Path To Passive: Real Estate Investing For Technology Professionals

Send us Fan Mail What if your W-2 paycheck is the biggest thing standing between you and real wealth? Host Steven Arita sits down with Chad Freeman — airline pilot, mobile home park operator, and commercial real estate investor with over a decade in the game to unpack one of the most overlooked asset classes for tech professionals. Chad's origin story is hard to beat: he discovered mobile hom...

Send us Fan Mail What if your W-2 salary is your biggest financial liability?  In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Ryan Porter — AWS Principal Cloud Architect, real estate investor, and co-founder of Porter Legacy Group — to unpack how a tech professional with 14 years of investing experience went from rehabbing a "seventies cocaine den" condo in San Fran...

Send us Fan Mail There are four rules that every passive investor must use to vet a real estate sponsor — and if you skip them, you're gambling with your money.  In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Ken Gee, CPA, former Deloitte real estate tax advisor, Founder and managing member of KRI Partners, a private equity firm on its sixth multifamily fund with a track...

Send us Fan Mail What if the retirement strategy your money manager swears by is already 30 years out of date — and quietly draining your future?  In this episode of The Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Jay Patel, serial entrepreneur, former hedge fund manager, and the visionary building India's first MLS, to unpack a smarter path to retirement wealth for W-2 tech professiona...

Send us Fan Mail What if the funding strategy that saved one real estate investor's entire business during the 2008 financial crisis could also help you grow your wealth passively — without touching the stock market? In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Jay Conner, a seasoned real estate investor who has rehabbed and flipped over 500 houses in Eastern North Car...

Send us Fan Mail What if the secret weapon the Rockefellers used to build generational wealth — and that most W-2 tech professionals have never heard of — was sitting inside a whole life insurance policy this whole time? In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Anthony Faso and Cameron Christiansen, co-founders of Infinite Wealth Consultants and practitioners of the Inf...

Send us Fan Mail What if the biggest wealth-building opportunity of the next decade isn't real estate — it's buying the business next door? In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with David Hori, a 25-year veteran of scaling high-growth companies including a Toyota acquisition and multiple VC-backed startups, who has now turned his sights on a different kind of a...

Send us Fan Mail Most W-2 professionals assume building wealth means buying more homes, Radhika Rastogi did too, until she sat in her garage during COVID and did the math. Radhika Rastogi is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Relik Capital Group, a private equity firm specializing in senior living real estate syndications. With over 10 years of real estate investing experience, a background le...

Send us Fan Mail What if the key to building a $130M real estate portfolio wasn't a Wall Street background — but pure, relentless persistence from a small-town kid who once had to choose between a 20-oz and an 8-oz Red Bull because he couldn't afford both? In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Derek Vickers, mobile home park investor, fund manager, and oper...

Send us Fan Mail Your W-2 salary is a great start, but it was never designed to build the kind of wealth that lets you step back and live life on your own terms.  In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven sits down with Cherif Medawar — a real estate investor, fund manager, and educator with 35+ years of experience. He has completed hundreds of transactions and built a $100M+ portfolio acros...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a W-2 tech professional sitting on a rental property you're tired of managing, this episode is your exit strategy.  Host Steven Arita sits down with Ashley Romiti, president and founder of GCA 1031 and a 15-year commercial real estate veteran, to break down Delaware Statutory Trusts (DSTs): the powerful but under-the-radar tax strategy that lets real estate inv...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most overlooked real estate investment strategy has been hiding in plain sight at your local courthouse?  In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Brian Seidensticker, aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, founder of Tax Sale Resources, and co-founder of Mount North Capital — to pull back the curtain on tax lien and tax deed investing for...

Send us Fan Mail What if the key to building real wealth isn't quitting your W-2 job — it's using it as a strategic launchpad? In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Reed Goossens, Australian-born real estate entrepreneur, syndicator, and author of Investing in the U.S., who has scaled from a single triplex to over 1,000 units syndicated through his firm RSN...

