This episode is brought to you by our team at InvestedTalent.com a sponsor of the new amazon best seller book: Hospitable Hosts. Invested Talent is the same agency Ruben founded that produces The Real Estate Experiment show, we are not only honored to have sponsored this book but we are also excited to launch the Hospitable Host podcast coming soon. Today, the team has the pleasure of producing an episode where Ruben read chapter 26 of the Hospitable Host book (Repurposing A House Into a Home) f...
May 23, 2022•50 min
Heather Dreves is a fund manager that specializes in private real estate funding. She has been in the industry for over seventeen years and has raised over $300 million dollars in her time with Secured Investment Corp, for investors for dozens of different projects. She believes in building relationships with both investors and real estate developers, which is one of the reasons her fund has grown so much over the years and she is an expert at helping property owners achieve their goals of exiti...
May 09, 2022•52 min
In this episode, we are repurposing everything in the lab including this episode. We’ve used the word ‘repurpose’ SO many times, it has become one of our core values that we share with experiment nation and our clients at investedtalent.com and today we have the pleasure of having Hani Mourra who shares these same core values with us that he went as far as creating a well known product to help content creators and thought leaders repurpose their content via repurpose.io. Hani Mourra is a softwar...
May 02, 2022•57 min
This week in the lab we have no other than our very own practitioner Dr. Rachel Gainsbrugh, a pharmacist by day and Short Term Rental Investor by night. Dr. Rachel cracked the code to generate income without having to punch a time-clock, work overnights or 14-hour shifts. By day she is a trained hospital informatics pharmacist. By night she is the owner, with her husband Jesse Gainsbrugh, of a growing luxury short-term rental empire spanning three states (Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Florida). Dr....
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 32 min
If you know anything about me, you know as your host (Ruben Kanya) I love experiments and one experiment that I've fallen in love within the last 2 years is the short term rental/ vacation rental industry also known as the #airbnb space. Here's a summary of my infatuation for the short term/ vacation rental space: 1. I've interviewed over a dozen owners and operators in the #airbnb #vacationrental industry who have collectively hosted hundreds of thousand of guests and have made millions in shor...
Apr 20, 2022•19 min
Chad Griffiths visits us in the lab to experiment commercial industrial real estate investment and give a quick look at retail properties. He gives us an idea of what to expect when investing in industrial real estate and the ways it can provide headache-free tenants based on the various unconventional models that industrial real estate provides in addition to high returns. Working as an industrial real estate broker for more than 15 years, Chad has completed more than 500 client deals with both...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Lauren Cohen joins us in the lab to experiment immigration and international investing — as an international lawyer and cross-border expert. Lauren's personal experience with her then-husband’s deportation launched her flight into investing across borders, using real estate as a tool to help investors legally migrate to the United States. In this journey, Lauren has become the president and founder of e-Council Global where she helps entrepreneurs from all over the world expand their companies g...
Apr 04, 2022•43 min
We’re in the lab again to uncover Tonya Weathers’ multiple learning journeys — what we call experiments in our lab to evidently get to her investment end goal of becoming a multifamily syndicator. Tonya leveraged one property to another to get to her end strategy which is what we reinforce and encourage you to do in your own lab. Tonya’s mission has been to break the generational curse and has been able to accomplish this and share her success with others — predominantly minority women with her ...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min
GUEST SUMMARY: We’re back in the lab with ex-Army Officer Brent Bowers who left the life of deployment to become the Land Shark that he is today. After more than 8 years of service and a baby on the way, he felt like he needed to spend more time with his family and experimented in the world of real estate. He started with rentals until he found a podcast, much like this one, that opened his eyes to investing in land. The rest is history. Today, he is the CEO of ZechBuysHouses LLC which has Vacan...
Mar 21, 2022•59 min
GUEST SUMMARY We are back in our respective lab with the man that helped us build it. John Jonas is the reason why this episode is even possible and has been produced in a collective effort by our team sourced from onlinejobs.ph. John Jonas is the founder of onlinejobs.ph – the job board for virtual workers in the Philippines. He discusses his journey into growing his businesses by outsourcing tasks and leveraging other people's time to build his business. What it’s like to outsource business pr...
