Jonathan CroninREI Accelerator, Rei Accelerator · Multifamily Real Estate Investor & Coaching Leader

How He Replaced Lost Investors & Still Raised $525,000

1 Oct 2025

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker recounts early fundraising challenges when some capital partners were lost mid-process and describes how they replaced those investors. The speaker emphasizes perseverance, over-raising to cover dropouts, extensive networking (many investor lunches/dinners), and asking personal contacts to roll IRAs into self-directed accounts for real estate investment.

In the beginning, it was a learning curve just like anything else. But when you believe in yourself and you know that you're following God's ordered steps, you know you can't fail. And so I just persevered. I kept going. We did lose some capital partners a couple times halfway through, and I just had to replace them. You know, things happen sometimes. So I learned a lot about over raising each time I raise now to always make up for anything that doesn't work out. And so I had many, many investor lunches and dinners and communicated with anybody and everybody in my personal life that may or may not have capital laying around, or they were open to rolling over some of their IRA into self directed and then into real estate.