Kim Lisa TaylorSecurities Attorney, Founder, Syndication Attorneys, PLLC · Corporate Securities Attorney, 2x Best-Selling Author, Nationwide Speaker | Private Placement

Lessons Learned: A Rare Loss in Real Estate Investing

20 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video, the host recounts a singular losing investment involving an oil asset in Texas. The property’s value collapsed when the local shale oil reserves were exhausted, forcing a liquidation at roughly 60% of the original capital invested. The speaker emphasizes that this loss is an outlier, noting that their broader strategy of acquiring distressed foreclosure properties has been consistently profitable for both the firm and its investors.

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Yeah. So we had actually, you know, this is like true confessions. We had one in which unfortunately we and our investors had to take a loss. It involved oil, oil industry in an area that was, and the asset became worth almost nothing when this particular part of Texas ran out of shale oil. And we ended up liquidating the asset for probably 60% of what we had in it. And that was the one deal we've taken a loss. So overall, if you take it overall, foreclosure has probably been profitable for aggravating, but profitable for us and the investors.