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most people believe I'm a real state investor


because I have a primary residence


that's actually not an investment


sure you're you know


having your paying down on your debt


your mortgage


you're you having that appreciation and everything


but an investment is something that's going to give


you a yield off of it


welcome back


everybody to another episode of the pursuit of purpose


my name is Chris Kiefer


and today I am with Julie Holly


who is the host of the Conscious Investor podcast


and the founder of 3 Keys Investments


Julie I won't try to explain anymore about what you do


so I'll pass it over to you


first of all


thanks for coming on


and uh second I'm


I'm really looking forward to the conversation today


well thank you


I'm really excited to be here and I'm excited for your


episode going live on the Conscious Semester podcast


so it's always super fun to swap podcast


so obviously


one of the rules I have in life is podcasting


um we're over 400 episodes deep


so something I'm very passionate about because we can


um learn and grow so much just by listening


which is why you're listening


right listener


um and then yeah


I love investing specifically in real estate and um


made a pivot after


you know 20 years of investing in real estate


in the single-family space into


large commercial real estate assets


that's awesome


and I love it


but most importantly


I love that I have a company now that brings other


people into those investments so that they


can have the joys of owning real real estate not reats


hmm so that's a super interesting uh


yeah in context


so you I'm in a group here in cordoline called


man on a mission


you um were connected through a couple different people


but you had seen through a post and saw my podcast


reached out


got connected


so yeah I was just on your


up your show or recorded it last week


um great conversation


and then I found out that


you're also connected with a good friend of mine


Anthony Walker


who's been on my show


and he's got


he's one of the co-founders of Cornerstone Investments


and so this


I think this is a super interesting topic


cause it's something that


I'm diving deeper and deeper into


and just trying to learn as much as I can


so I'm I would love for you to give like


some context of the different levels or


the ways to play the game of real estate investing


and I'll start it with my current


baseline understanding uh


which is at


for a general person


you can have


you can go buy a house


a single family home


and you can rent that out


and now you're a real estate investor


you could I guess


technically owning your own home would also make you


a real estate investor


although that's your primary residence


obviously not making any cash flow on that


the other thing you could do would be find a duplex


or quad or whatever multi


multi door property


which is a kind of a level up in my opinion


and then you get into doing uh


uh I don't even know if though


if I'm using the right terminology


so you can correct me


but there's syndications


and then you're you know


collectively compiling money and then buying larger


either apartment complexes together


that's my understanding


I don't know any of the terminology


but I know that this is something that I want to


get deeper into


because I believe in the


you know the benefits of spreading your money around in


the different types of investments that are


available to us


because you know


there's pros and cons to uh


in investing


in mutual funds and


the economy and the stock market and businesses


versus real estate


or yourself or any other investment you could make


so if you could give us um


building on my poor description


tell me where you what


what is possible


and where you guys fit in with 3 keys investments


I actually your description is really great


it was like


most people believe I'm a real estate investor


because I have a primary residence


that's actually not an investment


sure you're


you know having your


paying down on your debt


your mortgage


you're you having that appreciation and everything


but an investment is something that's going to give


you a yield off of it right


so we don't generally


we don't categorize personal um


residences as an investment


um but when we start thinking about investments


and real estate


I started in the same spot that most people do


well actually started house hacking


which means I was renting out a room in my house


um to offset my mortgage


but a lot of people think that I have to invest first


in a single family home


just a regular residential house


in a neighborhood somewhere


and then I can graduate and I can go into


small multifamily


like duplex


triplex quad


something like that


and then once I've done that for a period of time


then I can start thinking like


we kind of in our minds


have spoken with so many investors


we categorize these things as if they're sequential


and progressive


and we have to do one before we do the other


in all reality


you can bypass


all of the headaches of having a single family


um rental property


and you can skip all of that and go straight into


