Paul W. Margaritis is the Founder and Managing Partner of several real estate investment and redevelopment companies committed to the revitalization of residential homes and small apartment buildings throughout New Jersey, with an emphasis in Mercer County. Paul is known for his ability to locate low risk, high return real estate property opportunities, and recognized as a specialist in raising private capital. Paul is proficient at creating passive income through real estate, which he predominantly does by sourcing private capital and acquiring distressed real estate.
Matt Faircloth, Co-founder & President of the DeRosa Group, is a seasoned real estate investor. The DeRosa Group, based in historic Trenton, New Jersey, is a developer and owner of commercial and residential property with a mission to “transform lives through real estate." DeRosa creates partnerships to finance select real estate investments and has a proven track record of providing safe, profitable investment opportunities to their clients.
Matt, along with his wife Liz, started investing in real estate in 2004 with the purchase of a duplex outside of Philadelphia with a $30,000 private loan. They founded DeRosa Group in 2005 and has since grown the company to owning and managing over 370 units of residential and commercial assets throughout the east coast. DeRosa has completed over 30 million in real estate transactions involving private capital including fix and flips, single family home rentals, mixed use buildings, apartment buildings, office buildings, and tax lien investments. Matt has an extensive expertise in connecting passive investors to lucrative investment opportunities through syndications, private loans and joint ventures. Matt Faircloth is an active contributor to the BiggerPockets Blog and has been featured on the BP Podcast twice (Show # 88 and # 203). He also regularly contributes to BiggerPocket's Facebook Live sessions and teaches educational webinars.
Recently, Matt wrote a book for BiggerPockets.com called “Raising Private Capital – Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People’s Money.” It will be released by BiggerPockets Publishing on July 26th. The book is a comprehensive road map for investors looking to inject more private capital into their real estate investing business.
Kirkus, the #1 trade review publication for books, just posted a review of the book: "In this impressively accessible introduction to a complex subject, Faircloth covers every aspect of private funding, presuming little knowledge on the part of the reader."