Industry leader for Real Estate Investing and Property Management.
From software start-up founder to CEO of Black Swan Real Estate, Nick Stageberg has always been an entrepreneur at heart.
A career technologist with over 15 years experience in the software development, architecture, and management space, Nick Stageberg developed an interest in real estate investment at the age of 14 when he needed to secure safe housing due to family health issues. With no parental support, no income, and no job, he bargained with some family friends to clean out and rehab their basement in exchange for free housing. Although that was his first and only live-in flip, it gave him an interest in leveraging value-add opportunities. After college, he designed and built a custom home in Edmond, OK, and house-hacked by renting out rooms to former college roommates, all of whom are lifelong friends to this day.
With the help of a trusted Realtor, he and Elaine purchased their first real estate investment – a single family home foreclosure in Oklahoma City that had been vacant for a number of years and was in need of extensive rehabilitation. Using their own capital and labor, Nick and Elaine transformed the home from boarded-up to occupied in less than 4 weeks, refinanced out, and deployed that capital to secure their next asset. He is now the owner of a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio.
In late 2017, Nick expanded his real estate horizons by obtaining a real estate license in the State of Minnesota, and now works with Keller Williams Premier Realty-Rochester to represent Black Swan Real Estate, other investors, and home buyers/sellers in real estate transactions. When he’s not speaking at real estate conferences, he oversees all of our day-to-day operations, including project sourcing and representation, rehab and contractor management, property and resident management, and financial management. Using skills gained from working for 10 years at a software development start-up which grew from $13 million in private venture capital to $100 million in a private equity sale, and his employment in software architecture at a large and prestigious hospital system, Nick is able to deploy both technical and relationship skills to grow and scale Black Swan Real Estate while remaining true to our personal, business, and investment values.
Nick is a passionate advocate for Lean and Agile management methodologies in Software and uniquely applies these same cutting-edge practices to real estate. Below is a recording of a talk he gave to 250 software engineers on the topic.
Listen to Nick speak at a software development conference to roughly 250 developers. At this two-day intense experience oriented towards JavaScript, Nick talks about the how and the why of being a great developer. While it is software development oriented, it’s really about #values, #spirituality, #continuousimprovement, #personalgrowth and why we all (should) care about what we do.
Nick’s number one priority is his relationship with his four children and his wife, Elaine. Together they are building the financial groundwork for long-term financial stability and freedom for his family and are fervent about teaching others how to do the same.
