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Arunabh Dastidar has a background in engineering, starting his coding years in his teens. In fact, he was building and selling web products even prior to college. He spends most of his free time thinking about tech and startups, but when he is not, he plays acoustic guitar and attends music festivals. He enjoys traveling and trying food across the world, mentioning that Tokyo ruined Sushi for him. Arunabh was on a very important call, and his excel sheet was crashing. He looked left and right, and couldn’t find anything to support what he needed. He found some co-founders, and built the solution he wished he had for the industry.

I'm Nic DeAngelo, known as the "Fixed Income GOAT" in real estate circles. With a $206M+ portfolio, I fuse economic foresight and real estate prowess for an exciting and value-driven discussion for podcast audiences. We invest by two foundational beliefs: - Wall Street is broken. Real Estate is the cure. - Economics tells the future. As CEO/Founder of Saint Investment Group, I lead a veteran team acquiring institutional-grade real estate assets nationwide. Our 20+ state portfolio, 24 projects, and 500+ loans showcase our strategy-driven prowess, with Saint on track to raising $100M+ yearly. I’ve received praise from high-level podcasters like Hunter Thompson, Tyler Lyons, and Jonathan Cattani with me being the guest on some of their highest-reviewed episodes. My data-driven investing approach. For this reason, every podcast I’ve been featured on has invited me back for updates on the compelling economic insights we’ve reviewed on their shows. My knack for simplifying complex theories allows me to provide you with dense material in an entertaining bite-size way.

Mike Sr. is a licensed Master Builder in Michigan and Florida. With over 35 years in the construction industry, he has built, renovated, and remodeled residential houses, including multi-million dollar homes for local celebrities. He is a founder of several multi-million dollar companies that build and flip houses, and invest in multifamily real estate.

Our company is ACME Development Group that is operated by our GC, Alex Montero, and Alberto Bernardoni (me). I started investing in real estate after I fleeing the dictatorship in Venezuela and relocating to Houston, TX. The oil & gas industry is where I originally started working in the USA until the 2008 recession which led to me being laid off and desperate to find an opportunity to satisfy my ambition, real estate investing. I grew my portfolio from two SFR worth 300K to a commercial portfolio worth 6.5 million all in just eighteen months. Now me and my partner are growing our portfolio through multifamily developments that offer our investors 12% COC returns in six months. I'm looking forward to speak with you and explain how developments are a low-risk option for multifamily investors who are weary of high-inflation, high interest rates, and recessions.

Brad Baldridge is one of the nation’s leading college financial experts. He teaches families the best ways to plan, save and pay for college so they can make their children’s college dreams come true without wiping out their finances or their retirement. For over 20 years, he has shared his expertise and insights through his private practice, as a blogger and host of the Taming the High Cost of College Podcast, and as a presenter at numerous workshops and seminars.

Joel has a 42 year track record in industrial real estate. He co-founded Epic/Savage Realty Partners in 1991 where he oversaw hiring and mentoring 60 industrial real estate professionals, many of whom became his partners. His group sold the firm to an international real estate company in 2014 and Joel started Brit Properties. As an industrial real estate broker and owner, Joel has secured over 2,000 industrial property leases and sales, totaling over $2 billion in brokerage volume and $250 million in acquisitions. His greatest accomplishment is maintaining valued relationships with brokers, tenants and investors spanning five decades. He does fully syndicated deals, often with 0% debt, an unheard of approach in real estate which caters to his wealthy investor base primarily concerned with conservation of principal. His experiences during the Great Recession in 2008 have informed his investment approach to be hyper-conservative while still allowing an ~8% cash return, plus upside, for his investors. Joel attended the University of Michigan. He enjoys playing golf and spending time with his family, particularly his 3 young grandchildren.

Chris Prefontaine is the four-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Sell With Authority for Real Estate Investors. He’s also founder of the Wicked Smart® companies and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 31 years. His experience ranges from constructing new homes in the 1990s and owning a Realty Executive Franchise to running his own investments (commercial & residential) and coaching clients throughout North America. After the crash of 2008, Chris reengineered his entire business to weather all storms and economic cycles. Understanding these challenges, he helps students navigate the constantly changing real estate waters. Today Chris and his family and team run their own creative financing business and are still in the trenches every day. Their main focus is helping students across North America plan their escape from their W-2 jobs by getting in the trenches and doing deals with them. They’ve completed over $100 million in transactions.

