Real Estate Investing School Podcast

Joe Jensen sits down with Steve Luther, founder of Cord Real Estate and leader of Cord International, to unpack why Panama has become a serious option for American investors looking at international real estate, lifestyle, healthcare, and residency opportunities. Steve shares how his life-threatening COVID battle, which left him hospitalized for four and a half months, made healthcare access a maj...

Joe Jensen sits down with Major Hillard IV, a self-made mobile home park investor who started with just $1,500 and no connections before growing into more than 1,000 lots, 500+ homes sold, and over $70 million in real estate transactions. Major shares how reading Deals on Wheels by Lonnie Scruggs changed his life, pushing him from working three jobs and living with his parents into flipping mobile...

Joe Jensen sits down with Jonathan Berryhill, a North Alabama broker, land investor, and author of Warrior to Wealth , to unpack a story built from pressure, discipline, and reinvention. Jonathan shares how he went from military and law enforcement into entrepreneurship, rebuilding his marriage, mindset, and identity brick by brick. The conversation centers on his "warrior" framework, not as hype,...

Joe Jensen sits down with real estate investor and REVA Global founder Bob Lachance to unpack Bob's path from professional hockey into building a high-volume real estate business. Bob shares how he built his portfolio primarily through wholesales and flips, why he's refocusing on his "backyard" market in Connecticut, and how market shifts are pushing him to adjust strategies and stay flexible. He...

Niyi Adewole joins host Joe Jensen to share how obsession level focus and simplicity helped him go from learning real estate through podcasts and books to landing his first 3 unit house hack in Louisville, then scaling to 30 small multifamily units, and later pivoting into ground up self storage development. Niyi breaks down why real estate finally clicked for him compared to stocks because he wan...

Jordan Blanchard joins host Joe Jensen to break down government guaranteed lending and why programs like SBA and USDA can be major leverage tools in today's market. Jordan explains the core advantages: higher leverage than conventional loans (often 80 to 90%), the ability to lend on projected income (not just historical cash flow), and fully amortizing terms that can stretch to 25 years for USDA d...

Ryan Barone, CEO and co-founder of Rent Ready, joins Joe Jensen to break down how he accidentally stumbled into building one of the most practical landlord tools on the market. What started as Ryan trying to solve his own problem as a first-time renter in NYC (missing out on an apartment because he was unprepared) turned into a much bigger idea once independent landlords told him the tenant side w...

Steve Luther, founder of Chord Real Estate and CHORD International, shares how a life-threatening COVID battle reshaped his priorities and ultimately led him and his wife to Panama. What began as a search for a Caribbean lifestyle shifted into a deeper focus on world-class healthcare, safety, and long-term optionality. Steve explains why Panama stood out, including its strong medical infrastructur...

Jeremy Beland joins Joe Jensen to share how getting crushed in the 2007–2009 recession, nearly facing foreclosure, and joining the Air Force at 33 reset his life and ultimately set the stage for his real estate comeback. At 40, he made a bold move selling his townhouse, downsizing hard, and investing in coaching to start wholesaling in 2017, landing his first deal within 90 days and building momen...

Stephen Morell joins the Real Estate Investing School podcast to break down why tax lien investing has quietly been one of the most consistent real estate backed return plays for institutional investors and how his company, Jurisdeed, is working to open that world up to everyday investors. As a former title attorney with deep experience in property law, Stephen explains that tax liens are not real...

Patrick Grimes, founder of Passive Investing Mastery and a former robotics engineer, shares how getting burned in the 2007–2008 crash reshaped his entire investing philosophy. Instead of chasing "get rich quick" returns, Patrick now treats real estate as one slice of a broader portfolio and focuses on building true financial security through non-correlated alternative investments, assets that do n...

In this episode, I sit down with Debbie DiMaggio, a top-producing Northern California agent who's been in the game for decades, and we talk about the real difference between being an investor and being an agent. As an investor, you can move fast and get creative, but when you're representing a client and a brokerage, it's a whole different world. Debbie breaks down why disclosure matters so much,...

