The Capitalizing Your Life Podcast

Episode 52 – Bill Hamel   “And it's a challenge down there. You can't sugarcoat it. And once again, like many things in this business, being familiar with your market and having relationships in your market, I think makes the difference. I've heard conversations with people that aren't as familiar in their market or have as much of a footprint in the market. And no matter how hard they try, they c...

Episode 51 – Joseph Jackson   “So, since I started all this, my kids started homeschooling, right? And so part of their homeschooling though is that I get them involved in my business. Teaching them Excel spreadsheets to, you know… I go talk to a lawyer, I go talk to a broker, I go down to some of our parks, so they're getting the exposure of speaking to all these different types of people and dif...

Episode 50 – Justin Moy " I invest and my investing thesis is for work optionality. You know, I want you to be able to walk away from your job with passive income. And there's generally two reasons why people do it. It's because first they want to go retire on a beach somewhere in their 30s or 40s, which is great, or because they want to take bigger risk. Whether it's working at an exciting startu...

Episode 49 – Jacobo Hernandez “So, a lot of people usually think a market is good, but then they don't look into that specific market to see what are the listings or the property types that are actually doing well. Because if you go for one- or two-bedroom apartments, it's super saturated. I don't have the exact numbers with me here, but I think the listing distribution that we found around those...

Episode 48 – Maurice Philogene “Why is it that most climb up the mountain through age 20 to 40, and they just sit there at the top? They just sit there. But your inner being, your core, your source, your God - if you want to call it that – your instinct, your gut is saying I don't want to be the executive VP. I want to go be a pottery specialist? But they don't do it because they're worried about...

Episode 47 – Taylor Jones "Do I want small? Do I want big? Do I want coastal mountain, lake, urban? Do I want more turnkey or, you know, more of a gut reno value add? How much do I want to maximize tax savings versus cash flow? Do you wanna maximize cashflow or real estate appreciation or tax benefit? Because there is no such thing as getting all three maximized in a market. That doesn't exist. If...

Episode 46 - Jeff Ervick "I didn't get into real estate to get out of my W2. I got it to complement my W2. I love to add multiple streams of income into my portfolio, so to speak. And so my entire life is a portfolio, right? So what do I have? I've got a W-2 job, right? I've got different asset classes in real estate. I've got different lending businesses. I do different types of policies and so f...

Episode 45 – Bradley Seidel   “It's the team, right? You're like, how does someone who has a military background, who's been flying for 11 years, then hops into a company like this, it's because of the team that I surrounded myself with. And that was a big part. You can't do this by yourself. You can't even come close to the scale that we're doing right now… by yourself. It just can't be done. And...

"If you don't increase rents, they can't ask more of you on the management side, because you can't pay anybody. Right? And you can't pay for infrastructure. And you can't pay to keep the property up. And you can't pay for new improvements because the government is constantly raising taxes on us. Insurance is constantly raising their rates. Our plumbers are constantly raising their rates, etcetera....

Episode 43 with AJ Smith "I think that financial freedom is very much suited to the individual. It's something that each person may define for themselves. But for me, I think it's that last one. Right? I had initially - I think in my brain like -  it's the freedom to work for yourself, and I personally reached that level, you know, and I've enjoyed it. But, I think that as you go along in the jour...

 “Then when I moved to Tampa, I bought a four-unit building and I lived in one of the units. I renovated as many as I could, and then I moved into one. And that was the real game changer. An aha moment for me. And I mean, I had tried other things up to that point. I tried wholesaling; I hated that with a burning passion. I tried being a realtor and hated that even more than I hate wholesaling. So,...

Episode 41 with Logan Hertz (Part 2) "Most people, unfortunately, put the cart before the horse where they start investing before they start saving. Right. And part of the way that they are manipulated is the financial powers that be tell them that they're saving for retirement by putting money in a 401k. That's not a savings vehicle. That's an investing vehicle and you're giving up liquidity. Put...

Episode 40 with Logan Hertz   “Yeah, your human life value. So, first of all, most people fully insure their houses. They fully insure their cars. They would never think of not doing such a thing, but they don't fully insure their lives. In fact, they don't even know what their human life value is, right? So when people ask, you know, they ask how much life insurance do I need? Well, that's the wr...

