GUEST BIO Chris Prefontaine steps into the lab to share more about his amazing 30 years experience. Chris is a 3-time best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing, and Moneeka Sawyer’s Real Estate Investing for Women. Chris has a remarkable 30 years experience ranging from constructing new homes in the ’90s and owning a Realty Executive Franchise to running his own investments (commercial & residential) and coaching clients throughout North America...
Aug 17, 2020•29 min
Karen steps into the lab with the experience of managing multi-million dollar portfolios for over 25 years at the institutional level. Karen managed over $150 million in fixed income while also juggling the role of Chief Compliance Officer. Her portfolio management experience includes co-managing a $250 million emerging markets fund and relocating an institutional asset management practice from Switzerland to London. Karen has taken her plethora of knowledge of investing and putting it to a new ...
Aug 10, 2020•50 min
GUEST BIO Alexander Cruz also known as ‘Xander’, is a Baltimore native who began his Residential Real Estate career in 2011 upon graduating from West Virginia University. He quickly realized a passion for the Residential Investment side of the business and worked with Craig Reich and Brock Reich in developing CR of Maryland into one of the premier Residential Real Estate Companies in Baltimore that now owns and manages over 320 single family rental properties. Over the years, Xander has worn num...
Aug 03, 2020•46 min
Michael is a husband, father, investor, entrepreneur, CPA, author, speaker, instructor, and short term rental expert . As the founder of Short Term Rental Secrets — he leads a well oiled machine & system of running a lucrative short term rental operation which is essentially a sophisticated property management company. Michael’s advanced training & mentorship programs help new and seasoned real estate investors launch, automate & scale their very own short term rental portfolio to fa...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min
GUEST BIO Gina Sahota is a successful real estate investor, financial literacy advocate, mentor, speaker and upcoming author. While she used to work at a bank in Canada for 12 years, she had the real estate passion making her own personal investments starting back in 2006. She then made the switch in her career from banking to real estate and landed a job at a construction company in Vancouver. Working there gave her the real estate knowledge to be fully submerged in her real estate endeavors. G...
Jul 20, 2020•37 min
Justin Brennan grew up on his father’s job sites digging ditches witnessing and learning from him as a builder & developer. His father made him dig ditches lay pipes and understand the importance of hard work and the value of money. The 2008 crisis had a huge impact on his family’s business and it was a turning point for him to pivot. He worked as an asset manager for major banks and found a way into residential sales handling short sales and helping families. He began breaking into the La J...
Jul 13, 2020•52 min
Jerome Myers is an Engineering degree holder who pursued his passion in real estate. One of his goals is to help people in the middle class have affordable housing. As a practitioner & full time investor, he also spends time educating others on how to exit the matrix through ownership in multifamily workforce housing. Jerome’s mindset is a big contributor to his success and for those of you familiar with the matrix movie reference - he ‘took the red pill’ and he encourages experiment nations...
Jul 06, 2020•57 min
GUEST BIO Mark McMahon has worked in broad areas of real estate, beginning as a contractor to getting involved in mobile home parks, flipping and traditional real estate investing - his experiences today have helped him the investor and agent that he is today with a very special niche in being able to be the bridge for Japanese & international investors overseas considering that he’s also fluent in the language. Mark today loves to educate as much as he loves to invest. He spends his time ed...
Jun 29, 2020•1 hr 4 min
GUEST BIO Jordan Harry joins us in the lab to talk about the most important piece of real estate one can own. Jordan and his company coaches people for improving their reading speed, memory and public speaking. He was 10 years old when he had a speech impediment that made him struggle with public speaking and reading. Since then he’s turned what was once a challenge into a unique strength. He is now an international public speaker and the CEO of StudyFast - a company that transforms the way you ...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 34 min
GUEST BIO Damion Lupo is known for wearing multiple hats and for owning different kinds of businesses ranging from insurance, precious metals, financial consulting, real estate and venture capital. He is also the host of Financial Underdogs podcast, and founder of Yokido™, his own martial art’s company. His mission for all of the above is to free 1 million from financial bondage. He began his career at the age of 11, hiring his parents for some logistics support. Because of his depth knowledge o...
