Mark McGuire is a Chief Investment Officer, Hearthfire Holdings. in 2017 he started to build a real estate business. He hired and fired agents, learned from his mistakes, and then re-hired all over again with a new perspective. Since 2013, Mark and his team have brokered more than 300 homes with a total sales volume exceeding $83M. They have also raised over 15 million in capital for Hearthfire. Mark’s biggest passion is wealth building and investing. He is a limited partner in 12 syndications, ranging from multifamily to industrial, hospitality to self-storage. He has invested in multiple private companies in the biotech, finance, and AI spaces. In addition, he currently owns 20 residential units in various real estate partnerships and oversees the management of 130 residential units his family owns. Mark has also executed multiple 1031 exchanges. He’s seen up-markets and down-markets and discovered opportunities in both.
In this episode we talked about:
* Mark’s Bio & Background
* Building his Career in Real Estate
* Limited Partnership Role
* Real Estate Deals Outlook: the best Takeaways from Investors
* Red Flags while looking for LP & GP
* Multifamily Investments
* Mark’s Focus in Real Estate Right Now
* Economic Outlook 2022-2023
* Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned
Useful links:
Slicing Pie: Funding Your Company Without Funds
https://hfirecapital.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/investingwithmark/
Transcription:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper 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
Jesse (23s): This is Jessica forgotten and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is Mark McGuire. He's the C I O of Herth capital. He's a full-time real estate investor and operator that's when mark at the time plunge into real estate sales, after running hard on his own for three years, working 80 to 100 hours a week, mark realized he needed help. He transitioned his real estate practice to Keller Williams in 2017 to learn how to build a real estate business. He hired and fired agents learn from his mistakes and then rehired them all over again.
Since 2013, mark and his team have brokered more than 300 homes with a total sales volume exceeding 83 million. They've also raised over 50 million capital for her fire, mark, you and I were just talking before we want to get into a lot of what you're doing now, which sounds like general partner and sponsoring deals. First of all, welcome aboard.
Mark (1m 13s): Thanks for having me Jesse excited.
Jesse (1m 15s): Yeah, I really appreciate it. So lots to talk about here. You've had a pretty, a pretty interesting background in terms of where you started out in your career and what you're doing today. And I want to get into for listeners the different asset classes that you're working with, but before we do that, why don't you take us back to kind of where you got into real estate? How that your story unfolded at the beginning?
Mark (1m 39s): Yeah, so real estate was something that was in my family. You know, I tried to go the college route net that really didn't align with my way of being a really I learned hands-on and I could, I could do the school thing, but
