The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing

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 1990's and selectively to date), has...

Boston-based attorney Charles Dobens teaches a step-by-step program that will show new investors to seasoned professionals how to get started in the multifamily real estate investing business even with limited cash, credit or experience. A successful attorney and consultant to multifamily investors all over the country, Charles Dobens has personally acquired over $20,000,00 of apartments and been...

Jesse Mills has been a Senior Mortgage Advisor for the last 15 years and a Real Estate Investor for the last 8 years. His passion is to show people how to live the most amazing life possible and to live each day to the fullest. He uses his experience, passion and creativity to help as many as he can get into a home of their own, reduce their debt, get on the path to financial freedom and realize t...

Curtis May built a financial advising company that offers a wide pool of knowledge for clients who have the desire not just to invest or organize their money – but to enjoy it now. His business follows the Prosperity Economics model that is focused on life-long learning and alternative investment options. Curtis has been in the business since 1985, and his 30-year commitment to the industry gives...

Paul Ritter has over 25 years' experience in the mortgage and credit enhancement industries. He has developed software, which invokes mortgage-underwriting guidelines. It is very useful for anyone looking to buy a home, wants to run "what if" scenarios and is especially useful for Lease Option transactions. Paul has formerly owned and operated several mortgage companies. He is currently the owner...

After 12 years serving in the military and over 20 years running a successful private practice, Ross Stryker realized if he didn't alter his course he'd be trading hours for dollars forever. It was this belief that led him to launch Smart Asset Opportunities. He's helped raise almost $100 million in total costs and owns 40+ single-family homes, 14 ATM's, a coffee farm in Panama, apartment complexe...

Ryan has been a prolific fix & flip entrepreneur since 2002 and has mentored thousands of new real estate investors during that time. He first started in real estate as an agent, along with his wife, almost 20 years ago. The success came quickly. The Salt Lake Board of Realtors named him "Real Estate Rookie of the Year" and his company won "Best of State" as well. Despite these successes, he never...

Since 1980, Eddie Speed has dedicated his professional life to the Note buying industry, seller financing, and non-performing notes. He's introduced innovative ideas and strategies that have positively impacted the way the industry operates today. Fifteen years ago, Eddie founded NoteSchool, which is a highly recognized training company, specialized in the teaching of buying performing and non-per...

After college, Ryan got a job teaching, got married, had a baby, and then became an evacuee of Hurricane Katrina when it hit New Orleans. Losing the security of a set job and 401k, he had relied on traditional ways of making money. Ryan went on job interviews for over a year until he landed a job as a copier salesman. Experiencing the misery of corporate America, he decided that he needed to do wh...

Bill started Bright Property Solutions in 2017 at the ripe young age of 71. He and his partner, Joanne, have grown the business to over $1M per year by buying and selling residential properties on terms in the DC/Baltimore area. Bill's plan is to grow the company to $3M per year by 2020, and then will try to scale back from his 14-hour days to spend more time with his family–including nine grandch...

Stephen Woessner is the founder and CEO of Predictive ROI, a digital marketing agency, and the host of Onward Nation — a top-rated daily podcast for learning how today's top business owners think, act, and achieve. Onward Nation is listened to in 120 countries around the world with over 28,000+ email subscribers. Since the advent of the commercial Internet, Stephen has collected tens of thousands...

He used to have a corporate day job. Now he's a full-time real estate investor who lives to help others find their way. Paul Thompson is turning his personal story of securing 20 deals in his first 18 months of investing into an inspiration to others. When Paul realized that the perfect time to start investing was never going to come, he jumped in! Now doing about three deals per month, Paul is ab...

Neal Bawa is CEO/Founder at Grocapitus, a commercial real estate investment company. Neal sources, negotiates and acquires Commercial properties across the U.S., for 200+ investors. Current portfolio over 1000 units, projected to be at 2000 in 12 months. The portfolio includes Multifamily and student housing properties in 6 U.S. states. Neal also serves as CEO at MultifamilyU, an apartment investi...

Ty Crandall is an internationally known speaker, author, and business credit expert. With over 17 years of financial experience, Ty is recognized as an authority in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business financing. Ty is the author of two of the bestselling books on consumer and business credit Perfect Credit and Business Credit Decoded and has written hundreds of publishe...

Mike Makredes is from Fresno, California. He has been in sales all his professional life, and currently working in the Ag industry for the largest melon, broccoli, and corn grower in the US. He handles sales for over 12 million cases ($150 million) of produce per year. What brought him to Chris and the Smart Real Estate Coach team was the thought of getting out of the rat race and into a business...

Claudia Dill grew up in upstate New York and Northern California. Claudia attended State University College at Cortland majoring in Physical Education but never taught. She moved to Lake Tahoe, worked as a professional ski patroller and other seasonal jobs for several years. Later, Claudia obtained a degree in Physical Therapy from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her first entrepreneurial ex...

Against all odds on a gridiron in South Bend, Indiana, Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger in twenty seven seconds, carved his name into history books as perhaps the most famous graduate of the University of Notre Dame. In 1993, TRISTAR Productions immortalized his life story with the blockbuster film, RUDY. Written and produced by Angelo Pizzo and David Anspaugh, the award-winning team who brought us HOOSIER...

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 1990's and selectively to date), has...

Starting from nothing, J. has built a multi-million dollar real estate business. He now trains students from around the world on the methods he uses to generate cash flow and raise millions in private capital. His primary focus is now on creating his own hospitality businesses using only short-term rentals, and he currently controls 21 units that earn nearly a million dollars a year in income. J....

Aaron grew up in the real estate investing world, left briefly to get his stockbroker's license and an MBA in Strategy, but returned to the world of real estate investing as a marketer, copywriter, and content strategy consultant for investors. As an investor, Aaron has done commercial and residential deals, wholesales, flips, and buy-and- holds. He currently lives in Canada and owns cash-flowing...

Jefferson is a mobile home park investment expert and educator. He is the founder of Park Avenue Partners (ParkAvenuePartners.com) and co-founder of Park Street Partners. Collectively he owns 25 MHPs coast-to-coast totaling over $56m in value. Jefferson started the industry's first podcast dedicated to investing in MHPs (MobileHomeParkInvestors.com). Prior to managing investors' money in 2013, he...

She is a proud mother of two boys, wife of a great and supportive husband, and a business entrepreneur. Elsa's background ranges in many areas. She started like most working in fast-food in high school and then convenience stores and waitressing, while also working with her parents in robotics. She then went on to working in automotive service and parts, mortgage and auto loan processing, and then...

In today's Family Cast, Chris is joined by family members Nick Prefontaine and Zach Beach. In 2003, Nick was in a snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over three weeks. The Doctors told his parents that he probably wouldn't walk, talk or eat on his own again. Less than three months later, he was running out of Franciscan. Now a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer, Nick speaks to...

Mike Giannulis (Gee-uh-NEW-liss – kind of like "Gee, a new list" because after all, he's in marketing!) has overcome the odds and loves to share that story to inspire others. Mike especially thrives on connecting with entrepreneurs to motivate them to "do big things" in the world. Mike's story begins in an average family where he had to work for everything he had. He started "at the bottom" and wo...

Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and an in demand small business coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV and the Dream Business Radio Podcast. Jim is a serial entrepreneur and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, No Hassle Social Media, Concierge Print and Mail on Demand Suc...