Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast

To sell, you have to talk to people. Fear of rejections prevents many people from just picking up the phone and having a conversation. In this episode, Gavin talks to Claude Diamond about his G.U.T.S. sales method, a simple three-step system that generates quality daily warm leads at no cost People like to do business with people they like. If you can get people to like you and trust you, you’ll g...

How do you make a competitive offer on an overpriced property that needs work? Real estate guru Joe McCall describes the process of making an impactful offer on a house ⎯ live. Utilizing Automated Offer Pro, which is available in a free version, Joe shares the step-by-step process of identifying overpriced properties, finding comps, and identifying an offer. The software provides real estate agent...

LAST CALL on our Creative Financing Holiday Bundle Independence Day Sale. This VERY LIMITED offer is worth over $5000 of materials that will teach you lease options, owner financing, subject tos - pretty much all things creative financing - plus raising private money! And again, this offer isn’t available all the time and I’m only doing this in celebration of the independence of our great country....

When I first started out doing deals, all I really did was make cash offers. And guess what. It didn’t work very well. Sure, I may be made one deal in thirty that I attempted. But it was difficult for me to see the house and speak with the seller in person since I was also working a full-time job. Then, I started also offering a lease option. Guess what? My number of deals went up. The more I lear...

Happy Independence Day, everybody! I always do a special sale on holidays and these special sales sometimes go for 90% off. No, I’m not kidding! This is legit! I’m doing an Independence Day sale. I did a class with Matt Theriault about a year ago and we did a series of episodes recently about everything creative financing. From that class, we have a bunch of physical books and a bunch of USB stick...

In this episode, we're going to be talking about some of the common obstacles that a lot of beginners face getting into this business. If you’ve done a deal or two, you're not a beginner anymore. But if you've been going through the courses, watching the videos, listening to the podcasts, maybe even dabbled a little bit and done some research and made some offers, but you haven't done your first d...

We all remember what real estate was like in 2006 (and, subsequently, the years that followed). Today I talk about how 2021 is a parallel to 2006, how we can take advantage of it, and how to prepare ourselves for a potential downturn. Between 2003 and 2006, real estate investors, and even people who were not familiar with real estate, we're able to buy properties and turn around and sell them quic...

Today I take some time to cover your real estate questions. I discuss lease option investments and investing remotely in other states or internationally. I also talk about possible reasons a buyer disappears on you, and what you can do about it. Is it possible to invest across state lines or even internationally? It is absolutely possible. And it is also possible to invest in the US from other cou...

Would you like to make money from wholesaling but think there must be some complicated secret to doing it successfully? Josiah Grimes has built one of the biggest, if not the biggest, wholesaling companies in the US, and, in this episode, he explains that it’s not as complicated as people think. Josiah has been an entrepreneur since he was in elementary school. His childhood business endeavors wer...

There are people who are real estate agents and there are people who are investors, but you don’t often come across people who do both. Frank Jr realized that there are huge advantages to being able to offer sellers a range of solutions if you want to leave with a deal.  Sometimes, when you visit a house as an investor, you realize that it would be a great house to list. You’re thinking to yo...

Today we talk to Trevor Mauch, founder, and creator of the online real estate platform Carrot. Trevor brings the data and shows us a few different marketing strategies that really work. What’s next when it comes to real estate marketing? Cold calling, flyers, text campaigns? There is a time and place for these forms of marketing, but many times, these marketing methods create inconsistent results...

Are you tired of seeing your old leads listed with another wholesaler? Do you often feel like your leads are slipping through your fingers? Are you tired of feeling optimistic about a potential client, only to find out they had no intention of listing their home with you? So many wholesalers agree, losing a lead that felt promising is crushing. You pour all your time and energy into a potential cl...

It can be easy to get overwhelmed in the real estate industry. Today, I’m going to go back to the basics and show you three easy-to-use methods for making simple cash offers. First is the MAO formula. MAO stands for Maximum Allowable Offer. I show you the formula to use, and how to adapt it to fit your specific area. Then I show a specific example of how to put this formula into action to calculat...

