Ron Douglas is a husband and father of 8. Kicked out of high school in the tenth grade, Ron went to street racing and broke his back in a car accident at 18. He was paralyzed from the waist down and learned to walk again, making a full recovery. He became a prison guard at 19 and was on the riot team by 20. He worked death row from 22-24 and gained a unique perspective on life while there. He has been an entrepreneur since he was 24 and has started and sold many companies. He has started several...
Jan 16, 2018•38 min•Ep. 160
Colby Amerine is a 10 year former Firefighter, Real Estate Investor, NLP Practitioner, Public Speaker, and Coach of new investors and entrepreneurs. As a firefighter/paramedic, his career was cut short with a devastating injury on the job. Fighting his way back through a grueling rehabilitation process, he lost 110 pounds and began inspiring others with his story. As each life challenge pushed Colby to the next level, despite the trials and tribulations, he never lost his sense of humor or compa...
Jan 14, 2018•41 min•Ep. 238
Mike Wallace is 34 years old. He grew up in Dallas/San Antonio and graduated from UTSA with a degree in Finance. Mike worked as a commercial lender for several banks in San Antonio for 12+ years before starting investing in real estate in May 2017. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How real estate improves during a recession The benefits of purchasing a ‘Walmart’ house How Mike started bringing in multiple deals in such a short period of time How Mike finds most of his leads Mike’s goal f...
Jan 11, 2018•44 min•Ep. 159
Clayton Morris is the Former FOX News anchor who left television after achieving financial freedom. Now he devotes himself to helping other people build passive income and achieve financial freedom. He runs a turnkey real estate company called Morris Invest. Clayton is also the host of Investing in Real Estate podcast, which has a laser focus on buy and hold rental properties. The podcast utilizes expert interviews, case studies with normal everyday investors, and Clayton’s own methods for achie...
Jan 09, 2018•44 min•Ep. 158
R. E. Capital, LLC was founded by Mitch Stephen and partner Raymond Braun. Collectively they have purchased and sold over 1,500 houses in the San Antonio, TX area since 1996. They have purchased a very large portion of these properties with private funds loaned to them by private individuals. The premise is very simple: Private individuals loan money for a fair interest rate and they get the 1st Lien Rights on a property they lend on. Each loan stands alone; 1 Lender, 1 Borrower, and 1 property ...
Jan 04, 2018•49 min•Ep. 157
Scott was a VP at a Fortune 300 company when the leadership changed and Scott realized he needed to take action to build passive income. He turned to Real Estate investing and left his job after replacing his income. Today, Scott is a Full-time real estate investor and the co-host of the Best Passive Income Model Podcast. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Scott replaced his regular income with passive income Why it’s vital to stay focused when building your passive income Why you need...
Jan 02, 2018•55 min•Ep. 156
David Lecko is the CEO of DealMachine — a real estate investing app that puts you in touch with any property owner via direct mail, phone, and email. Next time you are out and about and you see a house that looks abandoned or interesting, simply take a picture of it with the DealMachine App to instantly see who owns it. Then choose your contact method and get in touch with the owner and offer to buy it. DealMachine launched in the summer of 2017, and users report making as much as $25,000 over t...
Dec 28, 2017•26 min•Ep. 155
Jason Lucchesi founded real estate investing company, Global Fortune Solutions, in the year 2008. Jason has been enjoying a successful career in the real estate industry since 2002 where he started as a Loan Officer for Illinois brokerage, Bancgroup Mortgage. In 2004, Jason joined the Management team at Countrywide Home Loans, which was the nation’s #1 lender. In 2008, Jason established his own company to pursue his dream of being a full-time entrepreneur and business owner. What you’ll learn ab...
Dec 21, 2017•52 min•Ep. 153
Dawn Rickabaugh is the founder of Note Queen Capital. In 2004, she quit her nursing job and became a full-time entrepreneur. Through her small, family-operated investment company, she’s been building a portfolio of seller-financed notes since 2009 and helped many people get started investing in notes. She frequently consults in real estate transactions that involve owner financing and buys & sells real estate in the Reno-Tahoe area. She loves to use her expertise to increase homeownership in...
Dec 19, 2017•51 min•Ep. 152
Anmol Singh started trading during his early college years without much luck. After a year or so he discovered a pattern that allowed him to go from 0 to a profitable trader. To date, He has generated a lot of profits for himself and his investors in trading wins and continues to remain a stock and forex trader. He is also an avid real estate investor with a large portfolio and has funded two other tech-based companies. His portfolio also includes Franchise Stores in the Automotive Sector. Today...
