Jay Helms joins us this week to tell us about his journey from a false start in 2008 to owning a large portfolio that includes a 42 unit property in Mobile, Alabama. We talk through how to locate up-and-coming neighborhoods, how and why to use a 1031 exchange to scale your portfolio and also how to spot a good deal from a bad previous landlord. Jay is a wealth of knowledge about finding and operating rental properties in many different markets. We also walk through how he was

After a binge-reading session of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Buddy Broome and his wife were on their way towards becoming real estate millionaires. Unfortunately, their first purchase was in August 2008, which was shortly before the market crashed. That first deal immediately lost a large portion of its value, but Buddy quickly started noticing how cheap other properties were and got the itch to buy again. Their next deal was over market value, but creatively financed by using seller

Lucas Miller started his path in real estate like many of our guests, by house hacking, but has also taken several different routes that have lead to a multifamily focus today. For the last four years, Lucas has been a lobbyist for the Colorado Apartment Owners Association where he was an advocate for landlords in Colorado and learned the details of government regulation around the multifamily space. We also talk about some horror stories from Lucas' first deal where he had t