If you’ve been a real estate investor / developer for any length of time (combined 45 years for the Repka brothers), you certainly know how to “pass the hat” to pitch your deals at the local Country Club, Yacht Club, Rotary Club, etc. You learned the art of pitching your investment opportunities to friends, family [...]
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By David D. Repka, Co-Founder of Bison Financial Group For better or worse the free & flattening power of the Internet has forever changed how the “deal game (1)” is played. The Internet is a terrific way to share massive amounts of data virtually instantaneously and frictionlessly, but there is still a rhythm to be followed on [...]
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Article By: Eric Platt, Matthew Boesler and Max Nisen at Business Insider Part II Blogger Comment by David Repka - For Part I visit link continued… 7. [BLOGGER COMMENT]: Car Culture On The Decline – As a child of the 1980s having a car was the ultimate freedom. My friends and I could not wait until we got [...]
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A buddy of mine was a “private banker” for a long time… one of his clients was the Family Office of a self-made Billionaire. Recently, he was head-hunted to be their in-house acquisitions guy looking for commercial real estate investment opportunities in the Southeast… basic overview: They are comfortable writing checks in the $2-20 million range [...]
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Article By: Eric Platt, Matthew Boesler and Max Nisen at Business Insider Part I Blogger Comment by David Repka As election day nears, the conversation in offices, homes, and pulpits across the country has focused almost exclusively on one thing: The Economy. And that’s for good reason. The economic climate will dictate how the country [...]
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By Josh Linkner, Forbes Contributor Blogger Comment by David Repka Having witnessed thousands of entrepreneurial pitches as a venture capitalist, I’ve seen the gamut from the good, the bad and the ugly. Of the pitches any VC sees, very few will actually receive funding; there are a lot of factors in that equation, so even for [...]
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We’ve received a mandate from one of the private equity funds we advise to find compelling investment opportunities in the hospitality and assisted living sectors in these 23 Florida Counties: • Gulf Coast Area: Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco • Tampa Bay Area: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota • North Central Florida: Alachua, Putnam, Marion, Sumter • East Coast: Flagler, Volusia, [...]
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By David Repka, Co-Founder Bison Financial Group Let’s face it, the last few years have been astonishingly difficult for anyone in the “dealmaking game” as fear, uncertainty and doubt have crept into the capital markets driving reliable sources of capital to the sidelines. No pocket of capital has been picked as clean as construction funding [...]
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By Jeff McMahon, Forbes Contributor Blogger Comment by David Repka Warren Buffett‘s wind-energy company plunged into solar energy this afternoon, agreeing to purchase the Topaz Solar Farm project in Central California for more than $2 billion, the company announced. In 2000, Berkshire Hathaway and other investors paid roughly the same amount to purchase MidAmerican Energy Holdings. MidAmerican entered agreements to [...]
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Hospitality industry expert, Steve Van (pictured right), sees trouble ahead with foreclosures in the hotel sector. BLOGGER COMMENT listed below by David Repka of Bison Financial Group. Steve Van hates being the pessimist, but he can’t help it. The CEO of Prism Hotels & Resorts says comparing the last two years of hotel distress to what’s coming is [...]
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