This is an LFI episode and LFI is now part of PassivePockets.
Iโm excited to have Todd Dexheimer with us. He is the Principal of Endurus Capital and VitaCare Living He start investing in real estate in 2008. His companies own $500 million of multifamily, senior housing, and commercial real estate. He is also the host of Pillars of Wealth Creation, a great podcast that I recommend you listen to. As Todd would say on his show, โNow, Letโs get to it.โ Todd, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.
I thought your little signature line there would make you feel more comfortable here. The way we start out with our show is just your financial journey. How did you get into real estate? How did you become a syndicator and operator? How did you get into the asset classes youโre in? If you could give us the overall overview, thatโd be fantastic.
Speaking of signature lines, my ending line on my show is, โMake every day a Saturday.โ I say that because every day feels like a Saturday because I absolutely love what I do every single day. It doesnโt feel like Iโm working half the time. Sometimes I got to like stop myself because Iโm like, โIโve been working all day.โ Thatโs what Iโve been doing.
I started out as a high school industrial tech teacher. I was teaching woodshop, metals, welding, and that type of stuff at a high school and middle school level. Honestly, it was day 1 or 2 after going to college that I got my full-time job. I said to my wife, โI got to figure out what Iโm going to do when I grow up.โ It wasnโt that. It didnโt feel good. It didnโt feel like it was the right fit.
I taught for about 5 years but 2 years into it, I started this real deep dive of, โWhat is my next step?โ It got me into reading books and learning, growing, and figuring out, โI could do some of this real estate stuff.โ I didnโt know exactly what it looked like, but I saw the benefit of creating passive income. I did it in a very active way so it wasnโt very passive. I started my real estate journey in 2007 and bought my first property in 2008. I started the process by buying single-family homes, duplexes, and stuff I could wrap my head around.
Frankly, as I was a teacher so I didnโt have money. We spent all of our life savings on the properties that weโve purchased. It continued to snowball. We were able to do some refinancing and bring on passive partners and continue to grow. Through the course of my first seven years, I flipped over 100 houses, bought about 100 rental properties, and grew and scaled like that. Eventually, I went to larger-scale multifamily. Weโre buying 100-plus unit buildings and senior housing. We have a little bit of commercial, but not a ton to diversify a little bit into some of those other asset classes. Thatโs the journey.
I was a teacher too and I had the same feeling. On the first day of school, I was like, โThis isnโt what I thought it was.โ I barely lasted for seven years but Iโd had a career before that. Iโm on career number five. Itโs great to know that you found something that youโre passionate about and that you love what youโre doing. Thatโs such a huge help because itโs not work as people say.
Can you go back to when you were a teacher and youโre thinking, โThis isnโt it for me. I need to find something else?โ What was the decision-making process or how did you find real estate? When I was a teacher, I was looking for other jobs. I was thinking, โI got to get back to the jobs I was doing before,โ but I didnโt like that. I didnโt want to work in the business so I didnโt know what I was doing. It took me a long time to find real estate and I found out about it in an accident. How did you figure out, โReal estate is what Iโm going to take a swing at?โ
Part of it goes back to my background. Ever since I was young, I always love to tinker with stuff. When I was in high school, my dad worked for a manufacturing company and they needed shipping crates so we would make these wood shipping crates. In high school, I was working remodeling construction. I was always in houses, buildings, and things like that so it fell natural to me. When I started reading these different business books and Iโm like, โThis is cool. I love the idea of being an entrepreneur doing that stuff,โ and then all of a sudden, Iโm stumbling into these real estate investing books.
I read the ABCs of Real Estate by Ken McElroy. Thatโs the book that started to turn the screws and itโs like, โThis is possible. I can do this.โ Iโm a numbers type of person and so I was like, โThis is cool. I can do this. I could replace my teaching income from this.โ It was through discovery. As I said, I read a lot of different books. It wasnโt just real estate books, but once they started stumbling on the real estate books, it was like, โThis is it.โ I donโt know if thereโs anything like crazy special about it. It caught my attention and it felt good. It felt like it was the place that I needed to be, and thatโs it.
