Join Duc and Steve, as we chat with Will Coleman about commercial real estate financing 101. Will is the Director of Finance at Rand Commercial Real Estate, helping investors find the best financing option for their commercial real estate deals. In this episode, he shares his pieces of advice on how to build a relationship with lenders, the advantages and disadvantages of hiring a mortgage broker, and more!
Real Estate is a Relationship Business
In real estate, your relationship with your team and clients is the foundation of your business. Every business opportunity and deal will revolve around people. And how well you get along with everyone is the key to the success of your business. Therefore, it is so essential that you not only invest in yourself but also in your network. This will open more doors of opportunities for you and can help your business survive a bad situation in the market. Make sure you value those relationships and do your best to nurture them. Every person will want to do business with someone they like, and if you handle these with care, you will have clients for life.
Failure is an Opportunity to Improve
Fail, reflect, and improve.
Successful people have a tremendous amount of failures hiding behind their success stories. Failures should not make you cower in fear, but on the contrary, make you feel more excited and become braver! How you reflect on your mistakes is important because this will affect how you think and handle situations. If you continuously see failing as an opportunity to grow, you will never really fail again. Even the wealthiest people in the world commit mistakes and have bad days; these experiences are vital to your success. If you deal with these circumstances wisely, it will set you apart from a lot of people who let it affect them negatively.
About Will Coleman:
Will Coleman graduated from Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Economics. In 2016 he began his real estate career by investing in and self-managing single-family properties in the DFW market while working in property management for Greystar Real Estate Partners. In 2018 Will began working in commercial lending at City Bank as a Credit Analyst being responsible for accurately underwriting the credit quality of borrowers, properties, and markets in Texas. In 2017 and 2018, Will also worked as an independent contractor for Lifestyles Unlimited as a Multi-Family underwriter.
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