REL Freedom Podcast

After amassing a real estate portfolio of 150+ units as an active investor, Steve Werner knew there had to be a better way. He was still caught on the hamster wheel of trading time for dollars. This journey led him to become the Chief of Investor Relations for Home Invest, where he now invests, and helps others invest, in multifamily apartments. Find out why Steve is so passionate about building passive wealth through real estate investing, and how you can do it too!Follow Steve 👇https://stev...

Jacopo Iasiello is the EO of Luxury & Wealth Group. His journey started out growing up in Naples, Italy, where he developed a love for Entrepreneurship. He started a successful jewlery chain at 18 years old and dipped into real estate at 22. He earned his PhD in International Business Management , moved to Florida in 2011, and has since completed over 350 transactions and built a successful portfolio. Jacopo is the author of the book "Healthy, Rich, and Happy", which aims to share his tra...

Jenn started out as a middle school English teacher while Joe was stuck working at a car dealership in Upstate New York. Over time, they slowly started chipping away at their real estate goals through the use of creative financing and the rent to own strategy. What started out as a 1 month long trip to Florida turned into them taking 45 days to pack up their lives in New York, sell their primary residence and permanently move down to Florida, where they now homeschool their 2 kids while pursu...

Wyatt Simon currently owns and operates a $20 Million vertically integrated real estate portfolio thanks to the BRRRR strategy. He was able to quit his W2 job at the age of 27 years old thanks to his real estate investing. He is the author of the book "0-100: A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Scaling A Rental Portfolio" and helps other people ditch their W2 job and transition to multi-family freedom. Follow Wyatt 👇Website – www.wyattsimon.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/...

Veena is the founding partner in Vive Funds, a commercial real estate firm specializing in conservative opportunities for investors. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Finance, Veena pursued her passion in real estate. She now has over a decade in the industry, and has over $1 Billion in multi-family transactions in her own portfolio. She also leads a Facebook Community called Mastering Multifamily with Veena Jetti, and is the founder of MultiFi, a co...

Ryan Chaw is a pharmacist turned real estate investor. By investing in 15 properties while working his full-time job, in August 2023 he was able to replace his pharmacist salary and walk away from his job to pursue real estate investing full-time. Growing up, Ryan saw the power of real estate investing from his Grandpa, who was able to acquire rentals and was able to pay for Ryan's college tuition. Wanting to follow in his footsteps, Ryan set out to acquire 1 property per year and utility the...

Gino Barbaro is an investor, business owner, educator, entrepreneur & podcast host on 4 different shows. You may know him from "Jake & Gino", where along with his business partner Jake Stenziano, they teach others how to invest in multifamily real estate. Jake & Gino have a real estate portfolio of over 2,200 units transacted & $350 Million assets under management, and have helped their student close over 76,000 units and over $5 Billion in deals! Follow Gino 👇https://jak...

Jason Muth is the founder of 3 real estate investment and short-term rental businesses. After working for large media corporations, Jason decided to leave the corporate world behind and welcome guests into short-term rentals full-time, so he turned his "side gig" into his primary focus. Along with his husband Rory Gill, Jason launched Prideaway Stays, a gay-owned, tech-driven short-term rental co-hosting business. He's also launched Straightforward Short-Term Rentals, their owned-and-operated...

Grant Francke is a self-made real estate entrepreneur and author who built an $8 Million real estate portfolio from humble beginnings. Working for a railroad company, Grant knew he needed to build something else on his own to be able to leave that work behind, be in business for himself, and build the life he wanted. He quit his job in 2019 and has been working on his real estate portfolio full-time since then. He is the author of the book "The Unlikely Investor: A Path To Financial Freedom T...

Matthew J Gibbs is a business innovator and seasoned professional in the Canadian real estate & mortgage industry. He's the drier behind a nationwide online mortgage brokerage, The Great Canadian Mortgage Co. His mission is to simplify & expedite the mortgage process to ensure clients have access to the best financing options available. He's leveraging advanced AI technology to streamline the mortgage application process, connecting clients with over 200 lenders nationwide. The approa...

Justin Udy's real estate career began on the mortgage side, where he began buying and renovating homes. He eventually got his real estate license and was named "Rookie of the Year". He continued to grow, consistently placing among the top 1% of salespeople nationwide and is ranked in the Top 10 producers globally for Century 21 and among the Top 200 Producing Agents in the USA. Through strategic investments in multi-family, commercial, and development projects, Justin has a portfolio that now...

Mike Gengler became a real estate agent and got his license in 2020. He started out working with residential clients, but pretty quickly realized that working with investors and eventually becoming an investor himself better aligned with his future goals. Hear Mike share his journey to building a portfolio of over 200 units and $6.5M in assets under management in the past 2 years while giving up being a real estate agent for residential clients and focusing on helping investors achieve their ...

