Millennial Real Estate Investor

69: Learning Landlording By Trial and Error with Brentin Hess

Within real estate investing there is a trend that seems to happen where many of the posts and articles you read make things seem super easy. They put a lot of glam onto the industry to make it sound like anyone can do it. While there is some truth to that statement there also lies the true world of real estate investing. It can be a hard lesson sometimes, but with some perseverance things can go in your favor. While that does not mean you will not continue to have lessons along the way it...

68: Investing Out of State While Maintaining a Fulfilling Career with Nick Giulioni

When listening to podcasts about real estate investing there is a common thread that you hear. "I want to retire early with real estate". While that's a sexy story it does not apply to the majority of investors who get started. Real estate investing is a great way for many people to give themselves some financial runway to allow them to take bigger risks with their career and live a happier and easier life. Our guest this week has done just that.  Nick Giulioni works a job that he enjoys i...

67: Creating a Winning Mindset to Succeed at Real Estate with Daray Olaleye

One of the truly toughest hurdles when it comes to getting into anything as committed as real estate investing is your mindset. With all of the potential speed bumps and mental blockades there is plenty to keep any investor from succeeding. Keeping a positive and beneficial mindset is one of the best ways to continually move forward towards that goal of using real estate to improve your life. This week we talk with Daray Olaleye about how he changed his mindset to help him start achieving th...

66: From 0 to Dozens of Deals a Year with Scott Swaggart

Working your way into the world of real estate can be a daunting one if you take some odd steps, but one way to quickly accelerate the process is to find some great partners and push your numbers to the top. Scott Swaggart got started just a few years ago and has managed to work his way up to doing dozens of flips, selling millions worth of residential properties and becoming one of the top brokers in his market. He tells us how to set up efficient systems and teams to be able to scale and d...

65: Creative Seller Financing With Zachary Beach

Sometimes there is a box that is meant to be broken. With the world of seller financing in real estate there always seems to be the same answers. Most of the time you hear things like, "give them interest they're happy with" or  "You'll likely have to give them a down payment". What if we told you that there are many cases where neither of those is true. In this episode our guest Zachary Beach tells us how he and his family get consistent seller financing deals that have 0% interest and no m...

64: 1 Year House Hack Update and Book Release with Craig Curelop

With the upcoming release of "The House Hacking Strategy" from Craig Curelop we felt it was time to check in with him on where he is with the strategy. For this episode we did a quick check in to see how he has moved into hack #3 and some quick lessons from hacks #1 and #2. Then we go back into his original episode from last year to show where he has come from. Enjoy!

63: Important Wholesaling Lessons For Scale with Chad King

Sometimes, heck almost all the time you need to have some failures to learn what works. Within real estate investing this is the case all the time. Chad King has had plenty of successes over the past couple years with his wholesaling business, but it took a lot of fails to get there. The old adage of "just copy someone else who is successful" is something it took him time to really learn and realize. After trying all the "new tricks" to get deals coming through the door he started to go back...

62: Jason Lewis Live at Real Estate | BARE

In close to 20 years of investing Jason Lewis has had a lot of successful investments and developments. He followed some great principals and was able to keep his projects profitable and continued to make them worthwhile investments. Recently Jason got into some new investment types such as mobile home parks and self storage. Well, let's just say he has learned some hard lessons in those niches and he's here to tell you about it. Be sure to listen to Jason's original episode #30 where he tal...

61: Mark Ferguson Live at Real Estate | BARE

This week we are featuring a special episode from the first Real Estate | BARE event. This is the talk from Mark Ferguson of InvestFourMore.com Mark has been investing in real estate for almost 20 decades and needless to say he has learned a lot of lessons in that timeframe. In this talk he walks us through his story and how he has taken those lessons to build a growing and sustainable business that has been able to survive the long haul while still increasing in profits along the way.

60: Networking in Real Estate - How, Why and When

Networking, arguably one of the most important things you should do in real estate investing. This industry is all about relationships and those are what can take you from mediocre to successful. Meeting great people comes up so often as an unexpected benefit of investing in real estate that we had to make a caveat to our weekly question. "Other than meeting great people, what is one big unexpected benefit of real estate investing?" Whether you're just starting in real estate or have bee...

