Nick Stromwall

Principal Fund Manager @ Oak and Vine Upstream Energy Fund | Real Estate Investing, Syndications

What if we lived on 10% and gave 90% away?

I’m an entrepreneur at heart and an alternative asset fund manager who loves educating faith-driven investors on how to invest in alternative assets like real estate and energy.

Can you multiply money and impact with your current investing strategy?

I’m on a mission to build a thriving business that propels generosity—helping investors multiply their income so they can multiply their impact.

I spent 15 years in ministry developing leaders and building systems that empowered people to thrive. Now, I help people invest, train leaders, and build scalable systems that create lasting impact.

… And I help leaders get the #TripleWin:

✅ Winning at Work – Building scalable, high-impact businesses
✅ Winning with Family – Creating financial freedom for the people they love
✅ Winning in Community – Investing in opportunities that serve a greater purpose

As the VP of Efficiency and Innovation at Rise48, I focus on:
→ Streamlining systems to help our investors and team operate at peak efficiency
→ Developing scalable processes to support growth and maximize returns
→ Optimizing investor experience so they can confidently invest in high-quality, cash-flowing multifamily real estate

As the founder of Oak and Vine Capital, I focus on partnering with world-class operators in the best asset classes. I’ve served as a General Partner and Managing Partner in multiple real estate and energy syndications. 

My mission is clear:
→ To invest in businesses that create Kingdom Impact and empower investors to do the same.

Let’s multiply your resources for greater Kingdom impact.

Principal Owner

I help people multiply their money and impact through passive real estate investing in commercial real estate and alternative asset syndications.

Nassau Investments is a private equity firm specializing in value-add hotels and apartment complexes. Its principals and partners have acquired over 3,000 apartment units since 1999. Our hotel operator-partner has over 5,000 hotel keys (worth over $1.5 BILLION) under management.

We succeed with apartments and hotels through making cost-effective value-add improvements. This leads to substantial increase in the market value of our investments. We are able to achieve very low cost renovation, construction and property managent by being vertically integrated. 

Nassau Investment's strategic partners allow us to acquire hotels and apartments all over the United States.

To know more about our company, our track record and how we succeed, download our Pitch Deck. To know more about our CEO, Michael Ealy, listen to the various podcast interviews (links below). To get an idea of our most recent deals, read our CEO's blog posts (links below).

Michael Ealy

How Many Units Do You Really Need?

Most people think you need thousands of units to build real wealth in real estate. You don’t.

You need 11.1.

Here is what I mean.

Start with 10 units. Not 100. Not 1,000. Just 10 solid doors bought right. If each unit nets you even $100 a month after all expenses, that is $1,000 a month in cash flow. In many markets, it can be two or three times that. More importantly, you now have equity. If you average $35,000 in equity per door, that is $350,000 sitting on paper.

That equity becomes your leverage.

You roll it into the next deal. Now you buy 20 units. Combined, you are at 30 units. At $100 per door, that is $3,000 a month. Increase rents over time, improve operations, and that number climbs.

This is where people start to see it.

At 100 units, the income is meaningful. At 300 units owned properly, you are in a different category. Even at $100 net per unit, that is $30,000 a month. Increase rents by another $100 over time and you are at $60,000 a month. 

Increase again and you are pushing $90,000 a month. That is over $1 million a year in cash flow. On top of that, 300 units at $35,000 equity per door is over $10 million in net equity.

You did not start with 300. You started with 10.

Now about the 0.1.

The extra 0.1 is mindset. It is the commitment to do 10 percent better every year. Better underwriting. Better operations. Better leadership. Better discipline. Small improvements compound just like rent increases.

Real estate wealth is not about chasing massive deals. It is about stacking solid doors, leveraging equity, and improving 10 percent at a time.

So let me ask you this.

Are you waiting for the perfect 100 unit deal, or are you focused on getting your first 10 done right?

Drop your number below. How many units are you targeting in the next 3 years?

#RealEstateInvesting #MultifamilyInvesting #WealthBuilding #CashFlow #FinancialFreedom

Helping you to actively or passively invest in apartments and hotels

The Wealthy Don’t Invest. They Design

You need to become a wealth architect and design the life you want live using the 3 pillars of wealth. Instead of living in a box design only to create wealth for others.

