EP.01 // How Real Estate Investing Took Me From Negative Net-Worth to a Multimillionaire
The man, the myth, the podcast host. Meet CEO, fund manager, and investor David Choi out of Newark, New Jersey.
On the first episode of Deals & Dollars, we learn about how David Choi went from the bottom of his high school class to multi-millionaire real estate investor in a matter of years. He walks producer Josh through the steps of investing in a multi-family property, and why investing in Real Estate is the ultimate solution for achieving financial flexibility and freedom.
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Key Points from This Episode:
David tells us about his story growing up
David talks about how his mother inspired him to work hard
David talks about how God helped him turn his life around and take school seriously
David talks producer Josh through his current investment strategies
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ABOUT DAVID CHOI
David is a seasoned real estate professional and serial entrepreneur. Before starting his fully integrated real estate company, David worked for some of the largest development and private equity companies in the country, including Hampshire and Kayne Anderson. David has been involved in the management of private equity portfolios of over $2 Billion AUM and has personally been involved in thousands of real estate transactions. David is an expert in the syndication of capital and creative financing to assemble deals with unconventional and unique capital structures.
Through his extensive experiences in real estate, on both the debt and equity platforms, he was able to find inefficiencies in the traditional acquisition and deal sourcing processes. In 2017, he began developing a proprietary deal sourcing platform, using a data-driven approach to sourcing and acquiring deals on a national level. Presently, he’s the CEO of Leverage Companies and is actively purchasing, renovating, renting, and/or selling over 100 properties a year. David is also one of the founding partners in Leverage Capital Ventures, a Private Mortgage Origination company, originating over $100+ million in real estate bridge financing in its first year.
David graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in Finance and Real Estate from Rutgers University and is an alumni member of the Rutgers Center of Real Estate Studies.
