Jake & Gino: Real Estate Investing & Multifamily

Dean Graziosi, author of Millionaire Success Habits, was an entrepreneur as early as his high school years, employing half the football team to help him chop wood which he sold for a profit! Now he is an extremely successful real estate investor. This episode of Wheelbarrow Profits heats up right off the bat as Dean starts dishing out the keys to motivation and how that looks different for everyon...

Turning one deal in to multiple deals w/ Bruce Petersen Bruce Petersen is a serial syndicator of large multifamily properties throughout Texas, targeting stabilized cash-flowing assets in which he can drive value and he replicates this model across all of his syndication projects. Burned out by retail real estate, he turned to investment and started immediately syndicating multifamily.   The guys...

    Matt Faircloth​ is the ​founder of The DeRosa Group, ​serving both investors and tenants. ​He is an advocate of ​the beginner investor strategy of ​living below your means and using the extra disposable income to snowball into your first real estate investments. Matt ​similarly begin investing ​by getting​ his start in house hacking and us​ing​ out-of-the-box tactics to find his deals.   ​On t...

John Ruhlin is in the business of building relationships – as a giver! His company, The Ruhlin Group, is a gift strategy and logistics group with the intentions of helping business owners build relationships with any and every caliber of client, even those that are highly sought after and exclusive.   What are the pro secrets to using gifts to capture your clients? What kinds of gifts are most eff...

Devin Elder is a multifamily syndicator who has completed over 100 residential and commercial real estate projects in six years! Devin worked in the corporate IT world for ten years, but quickly became tired of the rate race and working so hard for zero job security. He had always admired entrepreneurs and chose to apply himself to real estate in the single-family investing realm. He quickly snowb...

Our guest Dave Zook​ ​owns over 3000 multifamily units internationally! He is also an active ATM investor. His family business is in modular buildings – one of his companies builds barns, garages and sheds and another​ one​​ ​of his companies delivers them coast to coast. Another focuses on modular cabins!​ Dave takes us through some of his early multifamily mistakes and learning experiences, as w...

On this episode of Wheelbarrow Profits:      Gino gives us his 2017 lookback and gathers eleven awesome, not-to-be-missed action items to take with us into our business and personal lives in 2018!    Jake and Gino take us through:   What defines a Mom and Pop? What are the different forms of motivation? How to identify and solve the sellers problem? Why is the relationship with the broker vital? W...

Rock Thomas had humble beginnings. To quote him – “from farm boy to financially free.”​ ​ He now has a total of 34 individual streams of passive income. Through a series of life events that lead Rock to a place of desperation, he found real estate and was mentored to leverage himself (work smart, not hard) - he became the best salesperson in the office. He now owns three Keller-Williams offices an...

2017 has been a big year for Jake &Gino! Their educational platform, Wheelbarrow Profits Academy has grown leaps and bounds and is a multifamily investor mecca for goal setting, productivity and mindset, and to learn to buy right, manage right, finance right. Jake and Gino discuss in depth what investors are able to access on the site, as well as all of the ways their platform differentiates itsel...

**NOTE** The audio quality on this episode isn’t ideal but the content is there, so we rolled with it! Lane Kawaoka began his journey in REI the way so many do – by saving money to buy a primary residence. Today he has scaled his holdings to a total of 626 apartment units! His bread and butter are class B & C multifamily housing. In this episode, Lane speaks to the pros and cons of single family h...

Jay Papasan (VP and Executive Editor of Keller-Williams) always dreamed of being an author. In 2000, Jay took the leap from a career in publishing in NY to move to Texas with his wife--who gently encouraged him to get out of the house and meet new people. Jay serendipitously landed with the Keller-Williams company. He became fast friends with Gary Keller who was an integral mentor in his real esta...

Eddie Lorin co-founded Strategic Realty Capital as a culmination of his 25 years experience in investment real estate. Since 2008, SRC has purchased close to 10,000 units in over 40 transactions and has built a strong performing portfolio. All of SRC’s apartment assets were purchased opportunistically and successfully re-positioned into thriving communities. Lorin is also cofounder of the 501c3 HA...

