Marco Campos ⋅ New York, NY U.S. Air Force, Captain ⋅ 9 years served

Hi everyone, my name is Marco Campos and I am an Air Force officer seeking to stabilize in NYC and launch a career in commercial real estate. My linkedin is below for background but currently I am an operations officer and planner. In this role I do command and control of all requirements from all military components in Japan to integrate commercial capabilities into our on going operations Japan wide.

My interest in commercial real estate comes from a entrepreneurship desire as well as a career in which I can work with and combined efforts with my wife as she will also launch a real estate career with me. 5 years ago we house hacked a 4-plex in Los Angeles, during which time we slowly renovated and upgraded the whole complex. Between forced appreciation as my wife envisioned and executed desirable upgrades and me managing the property effectively; our combined efforts allowed us to more than double the rent roll and now have about $500K in equity w/$3K monthly net cash flow. We also purchased a SFH and practiced our renovation estimating skills and managing contractors to renovate the home. While we were successful, the BRRR strategy for SFH is not the strategy we currently wish to pursue. Now for specific questions (thank you to all who have read up to this point)

For myself, the area I would like to specialize is in apartment building sales so that I can also syndicate value added deals in the future. However, I am also considering the option of becoming a real estate asset manager and learn from a strategic perspective how to manage large portfolios. My current plan is to get a Masters in Real Estate from NYU to solidify a technical baseline and network with likeminded professionals. Can anyone out there provide me guidance in how I can start leading apartment building syndications and/or how I can break into asset management?

As for my wife, she will graduate this semester w/BS in Business Management and would like to get started renting apartments to get used to the mechanics of real estate transactions. In the future she wishes to grow into retail leasing. Any advice for her in regards to what she should look for? specific broker training? The kind of neighborhood she should seek to work in?

We are both from NYC and know the city very well. At the bigger picture, any ideas how we can both combine our efforts to bridge our skills and build a nice system/business together?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-campos-923a433a/