Creative Real Estate Podcast

Happy Monday! Hope you had a fantastic weekend! In this episode DJ and Adam discuss a small milestone of getting that first syndicated apartment complex closed. It took about 8 months from contract to close. DJ shares some of the struggles of getting this deal moved through. Also a small celebration of hitting episode 50 on the podcast. DJ and Adam briefely discuss the next syndication they are doing which is an 83 unit in Branson MO and it closes right before this episode comes out. If you want to do apartment syndications as well you might be in luck because we have about 12 tickets available to an event coming up. The tickets are $95.00 and come with Networking, Food, and Education. Get your tickets now by clicking here!

Damian Lupo shares how he used creative real estate to go from zero to $20,000,000.00 oh and then he lost it all in the crash and was worth NEGATIVE $5,000,000.00 This story shows why Damian wrote his two books "Quick & Dirty Guide to Gold & Silver" "RE-Invented Life" Today Damian helps people get their retirement out of the stock market and into things they know and control like: Gold, Silver, Real Estate, and anything else that has great upside with very little downside and typically outperform the stock market. QRP vs Self Directed IRA "401K on steroids" "I don't do deals that will give me any less than 20%, it's just not worth my time" we discuss UDFI and UBIT Contact Damian or get a free mailed copy of his book: www.TotalControlFinancial.com Self Directed Investors (SDI) Network: Meetup.com/SDI-Network

This episode wraps up the 5 part series to getting a massive network. Adam covers: Should you take over another persons group and/or should you start your own from scratch? This episode goes over the pros and cons of both. -split testing -strategy -events Want to watch recorded videos from Adam's meetup? Here is the YouTube: YouTube.com/channel/UCDxzBE6Sk5C0qFVTN4L1r3g Want to Follow Adam Adams on instagram? Here is his handle: @AAAinvests Want to visit one of the most active meetup groups in the world? Here is the link to RSVP: Meetup.com/BlueSpruce Want to visit D.A.N.? Meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network Want to visit SDI Network? Meetup.com/SDI-Network Go to Joe Fairless' podcast here: www.BestEverShow.com Denver Apartment Network is hosting a dinner with BRAD SUMROK on June 5th. It's an event to help other people learn how to invest in apartment buildings for cash-flow. As a way of saying thanks for being a regular listener on this podcast. I wanted to give you a free promo code to the event so you WON'T HAVE TO PAY $95.00 When you use this promo code: "DANFREE" You get your tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retire-in-5-years-or-less-tickets-44902940905

This week Adam interviews Craig Curelop from BiggerPockets HQ about how Craig is doing a creative strategy called House Hacking. His 1st house hack was a duplex, he also does some AirBnB out of his own side for extra cashflow. Craig started at BP in april of 2017 with no prior real estate experience, but he was an active member on the site. Craig went indoor skydiving with Brandon Turner, Josh Dorken, and the entire BiggerPockets crew soon after he started. Linksdiscussed: https://couplerbnb.com/ -> AirBnb Property Management site https://www.facebook.com/craig.curelop https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-curelop-a6457242/ Craig Curelop is a real estate and personal finance enthusiast who serves as BiggerPockets' financial analyst. Craig is also an investor who seeks to hack not only his housing but his lifestyle in general, continually finding creative ways to generate passive income. Craig also operated a short term rental business where he manages his customer's short term rentals providing them with the highest possible return and the least possible work. Craig Curelop, who works at BiggerPockets, teaches us how he did his first house hack with almost nothing down and it moving to the second one! Denver Apartment Network is hosting a dinner with BRAD SUMROK on June 5th. It's an event to help other people learn how to invest in apartment buildings for cash-flow. As a way of saying thanks for being a regular listener on this podcast. I wanted to give you a free promo code to the event so you WON'T HAVE TO PAY $95.00 When you use this promo code: "DANFREE" You get your tickets free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retire-in-5-years-or-less-tickets-44902940905

"The richest people in the world build networks, everyone else is trained to look for work" Robert Kiyosaki Today I want to share with you a way to grow your network, and that is to stop giving sales pitches to everyone. When you go to a networking event, spend time adding value to others. This episode came out when Adam Adams was in New York City at the headquarters of Meetup.com. Adam presented in front of the top 150 meetup organizers in the world. there was people from 8 different countries, including India, Austrellia, United Stated, England, and 4 other countries. The link to the Creative RE Lunch Club of Denver is: www.Meetup.com/BlueSpruce Come visit the lunch club every Thursday at noon.