Dec 14, 2017•25 min•Ep. 151
Costas Peppas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Agent Legend. The secret weapon top brokers, teams, and agents are using right now to turn in huge conversion numbers. If you’re not regularly the first to follow up, then you’re blowing deals and losing money. Every agent knows this, yet it’s tough to stay consistent. Agent Legend regularly doubles and even triples your connection ratio with prospects. As a bonus perk just for listening, Agent Legend is giving away copies of their top performing scri...
Dec 12, 2017•29 min•Ep. 150
Larry Higgins is a real estate investor based out of Houston, TX. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 2003 he began his career in construction project management which he thoroughly enjoyed until 2013 when for the first time in his life, he found himself in a job from which he got no sense of satisfaction and decided he needed to make a change. That’s when he decided it was time to quit and jump into real estate full time although he had zero experience in it and had never even don...
Dec 07, 2017•48 min•Ep. 149
Tom Wilson bought his first property in 1970 in California and purchased several investment properties throughout the 70’s. In 1999, after thirty years with some of Silicon Valley’s pioneering companies, he learned that his business and management experience enhanced his ability to find and empower teams that locate and manage successful real estate investments where he then turned his new career focus. Since then, Mr. Wilson has bought and sold more than 4,000 units and over $350M of real estat...
Dec 05, 2017•58 min•Ep. 148
Kevin Smullin is the owner of 2Q Lead Generation Strategies. 2Q Lead Generation Strategies helps frustrated real estate agents by showing them how to implement a business strategy that will double their business in 12 months. Kevin’s mission is to empower Realtors by teaching them a proven system that will allow them to be the top producer in their market. The focus is to show you a different way to generate new business and utilize methods that make it so that you are spending your time with pe...
Nov 30, 2017•46 min•Ep. 147
Ari Page is the owner and CEO of Fund&Grow. Fund&Grow helps small businesses and real estate investors get significant funding (up to $250,000 and more) at zero percent interest via creative credit card financing. To date, the Company has raised over $350M in credit for its small business clients. When Ari acquired the Company in 2009, revenues were modest and the company was rife with customer service issues. Due to his ingenuity in finding creative ways for small businesses to acquire ...
Nov 28, 2017•36 min•Ep. 146
Whitney Nicely went from no investments (or strategies) to 19 houses, 19 apartment units and 7 chunks of land in less than three years all bringing monthly money to her bank account on auto pilot. She has traveled the United States speaking on stages, teaching her simple strategies, and meeting with other successful real estate investors- and still buying houses the way she teaches others. Whitney is a dog mom to Abby the Labby-130 pounds of loving fur, wifey to Jason East- an apartment investor...
Nov 23, 2017•46 min•Ep. 145
Grant Wise is a Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of Real Estate Marketing University, a media Training Company. Grant is thought to be a maverick leader. He’s an innovative marketing strategist unafraid to lead companies in new directions. Grant’s story is one of education, truth, and perseverance leading Entrepreneurs and Business Owners to their dreams with lessons that can only be learned by doing. Servicing over 600 different businesses over the last 12 months, Grant has been described as irr...
Nov 21, 2017•49 min•Ep. 144
Doren Aldana is the CEO and president of MortgageMarketingCoach.com and the founder of the Testimonial Engine — the #1 software for helping local businesses collect and share client reviews on autopilot. As a result of his clients’ extraordinary success, he has won the prestigious “Best Industry Service Provider” award three years in a row at 2012, 2013 and 2014. He is also the host of the Local Domination Podcast – where local business owners learn how to get local clients FAST. Since 2005, he ...
Nov 16, 2017•42 min•Ep. 143
George Antone is considered a thought leader in the finance and investing space. He is the author of 3 best-selling books on finance, the founder of the world’s largest network of private lenders, and a regular guest speaker nationwide on the topic of finance and investing. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The origin of hacking finance and what it’s all about How to pay off your mortgage in 1/3 of the time that it normally would take Why a 15-year mortgage hurts you more than a 30-year m...
Nov 14, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 142
Over the course of 20 years, John Martinez has gone from a struggling all-commission insurance salesperson, to a nationally recognized sales expert. Along his journey, John has held many sales-related roles… Account Executive, Sales Manager, VP of Sales, Sales & Marketing Director, and Corporate Sales Trainer. John has completed over 4,000 hours of study on sales and how people actually make decisions…what REALLY drives them to take action. His approach to sales combines neuroscience, experi...
