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Send us Fan Mail Casey Mericle is a real estate junkie out of the Midwest. He’s bought and sold single-family, multi-family, office, land, storage, industrial, and notes and from time to time is a hard money lender. Casey discusses the ins and outs of using creative financing to acquire real estate deals. From learning how to negotiate with sellers who have an inflated value of their asset to walk...

Send us Fan Mail Megan Winterberg was the Director of Operations for multiple outpatient imaging facilities for over 10 years. During that time, she honed in on her business development, operations, and strategy skillsets but emersed herself in Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement which she has been able to apply to all her current and future endeavors.  Tune in to this episode as Megan Winterbe...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Siyavash Fooladian is a managing partner at TitanCor Capital LLC. His expertise in investments has allowed him to build a successful personal portfolio of residential real estate. Furthermore, he is passionate about investing in commercial and multi-family real estate. Sia is also a crucial advisor and board member for healthcare-focused startups. He is on the board of directo...

Send us Fan Mail Vessi is a seasoned real estate investor and banker. Vessi shares her experiences investing in Memphis and Central Floria, highlighting the importance of doing thorough due diligence before investing out of state. She emphasizes the need to research neighborhoods before making any investment decisions as this can make or break a deal. Her lending experience has served her well in...

Send us Fan Mail Donna Reid is a residential broker with 20 years of experience passionate about helping clients not just through the transaction and beyond. Donna shares her experience during the financial crisis and how she helped clients transition from short sales to renting and owning again. She emphasizes the importance of taking emotions out of the picture and focusing on clients’ needs to...

Send us Fan Mail John Todderud established Cardinal Oak Investments to provide chances for reliable, long-term investments in the most dependable kinds of real estate, multifamily apartments. Working with other seasoned professionals, he forms real estate syndications to invest in apartment buildings in areas with potential for expansion in the U.S. His history of software development, managing te...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick McDonald is the Principal at Community Management Group LLC. He was a corporate medical recruiter for 8 years before going into real estate investing full-time. He discovered mobile home parks and sold his small multi-family, and started buying parks. He never put in more than $60k each and has grown to 23 parks, 1400 lots, and around $75 million in value. Building towards...

Send us Fan Mail Yosef Fisher is a Co-Founder at First Fund, Yosef shares his journey from working at a takeout place to buying and selling businesses. He realized the need for funding in the process, he discovered 0% business funding through banks, which allows businesses to access a line of credit or business credit cards and invest in assets that produce cash flow. In this conversation, Yosef e...

Send us Fan Mail Christine Bellish and her husband Danny, are co-founders of The Bellish Team, a real estate investment firm dedicated to helping passive investors preserve and build wealth through strategic real estate acquisitions. As former NYC advertising executives, they spent 15 years managing multi-million-dollar marketing budgets for some of Fortune 500’s most recognizable brands but decid...

Send us Fan Mail Joe Prillaman has been actively investing in real estate since 2018. He currently has a portfolio of long-term, short-term, and midterm rentals totaling 22 doors. He is a real estate agent on Avery Carl’s team The Short-Term Shop and is best known for his ability to get a front-row parking spot at any Walmart east of the Mississippi. Tune in to this episode to hear about Joe’s jou...

Send us Fan Mail Zasha Smith is a full-time real estate investor. Growing up in low-income housing here on Maui, was raised by a single mom, put herself through college while having her first child became a Civil Engineer, and worked for 10 years as a licensed project manager designing underground utilities for hotels, shopping centers and subdivisions across Hawaii making $70k/yr & 60hr weeks...

Send us Fan Mail Gabriel Hamel prioritizes a few things in his life, family being #1, followed by his heath, his happiness, traveling, and building wealth through real estate.  In 2005 at 23 years old, a year after returning home from the Iraq War with the United State Army, he purchased his first single-family property, purchased another property in 2006, and another in 2007.  At 2009-Present Gab...

Send us Fan Mail Karl Krauskopf is a real estate developer and Managing Partner of Auroras Investment Group. Obsessed with growth, he flipped himself out of a corporate job in the healthcare industry and is now focused on helping others make their money work extremely hard through townhome construction and adding value to operational apartments. [00:01 - 01:08] Opening Segment We welcome, Karl Kra...

