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Apr 11, 2022

Sam is a retired US Air Force officer and combat veteran who founded Wild Mountain Capital in 2018 with his hero dad. Sam traveled globally with US Air Force Special Operations as an International Health Specialist and saw poverty and a lack of safe housing while leading complex rehab and development projects worldwide. This motivated Sam to start Wild Mountain to transform neglected, unsafe, and mismanaged assets not just into “affordable housing”, but into housing that is affordable. 

The Wild Mountain team has 60+ years of commercial and residential real estate experience over 75+ projects individually. Since 2019, the team has syndicated 20 development /rehab properties, creating equity growth nearly twice the initial investment in less than two years. Projects include mobile home communities, apartment complexes, and self storage facilities.

 

Let’s dive in!



[00:01 - 10:49] Opening Segment

  • Sam shares his story and his passion for safe housing
    • Sam wants to build a real estate firm that inspires investors
    • They can help each other build safe spaces to live in
  • How his experiences around the globe led him to do his passion
    • Not everything is about retirement
  • How his syndication business setting him up for global healthcare systems
    • A growing team
    • Sam shares about one of his projects 

 

[10:50 - 20:22] How Sam gets to achieve his dream one step at a time

  • Affordable housing for challenging communities
    • What the tenant bases are like in these places
    • Sam and his team’s heart goes for the tenants
  • How Sam and his company deal with raising rent
    • No margin, no mission
  • A bad representation of mobile home parks
    • What is Sam’s experience with this market

 

[20:23 - 29:17] Difference with Impact Investing vs. Extracting Value in this space

  • Many people on social media take away value 
  • The focus of impact investing
  • How they monitor the lives changed 
  • What their property managers do
  • Sam’s life growing up

 

[29:18 - 34:20] Closing Segment 

  • How investing in syndications can help change investor’s lives
  • Final words

 

Connect with Sam’s Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Shoot him an email at sam@wildmountaincapital.com

Check out their website: www.wildmountaincapital.com

 

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Tweetable Quotes

"People are really affected by where they live. They are affected by the people that are around, the safety, their concern for safety, the kind of work they do and are able to do.” - Sam Sells

 

"Why can’t we have a great impact and have money doing it?” - Sam Sells

 

"Our goal is to change a million lives.” - Sam Sells

 

"Growing up in that regard has really made us flexible and we’re not afraid of these ugly value-added properties at all. We’re not afraid to work directly with those in that social economic class. We’re not afraid to visit and spend hours with someone who has never heard of syndication, real estate investing, or anything.” - Sam Sells