That makes sense to me. The thing that Iโd like to ask you about because I am an avid skier and in fact, Iโm heading out to go skiing. Did you flip a ski resort?
I flipped a ski resort. It sounds way cooler probably than what it is, but it was still pretty cool. We ended up stumbling upon this property. My business partner at that time was deer hunting on the property nearby and walking and trying to figure out where was this deer all moving around. It was on this property and then he saw the ski lifts and the big lodge. He is like, โWhatโs going on here?โ He found and talked to the owner and heโs like, โI want to buy this place.โ The guy was like, โThis is like Godโs speaking to me because my mom and I were talking about getting rid of this place. The timing couldnโt be better because weโre ready.โ
We ended up buying it for $450,000 and I stuck a little bit of money into it, but not much, and sold it. I hung onto it for about a year, which was longer than what we needed, but we ended up selling it for $950,000. I did pretty well on the property. The only reason why we hung on it so long is because we were fantasizing about doing something. We thought, โWe could turn it into this great wedding and event center. We could turn it into a snowboarding mecca.โ This is a place in Minnesota and itโs a beautiful property, but itโs a small ski resort.
The guy thatโs running it is doing weddings and events out of it. Heโs got a big snow tubing hill. He did open it up this 2023 for skiing as well. It was quite a journey. I had tons of skis and snowboards. I give them away to people. We had the chair lifts so we had a couple that we got operating. It was a fun little deal, but it was more of a distraction than it probably should be. I was like, โLetโs just sell this to somebody who wants to do something.โ
I know youโre not going to go into the ski resort flipping business, but thereโs this opportunity. I assume you didnโt have any experience buying a ski resort, but you have the confidence or the guts to go and do something so different. Can you talk about your mindset at that time and what made you think, โI have 100 single-family homes, so why donโt I add a ski resort?โ
Iโve done maybe not quite similar stuff but different things like that as well. We took some raw land and developed it. Weโve done a lot of different things. Itโs all about opportunity and what I see as an opportunity. Thatโs what I saw. I looked at this property and itโs undervalued. Itโs a gorgeous piece of real estate. Itโs got a high potential for profitability for somebody.
For the purchase price weโre buying it, weโre not going to lose money. โWhat are the comps in the area?โ Weโre buying it undervalue and itโs got some assets like an 8,000-square-foot building on it and the chair lifts that we could have parted out and sold. Also, if we wanted to have timber on it, we could have done some tree removal. It had a lot of potential. It has a beautiful river running through it.
We looked at it and said, โThis is a great property. Weโre getting it for a price that makes so much sense. We can sell this at any time and make money.โ Maybe, it doesnโt sell for $950,000, but maybe it sells for $650,000, $600,000, or $500,000 but weโre still making money. Anytime I look at something I look at, โWhatโs my downside? Whatโs the biggest risk? Whatโs the probability of that downside happening? Does that make sense? Is it worth that risk?โ Thatโs how I look at every deal. Does it make sense to do and whatโs the probability of failure on it?
I didnโt come on this show and just talk ski resorts the whole time, but you saw an opportunity and multiple different ways that you could accomplish your goal of making some money on it. Is it timber? Is it taking the lifts and selling them for parts? Is it doing a wedding venue? You could make it a hunting retreat and there are all kinds of things. Itโs the mindset that weโre going after. When you see an opportunity, you have to envision what it could do for you. You did that and thatโs cool.
I do want to get back to the real estate that youโre doing now. In some of the research, Iโve been doing, you are recommending or maybe looking at things like, โWhy should someone not go in and buy 100 singles or a bunch of duplexes and quads? Iโm not going to be a landlord instead Iโm going to be a passive investor.โ Thatโs where youโre going with that. Can you talk a little bit about that? Why should somebody not be an active investor in singles, quads, or duplexes?