This week, Sarah May joins us in the studio in Denver to share her story. SARAH'S BIO: While working full-time as an aerospace engineer, Sarah began investing in real estate in her free time after reading the "little purple book" Rich Dad Poor Dad and discovering the concept of passive income. After making the decision to invest, Sarah started buyiung and managing rental properties and doing "fix and hold" projects. She decided she wanted to turn her real estate "side gig" into a business and started syndicating large multifamily properties with investors who wanted the benefits of real estate ownership, without the hassle. Sarah now owns over 800 doors as a limited partner and has personally sponsored 100 apartment units in Denver, Colorado. Sarah now works exclusively in real estate, and spendes her free time with her husband and 3 year old son. She enjoys the Colorado outdoors, traveling, biking, and playing tennis. Topics discussed: you don't need to start with single family duedilligence property tours "call for offers" cashflow and gain/appreciation stabalized assets cash on cash return cap rate IRR books to read how to help investors who want the benefits of real estate ownership without the hassle of real estate management syndication Brad Sumrok Denver Apartment Network Links mentioned in this episode: www.regencyinvestmentgroup.com Here is the EventBrite link so you can get your tickets to Brad Sumrok in Denver on June 5th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retire-in-5-years-or-less-tickets-44902940905

Have you heard of personal banking? Join us on this episode to learn from Ferenc Toth and his creative financial strategy! Ferenc Toth has been in the financial industry for 18 years and started off in real estate with HUD properties. Topics discussed: Financial wealth HUD Properties Cash-Flow Links mentioned in this episode: http://securemgt.com/ 866-515-6280 Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/es/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

Its Meetup Monday! Join us for some high level networking tips and tricks! Want to network like a professional and build more powerful relationships? Make sure to listen to the end to get some major value! Topics discussed: Networking Communication Meetup! Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/es/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

This week, Adam Adams interviews Jeremy Roll about how to safely invest passively in many different asset classes. Topics discussed: Passive Investing vs Active Investing Equity Partners Cap Rates Market Trends PPM Jeremy's Bio Jeremy has been a real estate and business investor for over 16 years who left the corporate world in 2007 to become a full-time passive cash flow investor. He is currently an investor in more than 70 opportunities across over $500 Million worth of real estate and business assets. As Founder and President of Roll Investment Group, Jeremy manages a group of over 1,000 investors who seek passive/managed cash flowing investments in real estate and businesses. Jeremy is also the co- Founder of For Investors By Investors (FIBI), a non-profit organization that was launched in 2007 with the goal of facilitating networking and learning among real estate investors in a strict no sales pitch environment. FIBI is now the largest group of public real estate investor meetings in California with over 25,000 members. Jeremy has an MBA from The Wharton School, is a licensed California Real Estate Broker (for investing purposes only), and is an Advisor for Realty Mogul, the largest real estate crowdfunding website in the US. Jeremy welcomes e-mails ([email protected]) to network with or help other investors and to discuss real estate or business investments of any size. Jeremy's Investment Criteria: · Purchase price: $8-25M (non-institutional in size) · Due to very high prices right now (because we are likely at the end of the cycle), unique pricing is a must so a 10%+ discount to true market value is a requirement for me right now · Class B asset in an A or B market · Outside of California for higher cap rates due to my cash flow focus · Stabilized profile – May or may not have value-add upside (it's not a requirement) – 80-100% occupied going-in · Min 9% projected cash flow net to investors for Year 1 · Min 11% projected average annualized cash flow net to investors over the term of the opportunity (which is typically projected to be 10 years) · Typical average annualized total projected return is 15-20% but I am much more concerned with and focused on the cash flow targets because I live off the cash flow · Diversified tenant base – Strongly prefer 100+ units for multifamily, 300+ units for self-storage, 75+ lots for mobile home parks, 13+ tenants for retail strip centers + office buildings, etc · I am currently not considering retail strip centers, office buildings, and most apartments in general until after the downturn Links mentioned in this episode: www.rolllinvestments.com Use this promo code: "DANFREE" https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retire-in-5-years-or-less-tickets-44902940905

