PassivePockets: The Passive Real Estate Investing Show

This week’s episode features a spotlight on Tribevest, another one of LFI’s Preferred Partners. Tribevest is a collaborative, group investment platform that enables friends and family to organize as an investor group, pool money, and manage joint investments. Brittany Barchalk, Head of Marketing,at Tribevest, joined us to talk about the company and how they have been assisting Limited Partner Investors build wealth since 2018. She also shares a bit of her personal wealth building journey as she has taken her first steps in the passive investing industry. Brittany also shared exciting developments that Tribevest is planning to roll out in 2023 including a mobile app, the Open Tribe concept, and more. If you would like to connect with Brittany or anyone else at Tribevest, you can go on to their website at https://www.tribevest.com/.

Todd Nepola, the founder and president of Current Capital Group, has been in the industrial real estate niche for his entire investing career. In this episode, Todd joins Jim Pfeifer to share his financial journey and discuss how investing in just two niche asset classes in one market have been the key to his success. Tune in now and hear Todd’s story and plenty of golden nuggets of advice!  To see the full show notes and transcript, click here.Our sponsor, Tribevest provides the easiest way to form, fund, and manage your Investor Tribe with people you know, like, and trust. Tribevest is the Investor Tribe management platform of choice for Jim Pfeifer and the Left Field Investors’ Community.Tribevest is a strategic partner and sponsor of Passive Investing from Left Field.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://leftfieldinvestors.com/podcast/

This week’s episode features a spotlight on Vyzer, one of LFI’s Preferred Partners. Vyzer is a digital private concierge service that provides a single online platform to manage, control, and monitor all of your investments. Danielle Greenberg, the Head of Marketing at Vyzer, joined us to talk about the tool they’ve developed for Limited Partner Investors to be able to add all of their investments in one location and replace the typical spreadsheet tracking that a lot of LPs manage manually.   Danielle also walked us through several enhancements that are on the horizon for Vyzer in 2023 as well as future plans for the software. Enhancements include a new mobile app, an improved loan section to have complete visibility to all liabilities, and more. If you would like to connect with Danielle, you can reach her at danielle@vyzer.co or you can find anyone on the team at their website https://vyzer.co/.To see the full show notes and transcript, click here.Our sponsor, Tribevest provides the easiest way to form, fund, and manage your Investor Tribe with people you know, like, and trust. Tribevest is the Investor Tribe management platform of choice for Jim Pfeifer and the Left Field Investors’ Community.Tribevest is a strategic partner and sponsor of Passive Investing from Left Field.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review & share! https://leftfieldinvestors.com/podcast/

This is going to be a very different episode than normal. We are Left Fielders. We do things differently. A lot of people recognize the episodes with zeros. We don’t do that. We are recognizing Episode 101 because it’s the first of our next 100 episodes. That’s what we’re excited about. We are looking forward to the future, but we are also going to recognize the past. We are going to talk about where we have come from, what’s happened at Left Field Investors over the past few years and where we’re going. We are Left Field Investors. By definition, we are not conventional. We are not going to follow the crowd. We have been five guys trying to figure stuff out. It wasn’t intentional that we set up Left Field Investors but every time we have had success or passed a monument of some kind, we would figure out what the next thing is. That’s what we mean when we say we five guys figuring stuff out. We’re trying to do the best for the community and now - we’re 1,200 people figuring stuff out together.  In this episode, we’re going to acknowledge the past with a keen focus on our future. Listen in as Jim Pfeifer and the Founders of Left Field Investors – Sean Donnelly, Steve Suh, Chad Ackerman and Ryan Stieg -  share the beginnings of LFI, where we are now and most importantly where Left Field Investors is headed in 2023 and beyond!

This week’s episode features Phil Moeller. Phil has been investing in several aspects of the real estate industry but has been putting more of his focus on the passive investing side as of late. He is trying to educate himself more around the space by being an active passive investor. Phil has also taken on the goal of trying to educate more people about this space and inviting them to understand the passive investing world more.

Despite the name, passive investing requires you to take action consistently if you want to achieve financial freedom. Reed Goossens of RSN Property Group joins Jim Pfeifer to share how he invested in himself, found a mentor and became a successful real estate investor. Reed also discusses tips on creating a genuine connection with a new operator, how to navigate rising interest rates and how to take action to create a real estate business – passive, active or both. Tune in to hear a great real estate story and learn ways to shortcut your own successful real estate investing journey! 

This week’s episode features Randy Smith. After recent changes to his W2 structure, Randy finds himself now being a full-time passive investor. He spent some time on the Active Investing side of the ballpark before moving over to the Passive side where he is currently focused. Randy continues to educate himself on the industry and is able to focus on his passion due to the passive income he is currently receiving from his investments.

There can be advantages to investing in uncertain market conditions, rather than completely turning yourself off to new opportunities. Mark Kenney, the Co-founder of Think Multifamily, subscribes to the theory that there are quality deals to find in any market cycle. In this episode, he joins Jim Pfeifer to share with us his incredible journey and the unique process he follows in investing and sourcing multifamily properties - often dealing with multiple offerings at the same time. Mark discusses bridge debt and explains why he is still using it effectively in certain situations. He has a positive track record in multifamily and he has experienced a lot of success, but he is willing to admit that there is more out there to learn. He is carefully bold in uncertain times, which can set him up to capitalize on market inefficiencies. Follow along to this conversation to learn more! 

This week’s episode features Joe and Katie Viola. Joe and Katie have just begun their journey in passive investing by taking action on their first deal a short time ago. They have been educating themselves through books, podcasts, and getting involved in the Left Field community via attending meetings and the forum to develop a comfort level to invest in a multi-family deal. Next up for the couple is to focus on developing their goals to help drive the next decisions they have related to building passive wealth.

Are you interested in making money while having a positive social impact? Many real estate investments improve properties, so their tenants have a nice place to live. Note investing takes this a step further and works to keep homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgage in their homes. The banks love it because they get bad debt off their books, the homeowners love it because they get to stay in their home and the investors love it because they earn a return as the notes are converted from bad debt back into performing notes. Join Jim Pfeifer as he interviews Christopher Seveney from 7E Investments on the ins and out of note investing!  This episode is packed with information to help you understand notes, mortgages, collateral and much more – tune in to learn how to become a note investor!