ISP 296: True Wealth Is Made During A Recession

Invest Smarter Podcast

Episode 296: True Wealth Is Made During A Recession

Host: Simon Castillo
Guest: Max Gonzales

Join our host Simon Castillo and Max Gonzales as they discuss:

• Multifamily is a team sport
• Should I wait to invest?
• Buy low, sell high
• It wasn’t a real estate crash, it was a liquidity crisis
• The more assets you have, the more playing cards that you have
• It’s never easy doing deals
• What is: Retrade
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Max leads acquisitions and investor relations for Geometric. Max began his career in the multifamily industry in 2003 where he worked as a broker working with Buyers and Sellers of multifamily real estate to achieve their investment goals. In 2006, Max began working with Fowler Property Acquisitions, a leader in the real estate industry for multiple real estate product types. At Fowler Property Acquisitions, Max oversaw acquisitions for Arizona, Southern California, and Nevada for office and multifamily properties where he acquired over $85 million in assets. Starting in 2017 led multifamily acquisitions for Pacific Urban Residential, an organization with over $9 Billion in holdings, for the San Diego market where Max oversaw the acquisition of over $430 million in closed transactions for two main accounts, large value-add multifamily and core plus multifamily acquisitions. Through his career Max has worked through each aspect of the real estate acquisitions process including acquisitions, dispositions, PSA negotiation, underwriting, debt structuring, construction management, asset management, and due diligence through a successful close, of which, has successfully closed over 3200 units. Max is a graduate of Westmont College. During his time at Westmont he completed his degree in Economics and Business, worked at Mother Teresa's Hospital for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta India, and achieved the rank of National Champion in Track & Field. Max lives with his wife and two German Shepherds in Newport Beach, California. He loves the arts and learning about new technologies.
Connect with Max Gonzales:
Website: https://geometricre.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_maxgonzales_/

Simon Castillo is a real estate investor & business development executive from San Antonio, TX. Simon began investing in real estate in 2004 and is currently invested in more than $39 million of single family and multifamily assets both as a general partner and limited partner. Simon’s experience includes providing safe, stable returns for investors, real estate development, value add investing and investing for long term cash flow.
Simon is the Principal and Founder of SAS Texas Capital, a real estate firm focused on raising capital for the acquisition of value-add, class B & C multifamily properties. SAS Texas Capital has raised over $1 million in investor capital for the purchase of these assets.
Simon holds a Master’s Degree