Iโm not going to tell anybody to not do it because you can go ahead and do it, but what you have to realize is what youโre doing. Thatโs the important part. You have to understand what your goals are. The vast majority of people that purchase real estate, they want to do it to create passive income. They think of it as an alternative to stocks, bonds, and stuff like that. They want passive income.
How many people go into the stock market thinking theyโre creating a full-time job? Youโre not going to the stock market to go buy Walmart. Youโre buying stocks of Walmart and youโre watching Walmart do its thing. Youโre not going to say, โI want to buy your company.โ No, thatโs not what youโre doing, but for some reason, in real estate, thatโs what everybody decides to do. Theyโre like, โHow do I get into real estate? Iโm going to buy a duplex.โ Youโre buying a business. You have to understand that.
You got all these busy professionals that are making a lot of money and a lot of them love what they do. They have a busy family with husband, wife, or kids, and theyโre looking to retire. They think the only way into real estate is to go buy a duplex or a single-family house. Thatโs the best way because theyโve got to have control. How much control do you have over Amazon stocks? Nothing. You donโt have any control, so why do you have to have control over your real estate?
You create this job and now you got your busy life, busy job, busy family, and got this freaking duplex that you hate because you got to go do showings, unclog the toilet, or stupid crap like that. Thatโs where you hear the people, โTenantโs toilet is trash. I hate that business. Real estate sucks.โ Itโs because you did it wrong. You created a new job and you didnโt want a job. Instead, why donโt you passively invest in real estate?
There are a number of ways to do that. There are REITs, syndications, and hard money lending, which is a little more active. There are other ways to do it and you donโt have to bang your head against the wall with these stupid little duplexes, single-family houses, and all that stuff that frankly is probably going to not make you at nearly as much money. We can talk about details of why thatโs not going to happen, but thatโs my whole mindset behind that. There are so many people that are like, โI want to get into real estate. I want to get passive income,โ so they go buy a bunch of single families and duplexes and then they wonder why itโs not passive.
If someone reading this and is considering buying a single-family home and they have a job, read that a couple of times. Had I known that before I got into buying my single-families and my small multis, I wouldโve fast forward and gone right to passive which I didnโt know existed at the time. In fact, I thought buying a single-family home and having someone else manage it was passive. It is not passive.
What you said there is key. A lot of people donโt know that something else exists. Thatโs why they go and do it. The only reason they donโt know exists is because theyโre naive and donโt read shows like this. Thereโs no reason in todayโs day and age you canโt figure it out, but people donโt.
If you go on BiggerPockets, people there are going to tell you, โYou got to be an active investor. You got to buy that single-family. You got to keep doing that, plugging away, do the BRRRR, and do all that.โ Thereโs nothing wrong with that. Iโm not knocking on that but you said it, people donโt think youโre going to make as much money doing the passive as the pseudo-active or whatever. I can tell you from my experience that I make a lot more money now than I did managing my single-families. Can you tell me why you think people are going to make more money by hiring an asset manager rather than being their own asset manager, and buying all these single families?
The potential to make greater income with your own single-family or duplex is certainly there, but the potential for the higher probability is that you make the same or less with a lot more work. Most people arenโt projecting the true expenses the way they are. Letโs take a real scenario. A single-family home that I purchased that I got for a great price. I am making money on it because I got it in 2008 at the depths of the recession. I bought it for $65,000 and stuck a little bit of money into it. Iโm cashflowing and Iโm doing awesome on this property.
All of a sudden, I got to leak in the roof and I got to replace the entire roof. That cost me $6,000 roughly. Now, the price is going to be like $8,000 to $10,000. I donโt remember the exact timeline, but within 6 to 8 months, my water heater went out and I had to replace the water heater. Again, within 3 to 5 months, my furnace went out and I had to replace the furnace on that freaking property. Now, I got a roof, water heater, and furnace that I had to replace within just over a year. Closer to two years later, I had to replace the stove and refrigerator. Both went out pretty much on the same day. Iโve got all these expenses that snowballed and kicked my butt.
