Rise Capital Investments

Private equity fund manager helping busy professionals invest in commercial real estate to achieve financial independence

Founder and Chief Investment Officer

Highrise Group

Commercial real estate and tech startup pitch deck design for founders and sponsors. Experienced multifamily real state private debt and equity fund manager who understands the need for great marketing in your business to attract capital.

Investment Marketing Designer

Utah Warriors Rugby

As a huge rugby fan and player in the first high school girls team in the US, I couldn’t wait to invest in the Warriors when we relocated to Utah.

I'm excited to be a part of this ownership group and grow the sport in our backyard so we can enjoy high level live matches while providing jobs and income in the sports industry. See you at the pitch!

Ownership Shareholder

Quansight

PyData SLC nonprofit chapter organizer to promote open source Python development, as well as a Quansight investor, we grow the open source data science machine learning Python community's impact on enterprise through our unique Sustainable Open Source Subscription

Marketing Manager

Powell Wedding Photography

Specializing in wedding portraiture, event photography, venue architectural photography, and capturing designer details such as decor, floral arranging, and catering.

Photographer, Owner

Austin Gilgronis

Sports marketing content creator and manager, providing technical PR writing and graphic design for a founding team in Major League Rugby

Supervised photography, social media manager, and event coordination

Marketing Communications Manager

SHUTTERBUG STUDIOS

Real Estate Photographer

Challenger Sports

South Texas and Louisiana account management for children's soccer and rugby camps. Marketing, logistics, customer service.

Account Manager

Anaconda, Inc.

Design and conference logistics intern for PyData nonprofit organization supporting the open source Python data science and machine learning community

Business Admin Support, Graphic Design

Digital Scrapbook Place

Online classes for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Paint Shop Pro for photography and graphic design

Graphic Design Instructor

Retire 10 years early from your J-O-B, not your life. Even if you want to work until 65, you don't want to have to!

We created a 5-7 year plan to replace our income with passive investing to retire before age 50 and rediscover ourselves version 2.0 volunteering, spending more quality time with family, and starting a passion business helping others. We help you do the same for IF and WHEN you choose to rediscover yourself version 2.0 after financial freedom.

High achievers can earn double-digit returns backed by real estate and build wealth to give back to your communities.

We walk our own talk and share the same investments we use to retire early in our private investor portal.

If that's worth having a conversation about, reach out at partnerwithrise.com

This is the house that saved us.
Saved us from job loss, and saved us
from working a job until 65.

This week we enjoy the freedom this house
gave us when it saved us.

Real estate is the most powerful lever we have
to build wealth and create financial security.


It’s been over six years since we left Austin,
our home of 20 years,
in a whirlwind cross country move after a layoff.

This week I brought my two adult daughters
back for the first time.

They stood outside this house and cried.
They miss the childhood it represents
and how they couldn’t go inside.

But I said remodeling our dream home
and then selling it after a job loss
was the best thing
that ever happened to us financially
and helped pay for the many experiences
we’ve enjoyed together since.

Going to Mexico and Hawaii, traveling full time,
the house they live in now together,
this girls trip where they played
at all their childhood favorites
and I didn’t have to work all week
other than some phone calls
helping investors get into our new projects.

Buildings and land don’t have emotions,
but they have care for us, and
changed our lives in just a few years.

What do you think?

Emma Powell ☆

You earn too much money to work until  you're 65. Even if you want to, you don't want to have to!

Create a 5-7 year plan to replace your income with passive investing to retire early if and when you choose.

High achievers can earn double-digit returns backed by real estate and build wealth to give back to your communities.

We walk our own talk and share the same investments we use to retire early in our private investor portal.

If that's worth having a conversation about, reach out at partnerwithrise.com

“How do you raise more capital?”

We looked at the investors in our lending fund
to see if we could find any similarities.

With a few exceptions, our early investors were
people we had met in person.

At least one person on the team knew them.

“But passive investors don’t go to these events,
only active business owners.”

Many of our investors do run
real estate side hustles
and want to diversify
so they can focus on their core expertise.

Others are interested in real estate, but
after attending some events opted
to be passive partners once they
saw hour much work it is to
fund and run properties,
and instead focus on high income jobs or businesses.

Most of the relationships we found with
people we network with
won’t go anywhere on the business side.

But they’re all valuable no matter the outcome.

It’s hard to ignore obvious patterns.

If you’re looking to be a passive investor,
you don’t have to attend events or
meet in person,
but it sure does help find the right fit.

Let’s have a conversation to help you
invest passively, and if you’re ever in town,
let’s meet up in person.

It’s important.

What do you think?

What are the odds?
We bought an RV park in December
and the total eclipse went right over it.

Heavy cloud cover predicted over the region.
Totality started still in the clouds.

Then seconds after our disappointment, it peeked out!

All six of our kids in town to enjoy it together
at a fish fry with our residents.

In the middle of the day on a random Monday
where we didn’t have to be at work.

This➡️ This is why we do what we do,
why we invest for passive income
and preach it to everyone we know.

Experiences > Money

But we can have a lot more experiences
when we don’t have to
worry about money anymore.

How do you make more memories
with loved ones?

