Interview with Michelle Tack, Real Estate Pros

ABOUT THE EPISODE

When the housing market collapsed in 2008, most investors ran for the exits. Bill Bymel ran toward the wreckage and built a business out of it. Michelle Tack sits down with the founder of First Lien Capital to trace how he turned the worst financial crisis in a generation into a contrarian playbook for distressed debt investing.

Bill details the mechanics of buying non-performing loans at a discount, the art and discipline of restructuring debt, and his core belief that even a defaulted borrower deserves to exit with dignity.

Along the way, he shares hard-won lessons on reading market cycles, weathering the storms others don’t see coming, and why the smartest money is often made when everyone else is panicking.

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First Lien Capital specializes in distressed debt and mortgage workout strategies on residential and commercial real estate. First Lien Resolutions provides Special Assets expertise to banks and funds on portfolio risk, recovery strategies, and profitable arbitrage.

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The Storm: Markets Meet Mother Nature is officially released and available at Amazon and other major retailers: https://a.co/d/0gPB0yrY

This book and its concepts are drawn from decades of work across real estate, mortgage portfolios, distressed debt, and special assets to open the conversation of how converging forces are reshaping markets and offering the framework for investors and institutions to navigate what comes next.

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