Threefold Real Estate Investing

Dr. Melva Pinn-Bingham joins me on the podcast today! Dr. Melva is a board certified radiation oncologist, serial entrepreneur, and investor. She provides strategies for top income earners to create multiple streams of income to fall in love with their career again, through the One Percent Code. Dr. Melva teaches her community how to leverage their six-figure income to create a 7-figure net worth,...

My guest today, Charles Dobens, is a multifamily investor, attorney, and mentor to multifamily investors all around the country. Charles founded the Multifamily Investing Academy, where he works with students in his Owner Forum program to train them in the correct way to acquire, operate and own multifamily property. Today we talk about the importance of marketing and defeating the fear of making...

Our guest today, Frank Furman, is the Chief Operating Officer at PadSplit, a co-living startup dedicated to solving the affordable housing crisis. Frank is disrupting the affordable housing industry by creating safe, attractive, and respectable co-living environments. A former infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, he commanded at the platoon and company levels and served two tours in...

Welcome Dave Foster back to the podcast today! About 25 years ago, Dave discovered the 1031 tax-deferred exchange, which allowed him to sell investment real estate and buy investment real estate without paying taxes on the profit. In this episode, Dave reveals things about the 1031 Exchange most of us don’t know about, including advanced strategies to benefit from it; not to mention, what it has p...

My guest today, Kent Ritter, is a former management consultant-turned-entrepreneur. Kent operates a real estate syndication company, where he empowers his investors to build wealth through real estate. Kent is a great example of someone who had a dream, took the next step towards it, and by learning from those around him, he's now made his dream his profession. Kent digs into the benefits of multi...

Welcome back to the podcast, Greg Dickerson! Greg's first appearance is, by far, our most listened to episode! Be sure to jump back and take a listen to episode 1. Greg is a serial entrepreneur, real estate developer coach and mentor. He has bought, developed and sold over $250 million in real estate, built and renovated hundreds of custom homes and commercial buildings, developed residential and...

Corey Geary had been working nights as a blackjack dealer for seventeen years, when he knew he wanted more from life. Fast forward to today, Corey runs a nationwide wholesaling and novation business. Corey breaks down what gives them the competitive advantage over their competition, utilizing novation first, wholesaling 2nd mentality. What is Novation? Corey explains that too! Listen in as we dig...

My guest today, Jantzen Young,  is a real estate diva with a passion for helping other investors build businesses that promote time freedom and financial stability. With experience in multifamily and commercial real estate along with vacant land, Jantzen now focuses on wholesaling and owner-financing high-value land; and putting her capital to work with transactional funding, bridge loans, an...

My guest today, Brian Briscoe, is a co-founder and principal in the real estate investing firm, Four Oaks Capital.  He and his team currently have 600+ units under management and are continuing to grow. Brian retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps in 2021, in order to pursue real estate investing full-time and have a permanant residence near family in Idaho. Today,...

Today's guest, Chris Prefontaine, is a 3-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms and The New Rules of Real Estate Investing . He’s also the Founder and CEO of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. After his real estate company crashed in 2008, he was forced to start over from nothing. Listen to his story, as we fast forward to today,  and...

Do you have questions regarding the general partner's role and compensation in a deal? Are you wondering if you should take on the role of a passive investor or an active investor? Today's guest, Zach Haptonstall, is an incredible example of when one's career displays exponential growth after "going all in" with multifamily REI. Zach, CEO and founder of Rise48 Equity, is a general partner in five...

A return guest and listener favorite, Dave Seymour, joins me today! Dave, now a seasoned and successful real estate investor, starred in the A&E Show "Flipping Boston," and has been featured on CBS, ABC, CNBC, FOX News, CNN & more. He has spoken on stages all across the country sharing his experience and knowledge with investors. Today, Dave speaks into the current temperature of the real...

