Road to Family Freedom

Why Invest in Self-Storage? And Why Now?

In the second part of our conversation with Clint Harris, we talk about how and why we are investing in self-storage. Clint is a successful active investor in short-term rentals, but he is transitioning into investing in self-storage. We talk about why he has made that shift, as well as the strengths of our partners at Nomad Capital.  In This Episode We Cover: The Importance of Diversification into Passive Investing Assets The Similarities of the Technologic Shifts that are Happening in S...

How to Scale Your Short-Term Rental Business with Clint Harris

Clint Harris – a short-term rental investor and owner of Salt and Soul Property Management talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. When we last spoke to Clint Harris in February of 2020, he owned 14 short-term rental units. In this episode, we talk to Clint about how he has scaled his portfolio to over 60 units under management. Clint has been a real estate investor for over a decade with his wife, starting with long-term single-family home investing but has ...

How to Find Commercial Industrial Deals Like a Wholesaler with Darren Smith

After serving almost six years in the Army, Darren Smith has spent the last eighteen years as a professional real estate investor. He has flipped, rented, and wholesaled hundreds of residential properties, and in recent years has purchased several million dollars of industrial properties as long-term holds. Darren’s greatest achievement has been to surround himself with an incredible team of industry and military veterans who are every bit as passionate about helping people as he is. His big...

Building Your Network Using Clubhouse with Luke Wong

Luke Wong, the founder of 9 Mile Capital, has been around real estate most of his life as his family has always been in real estate. From owning commercial and residential properties to land development. Luke grew up in Miami and graduated from Florida State University. He moved to Houston in 2001 and worked in land acquisitions acquiring land for residential subdivisions. From 2011 to 2020, he renovated houses and owned a wholesaling operation. In the last few years, he has also been active...

Ditching the Grind of House Flipping for Self-Storage Success with Rob DuBroc

Rob Dubroc is a 35-year-old real estate investor from Kansas City who went all-in on self-storage after testing the waters with house flipping, working as a realtor, and single-family rentals. After grinding those various side hustles he found his way into commercial real estate and self-storage. In this episode, we talk to Rob about how he bought his first facility for cash and then promptly quit his W-2 job, the challenges of transitioning a poorly check and cash facility into auto paymen...

How to Analyze a Market for Self-Storage with Katherine D’Agostino

Katherine D’Agostino is the founder and sensei of Self-Storage Ninjas. After selling a previous business, Katherine jumped into the storage business building three facilities from the ground up in three years. She also runs a feasibility-analysis firm focused on delivering unbiased reports to self-storage investors that result in facilities with high occupancy and the highest possible returns.  In this episode, we talk to Katherine about how she got into the self-storage business, how to pi...

Commercial Lending Tips for Self-Storage with Mandy Monson

In this episode we talk to Mandy Monson about her background in finance, how she found herself in the self-storage business, what a self-storage borrower should do to ensure a successful loan application, the 5 C’s of credit, and the big one you should pay attention as a self-storage owner. Mandy Monson is the VP of Finance for Resort Lifestyle Communities, which manages a portfolio of senior independent living communities, but she’s also co-founder of Stor365 with previous guest Victor Dia...

We are MOVING!

In this episode, Neil & Brittany discuss their upcoming move to North Carolina to pursue self-storage full time and live in a house hack across the street from the beach. In This Episode We Cover: We bought a house across the street from the beach with the intention of doing a house hack “someday maybe” - We will go into more detail on the house in a later episode. What led us to decide to make the move now? First, we call this podcast The Road to Family Freedom. Our goal is financial an...

Lessons for New Storage Owners from an Experienced Manager with Victor Diaz

In this episode, we talk to Victor Diaz about how he got his start in self-storage, the mistakes he sees many new self-storage owners making, how to stand out from the crowd when marketing to potential sellers, and the changes he’s seen in the storage industry since he got into it. Victor Diaz is the co-founder of Stor365.com, a new consulting firm that specializes in helping self-storage owners operate their small storage portfolios the way a large REIT would. Victor’s entire adult life ha...

Passive Real Estate Investing Strategies with Alka Kumar

In this episode, we talk to Alka Kumar about how concerns over burnout as a doctor led her to pursue additional streams of passive income, how she scaled after buying that first single-family rental, how she purchased a small mobile home park using her self-directed retirement account, and why she is focused on investing passively in real estate syndications. Alka Kumar of YourWealthMD.com came to the United States from India with $40 in her pocket. Fast forward to today and she has been ma...

