As we wrap up the final episode of the No BS Apartment Investing Podcast, I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all our incredible listeners and guests who've joined us over the past four seasons. Together, we've explored various real estate topics and shared true stories, pitfalls, and heartaches that real estate investors face, providing valuable insights and lessons for new and seasoned investors.

But this isn't the end of our journey together - it's the start of an exciting new chapter! We're undergoing a rebrand with a fresh new name and logo, exploring every aspect of real estate, from residential and commercial to flipping properties, investing in REITs, and using retirement accounts for real estate investments. As we embark on this thrilling new adventure, I invite you to join us and share your input on who you'd like to hear from, and what you'd like to learn. Here's to the future of our real estate investing community!

In this episode we sit down with real estate developer Justin Smith, we discuss his journey into development, and what ignited his passion for it. We also discuss the need to know about development, how to get started in the space, and how to build your team, connections, allies and the ways to approach a development deal from a numbers perspective. Justin also shares the most common mistakes that people make when getting into the development space and how you can avoid them.

Justin Smith is the founder of Relequity Enterprises, a Private Equity & Real Estate. Relequity.com acquires Multi-Family Real Estate in the SouthEast and MidWest Markets. He is currently general partner on 360 units of housing in Des Moines, Iowa. He is set on increasing that ownership level to over 1000 units in 2021. He also advises on private client developments in TX, CA, and OH.

Smith leads projects through the predevelopment stages, design management, construction and finally asset management life - cycle. Under his direct leadership 1,356 units of housing or (3,200 beds) were constructed over the last 6 years, exceeding $422M in project value. He is particularly proud of projects such as Hale Mahana in Oahu, HI and Union on Elizabeth in Fort Collins, CO.

On this episode, we chat with Aharon Goins about using what's around you to succeed. Many times we get caught in the paralysis by analysis phase and fail to get anything done, we get caught up in the next "big thing". Aharon shares tips to help avoid these pitfalls. Resources surround us everywhere, its up to us to make the best use of them in order to find success.

Aharon is an active real estate investor and retired military veteran. Aharon hosts the weekly All in on a real estate meetup every Thursday at 7:00 pm EST. The mission of the meetup is to teach the attendees the benefits of real estate investing.

Aharon got into real estate because he wanted to get out of the “Rat Race” of working for someone else and to change lives for the better. He is determined to help people build generational wealth through real estate not only for them but for their families.