PreReal Podcast

Chris Prefontaine is the four-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Sell With Authority for Real Estate Investors. He’s also the founder and chairman of the Wicked Smart companies and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 31 years. His experience ranges from constructing new homes in the 1990...

Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his financial objectives and those o...

This week on the Prereal Podcast, we have prepared a special edit of our interview with John Casmon, a real estate entrepreneur, who has partnered with busy professionals to invest in over $100 million worth of apartments. John also consults active multifamily investors to help them start or grow their business. He hosts the Multifamily Insights podcast (formerly Target Market Insights) and is the...

In this episode of the Prereal Podcast, we have prepared a special edit of an outstanding guest Rafael Cortez. Born on January, 30th 1983 and raised Yuma AZ Rafael Cortez is a second generation entrepreneur. He began his first job at 14 at a local Grocery Store. From 15 to 18 years of age his work experience included everything from hard labor in construction to supervisory positions in retail and...

In this episode of the Prereal Podcast, we have prepared a special edit of a past interview with an outstanding guest: Jeff Wickersham. Jeff is a sought after accountability and peak performance coach who helps guide clients to intentionally step into the best versions of themselves and unlock that inner hero waiting to be unleashed. Jeff’s a #1 best-selling author, Tony Robbins award winner, podc...

Tom Dunkel has spent his early career as an accomplished corporate finance leader with over $1.2B of middle-market M&A and financing transaction experience and a proven track record as trusted decision-making partner to C-level executives. He has turned his entrepreneurial energy and enthusiasm toward building a self storage investment business. His transactional experience, financial savvy and le...

Jim began his career as a ship builder and welder for the Nashville Bridge Company. He then joined the United States Air Force and was selected into an elite group of the USAF nicknamed the Walking Airforce aka “Global Survival Instructor” today known as SERE. After leaving the US Air Force, he entered retail. He was responsible for new store openings, hiring, departmental development, training an...

Jefferson is a mobile home park investment expert and educator. He is the founder of Park Avenue Partners. a private equity real estate fund that acquires and operates mobile home parks nationwide. His investment funds are returning 10% - 15% IRRs to Limited Partners. Both personally and through his partnerships, Jefferson has acquired 31 MHPs in 15 states since 2007 totaling over $7lmm in value....

Jeremy Goodrich is a commercial real estate insurance advisor who’s been teaching investors how to buy and protect properties since 2013. He’s the owner of Shine Insurance, which aims to protect some of the top real estate investors in the country and the creator of The New Home Buyers Guide. Get in touch with Jeremy: Website: https://www.shineinsurance.com/home-auto-insurance-agent/ LinkedIn : ht...

Believer, Father, South Korean Immigrant, Lawyer, Multifamily Apartment Syndicator and Investor, People connector, Status-quo hater, Strategic planner/Action taker, and Entrepreneur. Yosef Lee has a vision to achieve Lifestyle by Design and Choice, through freedom of T/P/O (Time, Place, Occurrence). He started his journey of investing in cash-flowing multifamily apartment as a tool to create multi...

Mike Desrosiers is the founder and CEO of the Growth Capital Group. Mike is a multifamily syndicator focused on value-add properties in US emerging markets. Mike has extensive education in asset management, acquisitions, and investor relations. Mike is a general partner in 13 multifamily properties through 10 syndications totaling over 1,100 units and 100 million in assets under management. His pr...

Since 2019, The Kwak Brothers have built successful real estate investment companies, educational courses, coaching programs, and software to help emerging real estate professionals grow their own real estate investing businesses. Today, the Kwak Brothers are a mission to help every family achieve financial peace of mind.” Get in touch with Daniel: https://thekwakbrothers.com/ #Tips #PreReal For i...

Joseph Viery is the founder of USTAGI with the goal of providing quality cost segregation studies. As a Cost Segregation Professional, CSP, he has helped property owners defer or eliminate millions of dollars in income taxes by leveraging IRS compliant cost segregation studies. Since becoming a CSP in 2007, Joseph has performed thousands of cost segregation studies for clients in various industrie...

