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Author: Athena Paquette Cormier

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Real estate investing can mean so many different things to people working in so many different areas of real estate. One thing they can all agree on is that the journey always starts out with the rush, the thrill of making a new investment, the anxiety of wanting – and needing – to find your first deal and hope it’s a winner.But is there a way out of the rat race?Welcome to My Cashflow Academy’s Investors Corner. In this program, you will learn from other real-life real estate investors sharing their tales of how they finally got out of the rat race and lived to tell the tale.Our guide through this journey is Athena Paquette Cormier, a mortgage broker by profession and the Founder of My Cashflow Academy. Through her interviews of top experts and regular people just like you, you will discover how they got out of the rat race, inspiring and guiding you to your own goal of financial independence. Every path to financial freedom is different so listen in to their stories, pick up their strategies and discover what path you might take that you never thought of AND get the tools to get there.As the founder of My Cashflow Academy, Athena is no stranger to educating people about finance and investment, and with her impressive résumé, that shouldn’t come as any surprise. In fact, Athena has been out of the rat race twice now (once before going through a devastating divorce only to rebuild and get out stronger the second time) and wants to help as many people as she can do the same.Besides being a government mortgage underwriter for the FHA 203k rehab program and guiding both borrowers and realtors in rehabbing properties in the 1990s to acquiring her MA in psychology. Athena has the tools necessary to best impart the knowledge you need to succeed in the field of real estate investment.As for experience, Athena’s got plenty! Athena has had over 30 years in the mortgage brokerage business, and even more in finance in general. She’s a dedicated property investor who’s owned and managed all kinds of real estate assets from short term rental condos, to apartment buildings to plexes and notes in several states.Before My Cashflow Academy, Athena owned and operated Crestwood Mortgage Company in Torrance, California. After eleven years, she eventually transitioned to even greater things. Now, she juggles a host of other real estate-related positions on top of her work with My Cashflow Academy. Since 2003, Athena has been the President of Mortgage Bootcamp Inc., which provides educational and expert advice to industries inside and outside real estate, even choosing to study for the Series 7 and 66 exams, pass them with 90%, and become a financial advisor for ten years before refocusing on real estate.With My Cashflow Academy, she has made a living educating and advising people on making wise investments, and this show is an extension of that. My Cashflow Academy’s Investors Corner is for anyone trying to create passive income from cash flowing properties so that you too can get out of the rat race and stay out and live the life you wish to, not the one you have to. Fueled by the individual stories of each guest that comes through the show, each episode contains something new to learn, something you might not even have heard about up before!There are so many things you can put your hard-earned money into. Choose your investments wisely so it can grow. Whether you’re in your 20s or your 60s, real estate investment is something you can do – and you can do it well with the help of Athena!Are you ready to invest? Come join us on My Cash Flow Academy’s Investors Corner because we’re ready to help you find the right path to attaining success.
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Dr Paris Woods EdD grew up in a single parent low income household and knew from a young age that education was her way out of poverty. What she didn't learn was about how money works. Hear her story of getting buried in debt at 18 and thinking this is normal, to many other poor choices following poor advice, to her sharing her tips on how she got out of $70k in debt, to living mortgage payment free, to becoming a Doctor while staying debt free and now making a life she choo...
Create massive cash flow with your home with this new lawWomen in Investing Network (WiIN) Gloria is a partner in Riechers Engineering. They help homeowners create more housing and more profit through Additional Dwelling Unit, ADU’s and lot splitting to create more affordable housing allowed as part of California Senate Bill #SB9 with 25 lot splits under their belt, they can tell you the pros and cons, and just how it gets done!Gloria Riechers is the CEO of Riechers Engineering, a unique...
Eileen Kendall, Esq. and founder of Kendall Law, is a highly experienced California real estate attorney with a proven track record of success. She is the proud owner of a thriving law firm that started with just her in October of 2016. Eileen’s dedication and commitment to her clients are evident in the time and effort she puts into every aspect of their legal needs.Since being admitted to practice law in California, Eileen has focused her practice on litigation, with an emphasis on real pro...
Build Your Affordable #prefab #tinyhouse home in 4 Hours with Robotics!Go green and catch the affordable housing wave! Build a factory built 1 bed 1 bath home in 8 hours!Join me as I chat with Joe Basel CEO of Practical Revolution, a tiny home builder, and village developer.A new movement is dawning out of the success and observed shortcomings of the Housing First approach. He is designing communities that lift people up toward a life of hope, purpose, and happiness.Practical Revolution bring...
How to Become RentAble to 4.5 Million Untapped STR GuestsJoin me as I chat with the founder of becomingrentable.com, Lorraine Woodward, who will share how her company is turning the short-term rental market on its head.Lorraine left a successful long-term career in the corporate and nonprofit world to create the solution she and families like hers needed.You see Lorraine is living with MS and has 2 children with muscular dystrophy, MD. So it was a challenge, and let's be honest, a stress on h...
Multifamily ADUs top floor, bottom floor and garage ADUsJoin us as we chat with Cameron Crockett of UltraUnit a company that specializes in creating ADUs in multifamily dwellings, specifically in Long Beach CA.He will take us through the process from visioning the ADU space layout and feel, to minimizing cost and disturbance to the existing structure and tenants and maximizing property value, to getting permits to completion. He will share how he also minimizes the time for permitting.H...