This week Adam Adams covers why he started his meetup in the first place. He was BRAND NEW to Denver: he didn't know anyone, and nobody knew him... so he got CREATIVE and started his own meetup group. Adam talks about reverse engineering the process of making a successful meetup group to gow his network in a new city by finding a niche! A "lunch" group!? How many could you get to be there in the middle of the day on a Thursday??? Well Adam has had 176 RSVPs in one place in the middle of a work day. This is the 2nd of 5 episodes Adam Discusses how he got on Theo Hicks and Joe Fairless's Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever Show. We even share a clip of Theo and Joe discussing if they should do it weekly or not... Then Adam explaines the reason behind it even though he knows people may have some legitimate concerns. Also mentioned: How frequently you should be meeting: How to create scarcity with your meetup How to PM members of other groups (how to create engagement) How to stay in contact with your group by emails and email campagns (tell them what you did and what's coming up) How to keep retention! Links mentioned in this episode: Meetup.com/BlueSpruce

Brad Sumrok's very first property was a 32 unit multifamily property! Sumrok broke that mold of graduating through fix & flips and single family rentals. Instead, he jumped right into apartment investing. And guess what?! You can too! Topics discussed: Apartment Investing Corporate America Financing Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/brad.sumrok Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/]

Did you know that the majority of meetup groups die out within the first 7 months? When I first heard this, I really wasn't too surprised after attending some groups that didn't fill need. So I decided to share some of the things that I've done differently to create several successful meetup groups. Topics discussed: MeetUp Groups Networking Niche Down Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/es/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LucnhClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

Dave started out as a Real Estate Agent and moved his way over to Note Investing. Dave was very creative and started buying and fixing houses on a credit card! He'd also get a tenant into these properties and cash flow them every month. Dave also moved into private money lending too! In this episode, you'll learn about how Dave accidently got into note investing. Topics discussed: Note Investing Private Money Lending Fix & Rent Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.pprnoteco.com/ http://get.biggerpockets.com/noteinvesting/ Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/]

Steven was born and raised in Minnesota. After moving around a bit, he found himself in Southern California, but didn't see the success he was looking for. Steven took a leap of faith and closed out his digital marketing company and jumped into to real estate, both feet first. His company is focused on acquisitions in two different markets. They do fix & flips, new developments, wholesaling and rental properties. Topics discussed: Fix & Flipping Rentals Wholesaling Links mentioned in this episode: http://vfinvest.com/vf-invest-home-page Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

Nathan Robbins is an impressive acquisitions manager and focuses on networking and systematizing the processes of getting more quality deals. Nathan utilizes some creative marketing strategies by outsourcing it to the experts. This allows him and the team focus on what they know and what they are good at. Topics discussed: Off-Market Deals Meetup groups Networking Links mentioned in this episode: https://www.meetup.com/Fixated-On-Real-Estate/ http://second-example.com Colorado Broker's Association (CBA) https://www.meetup.com/ColoradoBrokersAssociation/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColoradoBrokersAssociation/?ref=br_rs

Chuck and Yonah are creative real estate masterminds. These two have done some very unique and interesting. They also have partnered with their clients before. Chuck and Yonah aren't shy of creating synergistic partnerships! Topics discussed: Cost Segregation Cashflow Off-Market Deals Links mentioned in this episode: http://www.madisonspecs.com/ Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/] Colorado Broker's Association (CBA) https://www.meetup.com/ColoradoBrokersAssociation/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/ColoradoBrokersAssociation/?ref=br_rs

Lindsay heard about the returns on non-performing second mortgages, and thought the returns were too good to be true. Her team wanted to check it out for themselves. So they actually made the transition from buying single family rental homes over to buying non performing notes and actually becoming the mortgage holder. When they compared the rate of return on first mortgages vs second mortgages, they found that the second mortgages performed greater because they can acquire them at a lower cost, as they are typically seen as a more risky asset., That being said, they'd rather bet on 10 second mortgages then 1 first mortgage for the same price. Topics discussed: Second Mortgage Investing Risk/Reward Diversification Links mentioned in this episode: [email protected] [http://silverbaycapital.com/] Self Directed Investors Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/SDINetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/SDI-Network/]

