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336: $900 to $4.5MM Net Worth by 34 with Robert Jones Jun 27, 2019

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Location, location, location! On today’s show, Brandon and David sit down with Robert Jones, a real estate agent and investor in Colorado, who has built a cash-flowing portfolio with millions of dollars in equity in an expensive market.

Robert will blow you away with his knowledge on making deals work (even through the MLS) and choosing what to buy. You won’t want to miss his advice on buying properties with super low down payments, targeting ideal locations that attract ideal talents, and using agents to do the work of finding deals. You’ll also love his tips for creating systems so he can travel while making money and identifying the qualities of a good agent.

Robert is extremely humble for having such massive success, and he shares his whole playbook for how he built a portfolio of 26 units worth millions before the age of 35. DO NOT miss this one. Download today!

In This Episode We Cover:

Turning primary residences into rental properties
What are capital gains
Should you rent or sell your house?
Moving to a new house every year
Taking 3 months off while having a real estate business
Real estate to fund your life
Being an agent or not
How "The Stack" works
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
GoBundance
Audible
Federal Housing Finance Agency
BiggerPockets Podcast 280: The Key to Making Great Deals (Hint: Overlooked Properties!) with Mark Hentemann (Writer for TV’s Family Guy!)

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335: 70+ Units Per Year and How Exactly to Make a Lowball Offer with Ryan Dossey Jun 20, 2019

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A whopping 73 units a year without negotiating your own deals! Today’s guest Ryan Dossey breaks down his business and shares how he built a deal-finding pipeline he runs without doing the work!

Ryan gives great insight into how he finds deals directly from sellers, has team members meet with and close deals, then decides if he wants to keep them or wholesale them. If you’ve ever been interested in how to build systems to get your time back, this is a show for you. You won’t want to miss how Ryan used BiggerPockets to start and grow his business, how he began wholesaling, and how he uses NONE of his own money. You’ll also love hearing how Ryan made $10K in four hours on his first deal and how he built a conveyor belt to close deals while he’s out of the country. Plus, he gives investors AMAZING advice on approaching a mentor the right way!

Ryan is a great example of how to use BiggerPockets to grow your wealth and portfolio, and he shares some powerful tips about how you can do the same. Download this one today!

In This Episode We Cover:

How Ryan got into real estate in spite of never graduating high school
How he learned to see the world from a different perspective than everyone else
Why he markets directly to sellers
How he used BiggerPockets to build several different businesses
How he got his first wholesale deal (and made $10K in four hours doing so)
Why he went full time into RE and how he knew it was the right time to do it
How he chooses his markets
What no one tells you about the RIGHT way to approach a potential mentor
How he built a conveyor belt to close deals while he’s out of the country
Why he invests in multifamily
The No. 1 thing a newbie needs to know to get started wholesaling
Why focusing on one task is key to being successful faster
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
GoBundance
BiggerPockets Airbnb Calculator
BiggerPockets Podcast 068: Being a Superhero House Flipper, Investor, and Team Leader with Mark Ferguson
InvestFourMore
Podio
Deal Machine (App)
CallPorter

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334: Using Other People’s Money to Take Down Flips, Multifamily and Self-Storage Deals with Ben Lapidus Jun 13, 2019

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Self-storage with OPM! Today’s guest Ben Lapidus sits down and spills the beans on his strategies for buying self-storage units and running an investment fund with other people’s money. Ben has some really great advice for those who want to get started in self-storage, including how he got started getting 25% of other people’s deals, why he jumped from single family into commercial opportunities, and how he mitigates risk in the self storage space. You also won’t want to miss what he shares regarding how he picks a market, his criteria for buying a deal, and where he recommends brand new self storage investors get their start (hint-it’s all about size). If you want to have your mind blown, you CAN’T miss his technique for seller financing negotiating where he improves his terms by saving the seller’s money on their taxes-brilliant! This episode is completely full of high energy, content packed, practical advice for getting into commercial opportunities with other people’s money and we guarantee you will learn a TON. Download today and buckle your seat belt! In This Episode We Cover: How Ben found real estate after finding success in other business ventures Starting off investing with partners and getting 25% of the deal with none of the risk or capital Why he jumped from SFR to apartments What he learned buying an awful property on his first deal How he put together his first syndication Why he invests in self storage How he found opportunities while looking for something else How he focuses on his strengths and finds partners to handle his weaknesses How he finds deals in today’s market His criteria for what he needs to see in a market How he mitigates risk when buying self storage Why he looks for “expansion potential” How he finances his deals, the strategy he recommends for newer self storage buyers to look into His BRILLIANT tax saving strategy he uses to save thousands of dollars on seller financing opportunities The one thing he think should be taught in school that isn’t How he recommends people improve their people skills and forming connections And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Webinar BiggerPockets Premium Best Ever Conference BiggerPockets Podcast 227: From Single Family Houses to $130,000,000 in Multifamily with Joe Fairless $13M in Equity from One Deal & Cash Flowing Despite Being Comatose with AJ Osborne

