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Episode: Life Lessons on Prosperity with The Wealthy Gardener author John SoforicGuest: Dr. John Soforic was a once chiropractor with 200k in student debt. He retired at 49 with a retirement income of $240,000. He then wrote a book for his son in college: The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons on Prosperity between Father and Son. The book became an Amazon bestseller, hit #46 worldwide on audible, and has been translated into 6 languages.Big Idea: Generational Wealth is not just money, equity, or numbers on the balance sheet.   One very critical component of wealth his the knowledge on how to steward that wealth, a critical piece missing from so many estate plans.  John viewed this challenge in his own life as he sought to inspire his 19 year old son to absorb and learn the wisdom he’d discovered over the decade of building his own wealth.  And so The Wealthy Gardener was born.  I listened on audible myself and then found myself immediately recommending the book to a few friends of mine who are early in their real estate investing career.  I’d describe this book as the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” for the new generation, but with a greater focus on real estate and the mindsets needed to create a wealthy life.  John and I discuss real estate, my juvenile delinquent past, our shared experience of having a child attend Temple University, and of course his book, The Wealthy Gardener.  Please enjoy this conversation with John Soforic.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://WealthyGardener.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/life-lessons-on-prosperity-with-the-wealthy-gardener-author-john-soforic/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the R.E.I Diamond Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. And this is Episode 200 with Life Lessons on Prosperity with The Wealthy Gardener author John Soforic.If you are into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers. I’d invite them on the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom, those tactics and mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars or more in the business of real estate.Dr. John Soforic was once a chiropractor with more than $200,000 in student debt. He retired at age 49, with a retirement income of $240,000 per year. He then wrote a book for his son in college, The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons on Prosperity Between Father and Son. The book went on to become an Amazon bestseller. Hit number 46 worldwide on Audible and has been translated into six languages.Generational wealth is not just money. It’s not just equity or numbers on a balance sheet. One very critical component of wealth is the knowledge on how to steward that wealth, a critical piece missing from so many estate plans. John viewed this challenge in his own life as he sought to inspire his 19-year-old son to absorb and learn the wisdom he discovered over the decade or more building his own wealth. And so, The Wealthy Gardener was born.I listened on Audible myself and then found myself immediately recommending the book to a few friends of mine who are early in their real estate investing career. I describe this book as the Rich Dad Poor Dad for the new generation, but with a greater focus on real estate and the mindsets needed to actually create that wealthy life.John and I discussed real estate, my juvenile delinquent past, our shared experience of having a child attend Temple University and, of course, his book, The Wealthy Gardener. Please enjoy this conversation with John Soforic.John & I Discuss Life Lessons on Prosperity:·        How to Pass on Generational Wealth·        Overcoming Challenges in Life·        Building a $20K Per Month Portfolio·        The Wealthy GardenerRelevant Episodes: (There are 200 Content Packed Interviews in Total) Getting High Return on Investment through Co-Living Rentals with Johnny Wolff Leverage to Larger Deals Using Family Office Wealth with Richard Wilson John Matheson on How to Access Commercial Credit How to Find Motivated Sellers with David Lecko

Episode: The iCandy Realty Fix & List Model with Steve BudzikGuest: Steve Budzik is the managing broker & founder of iCandy Realty, a Boutique Real Estate Brokerage in Mokena, IL serving the greater Chicago Real Estate Market.  Steve is also an accomplished high volume fix & flip investor.  Long time listeners will remember Steve’s past REI Diamonds episode where we discussed high dollar house flipping.Big Idea: Steve developed the fix & list program to help his brokerage sell houses faster & at a higher price.  The experience and contacts he developed flipping houses has dovetailed neatly into this new program.  Steve has built both his brokerage & real estate investing business with a priority on high level service to the market place over high volume advertising.  Our conversation begins with Steve’s evolution to the fix & list business model, his views on how to mitigate risk both as an investor and as a real estate agent, as well as a few reasons he believes every real estate agent should offer a program like this.  Let’s begin:This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.SteveBudzik.comhttp://www.iCandyRealty.com For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/the-icandy-realty-fix-list-model-with-steve-budzik/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I’m your host Dan Breslin and this is episode 199 on the iCandy Realty fix and flip model with Steve Budzik. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, inviting them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods, used to create millions of dollars more in the business of real estate.Steve Budzik is the managing broker and founder of iCandy Realty. A boutique real estate brokerage in Mokena, Illinois, serving the greater Chicago real estate market. Steve is also an accomplished high-volume fix and flip investor. Long-time listeners will remember Steve’s past REI Diamonds episode where we discussed his high-dollar house flipping strategy. Since then, Steve has developed the fix and list program to help his brokerage sell houses faster and at a higher price. The experience and contacts he developed flipping houses along the way have dovetailed neatly into this new program. Steve has built both his brokerage and real estate investing business with a priority on high-level service to the marketplace over high-volume advertising. Our conversation begins with Steve’s evolution into the fix and flip business model, his views on how to mitigate risk both as an investor and as a real estate agent, as well as a few reasons he believes every real estate agent should offer a program like this. Let’s begin. All right, cool. Welcome back, Steve. How are you doing today?Steve Budzik: Good, good. Thanks for having me on the show, Dan.Dan: Yeah. Absolutely. I guess it’s been maybe what? 2017 or something like that? Maybe in 2016? One of the early guests of the REI Diamond Show is returning.Steve: Yeah. Absolutely, man. I love it. I love it.Steve & I Discuss the Fix & List Real Estate Brokerage Model:• Generating Faster Sales & Higher Prices (& Higher Commission!)• How to Generate 80% of Business from REFERRALS• Landlords Using the Fix & List Program• Listing a Property Per Week with NO Ad SpendRelevant Episodes: (There are 199 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Steve Budzik on High Volume & High Dollar House Flipping & Boutique Brokeragehttps://bit.ly/3aGQI6K• Aaron Lockhart on Doing Deals with Diamond Equityhttps://bit.ly/3aEul1P• Steve Werner on Where Have All the $50,000 Fix & Flip Deals Gone?https://bit.ly/3lHK5rl• How to Find Off Market Real Estate Deals with Zack Boothehttps://bit.ly/3lJjj1E

Episode: Flipping Houses in Florida with Viktor JiracekGuest: Viktor is a full time real estate investor focused on flipping houses in Florida.  He also coaches new investors on how to find off market deals then fund, fix & flip those deals.Big Idea: If you’re just getting started in real estate investing, constructing a plan to earn $100K per year flipping houses is a good place to start.  This was my own plan back in 2006 when I just got started.  It turned out pretty well so far.  Viktor & I discuss how to find & fund that first flip.  We also talk about finding and managing contractors, avoiding costly mistakes, and of course everyone’s favorite type of deal.  This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.SellYourGainesvilleHomeToday.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/flipping-houses-in-florida-with-viktor-jiracek/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I’m your host Dan Breslin, and this is episode 198. On flipping houses in Florida with Viktor Jiracek. If you’re in the building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.So Viktor is a full-time real estate investor focused on flipping houses in Florida. He also coaches new investors on how to find off-market deals, then fun, fix, and flip those deals. So if you’re just getting started in real estate investing, constructing a plan to earn $100,000 per year flipping houses, is a pretty good place to start. That was my own plan back in 2006 when I got started and it’s turned out pretty well so far. Viktor and I discussed that plan as well as how to find and fun that first flip. We also talked about finding, managing contractors, avoiding costly mistakes. Of course, everyone’s favorite type of deal. Shall we begin?All right. Welcome to the REI Diamond Show, Viktor. How are you doing today?Viktor Jiracek: I’m good. Thanks for having me.Dan: Cool. I think we’d start with a location drop a pin in your market and kind of talk about where you’re doing business first and then, maybe as part of that, you could talk about, how you got in real estate and what your business looks like today?Viktor: Sure. I live in Gainesville, Florida. I flipped in the surrounding area so mostly Alachua County but a little bit like if it’s a good deal we’ll go a little bit farther but I like to keep it private within an hour driving distance is how I typically look at it. Yeah, so I primarily do fix and flip. So by it, fix it up, sell it, is how I typically do it. I got started full-time out two and a half years ago. I was working full-time, that wasn’t working out. Just wanna make a shift in real state, I’m happy, and I don’t wanna look back. I’m happy about this. This is it. This is the goal.Viktor & I Discuss Flipping Houses in Florida:• How to Find the Best Deals• Funding your 1st Deal• Impact of Design on Resale• Building a Funnel of ContractorsRelevant Episodes: (There are 198 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Jacksonville Florida Turn Key Rental Properties with Gregg Cohenhttps://bit.ly/3nY9nmy• Get Max Cashflow from Buying Vacation Rental Property with Avery Carlhttps://bit.ly/3EPm1u8• Jim Zaspel on Finding, Funding, & Flipping a Large Volume of Single Family Houseshttps://bit.ly/39yHOI3• Ashley Micciche on Creating Your Business Continuity Plan Long Before it’s Necessaryhttps://bit.ly/3zHOAFP