We have some exciting news to share! With a recent closing, REL Freedom's Mike Swenson has now surpassed 200 Units owned in 22 months! How did he do it? What wisdom does he have to help you on your journey? Tune into this week's episode as he walks through some of the key things to help you move to the next goal in real estate. Follow Mike 👇http://FreedomThroughRealEstate.comhttps://www.relfreedom.com/http://RELFreedom.TVhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-swenson/Real People. Real Life Sto...

If you live in their franchised territory, inevitably you have seen billboards and commercials for "We Buy Ugly Houses" also known as HomeVestors of America, Inc. They are the leading home buyer in the country, helping more than 10,000 people sell their homes every year. What does it look like to run one of their franchises? Jeff Hotz is a top franchisee of the company, is based out of Columbus, Ohio, and has ran his franchise with HomeVestors since 2013.Prior to being in real estate, Jeff se...

Clint Harris originally was in medical sales and used real estate as a way to build income & wealth on the side. He built a portfolio of single-family homes, BRRRR's, small Multi-Family, short-term rentals. You name it, he's dabbled in it. What he found was all of these may have helped build income & wealth, yet didn't necessarily give the location and time freedom he was desiring for his future. He linked up working as a General Partner & doing Investor Relations for Nomad C...

Amir Khan is a published composer who bootstrapped growing a music school to a $300,000/year business. Nearing retirement age, he decided to put together a 5 year plan to own 80 single family homes free and clear in 5 years. He has substantial real estate experience as a landlord, wholesaler, flipper, new construction operator and property manager. He also owns and operates a 14 unit apartment complex in Texas and has a portfolio spanning Texas, Illinois, and Ohio.Follow Amir 👇https://www.dre...

Scott A Stanfield started his professional path by earning a PhD in Engineering, which led to 15 years as a research scientist and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He published 14 scientific journal articles and presented over 30 papers at scientific conferences. However, his desire to live life on his terms led him to real estate in 2010. He started with it being a side investment, and by 2017 he was in 7 states, and had amassed a portfolio of over $3M through turnkey rentals. His latest v...

Tabatha Thorell is a native of rural Nebraska, is a proud mom to 5 girls, and is also a dynamic speaker, best-selling co-author, life and business coach, podcaster, and seasoned real estate investor. Tabatha and her high school sweetheart started investing in college by renting out part of a house to friends, and their path has built and grown from there. With a desire to leave a legacy of wealth to their future children, they believed that real estate was the way to do that. Tabita is the ho...

Jacki Semerau Tait is known as the "Queen of Relational Real Estate." Today she is a top producing Realtor and real estate coach, having founded Team Three 23 Real Estate Group with Realty ONE Mountain Desert in the Flagstaff, Arizona area. After losing her house and having literally $4 to her name, Jacki found herself needing to recreate herself and build and grow her income. While it was the lowest of the lows, it became the catalyst for her to launch into her dream life. She's shared platf...

Kevin Amolsch is a successful real estate investor and private money lender. He originally served in the US Army for 4 years, earned a degree in Finance, and worked as a Mortgage Bond Analyst with Wall Street for 2 years. He founded Pine Financial Group in 2008, has raised $135M in private capital in 4 funds and has helped to close on over 2,400 transactions as a buyer, seller or private money lender. His company is approaching almost $1 Billion in fundings. He's also the author of "The 45 Da...

Bradley Dorsey is a former real estate agent and contractor turned successful house flipper and investor, having bought and sold over $50 million worth of real estate in just 5 years. He has mastered the art of turning properties into profitable investments. He discusses the intricacies of real estate investing, flipping, and the secrets to achieving success in the real estate industry. Bradley has also launched the Flip My Future podcast where he shares more of his story, success, and action...

Brian Grimes is an Ivy League educated real estate entrepreneur and coach. After graduating from Columbia University, Brian originally had a career in Financial Planning. In 2015, he launched his own real estate development company in his hometown of Philadelphia and has gone on to renovate 300+ rental properties all across the country using the BRRRR strategy. He also founded 24/7 Cash Flow University to teach students how to create passive income and escape their 9-5 desk job. He also teach...

"Do today what your future self will thank you for." This is a motto that Justin Martinez lives by. Justin is a former Sergeant in the US Army, Ranger qualified. After his time in the Army, he attended Arizona State University, where he received a BS in Business Entrepreneurship and a Masters in Real Estate Development. While in college he also started a healthy vending machine company and ran a door to door sales team.He took his saved income and began a journey in Airbnb by buying and renov...

Ed Kowalski felt the crash of the real estate market back in 2008 as a real estate investor. After filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, he didn't just bounce back, he soared to new heights. Through determination and resilience, Ed became one of the top REO agents in the Northwest region, selling $10 million annually for the next 5 years. Ed has completed over 20,000 BPOs (Broker Price Opinions) and sold over 1,000 homes as an agent for investors, hedge funds, banks, and government institutions. H...

