Threefold Real Estate Investing

Fritz Ritter started his real estate investing journey by house hacking a 4-plex. He made many mistakes, but he was always covered by the other tenants who paid for all of his expenses. On the other hand, when his first house flip went south, he was stuck with paying for all the extra expenses himself. It was these two, very different experiences and outcomes, that convinced Fritz that multi-famil...

After moving her family to a new area in New York and facing a changing work environment, Esther Reizes-Lowebein decided to make a career change. She left the healthcare industry where she was a Speech Language Pathologist, and moved into the real estate industry. She quickly became more interested in commercial real estate as opposed to residential because she enjoyed working with investors.&nbsp...

Darin Batchelder decided to get involved purchasing real estate in the fourth quarter of 2017.  He purchased a new construction duplex, but then searched for a way to go after larger deals. He was very familiar with the multifamily asset class but wanted to learn how to purchase larger deals. He joined a multifamily mentorship group in the Dallas area and by the beginning of 2018 he started t...

Jean D’Amico has spent nearly 20 years in the digital media industry.  He has developed marketing programs with some of the biggest brands in  the world like Coca-Cola, AT&T, Hilton, and Walmart. While advancing  his successful sales and consulting career, Jean became disenfranchised  with corporate life. He started to consume vast amounts of financial  literacy advice...

Despite having incredible success in his IT sales career, Abel realized that he'd have to work harder and harder just to maintain his income. Every year his expected sales were increased as well as his responsibilities. He also worried he wouldn't be able to save enough for the retirement he wanted for himself and his family.  As he began to educate himself on ways to build wealth outside of...

What is your true, God-given calling in this life? Most of us are limited by time and money, so we don’t even dare to dream about fulfilling our purpose. But what if God is calling you to do something different? What if God is calling you to leave your job? What if multifamily investing could give you the freedom to pursue your calling? To live a life of significance? To make a real impact in the...

While sitting on the couch with his future wife, inside his house that had just been foreclosed, Todd Pultz looked out his window to see his truck getting towed. He knew that it was getting repossessed because he hadn't been making payments. This was the moment Todd decided he needed to get organized and take responsibility over his finances so that he could provide well for his future family.&nbs...

While a member of the Marine reserves, Brian Briscoe had no control over when he might be called to deploy. So, he took control and transitioned to active duty. He and his wife were starting their family and they couldn't stand the thought of Brian getting deployed during the birth of one of their children.  Brian decided to seize more control over his life as he jumped into multifamily real...

When John Stoeber graduated college, he looked at the compensation package for his first job and realized he was not going to make enough nor did he have enough vacation time to take the annual ski trip he was accustomed to taking every year. This led him to investigate ways to make extra, passive income. He decided that real estate was the best way for him to earn extra income while working his f...

Gabe is a great example of someone that decided he wasn't satisfied with not being able to control his schedule, his time, his life. He had a good job, but he wanted more freedom. He started with a "run down" triplex. This project did not go as planned. But, because he stuck with it and continued to work through each issue, he was able to turn this triplex into a great profit. He has since investe...

Today we are joined by a real estate tax expert, Yonah Weiss. He focuses primarily on cost segregation. If you're wondering about the tax advantages that come with investing in real estate, this episode is for you.  Yonah has helped hundreds of real estate investors in saving Tens of Millions of Dollars in income tax through Cost Segregation with Madison SPECS , and have been a guest on over...

After graduating from Ohio State,  Paul entered the management development track at Ford in Detroit. After five years, he left to start a staffing company. He scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm. After a brief “retirement”, Paul began investing in real estate in 2000 to protect and grow his own wealth. He's completed over 85 real estate investments but it was a very successf...

Growing up on a farm and raising piglets to sell at auction, Marcus Maloney began to understand entrepreneurship and investment at a young age. However, it took him until the age of 36 to fully jump into real estate investing. He had many missteps along the way including dropping out of high school and selling drugs on the streets of Chicago. But, he never lost his faith in God and kept coming bac...

Before ever starting his career as a professional musician, Ben was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis which made it unrealistic for him to continue on his life-long dream of becoming a professional musician. This devastating news caused Ben to reassess how he would provide for his family. After extensively researching his options, he settled on real estate investing. He quickly realized he needed...

Our guest today is a great example of "burning the boats" and going all-in. Zach had a great job in the healthcare industry and was making $200k per year while in his early 20's! What more could a guy ask for? But, Zach was not satisfied because he felt like a slave to his job and wanted to pursue his own dreams instead of working for someone else's. So, he quit his job and pursued real estate ful...

Have you ever asked yourself this question: How can an average person like me get ahead (dare we say create wealth)  without taking on a second job or working more hours?  Today… not in 20+  years! This is the question our guest, Whitney Hutten, asked herself before she got started with real estate investing and it's the questions she now asks her clients.  Whitney took her ret...

Kyle Mitchell and his wife don't have any kids yet, but they began thinking about how much time they were required to spend at their W2 jobs and decided they wanted more time-freedom. Kyle was working 70+ hours per week managing a golf course, and while he enjoyed his work, he didn't enjoy driving an hour every morning and afternoon and having no control of his time. He discovered multifamily real...

As a marketing executive, John excelled at holding budget and campaign accountability for Fortune 500 companies including General Motors and MillerCoors. But, the Great Recession of 2008 taught John that having a good job and excelling at your job does not mean you can't abruptly lose that job and find yourself in a financial hardship. He watched as many of his colleagues and close friends suddenl...

Alina Trigub found herself in a common situation with a common problem. She had a tax problem. She had a good-paying job, and she lived in a high-tax state, so she was losing a lot of money to taxes. In an effort to escape this issue and also invest some of her savings to produce passive income, Alina discovered multifamily real estate investing. But, because she was busy with a demanding job and...

Gino Barbaro (along with his partner Jake Stenziano) has skyrocketed from a restaurant owner in New York, to controlling over 1500 units, writing an Amazon best-selling book- Wheelbarrow Profits, building a huge multi-family education platform,  and running several of the most popular real estate podcasts, all while pursuing his wife Julia and raising six kids.  In this episode, Gino tel...

Have you struggled with deciding between managing your own rental portfolio or hiring third party management? Maybe you're managing a small portfolio, but are starting to realize continuing to self-manage while you grow is not the best use of your time. Maybe you enjoy managing your own properties, but you'd like to improve your processes and procedures. Our guest today, Lori Lyons, started a prop...

Today's guests, Mark and Janet, had an experience that would send most couples into panic mode- they were both laid off in the same year! They had high-paying jobs and were planning to retire within the next decade, but suddenly found themselves with zero W2 income. Thankfully, Mark and Janet had begun to invest in real estate five years prior. They had built up a small portfolio of rental propert...

Many people are stuck in a job that monopolizes all of their time and energy, leaving very little for their faith and family and keeps them from pursuing their true passions. Greg Dickerson found himself in this situation as he was traveling all over the country, moving his family to different locations, and working 70-80 hours per week. Deep down he has a passion for entrepreneurship and he could...