Episode: How to Invest in a Franchise Business with Jon OstensonGuest: Jon is a consultant, investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising. Having served as the President of an Inc. 500 franchise system and now as a multi-brand franchisee, himself, Jon is uniquely positioned to educate others on franchising and franchise selection. In addition to serving as the CEO of FranBridge Consulting, Jon oversees FranBridge Capital where he and his partners own multiple service franchises.Big Idea: Real Estate investors rely on the next deal in order to remain profitable.  With the tightening of the real estate market over the past 2 years and deals becoming harder to find, some investors are turning to franchise business ownership.  Jon & I discuss opportunity for consistent cash flow by investing in non-food franchise businesses.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://FranBridgeConsulting.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-invest-in-a-franchise-business-with-jon-ostenson/Dan Breslin: Welcome to The REI Diamond Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. And this is Episode 197 on how to invest in a franchise business with Jon Ostenson. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw all out Jewels of Wisdom, those tactics mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars or more in the business of the real estate.So today’s guest, Jon, is a consultant, investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising. Having served as the President of an Inc. 500 franchise system, and now as a multi-brand franchisee himself, Jon is uniquely positioned to educate others on franchising and franchise selection. In addition to serving as the CEO of FranBridge Consulting Jon oversees Franbridge Capital where he and his partners actually own and operate multiple service franchises.So today’s episode is a little bit of a different avenue than we normally go. But it ties in because real estate investors like me and you, rely on the next deal in order to remain profitable. I’m always hunting for the next deal. I’m sure you know the feeling. And with the tightening of the real estate market over the past two years and deals becoming harder to find, some real estate investors are turning to franchise business ownership. Jon and I discussed an opportunity to get consistent cash flow by investing in these non-food franchise businesses.We also discussed Jon’s building of a portfolio of franchise businesses. The reasons why exiting, meaning, selling a franchise business is often more profitable and much easier than exiting a business that you’ve constructed yourself and why you should run from food franchise business models. Normally, what most people think of when you hear the word franchise. Please enjoy this conversation with Jon Ostenson.Jon & I Discuss How to Invest in a Franchise Business:• Building a Portfolio of Franchise Businesses• Franchise Business Exit-there are a  Pool of Qualified Buyers• Opportunities that Require Just 10-15 Hrs to Run• Why to RUN from Food Franchise BusinessesRelevant Episodes: (There are 197 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Mike Shapiro on Transforming a Southern California Real Estate Brokeragehttps://bit.ly/3gRs5be• How to Find Motivated Sellers with David Leckohttps://bit.ly/3yxhIzj• How to Become a Real Estate Developer with Adam Gilberthttps://bit.ly/3ByEzMB• Converting Dead Leads to Cash with Chris Craddockhttps://bit.ly/3kOMnTB

Episode: Investing in 200 Unit Multi Family Apartment Buildings with Ken GeeGuest: Ken Gee is multi family syndication operator focused on buying & improving complexes in the 200 unit and less B & C market.  Big Idea: The timing & order of renovation of a large multi family asset is critical to the repositioning process.  Spend money on the wrong items, or in the wrong order and your target tenant population will ignore your property.  Investing right will attract them.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.KRIpartners.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/investing-in-200-unit-multi-family-apartment-buildings-with-ken-gee/Dan Breslin: Welcome to The REI Diamonds Show with Dan Breslin. Your source for real estate investment, Jewels of wisdom.Welcome to The REI Diamond Show. I’m your host Dan Breslin, and this is episode 196 on investing in 200 unit multifamily apartment buildings with Ken Gee. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place.My goal is to identify high-caliber Real Estate Investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom, those tactics mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of the real estate. Ken Gee is a multifamily syndication operator focused on buying and improving complexes and the 200 unit unless B and C markets throughout the United States. Ken and I in this episode discuss the timing and order of renovation of a large multifamily asset and how that’s critical to the repositioning process. Spend money on the wrong items or in the wrong order and your target tenant population will ignore your property, damaging your returns. We also cover Tax Strategies, Market Selection, and how to vet a syndication operator through a third-party financial review. Please enjoy this conversation with Ken Gee.All right. Welcome to The REI Diamond Show, Ken. How are you doing today?Ken Gee: Doing great. How about yourself?Dan: Fantastic. Good time of year here in mid-summer and things are going well. The economy still holding together and stock markets up, right?Ken: That’s right. Yes, sir.Dan: At the moment. Cool. So, Ken. Can you give our listeners a little bit of background history? So, what your career was? What has it developed into now in the real estate space?Ken: Sure. So, my career is actually taken a number of turns over the years. I initially got my finance degree from Toledo, Ohio, and became a commercial lender for 5 years with a small Regional Bank, or well, at the time was small, it’s large now. And then, after about 5 years of that, I decided I wanted to be a CPA. So, with that, I got my CPA license and spent 7 years at Deloitte, in their tax practice, do an MA work. Working with a lot of private Equity Funds, had a lot of fun doing that. And then, at some point here, I bought some Cessna Pilot Centers. Most people don’t make the jump from accounting to flying airplanes, but I did. It was a lot of fun. We owned 3 Cessna Pilot Centers for a number of years, and really enjoyed that business. But all through that time, I jumped into real estate back in 1997, and have not looked back since.So, it’s all we do now — a hundred percent apartments. We were a vertically integrated real estate company. We do our own investments. We raise money syndications and funds, as well as do third-party management.Ken & I Discuss Investing in Multi Family Syndication:• How to Vet an Operators Financial History• Interest Rate Risk • Priority of Renovation Items• The Power of Procrastination Before RenovationRelevant Episodes: (There are 196 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Growing a 1,000+ Unit Portfolio within a 20 min Radius with Jason Perohttps://bit.ly/3mh2cEX• Paul Sloate on 3rd Quarter 2018 Economic Market Updatehttps://bit.ly/3CZKkod• Sue Hough on Properly Planning Profitable Renovation Projectshttps://bit.ly/3mh8B38• 100+ Unit Apartment Syndication with Stephanie Walterhttps://bit.ly/2XJ2pqB• How to Become a Real Estate Developer with Adam Gilberthttps://bit.ly/37TAi9V• Converting Dead Leads to Cash with Chris Craddockhttps://bit.ly/3D2Xv7G

Episode: Passive Investing in Apartment Syndications with Camilla Jeffs  Guest: Camilla Jeffs is the founder of Steady Stream Investments a company focused on providing investment opportunities in large multi family and senior housing communities. Big Idea:  When investing in syndications, choosing the right Operator is as important, if not more than selecting the right market.  While you’re technically investing in an apartment deal, you’re really investing in the people running the deal.  By this line of reasoning, your ability to select profitable investments hinges on your ability to select people with whom you’ll invest.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://SteadyStreamInvestments.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/passive-investing-in-apartment-syndications-with-camilla-jeffs/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. This is episode one hundred and ninety-five on Passive Investing in Apartment Syndications with Camilla Jeffs.Camilla Jeffs is the founder of Steady Stream Investments, a company focused on providing investment opportunities in large multifamily and senior housing communities.When you’re investing in syndications, choosing the right operator is as important, if not even more important, than selecting the right market or asset. While you’re technically investing into an apartment deal, you’re really investing in the people who are running the deal. It’s probably obvious. But by this line of reasoning, your ability to select profitable investments hinges on your ability to select the right people with whom you will invest.Camilla brings her background, her experience in the corporate HR world, her ability to select professional talent to the apartment syndication investing business. She also acts as a general partner on her deals. We double click on her investment team, selection process, favorite asset classes, and markets to invest and more during this episode.Let’s begin.All right. Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show, Camilla. How are you doing today?Camilla Jeffs: I’m doing great, Daniel. Thank you so much for having me on.Dan: Yes. Absolutely. I know a little bit about you. But for anybody who may not recognize the name, could you kind of go through – we’ll call it – the origination story?What did you do before real estate? How did you find real estate? How did real estate investing evolve into Steady Stream Investments in your business model today?Camilla: Yes. Perfect. I started real estate investing when I was quite young. I got my first property at the age of twenty-two. It was a house hack that we did.We didn’t know about it. It wasn’t a cool term back then, house hacking. We just figured out we want to own our own place, but we didn’t have enough money to own our own place, basically.So we bought a home that had a basement apartment in it. We rented it out. It worked out perfect. We only paid about one hundred dollars a month in rent to live there. It even had a pool in the backyard. It was so cool.Camilla & I Discuss Passive Investing:• Investing in 100 Unit+ Apartment Deals• Market with the Most Promise• Identifying the Biggest Risk in a Syndication Deal• Understanding Whether You should consider Syndication InvestingRelevant Episodes: (There are 195 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Being a Professional Passive Investor with Dr. Jeff Anzalonehttps://bit.ly/3CqnQfJ• 100+ Unit Apartment Syndication with Stephanie Walterhttps://bit.ly/3yvdlph• Marketing, Meetups & $100 Million in Apartment Syndications with Adam Adamshttps://bit.ly/3AilUnJ

