The Flip Talk Podcast with Don Costa

Michael Green started in real estate investing more than 8 years ago. He spent his first full year trying to find a deal to no avail, so he did what anyone would do in his situation: Learn from the best. After finding and learning much from his mentor, Michael was able to find 13 deals within 6 months, a spike in progress from when he was just starting out. Michael eventually wanted to grow big, s...

John Schaub and Michael Morrongiello are considered some of the best in this business. Their long tenure in the real estate investing industry and the properties under their belt speak for just how resilient they are even in a down market. John himself has survived five recessions, four tax law changes, and high interest rates in his almost forty years as an investor. Michael on the other hand, sp...

Juan Esteban Viteri is not your typical real estate investor. Like many of my guests, he buys and renovates properties and earns money from them, but what sets him apart is his primary customers: Homeless Veterans. Juan’s main business is what we call “Transitional Homes,” a type of real estate business that serves to fight the homeless problem in our society while also making decent pocket money....

Dwayne Shaw and Andrew Liebenhaut are two of the three owners of the uniquely named real estate company My Dad Buys Houses . Dwayne was in sales out of college and grew tired of working 60+ plus a hours a week. He started in real estate in 2006, but the crash made him lose everything. He decided to get back into the game with his friend Andrew later on. Before becoming a real estate investor, Andr...

Ryan Scialabba and Arron Archibald are the owners of Urban Capital , a company that focuses on a fix & flip type of business with over 30 rehabs a year. Ryan started out in 2013; Arron was already in the game as early as 2006. Ryan was first into wholesaling until he took an interest in rehabilitation and eventually met Arron. It just so happened Ryan was looking for someone to form a company...

Jamie Wooley has always been an entrepreneur. Prior to her real estate business, she owned a clothing company and a golf marketing company. While these two business ventures paid the bills, she didn’t feel like she was living the dream. She had the sudden urge to look for something better, higher, and since she had nowhere to go, her father asked her to work for him while she searches for that nex...

Mike Cowper is in the wholesaling business with lucrative success despite being relatively new to the industry. He was working on his career in sales for almost five years when he realized he didn’t want to be an employee forever. Looking for a way out, he looked into the different opportunities available to him. It was around September 2014 when he found out about a free real estate mentorship gr...

Carlito King was always a skeptic, especially when it comes to “get rich quick” schemes. He initially thought of real estate investing as something that was too good to be true . Then again, he didn’t have much of a choice when he started. They just had a new baby, bills were piling up, money was going down the drain, and all his ventures failed to become profitable. When you look at it from Carli...

While Adrian Nez is great when it comes to wholesaling and owning rental properties, he’s more at home with online lead generation, as he’s always shown fondness for the psychological aspect of marketing more than anything. He’s so good at it that he became popular for generating leads than closing deals. He credits this one particular investor whom he helped many years ago. He was literally just...

Chris and Mel McGready have only been deep in the real estate business for over ten months, but their first experience happened 12 years ago. Their first “deal” was when they found a property on MLS, found a realtor, invested $500.00 and walked away from the business to focus on forging a normal work and family life. Last September, Chris and Mel decided to try again. Both Chris and Mel were tired...

Terance Fulton started his career in building his financial empire when he was just 9 years old, pumping gas for money.  His habit of earning money on the side never left him as he grew up; he sold candy and chips in middle school, and sold shoes when he got older. Although Terance made a good living with his day job, he knew he could do better. That’s when his friend pitched him ideas on rea...

Known as the “Texas lease options guy,” John Jackson is the go-to guy for learning how to do lease options in Texas. To his credit, he has done over 600 lease option in Texas since 2003. He attributes his career and success in the business was all because of his daughter. Before embarking in the real estate business, John worked in the stock market, and he hated it. He only found the inspiration t...

