Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of the actions you take. In this episode, Jake and Gino talk with Teresa Kuhn, the president and CEO of Austin, Texas-based Living Wealthy Financial Group. As a financial life designer, best-selling author and educator, Teresa has a passion for formulating innovative blueprints that help her clients grow and preserve their wealth. Her...

Ep. 95- The RandCRE Show: Real Estate Data with David Kahn.   Mike Taravella and Will Coleman interview David Kahn of Costar Group. Key Information: 2021 Forecast: strong recovery uptick in rent growth increased occupancy rates   Occupancy and rent growth has stayed most consistent for B and C class assets since the beginning of the pandemic.   Downtown metro areas took a major hit as many employe...

Julia & Gino interview Bill Ham, best-selling author of Creative Cash , and the journey to becoming a best-selling author. Bill is the COO of Broadwell Property Group, a vertically integrated real estate company located in Atlanta, Georgia. His first four hundred units were purchased without entering a bank and utilizing creative financing techniques that he shares with in his book.   Bill shares...

Discover the best-kept secrets of the two creative, effective financing strategies other investors don’t want you to know about: Master Lease Options and Seller Financing.  In this episode, Jake and Gino reveal the key aspects of creative financing with Bill Ham, who has been an amazing mentor for the Wheelbarrow Profits investor community and have recently launched his book ‘Creative Cash’ encaps...

Mike Taravella and Will Coleman interview Nate Trunfio of Lima One Capital LLC. Key Information: Capital Markets A venue where savings and investments are transferred between the suppliers who have capital and those who are in need of capital.             Secondary Markets Capital markets are composed of primary and secondary markets. Lenders originate loans then sell them to investment entities i...

In this episode of Movers & Shakers Josh & Gino interview Bill Ham. Topics touched on include:   Why Bill decided to ditch his career as a pilot and get into real estate Bill covers the keys to successful creative financing and why you need to learn it now Bill talks about what sets Jake & Gino apart from most education companies   Bill’s Bio:   Bill Ham, author of Creative Cash, the complete guid...

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” On this episode, we have none other than Tom Ziglar! Tom is the CEO of Ziglar Inc. and key collaborator on his father’s 30th book, Born to Win. Tom Ziglar believes there are three ways you can achieve greatness: Engage, Equip and Transfer. Listen to this awe-inspiring podcast power-packed with...

Current Lending Criteria: Decreased LTV Qualified borrowers Higher reserve requirements   Creative Financing: Lenders tighten their lending standards during declining or recessionary market cycles. When this happens, debt becomes more expensive and new opportunities for creative financing emerge.   Capex Tsunami: As class C assets continue to age, many of these types of properties will require a p...

In this week’s podcast, Julia and Gino are joined by two Jake & Gino members named Anna & Fernando. Anna & Fernando are active multifamily real estate investors and still have their day jobs as Process Engineers in the Oil & Gas industry. They met in, and graduated from the University of Florida in 2015 where they both studied Chemical Engineering. After graduating, they both worked as Process Eng...

Learn how to become a super achiever, develop new business models, help people, create value and scale up your business. Go for fishing, not hunting. Listen to the podcast what does it mean. In this episode, Jake and Gino bring to you Kyle Wilson, the founder of Jim Rohn International, YourSuccessStore.com, LessonsFromNetwork.com and KyleWilson.com He’s worked with the top names in the personal de...

Mike Taravella and Will Coleman interview Martynas Fedotovas of Beating Alpha Media. Key Information: You can’t build brand around your company without a clear message and vision. What makes you and your business different?   A business is just an entity that solves a particular problem in the marketplace. Get feedback from your customers Ask effective questions Find new problems to solve   Approa...

Dan Krueger has acquired over 100-units and successfully executed multiple refinance-and-rolls since leaving the corporate finance world less than two years ago.   Anthony Vicino is a best-selling author, investor, and small business operator who builds successful companies by designing efficient systems that scale and maintaining focus on the end-user experience.   Together, Anthony and Dan found...

