Check the episode transcript here ABOUT WAYNE COURREGES III Wayne is passionate about helping busy professionals build generational wealth by offering the opportunity to passively invest in commercial real estate syndications. His company, CREI Partners currently has over $50 million in assets under management in Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama. To build wealth for investors, Wayne focuses primarily on acquiring apartment communities and developing RV/Boat and Business Storage in areas with strong...
Jun 18, 2025•41 min
Check the episode transcript here ABOUT JORGE VAZQUEZ Jorge Vazquez is the CEO and co-founder of Graystone Investment Group, bringing over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. With more than 3,500 transactions to his credit, Jorge’s expertise and dedication have been recognized in Forbes, and he led Graystone to win the prestigious Best of Florida Award in 2023. Throughout his career, Jorge has engaged in every type of real estate transaction imaginable, including “Subject to,” “h...
Jun 11, 2025•35 min
Check the episode transcript here ABOUT CHRIS WILLIAMS Chris A. Williams is a 25-year-old Owner of The Assets Real Estate Team/ Owner of 1st Class Real Estate Equity Group/ Real Estate Investor & Entrepreneur. He leads a top-ranked team responsible for representing buyers and sellers of distinguished properties throughout the Hampton Roads area. After years of being a Top Agent in his market, Chris started the Assets Real Estate Team. His goal is to train and empower others, regardless of ap...
Jun 04, 2025•31 min
Check the episode transcript here ABOUT ADAM BERGMAN Adam Bergman is an author, former tax and ERISA attorney, and the founder of IRA Financial - an industry leader in self-directed retirement solutions. Through Adam’s leadership, IRA Financial has helped over 25,000 clients take control over their retirement and invest over $4.6 billion of retirement funds into alternative assets. Adam has authored 9 books on self-directed retirement plans, and is a leading voice in the self-directed retirement...
May 21, 2025•32 min
Check the episode transcript here ABOUT JOE DOWNS Joe is a lifelong entrepreneur with business ventures spanning securities, mortgage, hospitality, and real estate industries. He co-founded The Belrose Group to pursue opportunities within the niche Self-Storage sector of Commercial Real Estate. He is actively involved in the organization's growth and management. Under his direction, the firm has evolved from traditional self-storage acquisition & investment and expanded to include developmen...
May 14, 2025•50 min
Check here to view the episode transcript ABOUT BEN REINBERG Ben Reinberg is the CEO of Alliance Consolidated Group of Companies, an investor, mentor, educator, and philanthropist. Ben Reinberg is living proof that wealth can start with you and last for generations to come. Becoming a principal owner at the young age of 23, Ben has spent the last 30 years building a $500 million commercial real estate empire from the ground up. He has acquired and managed billions of dollars of properties, devel...
May 07, 2025•28 min
Check the episode transcript here ABOUT CALEB DAVID Caleb is the Principal of David Commercial Real Estate. Creating space for people to be seen, heard and known makes Caleb David come alive. His love for the Front Range community, partnership, and connecting with people has helped Caleb to become one of the leading brokers in the Colorado Springs market. He provides reliable expertise in office, medical, retail, industrial and land markets. As an investor and owner of commercial real estate him...
Apr 30, 2025•29 min
Click to view episode transcript ABOUT SAM MORRIS Sam is the CEO of Sunset Capital, a vertically integrated real estate investment and asset management firm based in Houston. With over 23 years of experience in real estate, he has led acquisition and disposition teams on transactions exceeding $550 million. Sam's background as a corporate banker for 18 years involved facilitating over $1B in real estate financing, equipping him with a comprehensive understanding of property lifecycle management....
Mar 26, 2025•36 min
Click to view the episode transcript ABOUT WHITNEY ELKINS-HUTTEN Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Director of Investor Education at PassiveInvesting.com , founder of Ashwealth.com , and author of the award-winning #1 bestseller Money for Tomorrow: How to Build and Protect Generational Wealth . Through her proven wealth-building framework, Whitney empowers high-earning professionals and business owners to create secure, passive income streams that support a legacy of financial freedom for generations...
Mar 19, 2025•38 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT ANNE-MICHELLE WAND International real estate expert and conscious investor. Former single mom turned successful real estate entrepreneur who now lives in paradise on a Caribbean island in Panama debt free. Anne Michelle enjoys her life from this dream location, creating intentional investment opportunities for high earning professionals to diversify outside the USA. With over 40 years of experience in real estate investments in emerging markets inc...
