MEET OUR TEAM
Practice & Experience
Unlike single family, multifamily real estate investing is a team sport. This allows partnerships to leverage each other’s expertise, and with everyone working in their strengths, this maximizes the potential of each asset.
Wes French
Principal
Wes brings almost a decade of commercial construction and real estate investing experience. Like many real estate investors, Wes began his career in single family and small multifamily rentals. While these are a great investment vehicle, it became apparent both in real estate and working with A-class multifamily developers just how powerful multifamily investing can be.
Wes has managed nearly $200 million in new construction. This was accomplished through working strongly in a team, managing people and processes, and solving difficult problems on a daily basis. All while building a real estate portfolio and self-performing the acquisitions, construction/rehabilitation, and management. A Bachelor of Engineering degree and Professional Engineering license, combined with construction business development and owner/developer relations has equipped Wes with a mixture of technical and communicational skills that have translated well into multifamily syndications. This brings value to the operating team through underwriting, due diligence processes, investor relations and asset management.
Wes’ passion for real estate and construction was a perfect fit for value add multifamily, which he believes provides the best opportunity for investors in the multifamily space.
Wes lives in St. Louis with his wife Allie, daughter Alaina and lab Callie. He is a member of both ULI (Urban Land Institute) and CCIM (Certified Commercial Investor Member) St. Louis chapters, and also serves on the ULI Young Leaders Board.
Garrison Gilbert
Senior Advisor
Honesty, integrity, and teamwork is what guides us through our day to day activities Garrison has been a full-time real estate investor since 2001 after completing college with two business majors and a minor in psychology. Since that time, he purchased over 1200 properties including fix/flips, land development deals, beach property acquisitions, single-family rental portfolios, section-8 rental portfolios, high-end estate developments, nonperforming real estate notes, and he was involved with a $50M real estate fund based out of NYC in 2008. Then in 2015, he made commercial real estate his full-time focus. Since he transitioned to full-time commercial real estate investing, Garrison has had the opportunity to speak at several large apartment building conferences where average attendance ranges from 600-1000 people. He is also a multifamily real estate coach for one of the largest names in the business while also having two real estate mastermind groups for apartment building owners.
Additionally, Garrison is one of the founding members of MultifamilyMaster.com, which is a worldwide online platform that provides free educational content for buying apartment buildings. Due to his success in the commercial real estate space, he was nominated for Multifamily Real Estate Investor of the Year in 2018 by Think Realty Magazine, which is one of the largest magazine publications for real estate investors. As Director of Investor Relations, Garrison Gilbert is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to real estate, and he strives to help as many people as possible because in commercial real estate, your network is your net worth, and this is a team sport.
Any potential investors should not construe Garrison Gilbert listed as a “senior consultant” to mean Garrison GIlbert or his team have analyzed or endorsed any particular investment opportunity.
Rod Khleif
Senior Advisor
Rod Khleif is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, multiple business owner, author, mentor, and community philanthropist who is passionate about business, life, success, and giving back. As one of the country’s top real estate trainers, Rod has personally owned and managed over 2,000 properties.
As an accomplished entrepreneur, Rod has built several successful multi-million dollar businesses. As a community philanthropist, Rod founded and directs The Tiny Hands Foundation, which has benefited more than 100,000 community children and families in need. Rod has combined his passion for real estate investing and business development coaching with his personal philosophy of goal setting, envisioning, and manifesting success to become one of America’s top real estate investment and business development trainers.
Any potential investors should not construe Rod Khleif listed as a “senior consultant” to mean Rod Khleif or his team have analyzed or endorsed any particular investment opportunity.