the multimillion-dollar


you know investment space


most people don't realize that they can do that


things are like


oh I don't know enough


I need to do this first


I have to build this up


and so it's changing our mindset to understand that 1


it's not sequential


and we can move into this other space


through the syndication model


and syndication is a fancy word


for something that most of us have done


so listener


think about this for a moment consider


have you ever pulled your money together at the office


or with friends


do you buy a pizza


buy a gift or you know


do something of that nature


you're syndicating


it's like you're all going in


you're pulling your money together


to accomplish something


bigger than what you could do on your own


that's all we're doing in the real estate space


and the that gets like super exciting


when we're talking about multimillion dollar purchases


the returns are substantial


so even though we only own a portion of that


let's say your ownership share


if you invest $100,000


you know in


you know this 20 million dollar asset


your ownership share is going to be very small


percentage wise


but you're more than likely going to come out ahead


than if you would put that hundred thousand dollars


into a single family


like on it as a down payment on a single family home


I'll pause there


yeah so I'm


I'm wondering


or one of the things that I'm again


this is probably common in your world


but something that I have


or becoming more aware of is the equity that you have


let's so we have a rental property in court line


the equity that we have in that property


is the cash that we


are choosing to invest in that particular vehicle


and so a lot of times people will


you know the


at the time that we bought it


the equity was not what it is now


right so there


it might have been a good investment at the time


but depending on the value of the property


there's more cash sitting there that um


you need to be calculating what type of return are you


getting on the actual cash that you have available


so then the question is


do you want to refinance it or sell it and then take


the additional cash and go


put that to you somewhere else


so I'm assuming that


when you and again


I guess I would be curious to know uh


a fun way of asking this question when we're talking


about like the return on um


a syndication


type of investment versus a single family home uh


what's the worst


this would be a again


you can tell me if this is a bad question


you answer a different way


what's the worst syndicated


real estate investment deal that you've been a part of


as far as a return goes


I guess it could be zero


you lost your money


but aside from that


ought to be


yeah no no losing money


um yeah I haven't lost money


made a lot of money


made more money


in the syndication space as a passive investor


so in this space


we have two different types of investors


we have passive investors or limited partners


they're just simply deploying capital


putting their


their you know


cash into the deal


then we have general partners


or active investors who are actually running managing


managing sourcing


like so sourcing


asset management


securing the loan


taking care of risk capital


like on the general partner side


so I invest in both capacities


and on the limited partner side


definitely every time we


you know get


receive a distribution


which is quarterly


it's like this is so much better


we did really well on the single family side of life


just owning


you know single family


not having to do anything


and it's coming to me


it's directly into my bank account


I didn't have to worry about you know


is a tenant gonna renew


is this gonna happen


what needs to be done


hello


cause it general partners


are taking care of that and running the show


so some of the concepts um


to think about that this


this opens up like a whole host of things right


is understanding what your investment goals are


and so you wanna evaluate


am I investing because I want that cash flow right


now in my bank account


or am I investing because I am just you know


placing this as a hedge against inflation


I am investing for


um you know


down the road in the future


in either capacity


I always encourage investors to consider


um I was I put it like this


like distributions


I have seen


not for our investments


but with other investors and investment groups


I've seen some of those distributions get paused right


and so depending on how that property is being managed


run and people


you know how much cashes and reserves


and what the economy is doing


um the active partners could actually


choose to pause distributions or reduce distributions


so it's really important to know like


do I personally have the reserves of my own


if that cash flow did not come in


you wanna make sure


and then you wanna make sure like


who am I investing in


how confident am I in


in that their investment thesis


so some people


they're gonna look at the blue sky


and they might present blue sky to their investors like


oh it's all great


it's so great like no no


don't invest with anybody that's looking at


the blue sky


you wanna say