Nov 09, 2017•48 min•Ep. 141
Jay Papasan is a bestselling author that serves as vice president and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty International, the world’s largest real estate company. He is also vice president of KellerINK, co-owner of Keller Capital, and co-owner, alongside his wife Wendy, of Papasan Properties Group with Keller Williams Realty in Austin, Texas. He was born and raised in Memphis, TN. After attending the University of Memphis he spent several years working abroad in Paris before attending New ...
Nov 07, 2017•45 min•Ep. 140
Connor Steinbrook was a top online poker player from 2003-2011, and in 2011, on April 15th, the government shut down the websites and he lost almost a decade of his life overnight. Nobody wanted to hire what they thought was an ex-gambler so he quickly realized he had to create a job for himself. He tried insurance and network marketing and found himself into real estate. It was a rough start — he ended up facing bankruptcy with $65,000 in debt. He figured out how to do deals using a joint ventu...
Nov 02, 2017•48 min•Ep. 139
David Hicks is co-president of Dallas-based HomeVestors of America, Inc., the largest professional house buying franchise in the U.S. with more than 75,000 houses bought since 1996. Since joining HomeVestors in 2005 as Director of Franchise Systems, Mr. Hicks quickly developed a process for coaching franchisees. From 2006-2009, he coordinated the franchisee support for the company as vice president of operations. In January 2009, he became co-president of the company with Kenneth Channell, and s...
Oct 31, 2017•35 min•Ep. 138
Edwin Kelly is America’s leading expert on Self Directed Retirement accounts and self-directed investment strategies. He has more than 24 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry. He worked for such notable companies like UBS and BISYS. Edwin is a Founder and currently serves as CEO of Specialized IRA Services. During his career, Edwin has also helped set up a Self Directed IRA provider and grow it from 2 employees with approximately 300 accounts to 15 employees with approximately ...
Oct 26, 2017•55 min•Ep. 137
Matt is a real estate investor and agent. He has had the pleasure of working with hundreds of investors from all over the world and helped them to grow massive wealth and passive income through remote real estate investments. He also leads a retail real estate team working with buyers and sellers servicing all 50 states. When he has the spare time, he teaches college courses as an adjunct professor at a handful of colleges and universities. Before real estate, he spent 17 years as a project mana...
Oct 24, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 136
Mr. Jones entered the financial services industry in 1970 and has taught the subjects of tax management and financial strategy planning since 1974. He is a Certified Tax Coach, Chairman of the Strategy Planning Professional Advisory Council, an alliance of Tax and Estate Planning Attorneys, CPAs, Real Estate and other financial professionals, and a member of the Planned Gift Development Committee for St. Mary’s Medical Center Foundation in Long Beach, CA. Mr. Jones is also a co-founder of the Al...
Oct 19, 2017•47 min•Ep. 135
Brian Page made his first million before the age of 30 in the wild world of real estate. During the historic crash of 2007, he lost it all. Starting over with no credit or savings to speak of he went on to start an Airbnb business, making over six figures in his first 6 months, using properties he doesn’t own. After automating and outsourcing nearly every aspect of his business, Brian has enjoyed traveling the world and managing his Airbnb empire from his laptop, seeing 16 countries so far just ...
Oct 12, 2017•27 min•Ep. 133
After Lee developed his highly acclaimed Foreclosure and Short Sale Courses, he began to speak all over the country on these two profitable strategies. In all of his travels, he was constantly bombarded by the same question, “Where do I get the money”? Tired of seeing dreams dashed over something so simple, Lee immediately set out to create the most comprehensive curriculum on the subject of Private Money ever compiled in one place. Recently featured in Forbes, the Boston Globe, Market Watch, Re...
Oct 10, 2017•53 min•Ep. 132
Paul Ritter has over 25 years’ experience in the mortgage and credit enhancement industries. He has developed software, which invokes mortgage-underwriting guidelines. It is very useful for anyone looking to buy a home, wants to run “what if” scenarios and is especially useful for Lease Option transactions. Paul has formerly owned and operated several mortgage companies. He is currently the owner of Credit Investigation Service, dba My Credit Team that specializes in credit enhancement for the R...
Oct 05, 2017•42 min•Ep. 131
Landon Rothstein is a full-time professional real estate investor in the Houston Texas area holding over 87 properties. He joins Mitch on this podcast to tell us about life before and after his move to full-time investing. He also discusses why he chooses to host a local meetup.com group. He is a consummate doer and thinker and a conversation worth listening to. What you’ll learn about in this episode: How getting laid off by his mom prompted Landon to turn his side business into his full-time b...
Oct 03, 2017•35 min•Ep. 130