59: Utilizing Great Business Planning and Systems To Expand As A Real Estate Developer With Prady Tewarie

Real estate is a great source of semi-passive income for many people. What a lot of investors don't talk about though is that there are times where it can get quite boring. This is the case for Prady Trewarie. After purchasing multiple buy and hold properties it became clear that he had reached a goal, but needed more. He proceeded to morph into multiple other businesses including larger apartment developing in the Boston, Massachusetts area. By utilizing great systems and team building idea...

58: Creating A Scaleable Wholesale and Flipping Business While In College With Harper Jones

Some things are best started early. This week Harper tells us how he just took the leap and got into his first real estate transactions while still in school. While partnering up and getting to dozens of deals a year he has created a business that can do well in his local market without having to expand outside borders to be successful. We learn how he and his partners are able to structure fantastic funding partnerships for their rehabs to make them more cost effective and easier to manage....

57: Building a Thriving Wholesale Business by 23 with Gonzalo Corzo

Running a thriving wholesale business by age 23 may seem impossible to some, but Gonzalo Corzo joins us this week to prove that it's not if you just follow a plan and put in the work. Gonzalo tells his story about how his brother, Diego, first introduced him to real estate and personal development when he was 19 and then he found a mentor who he interned under for free until he decided to make real estate his full time work.   Gonzalo does an amazing job of describing the details of a su...

56: The Secrets of Pre Foreclosures with Chantal Duame and Peter Hu

For almost every new investor the idea of purchasing pre foreclosures seems to come up fairly quickly. With technology today they are more easily found by even your regular home buyer on websites like Zillow. While they may be easy to find, working with them is a whole different animal. This is where Chantal and Peter come in. For the past few years they have been building up a specialty of working with pre foreclosure homeowners to help them solve their predicament. They help these homeowne...

55: 203k Rehab Loans and BRRRR House Hacking With Matt Porcaro

Matt Porcaro feels like he has tried it all when it comes to making money outside of a 9-5 job. Whether it be stocks, real estate or affiliate marketing he has dabbled in it all. Well this wouldn’t be a good real estate show if we didn’t talk about how he finally found success on the real estate side of things. Specifically we talk about what a 203k loan is and why it is such a great product to get started in real estate investing. So many people want to flip or do rehabs to properties, but ...

54: Overcoming Boundaries and Finding Your Passion With Matt Aitchison

Matt Aitchison gave himself a rough start to his adult life. After getting expelled from high school and ending up in jail he caught a break by having the charges dropped. He found a job working for a local flipper for free and slowly began running his projects. As time progressed Matt realized that he could run his own flips and got into the game. After doing hundreds of flips and creating multiple thriving businesses he has discovered his true passion in life. By helping others discover fr...

53: BRRRR and Househacking to 64 Units with Austin Carroll

52: The Secrets of Wholesaling with Josh Morse

Josh Morse joins us this week to talk about the successful wholesaling business that he has been part of building and the ways that anybody can do the same. Josh went from selling wholesale electronics to buying deals and selling them to other investors without any prior real estate experience. He gives us an inside look into how he was able to do this by partnering and learning as they went along.   Josh is part of LVN Real Estate (which may sound familiar from Kyle Doney's show, episod...

51: Financially Independent in 2 Years Using Short-Term Rentals with Zeona McIntyre

Zeona McIntyre joins us this week to tell her story of how she used short-term rentals to go from college student to financially independent in 2 years. Zeona currently owns several of her own properties and also manages over 25 other rentals all over the world for people who want in on the business but don't want the headache of managing their properties.   We talk through the model that takes advantage of sites like AirBNB or HomeAway to create very profitable rentals in areas where pe...

50: How to Be an Expert at Finding Opportunity in Real Estate with Nick Balzano

Nick Balzano joins us this week to talk about how he has grown his real estate portfolio through some very challenging (and creative!) projects over the last few years. Nick invests locally in Rhode Island at the same time as he works his day job in construction management. He leverages his construction knowledge as his competitive advantage to find deals that most people would overlook. We talk through his first 4 unit property that required a complete rehab and how he was able to complete ...