Morgan Anderson is the founder & CEO of Golden Lion Tax Solutions. She is also the author of the book "Tax Debt Rule #1: There's Always A Solution." In almost 25 years, she has seen it all in solving past-due taxes owed to the IRS. Oftentimes her clients come to her scared, feeling hopeless, and don't know where to find answers. Her goal is to reach each and every taxpayer with a past-due tax debt to give them the confidence to find a solution. Follow Morgan 👇https://www.goldenlionta...

Jim Manning's first job out of school was working for a self-made billionaire. He had everything you could ever want, except this person with all the money in the world was absolutely miserable. This caused Jim to set out to find a way to be financially free without sacrificing his personal life. He founded multiple real estate companies while still being able to be present for his wife and kids. He discovered he had a knack for creating financial freedom for others and is on a mission to sho...

4 years is what it took Grant Warrington to become a millionaire from real estate investing, once he started. His journey started with limited knowledge and no money, much like many of us! He quite his 24 year construction job to go full-time into property management, overseeing 800 units and 100+ rehabs. Today, he and his wife personally own and manage their 41 unit portfolio. He now is a contributor for Biggerpockets and has over 50,000 subscribers on social media as he teaches people how t...

Davielier Turner started out his adult life in jail from selling narcotics. Once he got our of jail, he decided to make a change. Fast forward and Davielier is now a real estate broker, instructor, and investor in New Jersey. He has been selling real estate and flipping homes for more than 20 years. He is the owner of Pinnacle Real Estate Group and B.C. Enterprises, a company that specializes in flipping real estate. In addition, he has published 3 books and has a 4th book coming out June 20t...

Jordan Moorhead is a real estate agent and investor experienced in house hacking, BRRRRs, as well as mobile home parks. In addition to that, he's moved around the United States a bit, allowing him to build strong real estate investing connections and teams in multiple states. This has allowed him to invest in Kentucky, Minnesota, as well as his current home in Austin, Texas. Most recently he's jumped into mobile home park investing, having closed on a park in 2023. He runs his real estate tea...

Dan O'Halloran leads the O'Halloran Group, a residential real estate team based out of the Lake Sunapee Region of New Hampshire, along with his wife Christina. In addition to their team, consisting of a handful of agents and admin staff, they also own the office building that they use, as well as a few other properties and a lake home that also serves as a short-term rental during times they aren't using it. Dan discusses his strategy of adding a little bit at a time, and how these few moves ...

Laura is a highly successful business expert with over 25 years experience. From small boutique businesses to a multi-million dollar wine business and a real estate empire, Laura has owned 9 businesses in her career, with the first starting at 23 years old. She is also an internationally recognized speaker through her company, Limitless Women, and exemplifies that companies can be both profitable and purposeful. She has raised over $750,000 to date for her charities. She is the author of...

Charisse Walker is not your typical real estate investor. Her journey from living on food stamps and being 400k in debt to financial freedom, she had to scrape and claw her way to success. With a determination to succeed, she began investing in real estate and now resides in a home that her passive income pays the mortgage for. She has helped over 100 clients embark on their own journey of wealth creation. Charisse is on a mission to empower 100,000 real estate investors to create at least $5...

Amy Terry began her real estate career at just 16 years old! From answering phones to a top producing agent, to a Managing Broker, to helping others create phenomenal careers, Amy really has done it all. She's bought, sold, rented, flipped, developed, and invested in many properties. She is passionate about helping people build long term wealth through real estate and leading her brokerage with authenticity and vulnerability. Amy shares her story, gives advice for others considering getting i...

Flint spent 20 years in aerospace as an engineer and program manager. He helped design the wing structure on the Boeing 787 before leaving in 2014. Having endured a great deal of burnout, he turned to purchasing real estate in 2018. He quickly pivoted to commercial real estate, which allowed him to reclaim his time and quit his day job. Having founded Vestus Capital, Flint helps educate others on how they can grow and protect their wealth by passively investing in commercial real estate and b...

Jeff Anzalone is a successful doctor. His journey from being a periodontist with $300k in student loan debt to thriving real estate investor started with a wake up call. A skiing accident that injured his wrist made him realize how fast something like that could take away his ability to earn an income and provide for his family. He shifted his mindset and attention over to real estate investing as a way to build another stream of income. He's invested in RV Parks, Campgrounds, Self-Storage, A...

Pam Butera has been able to find a ton of leverage and time freedom through her role of running the operations of the Greater Philly Cyberbacker franchise. In a market that went down by 30% last year, Pam's real estate business with The Butera Group, went up by over 10%. Plus, she also had the time to pour into this franchise role giving business owners the leverage they need to grow their business at a fraction of the cost. Hear Pam's story growing up in a family with a father and grandfathe...

Josh Fonger is founder and CEO of WTS Enterprises. Based on the book "Work The System" by Sam Carpenter, Josh helps ambitious business owners break free from the day-to-day by getting control of their systems. His specialty is taking stressed-out entrepreneurs from working "in" their business to working "on" their business using systems so that profit and freedom can become a consistent mechanical reality. He's personally helped over 1,000 business owners from more than 300 industries. In the...