Episode: Co-Living Tech Company Producing High ROI for Investors with Johnny WolffGuest: Johnny Wolff is the CEO & Founder of tech Company, HomeRoom.  HomeRoom is one of the fastest growing co-living companies in the U.S.  Johnny founded HomeRoom after a career as an analyst in Silicon Valley and then relocating to Austin, TX.  Big Idea:  Investors can obtain outsize returns by investing in co-living housing.  Co-living is a trend where many young people prefer living with roommates for social & economic reasons.  This trend exists throughout the U.S. and a new industry is arising to provide a professionally managed experienced to both residents & landlords.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://LiveHomeRoom.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/getting-high-return-on-investment-through-co-living-rentals-with-johnny-wolff/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show. I'm your host, Dan Breslin, and this is Episode 194 on getting high return on investment through co-living with Johnny Wolff.Johnny Wolff is the CEO and founder of the tech company, HomeRoom. HomeRoom is one of the fastest-growing co-living companies in the US. Johnny founded HomeRoom after a career as an analyst in Silicon Valley and then relocating to Austin, Texas, where, in both markets, he actually lived in co-living situations.Today's discussion centers around how investors can obtain outsized returns by investing in co-living housing. Co-living is a trend where many young people prefer living with roommates for both social and economic reasons. This trend exists throughout the US, and a new industry is arising to provide a professionally managed experience to both the residents and the landlords. Shall we begin?All right. Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show, Johnny Wolff. How are you doing today?Johnny Wolff: Good, Daniel. Super happy to be here and thanks for having me.Dan: Nice. It's an interesting business model. So when the booking agents connected us and floated you as a potential guest, I noticed this like, renting rooms kind of a thing, and it probably would be helpful to hear the origination story. Maybe what was the background, some of your experience, even pre-real estate investing? Certainly, a business model now. And then cap it off with kind of the business model as it stands today.Johnny: Sure. For the last few decades, I've lived with about fifty different roommates. I think it's kind of ongoing growth. I still live in roommate houses. But it really started after college. I lived in Silicon Valley. I worked in finance for technology companies and startups in the bank. And when you're in Silicon Valley, you rent rooms. You don't buy houses because they're all million dollars.And so we kind of developed different ways of finding new roommates on Craigslist and betting them, and then having really cool dinner parties. And honestly, our roommate house is like the hub. Some people lived alone, but they were boring. And people that lived in roommate houses, they're the fun ones, and they had the cool stuff going on.So I move to Austin, Texas in 2015 to invest in real estate more actively. I have been investing in single-family homes in Texas since 2008, which was about a year after I got out of college remotely and wanted to do that up close. And so I moved to Austin, bought a number of properties there in 2015, and turn them all into roommate houses.And it was difficult to cash flow. It's impossible to cash flow in Austin or very difficult. We can do it with home remodel, but it was pretty hard back then, too, with a standard rental and good area. So by renting by the room, I was able to get a lot more rent, and that enabled me to buy more aggressively while I was down there.I moved to Kansas City in 2018 to kind of do it again with a different type of property. I kind of think of Austin as a really awesome appreciation potential market, but Kansas City is really stable as it gets cash flow. So I wanted to balance my portfolio.And then when I moved here, I had a lot more trouble finding roommates than I had in Austin and San Francisco and thought maybe it's about time that someone figures out this whole find-a-roommate situation where it's not through Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace, and it's not sketchy and weird and uncomfortable.So that's why I started HomeRoom in 2018, and we've, since then, housed over four hundred roommates in Kansas City, Austin, and Dallas. And yeah, we're pretty happy campers on the tenant side. Now, we're partnering with investors to buy these properties in these cities and happy investors as well.Johnny & I Discuss Getting High Return on Investment with Co-Living Rentals:• How to Get 20% more free cash flow than conventional rentals• Tech Stack Developed to Run HomeRoom• Risks involved in owning Co-Living Rental Property• Scaling to more than 325 Rooms in Several StatesRelevant Episodes: (There are 194 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Buying Mortgage Notes Generates 15% + Returns with Brian Lauchnerhttps://bit.ly/3zto5EE• Dan Breslin on Raising Private Money for Single Family Flipshttps://bit.ly/3eOTrxr• 100+ Unit Apartment Syndication with Stephanie Walterhttps://bit.ly/2W0Xyjp• Sakar Kawle on Building a 200 Unit Portfolio in Baltimorehttps://bit.ly/3But1uF

Episode: How to Rehab a House the RIGHT Way with Van SturgeonGuest: Van Sturgeon owns more than 1,000 rental properties throughout the U.S. & Canada.  He’s rehabbed even more-picking up countless methods along the way.  Big Idea: Rehabbing houses is a breeze for highly successful real estate investors.  Buying property cheap, due to condition, then renovating them to force value is one of the most powerful methods of real estate investing for compounding wealth.  BRRR, or the buy, renovate, rent, & refi strategy is one of real estate investor’s favorite strategy for building a large portfolio with a limited amount of capital.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.VanSturgeon.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-rehab-a-house-the-right-way-with-van-sturgeon/Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Van Sturgeon, personally owns more than 1,000 rental properties throughout the US and Canada. He’s rehabbed even more, picking up countless methods along the way. Rehabbing houses is a breeze for highly successful real estate investors. Buying property cheap due to the condition, then renovating those properties to force value is one of the most powerful methods for compounding wealth. The skill of rehab is crucial to the BRRRR method. You know, the Buy, Renovate, Rent, and Refi strategy is used to build a large portfolio using a limited amount of capital. During this episode, Van and I will dive deep into the renovation aspect of the real estate business along with other topics such as large multifamily investing and market selection. Let’s begin.Van:  I went off to University. Graduated. I had an opportunity to go off and become a lawyer. Got accepted to several law schools, but my heart wasn’t in it. And I had a very difficult conversation with my parents saying, “Hey, I just don’t want to do this. I don’t see myself being a lawyer. I really enjoy Real Estate, really enjoy being a junk contractor.” And so, that’s where they begrudgingly gave their approval, and I went off in Chicago and became a general contractor. I started knocking on doors, started to network, started to create relationships with individuals, and trying to grow this business. Thankfully, the early 90s was a period of time that I started to get busier, and one of the things I kept running into were these career Real Estate Investors. People that this was their means of business, whether they were buying and flipping properties or buying and adding them to their portfolio. I started to network with these people. Start to see what these people are doing, and then I got around to actually doing it myself.The first property, I remember it like it was yesterday, I purchased it for $43,000 or $44,000, something like that. It was a real beat-up little bungalow. I still have some decrepit, little photographs of it for what I did to it because I was so proud of it. I bought it and I renovated it. And several months later, it cost me around $17,000 to $18,000 at the time to renovate it, I put it up for sale. I sold it for 90 something thousand dollars. All in all, I made $30,000. At that time in 1991, to make $30,000, that was a heck of a lot of beans, because the average salary was around $25,000 to $30,000 and I made that in four, five months.So I immediately got hooked on it and I was like, well, this is something that I wanted to do. So it was sort of, it ran in parallel. I was growing just the general contracting business and at the same time doing flips on the side and growing that side of the business. I’ve been very lucky and fortunate in my life and through real estate, I was able to create a number of successful businesses where I’ve been. I’ve built subdivisions, custom homes, real estate developers, property management companies, and do also restoration work on commercial high-rise buildings. I’ve done everything that you can think of under the sun and I’ve been truly, truly blessed to the point where I’ve got over a thousand properties across North America that I look after and that I collect income from. So it’s been a great ride.Van & I Discuss How to Avoid Capital Gains Tax:• Market Selection-according to an International Real Estate Investor• Van’s best deal-which turned out even better for the next buyer• Why you should own a property management company• How to renovate a house on time & on budgetRelevant Episodes: (There are 193 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Dave Van Horn on The Process of Investing in Noteshttps://bit.ly/3eijBIX• Abhi Golhar on Attracting Off Market Deals & Scaling to Larger New Construction Tract Developments in Atlanta Georgiahttps://bit.ly/3yD4Xn9• Don Costa on Rehabbing & Selling 100 Houses Per Yearhttps://bit.ly/3qXydCi• Jim Zaspel on Hiring, Managing & Firing Contractorshttps://bit.ly/3r4MVrl

