Forrest Jinks started by fixing up a house so he could buy a truck. He had zero construction experience, so he stood outside Home Depot and asked painters questions in the parking lot.

Today he manages $550 million.

In between, he lost a piece of land worth $1.3 million and sold it for $425,000. That crash taught him the rules he still runs his company by twenty years later.

This episode is the playbook.

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• The difference between risk and uncertainty, and why smart investors only take one of them
• Why "I'll get your money back no matter what" is the worst promise you can make to an investor, and what to say instead
• How thousands of multifamily operators got wiped out between 2022 and today, and the exact mistakes that did it
• Why higher risk should never mean a small bump in return (Forrest's rule: double the risk, more than double the reward)
• The one thing to check before you invest in any deal, and it has nothing to do with the property
• Why "insider information" is completely legal in real estate, and how pros use it to beat the market
• Where Forrest sees the biggest opportunity right now, plus the numbers on the 1,200-unit deal he's buying at a fraction of build cost
• How to know if a sponsor is actually good (hint: you only find out when things go wrong)

About Forrest Jinks:

Forrest Jinks is the CEO of Altus Equity, where he oversees roughly $550 million in assets under management. He came up the blue collar way, doing his own construction on his first deal, then scaling through local development before the 2008 crash forced a full rebuild of how he invests.

Today Altus finds real estate opportunities that are too hard or too big for individual investors, packages them, and handles the asset management so investors can go passive without giving up private market upside. Full transparency is the core of how he runs deals. Every investor sees the risk, the mitigation plan, and quarterly reports on what's working and what isn't.

Connect With Forrest:

• Website: altusequity.com
• Youtube: Kyle Goldstein
• Email: FJNKS@altusequity.com