Real Estate Investing Mastery Podcast

A lot has changed since Brandon Schwab introduced us to his senior boutique living portfolio. The pandemic has swept through large senior living facilities, and Brandon predicts that that will make retirees turn to these more intimate, clean, and personal homes instead. Brandon’s most recent purchase is a 15 bed home on 43 acres in Illinois. He talks about the numbers in this deal, and he gives us...

With a response rate of 0.5%, seller leads require a lot of energy to chase down. Rather than expending energy on finding seller leads, Justin Van Riper is laser-focused on finding buyers. This approach means he can keep his team lean, and hone in on an approach that consistently works for him. Not only is the response rate nearly ten times that of seller leads, but buyer leads will purchase more...

Here’s a little teaser of one of the things we’ll be covering in our FREE, LIVE 5-day workshop: the 5 simple steps we go through to do deals virtually. Gavin and I talk about the basics of getting and closing deals without even physically seeing the property. —Market research – pick a market, look into your own backyard and don’t ignore the small towns —Get a team – hire a virtual assistant, a loc...

Gavin and I have been making deals virtually successfully for years now and we both believe that if you don’t need to physically walk into a property to close a deal, you can definitely be virtual. To date, Gavin and I are at about 60k in wholesaling profits. But before we were able to get to where we’re making this much profit, we both had to go through major shifts in our businesses. We were bot...

Rumors are everywhere about how Covid-19 is affecting tenants and landlords. Laurence Jankelow sent out a survey to the tenants and landlords on his platform to get some hard data and numbers. Laurence runs Avail, a soup to nuts website that helps landlords and tenants pay rent, run background checks, report maintenance problems, and advertise vacancies. With over 10,000 responses to his survey, L...

Some of my favorite coaching clients that I’ve ever had talked to Gavin and me about how their business is going through the pandemic. Steve, a self-described technophobe, talks about the learning curve for using REI Simple, and how he and Coco work together as a team. Guys, this business isn’t rocket science. You just get on the phone and talk to people. Steve’s version for breaking the ice is a...

Ester Telles makes our coaching job very, very easy. She does exactly what Gavin tells her to do, and her business is blowing up. This month she grossed $32,000, even during the shutdown. The dedication and grit she puts into this business is reaping dividends daily. Before coaching, Ester had been in this business for three years, but she wasn’t even paying herself a profit. She talks about her p...

Over at Carrot, Trevor Mauch and his crew help high-level real estate investors control the conversation online and get more leads. He stops by today to talk about all of the different ways you can use content marketing to build your lead pipeline and increase your online authority. How relevant is SEO to your marketing? All of the marketing that you do right now creates online demand. The first t...

In 2018, we looked at all of the deals that we’d done, and out of 58 deals, 53 came from the follow-up. If you want to increase your conversion tactics, you need to be prepared to follow-up with old leads. Take some things off your plate by automating and delegating the work. I share all of my follow-up tactics, including how I use REI Simple and virtual assistants to help me with this work so tha...

Qualified, active buyers are going to become your new best friend, so I want to talk about strategies for finding your new BFFs. In-person networking, buyers’ lists, websites, and Realtors are all going to help you in this transition. You need to dig your well before you’re thirsty. If you’re already thirsty and you need the cash, it’s a lot harder to make that fast money. Don’t wait too long to b...

There are three things to be focused on in this market, and your ability to succeed through this market shift will rely on how well you can do these three things. I describe the huge variety of creative financial deals you can offer when you would choose to offer them, and I give you examples in real-time on how to figure out the offer. You need to learn how to make multiple offers. No more one-tr...

