S1E06 - Increasing Density with Commercial to Residential Conversions w/ Ken Bekendam

The Highest and Best Use Podcast with Ryan Carr

S1E06 - Increasing Density with Commercial to Residential Conversions w/ Ken Bekendam

Ken Bekendam is a young, millennial investor who got started investing personally in 2010. Ken is actively involved in various forms of adaptive reuse projects such as church conversions and commercial to residential conversions. As well, he is also involved in land development, currently planning a 66 unit stacked townhouse project in the Brantford area, and helping investors determine if they can add a LEGAL second suite. Post-covid, many business are choosing to not go back to their former spaces, freeing up much of this space for conversions to residential.

Bio:

Ken, now a full-time investor, manages the real estate portfolio and is responsible for new purchases and renovations. He helps 100’s of other investors with their portfolios through rental property renovations and multifamily conversions. Ken owns a development company called King Homes Inc and is Co-Founder of a design/build renovation company called Wyse Construction Group. On average, his firm completes 150 conversion projects a year. Recently, he started an in-house property management company called Blackbox Property Management to service both his personal portfolio and his clients.

Ken is in the trenches daily working on and managing all types of conversion projects. When not working on real estate stuff, Ken is a solo parent, raising his busy 6 year old son Kingston after losing his wife to CF (Cystic Fibrosis) in Oct 2019. They live on a 10 acre hobby farm just outside of Ancaster and have 13 alpacas, 1 horse, 2 mini ponies, 7 goats, 7 pot belly pigs, 1 sheep, 2 peacocks and 2 Bernedoodle dogs.

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King Homes Inc.

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