Happily, Iโve got nice reserves and other properties that I was able to move cash over to pay for this, but that property lost me money all these years in a row. When we add that up, I probably lost money for at least a decade on that property with zero cashflow. The only reason that property is still a good property is because I bought it for $65,000, but if I take a look at it now, my cash-on-cash return and IRR when I sell, itโs not that great. Itโs a lot of freaking work to get there. Thatโs a real case scenario and thatโs not going to happen to every property, but it can.
If you hold it long enough, youโre going to have to replace all those things. When you say it doesnโt happen to every property, youโre right, it doesnโt in the hold period, but it will if you hold it long enough. Thatโs part of the issue, right?
Hundred percent. Iโll give you another quick example. I had a single-family house where every time a tenant moved out, they would cause $8,000 to $15,000 worth of damage. This happened to me four times. Finally, I sold a property. I was making about $1,000 a month on the property, but when you count that, Iโm making zero.
Iโm convinced Iโm going to be a passive investor, and so is the rest of my readers. We talk a lot about multifamily and you do senior housing as well. Iโd like to concentrate on senior housing. Is it an operating business? Is it real estate? Is it both? Why are you in senior housing?
Itโs certainly both. In my opinion, multifamily is both. A lot of people say itโs real estate but it doesnโt make money if you donโt operate it properly.
Thatโs a good point.
When weโre talking multifamily versus senior housing, itโs heavier on the operations. If I have a 100-unit building multifamily, Iโve got 2 or 3 staff on site depending on what Iโm doing. Theyโre working 40 hours a week. With my senior housing, I have 60 to 80 employees. There are a lot of part-timers. Itโs 24/7 staff for every 10 to 12 may be up to 15 people depending on the level of care. For every 10 to 15 people, I have to have one staff per person. You can see how it adds up. If I get 100 units, I got a lot of staff. You can see how thatโs a big operation. Thereโs medical care, but our properties arenโt high medical care. We do have a couple of memory care. Thatโs a decent amount of higher medical care and a little bit different services, but itโs operations and a real estate business.
Whatโs the debt like on these properties? I know thatโs the big scary thing. In all of the real estate now, everythingโs uncertain. Debt is becoming an issue, at least in multifamily.
You can get a lot of similar products that you can in the multifamily world. There are three very common types of debts. First, youโve got the SBA loans. Next, youโve got local bank loans, and then last, youโve got HUD loans. HUD is similar to multifamily HUD, with a couple of little different nuances but very similar. SBA as most people know is a Small Business Administration loan. Your local banks are your typical 25-year amortization, locked in for 5 to 10 years, recourse debt or partial recourse, that type of thing. Those are your three buckets pretty much.
Are these like the large 100-bed facilities or the 6 to 12-bed single-family home in the middle of a neighborhood type of thing?
Neither. Iโm buying right in between there, but most of my properties are right around that. We have some 10 beds all the way up to 30 beds. It looks and feels like a home, but itโs a little bit bigger for some efficiencies.
When youโre talking about passive investing, I donโt know very much about senior housing other than I visited my grandma years ago in it. When you syndicated a deal, how do you know if itโs a good deal? Usually, we start with a sponsor, but letโs start with a deal. How do I analyze it? Are there some metrics that I should look for? In multifamily, Iโm looking at breakeven occupancy, economic vacancy, and rent increases. What am I looking at for senior housing?
One of the bigger metrics is going to be your margin. You want to make sure youโve got healthy margins because the tighter the margins are, the quicker it is to lose money. If Iโve got 10% margins, a couple of things go wrong, and Iโve got zero or negative margins. Thatโs not a good thing. If Iโve got 18% or 20%, which is a healthy margin in senior. Itโs not like multifamily where youโre at 50%. Weโve got some room to have some weird things happen and weโre still, at least, breaking even hopefully ahead of the game. Thatโs number one.
