In the realm of real estate investing, one of the most daunting challenges is securing the necessary capital to launch and sustain projects. During a candid discussion on the “Raising Private Money” podcast, host Jay Conner invited real estate powerhouse Maura McGraw to share her journey in raising private funds and scaling her business.
The Early Days: Learning the Hard Way
Maura McGraw’s introduction to real estate investing in 2018 was nothing short of a trial by fire. Driven by a hands-off mentorship approach from her father, Maura found herself managing a ground-up build in Birmingham, Alabama, with almost no prior experience. It was a monumental task for a newcomer and resulted in a $30,000 loss. However, it also provided invaluable lessons that would lay the groundwork for her future success.
Raising Private Money: The Initial Hurdles
In the subsequent years, Maura faced the perennial issue that many new investors encountered—banks were unwilling to finance her projects due to her limited track record. Determined to push forward, Maura turned to private money, guided by the belief that a good deal would attract the necessary funds.
Her journey to secure private funding was fraught with challenges. For two crucial real estate flips following her initial project, Maura had to navigate a whirlwind of networking and presentations. Meeting after meeting resulted in rejections until she finally secured funding through a connection facilitated by her general contractor. This breakthrough relationship with private lender Aziz Shannara became the cornerstone of her future investments and business expansions.
The Concept of the Trust Bridge
One significant takeaway from Maura’s story is the idea of the “trust bridge,” a concept emphasized by Jay Conner. The trust bridge leverages existing relationships to establish credibility with prospective investors. In Maura’s case, her general contractor served as her trust bridge, vouching for her capabilities and solidifying trust between Maura and Aziz. Jay also shared a similar experience from his own career, accentuating the importance of leveraging relationships and building trust in the world of private money.
The Challenges of Rapid Growth: Scaling Property Management
Maura’s story also serves as a cautionary tale about the challenges of rapid business growth. After founding a property management company in 2019, the venture experienced meteoric growth, managing over 600 properties within three years. This pace, while impressive, also introduced significant operational challenges requiring frequent halts and strategic overhauls to manage the increasing load effectively.
Maura and her team learned the hard way the necessity of scaling intentionally. By adopting more selective criteria for new clients and properties, they were able to maintain service quality and business viability. Maura’s experience underlines the importance of aligning growth with operational capacity, thus preventing overextension.
Building a Strong Team: Key to Sustainable Success
One of the pillars of Maura’s sustained success in real estate is her robust team. With seven key players, including her partner Aziz serving as CFO, Maura has established a well-rounded structure encompassing general management, construction, bookkeeping, executive assistance, and property management. This balanced delegation of responsibilities ensures that each aspect of her business runs smoothly.
Words of Wisdom: Persistency Is Key
Maura concluded her narrative with an important piece of advice: never give up, no matter how many mistakes you make. Her journey from a novice investor to a real estate mogul brimming with industry knowledge and a robust portfolio exemplifies the power of resilience. Mistakes, according to Maura, are the stepping stones to long-term success, provided one learns and grows from them.
Jay Conner also chimed in with crucial advice for aspiring investors— to seek mentorship early on. Lessons learned under the guidance of a seasoned coach can dramatically accelerate success and prevent costly missteps.
Conclusion
Maura McGraw’s experiences offer a masterclass in the challenges and rewards of raising private money and growing a real estate venture. Her story is a testament to the power of leveraging relationships, the importance of resilient adaptation, and the critical need for intentional growth strategies. As Jay Conner aptly noted, education is vital— it’s not about asking for the money but knowing how to secure it through informed strategy and trustworthy partnerships.
For those looking to embark on a similar path, tapping into resources like the Doradus Academy can provide essential guidance. Maura’s commitment to sharing her knowledge ensures that upcoming real estate investors are well-equipped to navigate their own journeys with confidence.
10 Lessons Learned in this Episode:
- Raising Private Money
Discover strategies to raise private money for real estate deals without directly asking for it through education and relationship building.
- Achieving Real Estate Success
Learn how Maura McGraw’s rapid rise to success involved flipping over 100 houses and generating $3 million in revenue.
- Overcoming Initial Hurdles
Emphasizes the importance of starting your real estate journey despite not having experience or resources, illustrated by Maura’s first ground-up build.
- Learning from Mentors
Shows how mentorship, even in a “trial by fire” style, can significantly aid your progress in real estate investing.
