Real Estate Breakthrough

"I always try to look at things as if I was the owner and I think that's something a lot of people don't do." -Mario Guagliardoo   Today I am interviewing Mario Guagliardo. He is the Vice President of KCB Real Estate , a buy and hold control investing firm with income producing assets around the country. Mario oversees KCB's Partnership portfolio with over 5,500 units valued over $1.25 billion. Be...

"If you're trying to scale a business of volume, it gets much easier with the right systems in place, but the systems have to continually change." -Robert Fargoso   Today I am interviewing Robert Fragoso. For 17 years he served as the Executive Vice President of Anchor Loans, one of the country's largest hard money companies. In 2014 Robert departed from Anchor Loans and used his industry knowledg...

"You don't want to have to go back and correct things because we want to file the first time and have the first time be correct. "Tony Watson   Today I am interviewing Tony Watson. He is the Tax Consultant and Keynote speaker for Robert Hall and Associates . He manages over 350 million in holdings and holds a federal license as an enrolled Agent Tax Practitioner. He has presented at hundreds of or...

"Los Angeles is the top 5th economy in the world and a part of which makes the economy so diverse is because it's diverse." -David Coe   Today I am interviewing my long time friend, fellow investor, realtor and developer David Coe. He is the Founder of Coe Real Estate Group which specializes in construction in the Los Angeles area. He is also a Partner with Capital Stack Investments alongside Brya...

"What you really want to focus on in real estate ideally is borrowing at a lower interest rate than your actual cash on cash return."  -Brett Swarts   Today I am interviewing Brett Swarts. He is the Founder and CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions , which is a national Deferred SalesTrust Trustee firm. Brett and his team together have over 20 years of real estate investing experience as well as 13 y...

"Wherever you're going to be investing, there's going to be a different tempo and it's not about imposing my tempo onto a culture, but learning to work with the culture.- Deborah Razo    Today I am interviewing my long time friend and fellow investor Deborah Razo. For 20 years she ran a successful design firm and in 2020 pivoted to running a successful rehabbing business in southern California.  S...

"If you understand how to angle yourself to be the tool they need for their business, that's how you build meaningful relationships."  -Phillip Vincent    Phillip Vincent is the CO Founder of Moms House , a senior living real estate niche that helps families transition their loved ones into senior living while also helping them sell their property. The Mom's House Senior Transition Specialist nati...

"Real Estate, especially when you're talking about large investments, is a business and it's just as much a business as anything else." J. Scott   Today I am interviewing J. Scott who is an Investor, Entrepreneur, and Advisor and he is also a Partner at Bar Down Investments . He has held, sold, rehabbed, bought and syndicated over 150 million in properties around the United States.  He is the co-h...

"We all have money baggage, rather we observe that from someone else or we were taught that from other people."  -Ellis Hammond   Today I am interviewing Ellis Hammond, he is the head of investor relations and Co-Founder for Symphony Capital Group , a firm that focuses on managing, funding and finding real estate properties. Ellis was a college Pastor who decided to use his gift of fundraising to...

"It took almost 11 years to get back to our 40 year average on housing stocks and we have a such a low supply that still needs to be built, but it's going to take a long time to get there." -Chad Zendek Today I am interviewing Chad Zdenek who is the CEO of CSQ Properties . He is a licensed General Contractor and Registered Professional Engineer. CSQ Properties manages, acquires and repositions mul...

"When almost 53% of renters are paying more than 30% of their income on rent, they're not in the position to come up with thousands of dollars every year to move." - Aneissa Goss   Today I am interviewing Aneissa Goss who is an Investor, Property Owner and Short Term Rental Host now working in insurance. What's unique about this interview is that we focus on two products designed to create solutio...

"By investing in single family, you are potentially risking all your other assets not only putting your personal credit on the line, but also exposing yourself legally from a liability standpoint. " -Patrick Grimes   Today I am interviewing Patrick Grimes. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of Invest on Main Street, a private equity firm focusing on passive investments in commercial real estate. H...

" With rising interest rates you need to not only increase your purchase cap rates, but your exit cap rates as well. " - Fernando Angelucci     Today I am excited because I am speaking with Fernando Angelucci who shares some amazing stories on how he became an expert in the self storage market as well as advice on how to navigate it. He is the CEO of Self Storage Syndicated Equities and is also th...