Jun 15, 2020•46 min
GUEST BIO Jason Van Orden founded one of the first ever podcasts about internet business and online marketing which was at one point one of the most profitable podcasts on iTunes generating millions of dollars in sales from his podcast. Jason has been teaching students and clients around the world about using internet media, how to monetize their unique brilliance with content marketing, scalable courses, and automated sales systems while growing their personal brands. He is also the author of t...
Jun 01, 2020•41 min
Alexis Ruffin is the founder of Sheffield Executive Housing, a short term rentals company. Before becoming an investor, she has had multiple experience working in the corporate world as a project manager. It was after a recession that she decided to start investing into real estate and luckily she’s been doing real estate successfully for just over a decade now. Alexis started her journey in real estate rehabbing old properties and keeping them as rentals. She still does this today while she’s a...
May 25, 2020•47 min
GUEST BIO Ola Dantis is a serial entrepreneur and CEO/founder of Dwellynn company, a multifamily investment firm that helps others get started in real estate investing. He also hosts one of the top real estate investing podcasts, The Dwellynn Show, that has a main goal on helping people attain financial freedom through real estate investing. Join us today as he steps into the lab and shares some values to the community and how he teaches working professionals like himself on how to invest in rea...
May 18, 2020•43 min
GUEST BIO Chris Grenzig is an asset manager of Toro Real Estate Partners. Before he was involved in real estate, he took a job as a soccer coach after he earned his bachelor degree in business management. When he realized that he missed New York, he went back and after realizing that coaching was not the best fit for him anymore so he went on and took another job as a cold caller in a stock brokerage company. He quickly realized that being in the stock brokerage game didn’t bring much fulfillmen...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 25 min
GUEST BIO Tony Whatley steps into the lab as a true practitioner. He not only took a passion for his (cars) and turned it into a multi-million dollar business but he did all this all while having a full time corporate career in the oil/gas industry. He is best known as Co-Founder of LS1Tech, an online automotive community which grew into the largest of its kind, with over 300,000 registered members. This business sold for millions in only five years after starting. Amazingly; it was just his par...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 24 min
GUEST BIO Phil M. Jones is a serial entrepreneur, big time business growth expert and known as the best selling author of Exactly What to Say, Exactly How to Sell, and Exactly Where to Start. His first business, car washing business started when he was at the age of 14 and received the award as “British Excellence in Sales and Marketing”. His early career went on and on and after years of being one of the most in-demand young sales leaders in the UK, he decided to dedicate his future in helping ...
Apr 27, 2020•39 min
GUEST BIO Brett Swarts is the CEO of Capital Gains Tax Solutions. He has helped and provided numerous investors with the Deferred Sales Trust. It is a tool to help investors solve capital gains tax deferral limitations. Brett has encountered numerous experiences which includes Deferred Sales Trust, Delaware Statute Trust, 1031 exchanges while executing more than $85 million in commercial real estate brokerage transactions. As an active commercial real estate broker and investor, he holds series ...
Apr 20, 2020•53 min
GUEST BIO Darin Batchelder is the President and founder of TZK Capital - a driven company that focuses on the efficient brokering of financial institution loan portfolios. He has immeasurable experience in developing and managing complicated sales transactions and establishing long term relationships is his priority. Before TZK Capital, Batchelder was responsible for the sale of residential and multifamily whole loan pools for ABN AMRO Mortgage Capital Markets Group and was involved in over $4 b...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 17 min
GUEST BIO Douglass Lodmell is an asset protection attorney that creates legal structures that help investors separate or protect their assets from their creditors. He is an expert in estate planning, taxation and strategic asset protection for domestic and international clients. He’s been protecting over $4 billion worth of assets from his clients. He is the owner of the Bridge Trust ™ asset protection concept which bridges the features of the Foreign Asset Protection Trust. Join us today as he ...
Apr 06, 2020•46 min
GUEST BIO Tyler Hall was able to build a multi-million dollar empire in the span of two years coming from humble beginnings and significant challenges but always seeked to get more out of what he saw in his surroundings coming from a small town out of Maine. Tyler has had any job that you can think of when it comes to making money but most importantly he talks about the burden that he had to overcome mentally. He didn’t come from an environment of investing but rather saving. After doing his res...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 29 min
GUEST BIO Bruce Wuollet grew up in a family bakery business in Minnesota. Over the next 16 years he worked in all areas of the business from baking to cake decorating to sales to deliveries which gave him a unique perspective of business. Early on he was able to identify and learn the importance of building systems along with relationships in everyday operations. Dating back to 2001, He gained his knowledge in real estate working in tax liens foreclosures. As an opportunist, he then pursued vaca...
