Kavitha Baratakke

Founder at Cherry Street Investments

Speaker

Kavitha Baratakke, Founder of Cherry Street Investments is an Austin-based Real Estate Investor with over 12 years of real estate investing experience. Prior to real estate, she spent almost 20 years as a Technology Professional working for IBM and Atlassian in various roles across Software Development, Customer Services, Partner Relations and Technical Account Management. Kavitha brings strong project management, problem-solving and presentation skills from her Technology background to Real Estate. As an investor, Kavitha has successfully acquired, rehabbed, managed, owned and operated several single-family and multi-family investment properties in the Central Texas area. She sponsors real estate syndications in Multifamily, Build-to-Rent, Townhome Communities, Senior Living and Land Banking investments. She prefers strong growth markets like Austin, DFW, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Atlanta.Since retiring herself from her full-time technology career by creating passive income in real estate, she is passionate about helping more people do the same. She connects with her investors regularly through “Purely Passive Investor Group” Facebook group. She conducts regular webinars which are posted on her Youtube Channel – Cherry Street Investor Education to educate investors on various investing related topics and opportunities across multifamily, senior assisted living, tax savings, asset protection and more. When she’s not working on real estate, she is spending time with her teenage daughter Anya and their two puppies Milo and Oreo, dancing salsa and bachata (her favorite dance), cooking her favorite dish, jumping off a cliff, traveling the world (38 countries and counting), exploring new cultures, countries and food, doing long bike rides like MS-150 or hiking challenging trails in the Texas Hill Country.