Its not a moral judgment on anybody. Love an opportunity to dio doing interview, kind of like were doing friend, right? Now, for those of you who understand investing, we do what theyre called. Grandma right and the theme throughout my my hi profane tirade on the application was Dont call me right. Im not interested in the, you know, the one eighties to 300 unit apartment complexes. Im like, Well, I know how to dig a ditch. Yeah, Im gonna Right. You know, Ive run a small construction company. You know him from the hit show Flipping Boston, one of the first real estate flipping houses shows on TV. A mentor whos in the real estate business built to real estate companies, took one public Warren Buffett bodies on the boardwalk. But the I think you know, the people that I learned the very most Roman are mentors if or coaches or whatever the right word is who were actually doing their business. Yeah, I picked up a rowing machine is called Hydro. We were maybe three weeks into the covert crisis, and I reconnected with a very good friend of mine who is a whats called a syndicator. That and I said some Great. Well, this just I mean, honestly, Dave, I wish you the very best of luck, but this just makes sense for your career, like this is how it works. It allows an investment company like ours to bring in non accredited investors anywhere between they could do 5000 and up. So for May, I started on this journey of education, and I check this one out. As Dave himself states, hes big picture thinker and not overly interested in details. And now. Whats next? Lets get the tenant base in on. I think you were on the panel as an investor, and we were doing like a like a shark tank pitch kind of a thing. So just just I mean, you have, like, we cant You just cant skip that. Thats so insightful? David Sive (1948), pioneer in environmental law; founding partner, Sive, Paget & Riesel, PC. For many years, my income was from both training and educating as well as my own real estate businesses. Shes like my visa ran out. And you say, why not Yeah, And heres what was interesting was was this is that they say being instructor. I dont know what it was back then. So Walter connected with me and he said, What are you doing? Digs the ditch, zero degrees, fight the fire. And then I got to go back and say to my team, Guys, I apologize. So those all went away. Yeah, thats the landing page on the front page of our website. If you enjoyed this episode, please hit. A man of faith, You know what I mean? Its a fools game, so yeah, I was rock bottom, but I had I had exhausted all options for May. So I texted Kevin and, um, hes in Tampa, Florida, which is our market s. So I texted Kevin. Im like, How can I help you? People go more money. Just throw listeners out there so that a lot of inbound stuff it is accredited investors which meet that that minimum income and or quote unquote and assets. The very best of luck to you. Right? If you dont flip it, then theres just like I wouldnt wanna learn from anybody who was just studying it. Im an immigrant to the United States, came here looking for something. And you got to remember brother were in New England, you know, we got some old stuff here. And I was thinking about it. 'Flipping Boston' stars: 'Army of good' turned out to help Marathon bombing victims When two bombs exploded during last year's Boston Marathon, David Seymour and Peter Souhleris, the stars. Amount of people out there that are like six and seven and eight figure owners who dont understand the tax advantages of real estate, whereas, you know it rolls off rolls off of my back. I actually I actually got a royalty check because its playing in turkey and I got I got a royalty check for, like, $500. Those are the options that theyre gonna have no matter what the government decides to go. You know, itss. But what theyre really saying is sell our education programs. Thats the truth, That is, that is the truth. A lot of investors are contributing and committing their retirement funds, so you allow him to come in through self direction. Family Office Investment Advisor Greater Boston 6K followers 500+ connections Join. And this was put together with a company out of Boston and you do all these videos and you wrote with these beautiful women on this big video screen right in front of you. Flow. I dont wanna go out and look at properties. Its how I was. Theyre small. So I think thats yeah, it makes it really good sense. Last, I could go on like I love this stuff. I have overeducated, I guess if you call to monsters and $150,000 worth of it, not including my undergraduate and some close masters work in another place nearby my house. It was It was It was an investment for them, you know? And we were helping out some of his students. Dave Seymour was a firefighter for 16 years and is now a full-time real estate investor who also was on the A&E's hit TV show "Flipping Boston". Like I say to my guys all the time. I dont You know, Im not always charging money for