Mar 23, 2020•58 min
GUEST BIO Today we have two special guests in the lab, Candice Payne and Carlos Callahan. As partners they are serial entrepreneurs who have added so much value to the community collectively while building well over 14 businesses which includes a spa that Candice is very passionate about. Prior to their success, both of them have had two very different paths that have led them to being a jack of all trades when it comes to execution under the large real estate umbrella. This includes buy and hol...
Mar 16, 2020•37 min
GUEST BIO Mauricio Rauld is the founder and CEO of Premier Law group, a firm that specializes in educating investors and representing them from legal matters relating to Asset Protection. He is known across the nation as an asset protection attorney, operation strategist and contributes as the legal advisor to The Real Estate Guys™ Radio show and is Robert Helms’ personal advisor. He is devoted to what he does not only delivering exceptional service to his clients but also aims his best to educa...
Mar 09, 2020•46 min
GUEST BIO Alina Trigub is the founder and managing partner of Samo Financial, a private company that helps people build wealth via passive real estate investing while preserving capital, generating residual income and savings on taxes. Prior to her growing portfolio, Alina worked for a private company after she got her degree in accounting. As an inspiring investor from new jersey, she sought out investing opportunities which deemed to be more interesting out of state. This led to her seeking mo...
Mar 02, 2020•37 min
GUEST BIO Couldn't be more fitting during this black history month Jay Morrison a thought leader and activist for our community - joins us in the lab delivering gems about the importance of serving our community regardless of your level. Elevating by being more and doing more as you grow. Jay Morrison is the founder of the first black owned real estate fund Tulsa Real Estate Fund (TREF - https://lnkd.in/g28W9r2 ) raising $9.6 million in its first week. Tulsa Real Estate fund was named after Tuls...
Feb 24, 2020•26 min
GUEST BIO Gino Barbaro is the co founder of Jake and Gino LLC, one of the two duos who started their investing journey with their first 24 units. Gino started off as a restaurant owner for 25 years but that did not stop him from experimenting into the real estate space to grow their portfolio to more than 1600 units of multifamily apartments. Gino did not stop there, he went along and built an educational company with his partner Jake under the well known Jake & Gino umbrella. Gino is a cert...
Feb 17, 2020•47 min
GUEST BIO Eric Braun started in the industry as a telemarketer doing cold calling in the first two years until he was able to get his license as a mortgage broker. His determination, how he helped and treated his clients made him grow his business to where he is today. Eric is not average in the value that he gives his clients who are Predominantly first time home buyers. With this however comes a lot of hand holding and Eric goes above and beyond when it comes to serving his clients. How he doe...
Feb 10, 2020•56 min
GUEST BIO After graduating from college having studied real estate and finance, AJ expanded beyond the theory and learned his majority of real estate by acting on the knowledge he had built majorly from biggerpockets. He bought his first quad in Dallas Texas and today his portfolio today has grown to over 180 plus units. AJ’s portfolio is mainly compiled of residential real estate which we less often see in the lab. AJ has an interesting twist on his beliefs of residential versus multifamily inv...
Feb 03, 2020•57 min
GUEST BIO Steve Pollack is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Anchor Loans, the nation’s premiere fix and flip lender providing more than $7.7 billion of capital to investors. Steve’s core values stem from building relationships bigger than lending; their goal is to build long term partnerships and they’ve done just that. Over 85% of their customers are repeat borrowers because of their speed, efficiency, expertise, flexibility and customer service that comes with investing with Anchor...
Jan 27, 2020•43 min
GUEST BIO Will Roundtree has established himself as a staple in the real-estate investment sector. As the Founder and top-grossing Principal at WE Management, Roundtree has helped over 1500 small to medium sized businesses get access to over 300 million dollars in funding during a two year period. Will is also a published author and is notably known for helping his community better their credit score as a credit strategist and financial advisor. THE REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION 01:40 Personal Backgrou...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 11 min
