The DJE Podcast Creators & Guests

Andy works full time as a consultant to the real estate industry, helping investors, owners and operators increase their NOI and the value of their real estate holdings. Prior to launching his consulting firm, he worked for over 25 years on the supply side, working with real estate developers, home builders, contractors, and property managers of all sizes - with clients local to New York or with hundreds of properties spanning as many as 17 states and over 30,000 doors.He's a member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the National Real Estate Investors Association (National REIA), and multiple local industry groups. He sits on the NAHB's Multifamily Council and their 55+ Housing Council and holds Certified Green Professional (CGP), Certified Graduate Associate (CGA) and Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) from the NAHB as well as Total Resource Use and Efficiency Zero Waste Advisor (TRUE Advisor) with the USGBC.

Michael Blank is a passionate real estate investor, CEO and the best-selling author of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing. Through private equity company, Nighthawk Equity, he controls over $200M in multifamily real estate and is passionate about educating people on why apartment building investing is the best investment on the planet. Albeit biased because he's the CEO, consider Michael the crash test dummy for financial freedom. He's a proponent of apartments being much safer, offer higher returns, and have lower taxes than stock market investing. In addition to his own investing activities, he’s helped students acquire over 9,500 units valued at over $445M. He loves to teach through his content and training programs and help active real estate investors get started without experience or their own cash.

Neal Bawa is CEO / Founder at Grocapitus and Mission 10K, two commercial real estate investment companies. Neal’s companies use cutting-edge real estate analytics technology to source and acquire OR build large Commercial properties across the U.S., for over 1,000 investors. Current portfolio over 4,400 units, with an AUM value of $660M.Neal shares his team’s unique and cutting-edge real estate data methodologies to connect with geeky and nerdy (or just data driven) investors who share his vision - that data beats gut feel by a million miles. Over 10,000 real estate investors have taken his free Real Estate Data Analytics course on udemy.com and the course has over 1,000 five-star reviews.Neal speaks at dozens of real estate conferences across the country and virtually online. Over 5,000 investors attend his multifamily webinar series each year and hundreds have attended his Magic of Multifamily bootcamps. His facebook and meetup groups have tens of thousands of investors.Neal believes that we are at a turning point, where traditional commercial real estate will combine with Proptech and Fintech technology disruptors, and will truly reach it’s potential as a tradable, highly liquid asset class that will rival and eventually beat the stock market in its size and scope.

Mike Vann is a co-founder of Trident Multifamily.

Brad Shepherd is a virtual healthcare advocate, commercial RE investor, health food evangelist, and Vice President of Business Development at Oshi Health.