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- 1:00Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot to unpack, but I want to
- 1:03Speaker 3: go back just to beginning for a set. Because you
- 1:04Speaker 3: made a very wise decision that most Americans don't make,
- 1:07Speaker 3: and you bought multi family right away, because you know,
- 1:11Speaker 3: most times, you know, in our communities, it's like we
- 1:14Speaker 3: save enough money to buy the home that we can
- 1:16Speaker 3: afford or the dream home that we think we can afford,
- 1:19Speaker 3: and rerealize later that we can't. But you started with
- 1:22Speaker 3: multi family right away. Was that the strategy all along,
- 1:25Speaker 3: as you had been seeing people do that and as
- 1:27Speaker 3: that as a way of having passive income.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Yeah, that was definitely my objective in that we wanted
- 1:33Speaker 4: to you know, when you think about it, right, the
- 1:36Speaker 4: fundamental equation is this, most people buy into that American
- 1:41Speaker 4: dream right where you know, if you take a person,
- 1:43Speaker 4: they go out and buy home, they save all their money,
- 1:46Speaker 4: they buy single family home, they move into it for
- 1:49Speaker 4: the next thirty years. Mostly the disposable income is going
- 1:52Speaker 4: to pay that mortgage.
- 1:53Speaker 2: That's it.
- 1:53Speaker 4: But if they just did something a little bit differently,
- 1:56Speaker 4: buy a couple of income generating assets first. Right in
- 2:00Speaker 4: the case I was talking about when I bought my
- 2:03Speaker 4: first multi family, I mean that was making me between
- 2:05Speaker 4: eight hundred and thousand dollars a month.
- 2:06Speaker 2: So they'll called one thousand dollars a month.
- 2:09Speaker 4: If you're making sixty grand and you buy a multifamily
- 2:12Speaker 4: house and you can make yourself an extra thousand dollars
- 2:14Speaker 4: a month. You've given yourself a twenty percent raise, right,
- 2:18Speaker 4: and you can do that repeatedly. And the more assets
- 2:21Speaker 4: you have that are generating income for you, the easier
- 2:23Speaker 4: it is to buy your next one and your next one. Right,
- 2:26Speaker 4: it's like getting off of that point of inertia. But
- 2:29Speaker 4: if you choose to buy a single family home and
- 2:32Speaker 4: move into it, I think you know, it's not as
- 2:35Speaker 4: lucrative and it's not the wealth generating instrument that investment
- 2:40Speaker 4: properties are.
- 2:42Speaker 5: So let's let's get into this real estate development conversation.
- 2:46Speaker 5: But somebody that's looking to become a real estate developer
- 2:48Speaker 5: right now, right, what advice would you give them in
- 2:52Speaker 5: order to because I understand that it's not necessarily easy
- 2:55Speaker 5: to get into the game and it's all about relationships
- 2:59Speaker 5: a lot of times. So what advice would you get
- 3:01Speaker 5: to somebody as looking to become a real estate developer?
- 3:03Speaker 4: So the first thing is just learn the equation, right,
- 3:07Speaker 4: because you could do the equation on a multi family,
- 3:11Speaker 4: three family, which most people can have a level of
- 3:14Speaker 4: access to.
- 3:15Speaker 2: But it's that.
- 3:16Speaker 4: Same equation that's saying the same mechanics that go through
- 3:19Speaker 4: in a development deal. Granted, the variables change a little
- 3:22Speaker 4: bit because if you get into development you have to
- 3:25Speaker 4: take on some different risks, but you're basically buying an asset,
- 3:29Speaker 4: you're investing money in it. You're starting with a multi family,
- 3:36Speaker 4: like a three family. You're going to learn things like
- 3:39Speaker 4: how to do maintenance right when that toilet gets backed up.
- 3:42Speaker 4: You're going to learn something about plumbing, You're going to
- 3:44Speaker 4: learn something about electrical and folks should not be scared to,
- 3:47Speaker 4: you know, take on the challenge because everything you learn
- 3:50Speaker 4: increases your knowledge base, and the more knowledge you have,
- 3:53Speaker 4: the more you're able to monetize your situation. So, you know,
- 3:58Speaker 4: I would encourage folks to start small.
- 4:00Speaker 2: So start with.
- 4:01Speaker 4: An operating property first, right, a multifamily, learn the mechanics.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Down the road, you may want to say, you know,
- 4:09Speaker 4: I'm going to buy a Brownstone or some other home
- 4:12Speaker 4: that you can actually renovate and reposition. I mean, everyone
- 4:15Speaker 4: watches HGTV and those kind of things. You see people
- 4:19Speaker 4: doing flips. That's another aspect of you know, in real
- 4:23Speaker 4: estate investing, in real estate development that.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Is achievable and accessible for most people.