Mar 12, 2025•30 min
Check here for episode transcript ABOUT MICHAEL VOULGARAKIS Michael Voulgarakis is a seasoned commercial real estate professional with over 19 years of experience in debt and equity underwriting, capital raising, and asset management. At Southgate Ventures, he has successfully acquired 26 properties, completed 18 full cycle deals in the Puget Sound region, and asset managed real estate valued at over $300M. He holds a Master's in Commercial Real Estate Finance and a Bachelor's in Business Admini...
Mar 05, 2025•29 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT JAY CONNER Jay Conner began investing in real estate in 2003. At the start of his career, he relied on his local banker and was able to put together a few deals. After years of feeling owned by the bank, he learned how to buy properties using creative financing, including subject to and using lease-options. After the market crashed in 2008, he had to abandon everything he knew about how to finance his deals. Then he heard about the world of private...
Feb 26, 2025•36 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT DAVE SEYMOUR Dave Seymour, a retired 16-year veteran of the Fire Service launched his Real Estate career during the last market crash, rapidly becoming one of the Countries top investors. Dave is considered a leading expert in commercial multi-family and ground-up development transactions. His success in business and Real Estate put him on the radar of A&E television network as well as multiple news organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC,and FOX New...
Feb 19, 2025•38 min
ABOUT MARK PODOLSKY Mark owns Frontier Properties, a land investment company. Mark (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land in the United States. Since 2001 Mark has completed over 6,000 raw land deals with an average return on investment of over 300% on cash purchases and over 1000% on land deals that he financed. Mark is the host of one of the top-rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes apt...
Feb 05, 2025•34 min
Click here for the Episode Transcript ABOUT WILL MATHESON Will Matheson is the co-founder of Matheson Capital, a real estate investment firm based in Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to forming Matheson Capital, founders Will and Evan worked as commercial brokers for Marcus & Millichap in Raleigh, NC. In just two years, they completed over 50 investment sales transactions totaling over $200 million as a part of the region's top team. Since the start of 2018, they have completed over 16 acqu...
Jan 29, 2025•34 min
ABOUT ZACH LEMASTER Zach Lemaster is the founder & CEO of Rent To Retirement, the nation's leading turnkey investment company. Zach is a seasoned real estate investor and licensed broker that has accumulated a large portfolio of rental properties across multiple markets including single-family, multifamily, commercial and new construction. Zach is a licensed Optometrist who practices on a volunteer basis. Zach started investing in real estate while working as an Optometrist & Captain for...
Jan 08, 2025•40 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT SEAN O’DOWD Sean is the General Partner for Scholastic Capital. Scholastic Capital buys single-family homes in high-end public school districts and rents them to families on long-term leases. He started his career as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He graduated with Honors from The Wharton School of Business. Most importantly, Sean is married with two kids and a third on the way! THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: Sean’s career before real ...
Dec 18, 2024•28 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT CHRIS LENTO Chris Lento is the Founder and Managing Member of EM Capital. He has a background in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and professional development training at Boston University and MIT. Chris has over twenty years of experience in multifamily ownership, management, and investing. In addition to his academic achievements, Chris serves as a Board Member for Bay Cove. His passion is a testament to his dedication to building a be...
Dec 11, 2024•36 min
ABOUT CHARLES SEAMAN He resides in Charlotte, NC and serves as a Managing Partner of Cash Flow Champs. He’s responsible for building and maintaining broker relationships and performing and overseeing the company’s underwriting activities. He’s also involved with contract negotiation and capital raising to make sure that the deals close, remaining involved after closing to manage the assets so that they perform in a manner that provides investors with exceptional returns. He’s currently a general...
Dec 04, 2024•39 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT NEAL BAWA Neal Bawa is CEO / Founder at Grocapitus and Mission 10K, two commercial real estate investment companies. Neal’s companies use cutting-edge real estate analytics technology to source and acquire OR build large Commercial properties across the U.S., for over 1,000 investors. Neal shares his team’s unique and cutting-edge real estate data methodologies to connect with geeky and nerdy (or just data-driven) investors who share his vision – t...
Nov 20, 2024•41 min
ABOUT ANDREW CUSHMAN Andrew Cushman is a former chemical engineer who found his entrepreneurial calling in real estate. In 2007 Andrew left his corporate position to start a business in real estate investing, starting off flipping single-family properties in Southern California. Sensing a shift in the market, in 2011 Andrew transitioned to multifamily acquisitions and has successfully syndicated and repositioned over 2600 multifamily units. Outside of the business world, Andrew has been a certif...