Here is part two of my experience owing and paying off a $520,000 federal tax lien. I’ll be honest. Sharing this with you all has been hard. It’s embarrassing, but I’m sharing it in hopes that some of you can learn from my mistakes. I felt alone when I was going through this struggle but I found out I really wasn’t; many people deal with this and have made the same mistakes that I did. Hiring a bo...

This was an interesting and vulnerable episode for me to record, and I hope you can learn from my mistakes. I’ve been nervous to let you all in on this knowledge, but I just paid off a $520,000 federal tax lien. Yep. You read that right. I just paid it off and I want to share my experience with you and tell you just how got myself into this situation, and more importantly, how I got myself out of...

Is lack of confidence preventing you from making cash or owner financing overs? Stop overthinking it. Your speed to income is directly proportional to the number of offers you make. If you want to make a lot of money, you need to make a lot of offers. Don’t get overwhelmed by the details. Use Joe McCall’s software to generate professional offers that do the selling for you. This video takes you th...

In preparation for our new 30-day Offer Challenge, Gavin and I jump online for a live session where we look for properties, call realtors and make offers. We want to show you how quick and easy it can be to make offers. You may get a dead-end, a 'no', or just a bunch of unanswered calls but that's okay. We want to teach anyone who's wanting to make it in the real estate industry that it's okay to...

I challenge my students to make offers by showing them how easy it can be to make cash offers. And because I want them to be challenged, I practice what I preach. This exercise will show you how easy it is to make offers by looking up older listings that have been on the market for more than 30 days or need work, figuring out the average lowest sold, calling up the realtor or seller, making an off...

In this episode, I show you how I start a marketing campaign for land deals. I love technology and I enjoy using it to create strategic marketing campaigns. And because technology is one of my secrets in real estate investing, I will share with you the tools and websites that I always use. What I like about buying land is how it has less negotiation talks. In fact, you don’t even have to talk to t...

We just got done with a 5 Leads 5 Days Challenge and the results are mind-blowing! We gave away over $1000 in prizes and the results from our students who used to just sit on the sidelines are now starting to get leads more than the benchmark of 5 leads that we set for the challenge. You're never going to know everything in real estate because you'll never know what situation you'll be in in the n...

If you think that advertising on TV is too expensive, you’re wrong! And that same idea is why there is so little competition in TV marketing. Tony Javier from Real Estate Masters TV had the same idea in his head ten years ago, until a friend who worked in television commercials told Tony that his real estate investing business would be perfect for the small screen. For Tony, three or four hours of...

Is wholesaling on the path to getting banned? The argument against wholesalers has been gaining traction recently. Many realtors, and even the National Association of Realtors, believe that wholesaling should be shut down. Because of the negative perception, there has been legislation passed about it recently, with more potentially coming. Today I’m talking with Jerry Norton about what this means...

Are you just starting out in real estate investing? Feeling overwhelmed and not sure how to take the first steps? In this episode, I make a cash offer live. I will talk you through the whole process step-by-step and teach you the marketing tactics, strategies, systems, and tools that you can use so that you can go ahead and feel confident making offers yourself. There are some tools that I have be...

We hear it all the time by newbie investors. “I don’t have any money to get started in real estate!”. The most beautiful part of creative financing is that it’s not your money that you’re investing. But we recognize that new investors who are just putting together a network might feel a little stuck as they’re raising private money. Matt’s got your back, so grab some paper to jot down how you can...

Shiloh Lundahl has a good portfolio mix of multifamilies, mobile home parks, and single families with lease options. As a child and family therapist, he’s only been serious about real estate investing since 2017, but he’s been able to scale up rapidly with some pretty incredible strategies. After his first few deals, his mentor warned him, “You’re going to run out of money, so you need to learn to...