Jeff is a sought-after mental toughness and peak performance coach who specializes in helping clients intentionally step into the best version of themselves personally and professionally. Jeff guides his clients to install habits and systems that set them up for success. Jeff's consistency and authenticity are what clients call out most when working with him. Jeff will meet you exactly where you a...

Joseph Viery is the founder of USTAGI with the goal of providing quality cost segregation studies. As a Cost Segregation Professional, CSP, he has helped property owners defer or eliminate millions of dollars in income taxes by leveraging IRS compliant cost segregation studies. Since becoming a CSP in 2007, Joseph has performed thousands of cost segregation studies for clients in various industrie...

Becky Nova works in cancer research and lives just outside of New York. She started investing in real estate when her husband decided that they had to buy a house, and so she made the decision that they would make money from it. This led to them buying a duplex, living on one side, and renting out the other. And after that, she was hooked! She also owns a property in Santa Domingo, In the Dominica...

In this week's episode, we wanted to share the best moments of Chad Griffiths episode on Industrial Real Estate. Chad has been an industrial real estate broker since 2005 and an active property investor since 2014. As a member of a global commercial real estate company and a partner with his local firm, Chad has completed over 500 deals with clients ranging from small companies to large institutio...

Chad Zdenek is the founder and CEO of CSQ Properties. He is a Rocket Scientist, turned Entrepreneur, turned Real Estate entrepreneur. His career has spanned 25 years but the last 7 years he has built a multifamily and self-storage portfolio over $40M through syndication and personal investing. Today he invests actively and passively in multifamily and self-storage projects across the United States...

As the Managing Member of Bronson Equity (www. BronsonEquity.com), Bronson is a general partner in 2000 multifamily units worth over $200M. Bronson co-leads a large in person multifamily meetup in Pasadena, CA called FIBI Pasadena Multifamily (www.fibipasadena.com). Bronson is the host of The Mailbox Money Show and he understands the investor mindset, having spoken individually over the phone with...

This week, James Prendamano sits down with Celia Iervasi, John Orlando and Peter Arbeeny to talk about the upcoming elections. All of them are part of the Executive Board of the New Era Democrats, An Independent Political Association (NED) and they had all been part of the organization since 1992. Get to know more about the organisation: http://www.newerademocrats.org/ https://www.facebook.com/new...

JD Sustar, aka Finance Cowboy, has been in the real estate industry since 2016 when he flipped his first home in South Florida. It was an overwhelming experience and made him realize two things: 1. He had a lot to learn 2. Real long term wealth is built through owning rentals, not flipping homes. In 2018 with only a $10,000 net worth, JD began buying rental properties in Upstate South Carolina. Si...

Eric Martel purchased his first apartment building at just 18 years of age while still at university. After graduation, in his position as an actuary, he was dismayed to see hundreds of company pension plans being rolled over into 401(k)s shifting the retirement risk to employees. This made him reconsider traditional beliefs about saving for retirement. After the Dotcom crash of 2001 Eric started...

Rob Chiang is the creator of the passive wealth coaching system. He has been managing apartments since the age of 16 and has 25 years of experience with all facets of real estate investing, including but not limited to: rent collection, accounting, maintenance, remodeling, leasing, buying, selling and owning. Rob Chiang holds a California broker’s license as well as a general contracting license a...

Jay Conner began investing in real estate in 2003. At the start of his career, he relied on his local banker and was able to put together a few deals. However, that also meant coming up with large down payments, paying origination fees, and signing personal guarantees on every deal. After years of feeling owned by the bank and being stressed out, he learned how to buy properties using creative fin...

Krista Mashore has been in the top 1 % of realtors nationwide for 20 years, selling over 2,300 homes. She is also in the top 1% of coaches nationwide. Krista is the author of four best selling books focusing on digital marketing and was named Yahoo Finance’s number 1 digital marketer to watch in 2021! She can also be found among the top 125 most impactful leaders in 2022 alongside Tony Robbins acc...