Accelerated Real Estate Investor

What does the next generation of real estate investors look like? I talk with 24-year-old Antoine Martel about his jump into real estate investing as a college student, and what kind of things are holding his peers back from following him. As a podcaster with an audience of 17-27-year-olds, Antoine has his finger on the pulse of the millennial investors.

Are you cut out for active investing or would you rather stick to passive investing? Justin Donald shares how he’s taken on the active investing role, and why he prefers it to passive investing. He details his operation, how he’s structured his team, and when you should and shouldn’t make business decisions with your emotions.

If you don’t come from a real estate background, it might be hard to make that jump into your first deal. If you came from extremely humble beginnings, it might be even harder. Building the life that you want requires you to make goals that scare you, just a little. If your goals are more important than your fear, then you’ll be able to succeed in spite of a little rejection along the way.

Aspiration is power with purpose, and it doesn’t wash off in the shower like inspiration does. But how do you find aspiration? I talk with Frank McKinney about how he moves past fear into the unknown, how faith informs his business decisions, and his ATV approach to life. He shares his “why” that drives his real estate investing, and how you can join him in building houses in Haiti.

A good real estate lawyer can help you set up an LLC. A great real estate lawyer can help you structure your business in a way that helps you eventually scale up without the normal hiccups that come from growth. Join me as I talk with two great real estate lawyers about how they help their clients grow their businesses from the ground up.

I take a step back today to look at national real estate trends as a whole with Daren Blomquist from Auction.com. They collect massive amounts of data, sift through it, and help you understand what’s going on in your market. We talk over the numbers from Q4, and he gives us some predictions for foreclosures, hot markets, cooling markets, and distressed properties.

With the experience of over 1500 podcasts and a mastermind, Mike Hambright knows the key traits of elite investors. He shares his insights with us today, why finding your core mission matters, and how he’s used these traits to challenge himself in his own business.

With a finite amount of hours in the day, we are limited with the number of one-on-one lunches we can have to drum up new deals. It can make it really difficult to reach more people, talk to more investors, or coach more real estate deal-makers when you’re controlled by time. This is why it’s important to start thinking strategically about how you can take your message to a bigger audience.

While you’re building a real estate team, bringing a real estate attorney on early and keeping him in the loop can smooth out any potential legal snags you may run into. Ohio real estate attorney David Streeter shares some best practices for what you’d want your attorney to keep an eye on during your deals, and the biggest mistake real estate investors make with their attorney.

Getting called by an SEC regulator could be the beginning of a dark chapter in your real estate career, but if you are prepared with an airtight disclosure, it’s not going to be a big deal. Syndication attorney Mauricio Rauld knows exactly how to keep you compliant and safe so that you can continue to work your deal-making magic on this side of a jail cell.

Despite technology’s huge importance in a business, people are still what makes a business grow. If mediocre performances seem to follow your team around, then Rick Crossland’s advice for building an A team is something you do not want to miss. Build a better recruiting system that finds and retains the absolute best employees who will take your business to the next level.

Losing a $50 million dollar portfolio in the real estate crash seems like a cataclysmic event that no one could recover from, but not for Rod Kleif. He has used his goal setting and visualization techniques to rebuild his real estate empire, and he offers up actionable ways that you can too. We talk about the definition of true success for every entrepreneur that is measured by how we give back to...

Pouring your whole heart into a business changes how you do business. I talk with Corey Peterson from Kahuna Wealth Builders about the pivotal moment that changed the way he does business, forever. What drives Corey’s passion for real estate is fun and freedom because life is about people and relationships, and not about the things we acquire.

JV Crum III (Founder & CEO of the Conscious Millionaire Institute and host of the Conscious Millionaire podcast) shares his advice for entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate leaders who want to identify their passions, uncover their purpose, and take action to achieve their versions of financial freedom.

Whether you’re new to the business or an experienced dealmaker, building real relationships based on trust are incredibly important for your long term real estate business strategy. Kenny Wolfe from Wolfe Investments gives up some great advice today on how to develop a real estate portfolio that thrives on relationships.

If you’re looking to accelerate your real estate portfolio, moving into multi-family units can do just that for you. Michael Blank, from The Apartment Building Investing Podcast, and I talk about the huge boons of multi-family apartments including the cash flow, stability, and tax benefits. We also touch on potential strategies in a recession, and how the multi-family unit can help with that.

As I reflect back on 2019, there are 10 powerful real estate lessons I learned that I’ll carry with me to optimize my business, do more deals, make more money and take less risk in 2020. After raising $34,000,000 of private money, flipping and lending on over 200+ houses, and acquiring a significant equity stake in over 2,400 unit of apartments this year, I certainly learned a lot. We made a lot o...

Financial freedom is a great thing to have and all of us want to get there at some point. However, being a successful entrepreneur also means having to make sacrifices in your personal life. Or does it? Well, I talk to Cliff Hayden, entrepreneur/real estate investor, about how he got into the real estate business, how financial freedom affected his personal life and what he had to develop to find...

Building solid relationships with passive investors should be an important part of every real estate investor’s business strategy. Josh Cantwell shares his 5 tried-and-true methods for staying top of mind with passive investors, even when you don’t currently have a property deal in the works.

Jason Medley, veteran of the finance and real estate industries, founder and CEO of Collective Genius joins the Accelerated Investor podcast to share some commonly sought insight on what, exactly, makes a successful career as an entrepreneur or investor. We take a deep dive into the traits, habits, and drives that lead to long-term success, finding that many of the most important factors are far f...

Taking on investment capital is one of the keys to the Accelerated Investor method. As such, I’ve had a lot of people ask about the questions they might get asked and the conversations they might have with investors. This episode is all about addressing not just those questions on a one-by-one basis, but outlining some general rules for how we talk with investors, how we build relationships with t...

I speak to life-long entrepreneur, property investor and my friend Jack Petrick about the success of his business, and his plans for the future. We cover the importance of setting goals, delegating, and why we what we do. We also talk about ways to maximize the time we have available so we can serve our children and families.

We frequently receive questions from our members on how to evaluate multi-family deals, so in this podcast, we’re going to boil it down to 11 questions. These will help you look at property objectively and decide whether or not it’s worth your time to invest in within just 30 seconds. I’ll be describing the calculations involved in finding cap rates and also explain the differences between A, B, o...

I had a chance to sit down and interview Trevor Mauch, entrepreneur and CEO of Carrot, for close to an hour. We discuss his past business ventures and life experiences, and how they’ve helped him build important life principles that lead to predictability, consistency and higher energy levels.

Mindset is something that will make or break ever part of your life; and nothing will get you started thinking about mindset more than a Tony Robbins event, which I was lucky enough to go to recently. So, based on that, I want to share with you 2 of the big takeaways from the five-day retreat that I just got back from down in Miami. During our event, my wife and I had a lot of time to reflect on s...