Episode: Converting Dead Leads to Cash with Chris CraddockGuest: Chris Craddock is the Founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 throughout the Washington DC & Richmond Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate Podcast.Big Idea: Homebuying companies can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash. Direct to seller marketing for real estate investors is a great way to generate deal flow. The waste product of this lead generation is that you end up with many retail-price seeking sellers. Chris and I discuss the process of converting those leads to cash in this podcast-plus much more.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.WholesalingInc.com/ReviveFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/converting-dead-leads-to-cash-with-chris-craddock/Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Chris Craddock, is the founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate brokerage team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 alone, throughout the Washington DC and Richmond, Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate podcast, as well. The big idea for today’s episode is that home buying companies like us, your direct seller marketing companies, can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash.Direct to seller marketing for real estate. investors is a phenomenal way to generate deal flow, however, the waste product of this type of lead generation is that you end up with many retail price-seeking sellers that simply don’t fit for most of our buy box, as real estate investors.I know I’m looking for houses that need a renovation, can fix them up, can flip them retail, that’s what I’m looking for. There’s not much I can do with the retail price-seeking sellers.Chris and I are going to do a deep dive on this, the converting of these leads into cash on this podcast, plus much more. Shall we get started?All right. Welcome to the REI Diamond Show.,Chris, how are you doing today?Chris Craddock: I’m great, brother. Glad to be here with you.Dan: Nice. For listeners who might not know who you are, do you want to do a little bit of a background story, Reader’s Digest, of what you have done and what your business looks like today?Chris: Sure, yeah. I’ll try to give a one-minute version. 2000, I graduated college, then I stopped[?] with an organization called Young Life. Loved it, changed my life. It’s amazing. 2003, my wife got pregnant. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to live on 20,000 a year in the DC area, so I went to the library and checked out every book I could on real estate investing and read every book they had, almost like an idiot. I always say, “massive imperfect action”, right? Imperfect action trumps perfect inaction any day of the week. I just started knocking on distressed properties’ doors, and somehow in 4 months, I made 12 times what I made in a year. I was like, “This is awesome,” and so I just put that money away. We bought the house we live in now. I continued to administer stuff. I have 6 kids. As I got more kids, the money started disappearing fast, so I started flipping houses again.At that point, it was after the crash, and so it was short sales. At the time, short sales are pretty easy to flip, but if you were licensed, they would pay a commission. Since then they changed their margin, so it’s a little bit harder to flip short sales these days. It’s still doable, but harder. I ended up getting licensed. During that time, in ministry, I’ve always led large groups of people, and so I got a Doctorate in Leadership because I just love leading people; I think it’s great. I think that’s the best way, success with others.Somebody gave me Gary Keller’s book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent. I read it; it just blew my mind. We started a real estate team in December, 2014. Halfway through that, I realized I came from the investor world and investors and agents seem to live on 2 separate planets. If you could combine those 2 planets, then both people could make a fortune, so we started doing that. Last year we did 167 million in volume, netted, well over 7 figures, built a company that helped other investors make a fortune. I’ve got 9 businesses, a number of them, 7-figure net profit business.It’s just been a heck of a ride over the last few years, and they’re a lot of fun.Chris & I Discuss How to Convert Leads to Cash:• Best Day of the Week to List ANY Property for Sale• Generating $60,000 Per Month in Referral Fees!• Tips for Selecting Quality Business Partners• Process of Converting Dead Leads to CashRelevant Episodes: (There are 192 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Peter Vekselman on High Volume Investing & Retail Brokeragehttps://bit.ly/3dd6FDt• Investing in Real Estate with No Money Down with Chris Prefontainehttps://bit.ly/3vWqTrq• Investing in Multi Family Properties-150 to 300 Unit Deals with Chris Larsenhttps://bit.ly/3wXnsSL• Motivated Seller Leads from REI Radio Advertising with Chris Arnold – Real Estate Investorhttps://bit.ly/35OMHef

Episode: How to Become a Real Estate Developer with Adam GilbertGuest: Adam Gilbert is the President of The Firm Commercial where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value added entitlement development deals.Big Idea: Any Real Estate Agent, Developer, or Investor Generates Consistent Income by Positioning themselves to Receive a Continuous Flow of Deals Crossing their Path. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate, as discussed during this episode.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.TheFirmCommercial.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-become-a-real-estate-developer-with-adam-gilbert/Dan Breslin: Some of my best partners have come through listening this podcast. Maybe you’re the next. Today’s guest is Adam Gilbert, the president of The Firm Commercial, where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value-added land entitlement development deals. Any real estate agent developer or investor will generate a consistent income through positioning themselves to receive a continuous flow of deals that are coming across their desk. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate as discussed during this episode. And we also dive deep on how to become a real estate developer covering details of a few recent development deals and we also touch on the Palm Springs, California Real Estate market.So, I was doing some research for our show here and I found that you’ve recently exited your vacation rental business. So, I’d like to begin right at that point if we could, and maybe you could touch on how you built the business, how it operated at scale, and then what was the ultimate reasoning that led you to selling and exiting.Adam: Sure. So, quick background, I’m born and raised here in Palm Springs, and I left for school. I came back in about 2011, which was an interesting time in the market for a variety of reasons. But that summer, I had stayed in this new thing called an Airbnb in 2011, Washington, DC. We had spent the summer in New York and my wife was like, “We’re going to spend the night in someone’s room at their house? This is crazy.” I’m like, “We did it. This is the future, honey. This is going to be amazing.” And so, when I moved back to Palm Springs, there we have like a long history of vacation, rental properties for 50-60 years, but not on the platform of Airbnb. So, I was one of the ones who got just a couple of condos on the platform and they just started crushing. Absolutely amazing because this whole new marketplace of people were looking for properties on Airbnb. So, it kind of just grew organically. I was like, “Okay. Well, I’ve got a housekeeping service, I’ve got a handyman, I know how to do these reservations, and we just built this business.” By the time 2018 came around, I had 35 full-time properties. We had like, 50 around the time Coachella came. It was a great business. It’s a very labor-intensive business and it takes a lot of time, and it’s holidays and all that kind of stuff. So, at that point in my real estate investing career, it was just a little bit too much. And so, I made a deal with TurnKey, who’s a venture-backed vacation rental company out of Austin, Texas and they were acquiring small companies like mine at the time. I made an exit and focus my attention on other ventures.Dan: Okay, so was it more of a freedom thing? Or was there some timing and pricing that also made it worthwhile?Adam: There were a few factors in there. Just the perils of running a business, partners, all that kind of stuff. I think it was more timing. I had to decide. It was that point when I had 35 properties, I would have needed to invest in the business, in terms of employees. I did some calculations, I wasn’t going to make any money again until I got 75 properties, and I’m like, “Okay. Is this what I want to spend my time doing?” So, it’s kind of an 80/20 principle thing of “Where am I going to focus my time to have the best ROI?”Dan: Got you. So, what’s been the focus of your career? Since 2018, you exited, you jettisoned the responsibilities, which was kind of what I was expecting an answer there. So, what’s been the focus since then?Adam: Yeah. So, mostly since then, it’s been building of my real estate brokerage, both commercial and residential, here. It’s mostly commercial, but on the residential side, I do specialize in short-term vacation rentals, which the Palm Springs Market is well known for and has been absolutely blasting since COVID. Palm Springs has been a great market since that’s happened and then, I’m also working on my own deals and I have a little niche in value-add entitlement deals and zone changes. And so, I spent a lot of my time kind of doing that and entitlement work.Adam & I Discuss How to Become a Real Estate Developer• Government Relations During Land Development• Identifying Value in Underzoned Property• Palm Springs California Real Estate Market• The Group Any Commercial Real Estate Broker is Wise to JoinRelevant Episodes: (There are 191 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Land Entitlement Process for Multi Family Development with Reed Goossens https://bit.ly/3wKf7l7• Million Dollar Wholesaling & Multi-Family Apartments with Aaron Fragnito https://bit.ly/3uu0rFd• Marketing, Meetups & $100 Million in Apartment Syndications with Adam Adams https://bit.ly/2TqguqE• Negotiating No Money Down Commercial Real Estate Deals with Peter Conti https://bit.ly/3usoggx• 100+ Unit Apartment Syndication with Stephanie Walter https://bit.ly/3vwHfaZ