- Handling and Learning from Failures
Discusses the value of navigating and learning from early setbacks, such as Maura’s $30,000 loss on her first project.
- Importance of Private Money
Highlights why private money is crucial when banks decline to finance new real estate investors, as shared by Maura and Jay.
- Effective Presentation to Investors
Maura explains her experience and strategies for effectively pitching deals to potential private investors, even under tight deadlines.
- Leveraging Your Network for Funds
Importance of using your existing network to find private money, by leveraging relationships strategically like Maura did through her general contractor.
- Scaling Business Wisely
Understanding how to balance rapid business growth, as seen in Maura’s scaling of her property management firm from 0 to 600 properties in three years.
- Trust Bridge Concept
Introducing the concept of a “trust bridge” to leverage existing trusted relationships to secure new investors and funds efficiently, a method Jay used successfully.
Fun facts that were revealed in the episode:
- Maura McGraw started her real estate journey with a challenging ground-up build in Birmingham, Alabama, despite having no prior experience in construction at the time.
- Maura lost $30,000 on her very first real estate project but learned valuable lessons that contributed to her later success.
- Maura’s first private lender, Aziz Shannara, who helped her fund one of her early deals, became her long-term business partner for six years.
Timestamps:
00:01 – Raising Private Money Without Asking For It
05:03 – Guests unable to get bank loans, raise private money for real estate deals.
08:28 – Chaotic week balancing real estate case competition.
11:52 – Leverage trust bridge to raise private money.
13:13 – Trust bridge with general contractor for private money.
16:41 – Connect with Maura McGraw: maura@duratusproperties.com
https://www.DuratusProperties.com
https://www.DuratusAcademy.com
17:06 – Real estate investing tips and resources online.
21:19 – Rapid property management growth, and selectivity essential.
25:10 – Persevere through mistakes and remain focused.
27:21 – Jay Conner’s Free Money Guide: https://www.JayConner.com/MoneyGuide
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Scaling Real Estate Investments with Private Money: Insights from Maura McGraw and Jay Conner
Jay Conner [00:00:01]:
Welcome to another amazing episode of Raising Private Money. I’m your host, Jay Conner. This is the show where we talk about how to raise private money without ever having to ask for money. Well, my guest today, was on her podcast not too long ago and had an amazing experience with her. She has raised to date, 7 about $700,000 in private money for her real estate deals and has got even more coming. But talk about a success story in such a short period. She has already flipped over 100 houses. This year, she’s on track, with $3,000,000 in revenue, and also in a short period, she’s got over 50 properties, and rentals in her portfolio, and she co-founded and grew a property management firm from 0 properties to over 600 properties that she and her team manage in less than 3 years.
Jay Conner [00:01:07]:
Well, my guest is going to pull the curtain back, talk about her success, talk about how she has accomplished all this in such a short period. She’s gonna talk about how she’s raised private money, and she’s also gonna talk about how you can be a passive real estate investor by being a private lender with her. In just a moment, you’re going to meet my amazing guest, Maura McGraw, right after this.
Narrator [00:01:35]:
If you’re a real estate investor wondering how to raise and leverage private money to make more profit on every deal, then you’re in the right place. On raising private money, we’ll speak with new and seasoned investors to dissect their deals and extract the best tips and strategies to help you get the money because the money comes first. Now here’s your host, Jay Conner.
Jay Conner [00:02:03]:
Well, hey there, Maura, and welcome to the show.
Maura McGraw [00:02:07]:
Hi, Jay. I’m so happy to be here today.
Jay Conner [00:02:11]:
I’m so happy to have you as well, and I had the best time on your podcast not too long ago. And, I remember being on your show, I said, my lands. I need to have Maura McGraw on my show. But since we’re talking about your show for a second, Maura, tell them about your
Maura McGraw [00:02:30]:
show. Okay. I host the Mastering Real Estate podcast, and I bring in lots of different types of experts like Jay to talk about different aspects of real estate investing. We go all over the place, not just private money, but we do we’ve talked about land banking, all sorts of creative finance, house flipping, you name it. We talk to all different types of experts. And then sometimes I’ll jump on the mic and give my own 2¢ about some lessons I’ve learned from being in the trenches.
Jay Conner [00:03:02]:
What year did you start investing in real estate, Maura?
