Road to Family Freedom

Best Episodes of 2020 with Neil & Brittany Henderson

Scaling Your Self-Storage Empire with Truck Parking and Modulars with Wendell Long

Wendell Long – Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Storage Investor and owner of Mint Hill Self-Storage talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Wendell got his start in the manufacturing equipment business and has been successfully operating that business for 20 plus years. In addition, he has over 30 years of experience in commercial and residential real estate, including rezoning and development. He has 5 current commercial development projects, i...

20 Build and Hold Rentals Before Age Thirty with Natalie Cloutier

Natalie Cloutier – Real Estate Investor from The New Build Couple talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Natalie started her investing journey along with her husband when they were just 20 years old with zero dollars in the bank by building their own home from the ground up. They then used an 18-month interest-free credit card from Home Depot to build a basement apartment, got a HELOC, and kept going from there. They have acquired a total...

Living a Fit Rich Lifestyle using Multifamily with Jason & Pili Yarusi

Jason Yarusi and Pili Yarusi – Multifamily Syndicators and co-founders of Yarusi Holdings, talk to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, co-hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. In 2016 they founded Yarusi Holdings, a multifamily investment firm currently with over 800 units under management. The firm repositions properties through operational efficiencies, moderate to extensive renovations, and complete rebranding. Jason and Pili also host "The Jason and Pili Project" a Youtube Channel ...

Using TikTok to Start a Self-Storage Empire with Frazier Robison

Frazier Robison – The owner of Titan Self Storage talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Frazier is a self-storage investor from the Pacific Northwest who has purchased five facilities in less than two years. He documents his journey and experiences as the owner/operator of a self-storage business to his 360,000 followers on the short-form social media video sharing platform TikTok. In this episode, we talk to Frazier about how he found h...

From Zero to Fifty Rentals in 18 Months with Josh and Marcie Rathbun

Josh and Marcie Rathbun – Real Estate Investors and co-founders of Silver Lining Homes talk to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Josh and Marcie have grown their rental property portfolio from Zero to Fifty units in just a year and a half. They began accumulating properties while Josh had a full-time job, and Marcie worked as the property manager. In that short amount of time, they have achieved enough financial independence to set off on a family adventure to trave...

Teaching Veterans to House Hack Using VA Loans with Eric Upchurch

Eric Upchurch – Real Estate Investor and Army Veteran from Active Duty, Passive Income talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Eric has a passion for educating the military community on how to create long term wealth through real estate investing, while personally investing across the country for the last fourteen years. He serves as Co-Founder of Active Duty Passive Income (ADPI) and is a Senior Managing Partner with ADPI Capital. Most re...

Converting Old Buildings to Self Storage with Scott Krone

Scott Krone – Self Storage Investor from Coda Management Group talks to Neil Henderson of The Road to Family Freedom Podcast. Scott is a Chicago native whose career began in architecture in 1991. In 2012, Krone founded Coda Management Group - a firm that specializes in managing real estate assets. Since its inception, Coda has managed a wide range of real estate including single and multi-family homes, retail, commercial warehouse, self-storage, and multi-use flex athletic spaces. In this episod...

How to Fill Your Self-Storage Funnel with Fernando Angelucci

Fernando Angelucci – self-storage investor and co-founder of Titan Wealth Group talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, co-hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Fernando got his start in real estate when he was just 23 on the residential side of the world with wholesaling small deals and acquiring residential rentals. He then went on to build a multi-family rental portfolio. Two years ago he made the switch to self-storage and has grown his self-storage portfolio to upwards of 260...

Building Your “Forever Money” Using Multifamily Real Estate with Mandy McAllister

Mandy McAllister – a multifamily real estate investor, mindset ninja, eternal learner, coach, and dot connector talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson from The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Mandy followed volleyball to Mercer University in Georgia where she was awarded Top Graduate in Marketing. Soon after, she moved to Chicago to do a Masters in Economics and began work at the Board of Trade. Her professional career transitioned to Medical Device Sales where she was a perennial top pe...

Raising a Million Dollars in Under One Month with Frank Scappaticci

Frank Scappaticci – a former financial services consultant, Army Officer, and West Point graduate turned real estate investor and entrepreneur. After over a year of hesitation, he finally decided to make real estate his full-time profession while partnering with Grayline Investments. Since that time, he and his partners at Grayline have turbocharged a home buying system that is closing on up to 30 deals a month and is primarily focused around towns with military bases. We talk about why he and h...

Tips for Talking to Self-Storage Owners and Brokers with Marla Colic

Marla Colic – is a former self-storage owner and now broker from Missouri who has been in the industry since 2010. Marla’s knowledge of the storage asset class includes storage ownership, management, consulting, and brokerage. In 2016, Marla joined Marcus & Millichap as a real estate broker where she facilitates the acquisition and disposition of Self Storage assets across Missouri and the Midwest. Marla is a partner with First Vice President Investments Anne Williams-Blackwell and the Willi...

Purchasing Six Self-Storage Facilities in Two Years with Tony Pernelli

Tony Pernelli – is a self-storage investor from Pennsylvania who got his start investing in multifamily and flips. In this week’s episode, you’ll hear how he self-managed over 100 residential doors while holding down a full-time job and why that experience pushed him into investing in self-storage facilities. In just two years, Tony has built a portfolio of 6 facilities and counting in several locations in the South. In this episode we talk to Tony about purchasing his first self-storage facilit...

From Zero to Twenty Multifamily Units On Their First Deal with German and Oscar Buendia

German & Oscar Buendia – brothers and co-founders of Good Day Capital, talk to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. German and Oscar were both serving in the military, but only recently began investing in multifamily. Sparked by a family scare while deployed, Oscar and German decided to build up a multifamily portfolio to provide some flexibility. After overcoming limiting beliefs, they built relationships online to do their first deal in Ohio, a 20 unit multifamil...

Self-Storage Investing with a Higher Purpose with Scott Meyers

Scott Meyers – founder of SelfStorageInvesting.com and Kingdom Storage focuses on syndicating self-storage deals and helping others launch their own self-storage business to enjoy a lifestyle as his saying goes, “ free from tenants, toilets, and trash!” Scott Meyers is the principal in 16 facilities totaling over 7,500 units and over 2 million square feet of storage and has converted over 30 facilities totaling over 12,000 units and over 2 million square feet of Storage. He is also the Founder a...

From Zero to 15 Single Family Rentals in Three Years with Anam & Aamir Hashambhai

Anam & Aamir Hashambhai – co-founders of Opulent Realty talk to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Anam and Aamir are a Dallas, TX-based husband and wife team who purchased their first investment property three years ago with their entire savings. Three years later they have a few million under management and show no signs of slowing down. They currently have 15 units purchased through the BRRRR Strategy and they are looking to get to 20 b...

Self-Managing a Small Portfolio of Single Family Rentals with Elenis Camargo

Elenis Camargo – co-founder of Third Stone Properties talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Elenis and her husband began their real estate investing journey when they bought their first investment property sight-unseen, long-distance from their home in Brooklyn, NY before they made the move to their investing market of Jacksonville, FL. They have since built a portfolio of four single-family rentals and continue to grow their portfolio w...

How to Build A Long Distance Real Estate Investing Team with Antoine Martel

Antoine Martel – the co-founder of Martel Turnkey, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Antoine is a 25-year-old real estate investor from Toronto, Canada. While still in college Antoine learned about real estate investing and knew it was his calling. From his dorm room, he completed his first BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) project out of state with his father's $40,000. Since then Antoine and his family have completed over...

From Zero to Seven Self-Storage Facilities in Two Years with Zach Quick

Zach Quick – full-time self-storage investor primarily focused on value-add facilities in the midwest. Zach and his wife began their investing journey by building a residential/multi-family portfolio over 5 years before pivoting into self-storage. While expanding their residential/multi-family portfolio Zach worked for two Fortune 500 companies related to Retail and Staffing Management. After selling their residential portfolio and purchasing several self-storage properties Zach jumped into the ...

NOT Your How-To Guide to Investing in Real Estate with Ali Boone

Ali Boone – the founder of Hipster Investments, is a real estate investor and lifestyle entrepreneur and has literally defined non-conformity when it comes to her career. Ali left her corporate 9-to-5 job as an Aerospace Engineer, despite the “dream job” status that came with it, to start her real estate investing company, Hipster Investments. Hipster managed to facilitate over $18M in real estate investment transactions in its first five years of business. Ali’s primary focus in real estate, an...

