Merrill Stillwell is Managing Partner at Blue Mountain Investments, a real estate firm with operations in Denver and the Vail Valley. Blue Mountain Investments operates in real estate development and management and specializes in creative and unique developments.
Coming from an equity research background and making the jump into real estate full time we talk about this transition namely pitfalls to avoid for new Real Estate investors. We discuss Colorado Real Estate, why multi-family is so interesting, luxury real estate and more.
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Show Notes
0:00:00 Welcome and context
0:01:27 What is your background?
0:04:10 What resources you used to value Colorado Real estate?
0:05:15 How do you value these opportunities?
0:07:50 What is your process for finding good investments?
0:09:51 What are some of the common mistakes you are seeing?
0:12:04 How to find a good contractor?
0:13:20 How do you look through construction cost?
0:15:03 Beginners mistakes of investing
0:17:11 How do syndicates work?
0:19:59 What excites you the most about the next 5 years?
0:22:01 Acquiring an operating service business
0:25:10 Do you see any COVID impact in the Colorado rental market?
0:29:35 What are your thoughts on prefab and construction costs?
0:30:33 What risks keep you up at night?
0:37:29 If you could start over, what things you'd do differently?
0:38:51 What are the disadvantages of multi-family homes?
0:45:01 Where can people find out more about you?
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