Invest with Your Wallet and Heart How to Scale Commercial Real Estate

Today’s guest is Maria Zondervan
Maria is the CEO of Blue Vikings Capital LLC. She began investing in real estate in 1996. She has 25+ years of experience, and has worked with a variety of asset sizes and classes. 
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[0:00] Intro
[0:44] The 3 questions
[1:44] What was the catalyst? 
[2:30] Multifamily strategy
[5:31] Affordable housing
[9:06] Assumable loans
[10:24] Talking to partners 1 on 1
[12:52] Nonprofit 
[15:24] Scaling
[16:11] The issue of teams
[17:20] Evaluating partnerships 
[19:03] Closing
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Connect with Maria: 
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-zondervan-b5b61544/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariazondervan/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria.zondervan
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1lGslpmC0vtJaFrYzXAWcQ
 
Connect with Sam:
I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.  
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/
Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com
 
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Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below:
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:17:01
Maria Zondervan
There is deals in any market and anyone who tells you there isn't. They're not working hard enough. Right. So there's still a lot of great assignable loans out there that are still in the two and 3% rate. So there are always people that need to sell for whatever reason. So you just need to find those.
 
00:00:17:13 - 00:00:40:22
Intro
Welcome to the How to Scale commercial Real Estate Show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. 
 
Sam Wilson
Maria Zondervan is the CEO of Blue Vikings Capital. She began investing in real estate in 1996, and she has over 25 years of experience and has worked in a variety of asset classes and sizes.
 
00:00:41:02 - 00:00:42:08
Sam Wilson
Maria, welcome to the show.
 
00:00:42:22 - 00:00:43:21
Maria Zondervan
Lovely to be here.
 
00:00:44:07 - 00:00:52:11
Sam Wilson
Thank you so much for coming on today. There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90 seconds or less. Where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there and why?
 
00:00:52:18 - 00:01:19:22
Maria Zondervan
Well, I started back in college. I bought my first place before I even graduated college. So and then I just kept investing throughout my life, really alongside being an endangered species biologist, because that was my passion. But I knew I would never make money doing that. That's just the passion. But so real estate, let me do that. And today I am buying large apartment complexes and looking looking to the future to see what the next big challenges.
 
00:01:20:05 - 00:01:27:09
Sam Wilson
While an endangered species biologist. That's pretty that's pretty fun. Now you're based where?
 
00:01:27:09 - 00:01:28:18
Maria Zondervan
In Florida.
 
00:01:28:18 - 00:01:33:17
Sam Wilson
Florida. Okay. Right. So you're in Florida. Did you work specifically in Florida or do you work all over the world or what was your.
 
00:01:33:18 - 00:01:43:23
Maria Zondervan
I did work specifically in Florida. We got plenty of critters here to keep me busy. Everything from gators and snakes to birds and turtles, manatees, eagles, you name it. We got it. All right. Here.
 
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