Investing from Overseas & a Blue Ocean Strategy with Anthony Pinto

Anthony. Thank you for joining us. 

Man. I appreciate you. You have me on here. It says you had a great intro talk here. So I’m excited to get into the guts of the interview today. Absolutely. 

We have a lot of common ground on things, not necessarily related to real estate, but we don’t need to touch on that in this conversation for our listeners out there who don’t know all about what you do and who you are.

Can you tell us a bit about your background and then we’ll dive into, what we’re going to talk about. 

Sure. Absolutely. My name is Anthony Pinto. I’m an active duty submarine officer based in Yokosuka, Japan right now, which is about two hours south of Tokyo. Then you have about a year and a half. I have another year and a half before we head back to the states.

Mainly involved in multifamily real estate, I I guess the biggest part of my real estate investing, but I’ve been involved in Airbnbs and small multifamily single family homes, no blending, and most recently in community shopping centers and in retail. Most of my real estate success, do you want to call it that has been in last year during the.

So we closed on three large multifamily apartment complexes in 2020 which was a challenge in itself. But we can chat more about that. It’s interesting, most of my buildup to that was I was building my investor base and trying to get my feet under me gaining experience, but it wasn’t.

Until I came to Japan, I really kinda got the traction I needed and found the partners I needed and, found some success. So having to dive into that a little bit more, but that’s quick and dirty. 

Awesome. I appreciate you also, jumping on with us early in the morning, your time, of course, it’s evening my time, this is the magic of the internet.

We have a few topics to discuss today because we can first start with, investing from overseas. A lot of folks, even in the U S. I want to know about your remote real estate investing because they might not think the area they live in is doable. You’re as you’re doing it from the other side of the globe.

So it’s obviously possible. So let’s dive into that and learn about, how you go about buying property from the other side.

Sure. So I think it’s a couple of things. One, I think it’s it deals with the assets that you’re looking at and a lot of, the factors in that, but also with the partners that you deal with.

So first with assets, if you’re going to be dealing in investing from overseas or investing from out of state or even investing from another city, You need to know that city or that state or that country, like you really like the back of your hand. So you obviously aren’t able, unless you live like two minutes away, aren’t able to just get up and go and see the property at any given time.

And that’s the nature of remote events. So knowing that you’ve got to look at the other factors when it comes to these properties, when you get them across your email or, get a phone call about them or whatever. And most of that comes with, okay. Do you know the neighborhood? Do you know the area that you’re dealing with here?

Do you know roughly what the numbers are going to look like and does it make sense with what the area looks like or what the neighborhood looks like? And overall do you have a sense of what is needed to make that property into an investment for you? And this is going to depend on, what style of investing you want to deal with, to Airbnb or a flip or a long-term rental or apartment complex or whatever.

All of those have the kind of unique factors that you’re looking for. You’re going to net first, you’re gonna need to know what the market looks like, and you need to know what the numbers look like. So for example, we both have had properties in the Virginia area. Mainly mine in Hampton roads.

Knowing what cities are good cities to invest in. And when knowing what stages are not good, seasoned investing can make. Your investing style. For example, Airbnbs in Hampton roads has been a contentious subject for a lot of different cities. So Norfolk tended to be the only city that allowed Airbnb is.

And now that kind of shifted their tune and put a lot of restrictions on what you can and can’t do with Airbnb. Portsmouth pretty much shut that down. Suffolk is, eh Virginia Beach is pretty much. But if you didn’t know that, if you’re just like, oh, Hampton roads, has a large military population, the second largest military carry population in the country it’s the largest Naval base in the world, right?

It’s a lot of these different factors going on with it. And you think, okay, that’s a place where I want to have air beam. You may and you go and buy it. You may be surprised when the local ordinance has come out and you can’t actually have an Airbnb there. So I think first off if you’re looking at the assets, you need to know the area that you’re investing, Nina, you need to know the area.

