Revenue Reserve
Revenue Reserve is the first CRE documentary feature film. From 2009 to 2014, expert researcher and filmmaker Doug Orchard, MLS tracked hundreds of CRE investors as they responded to the 2008 aftermath.
Many investors lost. Some thrived. This documentary film explores how successful CRE investors protect and enhance wealth when things go wrong.
Most investors and others who support the industry lack a comprehensive understanding of the problems associated with investing in real estate: it can retain its value, but its unique liabilities can reach back and take everything from the investor. This educational documentary takes a comprehensive approach to the investor’s problem that is unparalleled to date.
Many focus on “getting big” only to experience a real-life “Shoots & Ladders” board game experience where they financially slide back to where they started…often with nothing. Investors who really succeed (not just when things go up) operate with a responsible set of unwritten rules…rules they generously share in this film. These rules enable these investors to protect and enhance wealth, even when things go wrong.
"Fantastic!
Every investor must see this film!"
John M. Kehriotis
Investor
President, JMK Investments, Inc.
"It's fantastic!"
Jan Hope
Vice President
NAR Commercial & Global Services
The National Association of Realtors®
"Very well done!"
B.K. Allen, CCIM
CEO
CCIM
"I was blown away and captivated from the start!"
Michael Bernstein
President
Bernstein Financial Group, LLC
"The documentary is excellent. Wow!"
Jean Maday
Director
Commercial Development, Outreach, ad Services
The National Association of Realtors®
The Experts
In the order that they first appear in the film.
Omar Mohammed
Investor
Omar did everything right. After immigrating to the US 43 years ago with only $1,800 in his pocket, he worked through school, earned a degree in Civil Engineering followed by an MBA, started a grocery store, bought the retail strip mall, and by 1997 he supposedly retired.He started buying residential properties including large multi-family apartment complexes in the San Francisco Bay Area. He eventually had $30 Million in property. He sold everything and invested in two remote strip malls in early 2007 at the age of 65. He followed the advice of his broker and his attorney. He lost everything. He shares generously what he learned in hopes others will learn from his blind spots.
Dan Sight, CCIM, SIOR
Investor
Chair, NAR Commercial
Dan Sight is who the National Association of Realtors trusts to manage its portfolio of real estate. Dan bought his first retail strip mall at the age of 25 in the year 1985.
B.K. Allen, CCIM
CEO
CCIM
B.K. Allen is a past national president of CCIM and at the time of filming is its CEO. CCIM is the professional designation for commercial investment real estate.
Douglas Bibby
President
National Multi-family Housing Council
Douglas serves as the national president of the NMHC.
Doug Orchard, MLS
Director
Mr. Orchard is a filmmaker and expert researcher. He followed hundreds of CRE portfolio owners since 2009. Mr. Orchard observed firsthand how many professionals unintentionally gave poor advice due to their lack of understanding of the entire investor problem, and he saw many investors harmed as a consequence. He focused his interview questions to learn how the experts in this film protect and enhance wealth. The film reviews three key areas to protect wealth when things go wrong: (1) the unwritten rules of real estate, (2) the role of revenue reserve in protecting an investment and (3) sheltering wealth through real asset protection.
John M. Kehriotis
Investor
President
JMK Investments, Inc.
“The Man Who Saved Sacramento” according to the Sacramento Bee Newspaper. John started his career with a credit card while in college at San Jose State and has become one of the most successful private investors in America. His investments include 2,800 multi-family units in Sacramento, retail, hotels, golf courses, and has interests in banks and even the Sacramento Kings and the arena.
Tod Spieker
Investor
President
Spieker Companies, Inc.
Tod was told by J.P. Morgan Chase that he is the largest commercial property borrower in the country. He owns 1% of the multi-family properties in Silicon Valley.
Les Workman
Investor
John Kehriotis says Les Workman is one of the most successful investors he knows. Les is in his late 80’s and still starts work at 7:30am and works until 8:30pm and takes a 90 minute lunch with his wife each day. A child of the Great Depression, his family relocated from Chicago to Denver when his father lost his job during the Great Depression, and his mother invested in real estate. He started working in real estate at age 16. He has never had a major problem he had to recoup from due to his conservative nature. Along the way he became Mr. Colorado and Mr. Utah in body building, and was a parter with Jack LaLanne in 165 gyms in the 1960’s. He invests in multi-family properties, banks, and recently invested in the Sonics in the Bay Area.
Jay de Miranda
Investor
Jay built a very successful property management company, managing thousands of units including his own portfolio. He sold his property management company in the late 1990’s and still manages his properties today. He is an icon investor in Southern California.
Lori Burger, CPM, PCAM, CCAM, CAM
President 2015
IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management)
Lori is the national president (2015) of the Institute of Real Estate Management and she is also a Senior Vice President and Director of Eugene Burger Management Corporation (EBMC), AMO, headquartered in Rohnert Park, CA, whose portfolio consists of more than 6,500 residential units, 20,000 association homes, and 2 million square feet of commercial retail, office and industrial space.
Linda Rutledge, CPM
President
Laughton Properties, Inc.
Linda is a no nonsense property manager who says it like it is. Her vast professional experience includes training other professionals for IREM.
Steve Brown
President 2014
National Association of Realtors®
Steve serves as the national president of the National Association of Realtors.
Eric A. Cioppa
Superintendent
Bureau of Insurance, Maine
Mr. Cioppa is the “Insurance Commissioner” of Maine and serves many leadership roles with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The NAIC recommended Mr. Cioppa for this film.
Bradley B. Beaman
Investor
Douglass Lodmell, J.D., LL.M.
Attorney
Lodmell & Lodmell, PC
According to Sean Reeves, legal counsel for the leading trustee in the world, Douglass Lodmell has referred more International Asset Protection cases than any other attorney worldwide.
Patricia Donlevy-Rosen, J.D.
Attorney
Donlevy-Rosen & Rosen, P.A.
According to Sean Reeves, legal counsel for the leading trustee in the world, Patricia Donlevy-Rosen has handled more equity stripping projects than any other attorney worldwide. (You’ll have to watch this film to understand why this is relevant). She wrote a treatise for RIA looking at which jurisdictions are strongest for asset protection.
Howard Rosen, J.D., CPA
Attorney
Donlevy-Rosen & Rosen, P.A.
Howard and Douglass Lodmell are competitors in the Asset Protection Space. They are the “Coke and Pepsi” of the industry.
Sean Reeves
Attorney at Law
Director
Southpac Group
Mr. Reeves is the legal counsel for Southpac Trust, which is the leading International trustee in the world.