Number two is demographics. We want to make sure weโve got a good senior population right now and a good senior population thatโs going to continue to come. Population growth is important, but itโs not nearly as important as understanding whoโs already in that town and whoโs coming into your buildings because population growth is good and we have to look at what population growth is. If weโre in Florida, weโve probably got senior population growth. Thatโs awesome, but if weโre in Minnesota or Wisconsin where I am, we have a senior population leaving. What is that looking like? Iโm not worried as much about the growth of these markets. I do pay attention to that, but the people that are typically coming into my markets are going to be younger people.
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What percentage of the elderly population is leaving my market? Thatโs important. Iโm looking at the demographics, looking how thatโs shifting, the percentage of people that are at the age to come into the senior housing, or getting towards that age. Itโs a little harder to analyze, but you want to make sure that thereโs enough staff. Weโre looking at whatโs the demand for nurses and anyone in the medical industry. Are the hospitals short? Are the clinics short? If there are not enough people to work there, youโre going to have problems keeping it full. It doesnโt matter what the demand is in the market if you canโt have people working there. You canโt keep the buildings full because legally you have to have enough people working.
Those are probably the three big main buckets, especially since itโs different than multifamily. As Iโm analyzing the deal with numbers, multifamily and senior housing, a lot of the same things weโre looking at. It sells and buys at cap rate. It also buys on EBITDA. It goes back and forth about whoโs selling and buying. Weโre looking at NOI, growth, rental income growth, occupancy rates, and a lot of those same metrics.
Do you buy already existing properties or are you developing these?
I do.
Itโs already existing. Is there a value-add component? Are you taking over in multifamily or mobile home parks where itโs a mom-and-pop that doesnโt know what theyโre doing maybe or youโre making it more of a commercial operation rather than a mom-and-pop?
Thatโs typically our biggest value ad. A lot of the rents are controlled by the market. Although rents do get behind, it isnโt like multifamily where all of a sudden, you can do some renovations and raise the rents by 20% or 30%. Itโs 10% or 15% at the most. We do some renovations and make it a little nicer. That allows us to get more residents in and raise the rents a little bit.
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For the most part, itโs just the operations side of it like implementing systems and processes, the right people in place, and that type of thing. Itโs funny, we took over a property and they were using carbon copy for everything. They didnโt have computers. Itโs implementing silly things like that and then changing the reputation. A lot of these places have poor reputations because theyโre being operated poorly. Changing that reputation allows you to drive that occupancy up.
Weโre talking about vetting the sponsor. A lot of this seems like you can compare to a multifamily but as you said, in a multifamily of a similar size, you might have 2 employees versus 80 employees. There are some different questions we need to ask sponsors. They have to be able to manage 80 employees. Itโs a lot easier to manage two employees.
What are some of the questions or the things passive investors should look for when theyโre vetting a sponsor? Left Field Investors strongly believe that the sponsor is the most important thing and then the deal or the market is probably a distant second. Theyโre similar, but you need a quality sponsor. How do I know you or whoever is the sponsor that I want to put my money into this senior housing asset class?
I agree with you. If theyโre truly quality, theyโre going to bring you deals that are solid and in good markets that are solid. If they check all the quality sponsor boxes, everything else probably falls into place. Not that you shouldnโt check on that other stuff, but as youโre thinking about it, โThis is quality. Everything should align up.โ
How do they manage? Thatโs important. Whoโs managing this property? Is it third-party property management? Is it in-house property management? Either way, we want to vet that management. We want to understand what experience they have, what results theyโve had, and do they have in place to manage this new location because we need some regionals and there are a lot of people to be in place. Whatโs already in place with the current properties? What are the problems? Itโs understanding whatโs going on.