A week ago I had an opportunity to attend RaiseFest, which was put on by Hunter Thompson, author of the book "Raising Capital For Real Estate." Held in Phoenix, AZ, this conference was attended by over 1,000 people looking to raise capital for their real estate ventures. I had an amazing time, made some great connections, and learned a lot about the next steps we plan to take in our business to grow and help people to passively invest in real estate opportunities. Here I share some of my favo...

Not many people have the Freedom Trinity - financial, time and location freedom. For Bryce Robertson, this is his reality, however it was not always the story. Growing up in Australia, he was a high school dropout with no knowledge of business and entrepreneurship. After working a few years in gold mines and traveling the world, he ended up in the USA. With a negative net worth and $2,000 he was able to gain financial freedom in 2.5 years, primarily from investing in mobile home parks. He's f...

After winning a college basketball national championship and receiving MVP honors, Anders Jacobson felt on top of the world. However, just weeks later he overdraft his bank account, found out he'd have to pay his own way for school, and hit an all-time low. In just a few years, he entered the door-to-door sales industry, became the #1 producer, started 2 companies and lead over 500+ sales professionals across 17 states, and became a millionaire by 27.Today, Anders is an investor, and founder ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said back in 1789 "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." Jodi Nielsen would quickly chime in "I can help defer one of them." Jodi is a Sr. Account Executive for Cost Segregation Services Inc (CSSI) which has performed over 40,000 Cost Segregation studies. The goal of having a cost segregation study on your investment property is to help accelerate up to 40% of a building's depreciation so that you can use your money now to help make more money. For every 500k on ...

Rob Natale is the founder of North Square Capital, a privately held real estate investment firm in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent numerous years at Columbia Threadneedle Investment, collaborating with financial advisors and their teams, overseeing assets from $20M to $3B. He felt that the financial services industry poorly served a more sophisticated audience, like several of his relatives who dedicated their lives to medicine. He decided to make his mission to help medical professionals buy...

Gladys Diaz-Jourdain, is a bilingual Cuban American residing in vibrant Miami, and is a dynamic figure in the world of real estate. She specializes in affordable housing finance. Co-Founder and Managing Director of Urbaniza Group since 2001 (along with her husband Ray), Gladys has guided growth of this mult-million dollar business across business development, finance, marketing, public relations, and technology integration. She was a visionary in the 'tiny house' movement and developed a hist...

Sonny Moyers has been a real estate agent since 1971. Based out of the Dallas Fort Worth area, he's a top 1% agent in Texas for many years in his career. He was named by D Magazine as "Best In Dallas" for sixteen straight years. He is President of The Renaissance Group, a real estate brokerage, consulting, and publishing company. He authored the book "The Architecture of The Real Estate Practice", which is a thorough reference book that encapsulates all that he's learned in the field of real ...

DJ Olojo is a real estate investor, Realtor, podcast host of "The Foreclosure Fix" and Managing Director of ASO Custom Homes, LLC. His mission is to help 1 Million homeowners successfully navigate foreclosure. With more than 15 years of real estate experience, including purchasing foreclosure properties on the courthouse steps, he is the go-to expert on residential foreclosure. He also is the author of the book, "The Foreclosure Fix: 12 Proven Steps To Beat The Bank, Escape Foreclosure, and T...

Back in 2005, Bill Ham walked away from his lucrative career as a corporate pilot. After buying his first deal via creative financing, he quit his job and went full-time into real estate. He grew from $300/mo in cashflow and 10k in savings and built a large portfolio of single and multi-family rental properties. He later built out a large property management company with 16 employees and his peak. He bought his first 402 units using only creative financing and now teaches others how to do the...

Nishant Sondhi is a dynamic entrepreneur who embarked on a remarkable journey from India to the United States In 2018. He started his real estate career in the heart of New York City as a real estate agent in 2019. After experiencing success as an agent, he realized his true passion was combining the great relationships he was developing in real estate and providing them with fantastic real estate investments across the United States. In just a short period of time, he has helped his investor...

Michael Messner, Nick Haraden & Marc O'Bryan form Mattanza Capital Partners, an investing group that focuses on multi-family properties in St. Louis, Missouri. As a group, they've closed 5 successful deals, raised over $10M in capital, and currently have almost $20M in assets under management. These 3 discuss how they got their start, how each of them play distinctively different roles in their organization, and how they work together to build strong partnerships and relationships that he...

Chris Dewilde is a real estate agent in the Chicago area that serves real estate investors. With a 10 year contracting background, Chris has a ton of knowledge to help investors pick great properties, know and understand renovation costs, and see opportunities in properties where others may pass. We discuss how Chris adds value to those he works with, and helps them grow their real estate portfolio depending on their preferences and goals. Chris is also a brand new dad, welcoming his first ch...