Episode: 100+ Unit Apartment Complex Syndication with Stephanie WalterGuest: Stephanie Walter is the Founder & CEO of Erbe Wealth. Stephanie began investing in single family homes in Colorado while owning & operating her insurance agency business. She has since exited that business and sold all of her single family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals. Big Idea: Recognizing the Opportunity to Sell Appreciated, Low Cash Flowing Deals and Transitioning to Larger Apartment Syndication Deals. Stephanie and I discuss her decisions to exit both single family rentals AND her insurance agency business to focus solely on larger, less active-truly passive commercial real estate deals.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.ErbeInvestmentGroup.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/100-unit-apartment-syndication-with-stephanie-walter/Dan Breslin: Today’s guest Stephanie Walter is the founder and CEO of Erbe wealth, Stephanie began investing in single-family homes in Colorado while owning and operating her insurance agency. She has since exited that insurance agency business and sold off all of her single-family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals. Today we are going to dive deep into those decisions, her investment selection process, and a few big recent wins, and of course, an upcoming deal. So let’s get started. So I did a little research on you and your background, and I figured that we could begin with your sale of the insurance agency, what led up to that what your thoughts were, how you emotionally changed chapters, let’s say, and then got on to the next place that you currently are.Stephanie: Yeah, well, I’ve had my agency since 2006, so about 16 years. And before that, I was actually an insurance adjuster for eight years. So my whole working life, I’ve been involved in insurance in some way. And I do love it. But I also love real estate. So I used to buy and hold single-family homes and really, really loved doing that and actually became more curious. In 2016 I joined a group of people that do some education, great education, about kind of how to buy larger commercial properties through syndications. And that was in 2016. And from there, there was really no looking back I found a partner and group of people I like to work with and found that I really liked raising money. And from that just ended up working with a lot of really wealthy people and learned a lot from watching the way that they handled their finances and started changing the way that I was viewing my finances and 2018 started selling off my single-family rentals and investing that money into these syndicated deals where we were getting double-digit returns and that allowed me to replace my income in the matter of a little over two years. I sold my agency and December 2020 and so now I’m retired but I am still raising money occasionally once or twice a year for a deal and I like to talk to people about kind of changing their views on money because it was life-changing for me. Because I’ve been able to retire and now I can spend a lot more time with my family.Dan: Congratulations on the sale. That’s pretty cool. I imagine that must have been… I don’t know. I mean, was it a decision brewing for a year, six months? Did you just wake up one day and say, “Hi, we got to get going here.” This is too much weight. Was it the daily responsibility of you running and managing a team? What was it that led up to the sale, I guess?Stephanie: I like to work a lot. I’m a nerd that way. But so I really like what I was doing. But as I continue to invest in these deals, and the money came in, and eventually it replaced what I was making in my insurance agency, all of a sudden, I was like, well, it would be nice not to be having to work every day and not having and being able to take a vacation. I hadn’t taken like, over a week’s vacation since 2006. So then, my eyes were opened a little bit more. And it was a little bit emotional to sell it. But, this is the direction that I’m going. And I really love helping people get into these syndicated real estate deals. And but yeah, it definitely was emotional. Because you get very close to your clients over 16 years. And just kind of that’s your identity.Stephanie & I Discuss Commercial Real Estate Syndication:• Owning, Operating, & Exiting 100 Unit+ Apartment Deals• Luxury Single Family Home Development• Exiting a Successful Insurance Business• Exiting Single Family Rentals for Larger DealsRelevant Episodes: (There are 190 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Mark Walker on Graduating from the Rat Race to Multi-Family Investment Dealshttps://bit.ly/3b72CY8• Marketing, Meetups & $100 Million in Apartment Syndications with Adam Adamshttps://bit.ly/2SzdoAf• Andy Shamberg on Property Insurance Fundamentalshttps://bit.ly/33oq5A4• From House Hacking to $300 Million in Commercial Real Estate with Ivan Barratthttps://bit.ly/3nUkRW5

Episode: How to Release Home Equity WITHOUT a Refi or Payments-a conversation with Matthew SullivanGuest: Matthew Sullivan is the Founder & CEO of QuantumRE as well as the host of his own podcast, “Hooked on Startups”. He is originally from London and has a background working with Richard Branson’s corporate finance team and was a director of the Virgin-sponsored London Air Ambulance. Big Idea: How to Cash Out Home Equity while making NO monthly payments. Add in blockchain technology to provide a secondary market for real estate investors to participate in hot real estate markets around the world in a truly passive manner.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:www.QuantumRE.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-release-home-equity-without-a-refi-monthly-payments-or-mortgage-with-matthew-sullivan/Dan Breslin: Matthew joins us today sharing his unique business model of providing cash to homeowners without a refi mortgage or monthly payments. The conversation includes tokenization of real estate through blockchain technology, the underwriting process to obtain this cash, and a brief history of Matthew’s background as a helicopter pilot and how that applies to running a business. Let us begin.Matthew Sullivan: Very well, Dan. Thanks for having me on.Dan: Nice. So you have a bit of a history, which, I mean, maybe people already recognize the accent. But do you want to kind of talk about where you came from in your career and kind of how it evolved to what you are doing today?Matthew: Yes, of course. So I am originally from England and I moved to Southern California about seven years ago. And before that, I had spent about the last previous twenty-something years and really running my own businesses in finance, telecommunications, and technology. I think back in the late 90’s I had the amazing privilege of working closely with Sir Richard Branson as well for a few years and it was involved with a number of companies like Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Clothing.I was a trustee of the London Air Ambulance that was sponsored by Virgin, so that was a fantastic time. I moved here with a big changed in circumstances back in England, so fresh start over here. And the first thing I did was just launch myself into real estate, which is something that I always wanted to do when I was in the UK, but I got distracted by the internet and other sorts of platforms. So, it was really a great opportunity to explore this fantastic universe of real estate.Dan: Nice. Okay, so a couple of things before we dive into some of our big topics here. But I am curious, I do not know a lot about UK real estate. I have heard that it operates a little bit differently, it is more constrained, there is not the type of supply of real estate that we have in almost all the markets in the US. Would you mind shedding some light on that assumption for me?Matthew: Yes. Well again, I did not have any great exposure to the real estate markets in the UK, so all of my real operating experience comes from the US. But I can tell you from my experiences as an investor, as a business person in the UK, property there, obviously it is a much smaller country, so you have got far fewer people and the number of opportunities is nowhere near as numerous as they are in the US.Real estate in the US is a multi-layered industry, which comprises everything from huge public company investments down to individuals that are fixing and flipping. There is a large private money universe. One of the things that you do not have so much in the UK, so you do not have that same depth to the private capital. And also there is just nowhere near the scale of real estate opportunities that you see over here. If you look at just California for example, the size of the Californian economy is not far off the size of the UK economy and so that just puts it into perspective. It is much bigger over here, much faster-moving, and is much more the bedrock of the economy as a whole.Matthew & I Discuss How to Unlock Home Equity• What is a “Home Equity Contract”?• Own a Piece of Appreciation in Hot Markets• Tokenizing Residential Real Estate• Using Option Contracts instead of Mortgages• Cash Out Home Equity WITHOUT a RefiRelevant Episodes: (189 Content Packed Interviews in Total) • Deferring Taxes on ANY Highly Appreciated Asset Sale with Brett Swarts https://bit.ly/2QA8diX• Investing in Real Estate Using an IRA with Jason DeBono https://bit.ly/3eGnfLP• How to Take HUGE Depreciation using Cost Segregation with Yonah Weisshttps://bit.ly/3t5aOOQ

Episode: How to Buy a House with No Money Down with Tim PadavicGuest: Tim Padavic is the Vice President of The Federal Savings Bank. He’s licensed to lend in all 50 states.Big Idea: Offering Your Retail Buyer “No Money Down” Wins More Deals (for Agents) & Keeps More Money in YOUR Pocket (for Flippers). Buying a house with no money down allows more buyers to participate in the red-hot real estate market. Recent surveys show the reason many buyers remain on the sideline is a limited savings for the down payment.Agents & buyers obviously benefit by knowing how to buy house with no money down. Fix & Flip investors also benefit because they can offer buyers of their projects the option of no-or certainly very low money down. If you’re flipping houses and use a real estate agent to sell your flips-you can share this episode & Tim’s contact info as a resource they might use in selling your house at a higher price. Think about it-if a buyer doesn’t need any money down-or any seller credits for down payment assistance, that money stays in YOUR pocket. Worth noting-this no money down strategy is only applicable on Owner Occupied residential property.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.TheFederalSavingsBank.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-buy-a-house-with-no-money-down-with-tim-padavic/Dan Breslin: This episode was created for you. Agents and buyers obviously benefit by knowing how to buy a house with no money down and fix-and-flip investors also benefit because they can offer the buyers of their projects—the houses they’ve fixed to flip—the option of no money down or certainly very low money down financing. That’s the topic today.And if you’re flipping houses and you use a real estate agent to sell those flips, I suggest that you share this episode and Tim Padavic’s contact info at the end as a resource that they might use in selling your house at a higher price. Think about it. If a buyer doesn’t need any money down or any seller credits to cover closing costs or down payment assistance, the money stays in your pocket. I’m not getting paid for this. Tim’s not kicking me anything back. I just know Tim from my network. He’s a valuable resource for me on my flips and he is licensed in all 50 states so I invited him to come on the show as a value-add to you, the valued member of my network.Worth noting here before we get into the interview, this no money down strategy is only applicable on owner-occupied residential property. So, this is for owner-occupied properties. Tim, this episode, we do not discuss investor financing on this episode. Tim does not even get into investor financing. He specializes in homeowners looking to buy houses in which to live and that’s where the no money down financing mechanism that we’re going to discuss here today works. Ready to get started? Tim Padavic, welcome to the REI Diamond Show.Tim: In regards to how I get started, in ’98, I got started brokering loans. We actually did most of our business in the refinance and remodel business. We helped rehabbers remodel homes for the homebuyer or the homeowner and we would lower their payment and get them their home improvement, all the way until about 2008 when the collapse happened and then I’ve been doing purchases ever since.And most of my purchases, if not all of them, my specialty is people getting into their home either for the first time or maybe a move. They don’t really work with investors or second homes or anything like that. It’s not that I wouldn’t it, it’s just not my specialty. My specialty’s getting people into homes. People who are looking for a possibly a rehabbed home or upgrading to a rehabbed home. Something that is real nice for them to move into and the south side of Chicago has been a key focus of those rehabbed homes and the price points are right and some of the programs that we have available tie in really nicely.Tim & I Discuss Buying a House with Low Down Payment:• How to Access Grant Money for Down Payment• Income & Debt Levels to Qualify• How to Get Offers Accepted in this HOT Real Estate Market• Importance of Beginning the Mortgage Process NowRelevant Episodes: (There are 188 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Russell Walker on $45K/Month Positive Cash Flow with Airbnbhttps://bit.ly/3xbAZ9Q• How to Make $300K/Year Investing in Mobile Homes with No Money Downhttps://bit.ly/3gx3t89• Buying Mortgage Notes Generates 15% + Returns with Brian Lauchnerhttps://bit.ly/2QKYiqm• Dan Breslin on Raising Private Money for Single Family Flipshttps://bit.ly/3dJfeqo