Hey guys! If you’ve ever wanted to “watch Joe LIVE” doing marketing… then you’re in for a treat. This Friday, May 15th, I am doing a Live Marketing Masterclass. This will be live, and I am going to pick a city and, from scratch, do some seller & buyer marketing. We’ll be doing live calls, and showing you how you can do marketing, even during this pandemic. learn more at: livemarketingclass.com

Wealth doesn’t disappear; it transfers. As the market changes, I want you to be prepared for where the wealth moves to. I’ve got some encouraging words for you today, but more importantly, I’ve got tons of ideas of how you can position yourself to be a part of these new opportunities. There are two very important rules you need to understand as we move into the opportunity phase of this crisis. On...

If there’s one lesson former teachers Marlena and Josh Dates have learned about real estate investing, it’s “Never pause your marketing!”. From Florida, Marlena and Josh have an eye on how Airbnbs are impacting the market, the best marketing for your dollars, and where the market is going because of COVID-19. Even if they have to borrow money from their parents, Josh and Marlena say they will alwa...

I love opening up the conversation to include our listeners because they always have such great stories and questions. You guys really make my job easy, so thank you for showing up with your concerns and comments. We talk about how to have natural, easy conversations with sellers, what to do if your deals keep falling through, and how creative financing will help you as this market shifts. Do you...

Yes, the market’s a little uncertain now, but there’s still death, divorce, and inheritance problems. There are still tired landlords and people still need a place to live. And all of these situations create opportunities for us. You’re just going to have to take this uncertainty and pause, plan, and pivot to take advantage of the changing landscape. As entrepreneurs, you should be used to changin...

One of the biggest reasons for having a website is to build trust with your audience. A nice website can communicate really quickly what your brand is and who you are. A janky website, on the other hand, sends the message that you don’t really know what you’re doing. If you don’t have a beautiful website right now, don’t worry. I talk with REI Conversion founder Jessey Kwong about how he builds so...

One of the mistakes that people make is that they try to sell the lease option concept, but they lose every single time. Instead, you should start thinking about how it’s all about positioning. In this coaching call, Gavin walks some of our students through the wall they keep running into as they talk to sellers. Positioning yourself as an investor when you talk to sellers should be the basis of a...

I started in real estate right before the crash, so I have to be honest and say that I made a lot of mistakes when I entered the real estate market. I’m embarrassed to say that I lost homes to short sales and foreclosures before I finally figured out what I was doing. And I learned that lease options in a down market work really, really well. The 3 things you need to be focusing on right now are m...

The three keys to success are marketing, automation, and delegation. Using automation requires you to find the best tools to streamline your business, so I’m really excited today to talk about the automation that Howard Zonder has created with his Land Speed business. For new investors who are just getting into land investing, Howard and I talk about some different strategies for figuring out wher...

We opened up our show today to you to answer the questions on your minds, and we had some really, really great questions that touched on where you’re at, and how this market is doing. Gavin covered the basics, we talked about partnering with local Realtors, and we shared our favorite real estate tools. One of the top questions on everyone’s mind is: Have prices started to drop? We’d love to give y...

I started in the wholesaling business when it just didn’t seem like a great time to be moving into real estate. Gavin Timms started in real estate with literally zero experience. We both believe though, that real estate is always a great industry to be in. If you’re short on money, but long on time, we have some solid pointers for how you can make money starting today. First of all, money is made...

I am so excited about this side hustle opportunity from Lee Arnold of Capital Syndicate. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Lee is a private money lender based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and because he doesn’t rely on Wall Street money, he’s not pulling back during this market upheaval. Instead, he’s looking to invest in more secure, lucrative real esta...

The first thing to realize is that there are no answers. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s focus on the things you can actually do to prepare your business to survive during this economic uncertainty. I talk with Jason Medley from Collective Genius, one of the best real estate masterminds in the country, about the advice he gives to all of his investors. It’s like we’re a bike that’s shi...

Forward thinking Cris Chico from Virtual Wholesaling knows how to look ahead and predict where things might end up because he’s already been down this road before in the last market upheaval. Cris is an expert in using Facebook ads to find seller leads, so he talks about where he sees online marketing heading as the real estate market changes. Picking a market isn’t as simple as pulling out a map...