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Send us Fan Mail Kelly Iannone is the Founder of Waypoint Commercial Investment Partners, LLC. Kelly is an advocate for financial independence and a retirement early community that empowers people to take control of their financial lives and chart a path to becoming work optional. While her path began with traditional retirement tools such as 401k and pensions, the acceleration of her FI (financia...

Send us Fan Mail Justin serves as an Advisor with SVN Stone Commercial Real Estate, specializing in investment sales, auto-related sales, land-use, and multi-family. Justin’s passion is to deliver value to clients within the context of service, leadership, and teamwork — attributes that perfectly highlight SVN Stone’s competitive advantage. Justin is a native Kentuckian and graduated from the Gatt...

Send us Fan Mail Dana lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dana has been in the industry for over a decade and has seen many changes in the market. She shares her insights on short-term rentals and why they are such an attractive investment. The challenges of starting a short-term rental business and that it takes a lot of time and effort to be a successful business, and that automation...

Send us Fan Mail Jerome Maldonado is a highly successful real estate investor, business owner, coach, and speaker. Over the span of his 20-year career, Jerome has done over $200 million in in-house transactions. His unique ability to streamline results is what makes Jerome’s knowledge and experience so powerful. He talks about the importance of setting goals and being determined in achieving them,...

Send us Fan Mail Don Spafford was a nobody on social media until he met Yonah Weiss. :) Don started his real estate investing career at 40 years old buying four plexes. After having his first one for about a year he realized he needed to scale bigger and faster to reach his ultimate financial independence goal. He started networking and made great connections that helped him get into some unique o...

Send us Fan Mail Jennings Smith, the co-founder of Live Oaks Rental Property, shares the necessary skills to be successful as an investor and entrepreneur. He discusses some resources that have given him a paradigm shift in his life which ultimately changed how success means to him. With helping others and making a difference in the world as his main driving force, he shares the importance of maki...

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Loht is here to share how successful people approach business in a legal and sustainable manner. He mentions multifamily and storage as two asset classes that need their own forum to discuss deals. He also mentions his podcast, The Passive Wealth Strategy Show, which has helped him build relationships with other operators. He also talks about the digitalization of storage o...

Send us Fan Mail Natalie Kolodij is an IRS Enrolled Agent who has been involved in tax and real estate since 2014. A long-time bigger pockets moderator, she has a passion for all things real estate. In 2017 she founded Kolodij Tax and Consulting, a real estate exclusive tax firm. When she's not working she enjoys reading, traveling, and making pottery.  In this episode, Natalie shares her exp...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Grimes is the Founder and CEO of Invest on Main Street. He has over fourteen years of experience in active real estate investment, purchasing distressed assets, renovating, and stabilizing for long-term cash flow. In this episode, Patrick discusses his story of how he started investing in multi-family apartment communities and how he has been successful in doing so. He als...

Send us Fan Mail Jesse Dickens has a background in cardiac sonography and is currently the Director of Operations for a mobile imaging company. The journey into real estate sprouted from a desire to "buy back his time" and ultimately be able to spend more time with his family. His team over exceeded expectations at all three properties and continues to grow in their local partnerships an...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Lopez is a real estate entrepreneur. He's used the power of podcasting and content marketing to build a residential real estate investment brokerage, commercial multifamily brokerage, and real estate investing software to help people analyze their portfolios. In this episode, he talks about how podcasting has helped him build a successful brokerage business.  He discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Desantis is Founder and Managing Partner at Eagleview Capital, has been involved in real estate investment, development, and management for nearly twenty years throughout the northeast and southeast. Upon relocating to Charlotte North Carolina in 2005, he has successfully invested in both residential and multifamily real estate across both North and South Carolina.  He seeks t...

Send us Fan Mail Husband and wife RE investing team. They started actively investing in late 2020 when our primary source of income, the Cactus Bar, was shut down by covid. Since then, have acquired an additional 14 new doors, making our entire portfolio a total of 17 doors, consisting of small multifamily properties and 1 commercial property. In this episode, they discuss how they decided to get...