You need to know what the path of progress is. You need to be able to look. Yeah, property and nodes numbers like utilities, even utilities by cities can change drastically. And who’s paying for utilities is going to be, the tenant is going to be the landlord that can even depend on the neighborhood.

If you’re going to be investing from, whether it’s overseas or remotely need to know the area like the back of your hand, and that’s also knowing the local laws and all that. Secondly, I would say it has to deal with the partners that you find yourself dealing with.

If you’re the kind of guy that, or gal that needs to have a hands-on approach maybe out-of-state investing or, country investing is not for you. I know some people who are like, I can never know. Outside of my backyard, I can never invest that in an asset that I can’t see regularly.

Like I can’t go visit if something happens. And that’s fine. Every person has their own way of dealing with things and managing things, and if that’s how people want to go about it, then that’s how people want to go about it. And just understand that if you live in California, that may be difficult to try to find a property that worked for you or New York City. So just keep that in mind that it may not work for you to be able to try to find a property. Now. There’s every market has properties that work. It’s just, how am I, how much time and energy you want to put into it to find those types of properties. But ultimately it comes down to if you want to be announced state investor do you have someone boots on the ground that can go do deal with those emergencies or go, review the property as needed?

But if you have the time and energy to go visit that property, hop on a plane once a quarter and do that. I think that works just as well, all just really depends on your management style. But for me, I couldn’t do this if I didn’t have partners on the ground running these properties and almost living at these properties and running the larger apartment complexes that we have.

Cause there’s just there’s so there’s the time difference alone. Makes it untenable to be able to deal with property management in a reasonable amount of time, to be able to deal with the daily issues that come up. We’re east coast seven, 13 hours ahead of you guys. It makes it difficult to have these conversations because I’m asleep during normal working hours for you guys and vice versa.

I think having partners is key and having partners that can deal with a lot of these, boots on ground things, or, fill any other gaps that you need. When investing from out of the country, out of state, whatever that is,

Thanks. I muted myself here. We just got a new cat now she’s in her own room, but the old cats are fighting with her through the door. So I’m hoping the audio editor can clean that up and cut that. I’m going to chamber a question here okay. So we know the things that we should go for, getting to know the market, having a partner in the market.

Now we have to, start with one of those, right? Would you say? First,t identify a market and then look for partners or look for folks that you would be interested in partnering with as your, boots on the ground and then analyze the markets that they’re actually in. Which way would you go about doing it?

The question. I would actually say there’s another step before that I would figure out what type of investing you want to get into. If you have the time and energy to go and do flips then you’re going to be dealing with different people in different markets. Probably the people who are looking for apartment complexes and, looking for long-term longer-term rentals.

Not always. You’re going to be dealing with individuals that are very segmented on what they want to invest in. So I would S I would find that out first what you want to do, and a lot of that is trial and error. You’re going to go through as I said, I’ve gone through five or six or seven different types of investing over my three-ish years.

Since I got started and I wouldn’t say one is better than the other, it’s just, you go through an evolution, right? Some things work, some make more money than others. Some, are more passive, some are more active. It’s just, it’s as I’ve gone through phases and especially coming out here to Japan I’ve figured out what is better for me overall.

So that’s, I would say that’s the first step is what type of investing do you want to get involved in? And there are a lot of great resources that you can find to figure that out for yourself. Do the research to figure out what’s best for you. Bigger pockets. Facebook has a lot.

Facebook has hundreds of Facebook groups on real estate investing. Local investing different types of investing. If you just Google whatever type of investing you want to do, there are hundreds of Facebook groups about it. So I would say that’s first, secondly, I would say the market is probably Mo the second most important thing.

Because If we know what market you’re going to be investing in, it’s easier to say, Hey, when you go out to these different groups to say, Hey, I’m investing in X, Y, and Z markets. Is anyone interested in that? Or is anyone boots on the ground in those markets? Because you may be, you may find a partner that you really enjoy working with, they live in.