This episode is meant for all the real estate investors who wish to understand the key demographic trends that drive growth in the markets and those who want to make informed real estate investing decisions. In this episode, Jake and Gino enter a free-wheeling discussion with the doctor of demography – none other than Chris Porter, the co-author of “Big Shifts Ahead: Demographic Clarity For Busine...

Mike Taravella and Will Coleman interview Kris Reid of Ardor SEO. Key Information: A company with a quality product is only as good as the amount of customers they bring in.   Focus on tasks that directly correlate with revenue generation. Good marketing is often the missing piece for struggling businesses.   Marketing 101: Identify your niche target market  Craft your message to a particular subg...

Julia and Gino share with the listeners what has helped them strengthen their relationship the past twenty plus years. And we know that Gino needed a LOT of help. But, he loved his wife and was willing to look at his shortcomings and become a better husband and father.   Some of Julia’s recommendations included: Choose to love each other even when you are struggling. Always answer the phone when y...

In this episode, Jake and Gino shares the key events in their apartment investing journey that started from 0 to 1,600+ apartments as of now and enabled several students add more than 12,000 apartments to their respective portfolios. Success leaves clues, that is what Jake and Gino believe and they do not shy away from sharing their learning and experiences with anyone who wants to invest in apart...

In this episode, Justin Spaulding highlights some of the key components of multifamily real estate deal structuring and financing. Justin has been active in real estate since 2009. In 2012 he founded SG Realty, LLC. Since then he has raised more than $12,800,000 of 3rd party investor funds and successfully invested 100% of funds into cash flow producing property - his largest being a 199 unit apar...

Nicole Pendergrass began ravenously consuming real estate investment education in 2010. She formed a private investment group focused on wholesaling in 2012 and in 2013 was a founding member and Acquisitions Chair for a group purchasing single family rentals in Detroit, Michigan.   In 2015 she purchased her first residential multifamily property and quickly realized that larger buildings would mit...

In this episode, Brian Beaulieu talks about some of the most significant factors impacting the real estate investing trends, especially from the real estate economics and finance perspectives. Brian Beaulieu has served as CEO and Chief Economist of ITR Economics™ since 1987, where he researches the use of business cycle analysis and economic forecasting as tools for improving profitability. Prior...

Mike Taravella and Will Coleman interview Alina Trigub of SAMO Financial.   Key Information: Diversify your investments with different asset classes in real estate.   Learn and understand one asset class at a time. Find out: how is it performing, what location it is best to acquire in, and how much demand is there for it.   Find partners who have experience and strong track records in different ar...

In this week’s show, Julia & Gino share their trials and tribulations, as well as their successes during the year.  What started out as a huge win for Gino to sell his restaurant of over twenty years, quickly turned into a scene out of the twilight zone with the onset of the pandemic.   There were so many learning lessons and opportunities that the Barbaro family experienced, such as expanding the...

Will Coleman, began his real estate career in 2016 by investing in and self-managing single family properties in the DFW market while working in property management for Greystar Real Estate Partners. In 2018 Will began working in commercial lending at City Bank as a Credit Analyst. Will now works as the Director of Rand Capital, a mortgage brokerage which focuses on finding the ideal financing on...

Most companies in multi-family are paying higher service fees for trash removal than is necessary. Review the terms and conditions of your service agreement with your vendor to determine what exactly you are being charged for. Speak to other haulers in the area to gauge what price you should be paying each month. Avoid signing contracts with auto-renewal stipulations. Renegotiate your contract eac...

In this episode of Movers & Shakers Josh & Gino interview Hadar Orkibi. Topics touched on include:   Getting over the hump of buying the dea Managing and repositioning during Covid from afar Lessons learned Going full cycle with the refi & roll   Hadar’s Bio:   With two decades of full-time Real Estate experience, Hadar specializes in long-distance, out-of-area, and out of the country investing an...

Nathan Tabor has been involved in real estate since 2006. He has purchased, renovated and flipped over $52 million dollars of class C apartments; he has raised over $1 million from private investors, he has his commercial real estate brokers license in NC; and he has authored several books on real estate. He’s had amazing successes and epic failures and learned more from his failures than his succ...