Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever Archive I

From real estate to stocks, today’s Best Ever guest shares with you stories of how she and her clients buy ugly and benefit greatly. Bobbie Monroe’s real estate background: –        Certified Financial Planner based in Tallahassee, Florida –        President of Supporting Your Choices –        Say hi to her at –        She’s been a CFA since 1999 –        Just named a 5 Star Wealth Manager by Atlanta Magazine for the 6th consecutive year

Today’s Best Ever guest saw an opportunity to make raising capital more efficient. Find out what he did to fix the process…let’s go!   Adam Hooper’s real estate background: –        Co-founder and CEO of based in Palo Alto, California o   RealCrowd is a crowdfunding platform that connects investors with commercial real estate investments o   Platform has over $900 million of total investment opportunities o   And over $10 billion worth of assets managed by their elite operators –        Has worked on over $1 billion of real estate transactions

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you how he identified a niche in the flipping industry by buying properties nobody else wanted. Mike Simmons’s real estate background: –Managing Member of Modern Real Estate Solutions based in Troy, Michigan –Started in 2008 and is focused on flipping single family homes in Southeast Michigan –Host of popular podcast, Just Start Real Estate –Say hi to him at

Want to invest in a market outside of where you live? Want to learn how to structure partnership agreements with local team members? Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you TWO ways.   Anthony Dadlani’s real estate background: –        President of based in New York City, New York –        15 years as an equity markets trader and portfolio manager –        Experience buying and selling private liens, notes and mortgages –        Actively buying single family homes

Today’s Best Ever guest gives you two Stock Market tips to apply in your real estate investing. Plus she gives you advice for how to minimize your risk when you get started investing in real estate. Barbara Friedberg’s real estate background: –        Veteran portfolio manager, has a master’s degree in business administration and is a former university finance instructor and based in San Jose, California –        Author of multiple investing books including Invest and Beat the Pros- Create and Manage a Successful Investment Portfolio  – buy em here: –        Say hi to her and learn personal finance tips at –        Host of the popular podcast Young & Oldish Money

Get your pencil and paper ready…or Word doc and keyboard because you’re about to get a list of all the due diligence items that get missed when doing a walkthrough of the property.  PLUS she shares with you the best ways to add value to a multifamily property.       Mindy Sharp’s real estate background: – Regional Manager for Prime Property Investors based in South Bend, Indiana – 15 years of real estate and property management experience –  Blogger for Multifamily Insiders and has a blog called My Life As A Property Manager

We’re speaking to one of the leading real estate entrepreneurs and technology innovators and he is going to share with you the NEXT BIG THING in real estate technology. Let’s go! Dave Eraker’s real estate background: –        Serial entrepreneur with an interest and focus on the intersection of economics and applied technology –        Co-founder at  and is based in Seattle, Washington o   Surefield is a full-service brokerage that has virtual tour technology that builds virtual models of homes allowing house hunters to navigate a property inside and out from their computers –        As the founder and CEO of Redfin, he led the product development efforts for a new web-based form of map search and developed a salaried model for residential real estate agents o   Company received the Innovator of the Year award by Inman News

Here’s the step-by-step process for how to evaluate a single family home investment property. Leonard Baron’s real estate background: –        Investor, past lecturer at San Diego State University and teaches continuing education to Realtors –        Has a nationally syndicated real estate A&A at Zillow.com Featured Blog and in newspapers around the country –        Say hi to him at

How do you qualify a crowdfunding platform? What specific questions do you ask the platform reps? What is it like to invest in a crowdfunded deal? Today we’re going to answer those questions and then some. Who we’re talking to today: AdaPia d’Errico, Chief Marketing Officer at Mark Robertson, President at based in Charlotte, North Carolina Jamie McIntyre, Founder at based in Washington D.C. Some things you’ll discover on today’s episode: –        Two surprising lessons learned by investing in Crowdfunded deals –        The list of questions you should ask a crowdfunding platform –        The step-by-step process for what it’s like to invest in a crowdfunded deal from an investor’s standpoint –        Pros and cons of debt and equity investing –        How to diversify your portfolio in crowdfunded deals And much, much more! Have you grabbed your treatski?? Unlock the Top Ten Answers to the Top Ten Questions asked about crowdfunding by downloading it for FREE here: If you haven’t checked out Patch of Land’s market report on Newark, New Jersey – get it . It’s a great example of the type of research you get when you work with them. This episode is bought to you by our Best Ever sponsor, Patch of Land. Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at

Today’s Best Ever guest shares why he went back to buying single family homes after dabbling in wholesaling and apartment investing. He also talks about low income housing and how to effectively manage low income properties. Steve Rozenberg’s real estate background: –        Property Manager at based in Houston, Texas –        Licensed real estate agent with over 13 years of owning and operating properties –        Has flipped and negotiated hundreds of transactions –        Currently focused on single family home properties

