Today, we’ll start the new year with an incredible guest, J Scott. We invited him as our first guest in 2024 to share his and his wife’s journey to investing success in single-family and multifamily, why everyone treats real estate as a business, and his expert judgment about real estate in the current economy.

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Key Points & Relevant Topics

• J’s transition from the tech industry to flipping single-family houses to multifamily syndications
• Being exposed to the business world to overcome the fear of the unknown
• What it takes to make house-flipping a functional and profitable business
• How to identify what’s needed for building a successful single-family flipping business
• 4 things that will make a business work
• The importance of having metrics and keeping track of what’s working or not in a business
• Single-family vs multifamily investing
• Does it make a huge impact on real estate if the economy is changing?
• J’s insights about the recession and misconceptions in today’s real estate market

Resources & Links
Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor

About J Scott

J Scott (he goes by “J”) is an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and author. An engineer and business guy by education, J spent much of his early career in Silicon Valley (California), where he held management positions at several Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft and eBay. 

In 2008, J and his wife Carol quit their corporate jobs, moved back East, got married, started a family and decided to focus on real estate and investing. In the past fourteen years, they have bought, built, rehabbed, sold, lent-on, and held over $150M in property all around the country. J is also a strategic advisor and mentor to several companies, business owners, and entrepreneurs.

J is a partner at Bar Down Investments, focusing on purchasing and repositioning large multifamily projects. He is the former host of the top-rated BiggerPockets Business Podcast and is the author of five books on real estate investing, including the best-selling, The Book on Flipping Houses. His books have sold over 350,000 copies in the past nine years and have helped investors from around the world get their start with real estate.

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