Think Multifamily Podcast
by Mark & Tamiel Kenney
Investing for your family's future has never been explained like this! Apartment investors of the Think Multifamily brand, Mark and Tamiel Kenney, outline the path to success through multifamily investing in this week-to-week, content-rich podcast. From the power couple that leveraged 1 duplex into 6500+ units in 3 years, you'll discover that time, money and freedom don't have to be sacrificed in order to create your legacy. If you're looking to work less, earn more and secure a financial future for your family, you'll find immediate solutions in this podcast.
Episodes
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Multifamily Asset Management Best Practices with Mike Kenney (Part 2) | Ep. 159
If you asset manage long enough, you'll deal with a homicide, an arson, or a car crashing into your building. That's not worst-case — that's Tuesday. In Part 2 of this conversation, Mark Kenney sits down with his twin brother Mike Kenney — a 20-year real estate veteran — to go behind the scenes…
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What Is a Multifamily Asset Manager? With Mike Kenney (Part 1) | Ep. 158
Most people think they want to be a multifamily asset manager. Then they actually do it. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Mark Kenney sits down with his identical twin brother Mike Kenney — a 20-year real estate veteran — to break down what the asset management role actually involves, why so…
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When to Sell, Refi, or Walk Away from a Multifamily Deal with Dugan Kelley (Part 3) | Ep. 157
30% of zero is still zero. And right now, a lot of syndicators need to hear that. In the final episode of this three-part series, syndication attorney Dugan Kelley delivers the conversation most GPs are actively avoiding — what to do when your property is in trouble, your loan is maturing, and...
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Loan Modifications, Capital Calls, and Member Loans with Dugan Kelley (Part 2)
Your loan documents will determine how creative you can get when your deal hits trouble. Most syndicators don't find that out until the crisis is already here. In Part 2 of this series, syndication attorney Dugan Kelley breaks down the legal and financial tools available to operators in distress…
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The Multifamily Market Shift — What Syndicators Must Know Now with Dugan Kelley (Part 1)
Transaction volume in multifamily is down 60 to 70%. The syndicators still winning are the ones using deal structures most people haven't touched in years. In Part 1 of this three-part series, syndication attorney Dugan Kelley — a 23-year legal veteran and trusted advisor to Think Multifamily for...
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How to Analyze a Multifamily Deal — What Mark Kenney Looks For First
Think Multifamily teaches deal analysis over three full days. What Mark shares in this episode is the condensed version — and it's still more actionable than most full courses on the subject. In this solo episode, Mark Kenney walks through the exact questions he asks when a coaching client…
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Interacting with Selling Brokers — What Every Multifamily Buyer Needs to Know
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Interest Reserves & CapEx Funds — What Lenders Won't Tell You
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Loan Assumptions in Multifamily — What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know
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VAs, AI & Smarter Operations — Behind the Scenes of a Family Syndication Group Call
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Airbnb-Friendly Apartments — What Multifamily Owners Need to Know with Jesse Stein
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Is Multifamily in Trouble? Mark Kenney's Honest Take on the Market
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Capital Calls, Member Loans & Recapitalization — What Every Multifamily Investor Needs to Know
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What to Know Before Investing in Multifamily — with Tamiel Kenney
Most multifamily content focuses on how to find deals. This episode focuses on what to know before you invest in one. Tamiel Kenney — 28-year investing partner to Mark and a GP on over 120 deals — takes the mic solo to cover the fundamentals that newer investors get wrong and the structural...
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Live Deal Analysis Workshop Part 2 — OMs, Occupancy, CapEx & Property Taxes
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Live Deal Analysis Workshop Part 1 — Deal Criteria, Property Classes & Reading an OM
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Multifamily Money Matters Part 2 — What Lenders Don't Like, Market Outlook & Advice for Borrowers with Brandy Shotwell
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Multifamily Money Matters Part 1 — Why You Need a Mortgage Broker & What's Happening with Rates with Brandy Shotwell
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2023 Multifamily Outlook — Rate Hikes, Insurance, Rescue Capital & What's Actually Happening in the Market
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Multifamily Deal Analysis Fundamentals — Cap Rates, Economic Vacancy & Income Growth Red Flags
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Building Your Investor List — How to Find Capital in Your Phone, Overcome the Head Trash & Start Conversations That Convert | Part 3 with Keely Hubbard & Eric Mattingly
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Building Your Investor List Part 2 — Investor Math, Investment Sizing & Where to Find High-Net-Worth Leads | Keely Hubbard & Eric Mattingly
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Building Your Investor List Part 1 — Organic Lead Generation, Niching Down & The Bar Strategy | Keely Hubbard & Eric Mattingly
There's no easy button for finding accredited investors. The syndicators who think there is are burning through marketing budgets chasing lists that will never convert. In Part 1 of this three-part series, executive sales coach Keely Hubbard and DMI Holdings founder Eric Mattingly share the only...
