Mindset & Focus and the path to Wealth Creation with James Kandasamy | Know Your Why #235

Have you ever dreamed about making a major transition into the prosperous world of multifamily real estate investing? Prepare yourself to get a taste of that reality in our enriching conversation with James Kandasamy, an award-winning multifamily operator, developer, and industry thought leader. Originally from Malaysia, James shares his enthralling journey that led him to the US and subsequently into successfully shifting from single-family to multifamily real estate investing.

James has managed to carve a niche by focusing on value-add and deep value-add multifamily investments as they tend to be more lucrative than single-family units. With a streak of determination and an appetite for challenging the "deeper, difficult stuff", he reveals his impressive strategy that allowed him to independently raise a staggering 80 million dollars. His insights on the real estate market trends are invaluable, especially about variable and fixed rate loans and how they are impacting the industry.

In this episode, we also explore James's passion for creating generality wealth through passive investing and his commendable commitment to philanthropy. His meticulously crafted approach to property management and growth is a lesson for all budding as well as experienced investors. James's story is a testament to hard work and perseverance. So, tune in to this power-packed conversation and let yourself be inspired by James's journey and his insights into the multifamily real estate market.

JAMES'S BIO:

James is an award-winning multifamily operator, developer, industry thought leader, and CEO of Achieve Investment Group. He has authored two best-selling books “Passive Investing In Commercial Real Estate” and “Smarter Doctors - You Work Hard, Make Your Money Work Harder!”. He’s also the host of a popular Achieve Wealth podcast.

To date, James has identified, underwritten, and overseen the acquisition process of over $517M of quality multifamily investments (19 Assets), and still growing. He has also led passive investors to an average IRR of more than 20% in past deals. His creative and dynamic multifamily management strategies led to the creation of 6 passive investor millionaires in 2022.

GET IN TOUCH WITH JAMES:

www.achieveinvestmentgroup.com

www.passiveinvestinginrealestate.com

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

(0:00:00) - Scaling Multifamily Real Estate for Success James Kandasamy shares his journey from Malaysia to the US, and how he successfully transitioned from single-family to multifamily real estate investing, achieving an average IRR of greater than 20%.

(0:13:14) - Investing in Commercial Real Estate James Kandasamy shares his journey, stresses importance of difficult work, articulating truth for investments, and his slow and steady approach to growth.

(0:19:45) - Real Estate Market Trends and Opportunities Variable rate loans put sellers at risk, while fixed rate loans offer protection in a rising interest rate environment.

(0:29:28) - "Ambassador Programs and Passive Investing" James shares his successful real estate business, Chief Cast foundation, writing books, and plans for passive investing.

(0:40:50) - Knowing Your "Why" James Kandasamy's journey, variable rate loans, fixed rate loans, and interest rates discussed to reach maximum potential.

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