Alaska and you want to invest in Florida, right? So you could probably a, break it out with something with Dan, if they, really good capital raiser or they are mobile a lot, and they can travel a lot too, to go visit these places. But I would say that knowing the market and knowing where you want to invest is probably the second most important thing.

And then from there, you can figure out, okay you can figure out who you want to partner with and who’s local to that market and who actually wants to invest in them. But that’s another thing you may find capital raisers that you want to partner with, but they only want to raise capital for properties in Atlanta or in Dallas or in fill-in blank.

So it’s putting the cart before the horse to find the find partners before you find your own. And then also if you find your market, you can do a path looking for third-party contractors and managers, right? You’re gonna need a property manager.

You’re going to need lenders in that area. You’re going to need the lawyers in that area, right? There are a lot of third-party people that you’re going to need that are going to be local to that area. And once you figure out your market, then you can start figuring out who the best people are for those services as well.

Okay, I appreciate that. And I’m glad that you mentioned identifying the strategy first, very early on, you mentioned flipping, I’m not a big proponent of flipping for those that are looking for more of a passive strategy, because it’s not one it’s not taxed like a passive strategy. It’s taxed actively that rates are a lot higher.

And also it’s just a very active model. Very few people who flipped managed to turn it into a passive style of business. If we. With a few of those folks in the show before, but they’re the exception. They’re not the rule. Now. We also wanted to discuss today your investing strategy with community shopping centers.

And I think, especially now, know, you hear. Fewer people pro pointing us in that direction for, reasons that will be obvious to many listening out there, concerns about the future of retail or a storefront or anything like that. But on one hand, okay. That is a concern on the other end.

This could be a blue ocean strategy because it’s not the sexy asset class right now. So that could mean there are opportunities out there that most people are just looking over. So let’s dive into it and learn about your community shopping center, investing strategy.

Sure, absolutely. I love that you used that phrase of blue ocean strategy.

Cause I, one of my good friends brought that book up to me when we were first talking about community shopping centers. It’s oh my gosh, this makes absolute sense. The book talks about a lot of different industries. Th, at someone, stepped out and instead of following the same models, everyone else took a different approach and that has really made all the difference to their kind of their trajectory.

One of the examples they had with circus Olay and how traditional circuses had the same thing you had a big space, you had circus animals, you had clowns, all this stuff, but circus really took a very different route and brought in like dance and ballet and kind of circus Evolut aspects to it and music and made it more of a.

Like a theater performance rather than a circus. But anyway but yeah, I think what you’re talking about with shopping centers is very much that blue ocean and for a number of different reasons, like I said, I’ve been in multifamily for a bit. If you’ve looked at any multi-family properties in a while, regardless of what market you’re dealing in, you find that you probably have noticed a few things.

One is overpriced it’s overcrowded and frankly it’s just overworked. It was crazy to me when we first brought our properties. And so we bought three last year. We are about to sell two of them already after really a year and a half in one, only about a year or so. And it’s just, we’ve done so much to these properties there are people who think that they can buy them and do even more on them, which they probably can.

And they can probably leverage if they’re more professional, our organization. Some efficiencies to make it better, but for the most part, you’re,e dealing with organizations that are throwing out an insane amount of money and same the terms to get these deals on our contract.

And frankly, everyone wants to be in multi-family right now. And so for that reason, it just, in my opinion, was very difficult to use my limited amount of time and energy to continue trying to find those types of properties. We were talking before this, I really only have two-ish hours during the day that I’m awake at the same time as you guys.

So let’s do wish hours too, to talk with brokers, to talk with investors, to look at properties at the same time as everyone else. So that try to do that with you with multi-family properties, where you were two hours, makes all the difference when you’re trying to put in an offer, it just it’s untenable.

It’s very much become a feeding frenzy and an away. Of investing over this past year and a half. And really even before that is it’s, it was very heated. Back then. It stumbled into this idea of, there has to be something better. There has to be some sort of asset class that, you know essentially, like I say, the blue ocean something that is a lot less competition, that’s still made, really good returns.

