Today’s episode with Stewart Beal discusses different aspects of real estate investing, from raising money and acquiring properties to acquisition, asset management, and capital preservation.

Stewart shares how he realized the power of real estate at a young age, doing due diligence, having people invest in syndications, techniques on massively growing a portfolio, and more topics we all don’t want to miss!

Key Points & Relevant Topics

• Stewart on investing in real estate at a young age
• Tips on doing due diligence and acquisition for rental properties
• Stewart’s recommendations for someone who wants to start investing in real estate
• Strategies for raising capital for multi-door apartments or properties
• Attracting investors to invest in syndication models
• Managing a huge team and their function in growing a portfolio
• Tools and resources for managing people and investment properties
• The importance of being conservative in protecting investors’ capital from a potential market downturn

Resources & Links
Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor

About Stewart Beal

Stewart Beal is a serial entrepreneur who brings extensive management, marketing, and leadership abilities to all Beal Capital projects. Stewart has been actively involved in real estate, construction, acquisition, development, and management since 1997. When he was nineteen years old, Stewart founded Beal Properties, LLC and has since founded more than twenty other companies in the real estate and construction industries. 

Beal Properties has purchased more than 100 properties over the past 17 years – in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Detroit, Monroe, and Dundee. His company currently manages over 3,000 apartment units, office spaces, and single family homes. Beal Properties employs more than 60 team members in Michigan and Ohio. 

Stewart is a founding member of Watermark Partners, which manages a set of real estate funds that have raised and deployed more than $100 million in equity, closed more than 150 real estate transactions, and acquired more than 6,000 apartments over the past 5 years. 

Stewart has a degree in Business Management from Eastern Michigan University and has served on the board of Ypsilanti’s Chamber of Commerce and Ypsilanti’s Downtown Development Authority. He is a licensed real estate Broker in the State of Michigan. 

Under Stewart’s leadership, Beal Properties and Beal Incorporated have won myriad of awards at local, state, and national levels including Inc. Magazine naming Beal Incorporated the 191st fastest growing privately-owned business in America in 2010. Beal Inc. and Beal Properties were both honored with Washtenaw County Fast Track awards, marking the first time that the President of two companies was recognized simultaneously. 

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