowledging that true insights emerge from navigating mistakes and challenges, then you're in the right place.
Join Christy Keeton, your host, as she dives into the missteps and lessons learned encountered by active apartment operators.
In these episodes, we embark on a journey to dissect and analyze the pitfalls within the multifamily project life cycle, focusing on the crucial stages of Finding, Funding, Fixing, or Flipping a project.
Instead of glossing over setbacks, we shine a spotlight on them, providing a valuable learning experience for our audience. Each episode concludes not only by revealing how the issue at hand was rectified but also by sharing other priceless lessons derived from the experience.
It's an unfiltered exploration of the multifamily investment landscape, revealing the intricate tapestry of challenges and solutions that make the journey worthwhile.
Multifamily Missteps Hosted by Christy Keeton
Speculating vs Investing - Paul Moore
Today I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, Mr. Paul Moore.
Let’s get into Paul’s story and wisdom on making the right investments and his mistakes in the multifamily field and his so you can avoid them.
Things you will learn in this episode:
[00:01 - 04:00] Opening Segment
- I introduce our guest, Paul Moore
- Paul Introduces himself and gives his background of how he started flipping properties then realized he wanted to get into multifamily real estate.
[04:00- 13:35] Paul’s Misstep Stories - Investing vs. Speculating
● Paul talks about his mistakes in the field by speculating instead of truly investing
- Ignoring advice from mentors leading to Paul losing money on a deal
- Why Paul was unable to raise apartment rent
- Paul talks about how to prevent his mistake from happening
- He talks about this in his book The Perfect Investment
- Realizing multifamily real estate has a lot of competition, Paul looks towards different types of multifamily homes.
[13:35 - 17:58] Closing Segment
- Words of Wisdom for our listeners
- Make sure to invest and not speculate.
- Make your mistakes while you’re young
- Don’t plow a whole high percentage of your cash into one property
- Paul talks about diversification
- The One Thing - Gary Keller
- Final words from me
Tweetable Quotes:
“In Real Estate there are so many opportunities to invest safely and part of that can be reflected in the debt service coverage ratio; The margin of safety between your net operating income and your debt payments… there are so many good ways to invest but you shouldn’t have to speculate and so I recommend people really think through that.” - Paul Moore
You can connect with Paul and his team at wellingscapital.com. Also, be sure to check out his podcast How to Lose Money. You can also visit him on LinkedIn.
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