The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing

Dave Foster is the Founder and CEO of The 1031 Investor. Dave is a degreed accountant and serial real estate investor who is a qualified intermediary and consultant for tax saving strategies such as the 1031 exchange and the section 121 homestead exemption. Dave started fix and flipping in the 90s and realized that about 40% of his profits were going directly to the IRS. Dave tells us about the up...

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. As the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, he is one of the world's leading experts on high performance. His most recent work, Stealing Fire, was a national bestseller and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It documents an underground revolution in peak performance that is rapidly going mainstream, f...

Scott Krone 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 such notable projects as the 400-unit Coromandel in Deerfield, IL, the 40-unit HedgeRow in Winnetka,...

Jacque Turbett is Zach's Executive Assistant at Smart Real Estate Coach. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from University of South Florida but grew up in Western NY and has lived there most of her life. Jacque has worked in Customer Service in some way shape or form for the last 10 years. Jacque has a passion for running and spends her time training for half and full marathons throughout the...

Dwan Bent-Twyford, America's Most Sought-After Real Estate Investor™, started as a broke, single mom who had been fired from Denny's. She now heads up "Investors Edge University" – A company that specializes in training new and seasoned investors in a wide range of real estate investing techniques through live workshops, weekly webinars, a member site, coaching, and seminars. Having flipped over 2...

Karen Briscoe is the creator of the transformative "5 Minute Success" concept. Her books  Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed  and  Commit to Get Leads: 66 Day Challenge®  offer a combination of information and inspiration delivered through memorable stories. The daily format with takeaways propels one to achieve success at a higher level in business and life. H...

Bob Lachance has been an active business owner and real estate investor since 2004. Bob is an entrepreneur by nature and currently owns, operates, and manages many different businesses around the world. Bob helped create one of the top Real Estate Coaching and Mentor programs today and created one of the premiere Virtual Assistants Staffing companies, REVA Global LLC. Bob is an expert in the real...

Chris is the best-selling author of  Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990s and selectively to dat...

Adam Carroll is a sought after speaker, author, and seminar leader in the areas of personal development and personal finance. Adam's TED talk at the London Business School has been viewed over 5 million times! As many people do, Adam had several positions in his young professional life that helped to shape the professional he is today. He discovered a passion for selling and marketing, became a se...

Sterling White is a multifamily investor specializing in value-add apartments in Indianapolis and other Midwestern markets. With just over a decade of experience in the real estate industry, Sterling was involved with the management of over $10MM in capital, which is deployed across a $18.9MM real estate portfolio made up of multifamily apartments. Through the company he founded Sonder Investment...

Cody Loughlin is the ultimate serial entrepreneur. He began learning finance at age 18, was a millionaire by age 27, but then went bankrupt and had to rebuild at age 28. Cody retired at 39 to pursue his passion for teaching financial literacy, successful mindset and entrepreneurship that schools refuse to teach. Cody's companies have reached over $200 million in sales, and Cody has landed on the I...

Lara Markel has been in the real estate field for 15+ years. Beginning her career as a residential REALTOR®, she specialized in helping first time buyers to achieve their dream of homeownership by using down payment assistance programs and creative financing. She won many awards, including Rookie of the Year and Top Producing Team. An opportunity led her to commercial real estate where she worked...

Rock Thomas is the World's #1 Whole-Life-Success Expert, bestselling author, and host of the  #IAmMovement  Podcast. From farm boy to real estate and business guru, mentor and self-made millionaire, Rock has studied one-on-one with the world's best teachers — Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, Robert Herjavec and more — on his mission to inspire others to create their best life, on their ter...

David Ritcher is on a mission to help stressed entrepreneurs who are frustrated with not knowing their numbers and not making a profit. David cleans up their books, interprets their numbers for them, and implements a system that will increase and prioritize their profits–this leads to being less stressed, confident in their numbers, and the ability to make the profit they need to accomplish their...

Chris is the best-selling author of  Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990s and selectively to dat...

Since 1999, professional real estate investors, Steven Jack Butala and Jill DeWit, built a $24m land resale empire completing close to 16,000 transactions without incurring any debt or leverage. In 2015, they co-founded Land Academy to share their experience and provide access to professional-level tools for like-minded investors at all stages of their careers. To date, they have produced more tha...

Frank Patalano is a former school teacher who has built enough passive income to work on Real Estate full time. He is a full time real estate investor who has primarily focused on buy and hold residential investing. Before selling some units recently, Frank was a part owner in about 60 units in Rhode Island. He also enjoys syndications (in 5 other states), and has dabbled with development/construc...

Terry White, President & CEO of Sunwest Trust, has been working in the real estate & investment world for 35+ years, and he's got the expertise to prove it. After graduating with a degree in Accounting and working as a controller for a local title company, Terry launched a small escrow company, which quickly gained a reputation for being honest, hardworking and fair. In 2003, Terry took his succes...

Bob Prefontaine is Chris's father and the patriarch of the Prefontaine family. He served in the US Air Force from 1959-1962 before inheriting and further growing a company which he named Preco. In 1991, Bob sold his company to one of the largest welding supply distributors in the country. In 1992, he purchased Skaff Cryogenics, and in 2018, he sold all three of the business entities he owned at th...

Chris Arnold is the co-founder of COSA Investments, one of the largest wholesale companies in the DFW Metroplex. COSA is operated and managed by a US virtual team, which has allowed Chris to run his company while living in Tulum, Mexico. He is also the founder of Arnold Elite Realty, a cutting-edge boutique brokerage team consisting of seasoned agents. His passion for coaching and mentoring entrep...

Brian Price and Jennifer Gligoric are the founders and CEO/COO of Leafy Legal Services and hosts on Leafy Podcast. This dynamic duo has helped entrepreneurs and real estate investors get started for the last 20+ years individually and together for the past eight years. Both Brian and Jennifer have harrowing backstories. Brian 'lost his shirt' in the 2008 recession, losing everything and filing ban...

Alvis "Todd" Domerese was born and raised in Michigan. In 1998, at the age of 23, he joined the Army as an infantryman. In his fifteen years in the Army, he served with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; and served with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He did a six-month long peacekeeping deploy...

Chris is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit . He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single-family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990's and selectively to dat...

Mike Michalowicz (mi-KAL-o-wits) is the author of  Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan ,  Clockwork , and his newest release,  Fix This Next . By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two companies – one to private equity and another to a Fortune 500. Today he is running his third multi-million dollar venture, Profit First Professionals. Mike is a former small business columnist for The W...

Clint Anderson, CEO and Founder of EquityDoor, is a 20 year veteran of both technology and real-estate investing. With a passion for emerging technologies and personal experience with property management, single and multi-family rentals, house flipping and real estate sales, Anderson brings a unique, hands-on perspective to EquityDoor. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Clint first got i...