Best Of 1000Houses.com Podcast

Cliff Gager has been in the real estate business since 1992, when he started in the residential mortgage lending world as a loan officer for a national mortgage company. Struggling at first to make commissions doing loans for Realtor’s clients, Cliff soon discovered he was in a business dominated by much older, more experienced, and more established mortgage lenders and brokers. But Cliff was able...

Larry Goins is a Visionary, CEO, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor, and Educator. Larry has been investing in real estate for over 20 years. Previously, Larry served as president of the Metrolina Real Estate Investors Association in Charlotte NC, a not-for-profit organization that has over 350 members and is the local chapter of the National Real Estate Investors Association. Larry is an active r...

David Finkel is an ex-Olympic level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author of 9 business and financial books, including co-authoring SCALE with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman. David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching company which has worked with over 100,000 business o...

Frank Rolfe has been an investor in mobile home parks for almost two decades, and has owned and operated hundreds of mobile home parks during that time. He is currently ranked, with his partner Dave Reynolds, as the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the U.S., with over 250 communities spread out over 25 states. But it all began with one mobile home park, Glenhaven, in Dallas, Texas. “When I bo...

Between 1980 and 1982 Jackie Lange’s whole life changed when her son and daughter were born. She made the decision to quit her long distance operator job so she could stay home to raise her children. Luckily, she had a husband that was very supportive of her decision. But, as the years went by, she realized that her whole life and livelihood for she and her children were completely dependent on he...

Stephen understands the dreams, challenges, and goals of business owners because he comes from a family of entrepreneurs. His grandfather (Pop) immigrated to the United States from Greece in the early 1920s. He worked as a dishwasher in a small Canton, Ohio restaurant until he had saved enough money to open his own place. He named his first restaurant “The Ideal.” Pop’s business savvy and discipli...

Laura Alamery was born and raised in beautiful Vicenza, Italy – only 40 miles from lovely Venice on the Adriatic Sea. In 1985 she relocated to United States, moving to Honolulu in 1987 where she became a college student at Hawaii Pacific University; just 4 miles from the beaches of Waikiki. She began developing a keen interest in real estate, so she started reading everything she could find – watc...

Mike Zlotnik has been a debt and equity investor in real estate for since 2000. He started his career and had spent nearly 15 years in the information technology field managing risk, Business Intelligence and Quality of complex systems, software and processes. He is a strong analytic and strategic thinker, focused on improving profitability through data analysis, business process engineering, and...

Dan Schwartz is an entrepreneur whose passion is solving problems that help other entrepreneurs find freedom to pursue the life they desire. Everything he does centers around leveraging technology effectively so others can focus on what matters most to them. Aside from his entrepreneurial endeavors, Dan also plays and produces music. Dan’s specialties: Software, B2B SaaS, Real Estate Marketing, Re...

Larry Goins is a Visionary, CEO, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Investor, and Educator. Larry has been investing in real estate for over 20 years. Previously, Larry served as president of the Metrolina Real Estate Investors Association in Charlotte NC, a not-for-profit organization that has over 350 members and is the local chapter of the National Real Estate Investors Association. Larry is an active r...

Troy Fullwood is an award winning speaker, self-made millionaire, educator, and coach. He has presented keynote speeches, workshops, and seminars throughout the United States. His high quality, high content, high energy programs are well researched and delivered in a down to earth style that everyone will remember. In 1997, Troy Fullwood founded Pinnacle Investments, since it’s inception, Pinnacle...

Frank Rolfe has been an investor in mobile home parks for almost two decades, and has owned and operated hundreds of mobile home parks during that time. He is currently ranked, with his partner Dave Reynolds, as the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the U.S., with over 250 communities spread out over 25 states. But it all began with one mobile home park, Glenhaven, in Dallas, Texas. “When I bo...

When you want to step up and Dare to be Different, when you will Dare to be GREAT, and live up to your Fullest Potential, when you are READY to DARE to be a Maverick and live the life of your DREAMS, Paul Finck is the one you want! “Do it Different” With more than 30 years of entrepreneur experience, Paul knows what it takes to build a business with sustainable success. As a husband and father of...

Heather Ann Havenwood, CEO of Havenwood Worldwide, LLC and Chief Sexy Boss, is a serial entrepreneur and is regarded as a top authority on internet marketing, business strategies and marketing. Since marketing her first online business in 1999, bringing together clients and personal coaches, she has played an active role in the online marketing world since before most even had a home computer. In...

For more than 20 years, David Mammano has been a serial entrepreneur. Having started seven businesses from scratch, he thrives on starting and growing businesses. Today he thrives on helping others start or grow their businesses by infusing the latest entrepreneurial principles into their strategy. Relevant experiences include being a three-time Inc. Magazine 5000 Growth Company, the host of The A...

After obtaining his Real Estate license in late 1987, Pat sold 10 homes in his first year making $13,700 dollars in commissions. During his third year in business, Pat took the Floyd Wickman Sweathogs Course and learned that being a listing agent was the way to go. At this point in his career, he left his position at Grempler Realty and started at Long and Foster Realty. After making this switch a...

With a multifaceted career in real estate spanning over fifteen years, Junior Desinor has had extensive experience as an agent, broker, investor, and developer. These culminating experiences shaped Junior to be a top producing agent, broker, and nationally recognized real estate expert. With a desire to offer his clients better service, the TOOR concept was born. He quickly formed a talented team...

Kent Clothier is the founder and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide, where he leads an amazing team of individuals that are focused on building disruptive systems that push the entrepreneur dream and the real estate industry forward. He is the son of an entrepreneur and thus is a serial entrepreneur by nature. Beyond that, Kent is a proud husband and father of three amazing kids. He’s dedicated his busi...

When Stacy Kellams was only seventeen he clearly articulated the path he intended to take in life. After watching his grandfather get “down-sized” after twenty-nine years with no pension or severance made a lasting impression. Nearing his sixties, and depending on his pension for retirement, his grandfather was devastated. It was at that moment Stacy determined NEVER to have a job and NEVER give a...

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 1,400 properties in and about San Ant...

Mark Ferguson’s purpose is to help as many people as he can become financially free through real estate. Mark Ferguson is a Realtor, real estate investor, author and the creator of Investfourmore. Mark’s real estate team sells hundred of homes a year, he has flipped over 100 houses, owns 16 rental properties and has written five books. Investfourmore is a real estate blog with over 300,000 views a...

Jason Lucchesi 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 company to pursue his dream of being a full-time entrepreneur and business owner by foundin...

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 1,400 properties in and about San Ant...

First 3 Flips was founded by Tom Krol. Tom is an expert marketer and wholesaler. After being fired from his sales job in lawn care, he started wholesaling houses and quickly rose to one of the most successful flippers in the country, closing more than 100 deals in his first 18 months of business. You’ll find that his approach to marketing is measured, effective and focused on finding deals, not cr...

Chris Prefontaine has been in real estate for 25+ years and has built over 100+ single family homes (1990’s), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) and eventually sold his brokerage business as a realtor to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000’s included coaching people throughout US and Canada and doing condo conversions (multi family homes to condos) and “raise the roof”...