Colin Craig is a President of SecondStreet. In 2018, he was hired as President of SecondStreet.org and played an instrumental role in launching the organization. Colin oversees the organization’s groundbreaking research and storytelling activities,

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠Colin’s interest in Canada Healthcare
•⁠ ⁠“How bad is Canadian Healthcare”
•⁠ ⁠Activity based funding
•⁠ ⁠2025 Outlook

Useful links:
Health Reform Now https://secondstreet.org/new-documentary-health-reform-now/

Aliyah Mohamed is Chief Capital Officer at KingSett Capital. She joined in 2022 and has oversight of equity and debt capital strategy and formation, as well as marketing and communications.
Prior to joining KingSett, Aliyah spent over 16 years in Investment Banking at TD Securities, most recently as Managing Director, Real Estate, where she advised clients on a wide variety of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings and equity and debt, public and private offerings.

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠How Aliyah Got into Real Estate
•⁠ ⁠Chief Investment Officer vs Chief Capital Officer Jobs Aspects
•⁠ ⁠Kingsett’s Main Focus
•⁠ ⁠Institutional Clients Industries
•⁠ ⁠Canadian Investment
•⁠ ⁠Fund Structures
•⁠ ⁠Acquiring Process
•⁠ ⁠Acquisition in the Canadian Market
•⁠ ⁠Diversity in Real Estate

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Genesis of “Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation” Book with Edy Branzei
• Why Housing Regulations?
• Gino’s View on Financial Intelligence
• Housing Shortages Despite Ample Land for Development
• Urbanisation
• Affordibility
• Rent Control

Useful links:

First episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/education-economics-and-real-estate-with-bryan/id1505750263?i=1000624154266

Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Bryan-Caplan/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ABryan+Caplan

Gino Barbara is a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. Gino Barbaro is the co-founder of Jake & Gino, a multifamily real estate education company that offers coaching and training in real estate founded upon their proprietary framework of Buy Right, Manage Right & Finance Right

In this episode, we talked about:

• Government and Economic Policies
• Gino’s View on Financial Intelligence
• Real Estate Investment Challenges
• Happy Money Concept
• Real Estate Market Reactions
• Wealth Building through Real Estate
• Purpose-Driven Financial Goals
  
  

Useful links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gino-barbaro-03973b4b

https://jakeandgino.com/

Transcription:
Jesse Fragale (00:01.767)

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jesse Vergali and you're listening to Working Capital, the real estate podcast. Our returning guest today, Gino Barbaro, as a real estate entrepreneur, he has grown his portfolio to over 350 million in assets under management and is teaching others how to do the same. We could do a long -winded introduction here, but we've done it before and let's get it from the horse's mouth. Gino, how's it going?

Gino (00:23.35)

I'm doing good, Jesse. How you doing, brother?

Jesse Fragale (00:25.509)

I'm doing great. It's been a while. I think over a year since we last spoke. So I'm really excited to talk about what's going on in your corner of the world. In terms of where you're recording today, are you still in Florida? Do I have that

Gino (00:40.182)

Yes, I'm still living in St. Augustine, Florida. I would not leave it for the world. Best place on the planet to live, in my opinion.

Jesse Fragale (00:47.281)

So from, what was it, pizzas, pizzas on the East coast and now in Florida in the sun.

Gino (00:51.342)

Yeah. It's been a big transition. used to live in New York. I left back in 2017. I have six kids. So the kids were the older kids and the younger kids loved it. The two in the middle were like, Dad, what are you doing? You're killing me. Took them a couple of years. But then when COVID hit, everything changed. We're living in the land of freedom down in Florida. And they're like, OK, Dad, now I see why you moved down here. Then I started talking to them about property taxes and about no state income tax. And they're like, how much are you saving?

Why didn't you move sooner, dad? I said, I didn't know. What you don't know, you don't do it. So we love living down here, Jesse.

Jesse Fragale (01:25.339)

Yeah, we're just joking before the show about kind of the Canadian environment versus, you know, Florida obviously being a red state, very different, different experience being a landlord in that, in that state. So we haven't talked like I said, from the outset in a little while. So why don't you give us an update? You know, what, what's going on in your world right now in terms of, you know, what you're seeing in the market and the deals you're working on. I know

Gino (01:33.059)

Yes.

Gino (01:37.035)

I

Jesse Fragale (01:53.179)

from up north here, we see a lot in the news right now. You guys have kind of a crazy presidential run going on. There's the economies on the top of the list for a lot of business people and landlords. So what are you seeing out there and what's been going

Gino (02:08.398)

Well, the first comment that I'd like to make is I never thought I'd have to go on X to get my news. I never thought I'd have to do that. And I'll tell you, Jesse, I was never

Bob Knakal. Bob is a New York city broker. He has been doing this since 1984.
Over that time, he has brokered the sale of over 2 ,300 buildings, having a market value of approximately $22 billion. For 26 of those years, he owned and ran Massey Knakal Realty Services, which was eventually sold to Cushman Wakefield, moved into JLL for a period of time. And then recently, an investment sales and capital market brokerage firm that Bob has started.

