In The Lab with Ruben Kanya

Karen steps into the lab with the experience of managing multi-million dollar portfolios for over 25 years at the institutional level.  Karen managed over $150 million in fixed income while also juggling the role of Chief Compliance Officer. Her portfolio management experience includes co-managing a $250 million emerging markets fund and relocating an institutional asset management practice f...

GUEST BIO Alexander Cruz also known as ‘Xander’, is a Baltimore native who began his Residential Real Estate career in 2011 upon graduating from West Virginia University. He quickly realized a passion for the Residential Investment side of the business and worked  with Craig Reich and Brock Reich in developing CR of Maryland into one of the premier Residential Real Estate Companies in Baltimo...

Michael is a husband, father, investor, entrepreneur, CPA, author, speaker, instructor, and short term rental expert . As the founder of Short Term Rental Secrets — he leads a well oiled machine & system of running a lucrative short term rental operation which is essentially a sophisticated property management company. Michael’s advanced training & mentorship programs help new and seasoned...

GUEST BIO Gina Sahota is a successful real estate investor, financial literacy advocate, mentor, speaker and upcoming author. While she used to work at a bank in Canada for 12 years, she had the real estate passion making her own personal investments starting back in 2006. She then made the switch in her career from banking to real estate and landed a job at a construction company in Vancouver. Wo...

Justin Brennan grew up on his father’s job sites digging ditches witnessing and learning from him as a builder & developer. His father made him dig ditches lay pipes and understand the importance of hard work and the value of money. The 2008 crisis had a huge impact on his family’s business and it was a turning point for him to pivot. He worked as an asset manager for major banks and found a w...

Jerome Myers is an Engineering degree holder who pursued his passion in real estate. One of his goals is to help people in the middle class have affordable housing.   As a practitioner & full time investor, he also spends time educating others on how to exit the matrix through ownership in multifamily workforce housing. Jerome’s mindset is a big contributor to his success and for those of...

GUEST BIO Mark McMahon has worked in broad areas of real estate, beginning as a contractor to getting involved in mobile home parks, flipping and traditional real estate investing - his experiences today have helped him the investor and agent that he is today with a  very special niche in being able to be the bridge for Japanese & international investors overseas considering that he’s als...

GUEST BIO Jordan Harry joins us in the lab to talk about the most important piece of real estate one can own. Jordan and his company coaches people for improving their reading speed, memory and public speaking. He was 10 years old when he had a speech impediment that made him struggle with public speaking and reading. Since then he’s turned what was once a challenge into a unique strength. He is n...

GUEST BIO Damion Lupo is known for wearing multiple hats and for owning different kinds of businesses ranging from insurance, precious metals, financial consulting, real estate and venture capital. He is also the host of Financial Underdogs podcast, and founder of Yokido™, his own martial art’s company. His mission for all of the above is to free 1 million from financial bondage. He began his care...

GUEST BIO Jason Van Orden founded one of the first ever podcasts about internet business and online marketing which was at one point one of the most profitable podcasts on iTunes generating millions of dollars in sales from his podcast. Jason has been teaching students and clients around the world about using internet media, how to monetize their unique brilliance with content marketing, scalable...

Alexis Ruffin is the founder of Sheffield Executive Housing, a short term rentals company. Before becoming an investor, she has had multiple experience working in the corporate world as a project manager. It was after a recession that she decided to start investing into real estate and luckily she’s been doing real estate successfully for just over a decade now. Alexis started her journey in real...

GUEST BIO Ola Dantis is a serial entrepreneur and CEO/founder of Dwellynn company, a multifamily investment firm that helps others get started in real estate investing. He also hosts one of the top real estate investing podcasts, The Dwellynn Show, that has a main goal on helping people attain financial freedom through real estate investing. Join us today as he steps into the lab and shares some v...

