Identify Your Strengths and Weakness with Andrew Davis

<p style="font-weight:400;">You’ll want to listen to this episode of the Real Estate (Un) Success Stories podcast a couple times. Andrew Davis joins Cody for an impactful conversation around identifying your strengths and weaknesses then, finding a partner who both balances and counteracts them to make a stronger team.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Andrew is the Director of Investor Relations for <a href='http://www.passiveinvesting.com/'>passiveinvesting.com</a>, a commercial real estate private equity group approaching $1B in AUM, primarily in multifamily and self-storage assets, with a long term goal to be invested in multiple recession resistant asset classes. In 2021 alone, they raised $175MM in capital from private retail investors. He is focused on capital formation, building long term relationships with investor partners, driving awareness of the passiveinvesting.com brand & mission, and creating a best-in-class investor experience.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Key Takeaways</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <ul><li>Early in the game, learn how valuable scale is, how valuable working with the right people and having the right partner is.</li> <li>Don’t be too independent, to a fault.</li> <li>Identify where you’re strong, but also, identify where you’re weak. Then, look for a partner who is strong where you’re weak.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">During the conversation, Andrew mentions an impactful quote from <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/timferriss/'>Tim Ferris</a>, “You need to know what your unique strengths are and be willing to delegate.” This quote is taken from Tim’s book, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Work-Week-An