The Side Hustle and Business Show with Eric Lindsey

Intro — for busy pros & business owners: Roberto Carbetta didn’t wait for retirement to invest—he built his real estate journey alongside long work hours, proving steady action drives results. Starting as a Toronto bank teller, he learned from wealthy clients tied to real estate, bought his first deal at 21, ran a construction business for over a decade, and now helps manage a $25M portfolio i...

Most people assume you need to quit your job to build wealth in real estate, but Scott Kidd proves otherwise. After 20 years as a yacht captain, he built a portfolio of multifamily properties and syndications—all while managing luxury yachts full-time. His journey shows how demanding professionals can still scale by leveraging partnerships, systems, and mindset. Scott’s start was simple: buying a...

Bill Ham joins the Moonlight Real Estate Syndication Show to share real talk on coaching programs, investing, and building your business while working a full-time job or running another business. With nearly 20 years in real estate, his perspective helps investors cut through noise and avoid costly mistakes. He breaks down how big-name coaching outfits work, why many investors get disappointed, an...

️ Guest: Bill Ham — multifamily owner/operator since 2005, author of Real Estate Raw & Creative Cash, founder of Creative Cash Academy. 👤 Host: Eric Lindsay — Moonlight Real Estate Syndication Show (built for people with a W-2 or full-time business). 💡 What Bill Actually Did (and Why He Says Don’t Copy It) ✈️ Started as a pilot out of school, read books, and bought a duplex as his first deal...

 Intro Summary David Pere proves you don’t have to give up your career or business to build serious wealth in real estate. While serving full-time in the U.S. Marine Corps, he built a 116-door portfolio in just over six years—starting with a simple house hack and strategically scaling into multifamily and boutique hotels. He’s mastered the art of investing on the side, using systems, partnerships,...

️ ️ Host: Eric Lindsay | 👤 Guest: Shannon Seeberan, Co-Founder • Cloud Med Spas 👀 Investor Value Proposition Shannon co-founded Cloud Med Spas—a platform that lets real-estate owners turn unused medical exam rooms into hourly rentals for aesthetic injectors. The model was built after she spent eight years consulting in aesthetic dermatology and saw nurses, RNs, and NPs eager to run their own sid...

Got a full-time job or business? Still want to build wealth through real estate? This episode is for you. 🚀 Alan Franks is a financial planner who didn’t quit his job — he used it as a launchpad. While raising a family and managing clients, he quietly stacked properties and built passive income one deal at a time. 💼🏘️💵 🛠️ HOW HE GOT STARTED 📍 Alan began investing in his early 20s while working...

 Intro Summary At 19, AJ couldn’t get financing, so he teamed up with a friend who had credit, bought a house, and house‑hacked with roommates—living free while values climbed. That first win pulled him into the industry; he started selling and investing the same year and became a broker/owner by 25. Today, as introduced on the show, he’s facilitated billions in deals, manages 1,000+ properties, a...

Flippers, landlords, house hackers & homebuyers—foundation mistakes can vaporize your profit! 💥💸 Before you swing a hammer, get the diagnosis right. 🩺🏚️ 🧠🔬 STEP 1: BRING IN A LICENSED FORENSIC GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER (residential soil & movement specialist) BEFORE the foundation repair bid. Engineers figure out what’s really happening under the slab 🕳️🧭; repair companies price the fix...

 Intro Summary Cole Oliver is Senior Vice-President at King Operating, forging long-term partnerships with capital-raising teams. In this episode he explains why many real-estate syndicators add oil-and-gas projects to their portfolios and what unique risks new investors should weigh before committing capital. 🔍 Things Discussed Core differences between real estate and oil & gas: daily commod...

📌 For the past two decades, Richard Crouch has been the quiet deal architect behind complex real-estate syndications—guiding sponsors through subject-to assumptions, seller-financed seconds, and multi-tier equity waterfalls. He then applied the same playbook to build his own real-estate portfolio. If you want a clear, step-by-step view of how a transaction is papered, funded, and closed, Richard’...

 Meet Our Guest Carlos Samaniego — former paramedic and former real-estate loan officer who is now a federally licensed IRS specialist (enrolled agent) and co-founder of Tax Debt Consultants, LLC. 💡 How This Episode Will Help Real-Estate Investors Hidden tax debt can block a refinance, stall a sale, or even drag an entire partnership into collections. Carlos explains exactly how to spot those ris...

