The Critical Lesson Every Smart Investor Eventually Figures Out
Friday, December 26
Every smart investor begins the journey searching for the perfect strategy. A blueprint.A model.A formula they can follow and trust. But time has a way of revealing what the market never says out loud: Strategies don’t keep you safe when the cycle turns.Understanding the cycle and respecting it d...
The Calling That Became a Fund
Friday, December 19
How a childhood of scarcity, a lifetime of resilience, and a mission to rebuild communities shaped NNG Capital Fund If you listen closely, every investor has a moment where their philosophy is born.Not when they made the most money.Not when they hit a milestone.But when they realized why they wer...
Why Raising Capital Is Not a Pitch it’s a Relationship
Friday, December 12
For most of my career, I believed raising capital meant pitching deals. Show the numbers.Show the returns.Show the exit.Get the check. But after more than 26 years in real estate, surviving market cycles most operators didn’t, and raising over $60 millionfrom accredited investors, I learned a tru...
The Origin to NNG: My Journey
Friday, December 05
I didn’t come from money.I came from survival. I grew up watching my mother fight to keep the lights on, stretching every dollar just to get us through another week. Those early years planted seeds and made me hunger not just for financial freedom, but for a better way of living. A way to protect...
Why I’m Still in This Business After 26 Years
Friday, November 28
My son asked me why I’ve stayed in real estate this long and why I’m still fired up about it. It gives me lessons I couldn’t learn anywhere else. I didn’t grow up around wealth or opportunity. I grew up in Newark. Where resilience wasn’t a choice, it was survival. So, when I started flipping hous...
The Conversation That Changed How I Invest Forever
Friday, November 21
Most investors enter the game the same way I did thinking the goal is exciting.Big swings. High returns. Fast moves. Endless momentum. But a single conversation early in my career rewired how I think about building wealth.It didn’t come from a high-profile CEO or a Wall Street analyst.It came fro...