The Flip Talk Podcast with Don Costa

Indar Lange is a real estate investor who has made it big in Hawaii, the most expensive state in the US. He is the founder of Our Home Investments , a company that helps homeowners of any distressed situation while aiming to improve the community. Indar primarily focuses on single-family properties and works with both low-end and high-end rehabs.   Indar joins me today to share what it’s like...

Growing your business involves a lot of human resources and even more working hours. The initial growth will make you feel proud and excited at what you’ve accomplished. However, there will be times where you encounter a plateau and meet stagnation. What should you do to overcome and break past this state of your business? Today, Don and Ryan discuss what is needed to continue growing in a market...

  It’s difficult expanding a real estate business, but it’s harder to grow a company that’s been scaled a lot. Now, imagine doing that while also hosting podcasts and organizing real estate mastermind groups. That’s how I currently run my business as well as my side projects, and while there is much to say about the sense of fulfillment and achievement, it’s not without some drawbacks.  ...

Part of the role of an acquisitions manager is to have the patience and wisdom of a researcher and the charisma and confidence of a negotiator. Their tasks mainly revolve around fieldwork, settling, and elections to purchase short and long-term lease agreements that meet your business’ goals. Suffice to say, hiring the right acquisitions manager is critical to making sure each contract signed will...

  Ron Legrand has been in the real estate industry since 1982, having personally experienced five market cycles. He is an investor, podcast host, author, and real estate coach who’s helped thousands of ordinary people find their financial freedom by investing in real estate. He has personally bought and sold over 2,500 homes and made millions off commercial real estate deals. He is considered...

You can invest a lot of money in getting educated and learning from real estate experts, but it will all be for nothing if you don’t take action. Overthinking the risks and methods involved in this type of business will get you nowhere. Sometimes the only advice you need is the advice that makes you walk out that door and get started. Today, Don and Ryan describe the challenges of employing people...

  An Acquisitions Manager is responsible for seeking out suitable property acquisitions and making sure any purchase made by the company is sound and reasonable. Natalie is our newest employee, and she has been training for the position of Acquisitions Manager for two weeks. She has had extensive experience in sales, appointment setting, and telemarketing which enabled her to acquire the nece...

You can market your business without scaling, but you can’t scale a business without marketing. Marketing is responsible for getting your business leads, referrals, and closed deals. This is why a properly executed marketing strategy is imperative when it comes to expanding your real estate business. Today, Don and Ryan discuss some of their best-kept marketing secrets and how they led to successf...

  Tyler Weitz is the owner of City Link , a real estate solutions business that renovates houses, constructs new homes, sell turnkey properties, and provide investment opportunities for those wanting to have sound investments in real estate. Before he was in real estate, Tyler was failing at his sales job. It took five contracts before he finally earned his first paycheck worth $5,000.00. He...

Growing a real estate business is a lot like growing plants: A small plant doesn’t need much to grow, but its demands rise exponentially the bigger it gets. This is why a lot of businesses can have a big growth spurt but end up being forced to scale back down because the growth was not sustainable. Scaling up may be expensive but being forced to scale down is costly. Today, Don and Ryan share thei...

  Ryan Pineda is a Las Vegas-based real estate investor and author of the Flip Your Future book. He is a Managing Member of Forever Home Realty and the CEO of Homerun Offer, a business that has helped hundreds of homeowner buy and sell their properties throughout Las Vegas. Over the last several years, he has successfully built his property renovation business using private money lending. &nb...

Whether you’re just starting your business or you’ve been in the real estate game for years, every entrepreneur faces struggles, obstacles, and unexpected setbacks. Sometimes these challenges are due to making mistakes, and sometimes, they creep up due to mindset challenges or feeling like you need to perfect a system or process before implementing it.   On today’s episode, Don and Ryan share...

Brad Chandler is a real estate investor, host of the Real Estate Investing Hot Seat podcast, and CEO of Express Homebuyers , a real estate company based in Springfield, Virginia with offices in Miami, Florida that has successfully flipped over 2,100 homes since 2003. Additionally, he is a real estate coach that is passionate about teaching others how to build and scale a profitable real estate bus...

The role of an acquisitions representative in a real estate company is simple: find as many deals as possible, analyze each one, and close most if not all of them. They’re also responsible for market research as well as preparing and presenting investment proposals. However, the complexities of the job revolve around networking and establishing rapport, two soft skills that not many people have ma...

   Known as the Land Geek, Mark Podolsky has been in the business of raw land investing for over sixteen years and has completed over 5,200 land deals. He has an incredible 300% and 1000% average ROI on cash flips and deals sold with financing terms respectively. Previously trapped in the rat race and a 9-5 “no work, no pay” career, Mark has since elevated his business to a point where h...

RPB022 - Week 22 Talking With The Team- My Right Hand Kass   One of the most important team members is the Transactions Coordinator, a position that includes a wide range of responsibilities that revolve around contracts. Some of the duties of a Transactions Coordinators include overseeing every aspect of buyer and seller transactions from purchase to closing, coordinate escrow, appraisal pro...

FT088 Let's Talk Door Knocking with Brandon Elliott   Brandon Elliott is a real estate investor and the owner of Brandon Elliott Investments , a company that specializes in managing long-distance property rehabilitation projects. He is a financial awareness advocate, dedicated to helping startup companies and entrepreneurs build multiple streams of income.  Additionally, he is an active...

RPB021 - Week 21 - Talking With The Team - Our Dispositions Rep Justin   If you’ve been thinking about starting your journey into real estate wholesaling, one of the first positions you’ve likely considered filling is a dispositions representative. Someone who can create buyer’s lists, work with your acquisitions team, and keep wholesale business rolling smoothly and seamlessly. But, finding...

FT087 - Become a Master Negotiator with Marco and Hillary Romero   Marco and Hillary Romero are wholesale investors and own Hilco Homes , a Texas-based company with wholesalers and investors as members. They started focusing on real estate in 2015 as a means to generate more income for their growing family. Since both have investor experience due to being employed by a real estate company, it...

Jason Courtney is a real estate investor who pivoted his career from “fix and flip” to focus on holding properties and building cash flow from them. Unlike most investors, Jason’s been in the real estate business nearly all his life, having come from a family whose business revolved around custom home building. His first experience in real estate didn’t involve buying and selling properties, but r...

Expanding any business requires a lot of capital, willpower, and people. Depending on how big or fast you want to scale, you can end up hiring more than a handful of experts who will help you grow your business. Hiring isn’t as simple as it seems, though, and there are a lot of factors to consider to make sure who you get for a specific position fits just right. Today, Don and Ryan discuss what yo...

FT085 Achieving Beast Mode with Donald Ross Donald Ross is the owner of REI Automation Squad , a CRM service company that offers a Podio suite that automates leads and follow up processes, allowing the investor to spend more time working on the business than being in front of the computer. He is a retired Marine who got started in real estate while on active duty, purchasing a home which is curren...

Marketing and advertising play critical roles in the success and longevity of your real estate business. There are many options and strategies you can use to begin promoting your business, finding leads, and acquire new deals to get your business started on the right track. However, this often leads many new real estate investors, flippers, and wholesalers to use the “shotgun marketing” approach -...

Daniel Breslin is the President of Diamond Equity Investments , a real estate organization that operates in the Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Florida regions. He is the host of the REI Diamonds Show , a podcast for property investors and real estate agents throughout the United States. Additionally, he is the Lead Organizer of the Real Estate Investor Networking Group (RING), an organization...