Investing In The U.S.

About a month ago, David Robinson invited us to his podcast, The Lead Sponsor. Today, David is on the other side of the table and tells us how he built his 18-year-old business from scratch. David Robinson is the CEO and Founder of Canovo Capital, a multifamily real estate investment firm that helps investors build passive income through multifamily assets. David has participated in over $400 mill...

It’s always a blast having a fellow ex-pat share their experiences in investing in the US. Today, we have Zain Jaffer, a lifelong entrepreneur and successful investor, on the show. Zain Jaffer started his first company at 14 years old and later moved to the US, where he founded Vungle, which was sold to Blackstone for a whopping $780 million in 2019. Today, Zain is an accomplished investor, a Part...

Today, we have another returning guest on the show—my good friend Todd Dexheimer! A lot has happened in the past four years since we’ve had Todd on this show, and we’ll find out what he’s been up to in this week’s episode. Todd Dexheimer is the owner of Endurus Capital and VitaCare Living. Over the past 14 years, his company has acquired 4,000 units of multifamily and senior housing and made 150 f...

How do you leverage your existing skillset when leaving your corporate job for real estate investing? Craig Stevens the Founder and President of Groundbreaking Real Estate, an investment company that helps investors achieve sustainable returns on multifamily assets. He started his career in 2014, and over the past eight years, Groundbreaking has owned and operated over ten buildings with a fair va...

How did this young entrepreneur raise over $1.5 BILLION in just ten years? Zamir Kazi is the CEO of ZMR Capital, a real estate investment firm that acquires, develops, and operates in multifamily, single-family, industrial, and hospitality asset classes. Zamir started his real estate career in 2013 after dropping out of his senior year of med school. Over nine years, Zamir and his team have acquir...

With the US heading into a recession, how do you prepare for a distressed market? Jake Harris is the founder and managing partner of Harris Bay, a real estate investment and management firm that helps investors find opportunities in secondary and tertiary markets. He is also the author of Catching Knives - A Guide to Investing in Distressed Real Estate, a regular podcast guest, and a high-value co...

It’s always interesting to hear how other ex-pats built their empires here in the US. Let’s hear how Prashant Kumar, a fellow ex-pat investor, found success in real estate after leaving his corporate job. Prashant is the CEO and President of MyRealtyGains Management, a real estate investment firm that helps aspiring investors find hassle-free opportunities to achieve financial freedom through pass...

How do you create content that brings value to your audiences? Let’s learn all about what goes into content creation for investors with a former corporate marketer and a good friend of mine, John Casmon. John is another returning guest on the show with us this week to share how far they’ve come since we had them on the podcast. For those who don’t know John from our previous episodes, he is the fo...

What is it like investing in a hotel? How is it different from investing in multifamily assets? Let’s talk about it. Jonathan Twombly was an accomplished Wall Street lawyer before he entered the world of real estate. In 2011, he became a full-time multifamily real estate investor and eventually created Two Bridges Asset Management, an LLC helping aspiring investors achieve capital growth through m...

We’re psyched to have an old friend on the show today, none other than the all-around all-star Vikram Raya! Vikram excels in just about anything. He is a cardiologist, high-performance coach, international speaker, functional medicine specialist, and avid real estate investor. He has raised over $100 million in private equity and spearheads Viking Capital, a real estate company that helps busy phy...

Let’s welcome an old friend who joined our podcast way back in 2019—Jens Nielsen! What has Jens been up to in the past two years? Let’s find out. Jens is a seasoned multi-family real estate investor and certified high-performance coach. He is also the principal at Open Doors Capital, a private equity firm that helps individuals build passive income through real estate. More than that, Jens teaches...

In business, rewards are not immediate. It takes time to find your groove while starting a business from scratch. Fellow entrepreneur and podcaster Andrew Schutsky is here to tell us his secret sauce to building a business while working a day job. Andrew Schutsky is the founder of Redline Equity, a real estate investment firm providing passive investment opportunities to busy professionals; the CI...

Derek and Dr. Sophie Clifford are two nomads traveling the world while handling Elevate Equity, a real estate investment company helping busy professionals create multiple degrees of freedom. Both Derek and Sophie are passionate educators and seasoned investors, working hand in hand to help others find a way out of the 8-to-5 grind. Let’s take a look at the dynamics of this power couple’s relation...