Mar 15, 2022•56 min
GUEST SUMMARY TJ steps into our lab while having multiple experiences in a lab of his own as a mechanical engineer turned rental-preneur. TJ’s short term rental journey started from working in the oil and gas industry as a mechanical engineer to real estate, using data, the numbers, and other tactics to predict STR and arbitrage opportunities, and finding his niche in the industry before venturing out. While working in the oil and gas industry, TJ bought his first investment property in 2015. Be...
Mar 07, 2022•55 min
GUEST SUMMARY In the lab we have Stephanie Walter, CEO of Erbe Wealth. She’s a capital raiser, syndicator, real estate investor, business owner, and financial educator who recently retired and sold her insurance agency of 16 years. Stephanie is able to share with Experiment Nation a unique perspective having worked in the corporate world, been a business owner and having real estate syndication replace her business and corporate income by achieving better cash flow through real estate syndicatio...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr
In this episode, Ruben discusses strategic branding and how to build a brand around your niche. The best thing you can do for your brand is to be very niched and make it very clear who you are serving, understanding their obstacles and desires. If you're looking to build a brand and are hesitant of niching down with the concern that you're alienating other prospects — embrace this resistance because it is the very thing that will make your brand stand out in your respective marketplace. If you'r...
Feb 23, 2022•11 min
GUEST SUMMARY Today Johnny Wolff joins us in the lab. A real estate entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of HomeRoom Coliving shares with Experiment Nation how you can turn the challenges you face in your real estate journey into business opportunities, using data analysis to figure out your next move, and solving the problem of getting your investment properties rented with technology. Homeroom Coliving was born out of Johnny’s problem of finding roommates for his rent hacking strategy — where he maxi...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min
GUEST SUMMARY We brought Mark Podolsky in the lab, a former investment banker turned into what people refer to as ‘The Land Geek’ share with Experiment Nation how you can build a profitable business from dirt. Often in the lab, we’ve had investors discuss multiple real estate models built on land, but Mark takes us back to the core foundation asset in real estate — land. You’ve heard the saying, ‘They’re not making any more of it’, and for this reason, Mark has found a niche in an indestructible...
Feb 07, 2022•55 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week Phil Capron joins us in the lab as a navy veteran, Founder of Mission First Capital — which provides investment opportunities for veterans. As the author of "Your VA Loan: and How It Can Make You a Millionaire", Phil not only talks the talk, but he walks the walk having been in the same shoes as a veteran's face today. He purchased his first home in 2010 using a VA loan while on active duty. Phil Capron, served as a Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman. Upon gett...
Jan 31, 2022•46 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab, we have Steven Pesavento, an entrepreneur, real estate investor, host of The Investor Mindset Podcast, and president of VonFinch Capital. He went from zero to buying, to the single-family operator and flipped over $22 Million in 2 years and 200 houses in under 3 years. He successfully raised $10’s Million of dollars which cycled through multiple assets. After leaving his management consulting profession and the tech world, he started real estate as a business ...
Jan 27, 2022•44 min
GUEST SUMMARY Bill Gross has been in sales, management, ownership and was at one point a lender that ended up carving out a niche as the go to probate expert in LA, building his book of business, and now taking on bigger initiatives in helping his team do the same within the space. Bill reminds us of the importance of building a network whether you’re in business or not to be able to leverage your network which eventually turns into your net worth — if done properly and strategically. Bill pract...
Jan 19, 2022•59 min
In this episode Ruben talks about the proper way to look at experiments and how to execute them in your lab in 2022. Experiments have three key layers. 1. Execute all experiments from beginning to end 2. Allow series of experiments to compound to see the results 3. Identify how less experiments can lead to more in your lab or how to experiment bigger with the same amount of energy & effort Let's build. This episode is brought to you by Boostly.co.uk. a company built to help short term rental...