Providing Non-Traditional Buyers a Path to Home Ownership using Lease Purchases with Nick Prefontaine

Nick Prefontaine – real estate investor specializing in lease purchases, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Nick tells the story of how a snowboarding accident left him in a coma for three weeks, his journey to real estate investing which began with knocking on the doors of pre-foreclosures at age 16 and 17. As part of a family-run real estate business at Smart Real Estate Coach, Nick specializes in working with lease purchasers to ge...

From Short Term Rental Manager to Boutique Hotel Owner with Mike Sjogren

Mike Sjogren – Co-Owner of Occupied and Short Term Rental Secrets, talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Mike Sjogren started off as a CPA, built a successful architectural photography studio, developed a short term rental co-hosting (management) company with over 25 properties, and recently became the owner of a boutique hotel in a beach community on the New England shore. Mike is experienced with systematizing, automating, and scaling short term rental proper...

Building Wealth One Rental at a Time with Michael Zuber

Michael Zuber – the author of the book One Rental at a Time, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Michael talks to us about his journey, which started as being a full-time employee at 30 years old, working insane hours all over the world, and then growing his rental portfolio from a single house to currently about 175 doors. He talks about some of the hurdles many investors who work full-time encounter and the ways they can avoid them. ...

How to Buy Investment Property without Ever Going to a Bank with Brad Smotherman

Brad Smotherman – Real Estate Investor from BradSmotherman.com and host of the Investor Creator podcast, talks to Neil Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Brad is an investor and mentor who owns and manages a 7-figure per year flipping business. His focus is on buying single-family flips creatively, both subject-to and with owner financing…and selling retail or with owner financing (creating wrap notes). With 11 years in the real estate business, Brad has invested in over...

The 3 Qualities that Make Storage a Near Perfect Investment with Ben Lapidus

Ben Lapidus -- Director of Acquisitions for Spartan Investment Group, brings his skills in asset management and financial analysis to launch and grow Spartan’s portfolio business line. With over 2 dozen successful deals under his belt prior to Spartan, Ben is also the founder and host of the national Best Ever Real Estate Investing Conference and managing partner of Indigo Ownerships LLC. Before Spartan, Ben started a multi-million dollar study abroad company and worked with several start-ups th...

Transitioning from Multifamily to Self Storage with Corinn Altomare

Corinn Altomare – Owner of Hearthfire Holdings talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Corinn Altomare is a classically trained musician turned real estate investor. Along with her husband, they have been investing in real estate for nearly a decade starting with multifamily but made the strategic decision to pivot into self-storage and other “affordable lifestyle and leisure” assets like RV and campground properties. Post-Interview Analys...

Lessons from a Full-Time Passive Investor with Travis Watts

Travis Watts – Director of Investor Relations at Ashcroft Capital, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Travis is a full-time passive investor. He has been investing in real estate since 2009 in multi-family, single-family, and vacation rentals. Travis has invested in over 28 passive syndications between 14 different firms. Travis now dedicates his time to educating others in the world of investing and has made it his mission to share p...

Bouncing Back Strong from 2008 with Self-Storage with Allen Faires

Allen Faires – President of Premier Storage Partners, talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Allen has devoted over a decade to the real estate industry. He owns 92,000 square feet of office and over 1,100 self-storage units throughout Ohio. He’s been extensively involved in real estate transactions representing a wide range of product types such as single-family, multifamily, industrial, retail shopping centers, land, and self-storage. From real estate brokerag...

Real Estate Investing in the Time of COVID-19 with Neal Bawa

Neal Bawa – Owner of Grocapitus Investments, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Neal Bawa is a technologist who is universally known in the real estate circles as the Mad Scientist of Multifamily. Besides being one of the most in-demand speakers in commercial real estate, Neal is a data guru, a process freak, and an outsourcing expert. Neal treats his $250+ million-dollar multifamily portfolio as an ongoing experiment in efficiency an...

From No Money and No Knowledge to 7 Doors with Sunitha Rao

Sunitha Rao – Company Owner of Griffix Property Group, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. 10 years ago, Sunitha retired from nearly a decade of playing tennis professionally at the age of 23 with a sixth-grade education, quite literally no money and very little knowledge of how the world worked outside of her sport. Fast forward to today, she has earned a bachelor's in business and finance from Babson College, an MBA from Villanova Un...