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74: A Bike Crash Built His Empire - Jens Nielsen | Our Family Invests

Jens Nielsen left Denmark at 23 with a backpack and no particular plan. After 27 years building a career in IT and telecom, a mountain biking accident in Colorado put him in the ICU and forced a question he'd been avoiding: what do you actually want? By 2020, he walked away from corporate for good. Today he's a general partner on over 2,000 apartment units valued at more than $250 million, a Certified High Performance Coach, and one of the more candid voices on what syndication really looks like when the tide goes out.

Mike and Jens talk through the real story behind leaving a 27-year career mid-pandemic, why Jens stopped doing multifamily deals for over two years while most syndicators kept pushing, and what he's building instead in industrial and flex-space real estate.

What You'll Learn:

• How a near-fatal crash compressed a 10-year exit plan into two years
• What changes inside you when you're investing other people's money
• Why Jens walked away from multifamily and what he found in flex-space and industrial
• The $80K broker commission surprise and how to hedge tenant risk during due diligence
• What to look for in a syndicator before you commit as an LP
• How high performance coaching helped him stop talking himself out of his own next move

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