2020 is here! Now that it's a new year you likely have a New Years Resolution. Well if you're reading this it's likely you have set some sort of goal to get started in real estate investing in 2020. To start off the year right we have put together 8 tips to make sure you get going on the right foot. Real estate can be a great way to make your life better and more fulfilling, but it takes some commitment and knowledge to get there. Don't get discouraged, just get yourself movi

Within real estate investing there is a trend that seems to happen where many of the posts and articles you read make things seem super easy. They put a lot of glam onto the industry to make it sound like anyone can do it. While there is some truth to that statement there also lies the true world of real estate investing. It can be a hard lesson sometimes, but with some perseverance things can go in your favor. While that does not mean you will not continue to have lessons al

When listening to podcasts about real estate investing there is a common thread that you hear. "I want to retire early with real estate". While that's a sexy story it does not apply to the majority of investors who get started. Real estate investing is a great way for many people to give themselves some financial runway to allow them to take bigger risks with their career and live a happier and easier life. Our guest this week has done just that. Nick Giulioni works a job tha

One of the truly toughest hurdles when it comes to getting into anything as committed as real estate investing is your mindset. With all of the potential speed bumps and mental blockades there is plenty to keep any investor from succeeding. Keeping a positive and beneficial mindset is one of the best ways to continually move forward towards that goal of using real estate to improve your life. This week we talk with Daray Olaleye about how he changed his mindset to help him st

Working your way into the world of real estate can be a daunting one if you take some odd steps, but one way to quickly accelerate the process is to find some great partners and push your numbers to the top. Scott Swaggart got started just a few years ago and has managed to work his way up to doing dozens of flips, selling millions worth of residential properties and becoming one of the top brokers in his market. He tells us how to set up efficient systems and teams to be abl

Sometimes there is a box that is meant to be broken. With the world of seller financing in real estate there always seems to be the same answers. Most of the time you hear things like, "give them interest they're happy with" or "You'll likely have to give them a down payment". What if we told you that there are many cases where neither of those is true. In this episode our guest Zachary Beach tells us how he and his family get consistent seller financing deals that have 0% i

With the upcoming release of "The House Hacking Strategy" from Craig Curelop we felt it was time to check in with him on where he is with the strategy. For this episode we did a quick check in to see how he has moved into hack #3 and some quick lessons from hacks #1 and #2. Then we go back into his original episode from last year to show where he has come from. Enjoy! Pre-Order The Book HERE #RealEstateInvesting #Wholesaling

Sometimes, heck almost all the time you need to have some failures to learn what works. Within real estate investing this is the case all the time. Chad King has had plenty of successes over the past couple years with his wholesaling business, but it took a lot of fails to get there. The old adage of "just copy someone else who is successful" is something it took him time to really learn and realize. After trying all the "new tricks" to get deals coming through the door he st

This week we are featuring a special episode from the first Real Estate | BARE event. This is the talk from Mark Ferguson of InvestFourMore.com Mark has been investing in real estate for almost 20 decades and needless to say he has learned a lot of lessons in that timeframe. In this talk he walks us through his story and how he has taken those lessons to build a growing and sustainable business that has been able to survive the long haul while still increasing in profits alon

Networking, arguably one of the most important things you should do in real estate investing. This industry is all about relationships and those are what can take you from mediocre to successful. Meeting great people comes up so often as an unexpected benefit of investing in real estate that we had to make a caveat to our weekly question. "Other than meeting great people, what is one big unexpected benefit of real estate investing?" Whether you're just starting in real estate

Real estate is a great source of semi-passive income for many people. What a lot of investors don't talk about though is that there are times where it can get quite boring. This is the case for Prady Trewarie. After purchasing multiple buy and hold properties it became clear that he had reached a goal, but needed more. He proceeded to morph into multiple other businesses including larger apartment developing in the Boston, Massachusetts area. By utilizing great systems and te

Some things are best started early. This week Harper tells us how he just took the leap and got into his first real estate transactions while still in school. While partnering up and getting to dozens of deals a year he has created a business that can do well in his local market without having to expand outside borders to be successful. We learn how he and his partners are able to structure fantastic funding partnerships for their rehabs to make them more cost effective and e

Running a thriving wholesale business by age 23 may seem impossible to some, but Gonzalo Corzo joins us this week to prove that it's not if you just follow a plan and put in the work. Gonzalo tells his story about how his brother, Diego, first introduced him to real estate and personal development when he was 19 and then he found a mentor who he interned under for free until he decided to make real estate his full time work. Gonzalo does an amazing job of describing the detai

Josh Morse joins us this week to talk about the successful wholesaling business that he has been part of building and the ways that anybody can do the same. Josh went from selling wholesale electronics to buying deals and selling them to other investors without any prior real estate experience. He gives us an inside look into how he was able to do this by partnering and learning as they went along. Josh is part of LVN Real Estate (which may sound familiar from Kyle Doney's sh

Happy New Year! Thanks for joining us for another trip around the sun! To start this year off right, here is our list of actionable steps to get your first (or next) deal done in 2019. ONE: Figure Out Your Goals Before you do anything else, take a step back and ask yourself "what do I want to get out of real estate?" There can be a lot of answers to this question, but here's an easy place to start: do you want to be active or passive? And do you have cash or not? There are a

Want to know how to do over 150 deals in your first two years in real estate? Steven Pesavento shares his story this week of how he leveraged skills he had outside of real estate, found mentors, found partners, started buying deals 2,500 miles away and has successfully done 75 deals a year for the last two years. Steven gives a ton of great advice on how he was able to scale his business so quickly and take a few risks that enabled him to leave a career in management consulti

We had a lot of fun talking to Jaren Barnes this week. We covered everything from wholesaling to marketing to land investing. Jaren is currently the Senior Creative Director at RETipster, but has also worked as a wholesaler, worked as one of BiggerPockets first employees, and makes a full time living from land investing. Whether you are into wholesaling and land investing or not, Jaren shares a ton of lessons learned about marketing, finding deals, and how to scale a real est

This week's show covers an entirely new topic that we have not talked about before. We talk to Seth Williams from RETipster.com about his career in land investing. Seth has been an active real estate investor since 2008 who has mostly focused on buying and selling raw land (along with some rentals). He also runs RETipster.com, a resource that he has put together to compile some hard earned lessons in real estate. In our conversation about land investing, we talk about Seth's

Daniel Eisman started investing in real estate about 4 years ago. Starting with rental partnerships that went south and progressing up to building a personal portfolio of rentals and transitioning into a full time flipper and wholesaler. He has successfully completed multiple wholesale assignments worth over $50,000. He teaches us how finding a big deal can just take the right knowledge of what is happening in the area. Sometimes a typical flip may not make sense, but a full

What does it look like to find and profit from dozens of deals a year? Kyle Doney joins us to share some of his secrets behind the success he has created wholesaling, whole-tailing and flipping in Colorado. We talk about what lead him to this path that so many investors often find to be the hardest part of investing and how he is able to conistently find deals, even in a competitive market. Kyle is one of the most accomplished wholesalers in the Denver area and we're excited