- 4:28Speaker 4: But if you do that, you learn how to you know,
- 4:31Speaker 4: contract with an electrician, how to get the plumbing redone
- 4:35Speaker 4: in the house, how to you know, put get a
- 4:37Speaker 4: new roof, put on all the things that you basically
- 4:39Speaker 4: do when you develop, but you're learning it in a
- 4:41Speaker 4: little bit of a safer scenario. And once you you know,
- 4:45Speaker 4: you go from crawling to walking, you can run, so.
- 4:50Speaker 2: That that crawling process.
- 4:52Speaker 3: I imagine now as your intern well Internet for free right,
- 4:55Speaker 3: You're you're saying, can I help this firm take us
- 4:58Speaker 3: through that process of what you're learning? What do you
- 5:00Speaker 3: see the negatives and positives of this space that you're
- 5:02Speaker 3: now in, and to that moment where you now see
- 5:04Speaker 3: your name at the bottom of the bet and you're like, wait,
- 5:07Speaker 3: my name needs to be next to be needs to
- 5:09Speaker 3: be next to the bigger figures on this what's that
- 5:11Speaker 3: process like for you?
- 5:12Speaker 4: You mean, going from just like starting to learn, well,
- 5:14Speaker 4: it's really just desire man, like, you know, really wanting
- 5:18Speaker 4: to learn it. You think about what this opportunity represented
- 5:22Speaker 4: for me was, you know, to actualize a dream and
- 5:25Speaker 4: being an entrepreneur, and so I was intent on learning everything. So, uh,
- 5:30Speaker 4: you know why I stayed with that developer for free
- 5:33Speaker 4: for two years because I wanted to learn and I
- 5:35Speaker 4: wanted to soak up everything like a sponge. So my
- 5:39Speaker 4: background is in finance. I have two degrees in finance,
- 5:43Speaker 4: Bachelors and the Masters, and I worked as an investment banker,
- 5:45Speaker 4: so I came to the table with really strong financial acumen.
- 5:49Speaker 2: So the.
- 5:51Speaker 4: You know, the math in real estate is simple math,
- 5:53Speaker 4: and you don't have to be an investment banker and
- 5:55Speaker 4: you don't have to have an MBA to do it.
- 5:57Speaker 4: It's simple math because the income is generated from people
- 6:00Speaker 4: paying rent, you have operating expenses, and you have cash flow.
- 6:04Speaker 4: It's really a simple equation. Development goes a little bit
- 6:09Speaker 4: deeper because you have to take something that's not generating
- 6:12Speaker 4: any income and put it through a process where you're
- 6:15Speaker 4: going to borrow some capital, both debt and equity. You're
- 6:19Speaker 4: going to hire an architect, maybe through some entitlement work
- 6:23Speaker 4: so that you can have the right zoning or whatever.
- 6:25Speaker 2: You need to build.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Then you're going to go through the process of actually
- 6:29Speaker 4: constructing something a little bit more risky. But once you
- 6:32Speaker 4: get your wheels under you, you can do this. And
- 6:34Speaker 4: so learning all of those different aspects, you know, the
- 6:37Speaker 4: financing component being very focused on project management, so making
- 6:42Speaker 4: sure the our plans were getting done on time, and
- 6:48Speaker 4: you know, the legal documents that we needed around developments
- 6:51Speaker 4: were also moving along and are structured properly.
- 6:55Speaker 2: There's a lot of engagement in what I.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Do now with municipalities because when we're developed affordable housing,
- 7:00Speaker 4: it can't be done without the participation and the support
- 7:04Speaker 4: of government. And so there's a lot of what I
- 7:08Speaker 4: think is undue bureaucracy in some markets that you have
- 7:11Speaker 4: to contend with. But then there are other markets that
- 7:14Speaker 4: are easy to function and that is why as a company,
- 7:17Speaker 4: we chose to expand out of New York City into
- 7:20Speaker 4: several other markets where there really is tremendous demand for housing,
- 7:24Speaker 4: both you know market rate, moderate income and you know
- 7:28Speaker 4: affordable housing as well.
- 7:30Speaker 5: So can you walk us through the development of a building.
- 7:33Speaker 5: It could be in New York or out of New York.
- 7:35Speaker 5: I know this is RFPs right, and then you have
- 7:38Speaker 5: to get the financing right and like you said, you
- 7:40Speaker 5: have to get the architect, you got to go through
- 7:42Speaker 5: the permit process.
- 7:44Speaker 2: So yeah, can you kind of walk us through stuff?
