Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing

Caleb Johnson’s mother had just had surgery and was living off savings while she recovered. But after three months, she wasn’t healed and had to make an impossible decision: Return to work in excruciating pain or prolong retirement by several years. Inspired to help his mother financially and achieve financial freedom himself, Caleb started investing in real estate at the age of 18. Today, he is t...

So, you’ve got some money set aside to jumpstart your real estate career. What should you invest in? An apartment building? Mobile home park? Something else? The answer is no. Don't do any of those things. If you have money to invest, the first thing you should invest in YOURSELF. John Manfredy has over 30 years of real estate experience as an architect where he was responsible for design, project...

Scaling up a multifamily investing business starts with scaling up your capital raise. And one key strategy for expanding your investor network is to get referrals from friends and family who already invest with you. But how do you encourage your investors to talk about their experiences? How do you leverage referrals to build momentum in raising money for real estate deals? Dan Reilly and Greg Da...

You say you want financial freedom. You want to build wealth and have money for extraordinary experiences. But if you’re doing what everyone else does, if you’re trying to save your way to wealthy, you’re never going to get results. So, what do you do if the path you’re on doesn’t lead to the outcomes you want? PJ Ghadimi is a self-made millionaire who’s taken the world of entrepreneurship by stor...

The recent foreclosure on 3,200 units in Houston has investors nervous about putting their money in multifamily. But does that default mean we should all be sitting on the sidelines? John Casmon argues that investing in apartments is a business, just like any other. And if we avoid the red flags in the Houston deal, we can (and should) continue business as usual. John is Head of Acquisitions and I...

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. But what if you don’t want the same life as your current sphere of influence? How do you connect with successful people who will help you level up? Matt King is CEO of GoBundance, a high-level mastermind group for high-achieving men and women who choose to lead epic lives. On this episode of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Inv...

Who is better at raising capital, extroverts or introverts? You might think extroverts have the advantage when it comes to raising money for real estate deals. But the truth is, introverts can be just as good at sourcing funds. The secret is to embrace your unique personality and approach networking with investors in a way that leverages your strengths. Mandy McAllister serves as Managing Member a...

Those of us with analytical minds tend to be fairly risk averse. But entrepreneurship requires that we move forward with incomplete information. So, what can we do to overcome that fear of the unknown and get into our first real estate deal? How do we develop the confidence to figure things out as we go along? Nicole Gauthier is Founder of Wicked Holdings , a real estate investment community focus...

What is the best real estate investing strategy for 2023? Should you try wholesaling? Or invest in Airbnbs? How about fix-and-flips? Turnkey rentals? Or maybe a multifamily syndication? On this episode of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing, Garrett takes on the role of moderator, and we sit down with some big hitters in the industry to debate the pros and cons of each approach. Kyle Stan...

Are you interested in multifamily investing but overwhelmed by the prospect of buying an entire apartment building? What if you could dip your toe in the water with accessory dwelling units or ADUs? The ADU strategy involves either converting a SFH into multiple units or building standalone, detached units on a single family lot. After several years of building ADUs for clients and friends, Derek...

Most aspiring real estate investors struggle with fear. But the ones who become successful GPs work through their fears with practice. Mai Duong is Harvard-educated CPA with 25 years of experience in corporate finance and accounting. She is also on the Executive Team at Sunbelt Equity Group , where she has amassed a portfolio of more than 192 multifamily units (and more closings to come). On this...

There are so many ways to invest in real estate. And when you’re first learning about the options, it can get overwhelming. But the most successful investors niche down to a single strategy, perfect their processes and rinse, repeat to scale. Kyle Stanley, for example, focuses on short-term rentals, and he has created systems in his business that allow him to work just one or two hours a week! Kyl...

How do you make money flipping land? What are the pros and cons of investing in land deals as opposed to other kinds of real estate? Jon Jasniak started flipping land in 2016 when he was 23 years’ old and working as an engineer. After 18 months of doing both, he quit his job to go into the land game full time. In the last seven years, Jon has done 700 deals across 7,000 acres and built an eight-fi...

