3D CRE Investing with Blake Templeton

Blake Templeton is a seasoned Real Estate and Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund manager who is passionate about helping investors invest confidently into alternative asset classes like Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, and specific sectors of Real Estate. Blake serves as the CEO for Boron Capital’s family of investment funds, whose teams have created triple-digit returns and consistently outpaced Bitcoin.

Mr. Templeton is the President and CEO of Boron Capital and is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, capital markets activities, and the overall performance of Boron Capital’s Funds’ underlying investments. Blake also serves as the external voice for the company. He is an experienced and knowledgeable economic speaker and addresses small and large audiences of executives and business professionals nationwide. His passion is to awaken awareness concerning our current economy and emphasize the need for individual investment dollars to be invested into tangible assets, not paper investments (Stocks, mutual funds, etc.).

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3D CRE Investing with Blake Templeton

Brett:

I’m excited about our next guest. He is a gentleman for the past 13 years who has built a private investment firm that specializes in acquiring and developing corporate housing, luxury rentals, and event venue investments in emerging real estate markets, providing above-average returns to his partner investors. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in residential and commercial real estate and has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. And, in the past decade, his firm has closed over 300 plus real estate transactions and most recently has developed a full-service corporate housing investment. He owns and manages Boron Capital please welcome to show with me, Blake Templeton. Hey, Blake, how are you doing?

Blake:

Doing good. How about you?

Brett:

I'm loving the habit you're rocking today. I'm excited to dive right into your story. So for our listeners, getting to know you for the first time. Would you tell them a little bit about your story? By the way, we'll be talking all things three-dimensional commercial real estate investing here in a minute.

Blake:

I think the big picture is starting to be college dropout without a painted my name though and own a business someway somehow, and didn't know you can defer student loans any longer. So I had to humbly move back in with mommy and daddy back in oh six, and ended up getting a letter in the mail to go to a conference for real estate went to it. Realize that I was wired for numbers. It was less real estate, I was wired for numbers knew nothing about renovations and so forth. Fast forward, ended up doing 300 plus transactions of whole cells and flips and so forth in the residential area. And then doesn't 12 went into commercial real estate, went to corporate housing, and which is fully furnished all bills paid sort of like a hotel. But we did that in the oil industry, and then still have corporate housing, went into apartments and wedding venues. I think that intro was fantastic, but it's a little outdated. So what we've realized is, most importantly, is flowing into your podcast is the capital gains as well as hitting us when we're doing syndication. So for instance, apartments, syndicating in apartment value, add a deal, you find the treasure, and then you do the value add, and now it's time to sell this treasure. And obviously, now if our investors didn't go into it in 31, or something, we'd had this massive capital gain issue. So we ended up shifting into running funds, or hedge funds in self-storage, mobile home parks, and cryptocurrency. And in these funds we never sell. So we never sell the actual assets and specifically in self-storage and mobile home parks. How we fight against that large expense, which is the tax, every investor gets all their money back, we then refinance the property and the investors get to stay in the deal. So they still own interest proportional to their amount of money in the deal. But all their money or their actual principles are back in their hands and we refinance. So instead of doing the value add and then selling and then having that capital gains consequence, we now do the value add and then refinance and pay that distributions back to the investors but that's a loan versus a capital gain. So there are no taxes so fun.

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