Tony Figliola is a Real Estate Investor and licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Mechanical Engineering in Ohio. His real estate portfolio is comprised mainly of multifamily holdings – he is a General Partner on over 170 units through his business, Passive Investment Pros.

During his near decade as a facilities engineer, he gained an abundance of experience with assessing critical building systems for large multifamily, mixed-use, office, and retail buildings, which makes him an asset when performing building walkthroughs and analyzing property conditions during due diligence. He holds a B.S. degree In Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University where he also worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant.

Tony’s mission for Passive Investment Pros is to help people in his community gain access to the incredibly powerful wealth building asset class that is commercial real estate! When he’s not working, he enjoys playing guitar, weight training, and spending time with his fiancé, Cassondra, and their Cane Corso pup, Giovanni.

Michael Blank is a Real Estate Investor, Bestselling Author of “Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing”, speaker, and leading authority on apartment investing in the United States. As the CEO of Nighthawk Equity, Host of the Apartment Building Investing Podcast, and Columnist, Blank’s passionate about helping people become financially free by investing in apartment building deals. Through his investment company , Nighthawk Equity, he controls over $266M in performing multifamily assets all over the United States. In addition to his own investing activities, he’s helped students purchase over 13,700 units valued in excess of $635M through his content and training programs. His expertise in all facets of multifamily investing gives us, and our investing partners, confidence that all of our acquisitions are carefully evaluated so that we achieve consistent returns for our investors.

Blank’s been interviewed by top real estate podcasts, including Bigger Pockets, Joe Fairless (Best Ever Show), Get Rich Education, Cashflow Ninja and many more. “The Michael Blank” blog has also been listed in the Top 25 Real Estate Investing Blogs (2018) by Leap Property Management and Top Online Resources for Learning Real Estate by Fit Small Business (2019).

Jeremy began his real estate journey when he purchased his first duplex in 2010. In 2011 he earned his MBA, which changed his investing trajectory. He began rehabbing single family homes in 2013 to quickly build equity in his portfolio. Four years later, after 22 years as a manufacturing engineer, he experienced a career disrupting event that pushed him to scale his real estate portfolio even more quickly.

In 2018 he closed on a 28-unit apartment property. Three months later he closed on an 8-unit property which allowed him to become financially free from his engineering career. Since 2018, Jeremy has continued to diversify his investments by expanding his real estate portfolio into a variety of real estate assets. He is passively investing in out of state assets, providing hard money loans, and syndicating deals (including over 1,000 self storage units, commercial retail spaces and hotel to apartment conversions) as a means to diversify his investments.

He now spends time helping others learn about real estate by participating in regional REIA organizations and the local apartment associations, where he actively encourages others to get into real estate.