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All Forum Posts by: Travis McGray

Travis McGray has started 3 posts and replied 9 times.

@Chris Seveney You're definitely right about that! Do you know a way to learn how to analyze apartments? How different from SFH is it? Or is it the same concept when implementing the numbers?

I am about to talk to the owner of an 8 unit 690k deal in Texas about creative financing it in the sense I don't know how to do syndications as of yet

Hello everyone! I'm excited to ask this question because of the awesome feedback I get from y'all! 

I am looking to learn syndication fully and understand the methods behind it, but in order to get to that step, I need to learn how to analyze a deal. Would you recommend I go to Brandon turners book on multi family? Or do you believe there is another way to learn this method properly?

Any suggestions are welcome :) God bless!

I'd love to talk to you about it and learn more! I'm working towards getting into Syndication and am always available!

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If I earned a median income and didn't want to house-hack, I'd find a partner to help me finance the purchase. For example, perhaps you could find a person to guarantee the mortgage, provide the down payment, and they receive a preferred return of 8% per year. 

For example, the financing partner provides a $100K down payment and a $400K loan on a $500K duplex. 

The financing partner receives an 8% return ($8,000) from the property prior to the new investor getting any profit. 

After that, additional profits are split 50/50 between the financing partner and our new investor. 

This allows the financing partner to get a good return and have protection of capital, while heavily incentivizing the new investor to get the financing partner's money back, and provide material upside. 

For good measure, the new investor could put in $10,000 of their own capital to show that they are going in with what they can reasonably afford, so that they have meaningful skin in the game as well.


This is an awesome example! How do you go about finding someone to be willing to take on a brand new REI and go in with them on something like this?

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Real estate income generation can not be overemphasized but before I could afford to be here I had to liaise with a good hedge fund and stock trade manager that increased my current networth then from 70,000$ to $4.3 million in just 1 and a half year and still growing. If you have my knowledge, connections and network you’ll never see poverty and definitely profit from the national cake. I’m tired of been left behind

 How is this possible? Personally I would like to know what you know to build up my family from where we are currently. Also How exactly does this pertain to the question at hand? 

Post: REI basics 101 guidance

Travis McGrayPosted
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Hello BP community! 

I have started learning about Syndication and that's exactly the niche I want to pursue and have started buying books on that, but where my question stems is understanding REI basics. I am learning terms and meanings as quickly as I can while grasping them, but truly I don't know what I don't know yet and I want to know where seasoned investors learned their knowledge base. Was it through books that would on A to Z investing? What would be recommended?

I  am looking for just the entry level information to start understanding what I will be looking at to be able to explain it to my wife to help ease her when it comes time to start making offers. Once I grasp it myself

I know this is a pretty wide range of questions. If it helps. I'm an ultimate beginner, I have analyzed about 5 triplexes, but truthfully I don't understand exactly where the numbers are coming from for what they pull or even how they are pulling them. Where do I find current tax prices. 

As you can see I am at the beginning stages, but I'm fascinated with all of it! 

Thank you if you were able to read all of this without rolling your eyes haha I appreciate everyones time and God bless!


Post: Brand New to Real Estate

Travis McGrayPosted
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Quote from @Paul Moore:

Hi @Travis McGray. I appreciate your humble question and the way you are approaching this. Syndication changed my life!  

I would also recommend you check out Left Field investors and @Whitney Sewell’s Real Estate Syndication Podcast.  I wrote a book about apartment syndication and I’ll be glad to send you a free PDF copy if you PM me.  Happy Investing!  


Thank you sir! I believe it did, I have read about you and see what you've accomplished and it's incredible. I have plans to be able to take care of my parents with investing so I am extremely dedicated to learning and failing to get to where I want to be for my family. 


Thank you for the direction as well, I will go look into it as well as Her Podcast! I would love to read your book! I already have the other two books the two other gentlemen recommended me read and plan on spending a good amount of time absorbing these!

Post: Brand New to Real Estate

Travis McGrayPosted
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Thank you both for the quick replies! I apologize for taking some time to get back to both of you. I will be getting both books mentioned and going through them well. As for the podcasts, I believe BP has some on the process. I have gone over a lot of the REI strategies and different types and find Syndication to be the most rewarding sounding to me in terms of how interesting I find it as well as how difficult it can be finding the right people to help invest in such a large project. Do either of you recommend a type of investor you would lookout for and whom to look for? I know that making a relationship first is the most important part of this as trust is a major deal.

Post: Brand New to Real Estate

Travis McGrayPosted
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Hello everyone! I am brand new to real estate and have a couple simple questions. 

I have heard about Syndication and find it fascinating! I want to learn as much as I can about the process as my goal in the next 2-3 years is to own a 12 unit apartment at least and be able to start building a solid portfolio in this area. 

Any help with understanding where to even begin learning about this and getting a grasp on how it works, how to learn the numbers, etc. 

I understand this is incredibly vague, but that's expected seeing as how I just started watching bigger pockets podcasts on YouTube last week. I've watched about 15 videos and all of it is absolutely blowing my mind! I had no idea these things were even out there.

I am financially free and I thank God everyday for it, but now I want to be a landlord that really takes care of my tenants and can give them an incredible place to live! I truly want to be able to give back but also progress my families life at the same time.


If you read all of this thank you! I appreciate your time and God Bless!