Yeah. No, we looked at retail, and as you said, retail has a bad rep. The investor mentality is very much away from it and with good reason, right? When you think retail your mind immediately goes to like large shopping

centers, large malls that are, pretty much empty. When we went back to the states in July, we went to a mall to go to a department store.

It was empty with the exception of this department store and know, they’re being repurposed for the most part and they’re being revitalized and stuff, which is great. But your traditional sense of going into a mall to spend all day in a mall. It’s just not happening. Like back when I was a kid, that was like the thing that.

But now like e-commerce has pretty much destroyed that kind of vision for what a mall does or super mall. But that’s what people think about. And those have been doing very badly, but within this kind of this asset classes, is it something called a community shopping center and it’s these pockets of.

Shopping centers within neighborhoods, within communities that provide essential services like coffee shops, like barber shops, hair salons restaurants, things that are essential businesses that people need to go to liquor stores, for example, so these businesses were open during COVID and actually thrived during COVID because people didn’t go.

And go to retail stores or go out and do all these things. They went, if they had to go out, they went to grocery stores, they went to, buy auto parts. They went to go buy liquor. They went to two restaurants to do takeout. So a lot of these people, or these places really thrive even though retail as a whole did not do to.

And within these kinds of community shopping centers, you’ve seen a really robust response to Kobe and even after coven. So why shopping centers? All our community shopping centers? Like I said, her mentality is very much against it. You have a lot less competition than you’re seeing with multi-family the cap rates are.

Much greater than what you’re saving with multifamily. We’re about to sell one of our properties for, between a four and a five cap, then everything shakes out and we bought it for, I think, like a six cap or six and a half cap. For the shopping center we have in a contract right now we’re providing that for an eight cap right now and it’s in.

Yeah. And that’s pretty typical for our area. And again, depends on the area, but it’s pretty typical for retail properties as a whole. Even on the leverage returns at 8% and leveraged returns. And then once you throw some, a loan on that, I just go up from there. You’re also dealing with a lot longer leases than typically with multi-family tenants and tenants that are.

More sticky, I guess I would say, you’re dealing with business tenants that have had proof of income. For example, in this property, we have half of those who tenants have been there for greater than 10 years in the same spot for granted 10 years versus multifamily where, you put in a lease for maybe a year, at most, maybe two years at the tenants.

Really good. But you run the risk of having to deal with evictions and all that. But with a where the shopping center business tenants, they don’t pay. You just, throw a lock on the door and, you call it a day, right? It’s all less regulation overall. The tenants tend to sell themselves rather than, completely going vacant.

Investing from Overseas & a Blue Ocean Strategy with Anthony Pinto

As I said, you’re dealing with five to 10 year, maybe even 30 year leases. Like I saw one property that had a Jiffy lube that had a 30 year lease. And overall it’s a lot easier management, loa t fewer turnover costs. And you’re dealing with triple net leases rather than, a lease with a with a multifamily tenant.

So that’s really why we’re dealing with shopping centers. It’s very much a blue ocean of opportunity. And it’s, we’re just trying to break it into something. That makes more sense or an investing standpoint and frankly gets better returns. And then what your, what you would find with multifamily right now.

And overall, I think it’s a lot less, it’s a lot less risky as well. You’re dealing with. Cancel rent your movements across the country. You’re dealing with, we, one of our properties, we haven’t got state rental assistance back in about nine months and we’re still dealing with that.

We put it pretty much at the beginning of the year. So I don’t see it anticipate that improving anytime soon. So especially with their, with the current government structure, we have that’s kinda my spiel for community shopping centers, but it’s the best of all worlds.

And and not a lot of people know about it. Like Warren Buffett’s quote, be greedy when others are fearful. We’re dealing with what others are fearful. And so we’re trying to be as creative as possible with these community shopping centers. 

And I really appreciate how you pointed this out.

