🔥 On this Real Estate Hustlers Podcast episode, we will be talking with Arn Cedella. A highly experienced real estate broker and investor with over 44 years of industry experience. Arn started his career at his family's residential and investment brokerage firm in Men, Menlo Park, California in 1978, where he built a successful career as a broker and investor.

In 2020, he founded Spark Investment Group and currently manages over 818 units worth over 92 million as a general partner and sponsor. Arn moved to Greenville, South Carolina in 2014. Arn helped many investors build their rental portfolios. Arn founded Spark Investment Group in 2020 as he transitioned his single-family rental portfolio into multifamily properties.

Spark specialises in North Carolina and South Carolina multifamily properties with a particular focus on the #1 emerging multifamily market in the US for 2022, Greenville, SC.

What actionable value will our listeners get out of this episode?

The reason why did Arn get into multi-family.
Experience and expertise apart from other real estate brokers and investors in the industry.
Choosing and considering factors in which multifamily properties to invest in.
The best markets whether primary, secondary, or tertiary markets.
Role property management company as an operator, an asset manager or in-house property management.
The balances the needs and goals of investors with their own investment strategies and decisions
Example of a particularly challenging investment decision in the multi-family real estate industry and how navigated it
The future of the multi-family real estate market evolving in the next few years.
The sets of experience and expertise apart from other real estate brokers and investors in the industry.

Key Takeaways

"But the key to financial freedom security wealth is to invest that income". Arn Cedella

"Local Knowledge is extremely important, so I think if you're gonna be a good investor, you need to kind of know that lay off the land in your markets and have kind of an intimate knowledge of what going on in those communities." Arn Cedella

"Thats not where my business is. it's not really wanna-be. So, you have to kind of find of your niche where you can compete and that you know that market". Arn Cedella

"If we do good for the investors, we're doing good for ourselves, and I would add to bring the tenants in the picture. You treat the tenant's rights. You create an environment, a place to live that they look like, that makes that property better run more efficient, less costly. So doing right by your tenants also ends up doing right by investors. " Arn Cedella

"Well, you know, right now it's a pretty tough market to find some deals, so that's been frustrating, but you have to be disciplined. You know, it's fun to get action, but you have also to be disciplined". Arn Cedella

" So, I have a long-term investing philosophy, and you buy good assets, properly leverage them". Arn Cedella

Even though all the decades I've been in the business. I'm still considering learning and I'm a newbie and multifamily and looking forward to learn more as I go." Arn Cedella

Connect with Arn Cedella:

Arn Cedella

www.investmentwithspark.com

arn@investmentwith spark.com

650-575-6114

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From Single Family Rentals To Multifamily with Arn Cenedella | Episode 13

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