In the second part of our conversation with Clint Harris, we talk about how and why we are investing in self-storage. Clint is a successful active investor in short-term rentals, but he is transitioning into investing in self-storage. We talk about why he has made that shift, as well as the strengths of our partners at Nomad Capital. In This Episode We Cover: The Importance of Diversification into Passive Investing Assets The Similarities of the Technologic Shifts that are Happening in Self-Stor...
Jan 28, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Clint Harris – a short-term rental investor and owner of Salt and Soul Property Management talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. When we last spoke to Clint Harris in February of 2020, he owned 14 short-term rental units. In this episode, we talk to Clint about how he has scaled his portfolio to over 60 units under management. Clint has been a real estate investor for over a decade with his wife, starting with long-term single-family home investing but has sinc...
Jan 25, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 113
After serving almost six years in the Army, Darren Smith has spent the last eighteen years as a professional real estate investor. He has flipped, rented, and wholesaled hundreds of residential properties, and in recent years has purchased several million dollars of industrial properties as long-term holds. Darren’s greatest achievement has been to surround himself with an incredible team of industry and military veterans who are every bit as passionate about helping people as he is. His biggest...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Luke Wong, the founder of 9 Mile Capital, has been around real estate most of his life as his family has always been in real estate. From owning commercial and residential properties to land development. Luke grew up in Miami and graduated from Florida State University. He moved to Houston in 2001 and worked in land acquisitions acquiring land for residential subdivisions. From 2011 to 2020, he renovated houses and owned a wholesaling operation. In the last few years, he has also been actively i...
Nov 30, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Rob Dubroc is a 35-year-old real estate investor from Kansas City who went all-in on self-storage after testing the waters with house flipping, working as a realtor, and single-family rentals. After grinding those various side hustles he found his way into commercial real estate and self-storage. In this episode, we talk to Rob about how he bought his first facility for cash and then promptly quit his W-2 job, the challenges of transitioning a poorly check and cash facility into auto payments, t...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Katherine D’Agostino is the founder and sensei of Self-Storage Ninjas. After selling a previous business, Katherine jumped into the storage business building three facilities from the ground up in three years. She also runs a feasibility-analysis firm focused on delivering unbiased reports to self-storage investors that result in facilities with high occupancy and the highest possible returns. In this episode, we talk to Katherine about how she got into the self-storage business, how to pick a s...
Nov 15, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 109
In this episode we talk to Mandy Monson about her background in finance, how she found herself in the self-storage business, what a self-storage borrower should do to ensure a successful loan application, the 5 C’s of credit, and the big one you should pay attention as a self-storage owner. Mandy Monson is the VP of Finance for Resort Lifestyle Communities, which manages a portfolio of senior independent living communities, but she’s also co-founder of Stor365 with previous guest Victor Diaz and...
Nov 09, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 108
In this episode, Neil & Brittany discuss their upcoming move to North Carolina to pursue self-storage full time and live in a house hack across the street from the beach. In This Episode We Cover: We bought a house across the street from the beach with the intention of doing a house hack “someday maybe” - We will go into more detail on the house in a later episode. What led us to decide to make the move now? First, we call this podcast The Road to Family Freedom. Our goal is financial and lo...
Oct 12, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 107
In this episode, we talk to Victor Diaz about how he got his start in self-storage, the mistakes he sees many new self-storage owners making, how to stand out from the crowd when marketing to potential sellers, and the changes he’s seen in the storage industry since he got into it. Victor Diaz is the co-founder of Stor365.com, a new consulting firm that specializes in helping self-storage owners operate their small storage portfolios the way a large REIT would. Victor’s entire adult life has bee...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 106
In this episode, we talk to Alka Kumar about how concerns over burnout as a doctor led her to pursue additional streams of passive income, how she scaled after buying that first single-family rental, how she purchased a small mobile home park using her self-directed retirement account, and why she is focused on investing passively in real estate syndications. Alka Kumar of YourWealthMD.com came to the United States from India with $40 in her pocket. Fast forward to today and she has been making ...