GUEST BIO Chris Grenzig is an asset manager of Toro Real Estate Partners. Before he was involved in real estate, he took a job as a soccer coach after he earned his bachelor degree in business management. When he realized that he missed New York, he went back and after realizing that coaching was not the best fit for him anymore so he went on and took another job as a cold caller in a stock broker...

GUEST BIO Tony Whatley steps into the lab as a true practitioner. He not only took a passion for his (cars) and turned it into a multi-million dollar business but he did all this all while having a full time corporate career in the oil/gas industry. He is best known as Co-Founder of LS1Tech, an online automotive community which grew into the largest of its kind, with over 300,000 registered member...

GUEST BIO Phil M. Jones is a serial entrepreneur, big time business growth expert and known as the best selling author of Exactly What to Say, Exactly How to Sell, and Exactly Where to Start. His first business, car washing business started when he was at the age of 14 and received the award as “British Excellence in Sales and Marketing”. His early career went on and on and after years of being on...

GUEST BIO Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions. He has helped and provided numerous investors with the Deferred Sales Trust. It is a tool to help investors solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. Brett has encountered numerous experiences which includes Deferred Sales Trust, Delaware Statute Trust, 1031 exchanges while executing more than $85 million in commercial real esta...

GUEST BIO Darin Batchelder is the President and founder of TZK Capital - a driven company that focuses on the efficient brokering of financial institution loan portfolios. He has immeasurable experience in developing and managing complicated sales transactions and establishing long term relationships is his priority. Before TZK Capital, Batchelder was responsible for the sale of residential and mu...

GUEST BIO Douglass Lodmell is an asset protection attorney that creates legal structures that help investors separate or protect their assets from their creditors. He is an expert in estate planning, taxation and strategic asset protection for domestic and international clients. He’s been protecting over $4 billion worth of assets from his clients. He is the owner of the Bridge Trust ™ asset prote...

GUEST BIO Tyler Hall was able to build a multi-million dollar empire in the span of two years coming from humble beginnings and significant challenges but always seeked to get more out of what he saw in his surroundings coming from a small town out of Maine. Tyler has had any job that you can think of when it comes to making money but most importantly he talks about the burden that he had to overc...

GUEST BIO Bruce Wuollet grew up in a family bakery business in Minnesota. Over the next 16 years he worked in all areas of the business from baking to cake decorating to sales to deliveries which gave him a unique perspective of business. Early on he was able to identify and learn the importance of building systems along with relationships in everyday operations. Dating back to 2001, He gained his...

GUEST BIO Today we have two special guests in the lab, Candice Payne and Carlos Callahan. As partners they are serial entrepreneurs who have added so much value to the community collectively while building well over 14 businesses which includes a spa that Candice is very passionate about. Prior to their success, both of them have had two very different paths that have led them to being a jack of a...

GUEST BIO Mauricio Rauld is the founder and CEO of Premier Law group, a firm that specializes in educating investors and representing them from legal matters relating to Asset Protection. He is known across the nation as an asset protection attorney, operation strategist and contributes as the legal advisor to The Real Estate Guys™ Radio show and is Robert Helms’ personal advisor. He is devoted to...

GUEST BIO Alina Trigub is the founder and managing partner of Samo Financial, a private company that helps people build wealth via passive real estate investing while preserving capital, generating residual income and savings on taxes. Prior to her growing portfolio, Alina worked for a private company after she got her degree in accounting. As an inspiring investor from new jersey, she sought out...

GUEST BIO Gino Barbaro is the co founder of Jake and Gino LLC, one of the two duos who started their investing journey with their first 24 units. Gino started off as a restaurant owner for 25 years but that did not stop him from experimenting into the real estate space to grow their portfolio to more than 1600 units of multifamily apartments. Gino did not stop there, he went along and built an edu...

GUEST BIO Eric Braun started in the industry as a telemarketer doing cold calling in the first two years until he was able to get his license as a mortgage broker. His determination, how he helped and treated his clients made him grow his business to where he is today. Eric is not average in the value that he gives his clients who are Predominantly first time home buyers. With this however comes a...