Maura McGraw [00:03:06]:
In 2018. So it’s been a little over six and a half years so far.
Jay Conner [00:03:11]:
Alright. So when you started in 2018, what type of real estate deals did you start doing?
Maura McGraw [00:03:16]:
Okay. This is crazy, but, I started on a ground-up build. Woo. Yes.
Jay Conner [00:03:23]:
Okay. And what kind of property?
Maura McGraw [00:03:26]:
So let me rewind a second. So my I learned about real estate investing from my father and stepmother who are real estate investors on a much higher level than me. And so my father is a mentor to me, but he’s not like a hold your hand and let me explain how things work type of guy. He’s a throw-you-into-the-fire type of guy. So when I decided that I wanted to start my own company, he’s like, okay. You can go down and manage this project for me. I have a piece of land down in Birmingham, Alabama. You need to go there and build a house.
Maura McGraw [00:04:02]:
I, at the time, knew nothing about building a house. I did not know anybody in Birmingham, Alabama, and I just had to go there, figure it out, meet some people, raise some money, and figure out how to build this house from the ground up. And it was extremely difficult. I made every mistake in the book. We ended up losing $30,000 on that first project. It was a trial a true trial by fire, but I certainly did learn a ton that then set me up to have some success later on. But that was my first project, a ground-up build, a single-family house. I think it was a 4 bedroom, 2 and a half bath house in Pleasant Grove, Alabama.
Jay Conner [00:04:50]:
Oh, wow. What a story. So what was it that happened in your business that caused you to start raising private money?
Maura McGraw [00:05:03]:
Well, as many of your guests have said, especially when you’re starting, no banks want to finance you as an untested startup real estate entrepreneur. Nobody wants to lend you any money because you have no track record and no credit. So like many of your guests that you’ve had on before, I had no choice but to figure out how to raise private money for my first deal. So, for the 2 flips that I did after that initial ground-up build, I couldn’t get a bank to finance me. I was not super pumped about doing hard money because of how much they charge you. So I decided that I would go try my hand at raising private money. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but I had another kind of coach mentor who told me, you know, if the deal’s good enough, the money will come. And I got some good deals.
Maura McGraw [00:06:04]:
They were great when I was doing my little pro form analysis, and then I had to go find the money and it was very stressful. But I ended up doing it, and I think I brought the deal to probably 10 different investors and presented it. And finally, I found the right person and he saw the deal and he knew the area, and he’s like, I think this is a good deal. I’ll go in on it with you. What we did is he funded the purchase price. I funded the construction, and we split the profits 5050. And that was my first foray into raising private money. How I’m saying it now, it sounds super simple.
Maura McGraw [00:06:47]:
At the time, it was super stressful because, I had a short deadline to try to find this money and raise it, but that was my first ever experience raising private money.
Jay Conner [00:06:58]:
So you were under the gun, and I tell you, these people going around I think we probably talked about it on your podcast. These people are going around saying, just get the deal in the contract. The money will show up. And I wanna say, where? Where in the money is is is the where the world is the money gonna show up? Is it just gonna, like, rain out of clouds or whatever? And that’s why I practice and preach that money comes first. Get the money lined up first. However, I’d like for you to share your experience in detail here, with our audience. I’m sure we have some people listening or watching who have had your experience. They got a deal under contract.
Jay Conner [00:07:36]:
They don’t have the funding. Now, they gotta go find the funding or they’re gonna lose the deal. So I think you said you presented that deal to 10 different, prospective private lenders. And, by the way, as I started out the show, as you know, this podcast is about how you raise private money without asking for it. Well, the answer to that question is it’s all about education, teaching people what private money is. I’ve got 47 private lenders now that are funding our deals. Not one of them had ever heard of private money or private lending until I put on my teacher hat, and I told them what private money was and how they can use self-directed or their retirement funds, to get high rates of return safely and securely. So, anyway, back to the question, Maura.
Jay Conner [00:08:22]:
You have this still under contract. Now you gotta go find private lenders. How did you go about that, and how did you find them?
Maura McGraw [00:08:28]:
Oh my gosh. It was a whirlwind. It just so happens that that week, I had about a week to find the money for these two deals, and it happened to it was one of the craziest weeks of my life. I was, finishing I was in my graduate school for real estate, and I was competing in this nerdy real estate case competition. And my team made it to the finals and let’s and we ended up winning, which was cool. But I had to fly to San Francisco to do this and at the same time, try to find money. Luckily, it just so happened that during the case competition I realized that I needed to fund this deal. I’m on a plane to San Francisco, and I’m, like, just looking through my phone book.