May 23, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 105
In this episode, we talk to Christian Mercado about how he purchased his first piece of real estate using a VA loan, how a light bulb went off after he started renting one of his rooms out, how he purchased his first self-storage for zero money down, and the key to negotiating with self-storage owners. Christian Mercado is a full-time real estate investor and Army Captain. He got his start in real estate in 2017 with the purchase of his first house utilizing a VA loan. 6 months later, he rented ...
May 17, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 104
In this episode, we talk about two key setbacks that shifted Jeff Anzalone’s mindset towards building multiple streams of passive income, why he doesn’t invest in single-family rentals, the lessons learned from losing his first $50,000 he invested in a syndication, and the great question he uses to find other potential groups to invest with. Dr. Jeff Anzalone is a full-time practicing periodontist in the great state of Louisiana, author, and founder of DebtFreeDr.com. He focuses on teaching doct...
May 10, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 103
In this episode, we talk to Powell Chee about his start in real estate and why quickly he shifted into multi-tenant assets, the three main roles of a real estate syndication team, a key difference between residential and commercial lending that challenges many investors making the switch, and how to build relationships with commercial real estate brokers that last. Powell Chee is a Los Angeles-based real estate investor who does all his investing out of state. After buying his first investment p...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Landon and Teria Harris started out rehabbing single-family homes. After a few successful projects, they realized it was not the direction they wanted. The amount of time, work, and capital was more than they wanted to manage. Their love of real estate led them to other investing opportunities. After hearing a podcast on vacant land sales, they immediately knew land investing was the right direction for them! Their land business began in 2019 where they immediately set up structure, processes, a...
Apr 26, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Matt Gouge, aka Matt the Mortgage Guy, got his start in lending back in 2013. As a self-proclaimed math nerd and a people person, he burned his proverbial ships, leaving a steady paycheck with the State of California, for the commission-based world of brokering residential mortgages. He has excelled in the field because he himself is a real estate investor and he can advise clients at a high level. As a real estate investor himself, he is able to help clients not only analyze the mortgage on the...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Mindy Templeton is a Kansas City-based real estate investor who was, at one time, $165,000 in debt. A mindset shift a few years ago led her and her husband to aggressively pay down that debt and start buying single-family rentals in the Kansas City area. She and her husband have full-time jobs and are parents to two young children. She started Investinginyourwealth.com about two years ago as a way to track her journey to paying off that $165k of debt, and now that they are debt-free, she is work...
Apr 12, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Sara Witz and Anthony Gair are a soon-to-be husband and wife real estate investing team focused on wholesaling, flipping, and the BRRRR strategy. Two oil and gas employees from Houston, Texas who decided to take advantage of the extra time they had after their wedding was delayed by the Covid pandemic. They started investing less than 12 months ago and already have 13 deals under their belt. At the beginning of 2021, they set a goal for themselves of earning $100,000 in three months from real es...
Apr 05, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Shane Sigsbee – Short Term Rental Investor and CEO or Sigsbee Homes talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Shane graduated from Notre Dame in 2007 with a degree in finance. He became a derivatives trader right out of school but lost his job in the financial crisis in 2009. He then left to pursue a career in gambling, starting the venture Imawhale Staking in 2010, which he still runs to this day. In 2017 he began investing in real estate i...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Moe Kruger – Senior Loan Officer at Live Oak Bank talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Moe Kruger is a 30-year banking veteran that specializes in storage financing for small business owners. Over his 30 years in banking, Moe has been a branch manager, bank business development officer, residential mortgage specialist, private banking manager, commercial relationship manager before settling in and focusing on helping small business owne...
