Investing in Real Estate Syndications | The Investors' Experience with Russ Morgan and Joey Mure
Russ and Joey share their perspective on investing in commercial real estate syndications from the investors' perspective - how to find syndications, when (and when not) to invest, and pitfalls you can avoid as a passive real estate investor.
The duo run Wealth Without Wall Street, which is an online community that seeks to re-educate business owners & families how money truly works. Their goal is to teach people how to enhance savings, increase cash flow and create passive income all without the help of Wall Street. The secret to doing this is having your money work for you, not someone else.
Before most investors ever make an offer, they convince themselves there are no deals left.
The market is too competitive.
Prices are too high.
Everything worth buying is already gone.
So in this Office Hours session, I decided to test that theory.
Ray Smith built a portfolio of 100 single-family rentals paying him 35% a year. He's a year and a half into a three-year plan to sell every single one.
This conversation is the most honest take I've heard on what it actually costs a residential investor to make the jump into commercial.
Chris Thorndike bought a rundown $400K warehouse in Gainesville, Florida and converted it into six micro retail suites. Over 120 people applied to rent the six spaces. It has not had a single vacancy in two and a half years. Most investors would have moved on and gone hunting for the next deal. Chris almost did too. Then he looked a little closer at what he already owned.
Most high earners don’t have an income problem.
They have a tax problem.
And commercial real estate investors play by a completely different set of rules.
In this week’s Office Hours, I break down one of the most powerful tax strategies in real estate: cost segregation. Not the surface-level version people throw around online, but how it actually works in practice and why investors use it to create massive first-year tax savings.
If you've been waiting for the right time to buy commercial real estate, this is it - join the CRE Accelerator Mastermind and I'll help you make it happen: https://accelerator.crecentral.com/OO I'm Selling Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJx58bOo5g0 Graham Stephan just made the case for commercial real estate and I don't think he realized he did it. In his recent video "I'm Selling Everything," Graham walked through exactly why he's exiting his entire LA rental portfolio: 4-5% cash flow on equity, the $400 permit fee to replace a $500 fence, the constant "background noise" of being a residential landlord, and a California regulatory environment that's actively pushing capital out of housing.
Most investors focus on making more money. Sophisticated real estate investors focus on keeping more of it.
In this episode, we break down the tax strategies commercial real estate investors use to build long-term wealth while legally minimizing taxes. From depreciation and cost segregation to 1031 exchanges and refinancing strategies, this conversation covers the exact framework many high-net-worth investors use to compound their portfolios faster.
Michael Russell built a portfolio of luxury Airbnbs in Maui and then regulation shut the door on scaling any further. So he did what most investors wouldn’t: he bought a hostel in the middle of COVID, when occupancy was zero and everyone thought he was crazy.
The going rate to build 43,000 square feet of flex space from the ground up right now is somewhere between $6 and $8 million. I'm doing it for around $2 million and in this week's Office Hours, I'm showing you exactly how.
The answer isn't a secret or a shortcut. It's a structure called the master lease and it's the most powerful tool in commercial real estate that almost nobody teaches.
Gold doesn't pay you. It doesn't give you tax benefits. And you have zero control over whether it goes up or down.
In this video, I'm breaking down why commercial real estate is a better hard asset than gold — and I'm using a real deal from one of my Mastermind members to prove it. Matt Barbaccia joined the CRE Accelerator feeling underqualified, then 45 days later closed a 70% vacant flex warehouse with zero dollars out of pocket and no debt payments for the first two years.
Everyone wants a fully-leased building. I'd rather have the empty one, and in this week's Office Hours, I'm going to show you exactly why. Vacant buildings scare most investors off. But in today's market, that vacancy is your biggest advantage: negotiating leverage, below-replacement-cost pricing, and a forced appreciation setup that a fully-leased deal can't match.
About Your Host:
Tyler Cauble, Founder & President of The Cauble Group, is a commercial real estate broker and investor based in East Nashville. He’s the best selling author of Open for Business: The Insider’s Guide to Leasing Commercial Real Estate and has focused his career on serving commercial real estate investors as a board member for the Real Estate Investors of Nashville.