Maura McGraw [00:09:24]:
Who do I know that might be interested in this? So on the plane, I just scheduled a few appointments. I hit I hit the the runway. I get off the plane. And before we go into, like, you know, the, you know, finalist presentation, I have 2 quick meetings at coffee shops with, people that I had met through, you know, my network, whatever, real estate. I just met with them, and told them about the deal. They were nice enough to take the meeting, but, ultimately, they weren’t interested. That was and I just kinda cobbled together these random meetings. I had no idea what I was doing.
Maura McGraw [00:10:01]:
I just knew that I needed to try something, and it was all amidst this crazy case competition. So probably that weekend, in between these rounds of competition, I did about 5 different meetings. And everyone was nice. But in the end, no one was interested because it was the same problem as the banks. I was kind of a new, barely tested person, and they just weren’t that interested. So then, finally, we found the money because my general contractor knew a guy in Birmingham, and he said, I know this guy has been interested in real estate for years, but he’s just, you know, never pulled the trigger. Let me set up the meeting. So then I flew from San Francisco back to Birmingham and met with Aziz Shannara.
Maura McGraw [00:10:49]:
And I made the same pitch to everyone, which is not a good pitch, but I just kinda went through presented the deal, went through the numbers. I’m like, here’s my analysis. I’m very confident that we can do this. Luckily, though, at the Birmingham meeting, I had my general contractor with me which was kinda like, yes. You know, this is the construction estimate. And, miraculously, Aziz agreed to fund the deal. And that was, a miracle on several levels because Aziz would go on to be my business partner for the past 6 years. After all, the deals went well. He got really good returns, and he’s like, okay.
Maura McGraw [00:11:26]:
This real estate thing works well, and I wanna be part of it. But it was it was stressful. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was just, like, calling thought of everyone in my network that I could think of that had money that I knew was kind of interested in real estate, presented the deal, got probably 8 or 9 nos until I finally got a yes, and that was my haphazard strategy at the beginning.
Jay Conner [00:11:52]:
I want to extrapolate. I want I want to draw a conclusion that’s a very, very that can be very, very strong valuable takeaway for our audience from your story. And that is for those of you who are watching or listening and want to raise private money, there’s this thing I call the trust bridge. The trust bridge. Essentially, what the trust bridge is is it’s a way of leveraging your relationship with someone else, and they are the bridge to get someone else to trust you. Even if the person on the other side of the bridge already knows you, you have a relationship that you can leverage, that’s the bridge, to where you want to go to leverage the ultimate or to use or scale the ultimate relationship. So what am I talking about? Well, you ended up getting the money you ended up getting the private money from an individual that you already had a relationship with, that being your general contractor. And your general contractor brought that person to the table.
Jay Conner [00:13:13]:
Your general contractor was your trust bridge, and the person that had the money probably was putting perhaps even more trust in the general contractors, vouching for you than actually you. And there’s another big takeaway. There’s another big takeaway, and that was, who do I know that knows somebody else? Who is a writer downer right there? Who do I know that knows somebody else? Now let me flesh that out for a second, and then I’ll come back to you, Maura. So when I raised my very first private money, it was $250,000, I didn’t call it a trust bridge at the time, but I leveraged a relationship that I currently had, and I asked them for help. So one of the quickest ways that I raise private that I have raised private money very easily without asking for money is I ask people that I know for help. So the very first person I approached was after bible class on an I mean, at bible class on a Wednesday night at church.
Jay Conner [00:14:32]:
His name was Wayne. He’s passed away now. But, anyway, I told him I’d like to visit with him confidentially. We got together after Bible class, and here’s exactly what I said to him, which utilizes the Truss Bridge. And that is what I said to Wayne, I said, Wayne, I need your help. And that’s the magic phrase right there. I need your help. I said, Wayne, I’ve now opened up my real estate investing business by referring only to people I know and trust.
