Anthony Metzger

My Name is Anthony Metzger, I was born and raised in the great state of Minnesota. After high school, at the age of 18, I flew off to France to become a sommelier, that’s right, I love wine! In fact, I spent my entire 20’s in the wine industry. I worked as a sommelier, a traveling winemaker (someone who travels to different countries during harvest season to make wine) and I filmed wine documentaries. I went to South Africa for 5 weeks to host and film a documentary called “South Africa Wine Documentary – The Pink Grape” on YouTube, click here to watch it.

After my wine adventures, near the end of my 20’s, I decided I wanted to get into the real-estate world, quite a different path, I know. One day, my brother Frederic introduced me to an apartment syndication investing podcast. After listening to the podcast, I decided that I wanted to become a syndicator. Moving forward, I found a private equity firm that was actively syndicating deals. I reached out and asked how I could add value to them. Their answer was to find them an apartment building to buy that meets their investment criteria. Next, I got educated on how to underwrite multi-family deals. I spent the next year and a half calling brokers, sourcing deals, underwriting deals, and making offers. After about 18 months of searching, a deal came across my inbox from a broker. Sure enough, after underwriting the deal, working with property management companies, and doing my due diligence, the deal met all of the private equity firm’s investment criteria. Once I was confident in the deal, I presented the deal to the firm and sure enough they accepted it and closed on it with me. This was my first real-estate deal, a 218-unit apartment complex! Since then I have closed on another deal and am actively looking to syndicate another big deal.