You, you delineated between the giant, sadly. Dying shopping malls, many are being repurposed, but also many are not compared to the assets that you’re going for, which sound like they’re there. They’re smaller. They’re more targeted. They’re their specialty. I suppose if you will, it’s not I worked at a Sears in high school, so my mind goes to, Sears and JC penny and all that. Okay. Interesting. And I’d imagine there’s a lot of potential for those specialty shops and things like that. Breweries maybe are pretty popular now. 

So that’s actually a really good point.

With multi-family there’s It’s a limited strategy for how to overall improve the, in a lot of the copy, right? You increase rinse or have some sort of fee structure. It’s limited in what you can add a fee to, depending on what type of property is. You obviously can’t have a pool fee or all these extra fees.

If you have a class D property, and you don’t have a pool. And there’s only so much that you can do to add fees before people don’t want to live there. Or you can lower expenses, but again, there’s only so much you can do to lower that before you have to meet some sort of bottom line.

With these triple net leases that we’re dealing with shopping. There’s so many different creative ways that you can improve the bottom line on these properties. So for. We have an 8,000 square foot space. That’s filled by a retailer right now and their is about to expire.

And so we’re looking at that space and there’s four or five different doors that that, they basically took the space and made it into one big space. So we can break that space up into four or five different tenants. Again, we can break it up into two or three different tenants. We can put a number of different things into that space.

And not only that, but it’s currently about a third of what market rate NAMS right now for that era, for that space. So that’s, that’s one option just for that space. We have another another space that’s currently vacant. There’s a large parking space. That’s currently not, that’s not really being used in the corner of the shopping center.

You can put a pad space there and put a whole, a whole bunch of news stores there alone. There’s a pizza place. I, you could put in a drive through there and maybe put in some sort of a Starbucks on a road or a coffee shop down the road. There are so many different creative ways that you can make this work with these shopping centers.

Not only that but with the way that you structured these leases. You can have them be five using mamby 10 years. You can have him be a certain rent increase every year. You can have them you can really be as creative as you want, and that’s just on the income-generating side on the expense reducing side.

We’re typically dealing with expenses on triple net leases at about 20 to 25% of the income. And that’s not including the fact that most of the time you’re getting between 50 to a hundred percent recovery rate on that. So most of the expenses you have or being put back onto the tenants right now the property we have in our contracts about 70 years.

Recoverable and the plan is to get it up to about 95%. So essentially if we have 150,000 in expenses, 150 of that is being covered by the tenant. So really you only ever got $5,000 and expense when it comes down to it. And that’s the power of these triple net leases and in, community shopping centers.

You, you improve the recoverable rate, you improve the income overall, you reduce your expenses. And that all goes into increasing the bottom line, increasing the NOI and ultimately increasing the value of cashflow. It’s very hard pressed to get. Does that level of recoverables with multifamily much less to be able to have that as creative options as you will, to a increasing.

Wow. I love that. It sounds like so much opportunity, so many smart ways to create value. Right now. We’re going to take a quick break for our sponsor. All right, Anthony, I’ve got three questions. I ask every guest on the show. Are you ready? 

Let’s do it. 

Great. First one. What is the best investment you ever made other than in your education?

All right. Best investment I ever made. I joined a mastermind group gosh, a year and a half ago. Pretty much when COVID. And one of the guys I met in that his

My name’s DeAnn he’s now my life coach. And, when I first started talking with him was like, like why do I need a life coach?

Who is this guy? I’m like, what does it what is he going to help me with? And the more I got talking to him the more I realized. I think we focus a lot on masterminds being very focused on business and less so on, on our relationships, on, on love and on our mental health and on our emotional health and all these other things.

And so Ian really helped me focus in and look at everything in my life, outside of business, everything out in my life, outside of work. And so since ever since working with him I’ve improved my relationship with my wife. I’ve been regulated. With my family back home, my health, my mental health, and my emotional health.

And it’s been an amazing investment that I never thought would be worth it overall. Cause I think, a lot of that is very. Before I started working, then I thought it was very like kinda get quick rich schemes, like scammy or Gury in a way. Sure. But it, it was very purposeful in what we talked about and how we improved my life outside of business.