In multifamily real estate, we look for opportunities in a given market and then build relationships with the bankers, brokers, and boots on the ground we need to make a deal work. But what if the business opportunity you identify is in Asia or Latin America? How do you overcome the language barrier and put together the team you need to build a successful company in a foreign country? Cole Shepher...

Maxwell Nee was drinking an Old Fashioned at a swanky bar in Chicago when he came to appreciate the significant price difference between Macallan 18 and Macallan 12 whisky. Because it had aged an additional six years, Macallan 18 cost 500% more! That’s when the lightbulb went off. And Maxwell started looking into wine and whisky as an alternative investment. Today, Maxwell is Managing Partner at O...

Historically, oil and gas operators only give investors the cashflow from wells and keep the land value for themselves. But King Operating Corporation does things differently, structuring their deals very much like a multifamily syndication. So, what are the benefits of investing in oil and gas with King Operating? Why is Nighthawk Equity partnering with King to raise money for an energy fund? Eri...

Are entrepreneurs born or made? If you ask Chris Naugle , they are created. But to become a successful entrepreneur, you must be willing to take risks. And you can’t conform to someone else’s failed reality. As a former pro snowboarder, Chris is good at leaping into the unknown. He applied that risk tolerance to business, building 19 companies in 29 years. Today, Chris is known as America’s #1 Mon...

Smart investors diversify their portfolios. And while multifamily real estate is our favorite asset class, we love learning about other alternatives to the stock market. Artem Milinchuk suggests investing in farmland, an asset class that does well in times of inflation and appreciates over time. Artem is Founder and Head of Strategy at FarmTogether , a platform that makes it easy for anyone to inv...

Is your financial advisor really looking out for you? Many investors question whether their FA has their best interests at heart. But seeking out alternative investments on your own can be scary, especially if the stock market is all you’ve ever known. So, what can you do to learn more about alternative investments like self-storage, cryptocurrency, ATMs or real estate? And can you achieve financi...

When I first started raising money for real estate syndications, I had lunch with a prospective investor who was interested but didn’t have the $50,000 minimum it took to get in on the deal. But then I asked, ‘Do you have an IRA or anything?’ And it turned out he had $500,000 sitting in his retirement account. $500,000 he could use to buy real estate. So, how do we educate potential investors abou...

You have all the skills you need to become a successful multifamily investor. But without the right mindset, you’re unlikely to achieve financial freedom. So, what can aspiring investors do to overcome the limiting beliefs and bad habits that are holding them back? Faisal Ensaun has coached more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives and athletes, guiding them to connect with their vision and...

Most of us get into real estate investing because we want to quit our jobs. But Burnie Lund is different. Though he’s already achieved financial freedom, Burnie has no intention of leaving his ministry work. In fact, he got into multifamily so he could give more to the missions he believes in. Burnie is a pastor and multifamily real estate investor with a portfolio of 105 units. He focuses on the...

The name Grant Cardone is synonymous with scale. Each new venture he launches quickly grows 10X bigger than anyone else in the business. So, what drives that desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible? How might you apply the same principles to scale your real estate syndication business? Jarrod Glandt is President of Grant Cardone Enterprises , where he has served as Grant’s right-hand man...

Words hide red flags in a real estate deal. But numbers are the source of truth. So, what numbers should you be looking at when you evaluate a multifamily deal? Jason Baik is Managing Principal at Compounding Capital Group and Founder of The Underwriting Lab , a platform that helps aspiring multifamily investors learn a data-driven approach to apartment investing. An ex-VP of Data Science, Jason l...

When Dan Handford got into multifamily syndications in 2018, he raised $4M. By 2022, he had scaled his capital raise to $294M. What’s his secret? How did Dan grow his investor database to nearly 1,700 and his portfolio to 4,000+ doors in just five years? Dan is Managing Partner of PassiveInvesting.com , a real estate investing firm with $1.2B in assets under management based in the Carolinas. Dan’...