Best Of 1000Houses.com Podcast

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...

For over 10 years Rick Allen has been an active investor. As the Co-Founder and fund manager of Cloud Capital Management and the Co- Founder of Paperstac, he has conducted transactions with large A-list institutions. Rick has expert experience in investment strategies of the real estate sector, with a primary focus on discounted Acquisitions and distressed assets. He has participated in the purcha...

Mat Trenchard earned an accounting degree from the University of Houston – Downtown. Right out of school, he went to work at KPMG as a public auditor. He quickly found that his career path did not align with the vision he had for his life. Shortly thereafter, Mat realized his true passion was working with people and found an interest in real estate. Following his position at KPMG, Mat went on to b...

At the age of 23, with nothing but determination, Daniel Moore bought his very first investment property. He has since taken those lessons learned and by the age of 28 became a full time investor. In 2014, Daniel teamed up with his business partner Nate Worcester to create a software service company with one goal in mind – to help other investors grow. The result of their combined efforts is the m...

Tom Berry is an established, seasoned real estate investor and teacher in the greater Houston area. Tom did not achieve success overnight, rather his story is one of humble beginnings. Surprisingly, Tom’s career did not start out in real estate. His initial career path was in corporate management and sales. Like many, Tom dreamed of self-employment and to establish long-term wealth. He decided to...

Scott Maurer holds the distinct designation of Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP) and leads engaging seminars and webinars designed to educate the public on the intricacies of self-directed IRAs. He is experienced with many different investment types and their unique processes. Scott is a licensed attorney and graduate of the University of Florida Law School. What you’ll learn about in thi...

Shane Kidwell is a full-time branch manager and mortgage advisor for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation who loves to help people. He graduated from the University of Washington and continues to make the Seattle area his home with his beautiful wife and dog Lola. Prior to getting into lending, Shane was a full-time fireman working at the busiest station on the West Coast. You will quickly fin...

Brandon Gaunce was notified in November of 2013 that his corporate job position was being eliminated and his options included relocating within the US or taking a demotion to stay in his hometown and face a 2 hour one way commute to and from work daily and he needed to decide by May of 2014. During that time, he met Mitch Stephen who expressed with empathy that there could be another option if he...

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 2,000 properties in and about San Antonio, Tx since 1996. This company specializes in buying distressed properties with OPM and the selling of those owner financed properties.

Kathy Kennebrook is the ultimate success story. She spent 12 years in the banking industry and another ten in sales logging thousands of miles each year in order to make a living before discovering the world of real estate. After attending some real estate seminars and club meetings, this 4’11” mother of two got really excited and turned on and before you know it she had bought and sold hundreds o...

Amy Lingenfelter started buying real estate at 24. When she married Rome in her early 30’s he didn’t know anything about real estate. Amy encouraged him to invest and together they’ve been investing ever since. They buy/hold/flip/wholesale and are working on building their owner finance empire. Rome is a licensed realtor and Amy is a full-time investor in their business…ARM Solutions, LLC in Portl...

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...

Mac Ford Jr. is from Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from University of Mississippi with a degree in Managerial Finance. After graduation, he started in the insurance sector. He saw an opportunity to be a mentee under Mitch and decided to take full advantage. He has been in the real estate field for a little over a year and has grown a true passion for the industry. With Mitch’s guidance and exp...

Ron Douglas is a husband and father of 8. Kicked out of high school in the tenth grade, Ron went to street racing and broke his back in a car accident at 18. He was paralyzed from the waist down and learned to walk again, making a full recovery. He became a prison guard at 19 and was on the riot team by 20. He worked death row from 22-24 and gained a unique perspective on life while there. He has...

Colby Amerine is a 10 year former Firefighter, Real Estate Investor, NLP Practitioner, Public Speaker, and Coach of new investors and entrepreneurs. As a firefighter/paramedic, his career was cut short with a devastating injury on the job. Fighting his way back through a grueling rehabilitation process, he lost 110 pounds and began inspiring others with his story. As each life challenge pushed Col...

Mike Wallace is 34 years old. He grew up in Dallas/San Antonio and graduated from UTSA with a degree in Finance. Mike worked as a commercial lender for several banks in San Antonio for 12+ years before starting investing in real estate in May 2017. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How real estate improves during a recession The benefits of purchasing a ‘Walmart’ house How Mike started brin...

Clayton Morris is the Former FOX News anchor who left television after achieving financial freedom. Now he devotes himself to helping other people build passive income and achieve financial freedom. He runs a turnkey real estate company called Morris Invest. Clayton is also the host of Investing in Real Estate podcast, which has a laser focus on buy and hold rental properties. The podcast utilizes...

R. E. Capital, LLC was founded by Mitch Stephen and partner Raymond Braun. Collectively they have purchased and sold over 1,500 houses in the San Antonio, TX area since 1996. They have purchased a very large portion of these properties with private funds loaned to them by private individuals. The premise is very simple: Private individuals loan money for a fair interest rate and they get the 1st L...

Scott was a VP at a Fortune 300 company when the leadership changed and Scott realized he needed to take action to build passive income. He turned to Real Estate investing and left his job after replacing his income. Today, Scott is a Full-time real estate investor and the co-host of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Scott replaced his regular inco...

David Lecko is the CEO of DealMachine — a real estate investing app that puts you in touch with any property owner via direct mail, phone, and email. Next time you are out and about and you see a house that looks abandoned or interesting, simply take a picture of it with the DealMachine App to instantly see who owns it. Then choose your contact method and get in touch with the owner and offer to b...

Jason Lucchesi founded real estate investing company, Global Fortune Solutions, in the year 2008. Jason has been enjoying a successful career in the real estate industry since 2002 where he started as a Loan Officer for Illinois brokerage, Bancgroup Mortgage. In 2004, Jason joined the Management team at Countrywide Home Loans, which was the nation’s #1 lender. In 2008, Jason established his own co...

Dawn Rickabaugh is the founder of Note Queen Capital. In 2004, she quit her nursing job and became a full-time entrepreneur. Through her small, family-operated investment company, she’s been building a portfolio of seller-financed notes since 2009 and helped many people get started investing in notes. She frequently consults in real estate transactions that involve owner financing and buys & s...

Anmol Singh started trading during his early college years without much luck. After a year or so he discovered a pattern that allowed him to go from 0 to a profitable trader. To date, He has generated a lot of profits for himself and his investors in trading wins and continues to remain a stock and forex trader. He is also an avid real estate investor with a large portfolio and has funded two othe...

Costas Peppas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Agent Legend. The secret weapon top brokers, teams, and agents are using right now to turn in huge conversion numbers. If you’re not regularly the first to follow up, then you’re blowing deals and losing money. Every agent knows this, yet it’s tough to stay consistent. Agent Legend regularly doubles and even triples your connection ratio with prospects....

Larry Higgins is a real estate investor based out of Houston, TX. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 2003 he began his career in construction project management which he thoroughly enjoyed until 2013 when for the first time in his life, he found himself in a job from which he got no sense of satisfaction and decided he needed to make a change. That’s when he decided it was time to q...