Value-Add Investing and Doing $1 Billion in Real Estate Transactions with Allan Glass

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What does it take to buy, sell, and broker over $1,000,000,000 in real estate?

That’s what you’ll discover in today’s podcast episode when we sit down with Allan Glass, a real estate entrepreneur from sunny Southern California.  In this hour long interview, you’ll learn how Allan used his skills as a commercial real estate broker to build his own portfolio and “piece together” deals that are truly “win-win-wins.”

If you are looking to take your business to a whole new level, don’t miss this show!

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In This Show We Cover:

• How Allan got started as a commercial broker in LA
• Thoughts on obtaining a Real Estate Finance Degree
• How Allan was able to profit despite getting started in the worst time to have career in real estate
• The two “book ends” Allan looks for to decide where to invest.
• How Allan shifted from an employee to starting his own business in the restaurant industry
• Why you should always have a backup plan
• The importance of continuing education and taking up a Masters in Real Estate Development
• Why functional obsolescence is vitally important to an investor
• How Allan manage to invest in numerous different property types
• How to add value to real estate and profit from it
• How Allan  finds deals in any market.
• Allan’s ‘secret sauce’ of real estate investing
• Mistakes real estate investors make (including Allan)
• And lots more!

Links From the Show

• Loopnet
• Costar

Books Mentioned in the Show

• Brandon Turner’s The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down
• The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles by William Fulton
• Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur by Bo Peabody

Connect with Allan

• Allan’s BiggerPockets Profile
• Allan’s Website
• Allan’s Facebook
• Allan’s LinkedIn
• Allan’s Twitter

Note By BiggerPockets: These are opinions written by the author and do not necessarily represent the opinions of BiggerPockets.