Send us Fan Mail Jenny Bayless is an investor and investor-friendly real estate agent. She owns a handful of rental properties in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. She has performed value add methodology such as BRRRR to optimize the performance of her portfolio while efficiently managing it. She has experience in obtaining deals through MLS, wholesale, networking, and FSBO; and has experience with mul...

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Jones is the Acquisitions Manager at Techvestor, a short-term rental investment fund. He shares his journey from a sales job to his current role in tech and real estate. He discusses how they use technology to source and scale investments while incorporating the human element for informed decisions. He talks about navigating the crowded marketplace and leveraging scale to d...

Send us Fan Mail Flint Jamison spent 20 years in aerospace as an engineer and program manager. He is now a full-time real estate investor. Flint moved quickly from his initial duplex and pivoted into syndications, where he does multifamily, fund management, and build-to-rent. Flint’s portfolio is currently around 1500 units [00:01 - 01:39] Opening Segment We welcome, Flint Jamison! Learning about...

Send us Fan Mail Brandon Hicks bought his first investment property in 2007 and has been a full-time real estate investor since 2019. Prior to that he had 15 years of experience in manufacturing and owned and operated a residential and commercial painting company. He got his start in real estate as a part-time sales agent from 2004 to 2011, at which time he gave up his license to focus on investin...

Send us Fan Mail Julie McCoy began in the television industry (on the crew side) and worked in LA for many years, and began investing in short-term rentals as a side hustle, with Avery Carl as her agent. One thing led to another and now she’s one of the original members of Avery Carl's team The Short-Term Shop and owns a portfolio of seven STRs in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. [00:01 - 02...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Albaum is a real estate investor of 5 years, studied engineering as an undergrad, interested in personal development, spirituality, and continually learning both personally and professionally. He shares how engineers have an advantage when it comes to real estate investing and how he and his partner got into the short-term rental space. He discusses how they manage their own...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Greenberg is the CEO and Managing Member of Synergetic Investment Group, LLC (SIG). For over 12 years he has managed all aspects of commercial real estate ownership including acquisitions, investor relations, operations, value add the implementation, and dispositions. Through SIG Wealth Fund, a diversified and customizable Equity Fund, SIG provides the opportunity for high-ne...

Send us Fan Mail Miriam is a diehard multifamily investor based in Tampa, FL. She currently works as a care operation engineer for a Telehealth company specializing in sleep medicine, but when she’s not working, swinging in the ninja warrior gym, playing some disc golf with her husband, or singing/playing music, she’s putting all efforts into acquiring multifamily assets. She is passionate about g...

Send us Fan Mail John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Peak 15 Capital. A capital advisory and syndication firm servicing commercial real estate operators and sponsors in securing their equity capital stack as well as Co-GP on their deals through the Peak 15 CoGP fund.  John is also a Managing Member of MACC Venture Partners, a Southeast focus owner/operator of multifamily assets. John is a...

Send us Fan Mail Simcha quit his job and went full-time in multifamily investing in 2019. Since then, he and his investors acquired 5 properties totaling almost $8m, including 108 multifamily units, almost 11k sqft of medical office, and over 15k sqft of industrial/storage space. He's gone full cycle on two deals. His investors received an average IRR of 91.4% and an EM of 2.21 in under 1.5 y...

Send us Fan Mail Rav Singh is a results-driven, highly qualified Commercial Real Estate (CRE) professional. As a real estate broker, he specializes in hotels and investment properties (single and multi-tenant NNN income-generating properties) throughout the United States and recently took a leadership role as a national hospitality division leader at KW Commercial. Today, he enjoys CRE so much tha...

Send us Fan Mail Founder & CEO, Grant Dougherty, has always understood the value of teamwork. He grew up playing team sports and noticed the power of what a team could accomplish together. This sense of teamwork stayed with him as went to play baseball collegiately at “the” Prairie View A&M University, where he also studied business and eventually obtained his MBA. Grant noticed in his stu...