Send us Fan Mail Chad Gallagher is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Home365. Home365 is a first-party technology powered real estate company that manages over 7,000 units across 14 markets for investment owners and has over 100 employees. In this episode, Chad shares his story of starting out in real estate, learning from mistakes, and then pivoting to a more passive investment model...

Send us Fan Mail Yeadon Smith is a recovering youth minister now working full time in real estate. He is the owner of Live Oak Real Estate and co-founder of Live Oak Capital, a real estate investment firm. They work with private investors to give them solid, consistent returns to build long term wealth and cash flow. He has helped grow Live Oak Capital to over $50 million in assets under his manag...

Send us Fan Mail Tammy Richey shares how she has become a successful real estate investor by leveraging her network. She is a successful real estate investor who recommends that others invest with passion to achieve success. She talks about the transition she made from accidental to intentional investor, how attending a mastermind has helped her reevaluate her goals, and how taking on a syndicated...

Send us Fan Mail Shawn DiMartile is an apartment investor, Co-host of The Multifamily Takeoff Podcast, Co-founder of Pac 3 Capital, and Co-host of the Beers & Deals REI networking event in San Diego, California. Shawn got started in real estate investing when he purchased a 32-unit apartment building in Greenwood, Indiana. Today, he and his partners own 300 units, all located in North Carolina...

Send us Fan Mail Spencer Gray is the President of Gray Capital. He is also CEO of Gray Properties, LLC, a commercial real estate focused family office. How he approaches fundraising and why it’s so important to him. How he is driven by wanting to create a great business and provide financial freedom for his family. He shares how having employees, a strong company culture, and the ability to have o...

Send us Fan Mail Bhavin Patel is the principal and co-founder of Green Harvest Capital, a real estate investment group focused on Class B & C multi-family assets in Northeast Ohio. With over 15 years of experience managing real estate acquisitions, Bhavin has an exceptional record of implementing corporate goals, leading successful business objectives, and being a forward-thinking steward of c...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Sulzinger is the CEO of Blue Elm Investments, a private equity real estate firm based in San Francisco, CA. He is a former Silicon Valley finance executive turned real estate investor and founded Blue Elm to offer investors a strategic way to diversify their portfolios by creating passive investment opportunities through the acquisition of mobile home parks, apartments, and m...

Send us Fan Mail Terrence Murphy was drafted into the NFL in the 2nd Rd by the Green Bay Packers. He currently owns 20+ companies under the Terrence Murphy Companies brand and is an investor in 30+ more as a venture capitalist. Terrence has brokered $1.1 Billion in real estate sales and has an extensive real estate portfolio. Terrence possesses the same traits that he portrayed on the football fie...

Send us Fan Mail David Iglewicz has a background in dentistry, pediatric dentistry, and finance, which has led him to become one of the most successful real estate investors in the country. He started his career as a financial advisor before realizing that he needed more help to achieve his goal of becoming a successful real estate investor. He began to network with other real estate investors and...

Send us Fan Mail He has overcome common challenges such as market volatility and trust issues, Litan an experienced tech founder turned passive RE/PE investor who built a complex investment portfolio, and is now leading a new startup to automate the planning and control of his wealth and the wealth of others like him. He believes that bringing value to themselves and others is the key to success....

Send us Fan Mail With over 6 years of experience in the real estate space, Zach originally started as an agent in college and gradually migrated towards flipping single family homes. After a few years in the single-family space, he realized that the commercial real estate realm provided greater scale and a better return on time.  He shares his story of how he first got into the real estate industr...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Shannon spent his career as a sales leader and consultant for a large ophthalmology company, implementing surgical devices into operating rooms and health systems across the mid-west. He has experience in acquisitions, raising capital, property management, project management, and is a licensed Realtor in Indiana. He mentions that it is important to stay positive and persisten...