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Becoming a Multifamily Sponsor Part 2 — Broker Relationships, Deal Flow, Market Outlook & How Underwriting Has Changed
If you're still underwriting deals the same way you were 12 months ago, you're leaving yourself exposed. The market has changed — and so has Think Multifamily's approach to financing, underwriting, and deal selection. In Part 2 of the Becoming a Multifamily Sponsor series, Mark Kenney tells Tyler...
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Becoming a Multifamily Sponsor Part 1 — Skills, Mindset, Partnerships & How to Scale Without Burning Out
Most people who want to become a multifamily sponsor think the barrier is knowledge. It isn't. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Mark Kenney tells Tyler Lyons of the Cash Flow Connections Real Estate Podcast what actually separates investors who break through from those who don't — and what the...
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125 Tips for Cash Flow Part 3 — Financing, Loan Docs, Raising Money, Private Equity & Live Q&A
This is the final installment of the 125 Tips series — and it's where Mark Kenney gets the most candid, including a live Q&A where the real questions finally get real answers. Financing requirements, loan doc red flags, why private equity is a last resort, actual deal performance across 100+…
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125 Tips for Cash Flow Part 2 — Market Selection, Deal Analysis, Drive-Bys, LOIs & Due Diligence
One property tax adjustment turned a 22% IRR into a negative 10%. That's what happens when you don't do your homework before you submit an offer. In Part 2 of the 125 Tips series, Mark Kenney covers market selection, deal analysis, drive-by strategy, LOI submission, contracts, and due diligence —...
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125 Tips for Cash Flow Part 1 — Why Multifamily, Current Market Stats, Defining Criteria & Building Your Team
There are things you only learn after 100-plus multifamily transactions. In Part 1 of this three-part series, Mark Kenney delivers the opening section of his live 125-tip presentation — and gets right into the lessons most people learn the hard way. Market stats, team-building mistakes, and the...
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Ask Mark Anything — Asset Management Calls, Husband-Wife Syndication Teams, Talking to Friends & Family & Getting Your Kids Involved
Four questions that almost every investor eventually asks — but rarely gets answered honestly. In this Ask Mark Anything episode, Mark Kenney covers what actually happens on asset management calls, what he and Tamiel learned the hard way about dividing responsibilities, how to start telling your...
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Ask Mark Anything — Partner Not Doing Their Job, Deals Not Penciling, KP Risk & Losing Your Earnest Money
What happens when your partner stops pulling their weight? Are you doing something wrong if deals keep not penciling? What do you actually risk as a KP? And if you can't close, can you lose your entire earnest money deposit? In this Ask Mark Anything episode, Mark Kenney gives direct,...
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Ask Mark Anything: Property Management, Water Savings, LLCs & Cutting Expenses
Most investors spend weeks analyzing a deal — then hand it to a property management company they barely vetted. In this Ask Mark Anything episode, Mark Kenney tackles four of the most practical questions in apartment investing with zero fluff and real-world depth. You'll hear Mark break down…
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The Do's and Don'ts of Multifamily Re-Trading
You found something in due diligence the seller never disclosed. Now what? Re-trading is one of the most misunderstood moves in multifamily investing — done right, it protects your returns; done wrong, it torches your reputation with brokers and sellers for years. In this episode, Mark and Tamiel...
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From Fix & Flip to 1,800 Multifamily Doors with Rachel Grun & Andrea Swick
Two women. Both burned out on fix and flip. Both hungry to scale. They met at a multifamily conference, discovered they lived 20 minutes apart, and within a year had launched a company, a podcast, and a combined portfolio approaching 1,800 doors. In this episode, Mark and Tamiel Kenney sit down...
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5 Triggers Keeping You From Raising Capital with Keely Hubbard
You've done the research. You've been to the events. You know the strategy. So why aren't you raising capital yet? In Part 2 of her Think Multifamily appearance, sales coach Keely Hubbard joins host Brent Kawakami to go deeper than tactics — into the five fear-based triggers that keep even...
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5 Harsh Truths Nobody Tells You About Raising Capital with Keely Hubbard
Everyone's selling you a system. Nobody's telling you the truth. In this episode, sales coach Keely Hubbard joins Think Multifamily's Brent Kawakami for a no-fluff breakdown of five things the capital-raising industry doesn't want to admit. After 18 years in sales, a decade of coaching, and 11...
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Investor Relations & Reporting: The Final Asset Management Episode
Ten episodes. Ten weeks. One topic most operators don't take seriously enough until something goes wrong. In this final installment of the Think Multifamily asset management series, Brent Kawakami wraps up with what he calls the relationship layer that sits on top of every operational decision:...