Want a really raw post?

This is our car, and we hang out with people who drive the same car
from 2005, even though we manage
a $15M real estate private equity and lending fund.

When we fill that fund that should take 1-2 years,
the grand total my husband and I will earn together
from the management fees or origination points will be
2/3 what he made in a year alone in his W-2 as an IT guy.

The hope is to build this into a business that eventually becomes
a significant source of earned income we can use to invest
for more passive income.
But that time is not yet!
It's a long, long haul of building relationships of trust
with investors to change financial lives,
the way people invested in us 6 years ago and changed our lives.


Because we don't need the revenue from this business to live on,
there isn't any yet,
we can still feed our (really large) family on our passive income.

We are doing it because of the long game, a way to give back,
a way to pay it forward, and thanks to passive income,
we can scale a business the right way instead of the rushed way.


We live on our passive income from investing our own money
in the actual deals that we share with you on our portal.


You have to get aggressive to be passive, one deal at a time.

PS ----
Be raw with me in the comments, no ChatGPT allowed,
before reading this, did you think raising capital is a get-rich-quick business
filled with Lamborghini-driving tycoons?

Customers love compliments, but they don’t want lies.

Tell the whole truth.

There are plenty of people out there who need the solution to the problem we solve, there’s no need to say whatever they want to hear.

For investors writing 6-figure checks,
I only want those who are really committed.

Nervous and excited are normal and natural, especially the first few investments, but doubt and terror, let’s wait.

——
PS - We help high achievers with 6-figures to invest earn double-digit returns backed by real estate

Photo PS - my teen daughters made me up and lied that I looked amazing…and then I posted it 🤦🏻‍♀️

If you don't understand this first,
you'll just keep getting
sucked in by scam after scam.

Passive income takes enormous
money-piling up work
until that pile is big enough that the compounding and cash flow
will pay your basic bills.

Passive income not a hands off business
you hope will be easy but you know won't be.

It's not another coaching program.

It's you putting in the work.

What do you think?

Let's get real: your 401(k) is going to fail you miserably.
Why?

If you're a high-income earner,
to retire with your current lifestyle and keep up with inflation,
you need at least 2M invested.

What are max contributions on your IRA's per year?

Even x2 if you're married, that's not going to get you there.

You need to find ways to invest disposable cash
OUTSIDE of retirement accounts
to build up a big enough pile of cash compounding passively.

True, if you have IRA's, you can change custodians to one that
allows investing in a wider range of options than just stocks/bonds.

But to get there, recognize the need
to be investing more
in addition to retirement accounts.

When investors lookin' at the financial pro forma in your pitch deck...

----PS
Get some help, resources in the comments below ⬇️

Why isn’t personal finance or money taught better in schools?

Think about it, it’s obvious, but not insidious.
It's not a conspiracy to keep people as factory cogs.

Our educators aren’t financially literate themselves.

If they were, would they be in public service?

We all knew of a few rich teachers who were there
because they want to make a difference,
not because they needed the pay.

They were the notable exceptions.

In the Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Stanley reports
most millionaires are men whose wives are teachers
but don’t manage the family money.

Who should be teaching our kids about money management?

The majority of parents aren’t financially literate either.

Are you?

If so, are you volunteering at your children's schools,
at a community center, or at home to your kids and their interested friends?

We should be passing along our knowledge
instead of lamenting some unqualified “other” isn’t doing it.

Do you struggle with perfectionism where only 100% is good enough?

I have worked hard to overcome, "If I can't do it perfectly, why bother?"

✅But when it comes to solar eclipses, the difference between 99%
and 100% is all the difference.

😎We can't look at the eclipsing sun without terrible damage to our eyes.
Most of you probably went outside to look at it through black glasses.

🌅But when it's 100% total, you take your glasses OFF!

⚫️The moment the last of the light flares out,
you take off the glasses and look straight into the black totality!

🌥️Something as simple and insubstantial as clouds almost covered up
this eclipse, making a potentially surreal experience into 0%,
but the sun peeked out from the clouds at the last moment!


I've now seen two total solar eclipses in 2017 and 2024.

At the moment of 100%, people throw off their glasses and
cry, laugh, shout in awe, pray.

There's nothing else like it on earth.

It makes me think about the few other times when only 100% will do
and what clouds are covering up our 100% commitment.

✅Integrity.
✅Faith.

---What else would you add to that list?

This one drives me crazy, and since I've been
at a conference all week, I heard it again and again.

False promises, salesy "click bait" lines, making things sound too easy
just to sell us a coaching program or "secrets."

You all see right through this, but the new tactics have changed
and are sneaking up on you. Here's how to avoid getting into a bad fit.

--Recently, I heard someone say they wanted to buy into an investment
because the sponsor seller seemed trustworthy and low pressure.

--That's the new sales norm, conversational, low-key. Don't believe it.

🤔 What you are really looking for is...this one weird trick.

💥 Is the person selling the investment, high-ticket coaching, or whatever
encouraging you to go through your NORMAL decision making process?

Did they even ask what you usually do to ensure you want something
before buying in?

Probably not, but those who do really want to make sure that you
actually have the problem they solve and will screen YOU,
not the other way around.

