048: Why and How to Invest Passively with Cherry Chen

Published: Nov. 1, 2019, midnight

Cherry received her MD at Texas A&M College of Medicine with honors and completed her training at Oregon Health & Science University. She is an Internal Medicine physician in the DFW area and has experience with commercial real estate syndications across multifamily, self storage, and manufactured home parks as a limited passive investor, as well as raising private equity capital through The Real Estate Physician.
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\nDr. Chen founded The Real Estate Physician to empower her physician colleagues in commercial real estate investments. It is a resource she wished she had and now provides value to over 400+ physician investors.

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Some topics from the podcast:

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\u2022         You already make enough from your job so why why did you start investing in real estate?
\n\u2022         What was your very first real estate investment and what did you learn from that investment?
\n\u2022         What do you mean by passive investing?
\n\u2022         Why should someone look into investing passively?
\n\u2022         Do you focus on certain markets, asset type and deal criteria (debt, equity, long term etc.)?
\n\u2022         What steps do you follow as soon as you receive a passive deal from a syndicator?
\n\u2022         Can you share with us the best investment you made passively?
\n\u2022         What was your worst investment? Any lessons learned from your worst deal?
\n\u2022         Can you mention the mistakes you have made?