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The Moonlight Real Estate Side Hustles and Syndications Show
The Moonlight Real Estate Side Hustles and Syndications Show
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We show working professionals and busy people how to invest in real estate as a side hustle or a full-time business. We interview guests who have successfully started real estate businesses part-time and have turned them into full-time enterprises, or have generated passive income for themselves. This show will also demonstrate how to invest in real estate with low or no money. You will learn how to achieve success in various niches within real estate, including wholesaling, fix and flip, BRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance), and syndicating commercial real estate.
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Most people think you need the perfect exit plan before leaving corporate America — but Shaletha Litt Colbert proves setbacks can spark success. After being laid off five months postpartum, she and her husband turned adversity into a thriving international real-estate business built on faith, strategy, and determination. Starting with just two properties and a dream to live on their own terms, they built a system that now earns across borders. 🌎🏡 💼 How to Invest While Keeping Your W-2 (or Aft...
Most people assume you must quit your job to win in real estate. Jack Bosch shows another path. A German immigrant who spent five years traveling nonstop for a software job, he and his wife Michelle (also immigrants) built a land-flipping business on the side—starting with a $400 lot that sold for $4,000 the next day. Two weeks later, another deal netted $9,500. They closed 63 deals in year one and became millionaires within 18 months, later scaling to eight figures—all while Jack was still f...
Most people think you need to quit your business to scale in real estate — Beth Januzzi Underhill proves otherwise. After 25+ years running an outdoor construction company in Cincinnati, she expanded into student housing syndications during COVID — without stepping away from her main business. Her story shows that with strong partnerships, clear roles, and focus, you can build serious wealth without giving up your day job. 🏗️ How to Invest as an Active GP While Running a Business Beth uses pa...
️How to Build a Real Estate Side Hustle While Working Full-Time Ashley worked as a senior project manager in corporate America for 15 years before a layoff pushed her into full-time investing. While still employed, she ran successful flips on the side by managing contractors remotely, setting clear weekly check-ins, and using her W-2 income to secure funding and build credit. 🏘️ A Real-Life Fix-and-Flip: From Corporate Paycheck to Profit Her early flips in Dothan, Alabama showed how choosin...
Most people think you must quit your job to succeed in real estate, but Andrew Freed proves otherwise. From using a HELOC on his Boston condo to scaling 240+ units, he shows how W-2 professionals can balance careers while building wealth through multifamily, syndications, and creative financing. 📘 From W-2 to 240+ Units Andrew started as a project manager on the W-2 path. During COVID, Rich Dad Poor Dad sparked a mindset shift. Realizing his net worth was tied to one condo, he tapped a ...
Guest: Hayato Hori, Managing Partner at Red Brick Equity Focus: How to start and scale real estate investing on the side—both actively and passively—while keeping your W-2 or main business strong. Starting Out: From W-2 to Real Estate Hayato bought his first rental property in Memphis at age 21, right out of college. At the time, he was working at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, an innovative company tied to Elon Musk’s vision for high-speed travel. Although he loved the job and hi...
Roberto Carbetta’s journey shows you don’t need millions or to quit your job to succeed in real estate. He began as a Toronto bank teller, later ran a contracting business, and then shifted to multifamily and senior living in Florida. Today, he manages a $25M+ portfolio, focusing on senior living as demand grows with the aging population. 🚤 How to Invest While Working Full-Time Roberto built on the side—buying single-family homes every 18 months while running his company, then moving into U.S...
Roberto Carbetta didn’t wait for retirement to invest—he built his real estate journey alongside long work hours, proving steady action drives results. Starting as a Toronto bank teller, he learned from wealthy clients tied to real estate, bought his first deal at 21, ran a construction business for over a decade, and now helps manage a $25M portfolio in multifamily and senior living. 🚀 🎙️ Episode Snapshot — What’s in this conversation Early spark: Wealthy bank clients all tied to real estate...
Most people assume you need to quit your job to build wealth in real estate, but Scott Kidd proves otherwise. After 20 years as a yacht captain, he built a portfolio of multifamily properties and syndications—all while managing luxury yachts full-time. His journey shows how demanding professionals can still scale by leveraging partnerships, systems, and mindset. Scott’s start was simple: buying a single-family home and rolling that into more deals. A chance conversation on the beach with an i...
Bill Ham joins the Moonlight Real Estate Syndication Show to share real talk on coaching programs, investing, and building your business while working a full-time job or running another business. With nearly 20 years in real estate, his perspective helps investors cut through noise and avoid costly mistakes. He breaks down how big-name coaching outfits work, why many investors get disappointed, and what to look for if you want one-on-one mentorship that fits your goals. For busy professionals...
