The Titanium Vault hosted by RJ Bates III

Corey Thompson is a real estate investor unlike any other. He currently is based out of Groesbeck, Texas but invests all across Texas. He specializes in mobile home parks, owner financing and wholesaling. His background is in the oil industry and he chose to make the change to real estate investing when he became concerned about job security. Since that decision, he has learned the in's and o...

Erik Saengerhausen and Collin Corrington are real estate investors based out of San Antonio, Texas that specialize in creating real estate notes. Their core business focus is to purchase real estate, rehab the property and then sell it via owner finance terms. They will then either keep the note as part of their retirement plan or sell the note at full value. They usually do this over 100 times pe...

In this episode, we have Jean Ginzburg who is a #1 best-selling author and marketing expert with more than 10 years of industry expertise helping companies scale revenue, optimize sales and marketing processes and improve productivity. Jean has been featured in Forbes and the Huffington Post. She is also a speaker and consultant for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500. Jean goes into de...

In this episode, I decided to have my son, Trinity Bates, be my guest host and put me on the real estate investing hot seat! I answer questions about why I started this podcast, what challenges wholesalers will face over the next five years and who was my biggest outside influence in real estate investing. It was a blast to have my son on this episode. DaDa loves you, Bubba! Support the show

Jamie Wooley is the owner of W Streets which is a real estate investment firm in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. W Streets primarily focuses on wholesaling but they also flip properties and acquire long term rentals. Jamie is celebrating her two year anniversary of being a real estate investor this month. She has quickly become one of the top wholesaling businesses. Last year, W Streets successfu...

Brian Meara is a real estate investor based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started off as a real estate agent that specialized in short sales and stopping foreclosures. He quickly learned that it would be more profitable to become the investor that purchased these short sale opportunities. Once he started investing in these properties, he quickly grew a team of negotiators to help him acqui...

Nathan Brooks is the CEO of Bridge Turn Key Investments based out of Kansas City, Kansas. In this interview, Nathan shares some great tips on setting up a successful real estate investing business. He explains how he implemented systems and learned from his failures but made sure he always failed forward. Nathan also shares the importance of continuing to educate yourself within your business. Thr...

As the owner of Kahuna Investments, Corey strives to provide his investors with stable cash flow returns and long-term capital appreciation by buying multi-family apartments. Corey has managed and acquired over $65 million in real estate across the country. He is the bestselling author of “Why The Rich Get Richer – The Secrets to Cash-Flowing Apartments” and host of the Multi-Family Legacy Podcast...

Codie Sanchez is an entrepreneur, investor, speaker and the Head of Latin America for First Trust Portfolios. She's raised billions of dollars over the last 10 years in asset management, consulted on investing at some of the world's most powerful institutions such as Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and invested in/advised 24 startups to date. Prior to that, she worked on Wall Street at Goldman...

Tim Bratz is a real estate investor based out of Cleveland, Ohio. His core focus is on investing in apartment complexes in multiple markets. Tim started his real estate investing career by flipping and wholesaling single family residential properties. In this interview, Tim goes into detail about how his career transitioned from selling single family residential properties to now focusing on the l...

Nehad Darwish is a realtor based out of Tampa Bay, Florida. She is the Director of Expansion for Ace Estates Group. Ace Estates Group is currently expanding to several new major markets and has the goal of being established in 40 major markets in the next 5 years. Their core focus is on wholesaling and retail real estate listings. Nehad has had an amazing journey and gives much of her credit to he...

Tucker Merrihew is a real estate investor based out of Portland, Oregon. His primary focus is on new construction projects where he tears down the existing structure. He also rehabs properties and has rental properties within the Portland metro. Tucker breaks down how his business functions and the responsibilities of his employees. Aside from flipping houses in Portland, Tucker is also the host o...

