Ritter on Real Estate

In today’s episode of Ritter On Real Estate, we interview Eric Martel. At the young age of 18, Eric purchased his first apartment building while still at university. After graduation, in his position as an actuary, he was dismayed to see hundreds of company pension plans being rolled over into 401(k)s shifting the retirement risk to employees. This made Eric reconsider traditional beliefs about re...

In today’s episode of Ritter On Real Estate. We Interview Dave Holman. With over a decade of experience, Dave is a triple threat; commercial broker, syndicator/investor and co-owner of Katahdin Property Management.  Dave grew up in Maine and attended Carleton College in Minnesota, focusing on Latin American Studies and Environment and Technology Studies. His first investment took place right out o...

In today's episode of Ritter On Real Estate, we interview Douglass Lodmell. Douglass is a  Managing Partner of Lodmell & Lodmell, P.C., one of the nation’s leading Asset Protection Law Firms.  Today, Douglass' law firm is responsible for protecting over $4 Billion in client assets. Douglass spends much of his time teaching, speaking, and leading thousands of business owners, corporat...

Today's Ritter On Real Estate Guest is Bill Neville. Bill Neville joined The Entrust Group eight years ago through his initial role as Manager of Operations for the company’s franchise program. When the program was discontinued, Bill stepped up to the task of managing the Compliance and Internal Audit departments. With a keen eye for detail and gaining valuable insights into the IRA industry,...

In today’s episode of Ritter On Real Estate, we chat with Yonah Weiss. Yonah is a self-described “powerhouse” when it comes to helping property owners with tax savings. As Business Director at a national cost segregation leader, Madison SPECS, Yonah has assisted clients in saving tens of millions of dollars on taxes through cost segregation. Over the past 15 years, Madison SPECS has done over 16,0...

Today's #RitterOnRealEstate guest is Rod Khleif. Rod is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, multiple business owner, author, mentor, and community philanthropist who is passionate about business, life, success, and giving back. As one of the country’s top real estate trainers, Rod has personally owned and managed over 2,000 properties. Rod is Host of the Top-Ranked iTunes Real Estate Podca...

Since 1993, Jerome Maldonado has been a self-employed Entrepreneur. Inspired by his parents’ dedicated work-ethic, Jerome has always had a hunger for success and a willingness to do whatever it took to make his vision for his life a reality. Jerome began his career in direct sales, where he was first introduced to team building, sales techniques, and real estate concepts. After years of hard-work...

Today's Ritter On Real Estate guest is Scott Krone. Scott is a Chicago native whose career in architecture began in 1991 by pursuing his Masters of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. While obtaining his degree, he also worked as a Project Manager for Optima, Inc. During his time at Optima, Krone’s responsibilities included notable projects such as the 400-unit Cormandel i...

Today's Ritter On Real Estate guest is Denis Shapiro. Denis began investing in real estate in 2012 when the market was just beginning to recover from the GFC (Global Financial Crisis). He built a cash-flowing portfolio including many alternative assets, such as Note and ATM funds, mobile home parks, life insurance policies, tech start-ups, Industrial property, short-term rentals, and more. He...

In today's episode of #RitterOnRealEstate, we have a conversation with Morris Groberman. Morris Groberman has been in the commercial real estate business for over 30 years and is a principal in Northwest Commercial Real Estate Investments, LLC. Morris has successfully completed more than 50 syndications since 1997, raising over $150 million in equity to acquire properties. Morris was a Senior...

In today's episode of #RitterOnRealEstate, we sit down with Sam Bates. Sam is the founder and CEO of Bates Capital Group. Sam started his real estate journey in 2009 and has been directly involved in the acquisition, reposition, disposition, and asset management of over $150,000,000 in AUM. His portfolio currently has 924 units in Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. Sam and his partners...

Andrew Kerr is the founder of FI by REI, a company dedicated to helping individuals in the nonprofit sector achieve financial independence through real estate investing. As someone who has dedicated his life to helping others through working with nonprofit organizations, Andrew is passionate about making sure mission-driven people don’t have to sacrifice their financial wellbeing to do the work th...

