E263 Bryan Flaherty - Economic Crosswinds Impact on Real Estate Investments and Elevating Your Financial Intelligence

There are many factors affecting business decisions and there are many factors investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners should consider before making decisions. In this episode, Tyler and Bryan talk about how to handle the constantly changing and evolving market. 

 

Listen as Tyler and Bryan take you on a journey to financial intelligence, share the reasons why constantly investing in oneself is key to constant growth, the macro factors of investing, and the ‘right way’ to resolving inflation.

 

It’s also discussed in their conversation why surrounding yourself with great people can walk you through achieving greater heights!

 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Tyler talks about the tea leaves happening in the world today and how it affects the decisions of investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners.
• Tyler and Bryan share their opinion on how money works, how it flows through business owners, and how it flows through investments.
• Why do all of the crosswinds happening today directly affect business owners?
• The macro factors in business multifamily operators should be aware of.
• Bryan shares how according to Ray Dalios book, The Principles Dealing with the Changing World Order, historical contexts are related to current context.
• Bryan discussed the massive influx of capital and the factors why the level of inflation is so low for him amidst the pandemic.
• More money: definitely not a solution to inflation.
• Why scaling up interest rates isn't always ‘bad news’?
• Tyler and Bryan tackle the fundamentals of the multifamily investing community and how multifamily operators are undersupplied from a single-family home standpoint.
• With all the changes in inflation and interest rate, is it the start of entering a recession?
• Bryan’s probabilities about possible rent growths and/or adjustments.
• Tyler shares their key ‘thinking’ — surrounding yourself with great people.
• The level of financial intelligence one should be in to make proper decisions from an investment perspective.
• The foundation of dynamically evolving and changing markets — personal development, mindset, mind expansion.
• Financial intelligence as a foundational practice.
• The constant thing we need to do to grow: invest in ourselves.

 

Tweetables:

 

“If we don't know all those macro factors, we're essentially driving across country with nothing but our headlights. That's not a way to do business the way we do it.” – Bryan Flaherty

 

“History does not always repeat itself, but it rhymes in many capacities.” – Bryan Flaherty

 

“It doesn't feel like there's a safer place to be than in the multifamily investing community because of those fundamentals that you talked about.” – Tyler Chesser

 

“We can never eliminate risk in investing.” – Bryan Flaherty

 

“Either you're gonna get wiped or you're gonna evolve. You're gonna change. You're gonna thrive alongside all that change. And you have to have that willingness. It's not bend don't break, but it's be flexible and understand what's out there.” – Bryan Flaherty

 

Links Mentioned:

Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Book

The Fourth Turning Book

Who Moved my Cheese Book

Invest with CF Capital

 

About Bryan Flaherty

Bryan Flaherty co-founded and serves as CF Capital’s managing partner. He supervises the firm's overall strategic direction, investor and equity connections, manages the firm’s assets as well as the investment strategy for acquisitions and dispositions. Together with his partner, he also co-founded and oversee CF Capital's Multifamily Meetup group. 

 

Bryan is a member of the Kentucky CCIM Chapter, a distinguished Certified Commercial Investment Member designee, and the past chairman of the March of Dimes Commercial REACH Award. In 2019, Louisville Business First named Bryan one of the "20 People to Know in Real Estate" (2019). Bryan received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Indiana University in addition to his Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Economics from the University of Kentucky.

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