Barrett Linburg
@DallasAptGP
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Creating investor returns & revitalizing Opportunity Zones | Co-Founder @ SavoyEquity | $240M+ transforming TX neighborhoods | Proven tax-advantaged model
Dallas, TX
Joined June 2011
You have two ways to get a full step-up in basis on real estate. 1⃣Die. 2⃣Invest in an Opportunity Zone. I prefer the second. Most investors ignore OZs because they think the window closed. They are wrong. Everyone fixates on "deferral." You roll a capital gain into a
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The biggest pools of funds in Real Estate come from non-taxable endowments and retirement funds so don’t care at all about Opportunity Zones If you pay tax, you should care about OZ
I've spoken with a handful of Qualified Opportunity Fund sponsors and investors lately. Some quick notes as I step up my coverage on OZ 2.0... Firstly, everyone says the same thing: The tax benefits are the icing on the cake. The cake is plain 'ole real estate investing. Some
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Texas candidates have until 6 p.m. today to file for the March 3 primaries This is under the newly redrawn map There have already been fireworks today with Jasmine Crockett entering the Senate race Wondering if any local Dallas politicians will have announcements by 6pm?
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I always assumed D Magazine's "Best Of" lists were pay-to-play Then Village Baking Co. won Best Bakery We didn't pay a dime. (I'm an investor, so I'd know.) If your pastries are highly addictive, you don't have to Greenville · Knox · Oak Lawn · Bishop Arts · Preston Center
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Who has been to a World Cup match before? Give me the breakdown. How do I get tickets and which game will be craziest? Dive group stage Dallas matchups look solid Netherlands-Japan: June 14 England-Croatia: June 17 Argentina-Austria (June 22 Japan-UKR/POL/SWE/ALB: June 25
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AI is overhyped in terms of taking people’s jobs, but humans that know how to use LLMs will make humans that don’t obsolete in the marketplace.
If you’re not using ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or Claude every single day, multiple times per day, you should be terrified (unless you’re retired or wealthy enough to retire). Moving forward, as part of our hiring process, we will confirm that every potential hire uses a major LLM
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You can now text while your Tesla drives you and it doesn’t nag you to pay attention to the road So many people have told me that once this happened they would be buyers of a Tesla
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For my eagle eyed developer and designer followers...this unit is not done yet. Punch walks are being done today. If you see any imperfections then call them out and we'll have them added to the punch list Want info on pre-leasing in a great Dallas neighborhood: info in pic
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Most multifamily units are designed by people who never operate them. They chase awards. They ignore OpEx. We just started pre-leasing The Marcus Apartments in The Cedars neighborhood in Dallas. Here is what changes when the builder also manages the asset. The Kitchen Is
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250+ kids from low-income Dallas families learn to code every week Grades 3–12. Title I schools. Under-resourced communities. One of them just got a full-ride scholarship to Brown Ivy League. Full ride. A kid from a low-income area and a DISD school beat the odds The
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Moses, Rhett, Doug, and their whole team are high integrity and high conviction people with a very long term view A great fit for a certain type of operator If you might be that type of operator; you should reach out and learn more
*Important update re ReSeed*; hoping you will help spread the word: ReSeed, which partners & I started several years ago to seed emerging real estate operators & provide them w long-term capital for deals, is soliciting applications for our 3rd cohort of operators. Over the
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In 2012, a banker made a bet on me. I had no track record. No portfolio. Just a deal and a plan. That loan changed my life. Today, that banker made a big move. Here's why it matters for entrepreneurs in North Texas: His name is Josh McKee. Back then, my wife, mother-in-law,
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Texas politicians are promising to "eliminate property taxes." It polls at 80%. It wins elections. And it is a mathematical lie. Texas runs on a two-legged stool. Most states have three revenue sources: Income Tax, Sales Tax, Property Tax. We banned income tax. We banned
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We raised $8M from investors. Borrowed $10.5M from a local bank. Built 75 apartments in Bishop Ridge, Dallas. Total project cost: $18.5M. Now that the building is complete, our investors are projected to receive about $5M in bonus depreciation. This is a "paper loss" equal to
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Opportunity Zone investing fixes this
“I used accelerated depreciation and wrote off $100k this year!” 😀 “But if you sell, the IRS recaptures that depreciation. It’s not free money. Oh, and you overpaid by $200k 😬
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There's a pattern that predicts where land values will reprice years before the cranes show up. New York saw it. Chicago saw it. Atlanta saw it. Dallas is next. Big cities across the country are facing the same dilemma. The suburbs keep growing while the urban core fights to
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Take this thought a step further Use vibe coding tools to scrape the most relevant podcast transcripts Now you have a super powered “board of directors” highly trained on whatever you’re building
it still blows my mind you can open a podcast app today and listen to satya from microsoft, jensen from nvidia, brian chesky from airbnb, tobi from shopify, and the indie builders making $100k MRR. they tell you exactly how they build their products, the mistakes they made, and
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