Episode: Investing in Multi Family Properties-150 to 300 Unit Deals with Chris LarsenGuest: Chris Larsen is the founder & managing partner of Next Level Income. He’s been syndicating multi family property deals since 2016 and raised more than $15 million over $150 Million in acquisitions. Big Idea: Buying High Quality Assets when No One Else Wants them Can Generate Huge Wins. Chris’ company is focused on identifying high yield passive investments ranging from real estate to oil & gas leases. Specific to oil & gas, Warren Buffett recently amassed a HUGE position in Chevron leveraging this same principal. Everyone was selling off oil due to the Pandemic and the coming of electric cars. Big money can be made if you know what you’re doing. On this episode we discuss this principal as well as dive into his asset selection process, favorite multifamily markets, & some risk mitigation strategies that served Chris well during the recent pandemic.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.NextLevelIncome.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/investing-in-multi-family-properties-150-to-300-unit-deals-with-chris-larsen/Dan Breslin: Chris Larson is the founder and managing partner of Next-Level Income. He is been syndicating multifamily property deals since 2016 and raised more than $15 million over $150 million in acquisitions. Chris’s Company is focused on identifying high yield passive investments ranging from real estate to oil and gas leases. All in this episode, we dive into his asset selection process, favorite multifamily markets, and some risk mitigation strategies that served Chris well during the recent pandemic, as well as some other topics. Let’s get right to it.All right, Chris Larson. Welcome to the REI Diamond show. How are you doing today?Chris Larson: Dan, I am great. I am excited to be here with you. Thank you.Dan: Nice. It is always looking forward to this high-volume multi-millions of dollars raised and you know conversations I get to have with guests like you, but you know for anyone who does not know your name already maybe does not know about your podcast. You kind of want to talk about maybe the evolution of your career, starting with let’s say you are first deal and then ending with your current business model Chris.Chris: That sounds great. So I love real estate, I set off to be an investor when I was really a teenager. It is kind of a long story short. I race bicycles. I started racing when I was 14, and I will never forget that feeling of freedom I had when I first left my neighborhood on my bicycle. And it really instilled in me this ability to kind of go where I wanted to and do what I wanted, and when I was younger that meant racing my bike. And I got my driver’s license, I was excited to get my driver’s license so I could drive to races outside of the state. And so I was traveling, when I was 16 years old, up and down the East Coast across the country, and plans raced even at a national level. Until I was in college, and at that point, I want to be a professional cyclist.I went to Virginia Tech I was doing an engineering degree and no I did not want to be an engineer, but I also did not want to be poor. And if anyone knows anything about cycling, they know those bike racers are pretty poor unless you are racing in Europe, which is a very very small portion. You just do not make a lot of money, like a lot of professional sports. So I was entrepreneurial. I would do different things in college, but I quit cycling after my best friend, my training partner my roommate, passed away. He had a massive brain hemorrhage. And spend another year kind of poured my heart and soul into the sport, but I realized I was not happy. I still wanted that sense of freedom and I thought well, I am not going to race my bike anymore. I am not going to be an engineer, What am I going to do?I started day trading in the stock market in the late 90s, which there are a lot of similarities today Dan, in my opinion between the market than in the market now. This is very exciting also very stressful. So here you take a junior, 20 years old in college making $5,000 a month day trading but could not sleep at night. And one morning at 3 a.m, I just remember thinking, what the hell am I doing? And I start, I kept reading books. I have always been an avid reader and I started learning about real estate.Chris & I Discuss How to Avoid Capital Gains Tax:• Multifamily Property Market Selection• Upcoming $100 Million Deal• The Power of Purpose in Your Life & Career• Reasons Why Larger Deals Offer More ControlRelevant Episodes: (There are 187 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Paul Sloate on 3rd Quarter 2018 Economic Market Updatehttps://bit.ly/3mIeHI8• Chris Prefontaine on $75,000 Average Profit Per Dealhttps://bit.ly/3s7nhks• Land Entitlement Process for Multi Family Development with Reed Goossenshttps://bit.ly/3dPMhHV• Passive Real Estate Investing in Real Estate Development-with Mike Brownhttps://bit.ly/3t6J9y3• Financing Million Dollar Deals Post Covid with Anton Mattlihttps://bit.ly/3s4ESJZ

Episode: Land Entitlement Process for Multi Family Development with ReedGuest: Reed Goossens is the host of the popular podcast “Investing in the U.S.” and also author of the book by the same name. Reed was an engineer with experience in large scale development including infrastructure for the London Olympics in 2012. He now focuses on buying, building, & operating large multi-family assets throughout the U.S.Big Idea: “Even though a lot of institutional dollars have started to become big, big players in the game-we’re still selling to a group that is more entrepreneurial like we are. We left meat on the bone” Reed describes being able to sell the deal for MORE money than if he were to complete the renovation on the other 70% of the units. A better bang for the buck by NOT finishing the deal.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.ReedGoossens.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/land-entitlement-process-for-multi-family-development-with-reed-goossens/Dan: I was listening to a multifamily investing podcast the other day and one of the members that was a, I guess on the show, I cannot remember what show it was, had 4 or 5,000 units. He sounded like he was probably in his late 60s or early 70s. So he had this nice solid multifamily career and he was looking back and he said that around the area now from what he is hearing, like the big names Blackstone and these are private equity Wall Street types. They are not afraid of the floating rates. They do not think that rate risk is going to be a realistic threat certainly at any point in time 2, 5, 7, or 10-year term that these big smart money investors are supposed to be doing business. So he kind of shared the same sentiment as you and just did not view that as much of a risk. I mean, who knows who is right. So 12 deals in what? What is your exit strategy? Do you end up selling these at any point? Have you sold any of the deals that you have done or are you still in hold periods on everything?Reed: No, good question. We start our first deals were in 2000, 2016, early 2017. I have been involved in multifamily as a Co-GP prior to that. So probably 2 or 3 years prior to that early 2014 I got started, but I really started my own shop at the end of 2016. So I have been into the 8 years in syndication space and then in terms of your exit strategies, yes, we are actually coming to exit a couple of deals right now, and they are the deals that have the most flexibility on the debt, right? The deal we just spoke about that it was speaking to you back and previously in 2018. I cannot exit that deal because I have gone over big prepay, right? Unless someone to come and assume the deal, the deal is not sucking wind by any means of making money from my investors, making cash flow. So just keep it, we write out the prepay, but we have another two sets of deals. The billboard as a portfolio and we have to bridge on those deals and we have had them for about two and a half years now. We are going to, we sort of popped your head up thinking, okay, we can refile here or we can sell. We popped her head up and did a bit of an off-market type of shop around and we have got the number we wanted to hit and for this time period they give a good pretty solid return for investors and we decided to execute on the sale. If no one had taken bit at the number we wanted, then we would have gone for a refile, but the opportunity to exit at missable points along the deal is exactly what we assess every single day on over to go but on a very consistent basis to understand where the markets out and particularly with cap rate compression, compressing as interest rates continue to go lower that is you seen that shock wave across the country in terms of multifamily particularly in our area of Central Texas. So yes, we constantly look at what is the best opportunity to exit for deal for investors. A little bit selfishly, we as a company, myself, my business partner Andrew and I, as we are growing to 12 and hopefully going to go double the portfolio in the next 3 to 5 years, people are starting to ask. Where is your schemes on the wall, where your runs on the board, and that is where you go to start pointing to the cycle deals, and how would it go, what was the returns, and we are really happy to say that we have finally come into the first set of deals that are selling and got to make a nice healthy little profit for all our investors involved?Reed & I Discuss the Land Entitlement Process for Multi Family:• Finding the Right Lawyer to Prepare your Zoning Application• Understanding the Political Factors in the Zoning Process• Timeline of the Land Entitlement approvals• How to do Your First Land Entitlement dealRelevant Episodes: (There are 186 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Reed Goossens on Raising $9.5 Million Dollars for a Multi Family Dealhttps://bit.ly/38YEPZo• How to Buy Land with No Money Down with Mark Podolskyhttps://bit.ly/3ltk0KK• John Cohen on Real Estate Financial Planning & Large Multifamily Propertieshttps://bit.ly/2OM8dLH

