Gabe has led more than $50mm of multi-family investments in metro Denver, across more than 500 apartment units in Denver, Lakewood and Aurora. Gabe is also the co-manager on over $25mm of multi-family investments (164 units) in Los Angeles.

This episode was originally released October 2023

On this episode, Jake & Gabe discuss: 

• Going from Wall St. into Real Estate
• Building Generational Wealth
• Raising Capital
• Executing Value-Add Strategies

Links:

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Tekton Group

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Topics:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:01:48) Going from Wall St. into Real Estate

(00:09:38) The desire to create generational wealth

(00:11:14) Balancing raising capital while building wealth in assets

(00:14:26) What are some key principles you abide by to protect you against being a forced seller?

(00:20:15) Waiting for the Fat Pitch

(00:25:46) Can you define sub-institutional real estate and what are some market inefficiencies you see around the asset class?

(00:30:43) How do you find deals?

(00:34:07) A walkthrough of a deal that closed 2 weeks later

(00:39:01) How do you execute quickly on your value-add strategy?

(00:43:03) What’s the structure of your fund and why did you decide to have a fund?

(00:47:48) What did you learn from the first and second funds that you’ll implement in the third?

(00:59:18) Have you thought about deals that you never want to sell?

(01:02:28) What have you learned from your worst deal?

(01:06:23) Getting tenant feedback for Capex

(01:08:26) Gabe’s philosophy around 3rd party managers

(01:12:15) What are your goals over the next 3 years?

(01:17:12) What is your favorite hotel?