Riaz Taplin's guest appearances

Riaz Taplin

Opportunity Zones & Private Equity Show

The Fort - An Entrepreneurship Podcast

Impact Real Estate Podcast

The Lease-Up

Michael Novogradac

Brandon Sedloff

John Blatchford

Jilliene Helman

Steve Robinson

Robin Sharma

Rachel Reilly

Brad Hargreaves

Chris Montgomery

Ayesha Selden

David Kessler

Mehul Patel

Michelle Thompson

Austin Rief

Steve Schneider

OwlTail

Principal &amp; Founder Riaz Taplin has been thinking about workforce housing for most of his professional life. Growing up in a real estate family, Riaz detoured early in his career from the family business to develop his own style by founding a design/build firm and developing over 50 ultra-luxury residences in the Bay Area. In successive projects and ventures, Riaz explored co-living, adaptive reuse micro-units, student housing, and traditional ground-up construction – all of which led to the firm’s custom workforce housing solution – the Micro-Living Studio.  Riaz leads Riaz Capital, a vertically integrated workforce housing developer and institutional-grade sponsor with a core team of over fifty professionals managing a portfolio of over 1,300 units, and with over 1,000 residences in the pipeline.  On this episode, Chris and Riaz discuss developing amazing projects in 30 months or less, how Riaz Capital builds units that are 28% more affordable than the competition. They deep dive on why design matters and why the Bay Area matters and will be a strong market for decades to come. Enjoy!  Follow Chris on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/FortWorthChris Learn more about Chris Powers and Fort Capital: www.FortCapitalLP.com Follow Chris on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/ Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/ Links: Riaz on LinkedIn Riaz Capital  Topics: (04:10) - Riaz’s Background and Career (12:24) - What is Microliving? (15:12) - How are you able to build these developments in 30 months when other deals take 7 years? (21:22) - Do you self-perform GC? (24:24) - How does zoning work in your market? (27:20) - Affordability Without Public Subsidizing (28:19) - Riaz’s ‘Simple Build’ Model (32:09) - Family households have dropped 69% to 29%, what does that mean for you? (35:54) - What do these units look like inside? (40:34) - Do tenants have to put a deposit down since the unit is pre-furnished? (41:34) - How do people getting into the industry get furniture designed for units? (42:43) - How do you design the layout of your units? (46:35) - Are we headed into a world where everything is smaller and more efficient? (50:39) - What are most people still getting wrong with apartment development? (53:28) - What would you change immediately that would make housing more attainable at scale? (56:10) - Why is the Bay Area still really important at a time when people are trying to write it off? (1:00:52) - Raising Capital, Funds &amp; Opportunity Zones (1:11:33) - Wrap Up The Fort is produced by Johnny Peterson &amp; Straight Up Podcasts

Principal &amp; Founder Riaz Taplin has been thinking about workforce housing for most of his professional life. Growing up in a real estate family, Riaz detoured early in his career from the family business to develop his own style by founding a design/build firm and developing over 50 ultra-luxury residences in the Bay Area. In successive projects and ventures, Riaz explored co-living, adaptive reuse micro-units, student housing, and traditional ground-up construction – all of which led to the firm’s custom workforce housing solution – the Micro-Living Studio.  Riaz leads Riaz Capital, a vertically integrated workforce housing developer and institutional-grade sponsor with a core team of over fifty professionals managing a portfolio of over 1,300 units, and with over 1,000 residences in the pipeline.  On this episode, Chris and Riaz discuss developing amazing projects in 30 months or less, how Riaz Capital builds units that are 28% more affordable than the competition. They deep dive on why design matters and why the Bay Area matters and will be a strong market for decades to come. Enjoy!  Follow Chris on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/FortWorthChris" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.Twitter.com/FortWorthChris</a> Learn more about Chris Powers and Fort Capital: <a href="http://www.fortcapitallp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.FortCapitalLP.com</a> Follow Chris on LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/</a> Follow Fort Capital on LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/company/fort-capital/</a> Links: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaztaplin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Riaz on LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://riazcapital.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Riaz Capital </a> Topics: (04:10) - Riaz’s Background and Career (12:24) - What is Microliving? (15:12) - How are you able to build these developments in 30 months when other deals take 7 years? (21:22) - Do you self-perform GC? (24:24) - How does zoning work in your market? (27:20) - Affordability Without Public Subsidizing (28:19) - Riaz’s ‘Simple Build’ Model (32:09) - Family households have dropped 69% to 29%, what does that mean for you? (35:54) - What do these units look like inside? (40:34) - Do tenants have to put a deposit down since the unit is pre-furnished? (41:34) - How do people getting into the industry get furniture designed for units? (42:43) - How do you design the layout of your units? (46:35) - Are we headed into a world where everything is smaller and more efficient? (50:39) - What are most people still getting wrong with apartment development? (53:28) - What would you change immediately that would make housing more attainable at scale? (56:10) - Why is the Bay Area still really important at a time when people are trying to write it off? (1:00:52) - Raising Capital, Funds &amp; Opportunity Zones (1:11:33) - Wrap Up The Fort is produced by Johnny Peterson &amp; Straight Up Podcasts