49: 25 Debt Free Rentals to Financial Freedom with Ben Dao

Ben Dao joins us this week to share the wisdom he has gained from acquiring and self-managing 25 rentals over the last 7 years. Ben decided he needed to be a real estate investor at 18 years old when he made the decision that he needed to be successful and saw real estate as the best way to do that. He started with a complete rehab of a 4 unit building and has continued to build a portfolio that allowed him to quit his full time job. Ben shares some interesting ways he has been able to maxim...

48: Slow and Steady Reliable Income Through Real Estate with Julie Kent

Julie Kent joins us this week to tell her story of how she accidentally got into real estate investing, but has continued to intentionally build her real estate portfolio over the last few years to provide reliable passive income. Julie's strategy is to use real estate as just one piece of the puzzle to building a strong financial foundation. She also invests in other assets and we talk about why she builds her portfolio the way she does.   For anybody who likes what they do but wants to...

47: Partnerships, Flipping and BRRRR to Financial Freedom with Ian Reeves

Ian Reeves joins us this week to talk about how he quit his 9-5 job as an engineer to become a full time real estate investor. Ian spent several years climbing the ladder at the engineering company he worked for, but didn't feel fulfilled. I know a lot of us can relate. He started searching for something that would be more fulfilling and let him live life on his own terms, which eventually led him to Rich Dad, Poor Dad.    Over the last 5 years Ian has used the BRRRR strategy, partnershi...

46: Investing Out of State as a Commercial Broker With Kevin Andrews

Kevin Andrews joins us this week to talk about his journey from corporate finance to full time investor and commercial broker. Kevin is a commercial broker in Denver and also invests out of state in Indianapolis after buying his first house hack several years ago. He has some great wisdom to share about how he has been able to buy his properties, what to look for when investing out of state and how he is recycling initial cash to continue building his portfolio. We also talk about how he cho...

45: Utilizing BRRRR to Acquire 10 Rentals in 2 Years With Jenny Bayless

Jenny Bayless got started in the real estate investing game in 2016 when she decided that her current market (Washington DC) was too expensive to purchase a rental. She initially started by purchasing some turnkey properties in a cheaper market, but things quickly changed. After moving to Denver soon after Jenny and her husband found the market of Colorado Springs. They soon realized that the rental market was strong and still affordable compared to the higher priced Denver market. Utilizing...

44: Launching A Turnkey and Syndication Company Right Out of College with Antoine Martel

Antoine Martel joins us this week to talk about how he was able to start investing straight out of college and help retire his parents within two years by selling turnkey properties (and much more!). Antoine and his family started by experimenting with the BRRRR strategy in Memphis right after he graduated college. He goes through the research that he did and the ways that he built a team of people that he could trust that eventually led to him and his family doing 10 deals their first year....

43: Everything You Need to Know About Financing Your First Rental

Are you ready to buy your first deal but unsure how to finance it? This show is for you! We walk through some of the common types of financing for buying your first rental property and how you can put yourself in the best possible place to get a loan.   We also talk about the importance of understanding how to use debt wisely in real estate. By using leverage, you can have control over assets worth 4 to 5 times as much as the cash you put into the deal, which means you have multiple oppo...

42: Creating Multifamily Syndication Deals at 24 with Dylan Marma

Dylan Marma from Rand Capital joins us this week to tell his story about how he got started in real estate and how he made his way to Rand Capital to do large multifamily investing. If you haven't heard of Rand Capital, it is the investment company behind Jake and Gino and Wheelbarrow Profits.    Dylan's story is a great example of what focus and hard work can achieve in this industry. He started by moving across the country and joining a real estate education company, where he became th...

41: Unbeatable Cash Flow and Purpose in Senior Housing with Brandon Schwab

Can you even imagine making $10,000 every month from one single family home? That's exactly what Brandon Schwab figured out how to do with his business model. Brandon previously owned 23 single family homes before selling them all the minute (or maybe month) he saw how independent senior housing could be run.   Brandon walks us through his investment strategy of buying large single family homes and converting them into senior housing with varying levels of care. We talk through why this ...