You have heard of GOFundME, Fund that flip, and Fundrise, but now there is a woman-founded crowdfunding platform specifically for real estate projects that were created by minority founders or that serves a minority community. Seeing a need to be hyper-focused to build neighborhoods back up, create opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs and communities, and just be creative to lift everyone up. From Baltimore to Portland, from garageADUs, to tiny homes, to rehab of multi-famil...
Meet Rebecca Moller, founder and creator of SYmbiHom, the garage ADU kit!Cities need to meet RHNA mandates. Institutions and corporations need to ensure that workforce housing is available to attract and retain young talent and to grow. Homeownership is unaffordable for the average earner.An aging population needs to age in place with income to assist them.In California, one in three homeowners and renters are cost-burdened, spending > 50% of their income on housing. 3.5 million market rat...
Reverse 1031 Exchanges With Bill Exeter, CEO of Exeter CompaniesYou want to upgrade your property and get better cash flow BUT you don’t want to sell your current building before finding your up-leg property . This is the constant dilemma of what comes first. Why you want to find the property first:· Your departing property is easy to sell but the new one is not as easy to find and buy.· You don’t want to buy under t...
Join me as I chat with Catherine Bell, investor, author, Radio host, and philanthropist. Her personal story is riveting from her growing up at the tippy top of British Columbia to living in the desert of AZ, from being a foster kid at 16 to adopting her 2 children to empowering foster kids across the nation, to surviving a tragedy as a mom most recently. Even more so, you will be spellbound by her Jedi real estate investment strategies! Catherine Bell, a Radio Show Host, and Financia...
Have you ever wanted to own big multifamily or big commercial buildings, and then realized you don’t have enough money, or don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket, or would have to quit your day job to do it? Well, there are deals out there where you can own just a sliver of the big deals and learn from them too!Here is one we found at Freedom Fest this year. For the passive investor you get the income but also they structured this for you to get the write-off of Cost Segregation.Sinatr...
Rent to Retire Knoxville, TN, Mike Weatherford Story.Is Knoxville a Good Place to invest? Listen to Mike’s story in why he moved to Knoxville, TN.Have you ever dreamed of getting out of the rat race and golfing all day, being by the beach, or even hiking in the mountains? Or maybe a combo of all 3?Years ago my parents were wanting to snow-bird from Ottawa Canada to CA and loved the golf course life and the weather in the Palm Springs desert area. Quiet laid back, museums, hiking, it had it al...
Did you know? The US has $1.7 trillion in student loan debt outstanding $200 billion of that is private (non-government backed) students loans and about $21 million are in default. Did you know that if you are in default on a student loan there is a much higher default rate 15-20% if you add up late fees etc. There is a way out of the digging of that hole and having wages garnished AND a way to stop the downhill roll of the borrower's credit score a...
PadSplit is an affordable housing model, where individuals rent a room in a house while the other rooms are rented by unrelated people.We met with Frank Furman of Padsplit almost 3 years ago! I couldn’t believe it when I looked it up. October 2019.Here is that interview where he explains how they started, the nuts and bolts of how it works, the downside to strangers living together, and if it is profitable.For those of you who missed that call: PadSplit is an affordable housing model, where i...
| | Dear Fellow Investor, As you probably are aware of by now, I am a strong advocate for affordable housing. Turning ugly into pretty has been part of my mortgage production goal since 1995 when I was originating AND underwriting the FHA 203k (rehab) loan. More recently working with HomeNow an agency for homeless that I am opening some of my units to in Indiana. The last few years, but more so the last 2 years, I have been looking...
Multifamily Market Update 2022 - Pat Swanson with Colliers InternationalDear Fellow Investor,We sat down with Pat Swanson of Colliers International here in California. We asked a lot of questions about the multifamily real estate market!Have you been wondering whether we will finally see a buyers' market in multi-family housing? Have you been waiting on the sidelines to buy an apartment building only see prices keep going up up up?Is the party finally over for sellers? Are prices finall...
Janice Green, Esq. a family law attorney author, and Professor with a career spanning more than 44 years, discusses the unique challenges of getting divorced after 50.I bring you this guest because I am getting more and more calls about the big D and whether the spouse who is calling me can afford to and qualify to keep the house. It reminds me a lot of during and after the 9/11 Tragedy, people faced a world that was changing (we thought was ending for about 2 weeks) and made life change...
JESSICA PERRONE - teaching teens to be money smart Here is the newest installment of my Women in Investing (WIIN) Series of investor chats.As you know our main goal for our group is to educate and elevate women everywhere to better financial health and wealth. If you don't know, check out the website www.womenininvesting.com I have a fabulous lady for you to meet! Jessica Perrone 16 year Wall Street Veteran...
How to Create Your Own Pension with Damaris Johnson - https://mycashflowacademy.com/ If you are looking for How to Create Your Own Pension with Damaris Johnson, then listen to this podcast to learn everything you need to know about How to Create Your Own Pension with Damaris JohnsonDear Fellow Investor,Happy New Year!When I discovered these tools I was AMAZED at 25 that I could invest, save grow AND borrow against the asset???? at that age i was a stock picker, investor but didn't what was po...
Dear Fellow Investor,Join me as I chat with Tara Nierenhausen the Founder and Executive Director of Community’s Child. A home and program to help homeless women with infants in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles.Founded in 2005 they celebrated 15 years of service in 2020. Probably the year that they saw most need for their services and saw their business explode.Not only are they housing these mothers and their children, they also:Run ...
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