Nikolai Ray is the CEO and Founder of MREX. He is also a professor in Real Estate Financial Engineering at MREX College, an ex-professional ice hockey player, and three-time Olympic Chief of Human Performance. He is regarded as one of North America’s leading experts in apartment investing with over $10 billion in analysis, underwriting, and transactions. Nikolai is a successful multifamily real estate investor and developer specializing in heavy value-add opportunistic and ground-up development to over 30 apartment building acquisitions. He is your leading expert in real estate financial engineering.
[00:01 – 04:14] Professor, Real Estate Investor
- Let’s get to know Nikolai Ray
- Nikolai talks about MREX
[04:15 – 12:42] Education Matters
- The Changes in Real Estate and Alternatives
- Why Books Aren’t Everything
- The Three Types of MREX’ Courses
[12:43 – 22:39] Avoid the 'So-Called' Gurus
- Democratizing Real Estate
- Nikolai as Good Will Hunting
- MREX Terminal and MREX College
- How to Be the Best in the Market
- Investor-Focused vs Broker-Centric vs Institutional-Centric
[22:40 – 29:48] All About Investors
- Cutting through all the noise
- Spitting, Repeating and Not Thinking
- Check-Signer Investors
- Nikolai talks about social media
[29:49 – 38:41] THE FINAL FOUR
- What's the worst job that you ever had?
- Lumberjack
- What's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?
- Good to Great; Spiritual books
- What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
- A new language
- What does success mean to you?
- “Success is just being valuable.”
- Putting actions behind your words
- Connect with Nikolai. Links available below
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Tweetable Quotes:
“There’s no book on the market that has five percent of the knowledge that I could probably teach you in five hours.” – Nikolai Ray
“You owe it to yourself to invest in your education.” – Nikolai Ray
Connect with Nikolai through [email protected], Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Check out MREX through https://mrex.co/, Youtube, or Facebook.
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