40,000 Square Foot Self-Storage Deal as First Facility with Christian Mercado

In this episode, we talk to Christian Mercado about how he purchased his first piece of real estate using a VA loan, how a light bulb went off after he started renting one of his rooms out, how he purchased his first self-storage for zero money down, and the key to negotiating with self-storage owners. Christian Mercado is a full-time real estate investor and Army Captain. He got his start in real estate in 2017 with the purchase of his first house utilizing a VA loan. 6 months later, he re...

Building Multiple Streams of Income using Passive Real Estate Investments with Jeff Anzalone

In this episode, we talk about two key setbacks that shifted Jeff Anzalone’s mindset towards building multiple streams of passive income, why he doesn’t invest in single-family rentals, the lessons learned from losing his first $50,000 he invested in a syndication, and the great question he uses to find other potential groups to invest with. Dr. Jeff Anzalone is a full-time practicing periodontist in the great state of Louisiana, author, and founder of DebtFreeDr.com. He focuses on teaching...

Shifting from Multifamily to Self-Storage Investments with Powell Chee

In this episode, we talk to Powell Chee about his start in real estate and why quickly he shifted into multi-tenant assets, the three main roles of a real estate syndication team, a key difference between residential and commercial lending that challenges many investors making the switch, and how to build relationships with commercial real estate brokers that last. Powell Chee is a Los Angeles-based real estate investor who does all his investing out of state. After buying his first investm...

From Rentals and Flipping to Raw Land Success with Landon and Teria Harris

Landon and Teria Harris started out rehabbing single-family homes. After a few successful projects, they realized it was not the direction they wanted. The amount of time, work, and capital was more than they wanted to manage. Their love of real estate led them to other investing opportunities. After hearing a podcast on vacant land sales, they immediately knew land investing was the right direction for them! Their land business began in 2019 where they immediately set up structure, process...

Adventures in Real Estate Investing from a Mortgage Broker with Matt Gouge

Matt Gouge, aka Matt the Mortgage Guy, got his start in lending back in 2013. As a self-proclaimed math nerd and a people person, he burned his proverbial ships, leaving a steady paycheck with the State of California, for the commission-based world of brokering residential mortgages. He has excelled in the field because he himself is a real estate investor and he can advise clients at a high level. As a real estate investor himself, he is able to help clients not only analyze the mortgage on...

From $165K in Debt to Five Single-Family Rentals with Mindy Templeton

Mindy Templeton is a Kansas City-based real estate investor who was, at one time, $165,000 in debt. A mindset shift a few years ago led her and her husband to aggressively pay down that debt and start buying single-family rentals in the Kansas City area. She and her husband have full-time jobs and are parents to two young children. She started Investinginyourwealth.com about two years ago as a way to track her journey to paying off that $165k of debt, and now that they are debt-free, she is...

How to Earn $100k in 3 Months with Sara Witz and Anthony Gair

Sara Witz and Anthony Gair are a soon-to-be husband and wife real estate investing team focused on wholesaling, flipping, and the BRRRR strategy. Two oil and gas employees from Houston, Texas who decided to take advantage of the extra time they had after their wedding was delayed by the Covid pandemic. They started investing less than 12 months ago and already have 13 deals under their belt. At the beginning of 2021, they set a goal for themselves of earning $100,000 in three months from rea...

Using the BRRRR Method to Scale to 35 Short-Term Rental Units with Shane & Rachel Sigsbee

Shane Sigsbee – Short Term Rental Investor and CEO or Sigsbee Homes talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Shane graduated from Notre Dame in 2007 with a degree in finance. He became a derivatives trader right out of school but lost his job in the financial crisis in 2009. He then left to pursue a career in gambling, starting the venture Imawhale Staking in 2010, which he still runs to this day. In 2017 he began investing in real esta...

The Keys to Successful SBA Lending on Self-Storage with Moe Kruger

Moe Kruger – Senior Loan Officer at Live Oak Bank talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Moe Kruger is a 30-year banking veteran that specializes in storage financing for small business owners. Over his 30 years in banking, Moe has been a branch manager, bank business development officer, residential mortgage specialist, private banking manager, commercial relationship manager before settling in and focusing on helping small business ...