Jay Conner [00:14:59]:
I’m paying insane high rates of return to my private lenders and investors. And, Wayne, when you run across somebody who is complaining about the low rates at the local banks or the volatility of the stock market, will you refer them to me? I’ll tell them about my program. Of course, Wayne wanted to know about the program himself, and he and his wife became my first private lender at $250,000, and within 24 hours that became $500,000 by me simply asking them for help. So that’s the trust bridge. So back to you, Maura. Did I analyze and conclude correctly your story?
Maura McGraw [00:15:39]:
Yes. Brilliant. And I think how you put it is so succinct. I could not have said it better myself.
Jay Conner [00:15:48]:
Well, I appreciate you sharing this story because your story evokes myself and all of our audience asking the question, who do I know that is a center of influence? Right? Who do I know in my community, in my area that, you know, like, knows, you know, knows a lot of people? So you’ve raised the private money, and now I want to change subjects. Just by the way, if you’re listening or watching this show and you’re interested in doing business with a person that I can vouch for, I can be the trust bridge. I can be the trust bridge for Maura. You’re interested in doing business with Maura. In case somebody’s got to jump off early, Maura, I would like to go ahead and give out your contact information as to how people can get a hold of you. And I know you also have, an academy as well. Take a minute and talk about that.
Maura McGraw [00:16:41]:
Awesome. Yes. Well, if you would love to invest with me, probably the easiest way is to reach out to me via email. My email is maura@duratusproperties.com, and you can see it on the screen. And, we do flips. We do long-term holds, and we have a rent-to-own program. And so if you would like to be part of any of those, we would love to have you. So just reach out to me.
Maura McGraw [00:17:06]:
You can also check out our website, https://www.DuratusProperties.com. You can get a lot more information about how to invest with us. We have some forms you can fill out there. And, yes, we do have an academy. We have our Doradus Academy, which walks you through how to get started in real estate investing yourself. So if you are interested in real estate investing, you’re wondering how to get started. I had so many people ask me this question over the years that I went back and I thought, okay. If I could start again from square 1, how would I do it? And so I built a course of exactly what I would do if I had to start again today from square 1 and avoid some of the big pitfalls that I faced along the way, one of which is how to find and fund your deals, how to find private money. Now I can’t say that I’m as much of an expert as Jay.
Maura McGraw [00:17:57]:
I learned my little lessons, but, again, if you want to know from a real private money expert, you’re already in the right place on this podcast.
Jay Conner [00:18:05]:
Alright. So I want to repeat those. So, your email address, if someone’s interested in getting high rates of return safely and securely, Maura’s email address and, of course, all this will be in the show notes. But for those of you who are listening right now, her email is maura@duratusproperties.com. Now, Duratus is spelled d u r atus. https://www.DuratusProperties.com. And then she’s got the academy, https://www.DuratusAcademy.com . And then there was one more URL that you gave out that I want to repeat.
Jay Conner [00:18:40]:
And I got https://www.DuratusProperties.com. I’ve got the email, and then we’ve got the academy. So super. Now, one last question, Maura, and this is very, very important. You have a trend in your career, in your and you and you’re pretty young, by the way. But, anyway, in your career so far, you’ve accomplished a lot. You’ve flipped over 100 houses. You’ve got over 50 property rentals in your portfolio, and you’ve got a property management firm that’s got over 600 units, and you did that in 3 years.
Jay Conner [00:19:17]:
So here’s the big question. How do you scale your businesses so quickly and not go out of business?
Maura McGraw [00:19:29]:
Oh, that is such a great question. Well, let me just say that the property management company is an example of scaling too quickly, and this is something that I didn’t believe until it happened to me, that you can grow too quickly and you can scale too quickly. But we started the property management company in 2019 out of a pure need, myself and my two business partners. We just needed a really good property management company that looked out for the investors and their returns, and of course, the tenants as well, but our whole thing was to start a property management company by investors for investors. And it was so needed in our community that it grew like wildfire. I mean, we did no paid advertising. I think we were just all three of us were already in the real estate investor circles, and it was such a needed service. It took off quickly.
Maura McGraw [00:20:34]:
And at several points, we had to consciously just halt and stop because we, from 0 about 0 to 150, we were just, like we didn’t know holding it together, doing our best. But then at 150, we probably had to implement some systems and hire some more people. Then from 150 to 300, was another big growth period. That 300, we had to stop. Things were getting a little out of control. We had to stop. We couldn’t take any new clients for, 1 or 2 quarters, And we had to revamp all our systems and get ready for the next big growth period, which was the 3 to 600. And that was the craziest time.
