5 Minute Real Estate Investing is a daily 5-minute real estate investing podcast designed for active real estate investors, aspiring real estate investors, and passive real estate investors (Limited Partners/LPs in existing funds) Each episode contains one detailed tactical tip current or aspiring real estate investors can use to improve the return of their own real estate investments. Common topics will include: -How to quickly identify problems within a property -The importance of a buy box -How to build a fund for sale to a larger institution -The role of the police within real estate investing -Cost to start a real estate fund -How to evaluate a General Partner -What fair fund economics are -The difference between 506C vs 506B Your host is Sean O'Dowd, Managing Partner of Scholastic Capital. Scholastic Capital is a real estate private equity firm that purchases single-family homes in highly elite school districts & rents to tenants for 3+ years. Prior to Scholastic, Sean was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He approaches real estate through the lens of a consultant. He graduated with honors from The Wharton School of Business and lives in Chicago with his wife and kids.