In today’s episode, let’s learn from Denise Piazza as she shares her story of transitioning from being limited to a general partner and the principles that accelerated her success as an active investor. Continue listening to get more creative ideas for meeting new investors!

Key Takeaways To Listen For

• Investment strategies to shift from one asset class to another
• Understanding rent growth projections and cap rate assumptions
• Methods to structure tax benefits for your investor
• Limited partnership vs. general partnership
• Ways to overcome challenges of operating a syndication
• Identifying the gap to improve your real estate skillsets

Resources Mentioned In This Episode
Free Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor

About Denise Piazza 

Denise Piazza is the founding partner of Main Line Capital Advisors.  She began working within the real estate industry in 2004 through several tax and accounting engagements with real estate clients while employed at a CPA firm. She continued to build a network of real estate investors and learned from their best practices in investing. Denise has 20 years of accounting, finance, and risk management experience and has managed teams of 30+ employees.  Denise is a CPA and has held several finance and accounting roles with top Fortune 100 companies on teams managing over $1B in acquisitions, joint ventures, and disposition of assets.  

Denise has also served on the Women’s Leadership and Risk Management committees of Fortune 100 companies.   Her experience in finance and accounting has made her highly skilled in analyzing data and developing financial models.  Denise has been investing in real estate for close to ten years in a variety of asset classes as both an active and passive investor. She has been involved with over $100MM in real estate transactions. Her experience with multiple asset classes has led to her passion for investing in multifamily assets and educating professionals on the benefits of diversifying their portfolios with assets that provide strong, predictable returns. 

She is now a limited partner in close to 1,200 units of multifamily assets. Within a short time of becoming an active multifamily investor, she is a general partner in 400+ units and has raised millions of dollars of private capital. Denise and her partner also run a monthly real estate investing meetup group in Wayne, PA.

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