 Intro Summary Community-services coordinator by day, apartment buyer by night! Nate Pharmer-Eden 🇺🇸 started out helping manage 1,000+ Madison WI units for a developer, then realized he wanted ownership too. With a fiancée, two kids, and a 9-to-5, he formed Eaton Capital (2023) and began scooping up value-add multifamily deals in the Carolinas without quitting his W-2 job. His secret sauce? Tight...

Meet Michael Liddicoat—former teacher, nonprofit director, and IT project-ops pro who pivoted into real estate after watching his parents write a six-figure commission check on a 120-acre sports-complex land purchase. Determined to keep future fees “in the family,” he got licensed, mastered underwriting, and ultimately left the W-2 world to become a full-time investor and fractional COO. 🚀 🔍 Thi...

 Intro Summary Austen Baxter jumped from three overlapping jobs—daytime residential‑gas tech, overnight DOT construction, and weekend subcontracting—to a life where rentals pay the bills and family dinners aren’t rushed. How? Late‑night “work sprints” for underwriting, portfolio lines of credit to fund BRRR rehabs, and credit‑union refis every 30–60 days. Timeline: Within two years his rental inco...

 Meet Austen Baxter—former gas‑line technician by day, former DOT road‑crew worker by night, former weekend subcontractor, and always a husband and dad. For three solid years he: • Woke up at 9 AM to trade the market 📈 • Fixed gas lines until 7 PM 🔧 • Clocked in for overnight highway work until 5 AM 🚧 • Grabbed a 4‑hour nap 😴 • Repeated that loop Mon–Fri—then ran his own remodel crew 12 hours...

📌 Intro Summary In this segment, Angela Healy explains how partnering with an expert mid‑term property management company transforms the landlord experience. Mid‑term rentals—furnished stays of 30 days or more—bridge the gap between short‑term and traditional leases, offering steady income and lower turnover. By educating HOAs and city economic‑development teams, Avenue West keeps buildings rent‑...

Angela Healy grew up helping her parents manage a pair of rentals that paid for four college tuitions—proof that real estate builds real security. After college she joined a bank as a commercial lender and used her savings to buy a small condo in San Francisco. Six months later rising costs left her “house‑poor,” so she furnished the unit and leased it to a corporation on a month‑to‑month basis—on...

Are you juggling property deals while holding down a demanding career—or running a lean investing business full‑time? Either way, you’ll get serious value from this episode with Curt Moore, a 30‑year energy‑industry land‑management veteran who moon‑lighted as a real‑estate investor. A fraudulent deed filed against his mother‑in‑law’s house back in 2014 lit a fire under him 🔥. Using lunch breaks f...

Lane Kawaoka started investing while working full-time as a civil engineer. When interest rates jumped and loans tightened, he paused new acquisitions, re-checked every assumption, and pivoted from quick cosmetic rehabs to ground-up multifamily development 🏗️. By building units for roughly $150 K and targeting exits around $200–250 K, he now builds in wider margins and stronger downside protection...

📌 Intro Summary Lane Kawaoka locked in his first Seattle rental in 2009 while working full-time as a civil engineer. By 2015 he’d assembled 11 professionally managed single-family homes. Yet each year brought the potential risk of having at least one eviction or a major mishap—flooded basement, fallen tree, you name it—that could wipe out months of profit. Realizing that more houses meant more ex...

In this episode, Michael Kharlab walks us through how he balanced a full‑time IT career while launching his real estate business—structuring each deal as its own entity, raising $2 million in days, and even pivoting midstream from Denver multifamily to Florida self‑storage. 🤓🏢 Things Discussed: Balancing W2 Income & Real Estate Hustle 🖥️🏠 • Steady Paycheck: Michael used his IT salary to qua...

🏾 Are you working full-time but dreaming of owning real estate? Want to grow wealth on the side while juggling a job or business? In this episode, you’ll meet Michael Kharlab — co-founder of CFP Group — who built a real estate investing business while working 20 years in IT & telecom 💻📞. He now helps 200+ investors grow their money passively. But it all started with one condo in Miami... an...

Who This Is For These show notes are perfect for both full-time investors and anyone juggling a job while buying and managing properties on the side. If you’re keen to build long-term wealth, boost cash flow, and keep more of your profits from the taxman, tune in to learn how. Brandon Burns is a senior leader in the 1031 exchange space, guiding investors through thousands of deals to help them mak...

In this episode, Bill Faeth explains how he balances a short-term rental education business with scaling his own real estate investments. He highlights a specific move: selling a $1.7 million property to free up $1 million in equity, then rolling it into a $2.95 million modern cabin in Whitefish, Montana. From hosting 9–10 live events annually to converting a three-car garage into additional suite...