what's the worst case scenario


to the nature of your question


and then what's the realistic scenario


hmm


show me how you try to kill this deal


and it still made sense


so for us along the way


if we can't see the metrics


we have a baseline metric that we go off of


like if we can't accomplish


an average of a 15%


average annual return


or we can't average say a 5


6% cash on cash return


or we cannot


come close to doubling our investor capital over that


5 ish year hold period


that deals already dead to us


and when we're looking at that deal


and this is just gonna be a little over


like a little more detail


a little more granular


but I promise you


listener and Chris


this is gonna serve you well


if you go down this path


you wanna look at


what is their thesis when they are looking at rinse


are they expecting rinse to continue to climb at an


exorbitant rate


a lot of people forget that rents do go up


and they go down


I've been I'm third generation in real estate


and so I'm like


I remember these conversations start taking place


and so you know


you understand


rents are gonna go


and they're gonna swing both directions


so what is the thinking behind their rents


you know what is the cost of capital


what kind of loan


is it a fixed rate loan


and is that loan going to have the runway


if worst case scenario happens


and we need to


we can't exit out of this deal


which means that's our way of saying


sell it right


if we can't exit out of this


is there enough runway on that loan


that will get us into a safe


that will buy us some years even


so we wanna double it


it's a projected five year hold


we wanna make sure that we actually have a 10 year


runway to that now okay


within a course of five years


you're gonna figure something out


but now you don't have to make that fire sale


you don't have


you're not in a compromise position


you're not need jerk reacting to what's happening


and that's what we're seeing happen real time right now


you're seeing


a lot of people having to


um navigate


they have these bridge loans


they have adjustable rate loans


we saw that in you know


leading into the 0 8 crisis in single family housing


now we're seeing that on the commercial side of things


hmm


lots more I could say


but I'm gonna pause right there


cause I'm like


I don't wanna go too gray anywhere cause I


yeah that's awesome


so based on everything that I'm


if we could go back to the different


you said early on


having a primary residence that you own


and you're paying a mortgage on


that's not an investment


so now we're talking about a single family thing


that comes with headache


you gotta manage it


maybe you find a property manager


but ultimately


that's still like


if there's issue with the property manager


you gotta find a new property manager


now then you're talking about


you can do syndications


my what I do know is that there are


certain syndications that are


only for accredited investors


which are individuals that have a net worth over


$1 million or


uh if it's a


this is incorrect


my facts here


if you're single


it's over 200,000 in income two years in a row


and if you're married


it's over 300,000 household income two years in a row


that's what allows you to be a accredited investor


which is opens up the doors to more opportunities


because they're assuming that


you are going to do the vetting yourself and


you know not um


get screwed for a lack of better words because of


not understanding what it is you're investing in


that's the idea behind the incredited investor


termin and the whole thing


is that correct


that that is correct


and one of the things they also um


want to ensure is


you know a level of education


a level of sophistication um


and they don't want


people being predatory and going after


people who may not have the resources to lose


so that's one thing


when we're speaking with investors at our company


we like to understand


what is the financial positioning of our investors


you know because the SEC


securities exchange commissions


like they will


they can come down any pretty hard


if you're taking somebody's last


you know hundred $50,000


whatever it is right


you know for an investment


it goes sideways


that could be a big problem


so it's really um


looking at that financial health of an investor


cause I would say when I heard the


term or just the accredited thing


this is probably


5 to 8 years ago


I heard someone tell me about this accredited investor


the status that you have to achieve


and I heard the


the argument against it was that it basically was again


or this one person I was telling me said


he wasn't a fan of it


because he thought it was just another hurdle


for people to have to jump through


and it was just an


it's a hurdle that the wealthy have already surpassed


and they have all these opportunities


but if you're up and coming


it just is an added thing that you have to overcome


I feel personally like because of the access to


YouTube and podcasts and the way that you can learn


so easily in today's world


versus whenever this rule was created


however many years ago


I don't know if you know that um


to me it seems like there


and I've heard rumours that they're