Brandon's first step into real estate was when he decided to sell his house for a profit of $20,000. His motivation behind this was to go backpack through Europe. Turner pioneered the BRRR strategy before it was heavily marketed thing. The story behind that is rather interesting.. Brandon simply couldn't sell the house for what he wanted! So he got creative put a renter in the property, got it refinanced, and fell in love with the process. Turner has also been involved in some house hacking as well as the growth of the well known BiggerPockets. Topics discussed: BRRRR House Hacking BiggerPockets Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

This week, Mark Kenny from Think Multifamilyh joins us to cover a horror story of his when he bought an LLC. Mark is a seasoned real estate investor, educator, published author and founder of Think Multifamily. Mark started his Apartment Investing career over 20 years ago. He has a passion to help others succeed in the multifamily arena and go BIG, fast! Mark is invested in 2600 units and has a top-notch reputation among the multifamily investment community for providing exceptional value to investors and the community while being easy to work with. Mark is a 1993 graduate at Michigan State University in Accounting and is a CPA. He has provided IT consulting for 20 years and is leveraging his vast IT experience to bring new creative technologies that will help others in the multifamily space. He has worked for organizations such as KPMG Consulting, EDS, SAP, HP, and founded Simplifying-IT which provides IT services to fortune 500 companies. Topics discussed: Mark's backgroun and introduction 1:08 Getting into multifamily/Choosing a market/Syndication 5:27 Horror Story/Bad Partnership/Purchasing an LLC 12:09 Mark's company does 3 large events every year. The next one coming up is May 19th & 20th. To sign up go to www.thinkmultifamily.com Links mentioned in this episode: www.thinkmultifamily.com Get a copy of Adam Adam's new book: [email protected]

Adam L Adams started off with real estate investing by getting into multifamily syndications. He currently ones 130 units. Through this journey, he met an investor who turned him onto notes. To this day, Adam L Adams has done 68 notes! All of which are first position residential notes. Adam L Adams also has done many land contracts too. Currently, Adam took his experience from apartment syndications as well as note investing,. He merged the two together and started syndicating non- performing portfolios of notes. These notes are purchased through different banking institutions. Adam has done an incredible job leverage his strengths and outsourcing his weakness, providing this business scalability. Topics discussed: Syndications Note Investing Leveraging Outsourcing Links mentioned in this episode: [http://www.ajarealtyinvestments.com/] [email protected] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK6ZDten-yY3CmrgnanjkXg Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

Jorge P. Newbery is Founder and CEO of American Homeowner Preservation LLC, which crowdfunds the purchase of nonperforming mortgages from lenders at big discounts, then provides sustainable solutions to help struggling homeowners. He authored Burn Zones, which shares how he built up a portfolio of over 4,000 apartments nationwide before a natural disaster devastated his largest complex. He lost everything and ended up $26 million in debt. Newbery rebuilt himself through AHP, sharing what he learned from his challenges to help families at risk of foreclosure stay in their homes. Topics discussed: Note Investing Loan Modification Foreclosure Links mentioned in this episode: [https://notebuyerbootcamp.com/] [https://ahpfund.com ] Self Directed Investors Network [https://www.meetup.com/SDI-Network/] [https://www.facebook.com/groups/SDINetwork/]

Trevor Mauch is a technology and market guru. He realized he had the knowledge and skills to help real estate investors & agents generate and convert more leads than ever before. Through the use of SEO, creative website and content building, Trevor figured out how to actually game the system to get real results. By using true value and providing a need in a niche, figuring out how to actually help the audiences out, Trevor is focused on create robust, valuable content. Topics discussed: SEO Lead Generation Digital Marketing Links mentioned in this episode: [(www.oncarrot.com)] Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/es/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