Maura McGraw [00:21:19]:
The last, from, you know, 4 to 600, that was where things kind of went crazy. We took on some apartment complexes. And, from there, we had to part ways with certain owners and scale back and decide, okay. We need to be come way more selective as a property management company and target a certain type of customer, a certain type of property to grow a lot more intentionally. So, yes, we grew extremely quickly, and, I think it’s just because we were providing an extremely needed service. Any of anyone who’s an investor out there knows finding a good property manager is hard. So we just tried to do a really good job and serve a market where it was very needed. And now that company is very, very picky about who it takes.
Maura McGraw [00:22:22]:
So, after I had my second child, I exited my partner, Danny. He still runs it. The company is doing amazing. I did exit out of that cause I was doing a little too much. But now he’s a lot more intentional with how he grows it. He is not just focused on growth anymore. You have to be interviewed as an owner, and you have to have a certain type of property to be accepted. And how I grew the other ones was a lot more gradual.
Maura McGraw [00:22:53]:
The property management company grew extremely quickly, and arguably too quickly. The other ones have been it’s been a core it’s over 6 years. So, yes, it sounds nice to say I’ve flipped over 100 houses, but if you spread that out over 6 and a half years, it’s a pretty manageable number per year. We try to pit between 10 and 20 a year. And for us now we have a little team of 7 that’s pretty manageable. Acquiring 50 rental properties over 6 and a half years is also fairly manageable. We have 1 portfolio and 2 portfolio acquisitions in there where we picked up, a good handful at a couple of times. So those I think are a much better example of scaling just consistently over time.
Maura McGraw [00:23:47]:
It certainly wasn’t overnight. It took six and a half years to get to where it’s at. So, that’s a very long answer to your short question.
Jay Conner [00:23:56]:
No. That’s good. Now did you just say you got 7 team members?
Maura McGraw [00:24:00]:
Seven
Jay Conner [00:24:01]:
Okay. Well, tell us about your team members. What are their responsibilities?
Maura McGraw [00:24:07]:
Okay. So most importantly, my partner, Aziz Shannara, who I talked about at the beginning, who is our initial, private money lender. He is my business partner in all of this now. He wears the CFO hat. And then under him, we have a general manager, Julie, who is amazing. We have a construction manager who helps oversee all of our flips and construction across our portfolio. We have a bookkeeper, 2 executive assistants, and a property manager. We’ve managed now that I let now that I left the property management company, we do manage all of our properties in-house, and that’s our team.
Jay Conner [00:24:56]:
I love it. I love it. And with that, Maura, let me allow you to share any, advice or parting words before we wrap it up.
Maura McGraw [00:25:10]:
So as you can tell from my story, I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way, and there were a lot of periods where I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing, but I just kept going. It’s very normal to make mistakes. I think the most important thing is to just stay focused on your goal never give up and keep trying. As long as you don’t give up, you will get there one day. I have made many, many mistakes over the past six and a half years, but we’re here today. And, overall, our company is doing great. I’m very proud of where we’re at, and it’s just because we never gave up. We’ve made a lot of mistakes, but we ultimately just kept going. I think that’s the most important thing.
Jay Conner [00:25:59]:
I love it, Maura. And, my parting advice would be if you’re starting and you want to be a real estate investor, for goodness sake, don’t make the biggest mistake I made. And that was, I was in this business for 6 years before I got my first real estate investing coach to work with me. Right? So, anyway, Maura, thank you so much for joining me on the show. All of you, be sure and check out, Maura’s contact, and the connections that she got that we have there in the show notes. Maura at Doradus Properties dot com. Doradus properties.com. And, and and all the great information she’s given.
Jay Conner [00:26:40]:
Maura, thank you so much for joining me.
Maura McGraw [00:26:42]:
Thank you, Jay. It was so, so great to see you. Thank you for having me.
Jay Conner [00:26:47]:
You got it. Well, there you have it. Another amazing episode of Raising Private Money, and I appreciate your feedback. If you found this valuable, be sure and share this with a friend of yours that you think would also benefit If you are listening on iTunes or Spotify, or any of the other big platforms, be sure to follow. If you’re watching on YouTube, be sure to subscribe and click that bell. I look forward to seeing you right here on the next episode of Raising Private Money with Jay Conner.
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