Busy Bee Advisors was established in 2017 by Melissa Broughton, a seasoned accountant. Identifying the benefit to business owners of having a single resource for their accounting and tax services, husband Eric, a tax professional, joined the company in 2020. Together, with more than 20 years of combined bookkeeping and tax experience, they are living their passion for helping small business owners and real estate investors gain financial clarity in their business. In addition to their work wi...

Troy Meyers is a former college athlete that got his start flipping motorcycles in college. After buying & selling over 20 motorcycles in college, he turned his attention to flipping houses. Along with his wife, they've flipped single family homes, multi-family homes and are also working on short-term rentals. Troy still works his W2 job and after amassing 6 multi-family properties netting $8,500/mo in cashflow, he liquidated them and scaled into an 18 unit apartment and a short-term rent...

Ahmed Seirafi, principal of Andalusia Development Company, oversees all aspects of the acquisition, deposition, and development processes for his company spanning more than $100 Million in commercial assets in multi-family and retail throughout the SW United States. As a second-generation real estate investor & developer, Ahmed has successfully launched and grown his company through finding great opportunities and inefficiencies in the market that has fueled his firm's growth.FOLLOW AHMED...

Clint Harris originally was in medical sales and used real estate as a way to build income & wealth on the side. He built a portfolio of single-family homes, BRRRR's, small Multi-Family, short-term rentals. You name it, he's dabbled in it. What he found was all of these may have helped build income & wealth, yet didn't necessarily give the location and time freedom he was desiring for his future. He linked up working as a General Partner & doing Investor Relations for Nomad C...

Greg Mohr got his start working for a master franchisor for Taco Bell. He quickly saw how a franchise can be a vehicle to build the live you want and strive towards financial freedom. His path eventually led him to pursue a master's degree and work in engineering. He also purchased a dry cleaning business and some rental properties on the side. He found his corporate job unfilling and could tell his heart wasn't in it. After getting laid off, he realized he never wanted to work for anoth...

The REL Freedom Show turns 200! That's right, this is our 200th episode. With it being the beginning of 2024, we wanted to share with you some of our top tips to help you achieve real estate investing success in 2024. Whether you're looking to get your first deal, or looking to scale larger, these tips will help you align for growth, help you with your decision making process, navigate changing interest rates, and get you on the right path. SUBSCRIBE IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO BUILD WEALTH THR...

Adit Shah is a real estate developer, syndicator and military veteran that now enjoys financial and location freedom living life on his terms in Columbia. After getting out of the military, he worked for a real estate developer for free to gain crucial experience and build key relationships. He's helped develop nearly $3M of properties in San Diego County through his company Housebender, with the intent to provide housing for blue collar families and veterans. He's also raised $3.8M and acqui...

Jenny Rojer enjoyed a career in higher education before beginning her journey into real estate. About 5 years ago she got involved with a group that provided real estate education, which allowed her to learn a lot about the industry and different strategies. She decided to make the jump in as an agent in the summer of 2022. Since then, she's worked on residential properties as well as investment properties, while also running a short-term rental of her own. She's focused a lot of her time and...

Spencer Hilligoss was an operations and sales junkie working for 5 high growth Fintech companies in 13 years. He decided to break free from the golden handcuffs, quit his job, and work on growing his investment group, Madison Investing. Since then, he has become a full-time investor by partnering with in-market, vetted operators and has $2.3 billion in acquisitions with over 20,000 units. He is also a registered member of FINRA and a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council.FOLLOW SPENCER 👇🏼h...

Clifton Corbin left his business consultant gig after 2 decades of experience to become a full-time stay-at-home dad. He is the author of "Your Kids, Their Money: A Parent's Guide To Raising Financially Literate Children," which provides parents with the skills and tools to teach financial literacy to kids. He also wrote "The Richest Person In Babylon", which is the popular favorite "The Richest Man In Babylon" revised for modern time. When not reading or listening to podcasts about finance a...

Ryan Luthi has worn a lot of hats in the real estate space. From agent, to investor, and now working with buyers who many banks would deem "unBankable." Not every buyer fits the cookie cutter box that lenders have in place. Ryan has rolled up his sleeves to meet a need to help buyers purchase property that traditional banks and lenders may have turned away from. As Co-Owner of unBankable, Ryan has found a niche in the market. In addition, he owns a current portfolio of 87 doors consisting of ...

Having a mom who was a successful Realtor, Caroline Hobbs has set a goal to transform the process of finding homes and making it an enjoyable journey. Living in Silicon Valley, she has a prime seat to make that happen. Caroline is the visionary founder and Chief Broker of Reward Realty, established in 2013. She works closely with families and investors to deliver memorable experiences while helping them save money,time, and stress. She's also developing a new technology to help disrupt how ag...

