Avoid the 'So-Called' Gurus with Nikolai Ray

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Nikolai Ray is the CEO and Founder of MREX.  He is also a professor in Real Estate Financial Engineering at MREX College, an ex-professional ice hockey player, and three-time Olympic Chief of Human Performance. He is regarded as one of North America’s leading experts in apartment investing with over $10 billion in analysis, underwriting, and transactions.  Nikolai is a successful multifamily real estate investor and developer specializing in heavy value-add opportunistic and ground-up development to over 30 apartment building acquisitions.  He is your leading expert in real estate financial engineering. 

[00:01 – 04:14] Professor, Real Estate Investor

• Let’s get to know Nikolai Ray
• Nikolai talks about MREX

[04:15 – 12:42] Education Matters

• The Changes in Real Estate and Alternatives
• Why Books Aren’t Everything
• The Three Types of MREX’ Courses

[12:43 – 22:39] Avoid the 'So-Called' Gurus

• Democratizing Real Estate
• Nikolai as Good Will Hunting
• MREX Terminal and MREX College
• How to Be the Best in the Market
• Investor-Focused vs Broker-Centric vs Institutional-Centric

[22:40 – 29:48] All About Investors

• Cutting through all the noise
• Spitting, Repeating and Not Thinking
• Check-Signer Investors
• Nikolai talks about social media

[29:49 – 38:41] THE FINAL FOUR

• What's the worst job that you ever had?
  • Lumberjack
• What's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?
  • Good to Great; Spiritual books
• What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
  •  A new language
• What does success mean to you?
  • “Success is just being valuable.”
• Putting actions behind your words
• Connect with Nikolai. Links available below

Resources Mentioned:

• Bloomberg Apps
• Loopnet
• CREXi
• TenX

Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s no book on the market that has five percent of the knowledge that I could probably teach you in five hours.” - Nikolai Ray

“You owe it to yourself to invest in your education.” - Nikolai Ray

Connect with Nikolai through [email protected], Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Check out MREX through https://mrex.co/, Youtube, or Facebook.

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