potentially talking about


allowing people to take a test


to pass the test until to become an accredited investor


which I I personally be a fan of


but aside from that


I don't know if you have any comments on that


I do I am curious


so now you're telling me


if I'm above 1 million and net worth


or I'm a credit investor


I've got these opportunities


but you're doing something for people that are


under that net worth that are


maybe again


you it sounds like you're doing something that is


not required of companies like yours


which is making sure that this is a wise investment


for the person who you're taking the money from correct


correct so yeah


a little little bit of my own personal thought


my own um evolution on my thinking


I used to think along the same lines


it was frustrating


I am very much into a smaller government


and I like you know


more control for people to make their own choices um


however as much as I love that


I'm also seeing things taking place in investment space


that does cause for concern right


I there are deals that go sideways


and those investors were told all the


blue sky of those deals because


and I need to say something that's very probably um


won't be received well by a lot of people


because of you


this is gonna be controversial because this is my


my own opinion


obviously because of YouTube


because of podcast


because of um


self published books etc etc


we have such access to information


and then we have a lot of um


very successful professionals


who have entered into the investing space


specifically the commercial investing space


um they've developed platforms


I'm not pointing fingers at anyone


I'm not calling anybody a bad person


I'm just saying it's be


become very easy to become involved in commercial


in real estate


in commercial real estate


in syndications


in funds in all sorts of elements that that um


receive other people's money


but they don't have experience


so maybe they've even you know


run multimillion dollar accounts at their


at their company


maybe they've even


had a team of people that they've managed


and so there's a natural inclination to say


I've been successful in this way


my success and my skills and my ability


are transferable into whatever I do


and yes I agree


skills and everything are transferable however


there is a type of experience that we lack


so you know


I mean I remember stories of real estate


literally my entire life


that's a big topic of conversation right


and I remember the UPS and downs of real estate


there are some things that you just learn innately


because you've been exposed to it


you've been around it


you've been immersed with it


and so you know


kind of how it operates right


it in this case


being real estate


but whatever industry a person is in


they're going to understand it


and they're going to be able to build on that


and so with that


we're in this new climate


where you have a lot of people


that got in


it's like wow


this is great


I'm gonna leave my job


I'm gonna have the freedom I'm looking for in life


um and I'm going to syndicate and everybody's gonna win


and then you have deals going sideways


so with that


I think as I've been watching things shift over


the last year and a half


it's made me caught


it's caused me to pause and say


maybe there is some merit to


having some of these benchmark hurdles


so that people


people aren't just looking at the blue sky


even passive investors saying like


yeah and they


they lack the education


um and that's why


so we operate


uh there are two different ways that we can operate


there actually lots


and let me clarify also


there are lots of ways to become an accredited investor


you can even take the like a Series 7 test


and become an accredited investor like


so the two primary ways are the ones that you express


like how much income you have or what your net worth is


but there are actually several other ways that


you can become an accredited investor


if that's something you wanna do


the benefit


since we're talking about like


accredited investors


let's think about what are the pros of it


well the pros are


people can advertise


their investment opportunities


so they can go and you can see on social media


and on TV commercials


whatever it is


they can actually advertise like hey


come invest in purchase


help purchase this 384


luxury you know


multi family complex down in Dallas Texas


let's say right


they can advertise that and just


receive investors


immediately


the other way


which is how we operate


is there has to be a relationship in place


first before that investment is placed


hmm


6 b and I like b


cause I say it's better


it allows everyone to be involved


and quite frankly


I don't wanna have investors in


in our companies


investments


that are strangers to us


or that we really don't know


our goal is really to truly serve and support people


in growing their wealth


if we wanna do that


we need to understand and have that conversation


what is your goal


what are the resources you currently have


how can we work within that


wow maybe we should roll over your


your 4 o 1 k


and you can sample this investment


without putting in