Consistent Passive Cash Flow using Triple Net Lease Industrial with Neil Wahlgren

Neil Wahlgren – Chief Operations Officer at MAG Capital Partners, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. MAG Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in sale-leaseback and industrial real estate investments. Neil brings nearly two decades of leadership in operations and capital markets. Prior to MAG Capital, Neil led a Bay Area real estate investment firm, raising capital for over $200M in projects. He came to real e...

Escape the Rat Race by Investing in Raw Land with Mark Podolsky

Mark Podolsky – aka The Land Geek, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Armed with only $3,000, Mark bought his first few parcels of raw land in 2001. Today Mark is the author of Dirt Rich, the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income, and owner of successful and investing company Frontier Properties. Prior to his land investing success, Mark felt trapped in a high-stress, corporate job. Escaping the rat race changed Ma...

SEO for Real Estate Investors with Kris Reid

Kris Reid – founder of Ardor SEO talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Kris is known online as the coolest guy in Search Engine Optimization. Now, you might be asking why a podcast about real estate investing is hosting an expert in SEO. Well, that’s because at the end of the day, real estate is a customer-driven business, and at some point, you will want to put yourself in front of more customers. Whether they be rental tenants, sel...

Putting Landlording on Easy Mode with Casey Franchini

Casey Franchini – Single-Family Rental investor, and founder of Brick By Brick Wealth talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Casey is a real estate investor and mom of 3 young children who earns a passive second income from investing in single-family rental properties. She also teaches aspiring real estate investors that they, too, can live a better life with passive income from rentals and it starts with getting the first one.  In t...

From House Hacking to 10 Units with Becky Nova

Becky Nova – multifamily investor and founder of Lady-Landlords.com, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Becky began investing in real estate in 2018, when she and her husband, Emilio, purchased their first duplex in Yonkers, NY. Just a year later, she bought a four-family in the same neighborhood as well as a condo in the Dominican Republic, her husband’s native country. Now, she has acquired 10 doors in a competitive high cost of...

Getting Started with Passive Wealth Strategies with Taylor Loht

Taylor Loht – Real Estate Investor, Founder of NT Capital, and host of the Passive Wealth Strategies podcast talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Taylor is on a mission to teach Busy Professionals how they can invest in real estate without dealing with tenants, toilets, and termites. He highlights and distills the knowledge, experiences, and lessons of expert real estate investors through his podcast, YouTube Channel, and email news...

Self-Storage, Industrial Warehouses, and Your Circle of Competence with Michael Rogers

Michael Rogers – Real Estate Investor and Owner of Chandler Properties, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. After working for 15 years in the Corporate Accounting world Michael transitioned to full-time real estate investing in 2017. When he was still working his full-time corporate job he was also purchasing, remodeling, and managing rental properties as a side job. He currently self-manages a portfolio of 350 storage units, sever...

From 3 Single Family Homes to 1000 Multifamily Units with Justin Fraser

Justin Fraser – Multifamily Asset Manager and Host of the True Multifamily Show, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Justin is an apartment syndicator, asset manager, and real estate investor, responsible for managing multiple apartments across the country. A real estate investor since 2014 when he bought a single-family home as a rental property. For years Justin flipped houses and owned single-family rentals until May of 2018 wh...

From House Hacking to Full-Time Passive Investor with Tamar Hermes

Tamar Hermes – CEO of Wealth Warrior Woman, Full-time Real Estate Investor, educator, and money coach, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Tamar guides women to become financially free through Real Estate Investing and creating an empowering relationship to money. Tamar grew up poor as the child of a Holocaust survivor and had no idea how people got rich. By chance, she stumbled upon Real Estate investing and became obsessed with t...

Owning and Operating 15 Self-Storage Facilities Remotely with Gary Edmonds

Gary Edmonds – Self Storage Owner and Operator, founder of Pack It LLC and TheStorageManager, talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Gary Edmonds is an Illinois based self-storage owner, operator, and manager who bought his first facility back in 1999 while holding down a full-time job. Since then, he has acquired 14 facilities totaling 1800 units and over 280,000 square feet of storage space. And almost all of those facilities were acquired and run remotely...

Buying a 12-Unit Multifamily as Your First Rental Property with Amanda Bolan

Amanda Bolan – Multifamily investor, wife, and mother to 3 small children. Being active previously on flips, underway on a small development, she and her husband have narrowed their focus to multifamily properties for long term wealth creation. At the beginning of 2020, they closed on a 12 unit apartment deal as their first rental property., In this episode, we talk about getting started flipping properties, how they ended up buying a larger property than they thought they could afford, the...

