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Brian Burke

Expertise: Commercial Real Estate
18 Articles Written
Brian Burke has acquired, renovated, and disposed of over 750 residential assets and 3,000 multifamily units. This includes over $500 million of real estate in several sectors: multifamily, single ...
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Brian Burke has acquired, renovated, and disposed of over 750 residential assets and 3,000 multifamily units. This includes over $500 million of real estate in several sectors: multifamily, single family, hospitality, self-storage, mixed use, and vacant land.

Experience
Burke has 31 years of investing experience with 20 years in multifamily. He’s performed underwriting, valuation, and title examination of thousands of properties for acquisition at trustees’ sales.

Throughout his investing career, he’s built homes, built self-storage, renovated a lakefront resort, and bought/renovated hundreds of homes and thousands of apartments. His largest acquisition to date was close to $50 million.

Burke has been a speaker at real estate conferences nationwide, plus various local/regional meetup/REIA groups in California and Washington. In addition, he’s been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, and Apple.

Accreditations
Licensed real estate broker in California

Press
Burke has been contributing to the BiggerPockets Blog since 2013. He’s also the author of The Hands-Off Investor: An Insider’s Guide to Investing in Passive Real Estate Syndications.

Burke has been featured on podcasts such as the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast (episode #3, #76, #152, and #378), on a BiggerPockets’ Facebook Live event, and on the FOX News Radio show “The Best of Investing.”

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Commercial Real Estate May 11, 2020

Top Techniques for Finding a Good Property Manager for Large Commercial Deals

By Brian Burke

Don’t let property management get the best of you as a real estate investor. Instead, get the best property management for your large multifamily investment. Let’s talk about a simple technique that will help you avoid making some big mistakes.

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Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice May 04, 2020

How to Use Cap Rates as a Rental Property Investor (Hint: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong)

By Brian Burke

When it comes to cap rate, there’s so much misinformation and misapplication of its definition and use. In particular, cap rate should not be used to determine the right price to pay for a property or to decide the quality and suitability of a real estate investment. Here I explain the only reaso...

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Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice Apr 27, 2020

The Truth About Cap Rate: 5 Myths—Busted

By Brian Burke

Perhaps no topic is more overrated, misunderstood, or debated than cap rate. I would also argue that cap rate has more inaccurate or misinformed articles written about it than pretty much any other topic on real estate. Why not just forget everything you’ve read about it, and start from scratch h...

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Commercial Real Estate Apr 22, 2020

Real Estate Syndication: Beware of Red Flags in Income Statements

By Brian Burke

Many passive investors confuse distributions with performance, so if the distributions are coming, the plan is coming together. Bernie Madoff’s investors probably thought that, too. So, how can you really tell how your investment is faring—especially if the syndication sponsor is overstating perf...

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Commercial Real Estate Apr 15, 2020

Real Estate Syndication: What Is a Preferred Return?

By Brian Burke

If you’ve been looking to invest passively in a real estate syndication, you’ve probably noticed that most offer a feature called preferred return. It seems that as awareness of syndications has increased so have misconceptions about preferred return. Let’s clear up what it is and, more important...

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Personal Development Sep 01, 2019

The Colossal Fail: How a Hard Landing Can Make You a Better Investor

By Brian Burke

Everyone wants to talk about success. But what about failure? When we fail, we learn the most important lessons. Here’s how to leverage your mistakes, turning the bad into something good.

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jan 11, 2018

Why You Should Constantly Seek Investors—And How to Find Them

By Brian Burke

When I was growing up, my grandparents lived in the mountains outside of a small, rural northern California town, far removed from the comforts of modern city living. They had electricity, but t...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jul 12, 2017

How I Raised $5 Million to Buy an Apartment Complex in 2 Weeks—While on the Beach

By Brian Burke

Before I became a full-time real estate investor well over a decade ago, I worked for a city’s public safety department, which is a combined police and fire department under one roof. It’s sort ...

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Commercial Real Estate Sep 13, 2015

Multifamily Myths: Why You Don’t Control The Value Like Everyone Says You Do

By Brian Burke

When investing in single family homes, you have to sit around waiting for the market to appreciate to realize a higher value. When you own an apartment complex, you are in control. If you want t...

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Commercial Real Estate Sep 07, 2015

Multifamily Myths: Why Investors Think Vacancy & Unpaid Rent Will Never Be an Issue

By Brian Burke

Many single family landlords have it easy. Their tenants tend to stay for a while. They are oftentimes more stable. Some of them even take good care of the home that they are renting. It can som...

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Commercial Real Estate Aug 30, 2015

Multifamily Myths: Why Inexperienced Investors Think They Can Raise a Million Dollars

By Brian Burke

A few months ago while on vacation in Hawaii, my wife Suzi and I had just sat down for breakfast at one of our favorite restaurants. As we were perusing our menus, a man walked by our table talk...

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Personal Development Aug 23, 2015

Multifamily Myths: Why Newbies Think Multifamily is Easy to Buy & Finance

By Brian Burke

Last year I wanted to refinance some of my small rental properties. Four properties, a hundred grand here, two hundred grand there… but you would have thought that I was seeking to solve the mys...

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