John Panagoko Is a very experienced lender. In theory, his group can never run out of money to lend due to how they are insured. John got into real estate first as a controller of a property management company. He then created his own property management company and has managed over 60,000 units. John now owns Trust Mortgage, which is a FHA insured lending company. This means that Jennie Mae's can be issued to backup the mortgage, and in theory, can't run out of money to lend out. Calvin Newton's first step into real estate was when he bought his first house at 26 and rehabbed the property. He started to flip houses as he realized he could make a pretty good living. After that, he became addicted to the real estate industry. Calvin has worked with John for several years now because he's the best he knows who does everything properly to satisfy HUD. Topics discussed: Insured Lending Commercial Real Estate Apartment Investing Links mentioned in this episode: [https://www.trustlender.com/] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/]

Michael Blank knew the full time job in corporate America wasn't for him. He quit his job and became obsessed with educating himself on how to achieve financial freedom. His first step in was to consume as much education and courses as possible. Michael wound up becoming an owner in a restaurant, thinking he'd be building passive income. Soon enough he started to see that the profit margins were getting thiner and thinner, and the team of owners had a real problem on their hands. Michael was also flipping houses to build his foundation in the industry. He realized he wasn't building passive cash flows and wound up putting more work into it than anticipated. As he checked down his list, Michael had a light bulb moment and started to only focus on multifamily due to its scalability, passive cash flows and appreciations. Topics discussed: Restaurant Ownership Syndications Apartment Investing Links mentioned in this episode: [http://www.themichaelblank.com/] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/]

Lane is a Hawaii real estate investor and has leveraged his skill sets with other investors to make a win - win opportunity. Lane sees real estate investing as a team sport. At a very young age, Lane understood and realized the true power of investing and compounding. His real estate skill sets and knowledge has certainly developed exponentially. Lane started out as an engineer and found his passion for real estate when he realized he didn't want to be caught up in the system of a 9-5. Since then, Lane has been actively building and scaling his real estate empire! Topics discussed: Virtual Assistance Scalability Syndications Links mentioned in this episode: [http://simplepassivecashflow.com/] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/]

Jennifer made a transition from working two jobs as a barista and restaurant server to a full time real estate investor! She saved up all her money and had this goal of being a homeowner. She surely had the real estate bug after accomplishing that. Jennifer's next step into real estate was working for a local construction company that did land development and small multifamily developments. She worked with this group for about two years. Jennifer got her real estate license shortly after this and focused her business as a real estate broker for investors. She has developed her real estate portfolio with rental properties throughout Washington with very creative ways of financing. Topics discussed: BRRRR strategy Property brokerage fix & flips Links mentioned in this episode: [email protected] [https://www.reimillionaire.com/] Creative Real Estate Lunch Club Boulder, Tuesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubBoulder/] Northern Colorado, Wednesday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/LunchClubNoCo/] Denver, Thursday : Noon - 2:00 p.m. [https://www.meetup.com/BlueSpruce/]

Jason & Pili are a husband and wife team living in New Jeresey. Jason has a construction backround and Pilli was a real estate agent experience. The two decided to team up and make some power couple moves! Jason speaks on the construction company actually lifting homes up and off their foundation! If one can lift a house, they certainely can creatively invet in them as well. The two started out in fix & flips and then moved over to duplexs and triplexs. Most recently, they closed on a 94 unit multifamily property about 6 months ago. Topics discussed: Multifamily Property Fix & Flips Synergy Links mentioned in this episode: [http://yarusiholdings.com/] [email protected] [email protected] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/?_cookie-check=b3rhMPbAajoKeqQw

Victor Menasce started out in the telecom space creating microprocessors and data cards. If you have made a phone call from 1991- 2011, chances are you've used a processor created by Victor. He started to realize he had built the skill sets from his experience in mergers, acquisitions and capital funding. He utilized this and took a step into real estate investing. Victor takes a business approach to everything he does and states that every strategy needs to follow the law of supply and demand. His first transition into real estate was providing executive suite type properties on a medium term basis. Victor lives in Ottawa, Canada where there is alot of Parliamentary and Embassy staff the had a need for higher end housing without getting locked into a year long lease. Victor's first step into real estate was to fill this need. Menasce kept this creative mindset thriving and wound up purchasing a Minor League Baseball Stadium for $950,000. This Stadium had a cell tower that they wound up selling for $750,000. From there, Victor and his team took a very creative approach on handling this asset. Topics discussed: Tax Layers Supply & Demand International Business Links mentioned in this episode: [http://www.victorjm.com/] [email protected] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/