His career began as an aerospace engineer, Charles Hamilton starting at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), a Computer Aided Design (CAD) company, straight out of college. During his tenure at SDRC, Charles held various positions, including sales, lead application engineer, customer service engineer, and project manager. Notably, his contributions in assisting Xerox with CAD system work processes earned him commendation and played a key role in securing Xerox as the second-largest account for SDRC upon their adoption of the CAD system. Transitioning into software development, Charles served as a project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton, Spaceworks, and Digital Harbor. At Booz Allen Hamilton, he managed projects of diverse scales, engaged in consulting, and pursued an MBA to complement his skill set. His involvement in real estate commenced after his father's passing, where Charles assumed responsibility for overseeing a 4-lot mobile home park and a single-family home rental. Drawing from his accumulated experience, his objective is to further invest in multifamily units and hotels. As a member of a team, Charles recently concluded the acquisition of a 65-unit apartment complex in Charlotte, NC. His roles in this venture include being a General Partner (GP) and a Limited Partner (LP), with the deal finalized on August 10, 2023. Additionally, he actively contributes to the asset management team for this property.

Shawn Griffith has leveraged an impressive career spanning manufacturing and IT to forge a new path in Real Estate Investing. Co-founding TWT Multifamily with Teri, Shawn's expertise now drives the acquisition and management of multifamily properties. His knack for problem-solving, honed in diverse roles from Texas Instruments to Southwest Airlines, translates seamlessly into the real estate realm. Shawn's experience in integrating disparate systems and his love for puzzles have been instrumental in navigating the complexities of real estate deals and property management. A transition from a software engineer to a business analyst, especially at Southwest, refined Shawn’s skills in team training and knowledge transfer. This background is invaluable in investor relations and capital raising, where clear communication and understanding diverse stakeholder needs are paramount.

DJ McClure serves as the Vice President of Sales & Business Development at National Flood Experts (NFE). He is instrumental in driving NFE’s strategic growth by establishing partnerships, providing consultancy services to clients, and supporting the National Account Executives team. DJ collaborates with NFE’s engineering experts to deliver tailored cost-saving solutions for flood zone properties across a variety of vertical commercial real estate markets. NFE’s accomplishments include consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies in 2021 and 2022, as well as recognition on the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Fast 50 list in 2022. With a strong commitment to innovative flood insurance solutions, NFE has saved clients over $15 million in insurance premiums and added nearly $300 million in property value since 2014. Backed by a team of experienced licensed professionals with over 60 years of combined expertise, NFE is dedicated to providing clients nationwide with education, guidance, and the best possible solutions.

Kris Reid is a growth expert, connecting investors with deals. If you've got a new deal looking for funding, Kris can help get your deal in front of active investors to get you funding FAST!

The Story of Cloudastructure: After the theft of a laptop from the office, Televoke CEO and founder Rick Bentley went to the landlord to get the surveillance footage, only to discover the cleaning lady had unplugged the surveillance cameras for the vacuum - no footage, and a thief got away scot free. Dubbing the moment “The Vacuum Effect”, Bentley had a vision for his next endeavor: moving surveillance footage to the cloud, so it would never be lost. Bentley and a team of engineers would go on to hip pocket research for more than a decade, during which time he sold Televoke to Uber for $50 million. But technology wouldn’t catch up to Rick’s vision until 2016, when large-scale computer vision became possible. Bentley realized with AI processing in the cloud, surveillance wouldn’t be just safely stored in the cloud: it could be analyzed there in mere seconds. A landlord wouldn’t be looking up who stole the laptop after the crime. He’d be getting an alert to the crime while the theft was in progress, and potentially, be able stop it. Rick promptly quit his job as an Advisor to Google, and went to work on Cloudastructure in earnest. In early 2021, he would go on to raise $35 million through crowdfunding and hire a sales team to take the Cloudastructure’s AI surveillance to market. To find a market fit, Rick and his team returned to the story of the stolen laptop: his vision had begun with surveillance cameras in a building. By hiring a sales team with decades of experience in property management, he could customize Cloudastructure’s technology to fit that market’s specific needs, and provide vital technology and service. The hire of Whitney Fraser and her team in multifamily proved that theory true. Whitney landed the first enterprise multifamily deal in 2022. And sure enough, they had a customization need: they wanted the footage monitored by remote guards. Cloudastructure’s engineers went on to build the first integrated Remote Guarding software in the industry, completing it in a record 11 months, and go on to win 8 Homeland Security Astor Awards for the feat and just this past month, they won the Proptech Breakthrough Award for Residential Data Management Platform of the Year 2023. Today, Cloudastructure is a vibrant part of Multifamily proptech, providing both AI Surveillance and Remote Guarding software and services to some of the biggest names in Multifamily Property Management.