40: 16 Units Towards Financial Freedom in One Year with Bo Kim

Bo Kim joins us this week to talk about how he made the decision to start investing across the country and managed to grow his portfolio to 16 doors in his first year. If you have ambitions of getting started in real estate but feel overwhelmed by getting started, Bo is a great example of how to jump in. He explains how he decided where to invest, then his strategy for buying and financing his properties. We also talk about buying turnkey properties, delayed financing for the BRRRR method, s...

39: 147 Units by Age 27 with Garrett Hawk

Garrett Hawk joins us this week and his story of how he has acquired 147 units at 27 years old is amazing! Garrett dropped out of college at 19 to start buying rental properties in the small college town where he lived. We talk about his journey through many different businesses (including owning gas stations!) and what eventually led him back to real estate, where he grew his portfolio to 56 units with his own money. Since then, he has become an expert on finding ways to partner and leverag...

38: From Bankruptcy to 150 Deals a Year with Nathan Brooks

Nathan Brooks joins us this week to talk about his journey from bankruptcy during the last downturn to building a thriving turnkey company in Kansas City today. Nathan runs Bridge Turnkey and is on track to do over 150 deals this year. We talk about what it takes to bring your business from solo-entrepreneur status to a world-class business and what it looks like to be a great leader. Sometimes the key is to know yourself and know what you shouldn't be doing in your business.   Nathan is...

37: Guaranteeing Your Own Future Through BRRRR Investing with Lauren Clugston

How do you guarantee your own financial future rather than depend on outside factors? Lauren Clugston is a New Jersey-based investor who, along with her husband, is planning for retirement early. They are following a proven method of buying rental properties for less than market rate, fixing them up and holding them for the long-term.   We go into a lot of depth on their first deal, a duplex, which they bought out of foreclosure and put in all their own labor to now live in it and rent t...

36: House Hacking to Development by 26 with Ciro Affronti

Ciro Affronti owns 12 units today and has one of the most creative development stories we've ever heard. He started by house hacking and has continued to house hack but is also exceptionally talented at finding creating his own deals by finding ways to add value to unique properties.   We walk through a development project that was recently completed where Ciro and his father purchased a 3 unit property, then developed 3 more apartments on the same peice of land (where the pool was) and ...

35: Investing in Real Estate While Serving in the Military with David Pere

Is it possible to become a millionaire while serving in the military? David Pere, owner of From Military to Millionaire, joins us this week to talk about his plan to become a millionaire and become financially free while serving in the military.   We talk about the many benefits to investing while you're in the military including using VA loans, "military house hacking", investing from a distance and even the reasons why you should rent to other members of the military.   He also use...

34: Large Multifamily With a Team Mindset with Brent Kawakami

Brent Kawakami joins us this week to share his story of how he grew his investment business exponentially over the last few years. After starting with a couple single family homes, Brent decided that investing in multifamily properties was the best way to scale his business. He has now invested passively in one syndication and has sponsored his own large multifamily syndication (along with another one under contract).   We talk about why the team aspect of investing has allowed him to be...

33: Inspecting A New Property - What to Look For

This week we sat down with a couple guys who know a thing or two about what to look for and what can can go wrong with a property. Vadim and Jason from Veteran Property Services and Veteran Roofing joined us to go through some of the most common problems that get missed when an investor buys a new rental property. By far the largest item that they mentioned was the roof. We talked about why it pays to get an actual roofing contractor in to look at the roof and how to go about finding the rig...

32: House Hacking Million Dollar Homes With Lucas Hall

Lucas Hall got into real estate to impress a girl. And it worked out really well! (He also ended up marrying her)   Lucas is a Denver-based investor who owns property around the country, including a couple million dollar row homes in Washington DC, which he started by house hacking by the bedroom. He has since moved out of that house hack, but still rents by the bedroom instead of renting to one family. We talk about some great advice for how to market the property, how to set up the lea...

31: Seven Steps to Your First Real Estate Deal in 2019

Happy New Year! Thanks for joining us for another trip around the sun!   To start this year off right, here is our list of actionable steps to get your first (or next) deal done in 2019.   ONE: Figure Out Your Goals Before you do anything else, take a step back and ask yourself "what do I want to get out of real estate?" There can be a lot of answers to this question, but here's an easy place to start: do you want to be active or passive? And do you have cash or not?   There ar...