Brandon Hall from North Carolina is a certified CPA, owner and operator of a CPA firm that specializes in providing creative tax solutions for real estate investors. Whether you're a builder, investor, syndicate, or fix & flipper, Brandon has provided win wins for all. Hall's firm has over 250 clients all around the country that they work with virtually. 100% of their clients invest in real estate or own a real estate business. Brandon guides his clients through transactions and operations to ensure investors are maximize on their tax liabilities and deprections. Their company is always leading with value by providing free podcasts, blog posts and even webinars! Check em' out, you won't want to miss this one. Topics discussed: Tax Reductions Creative Real Estate Deals Deal Structuring Links mentioned in this episode: [www.therealestateCPA.com] [https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/author/brandonhall-2/] [http://brandonhall.com/] Self Directed Investors Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/SDINetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/SDI-Network/]

From door knocking for pest control sales to losing his home and collecting food stamps. Ryan wound up driving across the country to Savannah, Georgia to work with a friend in real estate. Within three weeks, Ryan deposited a $20,000 check from a creative real estate deal. The momentum kept going with Ryan procuring one creative deal after another on the buyers and the seller's side! Nickel tells a story about one of his deals where he bought a lawnmower and it just so happened that the house came along with it! Ryan's interesting dynamic of finding good deals is rather fascinating. One of his strategies is called "driving for dollars". Ryan shares a story where he went on a drive with his father and the zillow app open, showing all pre-foreclosures in the area. After viewing almost 40 properties, he found 3 that he was able to make a creative deal out of. Topics discussed: Finding Deals Perserverence Food stamps to creative real estate entrepenuer Links mentioned in this episode: [Bootstraprei.com] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/?_cookie-check=b3rhMPbAajoKeqQw

With two major let downs in corporate America, Mike realized something needed to change. With a baby on the way, Mike was very motivated to go big. He and his wife consumed every bit of education on real estate and lead themselves to doing 65 deals their first year with no prior experience. Mike discusses his journey, the naysayers, and overcoming the obstacles in place to reach his goals. With Mike's success, he wound up creating an episode series where he showed the behind the scenes action in his business. This eventually lead into a podcast that he has been running for over a year now. Today Mike coaches, mentors, and partners on all kinds of creative deals. He also has an active Youtube channel where he provides free educational content as well. Topics discussed: Fix & Flips OVercoming the obstacles YouTube TV series Links mentioned in this episode: [https://www.facebook.com/mlhambright] [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJdeAhALuduitN9BBZ95xpA] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehambright/] [email protected]

From the land of cotton, cows and prairies of Lubbock Texas... Joe Fairless created his success through perseverance. When Joe graduated from college in 2005 from Texas Tech, he immediately moved to the big city of New York where he quickly became the youngest Vice President of a advertising agency. While he was grinding through the corporate ladder and nannying on the weekends, he was looking into buying properties and bought his first house in 2009. As his experience with real estate investing grew, so did his creative side of investing. From being a weekend nanny, to owning 230 million dollars worth of apartment communities. Joe says "Fulfillment = growth + contribution" He wanted something more and was incredibly determined to achieve it. [email protected] Investwithjoe.com The best Real Estate Investing advice ever show Topics discussed: Corporate Grind Aparment Investing Fulfillment Links mentioned in this episode: [Investwithjoe.com] [[email protected]] [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/joe-fairless/best-real-estate-investing-advice-ever] Denver Apartment Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenAptNetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/Den-Apt-Network/?_cookie-check=b3rhMPbAajoKeqQw

