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Thinking about selling your rental but dreading the tax bill? In California, selling an investment property without a 1031 exchange can cost you 30 to 40% of your gain. I sat down with 1031 qualified intermediary Aristotle Kumpis of Excel1031 to break down how investors defer taxes, beat the 45-day deadline, and trade up into better assets, plus real exchanges that went from single-family homes to apartment buildings, farmland to rentals, and even a motorcycle dealership to a restaurant.

📲 Want a 1031 game plan for your building? Get in touch: https://www.sageregroup.com/contact/

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Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

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Is this the best time in 10 years to buy apartment buildings in Long Beach? I sat down with Sage Real Estate agent and investor Nick Cordero to break down the data in Alamitos Beach and North Alamitos Beach: fourplex vs 5+ unit pricing, cap rates, GRMs, days on market, and why the 5+ unit market is where we're seeing the biggest opportunities right now.

Nick is an aerospace engineer who owns 15 units, bought his latest fourplex in this exact neighborhood, and pulled money from his 401(k) to buy his first property. He shares how he underwrites deals at today's rates, why he isn't betting on rates dropping, and what he looks for before he buys.

🤝 Connect with Nick Cordero | Sage Real Estate
📞 (626) 678-3546
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Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

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Can two Long Beach multifamily brokers ace a real estate quiz written by AI? Cody and I analyze apartment deals every day, so we put ourselves to the test with 7 questions on GRM, cap rates, days on market, the 1% rule, DSCR, 1031 exchanges, and LTV. We went 6 for 7, and we left the one we missed in the video.

Along the way, we break down how each metric actually works in the Long Beach market: why a GRM of 10 is strong here, the 35% expense rule of thumb we use on Southern California apartment buildings, when a high days-on-market number signals a negotiating opportunity, and why the 1% rule is nearly impossible to hit in SoCal.

Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

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Is now the time to sell your fourplex and buy something bigger? Juan Huizar, President of Sage Real Estate, has closed 42 transactions so far in 2026. In this episode of The Apartment Forecast, he walks through 11 of those deals and the investors behind them.

You'll see how Juan sold his own fourplex for $325K more than he paid and rolled roughly $600K in equity into a 10-unit building. You'll also meet a first-time buyer whose whole family showed up to support his first apartment purchase, an Altadena fire survivor who rebuilt her portfolio with a Belmont Shore fourplex, and an investor who turned two "lazy money" condos into a 6-unit building in Long Beach.

👉 Thinking about selling, trading up, or buying your first investment property? https://www.sageregroup.com/contact/

Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

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Homes under $1.5 million in Long Beach are moving at near-pandemic speed, with multiple offers and sellers holding the leverage. Condos are a completely different story. So how is the market this hot with higher interest rates? I sat down with Torey Carrick, President of Anderson Real Estate Group, to break it down.

📅 Buying, selling, or ready to own more doors? Let's talk: https://www.sageregroup.com/contact/

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Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

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The apartment market has been getting kicked in the teeth for a few years now — values down, days on market up, and rates climbing again instead of falling. In this conversation, Cody Charnell and I go back and forth on what's actually happening in the Long Beach 5+ unit market, why our buyers are still buying, and the ADU mistake that's quietly costing fourplex owners real money.

If you're an owner waiting for rates to drop before you sell, you need to hear the two-to-three year outlook we're working with. And if you're a buyer sitting on the sidelines because rates are high, you may be looking at this backwards.

Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

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AI is changing commercial real estate faster than most owners and brokers realize. Jake Heller has spent hundreds of hours testing virtually every AI tool on the market. He tracks a database of roughly 712, from broker opinions of value to offering memorandums to underwriting acquisitions and ground-up development feasibility.

So instead of guessing what's useful, we're showing you exactly what's working right now, where AI quietly makes things worse, and the simple ROI test that tells you when to use it and when to just do the work yourself.

If you own apartment buildings in Long Beach or anywhere in Southern California, or you're a broker trying to compete with the big shops, this is the episode to watch before you get left behind.

👉 Begin your multifamily investment journey here: https://www.sageregroup.com/contact

🎯 Connect with Jake Heller
🌐 AI for CRE Collective: https://aiforcrecollective.com
▶️ YouTube: AI for CRE Collective

Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/multifamilylongbeach/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SageRegroup/
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Four investors sat down at our monthly 4-Doors to More Doors meetup and walked through exactly how they built their portfolios. Not theory. First deals, real street corners, real numbers, and the mistakes they'd tell you to avoid.

Brad went from zero to more than 400 doors and left his corporate job. Mark has built 24 ADUs and started in the late 1970s when banks simply weren't lending. Brian owns multifamily across Long Beach plus self-storage and has never chased a cheaper market out of state. Victor came into real estate by accident and now operates more than 20 Jersey Mike's locations alongside his apartment portfolio.

None of them were handed a building. That's the whole point of this panel.

RSVP for the next one: https://www.sageregroup.com/meetup/

Juan is a Licensed California Real Estate Broker that has acquired his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation and a Real Estate Investor who is dedicated to helping people build wealth and financial independence through real estate investing.

Website: www.SageREGroup.com

Phone: 562-307-0838

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/multifamilylongbeach/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SageRegroup/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanhuizar-sagerealestate/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/sagerealestate

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