How She Transitioned from Single Family Investing to Apartment Buildings with Anna Myers

May 10, 2019

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Anna Myers
This podcast guesting of Anna Myers is hosted by Liz Faircloth and Andresa Guidelli of The Real Estate InvestHER Show.

Transitioning from single-family investing to apartment building investing is something many investors want to do. And we are so excited to sit down and talk to Anna Myers on today’s show, where we talk about this transition and much more! Anna currently serves as Vice President at Grocapitus, a commercial real estate investment company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Anna is a modern entrepreneur who applies her 20+ years of experience in technology and business to the finding, analyzing, and acquiring of Commercial properties in key markets across the U.S.

Together with her business partner Neal Bawa, they approach real estate as data scientists to create compelling profits for 300+ investors. Anna has participated with Neal Bawa and Grocapitus in Equity Raises of 8.5 Million dollars for Multifamily Acquisitions in 2018. As the lead underwriter for the company, Anna also teaches deal analysis for MultifamilyU both monthly via webinars as well as quarterly in MultifamilyU Boot Camps. MultifamilyU is an apartment investing education company owned by the principal Neal Bawa. Anna Myers also co-hosts two Real Estate Investor Meetups in the Bay Area with over 800 members that she presents at regularly on multifamily topics. In addition, she is an Airbnb Superhost in two markets in the US. Anna has such an amazing story. She was a single parent and teenage mother which made her get focused really fast. She now has 6 grown daughters (blended family) and 10 grandkids. They are her “why” for real estate. 

On today’s episode, we discuss a ton with Anna, including:

  • Transitioning from Single-family to Apartment building investing
  • Tips to vet potential partners
  • How to analyze a market for apartment building investing
  • How to assess if a neighborhood is ideal for investing
  • How you can improve your underwriting skills
  • Importance of self-awareness with balancing your life