Entrepreneur and author MJ DeMarco struggled with multiple ventures before realizing where he could add value to the world – in writing books he wishes he could have read when he was working the dreaded 9-5. His groundbreaking anti-‘get-rich-slow’ books, “The Millionaire Fastlane” and “Unscripted” are filled with vital information that has fed his 40,000 strong entrepreneur forum ‘The Fast Lane Fo...

Known around the world as the CEO Whisperer, Cameron Herold is the founder of COO Alliance. Cameron is a coach, an international speaker and a business book writer who has helped hundreds of companies find exponential growth. With COO Alliance, Cameron is able to educate and empower business owners to take the actionable steps that are necessary to achieve hyper-growth. He has written four books a...

Mark Kenney is a seasoned real estate investor, entrepreneur and founder of Think Multifamily. Mark started his real estate career over 20 years ago and has extensive experience in property valuation, acquisition, and operations. He has a passion for helping other succeed in the multifamily arena. Mark is invested in over 1,200 units and has a top-notch reputation among the multifamily investment...

Dan Summers serves as the CEO of RealtyeVest, LLC, where he oversees all operations of the internal digital marketing team, its real estate underwriting group and its national advertising agency in Irvine, CA. Summers has held a series of high-level executive positions including CEO of Madison Realty Group, which he founded in 1992 and developed into a national real estate investment firm. He grew...

Ross Hamilton is the CEO of ConnectedInvestors.com - The world's largest network of real estate investors. Connected Investors brings the Fintech revolution to Real Estate Investing. Leveraging the largest social networking community dedicated to real estate investors, CI’s online marketplace + community connects buyers and sellers with real estate investment opportunities – providing a vast inven...

In this episode we were fortunate to have former FBI hostage negotiator and The Best Selling author of Never Split the Difference Chris Voss on the show. This is a must listen for everyone, period. The content is this episode is not only relevant to anyone in business today but more importantly its actionable. This was one of our favorite guests and we hope everyone enjoys! In this episode you wil...

In this episode we interviewed Stacksource CEO Tim Milazzo and discovered a new niche of apartment lending. Tim and his crew are trying to level the playing field for investors when it comes to securing financing for their multifamily deals. For a long time, multifamily financing has been largely dependent on relationships and getting in with the right groups of lenders. Stacksource is opening up...

Brian Scudamore is the founder and CEO of O2E Brands, the banner company for 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine. Brian is a serial entrepreneur, known for pioneering the professional junk hauling industry with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Since conquering that market, he’s gone on to apply the O2E (ordinary to exceptional) formula to the painting, moving, and home-detailing indu...

Hunter is a full-time real estate investor and founder of Cash Flow Connections. Since starting CFC, Hunter has helped investors allocate capital to over 100 properties which have a combined asset value of more than $350,000,000. His experience includes investments in self-storage facilities, residential mortgage notes, mobile home parks, single-family acquisitions, hard money loans, office buildi...

DAVID OSBORN has built one of the top real estate brokerages in the world with more than 4,500 agents and annual sales volume exceeding $8.5 billion per year. As a serial entrepreneur, David founded over 50 companies with at least 25 that are ongoing profitable concerns. He employs exceptional people and distributes millions of dollars to his partners. David is also an educator, who teaches audien...

David Blatt is CEO of CapStack Partners, an investment bank and investment advisor focused on real estate. He leads all the principal investing and capital raising efforts of the firm. Prior to CapStack, he ran a distressed fund acquiring and repositioning real estate. Since 2001, David has been involved in the negotiating and structuring of countless transactions and brings an expert level unders...

Andy's amazing story: Ithas been quite a ride for me. I woke up in an ICU hospital bed on the night of March 20th, 2011 and realized I had been struck by a series of large vehicles while crossing a busy street. I had a collapsed lung, seven broken ribs and a severe compound fracture of my jaw, which was broken in five places… As someone who has always made a living based upon my appearance — model...

In this episode we interview Rich Dad Advisor Blair Singer. He is a business expert and highly sought after coach. Blair's skills in coaching a sales are unparalleled and he was a blast to have on the show! Bio: Blair Singer is a world renowned speaker and the bestselling author of Little Voice Mastery, SalesDogs and Team Code of Honor. He has trained hundreds of thousands of people around the wor...