your savings


from your account


that's in a special account


making 5% right now yeah


like whatever it is


yeah no I think that that's uh


I didn't know about the Series 7 7 thing


that's interesting


and so that's another route that someone that is very


to your point of like it already does exist


someone is adamant about becoming an


accredited investor


they can go through this test


our study for take the test um


and then they're accredited correct


and then the alternative would be to do this uh


do you say 5 o 6 b


5:06 b and so what that means is that


you're going to have to go in as an investor


and you're going to have to


basically knock on the door of companies


now here's what I have noticed has happened


in my years


of investing in the commercial space


is it often times


people start with what we call friends and family


as their investor base


and they grow from there


and I've noticed that as a lot of these investors start


and they start to grow


they go from being this 5 0


6 b offering that is oh


you gotta know me first before


you can come into these deals


as they grow


they're like hmm


we're gonna start


advertising and we're gonna shift to a 5 o 6 c


and so now this opportunity


even some of their investors might not


be able to invest with them any longer


hmm


hmm


getting to know operators


sponsors um


who are active


and who do receive um


an operate under a 5 0


6 b umbrella


hmm


that's what basically


because there's limitations on


how many people can be involved in a particular deal


with 5 or 6 b correct


it is interesting


so you can have 35 non accredited investors in a 5 0


6 b offering um


and you can have as many


accredited investors as you want


so here's an interesting thing that you'll find


also taking place is that some people say Cali


I just like


why is why is the minimum investment 100,000 or


fifty thousand dollars


like why and a lot of times as teams grow


they will raise their minimum investment criteria um


and so some people will ask me like


why isn't it $25,000


I just I only have $10,000


I wanna get started


and we have to look at um


in any investment okay


well we've got 35 slots available


and let's just say


we have $7 million that we're bringing in


in investor equity to our deal


we won't have you know


we really wanna open up the spots to


sophisticated investors


highest and highest is gonna win out on


the sophisticated investor side of life um


because we do have those limited spots


but the behind the scenes also that


a lot of people don't take into consideration


and it's more on the maintenance side of things


is it actually increases the costs of everything


so you've now have extra


tax reporting that you're doing


you have other communications that are going on it


it is a higher level of effort


so anytime you see somebody operating in this way and


um even if they have a lower minimum investment


that allows more investors to come in


you need to slap them a high


high five because they're truly serving a lot of people


and it would be a whole lot easier if they just said


you know we're just going quarter of a million or


or more that's how you're getting in right


like they could do that


yeah I was gonna say that to me


to me immediately


I was thinking like


of course if I you know


if you're having to uh


you're in relationships with everyone


that's involved in this thing


would you rather


you know have to


keep 10 people updated and up to date and run all the


tax reporting and everything that's required or 100


like there's clearly uh


complexity and just time and effort and energy to the


the smaller that dollar size that you're accepting


it's almost like


you know what's the cut off


or is it even worth the time of the person


in the business that has to


you know uh


stay in contact with someone


I'm gonna exaggerate


but if someone's investing $500


is it even worth the postage or all their notices


you know that like there's


there's definitely a threshold


and the larger the amount


the more the simpler it is from


cause there's our


it's I'm assuming it's complex enough


we just like running the deal and making that a success


and then the


the most controllable


uh complexity dial that you could turn would just be


smaller number of investors


larger dollar amounts


the same end goal


but now we've just eliminated that


like headache or potential for headache


when we think about those minimums and having


you know a whole bunch of investors


coming in with a $500 or $5,000 right


we've talked about how that's going to increase


just the maintenance


the communications


the costs everything


um there are people who for many


many years have actually


join together with friends and family


um and they've created their own LLC


and they have


you know put


pulled money together to make those minimum investments


and so there are workarounds


if someone was like


I wanna get started


but um you know


I only have 20,000 in the minimums


50 maybe rally and you


you find some other like minded


friends that you know


like trust that you would trust very deeply


and you could pull together


form your own LLC and then invest into a deal


