MFREE 125 Full Episode with Shams Merchant: What Drives Success in Modern Real Estate?

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Shams Merchant discusses what drives success in modern real estate during a lightning-round focus run.

Aloha, It’s Shelon "Hutch" Hutchinson here! If you’re enjoying 'The Multifamily Real Estate Experiment' podcast, please like, comment, and share our episodes to help us reach and inspire more people. Thank you for your support! In a lightning-round “focus run,” an attorney who works on real estate syndications and capital markets shares that his idea of fun is investing and sourcing deals and sponsors. He describes the biggest inflection point in his career as leaving a large law firm rep...

People in this episode

Host: Shelon "Hutch" Hutchinson

Guest: Shams Merchant

Topics covered

• real estate
• success
• investing
• syndications
• capital markets

Keywords

• real estate
• success
• investing
• syndications
• capital markets
• law firm
• deals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: large law firm

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