Episode: Reverse Wholesaling with Kent Clothier of REWWGuest: Kent Clothier is the Founder & CEO of Real Estate World Wide and creator of the Boardroom Mastermind. Kent has purchased & sold more than 5,000 properties since 2005. Big Idea: “If I had to go make $100,000 this month, what would I do? Whatever the answer to that question-why aren’t you doing it?” Kent prompts his own further success asking this question of himself often. Kent asked me this question about 10 years ago, and my answer was Diamond Equity.In 2020, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac reported originating approx. $4.1 Trillion in mortgage loans. No doubt, we have all witness a very vibrant & hot market. They have forecasted $2.7 Trillion for 2021, most likely due to the low inventory situation. How can you position yourself to profit from this constrained market? Kent & I discuss this and other trends on this week’s episode.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.KentClothier.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/reverse-wholesaling-with-kent-clothier-of-reww/Dan Breslin: Welcome to The R.E.I. Diamond show. I am your host, Dan Breslin, and this is episode 185 on reverse wholesaling with Kent Clothier of REWW. If you are into building wealth through real estate investing, congratulations you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.Today’s guest is Kent Clothier, the founder and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide. Real estate worldwide, also known as REWW, operates three core units. First is the Academy, the online education platform. Second is S.M.A.R.T., an online real estate investor data source, and the third is the Boardroom Mastermind, and Kent is a real estate investor first and foremost, and having purchased and sold more than 5,000 properties since 2005.So, today’s episode is one that I have personally been looking forward to for years, almost since I started the podcast. Kent is one of the early single-family real estate investor thought leaders who I personally paid attention to. We are talking 12 years now. And during the episode, you are going to hear my personal experience with Kent, including some watershed moments of my career, some like real big turning points that led me to where I am today, and those moments were spurred by ideas that Kent shared way way back in my career. And he also shares them again in a few moments. Ready to roll?Dan: All right, cool. Welcome to the The R.E.I. Diamonds Show. Kent, how are you doing today?Kent Clothier: I am doing good, brother. Thanks for having me.Dan: Yeah, for sure. Appreciate you blocking out the time to be with us. Just so the listeners who might not know who you already are, can you give us the background how you got started in real estate and what your primary business model looks like today?Kent: Yes. So, I have been doing it now for 18 years. Got started in the industry back in December of 2002, started wholesaling a few houses, got really good at it over the years. Started flipping, started wholesaling hundreds of houses a year down in South Florida. Before I knew it, we turned it into a turnkey operation back before that phrase even existed, and that company still operates today. My two brothers and my father run it based out of Memphis, Tennessee, it is called REI Nation. We basically turnkey about 800 properties a year in nine different cities, managed about 7,500 properties for our investors. So, it is our kind of primary real estate core business there. And on the flip side of that, I have been in the training education software space showing other investors how to do it for the last 15 years. And so back in 2006, I started a company called Real Estate Worldwide. Started showing people kind of what I had figured out, which was a process called reverse whole selling, and put together a lot of tools to show people how to be really successful at it, and happy to say that we have had about 60,000 people go through our education over the years now, a little over 60,000. And the latest and greatest thing that I am personally working on as I am out here really kind of evangelizing that now is the time to really start getting into the seller financing space just because of all the things that are happening in the current real estate market.Kent & I Discuss Current Real Estate Investor Trends:• Reverse Wholesaling• The Extraction of $1.4 Trillion from U.S. Real Estate• How to Profit from that Capital Extraction• The Time is Now-Where it Came from Relevant Episodes: (There are 185 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Virtual Wholesale Real Estate Investing with Brandon Barneshttps://bit.ly/3bpHPQt• Motivated Seller Leads from REI Radio Advertising with Chris Arnold – Real Estate Investorhttps://bit.ly/3qoN6f4• How to Find Off Market Real Estate Deals with Zack Boothehttps://bit.ly/3v1XAF0

Episode: Buying Vacation Rental Property with Avery CarlGuest: Avery Carl is the founder of The Short Term Shop. Their focus is managing & buying vacation rental property in stable, long term vacation rental markets.Big Idea: “What can we buy to make the most amount of money possible so that we can buy more properties quickly?” asked Avery as she was building her rental portfolio early on, she found herself with enough capital for just one more down payment. The answer to the question led her to buying vacation rental property throughout Florida, Tennessee and Alabama.Avery now runs The Short Term Shop and has closed more than 350 vacation rentals for her clients. Her done-with-you approach allows investors to maximize their income while managing from afar. She created the STS University to help new vacation rental owners learn the ropes. It it possible to effectively run your investment from 500 miles away? Listen to find out.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.TheShortTermShop.com/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/get-max-cashflow-from-buying-vacation-rental-property-with-avery-carl/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I am your host Dan Breslin and this is episode 184 on buying vacation rental property with Avery Carl. If you’re in the building wealth through real estate investing, congratulations, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers invite them on the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom those tactics mindsets and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.Today we are joined by Avery Carl. Avery runs the Short Term Shop, a high-volume boutique real-estate firm focused on short-term vacation rentals. We cover exactly what’s needed to get into and profitably operate a vacation rental. We also talked about a few of the hottest vacation rental markets in the US and why those markets tend to be a more stable investment over the long term and finally, we discussed a few reasons why adding a vacation rental or two or three is a perfect start or addition to any real estate investors portfolio. No matter where you’re currently located. Let’s begin. All right Avery Carl, welcome to the REI Diamond Show. How you doing today?Avery Carl: Pretty good. How are you?Dan: I am doing well. So we’re just the beginning of February here for a timestamp. I am curious where you are recording from in the country and what the weather is like there currently?Avery: I am recording in 30A, Florida so Panhandle of Florida and it is about 65 degrees.Dan: Is that cold for you guys there?Avery: Yeah.Dan: Yeah. We’re getting the polar vortex here in Chicago and we have the ice shelf forming out the window here and it’s cold. It’s making me want to jump in the car and drive to Florida and spend some time in a vacation rental, which the’re all pretty much booked up in Florida right now. We checked but we all get to all that in a moment. So Avery, do you want to start out by telling us how you got started in real estate? And what does your primary business model look like today?Avery: Absolutely. So I kind of ended up in real estate and real estate investing by mistake or not by mistake. I just kind of fell into it, my husband and I moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2013 from New York City. And, obviously, we who can’t afford to buy something in New York City when you’re just starting out so we moved to Nashville so that we could buy a house and have some space. And, when we got there I didn’t have my real estate license yet. I was working as a marketing manager in the music business and our real estate agent was trying to get us to buy in this really hip superfast depreciating area of Nashville, and we didn’t really want to do that because we were just coming from Brooklyn really tired of neighbors.Avery & I Discuss Managing & Buying Vacation Rental Homes• Selecting the Right Property for Max Income• The Bigger the Loan, the Better the Deal• Secrets of Self Managing Vacation Rentals• How to Get Favorable, Very Low Rate Financing Relevant Episodes: (184 Content Packed Interviews in Total) • Scott Shatford on How to Analyze the Airbnb Vacation Rental Markethttps://reidiamonds.com/scott-shatford-on-how-to-analyze-the-airbnb-vacation-rental-market/• Russell Walker on $45K/Month Positive Cash Flow with Airbnbhttps://reidiamonds.com/russell-walker-on-45kmonth-positive-cash-flow-with-airbnb/

Guest: Brandon Barnes focuses on virtual wholesale real estate investing in the Atlanta, Georgia market. He does over $1 million per year in revenue.Big Idea: “That’s a Real Estate Investor’s Superpower: Being Able to Comp Properties & Have a Feel for Purchase Price” Brandon mentions this “superpower” about half way into the interview. He’s spot on. The Real Estate Investor’s Superpower can be summed up in two main points. First you have to know how much to offer so that you get your offer accepted. Second, you have to know how much you can sell the house for once you’re done renovation. Or renting & refinancing if you’re planning to buy & hold.Brandon believes in Offers Over Appointments. In other words, he and his team would rather simply make offers over the phone than schedule face to face appointments. This is obvious if you’re a virtual wholesaler, but most of us in real estate prefer seeing the property prior to making an offer. You have to at least see photos before making an offer, right? The answer may surprise you. Check out the episode for full details.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.SendMoreOffers.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/virtual-wholesale-real-estate-investing-with-brandon-barnes/Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show. I am your host, Dan Breslin, and this is episode 183 on Virtual Wholesale Real Estate Investing with Brandon Barnes. If you are into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers. I invite them onto the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom, those tactics, mindsets and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.Dan: Now, most real estate investors, including myself, prefer making offers after physically seeing the house. You go see the condition, underwrite the deal, figure out the values. They have to repair value and then make an offer. Today’s guest, Brandon Barnes, he used to do the same, but now, he prefers making all of his offers immediately over the phone without ever seeing the property or even seeing photos of the property. I mean, how does this work? Do we not need to know the condition of the house to make an offer or at a minimum, see the photos? These answers may surprise you.Dan: All right. Welcome Brandon Barnes to the REI Diamonds Show. How are you doing today?Brandon Barnes: Hey, I am well. Thank you for having me there.Dan: Yeah, for sure. It has been much anticipated. Your name has been floating around the Atlanta Market where I do a lot of business for the past couple years here. I was highly excited to look forward to having you get on the show here once we started getting together with bookings. For those that may not know who Brandon Barnes already is, do you want to kind of give a little bit of a background for us, Brandon? Maybe how you began real estate investing and maybe even the details about your first deal if you could go back to that origination.Brandon: Yeah, for sure. Look, I am here in the Atlanta area just like you mentioned. I started off my journey whole selling, specifically. I mean, that is just the art of finding off-market properties at a discount and kind of jumping to this game by chance, honestly. I gotten fired from a Corporate America job and I always thought I would climb the ladder and become an entrepreneur at some perfect opportunity, but I got fired. I reached out to a buddy that I knew from Pittsburgh when I was working for the HJ Heinz Company up there and I asked him what this real estate thing was all about.Brandon: He said he had actually moved to Atlanta and was following a mentor program for wholesaling and I should come by and listen to it and this is a great opportunity to start a business. I was sold. Just a few months in the second month, I sent a thousand postcards and got my first contract. By month three, I had actually done my first deal for 15K and never looked back. I split that deal with them and kept on mailing. It was a great intro into the business.Brandon & I Discuss Virtual Wholesale Real Estate:• Virtual Wholesale Real Estate Investing• Making Offers Over the Phone• The Real Estate Investor Superpower• Disclosing the Profit Motive-Yes, I’m Going to Make MoneyRelevant Episodes: (183 Content Packed Interviews in Total) • How to Find Motivated Sellers with David Leckohttps://reidiamonds.com/how-to-find-motivated-sellers-with-david-lecko/• Dan Schwartz on Managing Off Market Investor Deal Flowhttps://reidiamonds.com/dan-schwartz-on-managing-off-market-investor-deal-flow/• Josh Hertz on Wholesaling & Fix & Flips Philadelphiahttps://reidiamonds.com/josh-hertz-on-wholesaling-fix-flips-philadelphia/