My guest today, Terry Moore, helps real estate investors make the most important financial choice of their next decade. He’s a top apartment broker who has received nine major recognitions, including Investment Broker of the Year, Deal Maker of the Year, Transaction of the Year, and CCIM of the Year. In January 2018, Terry received the inaugural Commercial Broker of the Year award from the San Die...

My guest today, Henry Washington, a buy and hold investor from Arkansas, who's built an incredible portfolio, which has recently allowed him to quit his W2 to pursue full-time REI. Henry speaks on how his mindset changed as he and his wife prepared to start a family, and how he secured his first deal by doing something anyone can do—simply announcing to the world that he buys houses.  Fr...

My guest today, Sam Wilson, took over his family's flooring business right out of high school. Many years later, he was growing tired of running a management-intensive, stressful company, so he sold it. He found himself with some time and money, but didn't know what to do next. After trying flipping and building a SF portfolio, he began to understand the power of consistent income and the importan...

My guest today, Whitney Elkins-Hutten, is returning for her second appearance on the Threefold Real Estate Investing podcast. Her first time on the show (episode #8) focused on her journey into real estate and how she took her retirement account and turned it into 22 cash flowing rental properties. On today's episode, Whitney talks about reaching another level in real estate investing journey...

My guest today, Denis Shapiro, was working for the government when he realized that the government was not only his employer, but also his business partner because they were sharing so much of his profit through taxation. This led him to look for ways to earn income while paying less taxes. He tried stocks, but watched 2-3 years of returns get wiped out in 2-3 weeks. He also tried real estate and...

Everyone knows, including us here at Threefold Real Estate Investing, that it's a very difficult time to find good real estate deals. So, I wanted to devote an episode to talking about how an investor can go about finding a deal even in this ultra competitive market.  The different methods for finding deals include marketing directly to the seller (mailing campaign, cold calling/texting), wor...

My guest today, Randy Langenderfer, knew his job with a private equity firm wasn't a long-term employment situation, so he started looking for another source of income. After vetting many options, he settled on real estate. He started his real estate investing path by lending money to single-family flippers. Before he felt comfortable lending his hard-earned money to a flipper, he thoroughly vette...

My guest today, TJ Kosen, was not an overnight success. Though he bought well and managed well, he lost money on his first two multifamily properties. However, today, TJ is experiencing incredible success. This is because TJ took responsibility for his mistakes and learned from them. His mother was part of this experience and reminded TJ that the process is more important than the result and the m...

Today I go through the details of Threefold's recent purchase of a 47-unit apartment building in Dayton, OH (The Alpine or Kettering 47). My business partner, Kevin Waymire, joins me to discuss everything from how we found this deal, to how we financed this property, to our plan for repositioning. Our goal is for our listeners to learn with us as we work our way through our own deals. If you are c...

My guest today, Sam Bates, spent 11 years in corporate America, spending some of his time focused on real estate taxes. He started his real estate investing career as a limited partner in a 208-unit value-add apartment syndication in Dallas. This syndication underperformed even during a bull market in real estate. Sam decided he needed to take his financial future into his own hands. Sam began inv...

My guest today, Brad St. Onge, is on a mission to transform the way investment firms raise and manage capital. Brad is Head of Partnerships at InvestNext, a startup investment management platform founded in 2016 and located in Detroit, Michigan. After realizing the countless hours spent on activities that made fundraising, investment management, and investor relations tedious and inefficient, Inve...

My guest today, Seth Teagle, has a great job as a Lieutenant at a fire house in Columbus, Ohio, but he was unsatisfied with the number of birthday parties and holidays he had to miss. He also wanted to provide even more financially for his family. So, he began looking for something more. He stumbled into real estate and decided this was the path that would allow him to better provide for his famil...

It's often said that if you want you make money, you should get into real estate. That’s what motivated today's guest, Tim Bratz, to get involved in real estate back in 2003. Tim is now the CEO and Founder of CLE Turnkey Real Estate, a real estate investment company that acquires and transforms distressed apartment buildings into high-yield assets for their own portfolio.  He shares how he sh...