In some properties we buy, everything is pretty much in place. Weโre almost buying on cap rate. Weโre able to get some pretty good cap rate deals now. Some of it, weโve got great operations already in place and we donโt have to do too much. We just have to put them into our system. Understanding the systems and processes that are in place and whoโs driving the employee bus, and what leadership experience they have. Itโs feeling comfortable and confident around that is something investors should be asking.
I do want to talk briefly about multifamily. Can you tell us what are you seeing as far as deal flow, quality deals, distress deals, or opportunities? I know youโre not in the hottest markets and I donโt mean that as a negative. I look at that as a good thing. Youโre not in Dallas, Phoenix, and Atlanta. It seems like youโre in some of the Midwest, a few Southeasts like Tennessee, and some of the other stuff. Can you talk a little bit about the state of the multifamily market from your perspective?
The state of the market is different in every single market. You mentioned a couple of the hot places. Although those markets are very attractive in the future, I would be very nervous if I was a sponsor in Phoenix, Austin, you name it. Think about those that have 30% rent growth and now theyโre seeing rent declines. Phoenix has 40,000 new units coming online and the absorption rate is about 11,000. When I think about markets like that and question, โWhatโs happening in those markets?โ Those are long-term great markets. They might not be short-term great markets.
We are in markets that we feel short-term are going to be at least okay and long-term are going to be good. Maybe not quite as good as in Austin, Texas, or Phoenix where theyโre going to see big population growth, but we feel like weโre very well-positioned. Weโre in Columbus, Lexington, Louisville, and as you said Tennessee. Weโre in markets like that. Deal flow is picking back up. It was dry there for a while. Thereโs still this margin between the sellers and the buyers. The sellers have expectations. They want to sell their properties for what they did in 2021 and the beginning of 2022. Buyers want to buy the properties for a discount because weโve got high-interest rates and things are different. Anybody thatโs projecting 6% or 8% rent growth is crazy. You got to be realistic.
I saw a deal that went out in Phoenix and they closed on it. They were projecting 8% rent growth. They told their investors 3%, but if you dove into the numbers, itโs 8%, and thatโs crazy. You canโt be doing that now. You got to be more realistic. Stuff doesnโt go to the moon. Thereโs a reality that eventually things are going to settle back down and maybe donโt crash.
As far as distress goes, we havenโt seen any distress yet or very little. I do expect to potentially be some deals. Weโll see what happens though with interest rates and all that stuff. I do expect there to be some opportunities out there for smart money to come in and maybe infuse new equity, take over some deals, and some receiverships out there as well. Weโll see what happens with the market. Itโs still TBD, but for the long-term, Iโm excited about multifamily and for the short-term. Iโm excited about potential opportunities that might come with some volatility in the market.
Thank you for that. The last question I usually ask on the show is what is a great podcast that youโll listen to? We cannot use Pillars of Wealth Creation. Thatโs a recommendation for our readers, so check that one out. Itโs a great podcast. If youโre a podcast listener, what do you listen to?
There are a lot of them that I like. It depends on what youโre looking for like mindset, real estate, or whatever, but since weโre on a real estate show, Iโll keep it real estate. The one I like is Americaโs Commercial Real Estate Show. Thereโs no fluff. Itโs a lot of data. Itโs going to tell you whatโs going on. Itโs not just multifamily, it also talks about the office sector and the retail sector. Theyโre bringing in experts from all kinds of professional organizations to talk about statistics and whatโs happening. It keeps you up to date. I like that because I love staying up to date. I love hearing what other peopleโs opinions are. Half of the people are wrong and half the people are wrong, but at least theyโve got an understanding of whatโs happening around the market so we can analyze and think.
I have not heard of that one and I listened to a ton of podcasts. Iโm going to check that one out. Thank you for that recommendation. How can readers get in touch with you if they want to connect? Whatโs the best way to do that?