Best Episodes of 2020 with Neil & Brittany Henderson

Scaling Your Self-Storage Empire with Truck Parking and Modulars with Wendell Long

Wendell Long – Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Storage Investor and owner of Mint Hill Self-Storage talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Wendell got his start in the manufacturing equipment business and has been successfully operating that business for 20 plus years. In addition, he has over 30 years of experience in commercial and residential real estate, including rezoning and development. He has 5 current commercial development project...

20 Build and Hold Rentals Before Age Thirty with Natalie Cloutier

Natalie Cloutier – Real Estate Investor from The New Build Couple talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Natalie started her investing journey along with her husband when they were just 20 years old with zero dollars in the bank by building their own home from the ground up. They then used an 18-month interest-free credit card from Home Depot to build a basement apartment, got a HELOC, and kept going from there. They have acquired a t...

Living a Fit Rich Lifestyle using Multifamily with Jason & Pili Yarusi

Jason Yarusi and Pili Yarusi – Multifamily Syndicators and co-founders of Yarusi Holdings, talk to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, co-hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. In 2016 they founded Yarusi Holdings, a multifamily investment firm currently with over 800 units under management. The firm repositions properties through operational efficiencies, moderate to extensive renovations, and complete rebranding. Jason and Pili also host "The Jason and Pili Project" a Youtube Chan...

Using TikTok to Start a Self-Storage Empire with Frazier Robison

Frazier Robison – The owner of Titan Self Storage talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Frazier is a self-storage investor from the Pacific Northwest who has purchased five facilities in less than two years. He documents his journey and experiences as the owner/operator of a self-storage business to his 360,000 followers on the short-form social media video sharing platform TikTok.  In this episode, we talk to Frazier about how he f...

From Zero to Fifty Rentals in 18 Months with Josh and Marcie Rathbun

Josh and Marcie Rathbun – Real Estate Investors and co-founders of Silver Lining Homes talk to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Josh and Marcie have grown their rental property portfolio from Zero to Fifty units in just a year and a half. They began accumulating properties while Josh had a full-time job, and Marcie worked as the property manager. In that short amount of time, they have achieved enough financial independence to set off on a family adventure to t...

Teaching Veterans to House Hack Using VA Loans with Eric Upchurch

Eric Upchurch – Real Estate Investor and Army Veteran from Active Duty, Passive Income talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Eric has a passion for educating the military community on how to create long term wealth through real estate investing, while personally investing across the country for the last fourteen years. He serves as Co-Founder of Active Duty Passive Income (ADPI) and is a Senior Managing Partner with ADPI Capital. Mos...

Converting Old Buildings to Self Storage with Scott Krone

Scott Krone – Self Storage Investor from Coda Management Group talks to Neil Henderson of The Road to Family Freedom Podcast. Scott is a Chicago native whose career began in architecture in 1991. In 2012, Krone founded Coda Management Group - a firm that specializes in managing real estate assets. Since its inception, Coda has managed a wide range of real estate including single and multi-family homes, retail, commercial warehouse, self-storage, and multi-use flex athletic spaces. In this e...

How to Fill Your Self-Storage Funnel with Fernando Angelucci

Fernando Angelucci – self-storage investor and co-founder of Titan Wealth Group talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, co-hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Fernando got his start in real estate when he was just 23 on the residential side of the world with wholesaling small deals and acquiring residential rentals. He then went on to build a multi-family rental portfolio. Two years ago he made the switch to self-storage and has grown his self-storage portfolio to upwards of...

Building Your “Forever Money” Using Multifamily Real Estate with Mandy McAllister

Mandy McAllister – a multifamily real estate investor, mindset ninja, eternal learner, coach, and dot connector talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson from The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Mandy followed volleyball to Mercer University in Georgia where she was awarded Top Graduate in Marketing. Soon after, she moved to Chicago to do a Masters in Economics and began work at the Board of Trade. Her professional career transitioned to Medical Device Sales where she was a perennial to...