This week, Bryan Ellis speaks on real estate, crypto-currencies, and private companies as investments. Bryan discusses his views on how to get your self directed funds into more lucrative investment vehicles over wall street. Bryan's passion has led to the creation of a site called selfdirected.org as well as a podcast called "Self Directed Investor Talk". Their mission is to help people understand how to get their investments out of wall street and into assets they actually understand and control. For the majority, it's real estate. However, his team also educates on investing in private companies, crypto-currencies, and several other asset classes. Regardless if it's an IRA or 401k, Bryan and his team provide a wealth of knowledge and education on how to properly self direct your investments. Topics discussed: Self Directed IRA's Crypto-Currencies Real Estate investing Captial Gains Taxes Links mentioned in this episode: [Selfdirected.org] [https://www.facebook.com/bryanellis] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-ellis/] [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bryan-ellis/self-directed-investor-radio-with-bryan-ellis] Self Directed Investors Network [https://www.facebook.com/groups/SDINetwork/] [https://www.meetup.com/SDI-Network/]

Having an effective presence online is not just important - but rather a must when it comes to connecting with consumers. Unlike other businesses, real estate is extremely relationship centered. You are handling people's homes and/or vast sums of their money. In order for them to trust you, they want to feel like they know you. Today you will learn from Online Presence Expert and Speaker, Italina Kirknis, how to • Drive a Steady Stream of Clients to your Real Estate Business • Leverage LinkedIn to Get on Google • Use Social Media to Engage with and Build Trust with Prospects • Stand out from Competitors Italina helps the Real Estate Community's Top Realtors and Mortgage Professionals upgrade their presence online through LinkedIn, Facebook and Email Newsletters. Promote your brand, engaging your audience, and get more deals done! Contact Italina Website: http://italinaimage.com/ Email: [email protected] Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/italinakirknis/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/italina.kirknis Instagram: @italinak Italina speaking at Inman: http://www.prleap.com/pr/248717/italina-kirknis-speaks-at-real-estate VIDEO| Higher Price Point Clients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKK9AHev-ak&feature=youtu.be

Preposterous! No Way! Absurd! That's probably the response most people had when they read the title to this podcast. How Igor Semi-Retired Before He Turned 21 We all work hard to be successful. But some people reach success faster than others, much faster. That's why you need to learn as much as you can from them and duplicate their methods for your own business. Today we introduce you to a real estate investor who has accumulated millions of dollars in net worth at the young age of 21 and was able to retire. Igor Kajpust started in real estate at age 17 and currently owns a nationwide wholesaling business, several properties and a Purple Bentley. Discover how he did it! Resources mentioned in this episode: Web site for the Mastermind event on December 15th: https://www.2018mastermind.com/ Instagram: whoiskaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/igorkajpust Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-kajpust-785231108/ Bigger Pockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/igorkajpust

Vacant or abandoned properties can represent a huge amount of value to real estate portfolios. However, it is a serious struggle to find and contact these absent owners. If they have skipped town, you won't be able to reach them using traditional marketing methods It's time to change your approach! In today's episode of The Creative Real Estate Podcast, Larry Higgins presents his method of High Volume Skip Tracing, which allows you a convenient and accelerated way to find people fast. Like so many other investors that have used direct mail to contact owners, Larry found himself with a huge stack of returned mail from his mail campaigns But instead of throwing it away, he decided to find a way to contact these potential clients. By learning how to become his own skip tracer and discovering how to reach high volumes of people in a cost-effective manner, Larry is able to identify great deals that are flying under every other investor's radar. The system works so well, his business no longer bothers with mail campaigns and relies strictly on skip tracing lists. The bottom line is Larry is getting more deals and more profitable deals in far less time. Resources mentioned in this episode: http://skipgenie.com/ [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/larry.higgins.522

In today's episode of The Creative Real Estate Podcast, Kent Clothier reveals his strategy of reverse wholesaling, which allowed him to wholesale 91 houses in his first 18 months, and how this mindset led him to create his real estate empire. Reverse wholesaling is probably the single best strategy you can use to earn quick cash with real estate. But it's not just for wholesaling! By starting with the end in mind, anyone can create the result they desire. Learn how to you can make money in this market and ANY market and build a business and NOT a JOB! Kent Clothier is one of the country's most highly sought-after speakers and is President and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide (REWW), a multi-faceted real estate education company assisting students in markets all over the country. Kent also owns and operates several multi-million dollar a year Internet marketed brands: 1-800-SELL-NOW, Find Motivated Sellers Now, Find Cash Buyers NOW and Find Private Lenders NOW. The Clothier family are the founding members of the Mid-South REIA, and their proven track record in real estate is staggering: • Purchased and sold (flipped or wholesaled) over 2,300 properties since 2005 • Manages over 2,150 properties under one of Tennessee's largest property management companies • Owns over 100 rental properties in Tennessee and Florida • Owns several commercial buildings in Memphis, Tennessee Resources mentioned in this episode: https://kentclothier.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kent.clothier/ https://reww.com/ http://www.memphisinvest.com

