Real Estate Breakthrough

"Always be teaching and always be willing to accept change." -Ivan Oberon   Today I am interviewing  Ivan Oberaon who is a Direct Lender and Top Producer with Civic Financial which is a private money lending company with a specialty in non owner occupied residential investment properties. Ivan's background was in insurance before he began his investing career in 2011 as a hard money lender in sout...

"My encouragement to you is to just breathe, stop and acknowledge your loss, assess where you are and make a sound decision on your next project." Christina Suter Today I am talking about your mindset and how your mindset can affect how you lose money in real estate investing. To me, there are 7 ways to lose money while investing and the 1st is when investors don't realize how much of themselves i...

Today I am interviewing David Coe who is a realtor, investor, developer and advisor with a specialty in the South Bay section of Los Angeles. He is the partner of multiple businesses including Capital Stack which is a  real estate firm that invests in private equity in high quality asset backed developments in short term and long term residential constructions. David's company Coe Real Estate focu...

" Real estate is a commitment, it's a career opportunity for you to grow and be a better human being." -Christina Suter   Today I am talking about your mindset and the question of does real estate really suck? I'd like to first remind you that if you are getting into real estate for the reasons of getting rich quick or obtaining easy cash, let me tell you that's not the reality of it. Real estate...

"Something happens in your life where you stop for a minute and you go, is this the life I really want to live? Am I really living my life to the fullest? I didn't have a bad life, but it wasn't the life I wanted. I was selling my time for money and I didnt have any more time to sell. "  -Deborah Razo   Today I am interviewing Deborah Razo who is a real estate investor with a focus on rehabbing an...

"Ego isn't about you looking shiny all the time and it isn't about you being the big guy or the big gal. It can be the small stuff, getting the small right and doing it yourself because no one else can." -Christina Suter   Today I am talking about the big question everyone asks and that is how do I have no more mistakes in real estate investing? As someone who has been investing for over 30 years,...

"Don't depend on social security, depend on yourself." -Kaaren Hall    Today I am interviewing Kaaen Hall who is the founder of uDirect IRA Services . uDirect helps thousands of people self direct their IRA's into private equity investments such as real estate, notes, performing & non performing debt, crowdfunding and more. Assisting people with taking their retirement out of wall street and into...

"At some point, I really encourage you to think about if this is a portfolio that is going to serve me in my life now and later. The later part is where you want to be clear of what your end goals are. " -Christina Suter   Today I am talking about education on the topic of you and your investing. In most conversations regarding goals in real estate, most people will tell you that your return is th...

" Whatever deal you do, make sure that somebody on your team has done that same deal many times and that you are not investing somebody else's money on something that nobody has done before, unless the investors know they're taking a risk." -Kathy Fettke    Today I am interviewing Kathy Fettke who is the co creator of the Real Wealth Network alongside her husband Rich Fettke. Kathy is an investor,...

"Fail forward quickly is absolutely what's required in real estate so trust your investing skills. Trust your capacity to fail forward, but trust yourself to stay educated." -Christina Suter   Today I am talking about mindset and how our capacity to fail forward leads us into lifelong learning and improvement. The first step is believing in your investing skills and to never stop improving. The se...

"There's no price to freedom or control of your own life and destiny."  -Pat Leung     Today I am interviewing Patricia Leung who is the founder of her own tax firm, Leung Tax Consulting Inc. Patricia specializes in tax strategies with a focus in real estate, private equity and within  finance service industries. Patricia spent the beginning of her career working in the supervisory and management...

"Your actual barrier to entry is not time, money, capacity or intelligence, your actual barrier to entry is a choice to get educated. " -Christina Suter Today I am talking about mindset and how your education in real estate is essential for your success. The type of job you have, the type of education you've received, even the amount of money in your bank account, should not put a hold on you  mak...

