Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast

Hiring the perfect real estate team takes a bit of work, but it can take your business to the next level. Your team is everything, especially if you want to spend more time working on your business instead of in it. Having key team members allows your business to run so you can spend time focusing on growth and planning for more free time. The first hire you should make is a virtual assistant. Off...

Systems, marketing, and delegation are three keys to success when it comes to the real estate business, but we can’t forget about some good, old-fashioned cold calling. I decided to go through the Battle Creek, Michigan market and do some live calls with sellers. Once you get a feel for what the conversations are like, you can feel good about making calls yourself. I’ll walk you through my prospec...

Gavin Timms and Don Costa, co-hosts of Coffee With Closers Live, are here with us today to talk about how Don got started in real estate investing, how he overcame a massive loss when the markets crashed in 2008, and how he rebuilt into one of the biggest investing businesses in the country. For Don, the epiphany came when he hit rock bottom. He had to really take a hard look at how he was doing t...

What if you could get better returns, safer returns, being the bank instead of being the landlord? Today it's REI in your Car. It’s been a great summer. I'm sharing a little bit about what's been going on in my world as well as some cool new masterclasses we have planned. Currently, I’m working on flipping some vacant lots with my boys. That’s been really fun. We bought them for 10-11 grand, and h...

To succeed in the business of real estate marketing, you need two things: time, and money. Well, today, Gavin is here to tell you that you can actually get started in this business without putting any money down at all. And he doesn’t just mean to buy the property: he means no money spent on marketing either. The best thing is, I know this technique works. It's how I got my start in real estate. S...

The slow flip strategy sounds new for many, but not for my guest today. Scott has been doing this strategy for many years and this strategy that Scott created will break the great rental myth of “passive cash flow” in my opinion. The slow flip strategy is all about buying rental properties like a car and selling them like a house. We’re talking about real passive cash flow from clear and free prop...

Gavin Timms is telling you how to get creative in order to close more deals. When you position more options, you’re more likely to find something that is going to solve the seller's problem and make you money. When you first start working on an offer, find out why the seller is selling. Get to the core of their problem. Is it the house? Can they not afford their payments? Is it just that they don'...

Today, I give you a sneak peek of the first hour of a class I did with Vena Jones-Cox over Zoom. Vena is a really experienced investor and leader of the OREAI National Real Estate Investment Summit. She gives you the details and how to do “subject to” deals, a really creative and profitable way to buy properties. A “Subject To” is a deal in which you purchase a property subject to the existin...

What do you do with dead leads? Do you realize you’re leaving money on the table? Gavin Timms interviews Chris Craddock, who shares the benefits of partnering with realtors. Chris shares his secret to making the most out of a dead lead. When you’re making offers on leads, there are some that are going to fit right into your wholesale deal. What about the rest? Someone is going to make money on tha...

It may seem like you need to throw a lot of your own money down to buy a property, rehab it, and rent it out. But with a simple strategy called the BRRRR Method, you can position yourself into property assets via refinancing and you don’t have to invest any of your own money. David Dodge is basically “the BRRRR guy,” so he’s here today to break down exactly how it works. BRRRR is an acronym,...

I am live on Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube in this episode. I've collected some listings from this Zoom call and I am going over them with you here for the first time. I am detailing how to find comps, calculate the ARV, and prepare an offer.  When you're looking at a listing, it's important not to do too much research before you talk to the seller. However, you do want to be clear on the best...

I’m doing another live Q&A with my students today, and they’ve submitted some great questions about lease-option deals that I’m excited to answer. First, we have a quick discussion about state laws pertaining to lease option agreements. You definitely want to check the laws in the state you are doing your deals in so that you are sure that you are doing everything the right way. In Texas and N...

Want to make more money for less work? Of course, you do! We all do. That’s why Gavin is interviewing Michael Schwartz today. He’s going to tell us all about how he was able to accomplish both of these things by spending time and effort building a good team. It’s all about working on the business, not in the business. Michael learned the hard way that when he was doing everything himself, leads we...

We’re continuing our Most Common Questions series today with Part 3. We’re doing a live Question and Answer session today with some of the most common questions that I get regarding lease options and creative financing deals. I got a ton of great questions, covering things like partnering with realtors, tenant insurance requirements, and an update on the current laws regarding sly dialing and sly...

One of my favorite investing strategies is to find a small niche that you can dominate. Our guest today, Nick Fulmer, did exactly that in the special area of recovering surplus funds and overages. One of the things we talk about a lot on this show is how, in real estate, we really are helping people solve problems. They need money, or they need to sell their house so they can move, or whatever the...

Gavin Timms has a brand new format on REInetwork.com and he’s brought two of his clients, Pamela and Terry, on today to tell you all about it. They’re about to close out 100k in their first month. Talk about massive action! They really dove into the program and ran with it, and the results speak for themselves. They’re here today to tell us all about it. The real secret is in their partnership. Te...

I got so many questions during my first live Q&A session that I had to come back with a second episode! We’re doing a live Question and Answer session today with some of the most common questions that I get regarding lease options and creative financing deals. We cover choosing a virtual market, whether or not you should market in war zones, lease option legality issues, and more. Plus, we dis...

Is it possible to maximize your ROI while, at the same time, minimizing your risk? We’re going to find out today, thanks to special guest Matt Theriault from Epic REI TV. I always thought that the higher the returns on your investment, the higher the inherent risk. And to some degree, that’s true. But you can beat the odds by changing the game a little. The key is to diversify into an uncorrelated...

Whether you’ve been investing for years, or are just dipping your toes into the real estate markets, I believe that your fundamentals have to be solid if you want to succeed and grow your business. That’s why Gavin Timms is going to be sharing with you his seven key steps in virtual wholesaling. Step one is picking a market. There are a few things to consider when doing this, and he recommends you...

If you’re like many real estate investors, you’ve steered clear of mobile home parks because they seem both confusing and complicated. Well, my guest today, Adrian Smude, found a different way to do things, and he’s here today to tell us all about how he built a business on buying and renting mobile homes with his wife. Adrian works primarily in Florida, so he recommends buying the land along with...

Liens aren’t fun. They aren’t fun to talk about, and they certainly aren’t fun to deal with. But sometimes, the ability to negotiate a lien will make or break your deal. That’s why I’ve brought my friends Gavin and Melissa onto the show today. Melissa recently was able to work a $106,000 lien down to only $6,000, and she’s going to tell us all about how she did it. “It was just really a matter of...

Today’s show is all about marketing, specifically using social media. Special guest Nate Armstrong is going to tell us all about how he turned his business around by using social media marketing. Look, everyone is on social media all the time, and you might even be watching me on YouTube right now. Why not use these tools to help grow your business? Nate shows us how to combine targeted ads with a...

I had breakfast with a friend of mine, David Dodge, who does a lot of deals. And I was one of the guys who helped him get started about 6 or 7 years ago. I remember when he started, he spent tens of thousands of dollars on education but wasn't doing anything with it. He needed a coach to clear the distractions and point him to where he needed to focus. All I did was give him a scorecard. He create...

I get a lot of questions about lease-option deals during my live classes and coaching sessions. And it’s little wonder: lease options are my thing. I’ve even written a few books on the subject, which you can get at the links below. We’re doing a live Question and Answer session today with some of the most common questions that I get regarding lease options and creative financing deals. We cover co...

Doing real estate deals online is amazing. It allows you to make deals from anywhere in the US. But it can be overwhelming to try and pick a virtual market to get started in. Literally, everyone overthinks this. And I get it. When you look at a map of the 50 states, it’s a lot of ground to cover. Where do you even start? Well, the trick is to start small and grow from there. The best areas to star...