Commercial real estate like you’ve never heard it before!

On today’s episode, Brandon and David sit down with Ken Wimberly, the owner of a Keller Williams commercial brokerage and a commercial investor himself. Ken shares some incredible tips on how to get into owning commercial property, including how to find quality tenants, how to structure the lease, and how to protect yourself from a changing market.

He also provides great advice on building relationships and identifying who NOT to partner with. Ken goes on to talk about how he went from working in a pizza restaurant to cashing his first check for 50K as a broker—with absolutely no training program! He shares some incredible advice for opening a laundromat, making huge returns, and successfully investing in other people’s deals, too.

If you’ve ever been interested in how to do big deals without big headaches, this episode is for you!

In This Episode We Cover:

How he builds relationships
How he learned the commercial business sitting across from a mentor and listening
How he buys laundromats Investing in commercial spaces
Using OPM to buy land and selling a 5K investment for 150K
How he earned a commission of $50K on a deal he couldn’t do
How he chooses his business partners His morning routine
What to look for in a potential partner to disqualify them
How newbies should start off investing in commercial property
How to balance investing with family time
How he structures deals
Tips on owning a business inside your commercial building
How he invests in other people's deals
And SO much more!

Links from the show:

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
BiggerPockets Commercial Lenders
CBRE
BiggerPockets Podcast 190: Building 61 Different Passive Streams of Income with Pat Hiban
BiggerPockets Podcast 322: 3 Things Every Leader MUST Do to Scale with Ben Kinney
Google Alerts
GoBundance
BiggerPockets Business Podcast

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