my for my influence today. Lets talk about covert. Im Im banging around 2 40 to 50. Yeah, man, I sold chemicals to Moundsville State Penitentiary. Yeah, it was a trip. You wind up on these crazy panels. You dont wanna waste them. We love like the 20 toe 1 41 60 apartment complexes. Youve done it before. I didnt cheat. I thought I was doing the right thing. But he sent me a funny sent me a vanilla application for a download toe. I mean, I like you of Im born from an education world in a sense of I want to share good stuff, things that things that work a lot of a lot of folks that come through. You gotta cross because of sex. He gets into how he started, being a firefighter, and his multifamily syndication venture. And when everyone is greedy, you sell. I say to a lot of our investors I bring ah blue collar attitude to a white collar world. Yeah, its a business plan. Awesome. On that quarters, all is such a such a damaging component. You know, I was actually, uh, aside and I want to get to your fund that you that you dealt with all this experience and bringing that actually to the to the I dont know what you call a normal person who wants to buy into an opportunity. But you really see an opportunity right now to invest in real estate and then talk a little bit about your approach on how people could be a part of this new thing. Lets get to it. Alright. He goes back again. Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of Build a business success Secrets. There was a dark day for me, bro. 2 talking about this. Its big boy time. Thats not good for the needs. I said, Ive got I got an associates degree in fire science because whats whats an associates degree? She became my, uh she became my first private private investor of private lender is kind of the way I looked at her on, I went at it with I just went at it with a vengeance. These were your Gary V s and the rest of those guys on there. I gotta I gotta touch close with him and just let him know that it was his fault. Look, man, every time Ive Ive ever walked out onto a platform to share education through real estate investing, I always open up with the line. Would you all agree that knowledge is and then they all finish the sentence power on then I Ive always said, Is it is it really? Like I just began to change my environment. I like the plot. to be in a really estate investor, and I know youve told this story before, but can you tell our listeners just a short version of Really, how that how that happen? Who is David Seymour dating? So what did you even where do you find yourself? Im having a lot of conversations. Now I got a question for you on the accredited investors Ive seen now with the new SEC rules, actually, and maybe this is a decision that you and your team have made on purpose. His story is crazy and goes to show that you can make things happen for yourself and become anything you want.Daves brings you a weeks worth of positive energy and inspiration. And I realized that day that that things needed to change. Yeah, correct, Correct. How is that? Theyve heard all of my personal relationships. And with that came a lot of failures, right? I had to split that with my old business partner, Pete. Deal. And that was the day that I almost quit educated and one of the old timers in the education space touch gloves for me. I you know, were just north of Boston, Massachusetts, and, you know, trying toe try to pivot, man, play the game in a new landscape in a new world. Freedom Venture is Heres what Ive learned over all my years and all the companies Ive tried in the ones that Ive had successes. With 29 episodes of A&E's Flipping Boston behind them, local real estate duo Peter Souhleris and Dave Seymour have garnered beyond-compare tips on the art of finding a deal. It just is a natural progression that you would raise a fund and take your expertise and knowledge and all of these other great team members that you have put together and and put together a fund and just do it on a larger scale. Cant be that difficult, right? After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the nation's top real estate investors. Dont fix it. And, you know, the people that are underneath the desk right now the skys gonna fall chicken little put their hands over there is believe all the bs that youre getting media. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted. Awesome scroll all the way down there. I just get madder every book I could. When when my house was in pre foreclosure and it all went on my wifes credit cards and I straight up, she looked at me on that Sunday morning and she said to me, What do you think? Then if youre okay with that, then understand this, he said. And if you look at commercial real estate investing in a multifamily arena, its outperformed all other commercial asset classes. When everybody else goes rushing out, we go running in. And he was playing again to like I know I know hed take the Betas well, and we structured it so that Kevin came on as an advisory board member on in return for that, we get to do, Ah, a huge amount of coal marketing. Lets go. All right. It might look easy on the screen but the real life is full of people who lost a lot while buying for someone elses money. How did the couple on Flipping Boston meet? Hey, Dave. Its beautiful. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the nation's leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. And when I start talking about our preferred rate to return and targeted capital targeted returns on quarterly distributions and lifetime, its like it. Guest Bio: Dave Seymour, a retired 16 year veteran of the Fire Service launched his Real Estate career over a decade ago, rapidly becoming one of the Countries top investors. Youre on the other side of the country, right? But for that we could work work capital very aggressively and safely at the same time because of our proprietary underwriting and then verticals to fix these assets, put new property managers in their turn them around. Maybe so. He starts taping, and you wind up with this top rated show on flipping Boston. Forget all the stuff in between. You tell May Ill be honest about it. So Dave became the big, angry guy on the TV show, Flipping Boston. Guys, come on. Welcome to another episode of Build a Business Success Secrets. Stars Peter Souhleris David Seymour Fikret Husidic See production, box office & company info Watch on Freevee S1-3 Watch Free on Freevee Just a warm them up. Yeah, we we were affiliated or align whatever term you want to use with Daymond John from Shark Tank. I kind of, um Im gonna do a quick infomercial. Four years later, we went, I dont know. So it takes a little little bit longer. Look, probably, Yeah, it was a commission basis. We already did one press release. What are you doing? If you could see behind me right now, theres a couple of old Victorian diagrams of the heart, right? Venture. Like, I believe that theres something bigger and better. Well, you got plenty of time, Dave, like, yeah, I mean, theres theres plenty of time. Weve got to make sure that youre a fit for us, as we offer you. So be careful before you try it on your own. I have I have trained and coached guys from from Harvard University, with degrees coming out of every orifice of their body. He barely graduated college, made a ton of money, but those lessons were It was because and I used to fish on Fridays with this guy is because I could hear what was actually going on because hes on the phone on the way to the river, the way to the bay with whats happening in doing that. How many? I got sober at 23. I was in a relationship with my now wife, Mary Beth, and Im looking for opportunities, man. For that, Im grateful. please LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE! And and But this is one of those things that just because the past says that it happened doesnt mean that they know the future. Yeah. Thats Thats the commodity. Its also a challenging time. An expert to expert interview. Blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and some pure not the brilliance came out of my mouth. You do some education, Obviously goes along with it. Thats a really cool video that we put together kind of sales piece that talks about the volatility of the stock market and why an alternative investment like this could be good for you. Theres a Perry belters and current Matt Bai sack. It put me in a position where I can touch gloves with guys like you. You implemented what you learned. I was I was in school in London and I and I met a girl in, uh in a local ale house and she was American, and we were dating. Im up at, like 55 oclock, you know, do my quick morning routine. And I go back to my team and Im like, I just got bitten by a shark, fellas, you know, but pod. And Im screaming and shouting and praying to my guy. May He treated me well, and he gave me opportunity. I just identify the very best people that I can in the core competencies that I need fulfilled. And you know, bad ever to set me up with short version. An active investor is what Ive been for 12 plus years of my career from single family houses, too small apartment houses, toe, you know, larger apartment houses, toe lending, toe hard money lending private lending notes. Hes like, Why? We dont just put piping cop it in and say, Oh, look at this fantastic food, you know, like they do in Las Vegas or some of these other markets. And I bought every one of the damn books because I want to see it now. But we got deals sitting in the pipeline right now that we could buy even if we only had three million in the account we could we could go toe work on, then toe put. Its an individual choice, right? You are. Agreed, agreed. Quick, I think her name is the girl on Squawk Box. And theres a gentleman there, a ton of experience. In Flipping Boston, time is the enemy as flippers race to renovate before prices fall even further. 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