Backstage Guide to Real Estate

Produce Passive Income, Write Your Own Story, and Direct Your Dollars Toward Positive Change

By: Matt Picheny

Narrated by: Matt Picheny

What if you can create financial freedom and save the world?

Pulling back the curtain, Matt Picheny reveals the power of purposeful investing to improve life for you, your family, and even the world, one passive investment at a time. His uncommon journey from actor to real estate investor exposes the power of passive income to liberate you from a future of necessity, setting you financially free to write your own story.

From the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat, Matt takes us along on his eclectic path to financial freedom, sharing lessons learned (sometimes the hard way) to help light our way forward. Building a portfolio alongside his day job, Matt rescripted typical real estate investing strategy with his value-centric approach that benefits both residents and investors.

From a starter home in Washington Heights to flipping houses and ultimately finding his niche in apartment syndication, Backstage Guide to Real Estate shares the keystone concepts of property ownership and wealth management that Matt learned along the way.

You’ll discover:

• The tell-tale signs of a great real estate investment
• How to improve the value of a rental through minor improvements and upgrades
• Beginning and advanced strategies for buying, selling, and managing properties remotely
• The most important factors to consider when vetting a syndication deal
• How to use your money to improve life for your residents and your community

With an optimistic win-win approach and practical advice, Backstage Guide to Real Estate is for busy business entrepreneurs, inspired leaders, nomadic visionaries, and change agents everywhere who want direct the power of their investment dollars to make positive changes in their world.

©2021 Matt Picheny (P)2022 Matt Picheny

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What I love most about this book is how generously Matt guides the reader through his journey. The book is accessible, fun and is packed with valuable lessons learned. Matt outlines the highs, the lows and everything he learned along the way.

This book can not only help collapse timelines in your investment journey but - perhaps most importantly for some of us Millennials - inspire you to get started!

Great story with a lot of valuable info

The author takes you through his journey as a real estate investor. He does so in a relatable way and packs in a lot of good lessons learned along the way. I'm a relatively experienced real estate investor and found many good nuggets of info, especially in his fudgable factors breakdown at the end.

Great for first time investors or those looking to dig deeper

This was a very detailed but easy to understand guide. I appreciated the real-time ‘glossary’ explanations since I was on the go listening.
Don’t skip the nuggets at the end on how to evaluate future opportunities.

Simple guide wrapped in a great series of stories

Really enjoyed the book. Simple guide on how to get into real estate investing integrated with a great stories and anecdotes.

Broadway quality with Blackstone Expertise

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I read everyone's book on multifamily. Some were good and some were opportunities to market to investors. Then I read Matt Picheny Backstage Guide To Real Estate. The first thing that stood out to me is the writing was really really good. It read like a best selling book. Whether reading for a depth of understanding of investing or learning to cook it was very well put together. I think you will only really appreciate my next point if you real a lot of Investor books. But the book started as a life story, which was a total plot twist. I thought I was just going to enjoy a good autobiography. But no, Matt incorporated how his twist and turns complemented and even directed him towards REI. Like an artist whose tapestry seems to be random colors and lines conducts the last strokes to bring everything together. The second half of the book details the thought process, equations, tools, and resources of an experienced investor. A must read for investors of all kinds!

A "Must Listen" for New Real Estate Investors!

Let's face it, real estate investing can be a dry subject. By interlacing valuable insight on how to approach real estate investing like a pro with his inspiring career and real estate journey, Matt provides a clear and concise approach to learning the pros and pitfalls of real estate investing, making it easy to learn from his various experiences on the way to his current focus in syndicating multifamily properties.

Matt's background in acting also makes him a great narrator, with a great, engaging voice that will keep you both entertained and interested. The most challenging aspect to getting value out of most books is finishing them, and you won't want to quit listening with the masterful way Matt intertwines his experiences with the lessons he's learned along the way combined with his backstage glossaries of key terms and concepts.