"If you are getting an asset, you should be looking for an asset with intrinsic value you can unlock." - Paul Moore   Today I am interviewing Paul Moore for the 2nd time here on the Real Estate Breakthrough Show. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Wellings Capital and is an investor, author, and educator. Paul has presented at my FIBI Pasadena meeting numerous times and is a world class rea...

"If you've lost money in real estate, its not a reason to give up."  - Christina Suter   This episode is a little different because today I am sharing my Economic Update at WREN's monthly meeting, which took place in mid May. I have 30 years of experience working in real estate and have spent the past 15 years as a Real Estate Advisor and Mentor. I have acquired over 350 doors since my investing c...

Today I am interviewing Cody Laughlin , one of the founders of Blue Oak Capital and Brian Alfaro who is Managing Partner. Blue Oak Capital is a private equity firm based in Austin, Texas. They concentrate on the acquisitions of multi-family real estate that cash flow, while also providing business culture excellence to their investors and serving and creating community for their residents.    Cody...

"Fear is a call to courage and within each of us there is more power than we can even understand." Kim Wendland   Today I am speaking with Kim Wendland who is one of the founding partners of Quattro Capital , an investment firm focusing on multi-family residential real estate. Their goal is to help people achieve financial freedom and well being. Kim, who had an intensive and successful career in...

"Our big thing is financial wellness, it's just as important as physical, mental and emotional health." - Savannah Arroyo Savannah Arroyo is the CEO and Founder of Net Worth Nurse , which is on a mission to help nurses (but not only nurses) discover financial freedom through real estate investing. Savannah discovered through sharing her investing journey online, that many people in her circle were...

"The other side of it is tax free, but here's the really cool part. They call this arbrotrose as the money sitting in your account (the principal) you don't take distribution you take a loan." Today I am interviewing Andre Simoneau. He is the Executive Vice President of Five Rings Financial as well as a partner at Life Made to Order Financial .  As a Financial Preservationist and Financial Consult...

"How do I protect my assets and my money from inflation, well I'd invest in hard assets and that's real estate." -Kathleen Kramer   Today I am extremely excited again to be  interviewing Kathleen Kramer who is a licensed Broker and Mortgage Originator. This podcast is special because Kathleen just presented this topic at my February FIBI Pasadena meeting and because of the importance of the inform...

"We found that the best way for us to loan money is just to get to know the people we're loaning to." -Jeff Smallowitz   Today I am interviewing Jeff Smallowitz, a Consulting Aerospace Engineer,  who along with his wife Ellen, are Private Money Lenders. In 2006/2007, Jeff and his wife were looking for an apartment building to purchase. Meeting after meeting, they had no luck. At one meeting in 200...

"I can gain financial leadership and it has nothing to do with the amount of money I'm starting with. It's the commitment to choose to have financial choices in my life." -Christina Suter    Today I was interviewed by Ben Malech who is the creator of the Real Estate Milestones Podcast . I met Ben at this year's IIREC. He was kind enough to approach me and ask if he could do an interview with me re...

"When you find that team, you have to spend time with them. It is critical to understand how this person works." -Julie Anne Peterson Today I am interviewing a very special guest, Julie Anne Peterson. She is the Senior Director at Old Capital , a commercial real estate company that deals in debt and equity.  She brings 30 years of transaction history in the real estate world and has recently trans...

"Just because there's uncertainty, it doesn't equate to a greater amount of risk. It's about limiting the risk while gaging the uncertainty." -Marcus Arredondo Today I am interviewing Marcus Arrendondo who is the Managing Partner of Two By Two Group and has over 15 years of real estate experience in the fields of multi-family acquisitions, tenant relationship and syndications. Of his 200+ transact...

"You need money, but you also need education." -Kevin Oliver Today I am interviewing Kevin Oliver who I have known for 10+ years. He is a Broker and Investor in Bakersfield, CA and has 15+ years of experience as an investor, wholesaler and educator. Aside from running his own companies, Kevin has spent a portion of his career training and recruiting new investors in wholesaling and rehabbing. He i...