Kavitha Baratakke came out of tech at IBM and Atlassian and now invests across about 2,200 doors as a limited partner and 1,200 as a general partner. On this episode, host Abel Pacheco and Kavitha talk about the most expensive decision in real estate: whether to say yes at all.
In this episode:
- The scar. A friend pressured her to commit to a deal in about an hour: "I trusted him as a person, but I didn't know anything about him as a sponsor. Don't do that. No is your birthright. It's your money."
- Her doctrine since: "I will never say yes when I really want to say no."
- How you earn a confident no: "become a passive first. Put your own money in the deals. When you have your money on the line, you'll do your due diligence."
- Why a mentor matters: "having a mentor cuts short a lot of the mistakes you can make."
- Abel's framing: educate yourself on the sponsor, the market, and the deal, because you don't want to make million dollar mistakes.
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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