TOPIC: Looking to Note Investing in the Global Health Crisis
When a recession hits the commercial real estate market, an under the radar asset class flourishes while the rest flounders. Distressed notes are derivatives of real estate ownership that express a low-risk alternative to real estate, often highly discounted. Join us to hear how experts in the space have been deploying multiple strategies to produce stellar ROI even during the toughest of times.
TIME: Feb 11, 2021 [02:00] PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Featured Panel:
Jorge Newbery
Founder & CEO preREO & AHP Servicing
With over 30 years of experience in distressed asset management, community development, and borrower advocacy, Jorge founded preREO with the goal of bringing stability to neighborhoods challenged by the blight of vacant homes. He is driven to empower local small business partners to revitalize and improve their communities while creating investment opportunities for themselves. Throughout his career, Jorge has utilized optimism and resiliency to find opportunity in adversity and he has a proven record of developing innovative solutions that can be mutually beneficial for lenders, borrowers, and communities alike. He founded American Homeowner Preservation, the country’s first crowdfunded distressed mortgage investment platform; AHP Servicing, a nationwide mortgage servicer; and Activist Legal, a law firm facilitating default legal services nationwide. He also authored Burn Zones, sharing lessons learned through his challenges and successes as an entrepreneur.
James Maffuccio
Co Founder and Chief Investment Officer Aspen Funds
Mr. Maffuccio is a 30-year real estate veteran and an expert in mortgage notes. He is deeply networked in the secondary mortgage industry and is responsible for acquisitions and underwriting as well as relationships with primary sources and key vendors. During his real estate career, Mr. Maffuccio developed, and/or rehabbed multiple residential projects in Southern California, including infill subdivisions, affordable homes, luxury homes and homesites, multifamily, and planned developments, such as the Gold Nugget Award-winning “Traditions” community in Fillmore. Mr. Maffuccio has personally executed and/or managed every aspect of the development process, including site selection
and acquisition, project conceptualization and design, procurement of entitlements and permits, regulatory compliance, entity structuring and capitalization, construction management, marketing, sales, and investor relations.
Kathleen Kramer
Real Estate Broker 1 Oak Advisory, LLC
In her 25+ years as a licensed Real Estate Broker and Mortgage Originator, Kathleen Kramer has closed over 2500 transactions for more than a $1 billion in volume. She ran a successful Real Estate club in Huntington Beach from 2002 to 2006. She and her husband, Michael, have personally invested in a variety of real estate backed investments including single family, multi-family, office, land development, reg D syndications and non-performing notes in several states. Investing in real estate gave Kathleen the financial liberty to take a sabbatical from her Real Estate and Mortgage Brokerage business for the last two years. She spent the time rehabbing her house in Huntington Beach, travelling, homeschooling her daughter, caring for the older generation and planning what is ‘next’.
Ben Lapidus
Chief Financial Officer for Spartan Investment Group LLC
Ben Lapidus has has applied his finance and business development skills to construct from scratch a portfolio of over $100M assets under management, build the corporate finance backbone for the organization, and organize over $20M of debt capital from the firm. In addition to completing over 50 real estate transactions at and prior to Spartan, Ben is also the founder and host of the national Best Ever Real Estate Investing Conference and managing partner of Indigo Ownerships LLC.
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