Episode 39 with Zander Kempf   “I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur. It's always been my goal, even since I was a little kid. I want to start businesses. I want to work for myself. I want to go find opportunity and monetize it. Back in high school, I was selling small knickknacks. I started a landscaping company and had about 10 guys working for me back then. Throughout college, I’d come up w...

Episode 38 with Sam Silverman   “You're investing with that person. And the biggest thing is - you know I think of this as the gut check, right? Like I manage my mom's full portfolio of her investments, and I know whatever shortcoming there may be in the future, that's a gap that I'll go fill. So, I think of it as, ‘What if my mom's money was with this person – would I sleep okay at night?’ It’s t...

Episode 37 with James Lascara “You do not need to be the one with all the right answers all the time, but you need to know where they are. You need to know where those people are. need to know how to find them. And you need to make sure you do a good job of understanding the risks that could be catastrophic. I like to give the fitness analogy, like if I'm going in and I'm doing something I've neve...

Episode 36 with James Hogan   “I want to provide good homes for people. I want to help build communities. I want to take away the eyesore in the community and make it nice. When people have somewhere nice to live, and I could speak from experience - when I was younger, I was really scrapping, man. I was renting rooms. I was doing whatever I could. And I know what it's like to go from living in the...

Episode 35 with Jason Postill   “I always like to try to bring value to these, however I can. I mean, there's no real secret sauce, and that's what we were talking about before this. It's literally just doing what people don't want to do. Like, and I hate even saying stuff that's so cliche, but like the cold calling. And my father said that a long time ago, he was in a different type of sales, lik...

“Like I'm too young to be retired. What do I want to do? And so from that, was like, ‘Hey, you know, kind of put the feelers out.’ And one of my old partners at the previous business, which was called Bongo, he was like, ‘Hey, I just started this business called PINCH.’ And it was the concept of it was like Uber, but for house cleaners. And I was like, light bulb, you know, this is perfect.” Join...

Episode 33 with Axel Ragnarsson   “I think fundamentally speaking, the greatest negotiating tool or leverage you can possibly have is an alternative. It's, ‘I don't need this deal.’ Not needing any one deal is your greatest negotiating power. And when you look at a lot of deals and you're offering on a lot of deals, when you have a good pipeline, you never become emotionally attached to that one d...

Episode 32 with Gary Covert   "I had an old customer talk to me and said that he was starting to acquire oil and gas wells and develop them. And would I be interested in talking about it. And it's like, “Is that a thing?” Because he was talking about it like flipping houses. I was like, “Really?” He said, “Yeah, that's a thing.” We partnered up. We got a couple of investors around a handful of wel...

Episode 31 with Tim Woodbridge   “So, me looking at that now I say, ‘Yeah, that's a sh*t deal.’  I'm glad that I didn't think of it like that. I'm glad I was excited. Because without doing that deal and figuring out how to do it, I wouldn't be where I am today. So anytime someone says, ‘That's a sh*t deal ,’or like, ‘Don't do that deal. That's a lot of headache.’ It's like, well, but don't discoun...

Episode 30 with Jarod Alexander    “Unfortunately, just kind of speaking a hard reality is, I mean I've just recently had some good friends that are my age that have, you know, passed away. And I meet so many, so many people that, ‘Hey, when I get to this age, I'm going to retire and then I'm going to enjoy the time and travel and do all that.’ I'm like, why not do it now? Right. Like enjoy the ti...

Episode 29 with Jim Oliver   " Jim: I'm not saying it's simple, but it doesn't mean it's easy, right? Einstein said simplicity is elusive. Now why? Because of the noise. Because of the noise. They want you to take your money and put it in a large financial institution. Okay. And so think of any, I'm not going to pick on the banks, Wall Street, insurance companies, they're all large financial insti...

Episode 28 with Kris Morin   “But fast forward, I never would have known that I would have gone on to buy hundreds of units of my own and then start this commercial private equity company that acquires hundreds of units across the US. And when you're doing these construction projects and rehabilitation projects at that scale, all of that experience managing multiple, you know, rehab projects in mu...