Episode: Motivated Seller Leads from REI Radio Advertising with Chris Arnold- Real Estate InvestorGuest: Chris Arnold is the co-founder of COSA Investments, one of the largest wholesale companies in the DFW Metroplex. Chris’ primary source of motivated seller leads is radio advertising. With that experience, he recently launched the REI Radio coaching program. Big Idea: “Radio is the Marketing Channel that Everyone Knows About, but isn’t Using” Chris and I discuss how to buy radio advertising to generate motivated seller leads. Buying radio ads is like buying fix & flip real estate deals. You simply cannot pay retail and make it work. The money is made in the buy.The REI Radio strategy that Chris tested & produced provides the entire framework for building a radio advertising program to generate distressed seller leads.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:https://www.WholesalingInc.com/reiradio/For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/motivated-seller-leads-from-rei-radio-advertising-with-chris-arnold-real-estate-investor/Chris Arnold & I Discuss REI Radio:• Buying Radio Ads is Like Buying Investment Real Estate• The “MLS” for Radio Advertising• Major Mistakes I’ve Made in Radio• Initial Budgets Lower than You’d Expect. A lot lower.Relevant Episodes: (There are 182 Content Packed Interviews in Total) • Owning & Operating 4,500 Apartment Units with Mark Kenneyhttps://reidiamonds.com/owning-operating-4500-apartment-units-with-mark-kenney/• Benefits of Scaling to $350 Million in Self Storage with Kris Bensonhttps://reidiamonds.com/benefits-of-scaling-to-350-million-in-self-storage/• From House Hacking to $300 Million in Commercial Real Estate with Ivan Barratthttps://reidiamonds.com/from-house-hacking-to-300-million-in-commercial-real-estate/

The Anchorage, Alaska Real Estate Market-the Land of Opportunity?Joe Bell is a real estate agent and investor in the Anchorage, Alaska Real Estate market. The population is less than 300,000 people. Compare this with the metro population of Chicago at 8 million, or even Atlanta with 6 million, and you might wonder just how much opportunity could exist in a smaller city like this. This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/http://www.LegacyBeyondListings.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/anchorage-alaska-real-estate-developing-million-dollar-homes-with-joe-bell/Episode: Anchorage Alaska Real Estate-Developing Million Dollar Homes with Joe BellGuest: Joe Bell is the author of Assets, Acquisitions, & Abundance: A Guide to Building True Wealth & Legacy through Real Estate. Joe is also a Real Estate Agent from Anchorage Alaska. Joe used to run a billion dollar/year brokerage business before dedicating his primary focus to investing, building new homes, and helping others find the way to long term wealthBig Idea: “You’re in the Business of Real Estate to BUY REAL ESTATE.” Joe’s experience running a billion dollar brokerage business revealed too many agents generated solid commission income their entire career, but found themselves without assets later in life as retirement loomed. He developed Legacy Beyond Listings to help real estate professionals see the opportunity in buying & selling instead of simply transacting. Of course this comes with some risk. This past March, Joe was preparing to break ground on a million dollar new construction deal. As Covid began shutting down the world, his $900K in funding disappeared, leaving him holding the bag on the half-started, high stakes project. Think he was able to pull it off? You’ll have to check out the episode to find out!Transactions are Like Crack. Do it Once & You Can Never Stop...Fix & flip investors, wholesalers, & even real estate agents typically begin their career by closing a deal. That's where it all starts. Then they discover they have to close another deal, and yet another to keep the income machine moving. It's like being on a treadmill where you can never stop running. If you stop doing transactions, the income also stops. I know this because it's my experience.I've been in the business of flipping houses since 2006. This past year we bought & sold 283 houses. We are running FAST on that treadmill to keep the income machine working. Contrast this "transactional" method with that of buy & hold investor whose goal is purchasing and controlling real estate or the long term. The buy & hold investor eventually reaches a certain scale and can stop a acquiring new deals. Over time, as rental rates rise, the buy & hold investor reaches a point where they can sit back and simply manage the portfolio and live on the income. My path in real estate investing provides plenty of income, but automatic momentum if I were to stop doing transactions. I'm hooked, and I will not stop. Truth be told, I LOVE flipping houses & transforming neighborhoods. For me, this business stopped being about the money a long time ago.Buying & Holding Assets is Like a Healthy Diet & Exercise When I was in college I had a friend with a wealthy father. I grew up broke and assumed anyone who was rich just had a lot of money. When I asked him, "How much money does your dad have?" He answered, "It's not about how much money you have. It's about how many assets you own & operate effectively" It's taken me years to fully grasp the truth here. Now my goals aren't solely around how much income I can generate, but how I can acquire assets to create opportunities for myself later in life.For example, a few years ago I decided to invest in a package of 5 houses throughout Philadelphia. I bought them for two reasons. First, I hoped the houses would appreciate in value. Second, I believed that those houses would be a better place to park my savings than a bank. I thought that in a few years I could sell the houses for a bit more than I paid and use the money to pay for my daughter's education. The results came much faster. I sold two of the houses 1 & 2 years after I bought and cleared a $35,000 profit on each. No renovations necessary. I bought them tenant occupied and sold them as the tenants moved. I still own 3 houses and am in good shape to profit once the tenants move. It would be important to note that I paid fair market value for all 5 houses. It actually felt like I overpaid at the time. But the rents have risen along with the values. These deals work much slower than my fix & flip deals. The flips generate $35K in just 6 months or less, while I waited a year or two, or even three or more for the same profit. The flips are fun where the rentals are a bit boring. That's why they're like the healthy diet & exercise. Just like the diet & exercise are activities that payoff in the long run, so too do my rentals produce a feast at some point in the future when I sell or refi.Assets, Acquisition, & Abundance-Spotting the REAL Money in Real EstateThe example I shared of my own 5 house package came as a result of me overcoming a few limiting beliefs around real estate ownership. Although I flipped quite a few houses before I purchased those houses, I hated the idea of owning rentals. I thought that every tenant would beat me on the rent. Like-no one would pay once I owned the house. While I have had a few evictions in my portfolio, most of the tenants have paid. But that fear stopped me from building my portfolio earlier-which would have set me much further ahead than I am now. Maybe you can relate.Joe witnessed many agents with similar limiting beliefs while running the billion dollar brokerage business. It was the reason he wrote the book: Assets, Acquisition, & Abundance. Joe's philosophy of Legacy Over Listings aims to help those "Transactional" minded agents into spotting the REAL money being made in real estate. Flipping & holding real estate long term, when correctly executed, pays out substantially over simply listing & closing deals. Joe Bell & I Discuss Anchorage Alaska Real Estate:• How Many Houses Could Possibly Sell in Alaska Each Year?• Who are the Buyers in the Alaska Real Estate Market?• How to Transform Beyond a “Transactional” Mindset to Investing• Integrating the Will to Win with Business & Real EstateRelevant Episodes: (181 Content Packed Interviews in Total)• Deferring Taxes on ANY Highly Appreciated Asset Sale with Brett Swarts https://tinyurl.com/y59s9vxz​• Investing in Real Estate Using an IRA with Jason DeBono https://tinyurl.com/yxtlx8xa​• How to Take HUGE Depreciation using Cost Segregation with Yonah Weiss https://tinyurl.com/yxdzgb64