Today, another fellow immigrant shares his story of how he got started in US real estate investing. Join me in welcoming Van Sturgeon to the show, renovation expert and mentor with over three decades of experience in the game. Van Sturgeon is a seasoned real estate investor, flipper, multifamily specialist, and business owner. Over 30 years ago, Van’s family bought an apartment building in the mid...

Have you ever thought about investing in wines? How about comic books? Or vinyl records? Stefan von Imhof is with us here today to talk about alternative assets and how you can make good money from them. Stefan von Imhof is one of the great minds behind Alts.co, a unique alternative investment community, fund, and investment platform. He is also a seasoned writer, product leader, and traveler. We...

Wealth and happiness do not always go hand in hand, but Ben Lapidus has found a way to achieve both. Listen to Ben’s philosophies in life and learn how you can build success without sacrificing your happiness. Ben is the Chief Financial Officer for Spartan Investment Group, LLC and a co-founder and host of Best Ever Conferences. His extensive finance and business development skills helped him cons...

Our guest for this week’s episode is fellow ex-pat Billy Keels. But instead of the US, Billy is operating his business all the way over in Barcelona, Spain. Billy Keels is a seasoned traveler, real estate investor, podcast host (Going Long), and the Strategic Advisor of First Generation Capital Partners, an investment group that helps high-wage earners build their wealth without working more. Like...

Let’s welcome two of my fellow ex-pats on the show, Ashok Patil and Mohit Bansal—the brains behind Prime Investment LLC. Prime Investment LLC is led by Ashok Patil and Mohit Bansal, two seasoned real estate investors focusing on multifamily and commercial investments. Together, they help aspiring investors invest in commercial real estate syndication and generate recurring passive incomes. In toda...

Join me in welcoming another esteemed guest on the show, a fellow operator and the co-founder of one of the most successful self-storage companies in the country—Jacob Vanderslice. Jacob is a co-founder and partner at VanWest Partners, a real estate investment company specializing in self-storage facilities and other opportunistic investments in commercial real estate. To date, VanWest Partners ha...

Sunil Saxena was a serial entrepreneur before becoming a full-time real estate investor. He tried so many things before discovering his true passion—including finishing a medical degree! If you’re still trying to figure out who you are, you will definitely relate to Sunil’s story. Sunil Saxena, MD, is a lifelong entrepreneur, having started six successful real estate companies since 2001. To date,...

How are investors dealing with inflation? What should you do in the face of rising costs and diminishing affordability of housing? Let’s hear what Bronson Hill has to say. Bronson Hill is a seasoned multifamily investor, passive income creator, keynote speaker, and the host of the Mailbox Money Show. Like many of our previous guests, Bronson left the corporate world to pursue a more fulfilling rou...

Real estate investing can be highly competitive. But sometimes, the best deals are born when investors work together. Like most entrepreneurs, Ian Ippolito started in the corporate world. After a long time of being a computer programmer, Ian decided to find a better way to use his talents. He created multiple businesses in the software industry, but his endeavors eventually fizzled out when the do...

Say hello to one of our first live interview guests in Denver—Salem Vanderstel of Naked Capital Group! Salem is the Founder of Naked Capital Group. Coming from a Chemistry and Corporate Strategy background, Salem used his talents for analytics to build ultra-high net worth asset management products at one of the world’s largest investment banks. After discovering significant risk-adjusted returns...

Hundreds of thousands of women suffer financial abuse in the U.S. at the hands of their spouses and families. Find out how one woman is helping other female investors achieve empowerment through real estate. Kaylee McMahon grew up being constantly told that she wasn’t good enough. But instead of giving up, she broke out of the mold others put her into in a way not a lot of people would expect—by i...

Everyone knows how much time you need to put into your job when you’re a medical professional. Dr. Jeff Anzalone knows exactly what it’s like to work super long hours with seemingly no way out. How did he manage to take the reins? Dr. Jeff Anzalone is a periodontist and the CEO of DebtFreeDr.com, an educational resource where doctors and other medical professionals can learn how to create passive...