Invest Florida - A Real Estate Podcast

Even with focused investment goals, it can be tough to leverage your portfolio and scale your investing on your own. Forming strategic partnerships with other investors and real estate professionals can help you realize your goals more quickly!

Every investor needs to take steps to ensure equitable access to their property. Keeping ADA compliant ensures that everyone has access to your property's facilities and mitigates any potential risk for punitive damage claims.

Author, mentor, investor - Bryan Chavis cut his teeth in the world of multifamily and he's got a lot to show for it. This episode, Bryan talks about how, through education, he has been able to leverage his real estate knowledge into new investment opportunities and find success as a multifamily investor.

Multifamily and rental unit investors love using 1031 Exchanges to leverage short-term tax deferrals into new investments. However, if you're transitioning into single tenant, net lease investments, you need to think about long-term strategies.

Augie Byllott has learned a thing or two since starting on his investment journey over 20 years' ago. One of the first - and hardest - lessons he learned was how to properly manage his single-family rental portfolio. This episode, Augie shares how proper education taught him to manage his investment rentals as a business.

Sometimes, a real estate investor's journey isn't just metaphorical - in the case of our guests this episode, it can be a physical one too! Lucas LeBlanc and Jenna Diermann are two investors whose vision brought them all the way from California to Florida. Starting with DIY single family flips they found an interesting niche through social media and developed actionable strategies to transition from single family to vacation rentals and multifamily.

Investor, author and mentor, Rod Khleif, joins us for a special live event: The new year is a time for new resolutions and for many real estate investors, that means setting investment goals. Like many new year's resolutions, it may seem hard to put investing goals into perspective. That's what makes Rod such a great guest! Rod's wealth of experience and enthusiasm for real estate make him a great resource for investors looking for new paths and opportunities in 2018.

With generational shifts pushing rental markets upward and outward, multifamily investors are thinking about how to continue scaling investments. Our guest this week, Joseph Gozlan talks about the investment potential of secondary markets and shares tips on building successful strategies.

Assisted living facility investor and operator, Kris Chana discusses how this often over-looked asset class can be a great alternative to traditional multifamily investing!

Commercial broker and real estate investor shares her top five creative strategies for filling retail centers.

Brian Bailey is a Senior Technical Expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. A commercial real estate expert, Brian monitors emerging trends in commercial real estate - both on a national scale and within the southeast. This episode Brian shares his outlook on Florida's commercial real estate industry and offers comparisons on a national scale.

Special announcement for Invest Florida Show listeners and Tampa Bay investors.

This episode, we have Government Affairs Director of the Florida Apartment Association, Courtney Barnard. Courtney joins us each year to provide an annual legislative update affecting residential multifamily investors. This episode she shares the legislative news for 2017 and what investors should expect to see in 2018.

Tyler Sheff, real estate investor and host of popular real estate talk show The Cash Flow Guys, joins us to discuss how buying notes and investing in debt can be a great alternative investment strategy.

Developer, author and speaker, John McNellis, joins us to offer a development outlook for retail and multifamily.

Ken Rosen is a best selling author on real estate and a veteran of the Miami real estate market. Based in Miami, With over 40 years of experience in real estate investing across the US, Ken was a pioneer of condo conversion and now will buy any type of asset class from Multifamily to Office. This episode, Ken shares his market outlook as well as buying strategies that can help you make the right investment decision.

Automation is a rapidly growing tech sector. Things like automated transit are already making their way into U.S. cities. This episode, we look at how automation is changing the way we think about real estate and what urban planners and developers are doing to address these changes.

Architect Alex Rios has worked with multifamily, office and commercial designs. This episode, Alex shares some hot design trends that can add more value to your investment property.

For our next live event, we are discussing the landlord/tenant relationship - covering everything from issues with evictions to fair housing. Meet our guests: Jason Ellison is a real estate attorney specializing in contract preparation and dispute resolution. Josh Diggs is a veteran multifamily investor and property manager. He is well versed in tenant/landlord relationships

The Ruthvens are one of the largest developers and owners of industrial property in Florida's I-4 Corridor. President of The Ruthvens - Greg Ruthven, joins us to discuss why he's bullish on the market's growth.