30: The Trifecta of Big Real Estate Investments with Jason Lewis

Jason Lewis has done almost every type of real estate you can think of and we dig into as much as we can in the hour that we spent with him. We talked about his belief that house hacking is the single best way to get into real estate investing and why Jason believes you should never stop house hacking. We also talk about some unique projects he has taken on, including the conversion of a horse barn into self-storage and some "vacation hacking" at Lake of the Ozarks. Along with managing Eco...

29: Scaling From 1 to 65 Units in 8 Months with Sam Rust

On Christmas Day, 2017 Sam Rust sat down and read Multifamily Millions from cover to cover and decided that he would buy a multifamily property in 2018. Eight months later he closed on a 64 unit property in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sam used a method known as syndication and we talk through the entire process of how he was able to get this deal done in such a short amount of time. We go through how to build relationships with brokers, how to analyze a deal, how to raise money, how to str...

28: The Real Estate Way to Wealth and Freedom with Jacob Ayers

Jacob Ayers is aiming towards 1,000 doors by the time he turns 30 years old and we talk about how he plans to get there. We love his story this week because it represents so many millennials who have that feeling that there has to be something more. Jacob started with a couple creative deals that we talk about in detail that gave him the ability to experiment and also gave his investment portfolio the strong foundation it needed to keep growing. We go into some the advantages to being a new ...

27: How to Network and Build A Booming Family Real Estate Business with Brooks O'Hearn

Start a booming real estate business with your entire family at 20 years old? Sure, why not! Brooks O'Hearn joins us this week to talk about how he pitched this idea to his family when he was 20 and they have since grown the business into a successful machine doing over a dozen high-end fix and flips a year. Brooks has mastered the art of networking to find deals and increase the visibility of his business. We talk about some of the strategies he uses for meet up groups and online presence, ...

26: Flipping and Wholesaling 150 Deals in 2 Years with Steven Pesavento

Want to know how to do over 150 deals in your first two years in real estate? Steven Pesavento shares his story this week of how he leveraged skills he had outside of real estate, found mentors, found partners, started buying deals 2,500 miles away and has successfully done 75 deals a year for the last two years. Steven gives a ton of great advice on how he was able to scale his business so quickly and take a few risks that enabled him to leave a career in management consulting and pursue re...

25: WTF is BRRRR Investing and Optimizing Your Business With Alex Felice

24: Lessons Learned in Memphis and Out of State Investing with Ben Welch

We take a different direction this week by putting Ben in the hot seat. In addition to getting to know Ben a little better, we dig into his Memphis properties to talk about why Memphis, why multiple units and what his plans are for this property. We also talk through some hard lessons learned about dealing with tenants and out of state investing.    For anybody just getting into investing or considering investing out of state, we hope you enjoy this episode and please reach out if you wa...

23: Creating Financial Freedom through "Subject-to" Purchases with Ryan Nickel

Ryan Nickel joins us this week to dive deep into yet another way to invest in real estate and create financial freedom. Today we're talking all about "Subject-to" purchases. Ryan walks us through the details of how he creates a win-win situation for his sellers when he buys houses subject to the original loan on the property then sells them again using seller financing. This delta creates monthly cash flow and very little risk across his portfolio. If you are looking for a creative way to ge...

22: Scaling a Wholesaling Business, Why Branding Matters and Going Full Time in Land Investing With Jaren Barnes

We had a lot of fun talking to Jaren Barnes this week. We covered everything from wholesaling to marketing to land investing. Jaren is currently the Senior Creative Director at RETipster, but has also worked as a wholesaler, worked as one of BiggerPockets first employees, and makes a full time living from land investing.   Whether you are into wholesaling and land investing or not, Jaren shares a ton of lessons learned about marketing, finding deals, and how to scale a real estate busine...

21: Land Investing and How to Never Lose Money with Seth Williams

This week's show covers an entirely new topic that we have not talked about before. We talk to Seth Williams from RETipster.com about his career in land investing. Seth has been an active real estate investor since 2008 who has mostly focused on buying and selling raw land (along with some rentals). He also runs RETipster.com, a resource that he has put together to compile some hard earned lessons in real estate.   In our conversation about land investing, we talk about Seth's process fo...

20: Ultimate House Hacking Guide for Millennial Real Estate Investors