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠Bob’s First Steps in Real Estate
•⁠ ⁠Geographic Expansion
•⁠ ⁠Post-9/11 Growth
•⁠ ⁠Service Diversification
•⁠ ⁠Approach to Sales
•⁠ ⁠Client Relationships
•⁠ ⁠Current Market Trends
•⁠ ⁠Office Market Dynamics
•⁠ ⁠Macroeconomy and Interest Rates


Useful links:
Bobknakal.com
BKREA.com

Chad has been in the industrial Real Estate industry since 2005 as a global commercial Real Estate company member and a partner with his local firm. Chad has completed over a thousand deals with clients ranging from small companies to large institutional owners as an active investor. Since 2014, Chad is co-owner of 150,000 square feet of industrial properties. Chad and Jesse also speak with Tyler Cobble once a month or once every two weeks on his podcast.

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠Chad’s Bio & Background
•⁠ ⁠First Steps in Real Estate Space
•⁠ ⁠Asset Classes Outlooks
•⁠ ⁠Investing Side of Business
•⁠ ⁠Financing Deals Structure and Challenges
•⁠ ⁠2024-2025 Opportunities in Real Estate


Useful links:
Tyler Cauble channel https://www.youtube.com/c/tylercauble
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadgriffiths/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRc7fHYWp9ThYaReiz8jhyQ
https://www.instagram.com/chadgriffith5

Kevin Katigback, Strategy Director Principal at Gensler. As the Strategy Director and Principal in Gensler's Toronto office, Kevin specializes in using place-making to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable environments. In his role, Kevin delivers workplace and design strategies to help his clients adapt to disruption and the changing nature of work. For more than 20 years, Kevin has worked with innovative companies to help create and implement high-performance people-focused spaces that capitalize on new technologies and cater to the shifting needs of employees.

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠Kevin’s Bio & Background
•⁠ ⁠Client Acquisition
•⁠ ⁠Global Workplace Survey
•⁠ ⁠Geography Differences
•⁠ ⁠Latest Trends in Remote Work vs Office Work
•⁠ ⁠Hybrid Working
•⁠ ⁠Company Productivity Measuring
•⁠ ⁠Must have Amenities
•⁠ ⁠Resources

Useful links:
https://www.gensler.com/
https://www.gensler.com/people/kevin-katigbak

Walter is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist. He was the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Economics at the School of Business at Loyola University New Orleans and a senior fellow of the non-profit think-tank Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama

In this episode, we talked about:

•⁠ ⁠Walter’s Bio & Background
•⁠ ⁠Friedrich Hayek Works
•⁠ ⁠Austrian Approach to Business Cycles and Economy Recession
•⁠ ⁠Free Speech
•⁠ ⁠Monopolies
•⁠ ⁠Rent Control

Useful links:
Friedrich Hayek “Prices and Production”, “Human Action”, “Man Economy”

Transcriptions:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica Galley And. on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse Fragale. You're listening to Working Capital. The Real. Estate Podcast. It is my special honor to have Walter Edward Block on the show. Walter is an American, Austrian School economist, and anarcho capital theorist.

He was the Herald e worth eminent scholar, endowed chair in economics at the School of Business at Loyola University in New Orleans, and a senior fellow of the non profit think tank, Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. How's it going? Walter? Pretty

Walter (50s): Good. I want to add, I'm not just an American economist, I'm also a Canadian. I worked for the Fraser Institute for about 12 years from 1979 to 1991. And I am a, a Canadian citizen, so I'm, I'm also, I don't know how to say out and about yet correctly, but otherwise I'm a Canadian as well. You're

Jesse (1m 12s): Out of the, out of the closet. Out of the closet on the Canadian front that, yeah, that is, that is news to me. Were you born in, in Canada or just citizenship?

Walter (1m 22s): Brooklyn.

Jesse (1m 23s): Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn. Okay. That's what I thought. Interesting. Okay. Well, you know, for those that don't know on the podcast, we mainly talk real estate with, as listeners know, we sprinkle in economists. I think you're, you're definitely unique in the sense that some of your thoughts may not be in the mainstream of, of your typical left right kind of political ideology. I, I kind of discovered you in, in high school actually, with, with some of the works that I think you wrote in the seventies, if I remember correctly.

And I just think that the, some of the concepts that you talk about touch on real estate, rent control, some of the economic aspects, minimum wage. But for those that that don't know your work, don't know you Walter, maybe you could give a bit of a background, you know, how, what was your journey, you know, become an economist and, and what you do today?

Walter (2m 14s): Well, it all started with me and Bernie Sanders. Bernie and I went to high school together for, we overlapped for four years, and we were sort of buddies because we were on the same track team and we ran the same events. I have to tell you, my Bernie Sanders joke, it's not at his expense. Bernie Sanders joke is that Bernie doesn't run away from much, he didn't run away from socialism even before socialism became as popular as it is now.

Banks, in part to his efforts, he didn't run away not only for ex-cons voting, but even convicts voting. But there's one person that he ran away from, and that's me. Why? Because we both did the same event about a mile, and his time was about four 30 and I never broke five minutes.