About Us
Our Philosophy
We are motivated by opportunities to help people make money through real estate investing. We so strongly believe in the potential of value-add real estate investing, that whether you are thinking about your first investment or an experienced investor, we offer services to help.
The value we provide to our passive investors comes not solely in the completion of an acquisition, but in the active management we run to ensure the asset’s success. We believe that only through strict oversight and painstaking attention to detail can our investments meet their full potential.
For active investors, we are eager to help ensure you can help your properties reach their full potential, and our team is ready to get to work to help you with your existing properties or help you locate new ones.
Our Investing Strategy
When purchasing properties ourselves, we think about our strategy across three pillars: find, fund, and operate.
First, we must source value add projects that exhibit strong financial performance or potential for gains through value add. We minimize downside risk to our projects by only targeting specific types of properties where we deeply understand the financial and operational levers needed to make the project a success. We focus on physical renovations and operational improvements to ensure cash flow and equity upside for investors.
When helping others purchase or operate properties, we utilize the same experience in property management to help coach and guide active investors make the right choices.
Our Values
Investor First
If you’re investing with us, it’s our job to take care of you first.
Bias to Action
When something can be done to advance a goal, we make decisions and execute.
Team
Everyone performs their role to the company standard.
Integrity
We do what we say we’re going to do.
Community Mindset
We want our personal networks and communities to gain from our investments and success.
Transparency
We operate with clear lines of communication, even when the conversations are difficult.
What Makes Us Unique?
Real estate investing can be for anyone
We believe in letting local investors participate in the rewards of investing in their own community. We structure deals to make this happen.
We focus on local multifamily
This is a space and a community we know extremely well. It provides a low-risk, secured, tax-advantaged, high-yield opportunity for investors. We don’t get distracted by other opportunistic ventures.
Operations is the backbone of our skillset
We buy local. We run our own management company. We focus on value-add. We don’t outsource the hard stuff - we lean into it.
Our Team
GORDON STEBBINGS
Since becoming a full-time real estate investor in 2007, he's made it a point to bring high-yield real estate investment opportunities to anyone who is interested in the asset class. During that time he bought, rehabbed and sold 100+ homes in 4 different states. Additionally, he originated 200+ private mortgages, and sponsored many multifamily syndications. Most of these hundreds of deals involved deploying investor capital, and there's never been a loss of principal. As a real estate salesperson and broker, Gordon has sold roughly 400 properties in Dane and surrounding counties. As a property manager, Gordon previously managed hundreds of units in and around Madison, WI, and is co-owner of Renew Management. This intimate knowledge of the local market is invaluable.
Gordon lives in Windsor with his wife and three girls. In his free time, he can be found traveling around the midwest cooking on the Kansas City Barbeque Society competition circuit.
DARIN BESKE
He was the analytical and business systems gusto behind a portfolio that grew to over 500 units in 18 months, and then 800+ units within a few years. His efforts added tremendous comfort to Residents in these value-add communities, while still providing for the planned ROI to owners and investors. Most notably, it all happened in the Madison, WI metro area.
Today, Darin is the driving force behind Renew Management. His varied background, relationships in the investing community, and local knowledge makes him a leader in the Madison multifamily world. His extremely competent oversight is one of the many reasons Wisco and Renew are ideal operator(s) to align yourself with if you're looking for third-party management or opportunities to invest.
PAUL VOGELMAN
He has independently invested in 25 multifamily Real Estate deals since 2017 and has sourced and originated 15 private commercial loans in the Madison area.
He holds a B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
TONY HUDZINSKI
Tony is currently the Head of International Business Development for Senior Care Realty, co-owner of LTR Investments Commercial Property Management Company and is also a member of the International Syndication Mentoring Club.
He has successfully built, operated, and exited from multiple businesses and has a knack for creative deal structuring. Tony graduated from UW-Madison in 2004 with a degree in Soil Science/Turf Management and spent 15 years as a golf course superintendent.
Tony, his wife April, their three young children and dogs, Benny and Otis, enjoy all outdoor activities, in particular golf, hunting and fishing. You can also catch him at the Comedy Club whenever there is a good act in town.
Connect with us
To say that the Wisco team ‘nerds out’ about real estate is not that far from the truth. We really enjoy talking to people looking to learn more, and we’d be happy to chat with you.
We promise no spam, no upsells, just direct talk about what we offer, what you’re looking for, and whether we think we can help.
The easiest way to learn more is to fill out our contact form so we can get in touch and learn more about you and where you are on the real estate investing journey.
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