Raising a Million Dollars in Under One Month with Frank Scappaticci

Frank Scappaticci – a former financial services consultant, Army Officer, and West Point graduate turned real estate investor and entrepreneur. After over a year of hesitation, he finally decided to make real estate his full-time profession while partnering with Grayline Investments. Since that time, he and his partners at Grayline have turbocharged a home buying system that is closing on up to 30 deals a month and is primarily focused around towns with military bases. We talk about why he ...

Tips for Talking to Self-Storage Owners and Brokers with Marla Colic

Marla Colic – is a former self-storage owner and now broker from Missouri who has been in the industry since 2010. Marla’s knowledge of the storage asset class includes storage ownership, management, consulting, and brokerage. In 2016, Marla joined Marcus & Millichap as a real estate broker where she facilitates the acquisition and disposition of Self Storage assets across Missouri and the Midwest. Marla is a partner with First Vice President Investments Anne Williams-Blackwell and the Willi...

Purchasing Six Self-Storage Facilities in Two Years with Tony Pernelli

Tony Pernelli – is a self-storage investor from Pennsylvania who got his start investing in multifamily and flips. In this week’s episode, you’ll hear how he self-managed over 100 residential doors while holding down a full-time job and why that experience pushed him into investing in self-storage facilities. In just two years, Tony has built a portfolio of 6 facilities and counting in several locations in the South. In this episode we talk to Tony about purchasing his first self-storage fa...

From Zero to Twenty Multifamily Units On Their First Deal with German and Oscar Buendia

German & Oscar Buendia – brothers and co-founders of Good Day Capital, talk to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. German and Oscar were both serving in the military, but only recently began investing in multifamily. Sparked by a family scare while deployed, Oscar and German decided to build up a multifamily portfolio to provide some flexibility. After overcoming limiting beliefs, they built relationships online to do their first deal in Ohio, a 20 unit multifamil...

Self-Storage Investing with a Higher Purpose with Scott Meyers

Scott Meyers – founder of SelfStorageInvesting.com and Kingdom Storage focuses on syndicating self-storage deals and helping others launch their own self-storage business to enjoy a lifestyle as his saying goes, “ free from tenants, toilets, and trash!” Scott Meyers is the principal in 16 facilities totaling over 7,500 units and over 2 million square feet of storage and has converted over 30 facilities totaling over 12,000 units and over 2 million square feet of Storage. He is also the Foun...

From Zero to 15 Single Family Rentals in Three Years with Anam & Aamir Hashambhai

Anam & Aamir Hashambhai – co-founders of Opulent Realty talk to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Anam and Aamir are a Dallas, TX-based husband and wife team who purchased their first investment property three years ago with their entire savings. Three years later they have a few million under management and show no signs of slowing down. They currently have 15 units purchased through the BRRRR Strategy and they are looking to get to 20 b...

Self-Managing a Small Portfolio of Single Family Rentals with Elenis Camargo

Elenis Camargo – co-founder of Third Stone Properties talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Elenis and her husband began their real estate investing journey when they bought their first investment property sight-unseen, long-distance from their home in Brooklyn, NY before they made the move to their investing market of Jacksonville, FL. They have since built a portfolio of four single-family rentals and continue to grow their portfol...

How to Build A Long Distance Real Estate Investing Team with Antoine Martel

Antoine Martel – the co-founder of Martel Turnkey, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Antoine is a 25-year-old real estate investor from Toronto, Canada. While still in college Antoine learned about real estate investing and knew it was his calling. From his dorm room, he completed his first BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) project out of state with his father's $40,000. Since then Antoine and his family have completed ...

From Zero to Seven Self-Storage Facilities in Two Years with Zach Quick

Zach Quick – full-time self-storage investor primarily focused on value-add facilities in the midwest. Zach and his wife began their investing journey by building a residential/multi-family portfolio over 5 years before pivoting into self-storage. While expanding their residential/multi-family portfolio Zach worked for two Fortune 500 companies related to Retail and Staffing Management. After selling their residential portfolio and purchasing several self-storage properties Zach jumped into ...

NOT Your How-To Guide to Investing in Real Estate with Ali Boone

Ali Boone – the founder of Hipster Investments, is a real estate investor and lifestyle entrepreneur and has literally defined non-conformity when it comes to her career. Ali left her corporate 9-to-5 job as an Aerospace Engineer, despite the “dream job” status that came with it, to start her real estate investing company, Hipster Investments. Hipster managed to facilitate over $18M in real estate investment transactions in its first five years of business. Ali’s primary focus in real estate...