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- 9:39Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 9:42Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
- 9:47Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 9:51Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 9:55Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 9:59Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's lee I'm Christy Noman, the United States
- 10:02Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 10:07Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 10:11Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 10:14Speaker 1: are here illegally your next you will be fine nearly
- 10:18Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
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- 10:37Speaker 4: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. A
- 10:39Speaker 4: blank piece of dirt, okay. So you have a piece
- 10:43Speaker 4: of dirt, let's call it in Brooklyn, Okay. And it's
- 10:46Speaker 4: in a neighborhood that's turning over and is improving. And
- 10:50Speaker 4: as an investor, believe you know what, I can put
- 10:53Speaker 4: a building on that piece of dirt, call it fifty
- 10:56Speaker 4: units and make money. Right, So the processes. First of all,
- 11:01Speaker 4: I see that piece of dirt. The first thing I
- 11:03Speaker 4: want to do is what's called a zoning analysis. I
- 11:06Speaker 4: want to understand what's the size of a building I
- 11:08Speaker 4: could put on there? Can I actually put fifty units?
- 11:10Speaker 4: Is it fifty five units? Is it sixties and forty five?
- 11:14Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 11:14Speaker 4: So an architect would be engaged. They'd conduct a zoning analysis.
- 11:19Speaker 4: And what it does is reads the zoning code and
- 11:21Speaker 4: every municipality in the country has a zoning code, and
- 11:24Speaker 4: it interprets the zoning code and it gives you, right
- 11:27Speaker 4: there in a two three four page report, exactly what
- 11:30Speaker 4: could be built, how high it could be, where the
- 11:32Speaker 4: setbacks have to be. You know, how many dwelling units
- 11:38Speaker 4: can be in that building, the size of every dwelling unit.
- 11:40Speaker 4: So all these very technical features are codified in a document.
- 11:45Speaker 4: So you can take that zoning analysis now and now
- 11:47Speaker 4: go build a financial model, right and that financial model
- 11:50Speaker 4: is going to say, look, I have these fifty units.
- 11:52Speaker 4: Some are studios, some are one bedrooms, some are two bedrooms,
- 11:55Speaker 4: and they generate x amount of income. Right that the
- 12:01Speaker 4: amount of income they generate has to also be further
- 12:06Speaker 4: reduced by the operating expense. So the superintendent has to
- 12:10Speaker 4: clean the building or you know, service the residents. The
- 12:13Speaker 4: porters have to take the garbage out and shovel the
- 12:16Speaker 4: snow off the off the front steps. You have to
- 12:19Speaker 4: pay for electricity in the common areas, you have to
- 12:21Speaker 4: pay your real estate taxes, whatever it is. So you
- 12:23Speaker 4: do a financial model and you see, you know, the
- 12:26Speaker 4: revenue can generate the expenses associated against that project, and
- 12:30Speaker 4: then what kicks out of that is what we called
- 12:32Speaker 4: net operating income. That net operating income is what is
- 12:38Speaker 4: used to service the debt, the mortgage on the building. Right,
- 12:41Speaker 4: so you can see just from a pro forma what
- 12:47Speaker 4: NY the building produces, and that NY will tell you
- 12:50Speaker 4: how much debt you can raise. So and you also
- 12:54Speaker 4: want to have a project that of course can support
- 12:57Speaker 4: the debt, so you know how much debt it can support.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Look at, well, how much debt do I need to
- 13:01Speaker 4: build it? And you're going to say, you know, at
- 13:03Speaker 4: fifty unit building. When you become a little bit more seasoned,
- 13:08Speaker 4: you kind of know what construction costs are. But for
- 13:12Speaker 4: folks who aren't, you can literally take your plans, talk
- 13:14Speaker 4: to a builder, say hey, I'm building this building. It's
- 13:17Speaker 4: going to be block and plank, or it's going to
- 13:19Speaker 4: be poored in place, concrete, steel frame, whatever construction methodology
- 13:24Speaker 4: your structural engineer recommends, and you get a cost, right,
- 13:27Speaker 4: a cost projection for.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Building the building.
- 13:30Speaker 4: So that building, we'll just use some numbers, right that
- 13:34Speaker 4: let's say to acquire the land and to build everything's
- 13:39Speaker 4: in be ten million dollars and let's say at ten
- 13:42Speaker 4: million dollars is at six percent interest rate, so you know,
- 13:46Speaker 4: every month, that's how much your mortgage payment has to
- 13:49Speaker 4: be on that asset, So that NI has to be
- 13:51Speaker 4: an excess of that debt coverage that that debt number.
