Topic: “Asking Investors the Right Questions”

Alina is the founder and Managing Partner of SAMO Financial. A boutique private equity firm specializing in helping busy business owners and IT professionals passively invest in commercial real estate. Alina's business motto has been articulated well by Warren Buffett’s quote; “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago". Her passion is to teach others how to build wealth by investing passively.

She has been a sought-after speaker and presented recently at the Raising Money Summit in Denver Colorado, Multifamily Foundation Workshop, Hunter College (CUNY), Stockton University.

Alina is the founder of two Meetup groups named, “The Power of Passive Investing through Real Estate”, which gather in New York and New Jersey that are now merged into one Virtual group (until further notice).  As part of helping investors to obtain education about alternative investing, Alina offers instructional webinars in collaboration with various administrators of self-directed IRA companies.  Topics revolve around various aspects of real estate investing, particularly in syndications by using funds in solo 401(k) or self-directed retirement plans. 

SAMO Financial's newest product is the Fund Of Funds (FoF) model with the goal of helping investors build a well-diversified portfolio with a hedge against the stock market volatility. Alina helped her clients to acquire and invest in over 2200 apartment doors, over $45MM Fund focused on self-storage, and over $10MM Fund focused on mobile home parks. 

Alina has also been featured in the 60 Minute Startup and Immigrant Hustle books. Forbes, GoBankingRates, MSNMoney, BankRate, IdeaMensch and many others.