Texas-based entrepreneur Brad Andrus joins the Real Estate Investing School podcast to unpack his journey from commercial banking to building multiple successful companies across brokerage, development, property management, self-storage, and even AI-powered business services. Brad shares the fascinating story behind his latest project — the revival of Denton's historic Fine Arts Theater — a massiv...

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, Joe Jensen sits down with Matt Lavender, founder and president of New Again Houses, one of the fastest-growing home-flipping franchise systems in the country. What started in a tiny roofing shop in 2008 has grown into a nationwide network of 50+ franchise locations powered by proprietary software, in-house lending, and a model designed t...

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, Joe Jensen sits down with Melissa Nash—a real estate investor, educator, mother of four, and wealth strategist who built a $5M+ rental portfolio using what she calls The Lazy Investor Method. After losing her business in the 2008 crash, Melissa went searching for a safer, more predictable path to financial freedom. She found it in buy-an...

On this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, Joe Jensen sits down with multifamily investor, certified money coach, and father of six, Gino Barbero. With 1,800 units and over $350M AUM—all without syndications—Gino breaks down the truth behind building a real estate portfolio the right way. He shares how he went from running a family restaurant to partnering with Jake, buying their...

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, Joe Jensen sits down with lifelong entrepreneur and self-storage expert Joe Downs, co-founder of The Bellrose Group. With a background spanning securities, mortgages, hospitality, and commercial real estate, Joe has carved out a unique path by targeting niches within the niche —specialized asset types like pro storage, boat & RV storage,...

In this episode, Joe sits down with Rob Marucci, a Connecticut-based real estate broker, licensed contractor, and long-term investor who started in 2007—right before the crash. Rob shares the hard-earned lessons from buying properties at the worst possible time, bleeding for years, and still coming out ahead by staying in the game. His biggest takeaway is simple but powerful: never buy a property...

On this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, Joe Jensen sits down with commercial real estate titan Ben Reinberg—founder and CEO of Alliance Consolidated Group of Companies. With more than 30 years of experience, thousands of transactions, and leadership over a 50-person national team, Ben breaks down how he built a true hard asset empire across office, industrial, retail, medical...

In this episode of the  Real Estate Investing School  podcast, host Joe Jensen sits down with Nathan Turner, widely known as  The Canadian Note Guy . Nathan has carved out a unique niche in real estate by focusing on mortgage notes, an often-overlooked strategy that allows investors to generate passive income without the headaches of property management. As the President of Ernest Inc. and Manager...

Welcome to the Real Estate Investing School podcast. In this episode, host Joe Jensen interviews Wendell Butler, founder of Hammerhead Capital, Inc. At just 30 years old, Wendell has rapidly built a real estate investment business that spans single-family flips, multifamily rentals, and syndications, including being a general partner on a 32-unit multifamily deal. Despite only going full-time into...

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, host Joe Jensen sits down with Mike "Big Mike" Zlotnik—CEO of TF Management Group, host of the Big Mike Fund podcast, and author of How to Choose a Smart Real Estate Investment Fund . With over two decades of experience as a passive investor and full-time fund manager since 2009, Mike shares how he navigates market cycles with logic, dis...

In this episode of the Real Estate Investing School Podcast, army officer turned "Land Shark" investor Brent Bowers joins host Joe Jensen to share how buying and selling vacant land allowed him to escape the grind, be present with his family, and still build serious wealth. Brent walks through his journey from broke in 2008, moving in with his in-laws, to discovering land flipping while still depl...

In this episode of the  Real Estate Investing School Podcast , host Joe Jensen sits down with Ryan Cadwell—veteran investor, managing partner at Resolute RDM, and all-around real estate realist. With over $100M in transactions across development, flipping, brokerage, and asset management, Ryan brings 17 years of boots-on-the-ground experience and a refreshing "no-Kool-Aid" perspective. He shares h...

Welcome back to the Real Estate Investing School Podcast. Today, we're in for a treat as we sit down with not one, not two, but three guests who share their thrilling journey from Oregon to Nashville in search of real estate deals. Derek, Chris, and Jeff are known as the Wild West Boys. This dynamic trio, once mentors and now partners, dives into the intricacies of flipping houses and mastering wh...