Most people collect assets. The wealthy design systems. There’s a difference.
When I started, I thought wealth meant finding the next great deal. Bigger property. Better IRR. Faster growth.

I was thinking like an investor. Wealthy people think like engineers.

If you were building a skyscraper, you wouldn’t randomly stack steel and hope it stands. You design load-bearing beams. You reinforce stress points. You calculate for storms that haven’t even arrived yet.

That’s how real wealth is built.

Real estate gives you stability, tax advantages, and safe leverage. Stocks and options give you liquidity and explosive upside. Business gives you cashflow and control.

Separately, they grow. Integrated, they compound.

Own the apartment building and the property management company. Own the retail center and the business inside it. Own the storage facility and the moving company feeding it.

Now your pillars are not isolated. They fuel each other.

When I crossed 1,000 units, the shift wasn’t in the deals. It was in the design.

Better capital stacks. Better systems. Better alignment between operations and vision.

That’s Wealth Architect energy

That’s what we’re breaking down live tomorrow, February 25 at 12pm EST.

If you want the blueprint, comment “wealth ARCHITECT” and I’ll send you the link.

#WealthStrategy #RealEstateLife #BusinessGrowth #InvestorMindset #FinancialIndependence

Most people are not afraid of working hard. They are afraid of choosing the wrong hard.

Every path demands sacrifice. Building a business takes pressure and risk. Real estate takes capital and responsibility. A job takes time and control. Even staying stuck takes energy. The real question is not whether it is difficult. It is whether that difficulty is creating ownership.

If your effort only produces income, you reset every month. If it produces assets, systems, and cash flow, it compounds. One path keeps you busy. The other builds leverage and options.

You are going to work hard either way. Make sure your hard is buying equity, control, and long-term freedom.

Be honest with yourself. Is your current effort building assets or just funding your lifestyle?

#WealthMindset #RealEstateLife #Entrepreneurship #Ownership #LongTermThinking

Why More Deals Won’t Make You Wealthy.

Trying to build wealth with one strategy is like sitting on a one-legged stool. You can balance for a while. But you can’t relax.

Most people go all in on one lane. All real estate. All stocks. All business. Then they wonder why progress feels unstable.

Here’s what decades in the game taught me.

-Real estate stabilizes you. It gives appreciation, tax efficiency, and safe leverage.
-Stocks and options give you speed and liquidity.
-Business gives you control and cashflow.

Cashflow is the oxygen of wealth. Diversified cashflow is acceleration.

You go deep in one pillar. You master it. Then you strategically build or invest into the others. Over time, the pillars reinforce each other and risk drops while growth increases.

That’s when you stop trading time for money. That’s when you stop stressing every market shift. That’s when you start thinking in decades instead of pay periods.

We’re going deeper into this 3 Pillar framework today, February 25 at 12pm EST.

If you’re serious about becoming a Wealth Architect, comment “3 PILLARS” and I’ll send you the link.

#WealthCreation #MultifamilyInvesting #EntrepreneurLife #LongTermThinking #Cashflow

Why Landlords Increase the Rent

This conversation is bigger than one notice.

It’s bigger than one building.

Rent increases are one of the most misunderstood decisions in housing. People assume motive. They assume greed. They assume someone just decided to charge more.

But very few people actually understand how the housing ecosystem works.
Housing is not just an owner and a tenant. It’s municipalities. Insurance carriers. Lenders. Maintenance staff. Contractors. Utility providers. Vendors. Property teams. Every one of them gets paid. Every one of them adjusts when costs move.

When one part of that system shifts, everything downstream feels it.
That doesn’t mean increases are easy. It doesn’t mean they’re popular. But pretending they’re random or optional ignores how the system actually functions.

And the truth is, if you’re involved in housing in any way, this conversation affects you.

Today February 18 at 12nn EST, we’re having a direct discussion about Why Landlords Increase the Rent (How Everyone Gets Paid). We’re breaking down the structure behind it, the misunderstandings around it, and what most people never see.

If you want to understand the full picture instead of just reacting to headlines, comment WHY and we’ll send you the link.

#RentalHousing #HousingEconomics #MultifamilyInvesting #PropertyManagement #RealEstateBusiness

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