Street Smart Success

Roger Becker
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Street Smart Success

Street Smart Success is a show for accredited investors. Whether you’re investing in Real Estate, Private Equity, Private credit, Debt, or other alternative assets, or you’re just starting out, this is the show for you. Street Smart Success interviews successful entrepreneurs about their backgrounds, careers, and lessons learned.

  1. 20H AGO

    595: There’s Big Opportunity In Buying Lower-Middle Market Companies

    Over 90% of U.S. businesses generate less than $5 million profit per year, yet these businesses are the backbone of our economy. Although the majority of Private Equity investments are in larger companies, many smaller companies are investable and need access to capital and expertise to grow. Ariez Dustoor, Partner at NB Group Investors, invests in founder or family-owned Wellness related or multi-location service businesses with $10 - $100,000,000 million in revenue, and attempts to achieve a 3 to 4 x multiple on invested capital within five years.

    54 min

  2. 4D AGO

    594: Industrial Outdoor Storage Is Still Mostly Owned By Ma And Pa Owners

    In the last several years, industrial Real Estate has become a highly favored asset class, largely because of ecommerce. A thriving subset of this category is Industrial Outdoor Storage, a 2 billion asset class. Industrial Outdoor is a great asset class because it’s still mostly ma and pa owned, there’s very low capital expenditure, and little day-to-day management. These properties are comprised mostly of land with small, sparsely furnished industrial buildings, and sometimes no building at all. As a result, it can be lucrative to operate. Brandon Schubert, Founding Partner at Bird Dog Ventures, is acquiring Industrial Outdoor Storage facilities in the Dallas-Ft Worth metro and beyond.

    36 min

  3. 6D AGO

    593: Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To Buy Office At Pennies On the dollar.

    In certain markets, you can buy suburban office property for as low as $10/ft where it costs $200/ft to build. What’s more, you don’t have to go through the toil of finding off market deals, they’re listed publicly on LoopNet, Crexi, and other prominent sites. As workers have left downtown offices, they’ve chosen to work closer to home. Buildings with smaller one to three person offices in particular are seeing strong tenant demand. As a result, many suburban office buildings are at 90% occupancy.  Ash Patel, a successful Value-Add investor, invests in office buildings, flex Industrial, strip retail, and ground up construction. Ash doubles his money on most deals in three to five years.

    44 min

  4. APR 14

    592: Hidden Discounted Homes

    If you’re entrepreneurial and looking for a way to generate a lot of income with little initial capital requirements, flipping homes is an age old, timeless formula. It just requires courage and tenacity that many don’t have. There are always distressed sellers and hidden opportunities in any market cycle and any market. Tony Youngs, Owner of Real World Enterprises, has been flipping houses in Atlanta for decades that he buys directly from sellers, and teaches others how to bypass the high-stakes competition of the MLS and auctions.

    38 min

  5. APR 11

    591: Nothing Beats Boots On The Ground

    In Real Estate, and multifamily in particular, you need to have boots on the ground to ensure things are running as expected. It also helps to live in the market in order to have intimate knowledge of the investment. This is one way to mitigate risk. Multifamily is a 24/7 business, and too many things go wrong when you’re managing from afar. Dustin Miles, Managing Partner at Momentum Multifamily, has 1600 units in Houston where his partner lives, he is also looking to acquire in Dallas where he lives. He believes prices have finally come down enough in Dallas to start looking for properties there.

    43 min

  6. APR 9

    590: Industrial Properties At The Right Price

    The forecast for industrial real estate is bullish in growth markets for the foreseeable future. As long as you can buy the right properties, and don’t overpay or overleverage, it’s a recipe for success. Single tenant properties, in particular, have management efficiencies that make them particularly attractive. Brent Leiberman, Founding Principal at Levelan Partners, acquires and develops well-located properties with interstate proximity in select markets in the Midwest and Southeast. He acquires properties less than 150,000 s/ft to avoid competing with larger Private Equity and Institutional buyers.

    36 min

  7. APR 7

    589: 73% of Americans Live In Communities With Fewer Than 5,000 People

    Buying properties in tertiary markets with five to ten thousand residents within a 30–40-minute drive from a larger city can generate outsized returns. Often times long-time owners in these markets aren’t aware when their rents are significantly under market, and they aren’t current on what their properties are worth. Farris Gosea, Founder and CEO of Farris Gosea Capital, has amassed a large portfolio of multifamily apartment buildings in Northwest Indiana and Southern Michigan. Farris has built a vertically integrated company that controls all aspects of maintenance, construction, and leasing.

    30 min

  8. APR 4

    588: Multifamily-Cash Flowing Properties In Indiana

    Despite the escalation of asset prices over the past decade, there’s still great value In Midwestern tertiary markets. In multifamily, you can still buy properties for $65,000-$75,000 per unit that generate strong cash flow. Although these are small markets, many of them have strong and stable employment fundamentals, and therefore consistently high occupancy levels. Stan Remling, Partner at Follow the Deal Investments, has accumulated a portfolio of 700 units over the past few years within a two-hour drive of Indianapolis.

    26 min
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    Street Smart Success is a show for accredited investors. Whether you’re investing in Real Estate, Private Equity, Private credit, Debt, or other alternative assets, or you’re just starting out, this is the show for you. Street Smart Success interviews successful entrepreneurs about their backgrounds, careers, and lessons learned.

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    • Creator
      Roger Becker
    • Years Active
      2020 - 2025
    • Episodes
      590
    • Rating
      Clean
    • Copyright
      © Roger Becker
    • Show Website
      Street Smart Success

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