Real Estate Underground

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #27! Chris Prefontaine is a 3-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Moneeka Sawyer's Real Estate Investing for Women. He's also the Founder and CEO of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast host. Chris has been in real estate for over 30 years. His experience...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #26! Marco Kozlowski is a co-founder of Capra Capital, a boutique Real Estate Investing Mentor, and a serial entrepreneur. For more than 22 years he’s been buying real estate, working his way up from single-family homes to, today, owning more than 6,000 units across various asset classes including multifamily, hospitality, and mobile home parks. Marco is...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #25! Brandon Rush has been a real estate investor since 2020. For the past 13 years, he has worked in the information technology industry, specifically K-12 and Higher Education. Brandon left his IT career to pursue a new life as a real estate agent and investor. In 2019 while on a flight to Peru, Brandon read the book “The Magnolia Story” by Chip and Jo...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #24! Gary has been in the real estate industry for over 5 years. After graduating from the University of New Haven with a double major in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, he moved to Las Vegas to start his real estate ventures. His first property was a live-in-house hack in which he cash flowed $3,200 a month living rent-free and sold the property for a 1...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #23! Charles Dobens is a multifamily investor, attorney, and mentor to multifamily investors all around the country. Charles founded the Multifamily Investing Academy, where he works with students in his Owner Forum program to train them in the correct way to acquire, operate and own multifamily property. His legal and consulting practice has one special...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #22! Today's guest is known as "The Land Geek." Mark Podolsky is widely considered to be the country's most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land. Today, Mark will share his journey into the world of buying, selling, and leasing raw land as an investment. He has actively invested in real estate and...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #21!Heather Douglass has been a Real Estate Investor since 2016. She credits the education provided by the CTREIA coaching program and Alan Cowgill for the ability to grow her $60K holdings to over $1M in roughly five years, all financed with private money. If you want to get in touch with Heather, check her information below. Resources: Phone: 860-756-0...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #20 If you've ever tried to raise money for your real estate investments, you've probably read one of Alan's books on how to make it happen.  If you haven't, this episode is for you! The great Alan Cowgill gives us some of his best ideas on how to raise money from private lenders, even if you don't have any money of your own.  Li...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #19! Think you need to go to a fancy college to be successful in real estate?  Nope. Jason Courtney is proof positive you can begin from anywhere in life and still achieve your life's goals.   Listen to this amazing story of life transformation, redemption and success from a man who has gone from incarceration to never having to work another day in...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #18! Welcome to the NBA, friends.   Bard Kligerman is the CEO of Connecticut Realty Trust. Bard made his bones while buying and rehabbing affordable housing, beginning in Waterbury. Since 2007, Bard and his team have acquired more than 1,500 units here in Connecticut.  Bard brings a unique business philosophy to his operation. Connecticut Realty Trust is...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #17! Go to college, they said. Get a good job and you'll be all set, they said. Brendan Chisholm was where a lot of us were. He has a good education and a good job. He tried jumping into the stock market gambling machine and didn't enjoy the ride. He soon realized he was looking for a more stable, predictable investment approach by buying real...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #16! Luke Florian grew up watching his parents build their real estate business.  He then jumped into wholesaling and flipping single-family homes. A graduate of the CTREIA Coaching Program, Luke is growing a multi-family portfolio and, now, also getting into the self-storage space.  His focus has gone from cash position to building generational wealth....

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #15 Ahmed Khan is a residential buy and hold investor, who sprinkled in a little bit of rehabbing on the side.  Ahmed is an experienced entrepreneur who uses his experience as a technical Project Manager to accumulate an impressive portfolio in a short period of time. Ahmed began his investing career acquiring and flipping gas stations with a family memb...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #14. The one...the only...Julie Greco!  This #ctreia veteran joins the Real Estate Underground crew for an interesting and fun exploration of the real estate investing world.  Julie is an entrepreneur, corporate rat trace escapee, and actress turned real estate investor who brought her big brain, tenacious networking prowess, and sparkling personality to...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #13 Tom and Kevin Williams are a father and son team using their extensive legal, accounting, and digital marketing expertise to build a broad portfolio across multiple asset classes. From notes to multifamily to mobile home parks, this duo is well on their way to growing a substantial portfolio.   This episode is for anyone who wants to learn how this h...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #12 Dave Devito is a real estate entrepreneur's entrepreneur. He is an investor, wholesaler, realtor, and mortgage broker.  He is a walking one-stop-shop of creative real estate deal-making. Here at the Underground, we're pretty sure the guy never sleeps. Dave is one of those special people you come across who is good at everything, hard-workin...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #11 Mark Goux is a professional rehabber, student housing maven, and all-around rental property rock star! In this week's episode, Mark joins Ed and Rich from Clark St Holdings' worldwide headquarters! Mark spent more than a decade in the restaurant business building struggling locations back into becoming profit centers, again, for his partner...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #10! Creative financing is in our next guest's DNA. Risby Drayton is rapidly building an impressive portfolio of residential properties throughout Connecticut. Risby has mastered the use of personal and business credit as well as how to acquire properties 'subject to' current financing. Listen in if you're low on funds and full of mot...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #9! Linda Baumgarten is back! Linda is the co-founder of the Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association and a successful real estate investor in her own rite. A mentor to so many of us, Linda has generously offered her experience and expertise to thousands of real estate investors over the past 15+ years, and now she's back for more! Listen in if...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #8! Adam Bonoff is a Stock Broker, Trader, and Sales Executive turned real estate investor.  He is the Managing Member of Long Hill Partners LLC, a  buy and hold and student housing investment firm.  Needless to say, with his vast investing experience, Adam has his expert fingers in a whole bunch of asset classes.   Listen in if you want to learn about h...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #7 As you build your team, a BIG key to success is working with professionals who speaks "real estate investor".  Attorney Timothy Goetz is certainly one of those professionals. Not only does Tim run one of the fastest-growing firms in Connecticut, but he and his wife also own a portfolio of properties here in Connecticut. Time brings over ten...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #6 Negotiation is the foundation of any good real estate deal.  Paul Finck, The Maverick Millionaire, is the best of the best.  He is bringing his unique Negotiation Mastery strategies to this show, and the upcoming CTREIA meetings in Central CT (January 17) and Fairfield Co (January 18), as well as an all day workshop on Negotiation Mastery, on Saturday...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #5!  Think realtors don't understand how investing works...think again.  Rob Makas is a realtor, a flipper, a buy and hold investor, and, now, a vacation rental SuperHost! Rob has been in the Real Estate Industry for over 10 years. Along with his wife and business partner, Rebecca, they run Flip It Good. Flip It Real Good . They are also one of the...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #4! On this week's show, we talk with family man, Realtor, wholesaler, multi-family investor, and jujitsu badass, Oz Pariser! Learn how he approaches the Connecticut market from multiple perspectives to create and take down the deals to grow his ever-expanding rental property portfolio.  You'll also hear about how he uses the power of habit to...

Welcome To The Real Estate Underground Show #3! Stephanie Cabral is the founder of Sunrise Real Estate, LLC.  A native to Connecticut, Stephanie offers a local, personable contact in the cash buyers world. She is a lawyer by trade, so she stands out against other investors by leveraging her problem-solving skills to achieve win-win situations for her clients. Compassion and a desire to help good p...