Half sale? Nope, WHOLESALE! Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you how to create your A-team as a wholesaler AND he shares with you his Best Ever deal that netted $80,000 buckeroos. Andy McFarland’s real estate background: –        Owner of Quality Property Renovations which flips 10 – 12 houses a year based in Salt Lake City, Utah –        Owner of Treehouse Investments which wholesales over 100 properties a year in three different states –        Active investor since 2002 when he purchased his first property (“the Treehouse”) –        Since then has purchased hundreds of properties and does hard money loans –        Say hi to him at

Today’s Best Ever guest talks about how he buys homes on terms and is able to make $10,000 a pop on each deal while minimizing the risk on the deal. Ron LeGrand’s real estate background: –        Over 35 years of experience as a real estate investor and based in Jacksonville, Florida –        Visit him at –        Personally bought and sold over 3,000 homes and made millions of dollars in commercial real estate deals

You’re about to discover a powerful question that will help you get to your passion and will pay you well. Let’s get right into it! Jeff Steinmann’s real estate background: –        Acquired a 4-unit building and moved in one side while renting out the other three –        Host of weekly show called –        Author of –        Help people quit their jobs and start a business –        Company is How to Quick Working and based in St. Louis, Missouri

You putting up bandit signs? Then listen up because today’s Best Ever guest shares with you a bandit sign strategy that is incredibly effective. Plus, he talks about how to build your business from the CEO seat. JP Moses’s real estate background: –        Real estate investor who is based in Memphis, Tennessee –        Strictly a wholesale operation – only does wholesale deals -         Done note buying, wholesaling, flipping, and property management –        Done more than 250 deals and been a real estate investor for over 15 years –        Started the REIA group in Memphis and now has over 600 members –        Say hi to him at

Ever wanted to invest in Austin, Texas? Or, ever wanted to know how to find an emerging submarket? Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you where you should invest in Austin, Texas and how to identify the emerging areas in ANY market. Shawn Rooker’s real estate background: –        An agent at based in Austin, Texas –        Been a real estate agent for almost 6 years –        Specializes in condos and single family houses –        He started in a down market and since then has expanded by at least 50% every year –        Former Army Ranger who has served two combat tours and…has landed in a tree

What’s it like to do a crowdfunded deal? What can you expect as a borrower who gets money from the crowd? Here’s who we’re talking to today: Omar Skyers’s real estate background: –        Partner at SRB Group based in Newark, New Jersey –        Been in real estate since 1999 and started flipping properties in 2007 –        Currently has 8 deals on –        You can view his deals here: Doug Cochrane’s real estate background: –        SVP of Underwriting and Acquisitions at , a debt based real estate crowdfunding lender based in Los Angeles –        Over 20 years of real estate experience as a senior loan officer, underwriter, appraiser and investor –        Has originated and underwritten nearly $300,000,000 in residential and commercial loans And here’s a taste of the treats you’ll get: –        Why a flipper went from hard money to crowdfunding –        The beautiful partnership that results from the experience –        Side-by-side comparison of hard money vs. crowdfunding –        A surprising part of the process with crowdfunding –        Step-by-step process for how to get set up on a crowdfunding platform –        The crowdfunding platform’s role in the process –        Importance of getting started in the process NOW –        Reporting requirements for borrowing money from a crowdfunding platform HOT OFF THE PRESS: Download this White Hot Market Report for Newark, New Jersey:   Subscribe in    and    so you don’t miss an episode!   Sponsored by Patch of Land – Could you do more deals if you had more money? Let the crowdfunding platform, Patch of Land, find investors for you and fund your next deal…and your next deal…and your next deal…and…well, just go find out more at

Happy Valentine’s Day! Want to know when to use “subject to” and “lease option” stragtegies? Well…what are you waiting for?? Let’s go hot stuff! Wendell De Guzman’s real estate background: –        Acquired over $15,000,000 worth of real estate in Illinois, Ohio and Florida –        Investing in real estate for over 10 years and has done lease options, wholesaling, subject to’s, rehabbing and multifamily investing –        Currently buying 3 homes a month in Chicago, Illinois and Ft Myers, Florida –        He is based in Chicago and is an engineer by background

Investing in single family homes? Today’s Best Ever guest tells you how she buys homes and identifies areas that are good to invest in. Elizabeth Colegrove’s real estate background: –        Owner of 5 single family homes and is based in Hanford, California –        Manage four for her family and two single families for her friends –        Say hi to her at

Today’s Best Ever guest shares how to use a turn-key model to raise money and get your paperwork in order. You want to use OPM (other people’s money)? Then, listen up my friend! Douglas Ruark’s real estate background: –        Principal at Regulation D Resources based in Denver, Colorado –        Recognized expert in Regulation D offering programs –        Say hi to him at –        And…he’s a descendant of Scottish royalty