Mar 22, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Neil Wahlgren – Chief Operations Officer at MAG Capital Partners, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. MAG Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in sale-leaseback and industrial real estate investments. Neil brings nearly two decades of leadership in operations and capital markets. Prior to MAG Capital, Neil led a Bay Area real estate investment firm, raising capital for over $200M in projects. He came to real estat...
Mar 15, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Mark Podolsky – aka The Land Geek, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Armed with only $3,000, Mark bought his first few parcels of raw land in 2001. Today Mark is the author of Dirt Rich, the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income, and owner of successful and investing company Frontier Properties. Prior to his land investing success, Mark felt trapped in a high-stress, corporate job. Escaping the rat race changed Mark’s ...
Mar 08, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Kris Reid – founder of Ardor SEO talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Kris is known online as the coolest guy in Search Engine Optimization. Now, you might be asking why a podcast about real estate investing is hosting an expert in SEO. Well, that’s because at the end of the day, real estate is a customer-driven business, and at some point, you will want to put yourself in front of more customers. Whether they be rental tenants, self-st...
Mar 01, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Casey Franchini – Single-Family Rental investor, and founder of Brick By Brick Wealth talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Casey is a real estate investor and mom of 3 young children who earns a passive second income from investing in single-family rental properties. She also teaches aspiring real estate investors that they, too, can live a better life with passive income from rentals and it starts with getting the first one. In this ep...
Feb 22, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Becky Nova – multifamily investor and founder of Lady-Landlords.com, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Becky began investing in real estate in 2018, when she and her husband, Emilio, purchased their first duplex in Yonkers, NY. Just a year later, she bought a four-family in the same neighborhood as well as a condo in the Dominican Republic, her husband’s native country. Now, she has acquired 10 doors in a competitive high cost of liv...
Feb 15, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Taylor Loht – Real Estate Investor, Founder of NT Capital, and host of the Passive Wealth Strategies podcast talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Taylor is on a mission to teach Busy Professionals how they can invest in real estate without dealing with tenants, toilets, and termites. He highlights and distills the knowledge, experiences, and lessons of expert real estate investors through his podcast, YouTube Channel, and email newslett...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 90
Michael Rogers – Real Estate Investor and Owner of Chandler Properties, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. After working for 15 years in the Corporate Accounting world Michael transitioned to full-time real estate investing in 2017. When he was still working his full-time corporate job he was also purchasing, remodeling, and managing rental properties as a side job. He currently self-manages a portfolio of 350 storage units, several r...
Feb 01, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Justin Fraser – Multifamily Asset Manager and Host of the True Multifamily Show, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Justin is an apartment syndicator, asset manager, and real estate investor, responsible for managing multiple apartments across the country. A real estate investor since 2014 when he bought a single-family home as a rental property. For years Justin flipped houses and owned single-family rentals until May of 2018 when he...
Jan 25, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Tamar Hermes – CEO of Wealth Warrior Woman, Full-time Real Estate Investor, educator, and money coach, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Tamar guides women to become financially free through Real Estate Investing and creating an empowering relationship to money. Tamar grew up poor as the child of a Holocaust survivor and had no idea how people got rich. By chance, she stumbled upon Real Estate investing and became obsessed with the w...
Jan 18, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Gary Edmonds – Self Storage Owner and Operator, founder of Pack It LLC and TheStorageManager, talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Gary Edmonds is an Illinois based self-storage owner, operator, and manager who bought his first facility back in 1999 while holding down a full-time job. Since then, he has acquired 14 facilities totaling 1800 units and over 280,000 square feet of storage space. And almost all of those facilities were acquired and run remotely whi...
Jan 11, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Amanda Bolan – Multifamily investor, wife, and mother to 3 small children. Being active previously on flips, underway on a small development, she and her husband have narrowed their focus to multifamily properties for long term wealth creation. At the beginning of 2020, they closed on a 12 unit apartment deal as their first rental property., In this episode, we talk about getting started flipping properties, how they ended up buying a larger property than they thought they could afford, the chal...
Jan 04, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 85