Send us Fan Mail What's hiding in plain sight in your own backyard could be the commercial real estate opportunity most W-2 tech professionals have never considered.  In this episode of Path to Passive, host Steven Arita sits down with Joe Downs, founder of Belrose Group who went from owning a bar to building a portfolio of 20-plus self-storage facilities and pioneering an entirely new asset...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a W-2 tech professional wondering why your stock portfolio feels like a rollercoaster with no seatbelt, this episode is going to change how you think about building real wealth.  Host Steven Arita sits down with Mike Zlotnik — chess master, former software engineer, fund manager at TF Management Group, and the man behind BigMikeFund.com — who traded midnight softwar...

Send us Fan Mail If you thought investing in private deals was only for people with hundred-million-dollar venture funds and a team of lawyers on speed dial — this episode will change that.  In this conversation on the Path to Passive podcast, host Steven Arita sits down with Jeremy Neilson, an attorney-turned-private-asset-investing specialist who has personally closed nearly 9,000 SPVs, processe...

Send us Fan Mail What if your next investment had a waitlist of tenants, constrained supply, and cash flow that holds up even when the economy doesn't?  In this episode, Steven Arita sits down with Leo Young, founder of Cornell Communities and former top performer at Tesla, to break down exactly why mobile home parks (manufactured housing communities) are one of the most overlooked passive in...

Send us Fan Mail What percentage of your investible net worth is actually outside your home country?  If you're like most tech professionals, the answer is "basically zero" and you might be missing one of the smartest diversification plays available.  In this episode of Path to Passive, Steven Arita sits down with Mike Cobb, CEO of ECI Development, who's spent over 25 years dev...

Send us Fan Mail What if AI could finally make real estate data actually useful instead of overwhelming?  In this episode of Path to Passive, Steven Arita sits down with Kevin Shtofman, Global Head of Alliances and Corporate Development at Cherre, a real estate data warehouse platform serving insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and REITs.  Kevin brings over 20 years of experience from inv...

Send us Fan Mail What if part of the money you send to the IRS each year could instead be working for you in oil wells? In this episode, Steven welcomes John Engel, COO of Gulf Coast Western, for a clear and honest conversation about oil and gas investing. John explains how investors can participate in packaged wells that generate monthly cash flow, often to return initial capital in 18 to 24 mont...

Send us Fan Mail What if the secret to building real wealth isn’t working harder, but getting smarter about ownership and leverage? In today’s episode, Steven chats with entrepreneur and investor Joe Edgar as he shares how calling himself a “lazy entrepreneur” actually helped him win. From buying his first fixer-upper at 14 to building tech platforms and launching Loca, Joe breaks down the differe...

Send us Fan Mail What if the real key to strong investor returns isn’t focusing on investors first, but creating an amazing living experience for residents? In this episode, Steven sits down with John Makarewicz, President of Ferris Capital Partners, to break down what operator-level thinking truly means. John shares his journey from early struggles in college to building and exiting a major real...

Send us Fan Mail What actually makes money in self-storage, and why do smart people still get it wrong? In this episode, we sit down with Jacob Vanderslice, co-founder and principal at VanWest Partners, for an honest, operator-first conversation about how these businesses really work. Jacob shares how pricing and revenue decisions happen day to day, why his team walked away from REIT management to...

Send us Fan Mail What really happens after a big startup exit, and how do the ultra-wealthy actually decide where to put their money? In this episode, Steven chats with Tad Fallows, Managing Director of Long Angle, as he shares what he learned after selling his bootstrapped SaaS company and suddenly facing the question: “What do I do with all this capital?” Tad opens up about the challenges of wea...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the market crashes, you lose everything, and you have to start all over again? In this episode, Stephen Arita sits down with Fuquan Bilal, a real estate investor who’s been in the game for 26 years and has seen it all. From flipping hundreds of homes before 2008, to bouncing back through the world of mortgage notes, and now focusing on multifamily rentals and lux...