What’s Stopping You from Closing Your First Real Estate Deal?
Many new investors feel overwhelmed or unsure about taking the leap—you're not alone! Understanding the numbers and learning how to underwrite deals can make all the difference

Topic: The First Thing that Stops New Investors from Buying their First Deal

Speaker: Ken Gee, the Founder and Managing Member of KRI Partners, a real estate private equity and investor education firm. He has more than 26 years of real estate, banking, private equity, and real estate investing experience. Throughout his career, he has been involved in transactions valued at more than $2.0 billion, which has included the acquisition, management, and financing of various multifamily real estate projects.

He will be discussing the following topics:

• New investors lack the confidence they need to pull the trigger
• They don’t have confidence because they don’t understand the numbers
• Once they understand the numbers and know how to underwrite, then their confidence soars

Bio: Before forming KRI Partners, Ken was a CPA with Deloitte in their tax & M&A practice. His major clients included some of the largest private equity and real estate firms in the U.S. Prior to his career at Deloitte, he was a commercial lender at a large regional bank in Cleveland (now part of PNC).

Prior to that, he owned and operated several certified Cessna Pilot Centers in the Northeast Ohio area where he trained pilots for the Delta Connection program.

Ken is married and has three (3) grown children. He enjoys learning, spending time with his family, and helping people create wealth through real estate so they can enjoy life as he has been able to.