In this episode of The Creative Real Estate Podcast, Holly McKhann, (also known as Hard Hat Holly) shares how she and her husband flipped their first 100 houses and how when things got tough, she turned to networking to help find deals through relationships. Holly also shares some of the creative, financial strategies that they used to acquire homes, including how she bought over 100 homes with no money spent on direct mail! Holly began her career as a CPA, and earned an MBA in finance. After taking a break to start a family of four kids, she jumped into real estate investing with her husband, Scott, in 2008. She and her husband have now completed over 200 fix and flips in Southern California and currently hold and self-manage long term rentals and a transitional living facility.

"You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed." - Oscar Bimpong Rod Khleif loves training and coaching the "psychology of success" to aspiring real estate investors and entrepreneurs. He started from humble beginnings as a young, impoverished Dutch immigrant and has rocketed to incredible success. His experience involves both remarkable triumphs, and spectacular failures. Rod is a passionate real estate investor who has personally owned and managed over 2000 apartments and homes. As one of the country's top real estate, business, and peak performance luminaries, Rod has also built over 22 businesses in his 40 year business career several which have been worth tens of millions of dollars.

So you've found a deal that fits your criteria and you are ready to close, exept for one problem; you don't have enough cash to close! Today we have Chris Tanner to teach us all about using private money to fund your real estate deals.

This week selft-storage and assisted living investor Allison Kirschbaum joins hosts Adam Adams and DJ Scruggs to explain how to start your own private equity fund.

Driven by the will to succeed, Tony educated himself in finance and real estate investing. Within six months, Tony acquired his first property with no money down. Two months after his first investment, Tony acquired three more properties in one week taking advantage of social networking to locate private funding. Within twelve months, Tony had acquired fourteen more properties and had begun to build his passive income by acquiring rental properties.

Matt Therialt shows you the tactics he used to achieved financial freedom in 4 years after starting with no money and no credit. Discover how to get better results on the offers you make by using Matt's simple, yet effective tool. In this episode Matt will cover, • How to start with no cash out of your own pocket and no credit • What a 3-option letter of intent is • How it can show you opportunities that others miss. • How to use the 3-option LOI in various situations • How you can set terms for a deal that give you the greatest ROI • How to use the 3-option LOI even if the seller has a mortgage Use this creative strategy to GET MORE OFFERS ACCEPTED and under better terms! After building his real estate emapire, Matt founded Epic Real Estate in order to provide the world with the most practical and useful real estate investing information and services possible. Learn More at Website: http://epicrealestate.com/ Epic RE Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/epic-real-estate-investing/id446611090?mt=2 Where to get the 3-option LOI Calculator and Letter template. http://epicrealestate.com/epic-loi

There are other ways to finance a property than the standard mortgage. Using creative techniques to purchase, sell, finance and invest in real estate can help you reach your financial goals. Here to show you his sucessful stratagies is Adam Adams! Adam Adams is a podcaster, a meetup group organizer, and a creative real estate investor. He has dealt with private money loans, land, condos, tax deeds, and several fix & flips. Right now Adams and his BlueSpruce partners are focused on purchasing more multi-family apartment buildings around the U.S. through syndications.

Kevin Amolsch tells us how he did over 100 lease option deals!

This week, Al Roberson of Lead Funding joined us to explain how hard money lending works and tell us about some of the creative strategies he's used in his fix and flip investing.

This week, Justin Williams of HouseFlippingHQ shares with us how he is able to flip over 100 houses every year while never lifting a hammer.

This week we spoke with Chris Tanner from Diverse Retirement Solutions about using your IRA to invest in real estate and other assets.

This is our VERY. FIRST. EPISODE! Meet the hosts and get a sense of what the Creative Real Estate Podcast is all about.