John Rubino is a 20 year Navy aviator who runs JID Investments as the middle layer between passive investors and active sponsors. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and John talk about how one trusted relationship can replace vetting every deal yourself.
In this episode:
- The model: he aggregates roughly 151 investors into one LLC and "dovetails it under your entity, as the GP, as the LP," so his people do not have to vet every deal and team themselves.
- The reframe: a passive investor's job is to vet the market, the deal, and the team, but with John you "just gotta vet John."
- His discipline: he vets sponsors with "a very detailed checklist" from his military background, and before any deal goes out he and his partner both ask, "Are you gonna invest in it?" Both in with their own money, or it does not go out.
- The leverage truth: "it's about who you know," and "not trying to be the smartest person, looking for the smartest people to be around."
- Why even a friend with half a billion dollars and 5,000 plus doors said the same thing: "you need a team."
Abel Pacheco is a San Antonio real estate operator who went from 8 single family houses to a share of roughly 1,500 apartment doors, and now works as a fractional Chief AI Officer helping small and mid sized businesses put the back office on autopilot.
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