I appreciate that. EndurusCapital.com is a great place to go. My email is Todd@EndurusCapital.com so they can reach me there. Otherwise, the Pillars of Wealth Creation. Iโm on Facebook and LinkedIn, but if youโre going to connect with me on Facebook and LinkedIn, shoot me a DM as well and say, โI read you on Passive Investing from left Field,โ and that way to connect with you. Otherwise, Iโm bad at accepting friend requests.
This has been fantastic. I learned a lot. Thank you for allowing us to focus on senior housing. Itโs an area of interest in our community. Weโre always looking for more knowledge in those spaces. I appreciate your time. Thanks for being on. It was a pleasure.
Thanks for having me.
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I enjoyed the conversation there with Todd. I love his line, โMake every day a Saturday,โ and he talked a little bit about that because he loves what he does. Thatโs an advantage when youโre looking for a quality operator. You want someone who enjoys it. You donโt want necessarily a workaholic or someone thatโs going to do it all the time, but if they enjoy doing it and end up spending a lot of their time there, theyโre going to be a better operator than others because they love it.
The ski resort stuff, I had to jump in on that because I am an avid skier and I wanted to know what itโs like to buy a ski resort. I probably never wouldโve sold it had I bought one, but the mindset around that was he saw an opportunity and went for it carefully. The key was he knew there were lots of exits. He looked at the property and said, โWe could take the timber if we wanted to. We could take all the ski lifts and sell them for parts. We could turn the lodge into a wedding venue.โ
There are so many different options for an exit, even though he had never run a ski resort or experience in that asset class, he figured out all of the exits or ways that make revenue from that gave him the confidence to go ahead and do it. Thatโs an interesting case study for a different asset class and none of us are familiar with it, but what can you do with it? There are so many different options. When you have lots of options, that sometimes can provide multiple exits and thatโs the way that you make some money. That was cool.
I loved how we talked about stock investing. Youโre not creating a job if youโre investing in the stock market. The comparison is that a lot of people decide, โI want to get into real estate,โ and they have a W-2 or are busy with family and all this stuff. They go active in real estate maybe because they donโt know passive is an option. What they end up doing is they are buying a business and created themselves another job.
As we discussed, itโs a job that you probably wonโt make as much money in as if you had done the passive route and found an asset manager because you have a W-2, a family, and all these things. Youโre going to add one more thing on top of it. Youโre not going to be awesome at that one thing as you are at the other thing. What I try to do now is use the expertise that I know I have and let other people use the expertise that I know they have. One of my expertise is not property management or asset management, which is why I hire others to do it. Thatโs what Todd was talking about.
I loved all the stuff he was talking about senior living, but one thing I wouldnโt have ever thought of is when you are doing a market study or market analysis, one thing you need to make sure of is there are enough medical professionals, assistance, and helpers in these facilities. You need to make sure that you have enough employees in your market to be able to handle that. Itโs something that if you think about it, โYes, of course,โ but if youโre going, โItโs similar to multifamily,โ youโre maybe not thinking of that. That was a powerful thing to know as well. Iโm not going to use Toddโs signature exit, โMake every day a Saturday,โ though I love that. Iโm going to use the normal exit which is, I enjoyed the show. Weโll see you next time in the left field.
Important Links
- Endurus Capital
- VitaCare Living
- Pillars of Wealth Creation Podcast
- ABCs of Real Estate
- Americaโs Commercial Real Estate Show
- Todd@EndurusCapital.com
- Facebook โ Todd Dexheimer
- LinkedIn โ Todd Dexheimer
About Todd Dexheimer
Todd Dexheimer, Principal of Endurus Capital and VitaCare Living started investing in Real Estate in 2008. Today his companies own $500 million of Multifamily, senior housing and commercial real estate. Todd has completed over 150 flips, including a 20-unit mobile home park and a ski resort, while using those profits to build his rental portfolio. Today his focus is on syndicating value-add commercial real estate in emerging markets.
Todd is also the host of the podcast Pillars of Wealth Creation and is passionate about teaching others how to create a business and how to take control of their finances. Todd was a high school industrial tech teacher prior to investing.
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