You only have one chance to tell people how you do business.   You counter any dollar, they're going to counter you for the rest of your life." -Bruce Norris    Today I am interviewing Bruce Norris on how he got started in real estate investing. He is the founder of The Norris Group and has  three plus decades in the field.  His beyond extensive background has an abundance of experiences and stori...

" Real estate is such a diverse field that the way you participate in real estate, the way you start in real estate can be based upon your natural talent."-Christina Suter   Today I am talking about your education and the overview of you. The biggest thing you need to cultivate in real estate is yourself. Knowing who you are and what you do or don't like doing will help you reach your goals in inv...

"Looking at what I want my retirement to look like, and to also be challenged, real estate provides so many avenues for creativity and data including the people I get to work with. I never thought I'd end up in real estate and I've really learned to love it. "-Aaron Norris    Today I am interviewing Aaron Norris who is the VP of Market Insights at PropertyRadar . He is also Vice President of The N...

"There is a way to take those deep seeded memories to reprogram them into something new. So until you can reprogram it, at least don't let it stop you."-Christina Suter   Today I am talking about mindset, but more importantly how our personal history has defined us and it starts in our childhood. Remember a moment from your childhood where you were missed? Where an adult told you that what you wer...

"If you want massive results, you have to take massive action." - Marco Santarelli   Today I am interviewing Maro Santatrelli, who is an investor, author and creator of Norada Real Estate Investments , which is an investment company that offers turnkey properties in growing markets nationwide. Marco is the author of the book Passive Real Estate Investing , which focuses on teaching people of all l...

"Let yourself of the hook for not knowing it before and set yourself up for success by choosing to learn it now & by choosing to have a financial education."- Christina Suter   Today I am talking about your financial education and how much that has impacted your life in the world of finances. If  noone has ever sat you down and described to you investing, stocks, notes, insurance, the rule of 72 o...

"We're going to use our good dollars today and pay them back with weaker dollars in the future."- Brent Kesler    Today I am interviewing Brent Kesler, who is an ex chiropractic coach and practitioner who now implements and coach's people on what he calls the Money Multiplier Method, which derived from R. Nelson Nash Becoming Your Own Banker: Unlock the Infinite Banking Concept . Finding himself i...

"You gain self confidence because you learn the truth of who you are and you accept and make that truth of who you are successful"  -Christina Suter   Today I am talking about mindset and how accepting yourself is a gateway to becoming successful. One of the myths adopted by society is that you should trust people before you trust yourself. However, as an adult, it is your responsibility to recogn...

"The Investor has to win, our partners have to win and the community and the residents have to win." -David Thompson    Today I am interviewing David Thompson, the founder of Thompson Investing, which invests in domestic and international projects in multi family, single family and land development. After deciding to leave the corporate world, David began investing in storage units, mobile home pa...

"Your net worth has a very distinct very clear job, its job is to work for you."   Today I am going to talk about your net worth and what it means to find investable capital within your net worth. There is a distinct difference between what you can invest and what of your net worth is actually already working for you. A very important part of this, like Ive mentioned in my past shows, is taking ow...

"The bottom line is freedom." - Ellie Perlman Today I interviewed Ellie Perlman who is the founder of Blue Lake Properties. Ellie owns over 2,000 properties in Florida, Georgia and Texas. Alongside Blue Lake Properties, which specializes in multifamily acquisition and management, Ellie is a coach and mentor leading a program called REady2Scale, where she educates people on how to become multifamil...

"The key to financial freedom for you, is the vision in your head" Today I am going to talk to you about financial freedom and what it means. First, you will have to find out what it really means to you and how it affects your life and the people you love? What financial freedom means to you will mean something entirely different to the next person, making it that more important to discover what i...

"If you don't have systems in place you won't survive long term." -David Tilney   Today I am interviewing David Tilney who is one of the pioneers in master leasing also known as hassle free property management. David spent the past 35 years learning and implementing the master leasing concept, which he knew was the key to long term success in real estate. He has presented at my FIBI Pasadena meeti...