Westside Investors Network (WIN)

Click to view the episode transcript ABOUT WHITNEY ELKINS-HUTTEN Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com , founder of Ashwealth.com , and author of the award-winning #1 bestseller Money for Tomorrow: How to Build and Protect Generational Wealth . Through her proven wealth-building framework, Whitney empowers high-earning professionals and business owners...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT  ANNE-MICHELLE WAND International real estate expert and conscious investor.  Former single mom turned successful real estate entrepreneur who now lives in paradise on a Caribbean island in Panama debt free. Anne Michelle enjoys her life from this dream location, creating intentional investment opportunities for high earning professionals to diversif...

Check here for episode transcript ABOUT  MICHAEL VOULGARAKIS Michael Voulgarakis is a seasoned commercial real estate professional with over 19 years of experience in debt and equity underwriting, capital raising, and asset management. At Southgate Ventures, he has successfully acquired 26 properties, completed 18 full cycle deals in the Puget Sound region, and asset managed real estate valued at...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT JAY CONNER Jay Conner began investing in real estate in 2003. At the start of his career, he relied on his local banker and was able to put together a few deals. After years of feeling owned by the bank, he learned how to buy properties using creative financing, including subject to and using lease-options.    After the market crashed in 2008, he had...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT DAVE SEYMOUR Dave Seymour, a retired 16-year veteran of the Fire Service launched his Real Estate career during the last market crash, rapidly becoming one of the Countries top investors. Dave is considered a leading expert in commercial multi-family and ground-up development transactions. His success in business and Real Estate put him on the radar...

ABOUT MARK PODOLSKY Mark owns Frontier Properties, a land investment company. Mark (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land in the United States.     Since 2001 Mark has completed over 6,000 raw land deals with an average return on investment of over 300% on cash purchases and over 1000% on land deals tha...

Click here for the Episode Transcript ABOUT WILL MATHESON Will Matheson is the co-founder of Matheson Capital, a real estate investment firm based in Charleston, South Carolina.  Prior to forming Matheson Capital, founders Will and Evan worked as commercial brokers for Marcus & Millichap in Raleigh, NC. In just two years, they completed over 50 investment sales transactions totaling over $200...

ABOUT ZACH LEMASTER    Zach Lemaster is the founder & CEO of Rent To Retirement, the nation's leading turnkey investment company. Zach is a seasoned real estate investor and licensed broker that has accumulated a large portfolio of rental properties across multiple markets including single-family, multifamily, commercial and new construction. Zach is a licensed Optometrist who practices on a v...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT SEAN O’DOWD Sean is the General Partner for Scholastic Capital. Scholastic Capital buys single-family homes in high-end public school districts and rents them to families on long-term leases. He started his career as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He graduated with Honors from The Wharton School of Business. Most importantly, Sean i...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT CHRIS LENTO Chris Lento is the Founder and Managing Member of EM Capital. He has a background in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and professional development training at Boston University and MIT. Chris has over twenty years of experience in multifamily ownership, management, and investing. In addition to his academic achievements, Chris...

ABOUT CHARLES SEAMAN He resides in Charlotte, NC and serves as a Managing Partner of Cash Flow Champs.  He’s responsible for building and maintaining broker relationships and performing and overseeing the company’s underwriting activities.  He’s also involved with contract negotiation and capital raising to make sure that the deals close, remaining involved after closing to manage the assets so th...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT NEAL BAWA Neal Bawa is CEO / Founder at Grocapitus and Mission 10K, two commercial real estate investment companies. Neal’s companies use cutting-edge real estate analytics technology to source and acquire OR build large Commercial properties across the U.S., for over 1,000 investors. Neal shares his team’s unique and cutting-edge real estate data me...

ABOUT ANDREW CUSHMAN Andrew Cushman is a former chemical engineer who found his entrepreneurial calling in real estate. In 2007 Andrew left his corporate position to start a business in real estate investing, starting off flipping single-family properties in Southern California. Sensing a shift in the market, in 2011 Andrew transitioned to multifamily acquisitions and has successfully syndicated a...

Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT BRIAN FERGUSON Brian is an experienced real estate investor and one of Victoria’s top business managers taking multiple awards including “Top 20 Under 40” multiple times and many “Best of the Best” awards for various businesses he owns. Brian initially started investing in single-family properties in 2008 and over the years he has grown his portfolio...

ABOUT JOE BRADY JOE BRADY is an international corporate real estate expert who had a front-row seat to the evolution of retail, from brick and mortar to omnichannel, and is now seeing the same forces at play in office real estate. He has led real estate for Walgreens and scaled The Instant Group across the Americas while writing, speaking, and advising on the impact of accelerating technology, cha...

ABOUT ARN CENEDELLA Arn Cenedella is a real estate broker and investor with over four decades in the industry. Starting in 1978, Arn built a thriving Silicon Valley residential brokerage business in Palo Alto while building a sizable portfolio of single-family rental properties in the Bay Area and across the US. In 2020, Arn transitioned his SRF rental portfolio to multifamily investments and foun...

ABOUT VANESSA ALFARO  Vanessa Alfaro is an entrepreneur, founder of six 7-8 figure companies in 3 countries, a real estate investor, innovator, and a multifamily syndicator who was recently profiled in the Real Estate book “10 Paths” as one of the ten most successful Real Estate Investor stories in 2022.   Vanessa is the Founder of Venus Capital Partners. With Vanessa’s extensive background in bus...

ABOUT JIM SHEILS Jim Sheils is a successful real estate investor, author, and mentor focused on helping entrepreneurs achieve financial freedom and work-life balance. As a partner at Southern Impression Homes, he has been instrumental in building rental portfolios in Florida’s high-growth markets, specializing in Build-to-Rent properties with management services. Jim's real estate expertise includ...

ABOUT DENIS SHAPIRO Denis began investing in real estate in 2012, when the market was just beginning to recover from the global financial crisis. He built a cash-flowing portfolio including many alternative assets, such as Note and ATM funds, mobile home parks, life insurance policies, tech start-ups, Industrial property, short-term rentals, affordable housing communities, and more. He co-founded...

ABOUT SHANE THOMAS Shane is a Canadian-born real estate entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Catalyst Equity Partners. He is also a Co-Founder of CEP Construction Services, a multifamily construction and rehab company. Shane leads the acquisitions, financing, asset management, and investor relations efforts at Catalyst. Shane leverages his expertise in large-scale project management, analytics, and proc...

ABOUT STEVEN ANDREWS Steven Andrews is a real estate investor, business coach, and author with nearly a decade’s experience working in the real estate rental market. He founded SOARX Consulting in 2023 to empower individuals to turn their real estate dreams into reality.  Within nine years, Steven went from buying properties to supplement his income to pursuing real estate full-time. Today, he own...

ABOUT CHRIS LINGER Christopher Linger is the Principal at Up Plex Capital LLC. Having built a personal portfolio valued at over $100M, Chris and his wife created significant passive income for themselves and their investors by finding the best properties today’s market can offer. Chris has an MBA, twenty-seven years of active duty Navy services (retired), now a full-time apartment syndicator.     ...

ABOUT SAM EDDINGER Sam is the founder of Ironclad Property Management, an investor-focused property management company in central CT.  He has been involved in real estate from a young age and has witnessed how investing in real estate with a long-term horizon can build wealth.  In 2018, after 15 years as a nuclear engineer, he surprised his coworkers and managers by leaving his desk job to start I...

ABOUT WYATT SIMON Washed-up basketball player turned Investor. Wyatt Simon owns and operates a $20M+ vertically integrated real estate portfolio and has mastered the BRRRR strategy. Wyatt helps students take control of their financial future by utilizing real estate. He is a member of Citylight Church, and the author of "Your First 100 Doors: A Real Estate Investor's Guide to Scaling a Rental Port...

ABOUT ROB BEARDSLEY Rob Beardsley co-founded Lone Star Capital in 2018 and has overseen the acquisition, financing, and management of over $600 million in apartment communities. As CEO, Rob drives the strategic growth of the firm, while also identifying and raising capital for new investment opportunities. He leads Lone Star Capital's in-house property and construction management division, Lone St...