In The Lab with Ruben Kanya

GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab, we have Steven Pesavento, an entrepreneur, real estate investor, host of The Investor Mindset Podcast, and president of VonFinch Capital. He went from zero to buying, to the single-family operator and flipped over $22 Million in 2 years and 200 houses in under 3 years. He successfully raised $10’s Million of dollars which cycled through multiple assets. After le...

GUEST SUMMARY Bill Gross has been in sales, management, ownership and was at one point a lender that ended up carving out a niche as the go to probate expert in LA, building his book of business, and now taking on bigger initiatives in helping his team do the same within the space. Bill reminds us of the importance of building a network whether you’re in business or not to be able to leverage your...

In this episode Ruben talks about the proper way to look at experiments and how to execute them in your lab in 2022.  Experiments have three key layers. 1. Execute all experiments from beginning to end 2. Allow series of experiments to compound to see the results 3. Identify how less experiments can lead to more in your lab or how to experiment bigger with the same amount of energy & effo...

GUEST SUMMARY Michael Morawski is a real estate investment veteran. He has controlled over $285,000,000 in real estate transactions.  He is an entrepreneur, author, real estate trainer, public speaker, and personal coach with a strong, personal resilience, and deep desire to help others accomplish an extraordinary life. He has coached hundreds of real estate investors to fulfill their dreams....

GUEST SUMMARY Roddrick Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Aparti Capital, is a consummate real estate professional with strong experience in real estate principalling and transactional finance. He helps investors acquire Multifamily Real Estate with strategic financing. Roddrick focuses on the combination of senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferential and common equity into what he labels as the capital s...

Joining us this week in the lab is Julie George, author of the best-seller book “Million Dollar Host” and a rockstar expert on Airbnb who built a unique property portfolio in less than 3 years with $8million dollars booking income. Julie lives in Australia, studied Hospitality Management, and dreamt of running her own hotel. After working for years in a corporate company, she decided to break free...

GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have Reed Goossens, an Australian Civil and Structural Engineer turned Real Estate Entrepreneur, a two times best selling author, real estate syndicator, investor, and Podcast host. After backpacking around in 2009 and coming back to corporate, he stumbled across the well-known book Rich Dad, Poor Dad which opened his eyes to using money to work for him. He th...

GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have a short term rental a.k.a airbnb specialist & social media creator & influencer who has been able to achieve financial freedom at a very young age. Michael achieved financial freedom at the age of 27 and hung his corporate hat at 28 all through the power of utilizing airbnbs as a means to achieve such a respectable feat without owning 1,000, 100 o...

GUEST SUMMARY Putting their white coats on this week are full-time real estate investors and developers, and founders of Winterspring Capital — Nick Earls and Eric DiNicola. They have been friends for almost two decades and their unique relationship have allowed them to both tack on a very niched multi-family condo opportunity while complimenting each other's strengths and weaknesses and while hav...

This week in the lab, we have true experimenters who have experimented flipping remotely with your host truly in Atlanta and beyond. Vishnu and Leonard’s ying-yang partnership have allowed them to not only fill each other’s gaps but complement one another as they continue to grow and expand their real estate development portfolio in multiple different markets at once as remote flippers. Vishnu Chi...

GUEST SUMMARY Camilla joins us in the lab having worn multiple hats as a transaction coordinator, process improvement specialist, Human Resources tech professional, music conservatory, owner of Choice Properties and Steady Stream Investments, and a mother of 5 and still considers herself an introvert. While Camilla experimented in single family, cosmetic rehabs while engaging her children in the p...

GUEST SUMMARY Sharing insights with us this week in the lab is the passionate learner and devoted student of mastery, Nick Velasquez. He's the founder of the popular blog UnlimitedMastery.com with some of his writing  featured in TIME, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global around the topic. Learning has been Nick's life-long passion and gives purpose to his life.  While Nick constantly...

GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have Todd Miller that graduated with a degree in Finance with honors, living the quote-on-quote dream of his parents working at a Global Fortune 500 Company.  Six months later, Later on, he found himself left out at the bottom, jobless and without a source of income due to the great recession.    At rock bottom, Todd went down the path of person...

GUEST SUMMARY This week we have Ryan Gibson in the lab that started as a commercial airline pilot and brought over the discipline of his checklists into becoming a Chief Investment Officer, who now dedicates his time to helping people save money using his 150 points due-diligence checklist for investor relations and raising capital for projects. Ryan Gibson is the Chief Investment Officer and the...

GUEST SUMMARY This week we have Lisa Hylton, a former controller turned real estate syndicator in the lab who helps savvy entrepreneurs and business owners, like you, explore the world of commercial real estate by investing in opportunities that you understand to receive tax benefits, strong returns, and avoid the rollercoaster of market volatility. Despite growing up around real estate, Lisa didn...

GUEST SUMMARY This week we have Van Sturgeon in the lab as a general contractor who evolved into a real estate investor, home builder and multiple business owner who now dedicates his time to helping everyday people save tons of money on being in control of their own renovations with or without a general contractor by using his repeatable system in his 30 years as investor and GC. Van started his...

This week we have Dan Haberkost in the lab who at the age of 25 has managed to build an impressive real estate business and portfolio that has allowed him to live and work where he wants by strategically niching down into selling and buying land. Dan Haberkost owns Front Range Land & Development, which is a boutique development company working throughout the Pueblo West market specializing in...

This week we have Viktor Jiracek in the lab who took the journey from leaving an uneventful job to taking up real estate and aiming for 30 flips in a year with 20 a year already done. Viktor Jiracek is an entrepreneur out of Gainesville Florida who is a full time fix and flip real estate investor. Viktor helps others get started on flipping houses. He completed 20 flips last year and his goal is a...

Let’s step into the lab with Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) who is the Captain & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Hoffman was the founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, served on the Board of Governors of the New Media Council,...

This week in the lab we introduce you to John Casmon who is a multifamily real estate entrepreneur and marketing maven with extensive experience collaborating with others to deliver profitable results. John hosts the popular and growing real estate podcast, Target Market Insights — which is one of the hosts who covers multifamily and marketing in one place. John also hosts the Chicago Multifamily...

This week in the lab we have California real estate broker Mark Khuri who has been a real estate investor since 2005. In addition to being a co-founder of SMK Capital Management, Mark has been involved in sourcing, underwriting, acquiring, raising capital, rehabilitating, managing and selling both residential and commercial investments throughout multiple markets in the US. Mr. Khuri has analyzed...

This week Billy Keels enters our lab from overseas. As a well-traveled investor also known as the ‘happy corporate employee’, Billy has effectively done his investing in the U.S. while being overseas in Barcelona, Spain. Billy is on a mission to share with other corporate employees that the buck doesn’t have to stop at your job. As a matter of fact, he preaches what he practices, while having had...

We're back in The Real Estate Experiment lab with another episode. This week, we have the pleasure of having Mark Ritter on board, CEO at MBFS & Nu Direction Lending. From his early days as a credit union loan officer in 2001, he has grown to become the CEO of a CUSO that serves more than 40 credit unions and provides $500 million in business loans. In his previous role as an executive, he cre...

Our guest this week is Cat Stancik, founder of Action Incubator, best-selling author of "7 Principles for a More Productive and Fulfilling Life" and creator of the Lead Boss System. With her unique online persona, Cat stands out from the rest. Not only is she a highly sought-after business strategist with the experience she’s had working at a top consulting firm in the world, with the addition of...

We have Tony Javier in the lab this week, owner of an INC 5000 rated real estate investment company, which is also among the nation's most rapidly growing companies. Since 2001, Tony has been investing in Real Estate completing close to 1,000 flips. With Tony's Real Estate Investing business fully automated, he now focuses to help other real estate investors through his Masterminds, Gap Funding, a...