and split things up yourself


there are platforms out there that actually help invent


help individuals accomplish this


and how offer transparency


so that you can all see the bank account


it takes care of um


separating the um


the taxes so that everybody gets a fair share of their


depreciation and and elements like that


oh okay


um that's or another thing related to this


something that I


this is just relevant for us is timing


I was talking to our account


and he was talking about real estates


great but it all


it's like timing is huge with everything of just like


what year are you going to depreciate


what depreciation schedule does the investor choose


and all that stuff um


and this this


the all the


limitations and requirements around how and when


uh you depreciate things


so I'm curious


when you are working on like if


if you're putting together a new deal


do you have


for you guys in particular


is there um


overarching strategies for like how


and um I should also clarify that I'm like the


understanding depreciation and how that affects taxes


as like at the cusp of my knowledge


so I will say


my understanding is if I owned


you know a million dollar apartment complex myself


I was a sole owner


obviously if there are improvements that are made to it


uh more the total value of the property


I can depreciate over a certain number of years


and then I can take the


whatever the


first simplicity


it's $1 million that said depreciated over 10 years


I don't even know if that's possible


but $100,000 a year


I can reduce my


uh gross income by that number


my question is


whatever you can put in real numbers


if that is helpful


but if you were with a group of


um 10 investors that were


depreciating that million dollar thing


and there was $100,000 a year


is it literally just each investor gets


if it was if we were all equal partners


everyone would get $10,000 per year that's depreciated


is that correct


or is there another like


is any of the depreciation lost in the


in the way that the deal is structured


am I saying that clearly


you you you're totally you're


you're like yes


there you're seeing all of that in a really great way


and then let's


let's just add a little more shape to this


right so yes


the depreciation is split proportionate to whatever


someone's investment is


now I'm gonna say a little


I'm gonna kinda go on a soapbox on this topic


um before I do that


what we like to do and what we have been doing is


we've been taking bonus depreciation


so we we do is we have a


cost segregation study done on


our you know


real estate asset


and they depreciate


everything that would normally be on that


twenty seven and a/2 year straight line depreciation


the sprinklers


the light bulbs


the roof you know


all these little pieces


they're all getting depreciated


assigned to value


and then they're being depreciated year one


and in doing so


up until this year


you've been able to take for


for the last several years


you were able to take 100%


of that depreciation in year one


now think about this


hold periods for the last you know


let's say 10 years or so


have been somewhere between three to five years


so you know that


you could take all that depreciation right there


at front year one


whatever you don't use


you can roll it over


it's a simple form


I'm not giving advice and I'm not a tax consultant


but you know


there's a simple form


you just file in with your taxes


so if you cannot use that depreciation


you can roll over year after year


until you've used all of that depreciation


now here's the important thing that people


don't understand


if you were invested passively okay


let's say you decided


I'm not gonna invest


my $50,000 as a down payment onto a single family home


I need to put that $50,000 into a large multi family


multimillion dollar investment


you are now a passive investor


you have two different income buckets


you have a passive income bucket


and you have an active income bucket


and if you're a regular W2 employee


you can't co mingle those


you can't just put something from one bucket


bucket into the other bucket


and so there are a lot of rules


and regulations surrounding


how that depreciation can actually be utilized


this is something where I think there's been a lot of


miss education out there in the investment space


everybody goes around saying depreciation


yeah yeah yeah


and it's like


but can you use that depreciation


most people have to be


you know like


have multiple passive investments


now that's gonna be really handy


let's say you have a second passive investment


and your first one sells


and now you have an influx


you've doubled your money right


and so now you have this influx of capital


it just came your way well


if I have this depreciation


I can just offset that


but the other important element here is that we're


offsetting um


deferring taxes does not delete taxes


so there is recapture involved right


so a lot of times people say


differ until you die it's just


it's really important again


I'm not giving any tax guidance to anybody


but it's this is why it's so critical to have a tax


strategist or advisor


if you wanna call them that


not someone that is


