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Podcast guest kit

40 years managing critical public infrastructure. Now analyzing deals through the lens of critical thinking and conservative risk management.

Everything a host needs to book Tim, brief the interview, and ask questions that go somewhere. Scroll down or jump straight to a call.

Project data
Name
Tim Gramling
Role
Co-Founder, Head of Acquisitions
Firm
Next Legacy Group
Based
Kansas City, MO
Markets
Kansas City / St. Louis
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Background

For the intro / lower third
Tim Gramling
40 yrs
field
verified

Tim Gramling has spent 40 years as a civil engineer, now applying that same discipline to underwriting multifamily real estate deals as co-founder of Next Legacy Group.

Full background, career history, and numbers →

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Talk tracks

Pick two or three, not all six
Mindset

Why engineers make disciplined investors

How 40 years of risk assessment on physical infrastructure carries over directly to underwriting a deal.

Mechanics

Underwriting: The Story Behind the Numbers

T12s, rent rolls, and debt quotes are just data. The real work is figuring out what story they are actually telling about a deal, and whether that story holds up.

Discipline

Knowing when to pass on a deal

What has to be true for a deal to survive full underwriting, and why walking away is sometimes the right call, not a failure.

Capital

Raising money the compliant way

What a 506(c) secured note program is, what retail investors can actually put money into, and where the lines are.

Crossover

Public Works to Multifamily

Public Works Director for two Missouri communities. The job was the same underneath: managing facilities, budgets, people, and quality of life for the people you serve, whether that's a city or a tenant.

Career

Building a second career on the side of the first

Running a private equity partnership and a coaching business while still working a full-time W2 job.

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Suggested questions

Use as a starting point, not a script
  1. You spent 40 years as a civil engineer before transitioning completely into real estate. What did that career actually teach you about risk?

  2. Walk us through how you underwrite a multifamily deal. What are you looking for first, and what kills a deal fastest?

  3. What separates a deal that makes it all the way to close from one that doesn't?

  4. You raise capital through a 506(c) note program. What can everyday investors actually put money into, and what is off limits?

  5. You went from Public Works Director in two Missouri communities to owning multifamily real estate. What actually carried over between those two jobs?

  6. You are still working a full-time engineering job while building Next Legacy Group and a coaching business. How do you actually split the time?

  7. What is the biggest mistake you see new investors make the first time they try to underwrite a deal themselves?

Ready when you are

Have Tim on

Tell me about your show and I'll get back to you directly.

Or email directly: tim@nextlegacy.net