Nov 13, 2024•32 min
Click here to view the episode transcript ABOUT BRIAN FERGUSON Brian is an experienced real estate investor and one of Victoria’s top business managers taking multiple awards including “Top 20 Under 40” multiple times and many “Best of the Best” awards for various businesses he owns. Brian initially started investing in single-family properties in 2008 and over the years he has grown his portfolio to include over 1000 multifamily doors, several commercial properties, and even a residential home-...
Nov 06, 2024•34 min
ABOUT JOE BRADY JOE BRADY is an international corporate real estate expert who had a front-row seat to the evolution of retail, from brick and mortar to omnichannel, and is now seeing the same forces at play in office real estate. He has led real estate for Walgreens and scaled The Instant Group across the Americas while writing, speaking, and advising on the impact of accelerating technology, changing consumer behavior, and implications for consumer real estate. Now based in Jacksonville, Flori...
Oct 30, 2024•43 min
ABOUT ARN CENEDELLA Arn Cenedella is a real estate broker and investor with over four decades in the industry. Starting in 1978, Arn built a thriving Silicon Valley residential brokerage business in Palo Alto while building a sizable portfolio of single-family rental properties in the Bay Area and across the US. In 2020, Arn transitioned his SRF rental portfolio to multifamily investments and founded Spark Investment Group to help busy professionals and parents reap the benefits of commercial re...
Oct 23, 2024•40 min
ABOUT VANESSA ALFARO Vanessa Alfaro is an entrepreneur, founder of six 7-8 figure companies in 3 countries, a real estate investor, innovator, and a multifamily syndicator who was recently profiled in the Real Estate book “10 Paths” as one of the ten most successful Real Estate Investor stories in 2022. Vanessa is the Founder of Venus Capital Partners. With Vanessa’s extensive background in business, entrepreneurship, finance, capital raise, and team leadership, she led the company to $50 AUM in...
Oct 02, 2024•37 min
ABOUT JIM SHEILS Jim Sheils is a successful real estate investor, author, and mentor focused on helping entrepreneurs achieve financial freedom and work-life balance. As a partner at Southern Impression Homes, he has been instrumental in building rental portfolios in Florida’s high-growth markets, specializing in Build-to-Rent properties with management services. Jim's real estate expertise includes over 2,000 rehabs and a pivotal merger with Southern Impression Homes in 2022. As the co-founder ...
Sep 25, 2024•32 min
ABOUT DENIS SHAPIRO Denis began investing in real estate in 2012, when the market was just beginning to recover from the global financial crisis. He built a cash-flowing portfolio including many alternative assets, such as Note and ATM funds, mobile home parks, life insurance policies, tech start-ups, Industrial property, short-term rentals, affordable housing communities, and more. He co-founded an investment club for accredited investors in 2019. Following the success of his investor club, he ...
Sep 18, 2024•33 min
ABOUT SHANE THOMAS Shane is a Canadian-born real estate entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Catalyst Equity Partners. He is also a Co-Founder of CEP Construction Services, a multifamily construction and rehab company. Shane leads the acquisitions, financing, asset management, and investor relations efforts at Catalyst. Shane leverages his expertise in large-scale project management, analytics, and process improvement to ensure Catalyst’s processes are best-in-class. Shane is a Certified Public Accoun...
Sep 11, 2024•33 min
ABOUT STEVEN ANDREWS Steven Andrews is a real estate investor, business coach, and author with nearly a decade’s experience working in the real estate rental market. He founded SOARX Consulting in 2023 to empower individuals to turn their real estate dreams into reality. Within nine years, Steven went from buying properties to supplement his income to pursuing real estate full-time. Today, he owns and manages hundreds of properties through his virtual property management company, Realty Manageme...
Sep 04, 2024•25 min
ABOUT CHRIS LINGER Christopher Linger is the Principal at Up Plex Capital LLC. Having built a personal portfolio valued at over $100M, Chris and his wife created significant passive income for themselves and their investors by finding the best properties today’s market can offer. Chris has an MBA, twenty-seven years of active duty Navy services (retired), now a full-time apartment syndicator. THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL: Chris's journey to real estate How Up Plex started Scaling into Syndication an...
Aug 28, 2024•33 min