Lauren Keen Aumond is a content creator and real estate investor based in Tampa Bay, Florida. She recently quit her 9-5 job and manages her short-term and long-term rentals. Along with her husband, Aric, they built a portfolio that helped them achieve financial independence in their early 30's. She's also the host of the Adulting Is Easy Podcast and The House Money Podcast.FOLLOW LAUREN 👇https://www.realadultingiseasy.com/https://www.housemoneymedia.com/https://podcast.housemoneymedia.com/SUB...

Robert Taylor is a former McDonald's employee who went from a humble crew person to real estate superstar. He set out with a goal to create $5k/mo in income from flipping, while still maintaining his job at McDonald's. He scaled to 4-5 flips a year while still working full time, and grew to 17 flips his first year on his own. Today he flips 25-30 houses a year in the Baltimore, MD area, and has also accumulated 25+ units he's held along the way. Robert's story serves as a beacon of hope and m...

For many people, building and growing a business in the real estate space is going to require some sort of funding. How much do you know about fundability? Merrill Chandler is THE expert when it comes to knowing what lenders are looking for to approve you for funding. Since 1997, he has led the transformation of the personal and business borrowing space. GetFundable.com helps entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and business owners supercharge their personal and business borrower profiles to...

Michael believes that all it takes is one short-term rental to help set you financially free. How about 6? Michael shares his journey to financial freedom in just ONE YEAR by leveraging short-term rentals. He and his wife now own 4 properties in TN and 2 in FL and just moved into a $2 Million home in South Carolina and are expecting their first child this fall. We walk through how he selects properties, how he runs his numbers, how he funds them, what steps he take to maximize revenue on each...

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids. Deven the oldest son, began real estate investing at the age of 7 with no money from his parents and became a millionaire and accredited investor before he could drive! The Wohlwend family has rehabbed and repositioned over a thousand units, grown multiple businesses, and authored a book - Family Success Triangle. In addition, the children s...

We are so excited to share that we closed on a 20 unit property! What excites us the most is that we got to have over a dozen people INVEST WITH US! These people wanted to passively invest in a property without having to do all the work themselves. They wanted to achieve economies of scale that they couldn't do on their own. They didn't want to have 100% of their income lost if 1 unit is left vacant on a single family home they rent out by themselves. Together we can do more! Tune in as we sh...

Dave made a 30k mistake on this first investment, a duplex in Denver, CO, one that ended up costing him over 200k in future missed opportunities. He learned that every real estate investor has a silent partner - Uncle Sam. If you're not careful, Uncle Sam can make more money than you do. But Dave soon learned the incredible value of tax-free savings through the 1031 exchange, which allowed him to buy a sailboat with his family down the road. Dave is a Qualified Intermediary and consultant who...

Whitney Elkins-Hutten serves as the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com, and national passive real estate investment firm that holds $1.4Billion in assets under management. After making 52k after her first sale of real estate, nearly losing it all on her 2nd deal, she focused on how to grow her portfolio the right way. Today Whitney holds $800M in real estate including over 6,000 residential units, 1,400+ self-storage units, and is focusing on growing even more through inve...

Originally looking to build a career as a stand up comic, Pip Stehlik (with the help of his wife) came to the conclusion there was a different path out there to make money and achieve their family's financial goals. He went back to the family grocery business, where he was miserable, until he attended a Zig Ziglar event in Omaha back in 2002.His attention quickly turned to real estate, where he bought 16 properties in 16 months. Since then, he's been able to do lease options, renovations, com...

With $250 in his pocket, Sterling Griffin decided to spend it on attending a life-changing Tony Robbins event instead of on rent, which began 5 months living out of his car in Los Angeles. By investing in himself and surrounding himself with other high achievers, Sterling turned an online fitness business to a 7 figure exit in less than 2 years. He then took that money and bought $26.5 Million of real estate in his first full year of investing with no outside investors by investing in medical...

As the real estate and lending market had changed, Josh Dobson knew he needed to adapt. While much of his mortgage business came from real estate agent referrals, he needed to pivot and get straight to the consumer. Insert @MortgageDadOf3. Through trial and error and adjusting his message to resonate with the consumer, and not seeing significant results for almost 18 months, Josh has now built a social media following of 115,000 on Instagram and 63,000 on Tiktok! He's dancing, he's educating,...

When people first start looking at investing in real estate, inevitably they start thinking "How Do I Choose What To Invest In?" Today we're going to help guide you through that decision! We're going to walk through many of the popular investing strategies, help you do a self-assessment on your goals & resources available to you, and help you move closer to pursuing the investing strategy that's right for you. We'll touch on flipping, buy & hold, short term rentals, BRRRR, mobile home...

Michael Sarracini is an award-winning entrepreneur and real estate investor. After a failed stint of being in a boy band (true story!), Michael made a deposit to a bank for rent as a university student. After seeing how much the landlord made in profit each month, Michael and his roommate Scott McGillivray, decided they were going to purchase their first property however they could. They did. They fixed it up, added value and refinanced it, to pull money out, and put those profits into anothe...