Jan 10, 2022•22 min
GUEST SUMMARY Michael Morawski is a real estate investment veteran. He has controlled over $285,000,000 in real estate transactions. He is an entrepreneur, author, real estate trainer, public speaker, and personal coach with a strong, personal resilience, and deep desire to help others accomplish an extraordinary life. He has coached hundreds of real estate investors to fulfill their dreams. Mike started his career as a general contractor in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago with $5 mm in annual ...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 3 min
GUEST SUMMARY Roddrick Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Aparti Capital, is a consummate real estate professional with strong experience in real estate principalling and transactional finance. He helps investors acquire Multifamily Real Estate with strategic financing. Roddrick focuses on the combination of senior debt, mezzanine debt, preferential and common equity into what he labels as the capital stack for investor’s to take advantage. Roddrick comes into the lab to talk about the layers of the c...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Joining us this week in the lab is Julie George, author of the best-seller book “Million Dollar Host” and a rockstar expert on Airbnb who built a unique property portfolio in less than 3 years with $8million dollars booking income. Julie lives in Australia, studied Hospitality Management, and dreamt of running her own hotel. After working for years in a corporate company, she decided to break free and be her own boss, have that financial freedom and flexibility to do whatever she wanted. She sta...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 9 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have Reed Goossens, an Australian Civil and Structural Engineer turned Real Estate Entrepreneur, a two times best selling author, real estate syndicator, investor, and Podcast host. After backpacking around in 2009 and coming back to corporate, he stumbled across the well-known book Rich Dad, Poor Dad which opened his eyes to using money to work for him. He then spent half of his savings to move across the world to come to America and build his American drea...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have a short term rental a.k.a airbnb specialist & social media creator & influencer who has been able to achieve financial freedom at a very young age. Michael achieved financial freedom at the age of 27 and hung his corporate hat at 28 all through the power of utilizing airbnbs as a means to achieve such a respectable feat without owning 1,000, 100 or even 10 properties at the time of this recording. Mike does this in one of the most humbling ways ...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 25 min
GUEST SUMMARY Putting their white coats on this week are full-time real estate investors and developers, and founders of Winterspring Capital — Nick Earls and Eric DiNicola. They have been friends for almost two decades and their unique relationship have allowed them to both tack on a very niched multi-family condo opportunity while complimenting each other's strengths and weaknesses and while having the same core values growing up and now growing their businesses together. Having a construction...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min
This week in the lab, we have true experimenters who have experimented flipping remotely with your host truly in Atlanta and beyond. Vishnu and Leonard’s ying-yang partnership have allowed them to not only fill each other’s gaps but complement one another as they continue to grow and expand their real estate development portfolio in multiple different markets at once as remote flippers. Vishnu Chintam and Leonard Dixon are the co-founders of Shoreditch Consulting, LLC which is making waves in re...
Nov 23, 2021•2 hr
GUEST SUMMARY Camilla joins us in the lab having worn multiple hats as a transaction coordinator, process improvement specialist, Human Resources tech professional, music conservatory, owner of Choice Properties and Steady Stream Investments, and a mother of 5 and still considers herself an introvert. While Camilla experimented in single family, cosmetic rehabs while engaging her children in the process, in retrospect she wishes she would have known about the benefits of passive investing with a...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min
GUEST SUMMARY Sharing insights with us this week in the lab is the passionate learner and devoted student of mastery, Nick Velasquez. He's the founder of the popular blog UnlimitedMastery.com with some of his writing featured in TIME, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global around the topic. Learning has been Nick's life-long passion and gives purpose to his life. While Nick constantly tackled new hobbies, he felt frustration in the learning curve and so devoted himself to the mastery of learnin...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week in the lab we have Todd Miller that graduated with a degree in Finance with honors, living the quote-on-quote dream of his parents working at a Global Fortune 500 Company. Six months later, Later on, he found himself left out at the bottom, jobless and without a source of income due to the great recession. At rock bottom, Todd went down the path of personal finance and was driven not to rely on a company that has gone through this traumatic experience. He then turned to m...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 8 min
GUEST SUMMARY This week we have Ryan Gibson in the lab that started as a commercial airline pilot and brought over the discipline of his checklists into becoming a Chief Investment Officer, who now dedicates his time to helping people save money using his 150 points due-diligence checklist for investor relations and raising capital for projects. Ryan Gibson is the Chief Investment Officer and the Co-Founder of SIG. He has organized over $30M of private equity for Spartan’s projects. Ryan has exp...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr
