Best Of 1000Houses.com Podcast

Sam Madrid entered the world of creative real estate investing in 1996. In his first year he studied the gurus of the day, modified their action plans for his market, and began his journey of buying and selling residential houses. By 1998 he was in full swing, buying 45 houses a year. The following year he bought 65 houses, year after that he bought 150 houses and sold 100 exactly! He specializes...

Ross Hamilton has been investing in real estate since he was just 19 years old and he has really done it all. Ross has completed countless residential and commercial fix and flips, wholesale deals, he buys and sells notes and makes a killing developing land. Although he loves showing real estate investors how to accomplish more in less time, you’ve never seen Ross on stage selling real estate prod...

Sean Flanagan is first and foremost a Christian family man and second, a serial entrepreneur. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife Tracey and their 3 children, Logan, Bailey and Kiersten. His hobbies are surfing, jiu-jitsu, and coaching his kids at their wrestling matches. Sean has been a real estate investor for 17 years and still actively buys, sells, and owns properties in th...

Matt Aitchison is a millennial real estate investor, serial entrepreneur, and business mentor. After being expelled from high school, Matt went on to graduate from UC Santa Barbara and has founded many business ventures within the real estate, construction, and digital marketing industries. He Co-Founded and developed The Aitchison & Adams Real Estate Team, which sold 500+ units and over $250+...

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR: Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,500 properties in and about San Ant...

Manuel Oblitas was born and raised in Lima, Peru, South America. Both Manuel and his older brother Javier were exposed to the business world in the early stages of their life as their dad was involved in the mass production of clothing in Lima. Manuel co-founded Visual Net Design (VND) back in 2002 in San Antonio, Texas as a two-man show (his brother Javier is the co-founder), specializing in buil...

Are you someone who always seem to be pulled in too many directions? If you’re a super doer and multitasker who, every time the phone rings, stops what you’re doing and starts doing something else, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. Business owner Joe Pardo joins us straight out of New Jersey to talk about straightening out your offices and getting somebody on the team besides yourself so...

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR: Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,500 properties in and about San Ant...

Benjamin Brown is a sales expert, author, and a father of two young children. He worked in sales for over 23 years and currently works with small businesses with sales issues and low sales. He uses his vast knowledge acquired over two decades to create a proven and tested sales process that can be implemented and adjusted for almost any product or service. When sales are done right, it is a pleasi...

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR: Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,500 properties in and about San Ant...

Jack Bosch is a fairly recent immigrant from Germany. He came over to the US from Germany in 1997 literally with two suitcases and a bunch of student debt, and Prior to the year 2000, Jack had never been involved in Real Estate and did not know anything about that subject. He started in Real Estate investment in 2000. Over the course of three years, Jack developed and perfected an investing system...

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen. REAL ESTATE INVESTOR: Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,500 properties in and about San Ant...

Gary Harper is the owner of Sharper Business Solutions. He spent 16 years as a executive in a Fortune 500 company where he handled the process of evaluating companies operational expenses and helped them to reach new levels of efficiencies. Sharper Business Solutions teaches, facilitates and coach’s simple concepts and practical tools that has helped thousands of entrepreneurs get what they want f...

Cara Brookins is best known for being the mom who built her own house using YouTube tutorials. She has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring audiences with her keynotes and presentations since 2004. She’s the author of eight books, including “Rise How a House Built a Family,” which tells the story of building her 3500 square foot house with the help of her four children by watching YouTube t...

Michael Batista has been studying real estate for the past 12 months. For the first 4 months, he did nothing but study and learn the ins and outs. In the next 2 months, he spent trial and error and failing several times over. He created a lead generation software that worked for personal use. He has been closing 4-6 lease option deals per month and working about 20 hours per week. He has since imp...

Abhinav (AG) Gupt is the CEO of RealAcquisitions, which for over 8 years has been the leading provider Real Estate data to investors in Texas. A.G. comes from a consulting background & retired from a high profile position at the age of 32 years to become a full time entrepreneur. He is a sought after speaker for his expertise in structuring unconventional and creative Real Estate transactions....

Cris Chico was the first person to develop and perfect the concept of “virtual” real estate investing, where you can do deals literally from your laptop, from start to finish. He then streamlined his methods into a fully integrated system called virtual wholesaling. He has successfully wholesaled hundreds of residential properties all across America using his unique and groundbreaking system “Virt...

Dave Blanchard is CEO of The Og Mandino Companies and best-selling author of a number of great books: Today I Begin a New Life—Intentional Creation, The Observer’s Chair—The Miracle of Healing Self-Esteem, and Equanimity—Conquering Mt. Entrepreneur. Dave created the Habit Finder profile, a proprietary application using science and mathematics, measuring with laser accuracy a person’s habits of thi...

Cody Sperber, a US Navy Veteran turned self-made Millionaire, is an avid Real Estate and Cryptocurrency Investor. Cody has flipped more than 1,000 properties as a real estate investor and quickly gained a huge competitive advantage by becoming a master of marketing. Barbara Corcoran of Shark Tank called him an “absolute market genius.” Cody is also the founder and CEO of Clever Investor, a Top Rat...

Sam Bell started his first agency, PPC Boutique, in 2009, right as social media was starting to attract mainstream attention. Since then, he’s taken the knowledge gleaned from nearly a decade of advertising experience and used it to leverage incredible results for his clients. These results, together with his unparalleled dedication to his clients’ success and his deep industry insights have led m...

Connor Steinbrook was a top online poker player from 2003-2011, and in 2011, on April 15th, the government shut down the websites and he lost almost a decade of his life overnight. Nobody wanted to hire what they thought was an ex-gambler so he quickly realized he had to create a job for himself. He tried insurance and network marketing and found himself into real estate. It was a rough start — he...

Danny Kerr learned two important things as a young age: to work hard and be humble in everything he does. At 20 years old, Danny took a leadership position for a franchise company and grew sales from $400,000 to $1,300,000 in one year. Such rapid growth was only possible through selecting top caliber franchisees and being an open, honest, and flexible coach to them. Growing that business launched...

Brian Safdari is the founder of College Planning Experts, America’s leading authority on how to send your child to the college of their choice without going broke. His story is one of incredible success and triumph over seemingly insurmountable obstacles. After his sacrifice of not attending his dream college, making costly mistakes on the financial aid process, and getting in over $50,000 in stud...

For the last 15 years, Pat Dornan has been a Maryland licensed general contractor. He is also a MD registered home builder, Project Management Professional (PMP), and is EPA-certified for safe lead removal. He bought his first investment property in 2006 and has been a full-time investor for 4 years. Prior to that, Pat was an IT professional for 23 years where he invented the Internet (with 600,00...

Sean is from Salt Lake City, UT and is now a Memphian transplant. He attended the University of Utah on an academic scholarship and received his degree in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry. He was working on artificial heart research before his endeavors in Real Estate. He now works with the Memphis Investment Properties team to systematize and streamline every process in the busine...