Derek Vickers moved to Florida with less than $300 in his pocket and had just started a 100% commission sales job. Wanting to build something in addition to his 9-5 job, he started working on finding mobile home park owners and finding deals to purchase throughout Florida. Fast forward a few years and Derek is CEO of Vicktory Real Estate Group, which currently owns 38 parks totaling 1926 units. He retired from his sales job to pursue this full-time and is also the host of the MHP Show.FOLLOW ...

Chad Wittfeldt started his entrepreneurial journey at a young age by turning 2 businesses into 6 figure endeavors. He started a landscaping company and electronic arbitrage business, and found success in both. Chad later became a full time investor and real estate entrepreneur in his twenties. He has also investing in cryptocurrency and builds systems and processes to acquire accredited investors. Today, he's partnered on over $30,000,000 in real estate syndications.FOLLOW CHAD 👇http://chadwi...

Kevin Amolsch is a successful real estate investor and private money lender. He originally served in the US Army for 4 years, earned a degree in Finance, and worked as a Mortgage Bond Analyst with Wall Street for 2 years. He founded Pine Financial Group in 2008, has raised $135M in private capital in 4 funds and has helped to close on over 2,400 transactions as a buyer, seller or private money lender. His company is approaching almost $1 Billion in fundings. He's also the author of "The 45 Da...

Kyle Stanley was originally a sports broadcaster and decided to get into real estate to be able to control his destiny and live the life he wanted. He now manages around 50 short-term rental properties in the Fresno, CA market through arbitrage and co-hosting strategies. He turned it into a 6-figure business in year 1 and got to 7-figures by year 2. He's also the host of The Fearless Investor Podcast, where he discusses the short-term rental market, generating passive income, and scaling your...

Tyler Coon has always been an entrepreneur. He loves the adventure of building on his own vs working a W2 job. After being a real estate agent serving all clients needs, Tyler saw the opportunity, and loved the idea of niching down into focus on Short Term Rentals. Living in Asheville, North Carolina, Tyler founded Savvy STR Agents, a real estate team focusing on helping investors purchase Short Term Rental properties. He has grown his team to help serve North Carolina, Kentucky, Southern Cal...

Kristi Winfree is a former teacher that discovered she has a passion for helping people and loves to use her natural gifts of being highly detail oriented and implementing systems and processes. She launched Legacy Transactions to help agents grow their business and provide education to them along the way. Her personal motto is "wake up every day to create Raving Fans and make someone's life better!" She is also the host of "Not Just A Daydream - Business Insights and Inspiration for the Work...

Karim Kerachni has been all over the world. He was in Canada with Algerian parents, grew up in France, and is currently spending a year in Malaysia. Karim is passionate about being an entrepreneur, launching and growing businesses over being just a "business owner". He started a residential and commercial cleaning company called Steamates in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Getting that company up and running afforded him the time to focus on his next journey, doing franchise development in Massachusett...

Many people assume that a news anchor turned real estate agent would have it easy. But what if you couldn't leverage your news personality at all to let anyone know you were even in real estate? Christina Leavenworth found a way to use any free time she got to connect with people outside of her day job as a news reporter and managed to sell 65 homes for $14.8M in volume in her first year in real estate in the Pensacola, FL market back in 2016. A few years later, she launched The Leavenworth T...

Many people work hard in their W-2 job to be able to do real estate investing on the side. What if your W-2 job allowed you to learn real estate investing WHILE you worked? Meet Shawn Baxter. By day, Shawn is a truck driver that travels all across the US. Because of his role, he is constantly listening to real estate investing podcasts and audio books all day long. Because of this dedicated time commitment, he puts in MORE time as a real estate investor than his truck driving job. This a...

The 2 questions we hear most often are "How do I get started investing in real estate" and "How do I invest if I don't have enough money for a property". Today we're tackling those important topics! Mike Swenson covers the many different ways that investing in real estate can bring you income & profit, how you can fund your purchases, what considerations to make when deciding what type of investor you want to be, and how you can push the "easy" button and passively invest your money into ...

For many people, real estate investing is an amazing path to build long-term wealth. At the end of the rainbow comes opportunity towards time and financial freedom. However, what if you're looking for some more immediate results to accelerate time and financial freedom now, so that you can invest that time into other things down the road. Adam and Vince currently have 11 short term rental properties across the US. They are using the arbitrage method to build their short term rental business. ...

Brandon Thomas began his real estate journey working as a property manager throughout college helping to manage a 65 unit apartment. He saw firsthand how much an owner could earn and wanted in. Brandon has been able to creatively finance 15 units in Morgantown, WV that he also manages, as well as doing other deals. He's a licensed agent in Maryland and runs a team there. His work in real estate has given him the opportunity to also launch a clothing company that donates 50% of all profits to ...

