Real Estate At Work Virtual Meetup - Surviving The Pandemic

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Learn how COVID 19 has affected the real estate industry across rentals, flips and different types of lending in our local market.

Hear from our expert panelists Albert Bui, Charles McKinney, Preston Walls, Zack Lazo on the current and future health of our industry. Attendants will also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the panelists.

Please RSVP directly on our Meetup event:  https://www.meetup.com/RealEstateAtWork/events/269716949/

Biographies

Albert Bui has been an active real estate investor and mortgage lender since 2013, with a heavy focus on cash flow. He specializes in mortgage and financial planning for real estate investors and is a regular contributor in local communities (i.e. WAREI) and BiggerPockets.

Charles McKinney is the CEO and co-founder of Certain Lending. Charles has a real estate portfolio of single family rentals and large apartments in Washington, Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina. In his past life as an executive director at Freddie Mac, Charles led efforts to resolve the company's $1.6T non-performing loan portfolio, $30B of which was sold to fix-and-flip and buy-and-hold investors.

Preston Walls is the founder/CEO of Walls Property Group & Walls Property Management. He currently manages a portfolio of 75+ buildings, valued over $300MM. He is currently building a 61 unit mid-rise multi-family project, in permit for a 59-unit site and renovating several existing value-add properties in Seattle.  
Preston has managed syndication projects requiring additional equity capital, raising capital, negotiating terms and partnership agreements, partitioning risk, and managing equity and debt offerings to investors. He has also served as the project manager for dozens of building renovations.

Zack Lazo is an active Real Estate Investor, and President & Designated Broker of Caliber Real Estate. Beyond personally purchasing and selling over 200 properties, Zack has helped investors purchase over $250 million in real estate acquisitions during his 12 years in the business. He also served as a key acquisitions member for the nation’s largest real estate hedge fund, employing a buy-and-hold strategy that purchased over 2,500 properties. His knowledge and experience has him consistently in the Top 1% of real estate agents in Washington, and sought after for advice and training on a variety of Real Estate Investment topics.