- 13:56Speaker 4: We call that a debt service coverage ratio, So that
- 14:00Speaker 4: DSCR probably needs to be minimum about one point twenty five,
- 14:04Speaker 4: so meaning you want to have one hundred and twenty
- 14:06Speaker 4: five percent of that mortgage number in your NI so
- 14:10Speaker 4: you can comfortably cover the debt service and then when
- 14:13Speaker 4: you pay the debt service, the rest of it in
- 14:15Speaker 4: yours to cash flow.
- 14:16Speaker 3: So when you're looking for let's say that plot of dirt,
- 14:20Speaker 3: what let's are you doing a market analysis to see like,
- 14:22Speaker 3: all right, we're actually looking for a place to invest
- 14:25Speaker 3: in this borough in this city prior to it, or
- 14:28Speaker 3: are we you know, looking at past investments that are
- 14:31Speaker 3: going up in the neighborhood to say, all right, this
- 14:33Speaker 3: is an opportunity for us and now create.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Now that's asked you a great question.
- 14:36Speaker 4: So what you're really doing is you you know, when
- 14:38Speaker 4: you're looking at that particular opportunity, you're doing it. So
- 14:41Speaker 4: you're looking at it because there's probably something else ready
- 14:44Speaker 4: going on in that neighborhood, right, And what we do
- 14:48Speaker 4: is what's called a comp study. So I can call
- 14:51Speaker 4: a real estate broker and say, give me a comp
- 14:54Speaker 4: study for this zip code. So they're going to say, Craig,
- 14:56Speaker 4: I'll email you this report and it'll have you know,
- 15:00Speaker 4: five buildings, ten buildings that are rending up in and
- 15:03Speaker 4: around the neighborhood, and it'll show me what the rents
- 15:05Speaker 4: are in those buildings, so I can have a reasonable
- 15:07Speaker 4: expectation as to what types of income are generated off
- 15:11Speaker 4: off that asset. Now, in some markets that we call
- 15:17Speaker 4: transitional markets, you know it's not so clear, but you're
- 15:20Speaker 4: taking a bet because let's say something fantastic is going
- 15:24Speaker 4: on in that market, like they're bringing in a new
- 15:26Speaker 4: trains train station, or uh, they're building a new stadium,
- 15:30Speaker 4: and there's a reason why I believe there's going to
- 15:33Speaker 4: be a lot of demand for real estate in that area.
- 15:35Speaker 4: So we will, you know, make an analysis and do
- 15:40Speaker 4: an investment based on that. But in my business, since
- 15:43Speaker 4: we do affordable housing, here's the thing. Affordable housing is
- 15:50Speaker 4: real estate. It's it's actually it's real estate, but it's
- 15:53Speaker 4: really a hybrid. It's really structured finance, right, because we
- 15:57Speaker 4: are offering you is to rent at below market rate.
- 16:01Speaker 4: So it almost doesn't matter what the market is, because
- 16:05Speaker 4: the two bedrooms, say three thousand, in that market, I
- 16:08Speaker 4: could bring it to I could bring it to market
- 16:11Speaker 4: for like say, sixteen hundred eighteen hundred, tremendous discount to
- 16:15Speaker 4: make it much more affordable. And the demand for affordable
- 16:19Speaker 4: housing is insatiable. We cannot build enough of it. I
- 16:22Speaker 4: have to tell y'all right now, in twenty twenty two,
- 16:26Speaker 4: almost twenty twenty three, we have a seven million unit
- 16:30Speaker 4: housing deficit in this country. Seven million units. That means
- 16:34Speaker 4: we could build for the next ten years. We'd have
- 16:36Speaker 4: to build for the next ten years across the country
- 16:39Speaker 4: just to satisfy that demand. And guess what, in ten
- 16:42Speaker 4: years we're going to find out there's even more demand
- 16:44Speaker 4: that occurred. And just to quantify that, seven million units
- 16:51Speaker 4: of housing is about two and a half three trillion
- 16:53Speaker 4: dollars of an economic opportunity. That's why our community has
- 16:57Speaker 4: got to get on real estate because you can get
- 17:00Speaker 4: your feet in. Not all of it's going to be
- 17:02Speaker 4: you know, thousand unit portfolios that are built in public
- 17:06Speaker 4: private partnerships. A lot of it will be people who
- 17:09Speaker 4: choose to buy a plot of land in the city,
- 17:12Speaker 4: or take a vacant land that the city is rfping,
- 17:16Speaker 4: and you know, build a three family or four family
- 17:18Speaker 4: home on it.
- 17:19Speaker 2: There's a lot of opportunity there.
- 17:26Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 17:30Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
- 17:34Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 17:38Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 17:42Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 17:46Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
- 17:50Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 17:55Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 17:58Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 18:01Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
- 18:05Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
- 18:09Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
- 18:13Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
- 18:22Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,