David is the go-to resource for all things real estate in Los Angeles & Orange County, California. He helps people plan for, create, and acquire a portfolio that meets their investment & financial freedom goals. His mission is to spread a higher level of real estate and financial education, show the benefits of home ownership, guide people to achieve it, and help his clients leverage their homes into multi-generational wealth. We discuss how owning at least 1 property gives you the to...

Having completed over 28,000 professional coaching sessions, Derek Schenck knows how to help people. He is the founder and executive coach of Peak Performance Coaching, a coaching and consulting company laser-focused on the pursuit of excellence. Derek has the unique ability to entertain and inspire while guiding his audience on an engaging journey of self-discovery to create lasting change that matters. We discuss why entrepreneurs are struggling today and what separates the good from the gr...

Kevin Link started out as an attorney for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He wanted to be able to take control of his career and stop working for other people, so he launched into real estate in 2017 by co-founding 4 Brothers Buy Houses, based out of the Washington DC area. This investment firm brings in over $5 Million in revenue per year with a team of 25. In addition to that, Kevin founded 1000Flips, a game-changing investment company designed to help other do what the...

What options do you have when you have a strong love for technology and real estate? The possibilities are endless, yet for Marla Harmon, she took her passion and formed an amazing real estate investor CRM. This digital marketing wizard is the CEO and founder of REISoftware, an all-in-one CRM designed specifically for the real estate investor. She talks about how she took her high-level understanding of technology and built an engine that helps people capture leads, nurture leads, and close m...

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids. Deven the oldest son, began real estate investing at the age of 7 with no money from his parents and became a millionaire and accredited investor before he could drive! The Wohlwend family has rehabbed and repositioned over a thousand units, grown multiple businesses, and authored a book - Family Success Triangle. In addition, the children s...

Chris Miles, the cashflow expert and Anti-Financial advisor is a leading authority on teaching entrepreneurs and professionals how to get their money working for them today. He retired very early in life, lost it due to the housing crash, built up his cashflow again and thus was able to retire twice by the age of 39. Chris runs Money Ripples and is host of The Chris Miles Money Show. His personal clients have increased their cash flow by over $300 Million over the past 13 years! Follow Chris ...

Mat worked as a chemical engineer for 12 years before recently becoming a full-time real estate investor in 2022. He got a Master's degree in International Management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. While working his regular job, Mat would spend his nights and weekends looking for foreclosures, learning and asking questions about real estate investing, and working on his personal finances. He and his wife have now been purchasing rental properties since 2014 in Allentown, PA in ...

Agostino Pintus is a former INC 500 Technology Chief Executive, with a masters degree and 2 bachelors degrees, made a life-changing decision to walk away from a six-figure corporate career to pursue his true passion: real estate. In the span of 5 years, he's built a diverse portfolio of multifamily, development, and net lease assets. He is the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Cashflow, where he applies nearly 2 decades of real estate experience to source, negotiate, and acquire commercial prope...

Eric and Lila Wohlwend started out sleeping on a mattress on a warehouse floor. They educated themselves in real estate and taught it to their kids, including them buying their first investment properties at the age of 7 with no money from their parents! This episode highlights mom Lila and their youngest son Ethan (currently 13 years old), who shares how he started out by purchasing a mobile home for his first property and acquiring a 6 unit property for his 2nd deal, to currently holding 39...

Venkat came to the United States back in 2002 to get his Masters Degree. After spending 14 years in the corporate IT space as an Electrical Engineer, Venkat pivoted to real estate investment to be able to take control of his career and future. He started in real estate by acquiring 20 single family properties in the Dallas area over a 3-4 year span. Today, his company Stryker Properties is focused on Class A apartments in Dallas, Austin, Denver, and Phoenix. During his time in real estat...

To get better, you have to get started, and that's what Edwin Carrion did. Born in Ecuador, raised by a single mother, Edwin migrated to the US at the age of 12. He enlisted in the Marines, and after he was done, he was trying to figure out what his next step was to build the life he wanted. He was given advice to get into real estate development to make money. Not knowing how to do it, he learned and figured it out as he went along the path as he was taking action to build his dream life.&nb...

You'd be surprised to learn that Knolly Williams, The Business Healer, known for wearing a cowboy hat all the time, had aspirations to be a rapper at the age of 13. He was also reading at a sophomore level in the 5th grade. Knolly grew up as a "scared kid" and had a lot of challenges to face. He got into sales at the age of 12 selling hand-crafted jewelry at flea markets and the entrepreneurship bug grew. He left home at the age of 16, eventually launched a gospel music magazine and record la...

Building financial freedom sometimes seems incredibly challenging and elusive. We build it up as this incredibly difficult and sophisticated plan. However, it can happen gradually as you're going about your normal life. For Investor Mama Jen Narciso, building a $2M portfolio started with purchasing a duplex for 200k in 2013. Live in one half, rent out the other, fix up, cash out refi, and repeat. Have a couple of kids along the way. Buy another single family home in 2020. Let real estate appr...