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Multifamily Asset Management Case Study: The Unicorn Deal (Pino, Leavenworth KS)
What does a 200% total return in two years actually look like from the inside? In this asset management case study, Think Multifamily's Brent Kawakami breaks down Pino — a 152-unit Class C property in Leavenworth, Kansas that closed on February 28, 2020, just weeks before the world shut down. It...
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Multifamily Construction Management & Renovations: Exterior and Interior CapEx
Every value-add deal has a renovation plan. Most operators don't know enough about how to execute it. In Episode 8 of his asset management series, Think Multifamily's Brent Kawakami breaks down the full construction management picture for multifamily operators — from capital reserves and lender...
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What to Do When Disaster Strikes Your Multifamily Property
A fire just took out an eight-unit building. It's midnight. Residents are displaced. You're the asset manager. What do you do? In Episode 7 of his asset management series, Think Multifamily's Brent Kawakami answers that question from experience — recording this episode while actively managing two...
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Multifamily Asset Management Case Studies: Aspen Heights & The Heights
Two deals. Two different states. Two very different paths to performance. In Episode 6 of his asset management series, Think Multifamily's Brent Kawakami walks through two real Class C acquisitions from late 2020 — Aspen Heights in Fort Smith, Arkansas and The Heights in Greensboro, North…
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Multifamily KPIs & Asset Management Metrics (Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly & Annual)
What gets measured gets managed. And if you're not tracking the right numbers on your apartment deals, you're flying blind. In this episode, Brent Kawakami — Think Multifamily's "chief of apartment nerdery" — breaks down every KPI and metric a multifamily asset manager needs to track, organized…
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Property Management Agreements & Onboarding Your PM the Right Way
Most investors close on a multifamily deal with no real plan for what happens next. Brent Kawakami has one — and in this episode, he gives it to you in full. In Part 4 of the Think Multifamily Asset Management Series, Brent covers two critical topics: what to look for in a property management...
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Multifamily Asset Management Case Study: Forest Creek — Lessons from a Real Deal
What does it actually look like when a multifamily deal faces real headwinds? Staff turnover. A global pandemic. A prepayment penalty that hits at exactly the wrong time. In this episode, Brent Kawakami breaks from the tactical format to walk through a real deal case study: Forest Creek, a…
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How to Vet, Structure, and Manage Property Managers in Multifamily
Your property manager will make or break your deal. So why do most investors pick one with almost no real vetting process? In Part 2 of the Think Multifamily Asset Management Series, Brent Kawakami breaks down everything you need to know about property management: how PM companies are actually...
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What Makes an Ideal Multifamily Asset Manager?
You've been underwriting deals, studying markets, and building toward the day you finally close your first multifamily property. But the operators who never get their time back — the ones still grinding years later — almost always made the same mistake: they mastered the acquisition and had no…
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Multifamily Investing Success Stories: How Real Investors Got Started
You've been told that the right deal, the right market, or the right strategy is what separates the investors who make it from the ones who don't. But listen to enough real investor stories and a different pattern emerges: the turning point almost never happened alone. In this compilation…
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Is the Sky Falling? Multifamily Lending, Rate Hikes & What to Do Next
You woke up one morning and the deal you've been working on for months looked completely different. Proceeds cut. Rates up. Rate caps nearly doubled. And everyone around you either panicking or pretending nothing changed. Recorded on June 20, 2022 — days after the Fed's 75 basis point hike — Mark...
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Multifamily Lending in a Rising Rate Environment — What to Underwrite Now
You pulled up your underwriting model and the numbers that made sense last month don't anymore. Rates moved. Proceeds got cut. And you're not sure what assumptions to use going forward. In this episode, Mark Kenney sits down with Brandi Shotwell — principal at Reno Capital Management and the...
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How to Raise Capital for Multifamily While Working a W2 — Jeff McKee's VA & Systems Playbook
You've got a W2, a list of people you know, and a goal to raise capital for multifamily deals. But you're already out of hours before you're out of ambition. Jeff McKee figured it out. In this recording from a private Think Multifamily group call, Jeff breaks down the exact system he built to…
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From Wall Street to Multifamily: How Ravi Built a Data-Driven Investment Business and Gives Back
He built his career, hit the milestones, and earned the salary. But somewhere along the way, he realized he was showing up physically while his mind was somewhere else — and time kept moving. Ravi walked away from a global commodities role at Citi in 2019 to build something on his own terms. In...
About this show
Investing for your family's future has never been explained like this! Apartment investors of the Think Multifamily brand, Mark and Tamiel Kenney, outline the path to success through multifamily investing in this week-to-week, content-rich podcast. From the power couple that leveraged 1 duplex into 6500+ units in 3 years, you'll discover that time, money and freedom don't have to be sacrificed in order to create your legacy. If you're looking to work less, earn more and secure a financial future for your family, you'll find immediate solutions in this podcast.
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Mark & Tamiel Kenney