Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

This is networking done RIGHT!

20 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Christian Osgood explains how to learn from people who've already succeeded: study their mistakes and copy what worked. Gary Mann from Moses Lake taught Osgood's team the errors he made building a real estate portfolio over decades. High-trust relationships backed by solid legal agreements create partnerships that actually last.

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The real model here is you find people who've done the thing you want to do and you learn from them. Try to skip as many of the mistakes as they made along the way and take all of the best and roll it in. There's a man named Gary Mann in Moses Lake, and he was that for us when we started. He's like, here's where we screwed up. We built this huge portfolio, hundreds of units over 50 years. I'm like, awesome. With this knowledge, I shall do it in 2. And there's obviously a very high level of trust here. You back that with a fantastic legal structure and you potentially have this amazing, unbreakable partnership where you're like, we like each other, we trust each other, and we have paperwork so that we don't have to do any of that if we don't want to. Great place to be. Great place to be.