Today’s Ritter On Real Estate Guest is Lisa Hylton. Lisa is the founder of Lisahylton.com and real estate investment company that provides opportunities for entrepreneurs and business owners to invest in tax-efficient real estate investments.  Lisa is also the host of The Level Up REI podcast which airs every Tuesday and the first Thursday of each month for Conversations with Passive Investors. Li...

Today's #RitterOnRealEstate guest Joshua Ferrari specializes in raising private capital, locating, negotiating, & acquiring value-add multifamily assets, & teaching others how to follow in his footsteps. Joshua’s ability to raise private money has gotten him the title of primary capital raiser at over $7,000,000 raised in less than 3 years of his real estate journey. He currently has...

Full-time real estate investor and real estate agent from Fort Worth, Texas. Max began his real estate career wholesaling, completing fix and flip rehabs, and acquiring rentals. After completing over 100 deals in multiple states, he looked for a better way to more easily scale his real estate business and started writing lead generation books.  Max, a best-selling author of multiple books, travels...

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 25+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen. Mitch Stephen has purchased well over 2,000 houses in and around his hometown of San Antonio, TX. A high school graduate, who never stopped learning. Books, CDs, seminars and webinars were his classroom. Today he specializes in own...

Tim is a 16 year veteran of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) and currently serves as a lieutenant in the borough of Queens. Until recently, he also worked part-time as an emergency room RN at a level 1 trauma center. He brings years of real-world management and leadership experience to his real estate investment career. Tim’s initial goal with real estate was to create passive income and i...

Todays #RitterOnRealEstate guest is Paul Moore. After a stint at Ford Motor Company, Paul Moore co-founded a staffing firm where he was finalist for Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight.  After selling the staffing firm to a publicly traded company, Paul Moore began investing in real estate, founded multiple investment and development companies, appeared on HGTV, and eventually com...

Rafi Mizrahi is an out of country real estate investor. He has been investing since 2010 and has developed the skillset to overcome investing out of country. He has extensive experience in raising money from out of state investors building and managing professional teams all over the country, Property Valuation, negotiating an acquisition. Rafi started as a single-family investor, and since 2010 h...

In todays episode of #RitterOnRealEstate we sit down with Jim Monk. Jim is the President of CLOZZITS. CLOZZITS has developed a program to increase rents 3%-5% while improving the Net Operating Income (NOI) and Asset Value. All without multifamily owners laying out much capital.  His goal is to differentiate beyond the normal amenities and tap into a new area of construction development, renovation...

In todays episode of #RitterOnRealEstate we sit down with Damion Lupo. Best-Selling Author of a dozen books on personal finance, investment and retirement strategies, Damion is on a mission to free 1 million people from financial bondage. He hosts the Financial Underdogs podcast, ripping conventional wisdom apart for the Main Street investor looking for truth about money and investing. Not only ha...

In todays episode of #RitterOnRealEstate, we sit down with Dave Dubeau. Dave has been an entrepreneur since 1993 and a real estate investor since 2001. During his tenure investing, Dave has done deals ranging from creative no-money down transactions, rent-to-owns and more recently multi-family properties. Dave is an author of seven books and has been teaching and coaching people about marketing, r...

On today's episode of #RitterOnRealEstate, we get together with Mark Willis to learn all about his extensive expertise in financial planning and wealth management. Mark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, a THREE TIME #1 Best Selling Author and the Owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, Mark has helped hundreds of his clients take back co...

Today's guest Nikolaï Ray is the founder and CEO of MREX. He’s regarded as one of North America’s leading experts in apartment investing with over CA$1 billion in analysis and transactions. A leading expert in multifamily financial engineering, he’s often called to stand in as teacher, adviser, and speaker. He is also a real-estate technology pioneer with his current work on multifamily real-...

In todays episode of #RitterOnRealEstate, we sit down with Debra Wyatte, Chief Experience Officer at Cecilian Partners.  Debra brings well over a decade of customer experience expertise working with community developers, production home builders, and Homeowner Associations.  Having worked with over 100 MPC's across the country, Debra leverages trends in design, operations, and programming tha...