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We Build Great Apartment Communities


Feb 22, 2022

Indeed, there are over thousand ways to do real estate, and today Carmen Dettloff,  will walk us through how she traversed hers!

Carmen started her real estate career over 15 years ago.  She was then a mathematician with15 years of experience in revenue optimization in airline, banking industries and telecommunications. Today, Carmen is general partner over 1,500 units and passively invested in over 2,000 units.

Listen for lots of golden nuggets to help you with you own real estate career!

Episode Highlights:

  • How Carmen started her real estate journey
  • Metrics that helped Camen win her first acquisition
  • The importance on investing in property projects - a water-saving project for one
  • Evaluating Rent Cost
  • Raising Equity for first acquisition
  • Carmen’s greatest lesson learned from her first acquisition
  • Delegating out property management and asset management
  • Knowing yourself enough to determine what you want and don’t want to be involved in
  • Real Estate opportunities mid and after Covid
  • Golden Nuggets: Correcting things quickly and being persistent with this that you want accomplished and a whole lot more!

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About Our Guest:

Carmen is an experienced real estate investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Bigfoot Equity. Carmen started her real estate career over 15 years ago and has broad investment experience in flipping, renovating, and adding value to properties. Carmen is currently passively invested in over 2,000 units and is general partner over 1,500 units. 


In additional to real estate investing, Carmen is a mathematician with 15 years of experience in revenue optimization in airline, telecommunication and banking industries. Carmen was also a math professor for 7 years. 

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