In this episode, Jonathan interviews Serge Shukhat on his successful journey in Real Estate. Serge has been a huge role model to Jonathan and someone who has helped him take massive action. Serge has built a huge portfolio of 70 single-family homes that have all been sold and over 400 multi-family units. This episode uncovers topics like scaling your Real Estate portfolio, creating a corona game plan, having an acquisition strategy, and more!


Top Takeaways:


Action plan during Corona and best practices in Real Estate:


- Take care of your banking relationships or find them if you don’t have them


- If you don’t have a local community bank, go get them


- Be patient and invest in education and networking


- Identify your market strategy (SFH, multi-family, etc)


- Identify the listing agents on those sales that sold the most in the category you are looking to focus on


- Make sure the listing agents/brokers know your name


- If a property comes up for sale, they should be calling you


- Patience and liquidity


Words of advice:


- Look for equity over cashflow


- Large balance sheet


- Strong broker relationships


How to bring value to Serge: 


- Looking for people to check on his properties and make sure everything is running smoothly 


Social Links:


- BiggerPockets Profile: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/sfcgee