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Avoid the 'So-Called' Gurus with Nikolai Ray

July 19, 2021 • Yonah Weiss • Episode 152

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Nikolai Ray is the CEO and Founder of MREX. He is also a professor in Real Estate Financial Engineering at MREX College, an ex-professional ice hockey player, and three-time Olympic Chief of Human Performance. He is regarded as one of North America’s leading experts in apartment investing with over $10 billion in analysis, underwriting, and transactions. Nikolai is a successful multifamily real estate investor and developer specializing in heavy value-add opportunistic and ground-up development to over 30 apartment building acquisitions. He is your leading expert in real estate financial engineering.

[00:01 – 04:14] Professor, Real Estate Investor

Let’s get to know Nikolai Ray
Nikolai talks about MREX

[04:15 – 12:42] Education Matters

The Changes in Real Estate and Alternatives
Why Books Aren’t Everything
The Three Types of MREX’ Courses

[12:43 – 22:39] Avoid the 'So-Called' Gurus

Democratizing Real Estate
Nikolai as Good Will Hunting
MREX Terminal and MREX College
How to Be the Best in the Market
Investor-Focused vs Broker-Centric vs Institutional-Centric

[22:40 – 29:48] All About Investors

Cutting through all the noise
Spitting, Repeating and Not Thinking
Check-Signer Investors
Nikolai talks about social media

[29:49 – 38:41] THE FINAL FOUR

What's the worst job that you ever had?
- Lumberjack
What's a book you've read that has given you a paradigm shift?
- Good to Great; Spiritual books
What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
- A new language
What does success mean to you?
- “Success is just being valuable.”
Putting actions behind your words
Connect with Nikolai. Links available below

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Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s no book on the market that has five percent of the knowledge that I could probably teach you in five hours.” - Nikolai Ray

“You owe it to yourself to invest in your education.” - Nikolai Ray

Connect with Nikolai through nray@mrex.co, Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Check out MREX through https://mrex.co/, Youtube, or Facebook.