That’s an investment, I would say by far so far now 

I appreciate that. I think we see a lot of folks in this space, especially in the more active, real estate investing side. Who I dunno, forget that life is short and Hey, I’m just going to only focus on this business, which is great to be focused on while you’re working on.

Take care of yourself, take care of your family, take care of the people around you. And you’re going to be so much more satisfied and fulfilled as you build that business or do whatever you’re going to do. So I love that. I appreciate that we have the best investment. Now we go to the other side of that coin, the worst investment.

What is the worst investment you ever made? 

Worst investment. So I got a couple I would go, I’m gonna go with the first one. So, my very first multi-family deal tried taking Dallas in July of 2019. I had just gotten started with like research and multifamily and I thought I had it all figured out.

And so I had this property under contract in Kansas city of 34. I had nothing figured out on it went in and went to the property and realized they were just it was, it would, I would have had to put more into it than the property was worth to get it back to reality, to make it profitable.

And so I ended up backing out of the contract and I lost my business, my travel expenses there do it. Not too much money, but I realized that I didn’t have it, I was trying to syndicate it, so I didn’t have any investors ready to go for it. I didn’t have any boots on the ground.

People, I didn’t have, net worth liquidity. I didn’t have any of that. I didn’t have any asset management experience. Like I literally didn’t have anything he would need to take down this deal except an ego. And luckily I only, lots of, a little bit of money off on that. It was probably the worst experience, the most investment I had, but ultimately it turned into an amazing experience because I realized that shit, like I can’t do this by myself.

And so I need to go find people to partner with that. Especially coming here to Japan, you need to find people to partner with that can fill a lot of these gaps that I was missing. And so long story short, it led to partnerships that then led to our other three multifamily deals. If I didn’t have that first experience.

Gosh, who knows you’ll what my ego would have led me into. Even losing more money on further properties, I would say that’s the worst investment I’ve had. 

Nice. I appreciate that, that this idea of getting the deal and the money will follow. It’s just complete nonsense in my experience.

You got to set the foundation before you, build the building. The important lesson to learn. My favorite question here at the end of the show is what is the most important lesson you’ve learned in business and investing most important?

So again, I think it comes down to partnerships.

I think I’ve talked a lot about this this this episode, but. I would say that a lot of people build partnerships based on the gaps that they need to be filled. Rather than the, in that reality, that’s good, that’s a good question to ask and try to figure out, but also it should really be a tertiary question to, to a couple of other questions.

Where you grow is in the partnerships that you make in making and losing money.

And the first question I would say is this is individual aligned with my values and principles. Because at the end of the day, you’re going to be married to this individual financially, potentially for a long time, right? The length of this. And potentially even longer than that. Just like you’re going to be dating this individual.

You need to understand that your values and principles align with them and how you do business with them. Because once you get into business with them, your reputation is essentially tied to their reputation until you get done working with them. So the things that they do, the things that they say, how they deal with investors, if you’re doing syndication really reflects on you.

Oh, so you need to figure out what their values and principles are first. And then I would say you need to really figure out what you’re actually figuring out what your expectations are as a second question for each other. Even outside of the filling, the gaps on, what, what needs to happen is what are your expectations, right?

Do you expect this guy to spend a lot of time? Do you expect the guy just to bring capital? Do you expect this guy to go visit these properties? Every day or every quarter or something like that? Because I think that’s a miscommunication is. In my experience has been one of the biggest issues that I’ve had with partnerships is everyone thinks that they’re on the same understanding and the same playing field and the same level until you get into an issue.

And it’s oh I expect you to do this, or I assumed you’re going to do that. And you had never talked about. So I’d say the second question is you need to understand the expectations for what your partners are going to be doing with each other. And then thirdly, I would say what gaps do those individuals fill?

