Ep #201 – James Kandasamy Owns 340 Units and Transitioned from Single Family Investing
Here’s some of what you will learn:
- How to get into multifamily properties when you’re currently a single-family property owner.
- How to find off-market deals by marketing directly to sellers.
- The benefits of using mailers to reach your audience
- How to evaluate profit and loss statements.
- The average rates of CapEx on a value add property purchase.
- The challenges that may come from working directly with sellers instead of through a broker.
- How to evaluate the expense ratio and determine why it could be high.
- The way to increase cash flow through increasing property value and get your investment back.
- The benefits of value-add properties to maximize profits.
- The benefits of doing a text blast instead of mailers via a phone app to find deals.
- Tips on how to find property owners to get contact information.
- Potential improvements you can make to a unit to increase its value.
- What defeasance is in real estate and how It can affect your deal financing.
- How to acquire deals through raising equity with investors for a loan assumption.
- Potential limitations with properties and creative ways to solve them.
- The benefits of having the right mindset for success in the business.
- The benefits of learning property management and how to learn as a way to save money on expenses.
- The importance of getting referrals for contractors to try to get someone good and reliable.
- The importance of managing your asset and your tenants.
- The importance of the IRV formula triangle.
- The reason multi-family is so profitable by forcing value on the property.
- The ways to increase value of a property through rent increase or expense reduction.
About our Guest:
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