Michael gets a lot of interest from all of you international investors who want to invest in the U.S. but there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before you can close that first deal. Like, what do I need to set up? Can I invest in apt buildings and if so, how? What are the tax considerations?

In this episode, Michael is joined by Reed Goossens, who answers those questions and more!

Reed is from Australia and moved to the US 4 years ago. He's a civil engineer by trade but wanted to get out of the rat race and started to invest in multifamily properties in the U.S.  But he faced all kinds of difficulties investing here as a foreigner but finally figured it out. Now he's looking for apartment building deals all over the U.S. He hosts a podcast called " Investing In The U.S. - An Aussie's Guide to U.S. Real Estate" where he teaches people how to invest in the U.S. from abroad.

Connect with Reed:

Website: http://www.rsnpropertygroup.com/

Email: reed@ rsnpropertygroup.com

Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/investing-in-u.s.-aussies/id1071004776?mt=2

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Michael welcomes to the podcast Nav Athwal, the founder and CEO of RealtyShares. RealtyShares is one of the oldest and largest companies out there in the relatively new and exciting market of real estate crowdfunding.

Nav has drawn from his diverse and impressive background to build RealityShares into a market leader. Nav was once worked an electrical engineer, then for a raw land developer and then became a land-use attorney before starting RealtyShares from his living room! It’s not in his living room anymore. RealtyShares has now raised almost 150 million with a diverse set of operators located in over 60 markets!

Most of us are pretty aware of the basics of crowdfunding and the advantages it creates in the marketplace. So instead of painting in broad strokes, Michael and Nav get into the nuts and bolts of RealtyShares and what that means to you, the listener. In this show they cover the following:

• Investor qualifications – (these standards may be loosened soon)
• Investing minimums
• Investing opportunities
• Raising capital through real estate crowdfunding
• RealtyShares ability to provide the ENTIRE capital stack
• Preferred Returns
• And much, much more

RealtyShares  Website: www.realtyshares.com

RealtyShares contact info:

Email: contact@realtyshares.com

Twitter: @realtyshares

Nav Athwal contact info:

Email: nav@realtyshares.com

Twitter: @navathwal