Skipping Single-Family Homes: Diving into Multimillion-Dollar Investments
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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
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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
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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
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