Are they a capital raiser? Do they have asset management experience? Are they boots on the ground? To deal with investor relations? Are they. I’m good at financials. Are they a CPA and can deal with the, te financial management and all of that? There’s obviously a lot more GP side things aside from that.

But those are the three questions I would ask and, there’s been the most important lesson for me cause I’ve had partnerships that have gone I have partnerships that have not gone well. I’ve made money and I’ve lost. More so lost money, it’s been a good learning experience of raw.

And I think that’s really where you grow is is in the partnerships that you make and, making and losing money. How long would it answer your question, but that’s my important lesson there. 

That’s totally fine. I appreciate you joining us today and bringing us lessons from investing from overseas to this blue ocean strategy you’re using right now with community shopping center investing.

If folks want to reach out, if they want to get in touch or learn more about what you’re up to or any of that great stuff, where can they track you down?

Absolutely. So you can always reach out to me on Facebook, Anthony Penso I’m also on LinkedIn Anthony Pensa shopping investor. You can also send me an [email protected].

Or you can check our website at guidepostinvestmentgroup.com. There you’ll see a sample deal package of, our property you have under contract now and what that looks like, what the returns look like in a business plan, and all of that. I’m also happy to chat more about, this idea of community shopping centers, whether you’re interested as a passive investor or as an active investor.

Have you said either way? 

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About our Guest

Anthony Pinto

Anthony Pinto is the Owner and Managing Partner at Guidepost Investment Group. He is also the host of The Lessons in Real Estate Show.

Anthony has about 20 million dollars in assets under management, a little over 300 doors, and has found a way to passively invest and actively invest with himself and other members of the military halfway around the world.

His purpose in life is to add value to others, whether that is talking real estate shop with new investors or providing incredible passive investment to their clients. His life goals are to visit every country in the world, visit space, and open a half bookstore, half coffee shop, a half brewery called Pinto’s Beans, and Books and Brews.

Episode Show Notes

Anthony Pinto is the Owner and Managing Partner at Guidepost Investment Group. He is also the host of The Lessons in Real Estate Show.  Anthony has about 20 million dollars in assets under management, a little over 300 doors, and has found a way to passively invest and actively invest with himself and other members of the military halfway around the world.  His purpose in life is to add value to others, whether that is talking real estate shop with new investors or providing incredible passive investment to their clients. His life goals are to visit every country in the world, visit space, and open a half bookstore, half coffee shop, a half brewery called Pinto’s Beans, and Books and Brews.

 

[00:01 – 04:28] Opening Segment

  • Get to know Anthony Pinto
  • Real estate success during the COVID-19 pandemic

 

[04:29 – 13:10] Investing from Overseas

  • How Anthony buys properties from the other side of the planet
  • Know that place you’re going to invest in like the back of your hand
  • What you need to look for in an investing partner
  • Having a partner in the market and figuring out the type of investing you want to get into

 

[13:11 – 24:56]  A Blue Ocean Strategy

  • Anthony shares his strategy with community shopping centers
  • The road to community shopping centers
  • Triple Net Leases
  • Increasing the NOI and ultimately increasing the value of cash flow

 

[24:57 – 36:45] Closing Segment

  • Quick break for our sponsors
  • What is the best investment you’ve ever made other than your education?
    • Joining a mastermind group
  • Anthony’s worst investment
    • His first multifamily deal in July 2019
  • What is the most important lesson that you’ve learned in business and investing?
  • Partnerships
  • Connect with my guest. See the links below.

 

Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s only so much that you can do to add fees before people don’t want to live there (in a multifamily).” – Anthony Pinto

“That’s really where you kind of grow, in the partnerships you are making and losing money. ” – Anthony Pinto

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Connect with Anthony Pinto through [email protected], Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.  Visit their website http://guidepostinvestmentgroup.com/

 

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About the Host

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Hi, I’m Taylor. To date I’ve acquired or partnered on over $250 Million in Commercial Real Estate Investments. I help busy professionals invest in multifamily and self storage real estate through my company NT Capital

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