RE #190: Riaz Taplin - Founder of Riaz Capital - Do Well, Do Good - Developing a Billion Dollar Microliving Empire in the Bay Area

Are there misperceptions in the market? Do investors overreact to sentiment? And is there an opportunity for level-headed contrarian view Opportunity Zone investors?Riaz Taplin is principal and founder of Riaz Capital, an Oakland, California based real estate management firm focused on developing workforce housing in California's urban Opportunity Zones.Transcript and show notes at OpportunityDb.com

Are there misperceptions in the market? Do investors overreact to sentiment? And is there an opportunity for level-headed contrarian view Opportunity Zone investors?Riaz Taplin is principal and founder of Riaz Capital, an Oakland, California based real estate management firm focused on developing workforce housing in California's urban Opportunity Zones.<a href="https://opportunitydb.com/2021/07/riaz-taplin-147/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transcript and show notes at OpportunityDb.com</a>

Opportunity Zones and the Return to Cities, with Riaz Taplin (Episode #147)

On this episode of the TBG Real Estate Podcast we chat with Riaz Taplin. Riaz leads Riaz Capital, a vertically integrated workforce housing developer and institutional-grade sponsor with a core team of over fifty professionals managing a portfolio of over 1,300 units, and with over 1,000 residences in the pipeline whose mission is to address the changing housing need of the millennial generation.  Riaz has been thinking about workforce housing for most of his professional life.  Growing up in a real estate family, Riaz detoured early in his career from the family business to develop his own style by founding a design / build firm and developing over 50 ultra-luxury residences in the Bay Area.  Completing his last project just before the great recession, Riaz refocused his vision to workforce housing in Oakland. Over the next decade, Riaz built a portfolio of over 1,300 units in the workforce housing category.    In the process, Riaz consistently worked to innovate market-rate approaches to workforce housing, also known as naturally-occurring affordable housing.  In successive projects and ventures, Riaz explored co-living, adaptive reuse micro-units, student housing, and traditional ground-up construction – all of which led to the firm’s custom workforce housing solution – the ABD Studio.  01:00 - Riaz's background 08:22 - San Francisco's native 11:18 - "My 10,000-hour moment"  14:00 - The Bay Area market 15:45 - Raising a fund  18:40 - The hardest part of building a company 22:30 - The future of Riaz 26:40 - The fire round!  30:40 - Learning from Mother and Grandmother  Books:  The Toyota Way Coaching for Improved Work Performance   Find Riaz Taplin here:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaz-taplin-6b052a7/ Website: http://www.riazcapital.com/

On this episode of the TBG Real Estate Podcast we chat with Riaz Taplin. Riaz leads Riaz Capital, a vertically integrated workforce housing developer and institutional-grade sponsor with a core team of over fifty professionals managing a portfolio of over 1,300 units, and with over 1,000 residences in the pipeline whose mission is to address the changing housing need of the millennial generation. Riaz has been thinking about workforce housing for most of his professional life. Growing up in a real estate family, Riaz detoured early in his career from the family business to develop his own style by founding a design / build firm and developing over 50 ultra-luxury residences in the Bay Area. Completing his last project just before the great recession, Riaz refocused his vision to workforce housing in Oakland. Over the next decade, Riaz built a portfolio of over 1,300 units in the workforce housing category. In the process, Riaz consistently worked to innovate market-rate approaches to workforce housing, also known as naturally-occurring affordable housing. In successive projects and ventures, Riaz explored co-living, adaptive reuse micro-units, student housing, and traditional ground-up construction – all of which led to the firm’s custom workforce housing solution – the ABD Studio. 01:00 - Riaz's background 08:22 - San Francisco's native 11:18 - "My 10,000-hour moment" 14:00 - The Bay Area market 15:45 - Raising a fund 18:40 - The hardest part of building a company 22:30 - The future of Riaz 26:40 - The fire round! 30:40 - Learning from Mother and Grandmother Books: The Toyota Way Coaching for Improved Work Performance Find Riaz Taplin here: LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaz-taplin-6b052a7/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaz-taplin-6b052a7/</a> Website: <a href="http://www.riazcapital.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.riazcapital.com/</a>

Ep. 42 - Invest in yourself with Riaz Taplin