Paul Del Pozo is a proud member of the Flip Talk Facebook group. He started in real estate when he found himself in a 4-hour drive across states. He was searching for ideas on real estate and en route to his destination, he found himself signing up for a webinar which further boosted his desire to learn more about the business. Paul’s cousin was already in the real estate business, so he decided t...

Yassin Shaar is a marketing specialist that partners with real estate agents and wholesalers to help them achieve their marketing goals. Yassin frequently generates leads from Craigslist, a site that many real estate companies wouldn't think to include in their marketing tool bag. Yassin has developed strategies for finding and identifying profitable leads by means of different marketing technique...

More than his awesome name, Country Musick is known as an expert in real estate business. He says his parents were really interesting people and since their last name was Musick, they thought it was a great idea to name their child Country. Growing up, he had a slightly not-so-normal life, but nothing really difficult except when lawyers are needed to verify his name.  Country prides himself...

Whitney Nicely is a real estate investor who does most of her deals in Tennessee and Georgia. Her business runs on lease options, apartment complexes, and “random chunks of land.” Whitney said being a real estate investor runs in her veins as she drew inspiration from her very own mother. As a child, her mom always asked her to get the money from the mailbox so she thought real life was just like...

Luke Weber is a fix and flip real estate investor who first worked for a travel company. The stress, workload, and the 80-100 hour work weeks proved to be too much, so in 2001, he packed up and left that complicated world for a simpler life as a real estate appraiser. There, he went from filing forms to actually getting his own real estate license. He bought his first flip in 2003 and notes how ge...

Twenty-one-year-old Jared Garfield spent two years doing religious services, just got married, and was a broke college student. His desperation for an income source prompted him to call and order - what seemed at the time - a shady real estate course being offered on VHS. He learned how to buy properties with no capital, and landed his first deal before starting his real estate brokerage firm. He...

Dan McCutchen thrives in Washington DC, one of the many places investors usually don’t even dare try to market. Back in 2008, Dan founded Helpful Investing with his partner Marcus, a company that buys, sells, and rehabs properties in the Greater Washington D.C. area. He started the company being in debt with over $100,000.00, but his business eventually grew, and he has been crushing it ever since...

Larry Higgins is not like most real estate investors - he’s a young blood in real estate having only spent three years. When he started, he had an in interest in real estate so he can cushion his retirement. He never actually considered going full-time in real estate, though, at least not until he started working in a 9-5 cubicle job. It was at that point where he realized life is simply too short...

Jason Buzi is a wholesaler in California who has mastered the art of doing deals in high-end markets, earning up to six figures. He started in real estate in his mid-30’s as he spent his early years in the corporate world. It was a bad experience for him since he had multiple issues with the environment and his bosses, so he would move on to commission-type jobs until he asked a close friend for h...

  Mitch Stephen has been in the real estate game since 1996 with over 1500 deals under his belt. He specializes in strategies regarding owner financing where he buys houses with other people’s money. He’s the author of My Life & 1,000 Houses: Failing Forward To Financial Freedom where he tells his origin story, his struggles and failures, and how he eventually came out on top in the end....

Obi Dorsey is the founder of Freedom REI, a real estate investing business focused on wholesale deals and fix and flips. Being a new entrepreneur, he’s not shy to say he’s only been in this business for four years. He said he owed his company to his frustrations over working 60 hours a week, having no time for his family, and just basically lost control over his destiny. He said he named his busin...

Alex Pardo always had the entrepreneurial, bug even when he was a kid. Before he was a teenager, he was already engaged in the business of flipping - flipping baseball cards in baseball card shows that is. He found money in that simple gig, but it wasn’t the thing that made him who he is now. No, that would come at a much later time where he found himself working close to 80 hours a week for GE’s...

Peter Vekselman has always been involved in buying or selling something. He first went with franchising businesses then he sold them. He reinvested into the mobile home industry and he also sold them later. He would later pick up an interest in real estate, learned the tools of the trade, and remained in it for the next 15 years. His 15-year career as a real estate investor started out bumpy, maki...