
Working a W2 and Acquiring Multifamily and MHPs with Apurva Shah
About this episode
Apurva Shah is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at JAYS Properties, LLC, a real estate investment firm that targets high-growth markets to bring above-average returns to their investors. They invest in commercial real estate, multi-family, and manufactured housing, and they also provide affordable housing to growth communities throughout the Southeast United States.
While still working a full-time W2 job, Apurva controls over 30 million dollars in real estate investments.
[00:01 – 08:30] Opening Segment
- I introduce and welcome our guest, Apurva Shah
- Apurva talks about his background
- He started in real estate while he was still in high school, helping with their family business
- What influenced him to go into the career path that he took
- He shares what he does in his W2 job
[08:31 – 17:37] Working a W2 and Acquiring Multifamily and Mobile Home Parks
- Are you planning on transitioning more full-time into real estate as things grow?
- The characteristics that make a real estate investor successful
- Apurva's advice to folks with a full-time W2 job looking into investing in real estate
[17:38 – 28:31] THE FINAL FOUR
- What's the worst job that you ever had?
- When I was first starting out in real estate, flipping houses
- What's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?
- The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
- What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
- Getting better at networking
- What does success mean to you?
- Having financial freedom and then having the time to do everything you want to do in life.
- Connect with Apurva. See the links below.
Tweetable Quotes:
"Be flexible in terms of talking to people. Continue to learn everything about real estate. You know, talk to as many folks as possible." – Apurva Shah
"Mistakes are gonna happen. You know, we calculate something wrong, think whatever it is, it happens. Just own up to it and make sure that we don't have that happen again." – Apurva Shah
Connect with Apurva on LinkedIn and Facebook or at Www.jaysinvestments.com
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