Guest: Bill Ham — multifamily owner/operator since 2005, author of Real Estate Raw & Creative Cash, founder of Creative Cash Academy. 👤 Host: Eric Lindsay — Moonlight Real Estate Syndication Show (built for people with a W-2 or full-time business). 💡 What Bill Actually Did (and Why He Says Don’t Copy It) ✈️ Started as a pilot out of school, read books, and bought a duplex as his first deal. 💵 Duplex cash-flowed ~$300/month; he had ~$10k saved and quit his aviation job. 🧑🍼 At 28, with...
Intro Summary David Pere proves you don’t have to give up your career or business to build serious wealth in real estate. While serving full-time in the U.S. Marine Corps, he built a 116-door portfolio in just over six years—starting with a simple house hack and strategically scaling into multifamily and boutique hotels. He’s mastered the art of investing on the side, using systems, partnerships, and smart financing to free up time while compounding wealth. 🔍 Things Discussed Starting Small...
️ ️ Host: Eric Lindsay | 👤 Guest: Shannon Seeberan, Co-Founder • Cloud Med Spas 👀 Investor Value Proposition Shannon co-founded Cloud Med Spas—a platform that lets real-estate owners turn unused medical exam rooms into hourly rentals for aesthetic injectors. The model was built after she spent eight years consulting in aesthetic dermatology and saw nurses, RNs, and NPs eager to run their own side businesses but unwilling to sign full leases. By offering pay-as-you-go space, owners open a ne...
Got a full-time job or business? Still want to build wealth through real estate? This episode is for you. 🚀 Alan Franks is a financial planner who didn’t quit his job — he used it as a launchpad. While raising a family and managing clients, he quietly stacked properties and built passive income one deal at a time. 💼🏘️💵 🛠️ HOW HE GOT STARTED 📍 Alan began investing in his early 20s while working full-time in finance. 💰 He tapped into $10K from a life insurance policy to buy his first ren...
At 19, AJ couldn’t get financing, so he teamed up with a friend who had credit, bought a house, and house‑hacked with roommates—living free while values climbed. That first win pulled him into the industry; he started selling and investing the same year and became a broker/owner by 25. Today, as introduced on the show, he’s facilitated billions in deals, manages 1,000+ properties, and raises capital for multifamily projects—all while splitting time between Kelowna, BC and Scottsdale, AZ. He h...
"Diagnose Foundation Repairs Right" Flippers, landlords — foundation mistakes can vaporize your profits! 💥💸 Before you swing a hammer, get the diagnosis right. 🩺🏚️ 🧠🔬 STEP 1: Start with a Licensed Forensic Geotechnical Engineer A residential soil & movement specialist should be brought in before any foundation repair bids. Engineers diagnose the root cause under the slab 🕳️🧭; repair companies price the fix after the cause is known 🎯👷♀️. 👤 WHO IS RK BOB BROWN? 🤠🧱 📐 Architecture + Fi...
Cole Oliver is Senior Vice-President at King Operating, forging long-term partnerships with capital-raising teams. In this episode he explains why many real-estate syndicators add oil-and-gas projects to their portfolios and what unique risks new investors should weigh before committing capital. 🔍 Things Discussed Core differences between real estate and oil & gas: daily commodity-price swings and the need for seasoned operators. First-year tax deductions of 75–85 % of invested capita...
📌 For the past two decades, Richard Crouch has been the quiet deal architect behind complex real-estate syndications—guiding sponsors through subject-to assumptions, seller-financed seconds, and multi-tier equity waterfalls. He then applied the same playbook to build his own real-estate portfolio. If you want a clear, step-by-step view of how a transaction is papered, funded, and closed, Richard’s checklist is the shortcut. 🛠️ 🔍 Transaction Discussed 🚀📈 • Creative Capital Stack: Acquired a...
This episode helps us, as investors, perform due diligence on potential partners to ensure that their tax problems don't become ours. Meet Our Guest Carlos Samaniego — former paramedic and former real-estate loan officer who is now a federally licensed IRS specialist (enrolled agent) and co-founder of Tax Debt Consultants, LLC. 💡 How This Episode Will Help Real-Estate Investors Hidden tax debt can block a refinance, stall a sale, or even drag an entire partnership into collections. Carlos e...
Community-services coordinator by day, apartment buyer by night! Nate Pharmer-Eden 🇺🇸 started out helping manage 1,000+ Madison WI units for a developer, then realized he wanted ownership too. With a fiancée, two kids, and a 9-to-5, he formed Eaton Capital (2023) and began scooping up value-add multifamily deals in the Carolinas without quitting his W-2 job. His secret sauce? Tight partnerships, vertical integration, and crazy-good time blocking. ⏰🏗️ 🔍 Things Discussed Early Influence &am...