Luke Weber is a real estate investor based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Luke is currently flipping houses in Las Vegas, Reno, Phoenix and Houston. His company averages around 150 successfully flipped houses a year. In this episode, he goes into detail on how he has structured his company to make this possible. Luke is also passionate on educating other investors with his book, The Flipping Blueprint,...

Max Maxwell is a highly successful real estate investor and wholesaler from Winston Salem, North Carolina. Max gives great insight into what it takes to create a successful wholesaling business. He goes into details about the difference between a double close and an assignment. How he interviews his cash buyers and determines if they will be added to his buyer's list. Max also shares how impo...

On this week's episode we decided to change it up a bit and instead of having a guest on the show, we are doing a Q&A session. RJ Bates III sits down and answers questions about real estate investing submitted by listeners of the podcast. Here are the questions submitted to us that RJ answers throughout the episode.1. What is your favorite investing strategy?2. How do you approach or attr...

Austin Good is the owner of The Good Home Team - Keller Williams Realty, ANG Development Group and ANG Real Estate Holdings. Austin has the incredible real estate investing resume of owning $32MM in real estate assets at the young age of 32. He shares with us how he started from being a retail real estate agent, broke into investing and now owns his impressive portfolio. Aside from being an inspir...

Mike Hambright is a successful real estate investor, founder of Flipnerd, Investor Fuel and a coach/mentor for newer investors. Mike shares his story of leaving his 9-5 jobs and creating a successful real estate investing business. In his first year as a real estate investor, he purchased 65 properties and never looked back. After years of building his investing business, Mike decided to expand in...

Jawad Dashti is the owner of Precision Plumbing and TooDash Properties in Dallas, Texas. Jawad was running a highly successful plumbing business when he was told he was losing money by keeping it in his savings account. That day forever changed Jawad's life as he then set himself on a mission to teach himself real estate investing. One of the unique things about Jawad's investing busines...

Carl Dean started his real estate investing career as a wholesaler in Detroit, Michigan. After building a successful business as a wholesaler he turned to rehabbing properties and selling them as turnkey rental investments. During this transition he moved from Detroit to Kansas City and eventually Dallas, Texas. It is there that his turnkey rental business took off and eventually earned him the aw...

Trevor Mauch is the CEO of Carrot which specializes in real estate investor websites that gets search engine rankings and generates free seller and buyer leads. Trevor is one of those entrepreneurs that truly practices what he preaches to his team. He is a beacon of positivity that has created a set of "core values" for the Carrot team. Those "core values" are Have Fun and Be D...

Don Costa shares his incredible story of how he was a successful real estate investor prior to the economic crash in 2007 and 2008 and lost everything due to lack of systems and accountability. Don suffered several humbling moments from using quarters to pay for gasoline and having his credit card declined to purchase dinner for his family. He used these moments as motivation to create a real esta...

Donovan shares his story of getting his start in real estate investing with wholesaling and how he has become a high volume rehabber in the Dallas, Texas market. Donovan now runs an investing company with a team of 15 people that help him with his flip projects. He shares how he acquires, markets and finances his deals. Donny also breaks down the value of the subject to the existing mortgage strat...

Lawrence Thompson is a motivational speaker, author and television host from Memphis, Tennessee. Lawrence found his calling, after his service in the military, by speaking to people and motivating them to find their true potential. He shares with us how that led to him becoming a published author and a local television host in Memphis. Support the show

Jeremy Rubin is known as the Friendly Flipper on social media and is a real estate investor based out of Santa Maria, California. Jeremy mainly focuses on fix and flip investments and plans to expand his company to flipping over 100 houses per year very soon. He is also currently developing The Friendly Flipper Academy which will be a real estate investing education program for newer investors. Me...

Ryan Scialabba is a managing partner at Urban Capital Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ryan goes into detail on how he has been able to scale his fix and flip company with focused intentions of acquiring specific properties in his local market. This allows Urban Capital Group to flip close to 40 properties a year with the goal of rapid growth of the next couple of years. I had the pleasure of me...