not just simply filing your taxes each year


but someone who is being strategic with you


in your plan so that you understand okay


this is what I'm working with


and you're checking in throughout the year oh hey


they've decided


like for example


where's we are going to be selling one of our assets


um in Iowa okay


we're letting our investors know that right now


because I know that those investors


are going to wanna talk to their tax strategist


so that they can already start planning ways


for when it sells


how they're going to


you know mitigate that


influx of capital to them


I also know they're gonna redeploy it


and that's gonna help them out a lot


well that's I


I just think that's super fascinating


the uh I love I


we're definitely getting


Natalie and I are just beginning to start diving into


the tax strategy and talking with people


and I do feel like it's just another one of those


things that you have to learn about or understand


otherwise you just yeah


that's a missed opportunity to deploy the


the money that you are able to earn in life


effectively to accomplish whatever goals you have


so that's um


hmm alright


I love the way that you described it and broke it down


and just uh


some good things to think about looking at the time


I wanna move to last


couple questions that I ask everybody


first one is


what are three book recommendations that you have


I am a book


I'm always obsessed


so my first is always going to be whatever book I'm


currently reading um


so right now I'm actually on a book launch team


for John Acuff's book called


um oh my gosh


all you need is a goal


fantastic book


I am loving it


I'm halfway through it


um it'll come out September 12th


I'm not sure when this will air


but highly recommend


get yourself a copy of it um


I love this


if you're not a reader


I'm holding this up


if this goes out on video


it's called managing oneself


it's like the size of a hand


it's really thin


I read it in 90 minutes with um


a pina colada that my husband made uh


fantastic is by Peter Drucker


it's one of his essays


everybody should read this


if you have high schoolers


they should read that book


and another book everyone should read


you can see it's all tabbed up


this is called The Motivation Manifesto


by Brendan Brochard


every person should have that in arms reach


it will give you fire to really


continually improve your life


and well being


awesome um and favourite movie


favourite movie of all time


I'm not a huge movie person per se


but I would say um


I really like the Star Wars side stories


I really like all of the new ones


that have come out um


the one with Han Solo and I can't


I think it was just called solo


but I love all of those because it's like


sharing this intricate background


of characters that I fell in love with when I was young


and it was like


oh that explains so much as to


why you act and behave and respond the way you do


hmm I was so stoked when Lucas Films got bought out


but I really like the new


the new ones with like


like backstories


because I was like


now we get to have more Star Wars


every you know


twice a year there's gonna be a new series new movie


because yeah


I'm a I'm a big Star Wars fan


the and then the Star Wars land at the


Disney World in Disneyland is just unbelievable


we just um yeah


we're our family are big fans of that


so I I concur with you there


um if someone is interested in learning more


getting in touch with you to pick your brain


or see what other type of investments you have going on


what do you recommend as the best way


for people to get in contact with you


head over to julieholly.com


if you head there


um which will support


you with learning more about investing


also we release a


we buy the team that helps produce it


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so for three and a half years


every single week


so there are over 400 episodes there waiting for you


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there's also a YouTube channel that's really helpful


YouTube channel that will just walk


you through a lot of the terminology


and little bite size nuggets


so you can check out this playlist


but I'm totally


I love supporting and educating people


and so if you are feeling like this is over your head


I felt that way too


the first time I heard about syndication


and I was raised in real estate


so like it's a


it is a different


space commercial is very different than


what we're used to in the residential side


but I can assure you this


it's really simple


and it's extremely strategic and


advantageous to be involved in this type of investment


so you know reach out


don't be a stranger


you can actually give me a call at 2 0 8


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awesome well Julie


this is super enlightening


thank you so much for being generous with your time


and sharing your knowledge with everybody


um and yeah


I know you're not too far away from Quarter Lane


so we'll be seeing each other around and uh


look forward to


continuing to chat with you and pick your brain


likewise thanks so much Chris I appreciate it


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