----PS
If you need to talk about it with your accountant, your spouse,
your priest, your God, your brother-in-law, your business partner, yourself,
make sure the sale person knows and supports that
and provides you with all the materials you need to go through your process.

The reason they are high pressure and hoping you make decisions
quickly is usually because they DON'T FOLLOW UP!

If you are serious, let them schedule a follow up BEFORE you get off the phone,
early in the conversation, so neither of you feel pressured.

----PPS
If this resonates, let's talk. You can bring your brother-in-law if you want.
DM "CALENDAR" to get a link to set up a call.

Happy tax day, y'all! Are you doing your taxes right?
You want to get into real estate for the tax benefits,
but you're going to be surprised when you find out the truth.

There are many POWERFUL ways to save money on taxes
as a real estate investor, but there's no silver bullet.

A multi-pronged solution where no one strategy is
powerful enough on its own is what's necessary.

Check out number 3, that's what we did.

1️⃣ Acknowledge if you are a double W-2 family, the goal is
to save money on taxes later in retirement, and there may be
limited savings during working years. Business owners get the tax breaks!

2️⃣ Use real estate depreciation to offset all passive income,
and carry forward extra to future years when an investment sells.

3️⃣ If you or your spouse really don't enjoy your job, consider having one
partner quit and become a real estate professional managing the
investment portfolio. This allows depreciation to offset both passive
and active income, and where the real tax power is!
There are rules to follow to get this status, follow them closely.

4️⃣ Fund low tax and tax free investments to enjoy during retirement.
Roth IRA, cash value life insurance, municipal bonds are some examples,
as well as real estate focusing on cash flow rather than big returns that
incur capital gains.

Hope this helps as you work with your tax professional to plan for next year's
taxes and investment purchases! Real estate is THE most powerful way to
pay little to no tax, so use it heavily, but combine with other methods
to really make a dent in your taxes.

Let's have a conversation about adding real estate to your tax plan
DM "Taxes" to hear more about how we've done it.

"The Wall Street Journal was my bedtime stories."
What if we as children had better examples of how to handle money?

Nate Dodson founder of Crowdfund My Deal teaches us
the tricks of the trade from a family with a history of
responsible investing, entrepreneurship, and early retirement.

Did you have a good or poor financial education as a kid
from parents or in school?

MONTHLY Free "pitch your deal" to the club sharks
open for investors or joint venture partners with no appointment needed.

Club members get amazing deal flow, and sponsors get to meet
new people for a WIN WIN!

You are probably doing this wrong and not even realizing it.
I wish we had figured it out sooner!

Having multiple streams of income is what's helped us
retire early on passive income and given us time
to pursue active income we are really passionate about
while still enjoying a ton of time with our family!

How many streams of income do you have?
Are you diversifying those streams based on time spent?

If not, you are missing out, taking too much risk,
and probably working too hard!

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HOW MANY STREAMS OF INCOME DO YOU HAVE?

Change your life with this podcast.
It's a bold claim, and I know we can make good on it.

We share not only inspiring stories,
but also the nuts and bolts to take action on.

I know you're not looking for a get-rich-quick scheme,
but maybe hoping it'll happen faster than you dare dream?

It takes about 5 years for the average middle to high income earner
to really change lives with investing.

Chris Prefontaine of SREC (Smart Real Estate Coach)
in this episode shares some simple steps that we can follow
with determination to break through our fear and into our dreams.

Passive Income Adventures shares stories from people
making the off-the-beaten-path choice to create financial freedom.

Take more adventures: we're here to help you figure out
how to pay for them with more time and more money.

Episodes drop every Tuesday, links in comments ⬇️

Change your life one podcast episode at a time!

The 2024 limits for your IRA have been raised!
You shouldn't care! Here's why⬇️

Have you seen how LOW these limits are?
If you are a high income earner
there's no way you can retire on that annual max
unless you have been maxing out since like age 24.

Even with the higher limits on 401(k) it takes more than just maxing them out to become wealthy.

If you have been maxing them out since age 24,
congratulations! It's time to diversify!

If you haven't, our investors need to dig into disposable income
to invest more than the maximum in non-retirement accounts.

I’ve noticed a pattern for us and our high-income investors of putting away $50k-150k per year
compounding for 5-10 years to about $2-6M total
to retire BEFORE age 65 with a better standard of living
they currently enjoy.

What are your thoughts?

I’ll be in Salt Lake City next week with Rise Capital Investments and our team Christopher Borden 🎼Harmonie Borden🌺 Emma Powell ☆ Troy Powell Raquel Rigby Lais Keese… come meet and join us!!

What are the odds?
We bought an RV park in December
and the total eclipse went right over it.

Heavy cloud cover predicted over the region.
Totality started still in the clouds.

Then it peeked out.

All six of our kids in town to enjoy it together
at a fish fry with our residents.

In the middle of the day on a random Monday
where we didn’t have to be at work.

This➡️ This is why we do what we do,
why we invest for passive income
and preach it to everyone we know.

Experiences > Money

But we can have a lot more experiences
when we don’t have to
worry about money anymore.

How do you make more memories
with loved ones?

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