Lane Kawaoka

About Lane Kawaoka

I used to be an engineer as I was building my side gig (real estate rental portfolio). I QUIT two years ago and never looked back.

In a world of fake gurus... people know me as a the Real Estate Anti-Guru of adding tremendous give away the farm value! Today I own 10,000 units valued at over 2.1 billion dollars, writer for Forbes, Top-50 investing podcast, and Amazon Best-Seller. You can watch my 60-second bio here: https://youtu.be/yWWsZr72W5o

Popular topics based on what your audience's needs:

*The basics of building a passive rental portfolio while working a full-time W2 Professional job
*Rent-to-Value Ratio
*Should you invest in primary, secondary, tertiary markets?
*Should you invest in Class A, Class B, or Class C assets?
*Other than apartments and rentals what other recession-proof asset classes are there?
*"Emergency fund 2.0" creating an opportunity fund with liquid investments and infinite banking
*The top things you should consider in the assumptions in a pro-forma pitch deck: Cap rate to reversion cap rate delta, Annual rent increases 1-3%, Full occupancy assumptions, prefs, General Partner - Limited partner splits, IRRs
*How to strategically take out your 401K/retirement funds by managing your AGI? And why we don't use retirement funds to invest to take advantage of cost segregations & bonus depreciation.
*Why we don't buy homes to live in and invest instead?


A little bit about me:
I am an ex-Civil Engineer who invests passively in Real Estate from Honolulu, Hawaii.  I used to be in a big bad private company as a construction engineer but after some saving and investing I found happiness and balance at a lower paying job.  I journal my experiences in "Simple Passive Cashflow" podcast that I put on iTunes & Google Play.  My parents got screwed with the 401K and stock market and it's my mission to get everyone out the corrupt Wall Street roller coaster and into Main Street invests with safer, higher returns that benefit the middle class of America.