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333: A Guide to Getting Started in Commercial Real Estate (+ Laundromats?!) With Ken Wimberly Jun 06, 2019

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Commercial real estate like you’ve never heard it before!

On today’s episode, Brandon and David sit down with Ken Wimberly, the owner of a Keller Williams commercial brokerage and a commercial investor himself. Ken shares some incredible tips on how to get into owning commercial property, including how to find quality tenants, how to structure the lease, and how to protect yourself from a changing market.

He also provides great advice on building relationships and identifying who NOT to partner with. Ken goes on to talk about how he went from working in a pizza restaurant to cashing his first check for 50K as a broker—with absolutely no training program! He shares some incredible advice for opening a laundromat, making huge returns, and successfully investing in other people’s deals, too.

If you’ve ever been interested in how to do big deals without big headaches, this episode is for you!

In This Episode We Cover:

How he builds relationships
How he learned the commercial business sitting across from a mentor and listening
How he buys laundromats Investing in commercial spaces
Using OPM to buy land and selling a 5K investment for 150K
How he earned a commission of $50K on a deal he couldn’t do
How he chooses his business partners His morning routine
What to look for in a potential partner to disqualify them
How newbies should start off investing in commercial property
How to balance investing with family time
How he structures deals
Tips on owning a business inside your commercial building
How he invests in other people's deals
And SO much more!

Links from the show:

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
BiggerPockets Commercial Lenders
CBRE
BiggerPockets Podcast 190: Building 61 Different Passive Streams of Income with Pat Hiban
BiggerPockets Podcast 322: 3 Things Every Leader MUST Do to Scale with Ben Kinney
Google Alerts
GoBundance
BiggerPockets Business Podcast

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332: How to Build a Deal-Finding MACHINE with Adam Johnson and Brent Moreno May 30, 2019

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Build a deal funnel to fuel your business and keep the leads coming!

On today’s show Brandon and David sit down with Adam Johnson and Brent Moreno, two wholesalers running a business that fuels their investment portfolio!

Adam and Brent share several key pieces that make their business go, like how they have built systems to reduce their workload, how they keep their pipeline full of leads, and how they use a “three foot rule” to make sure everyone knows how they can help them. You’ll also love how they recruit others to work in their business, how they use stories to hold people’s attention, and how they have leveraged an army of Uber drivers to find them deals!

These two guys have formed a great partnership, and share TONS of practical, meat-and-potatoes advice for how you can do the same. Their advice on “helping over haggling” alone is priceless! If you want to learn how to form the perfect partnership, how to build a portfolio off of a consistent pipeline of deals, AND how to wholesale those deals for profit, this is an episode you can’t miss!

In This Episode We Cover:

How they got into wholesaling
How their business is structured
Why they love wholesaling more than anything else
How they use systems to create success when they don’t feel like working
What a perfect partnership should look like
The funnel they have set up to find, capture, and follow up with distressed seller leads
The three-foot rule
How they use Uber drivers to find them deals
How they are helpers not hagglers
The number one thing a newbie needs to do well to start a wholesale business
How to recruit others to bring you deals
How to use stories to get others involved in helping your business
How they believe there is no “box” to think outside of
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
BiggerPockets Youtube Channel
BiggerPockets Money Podcast
BiggerPockets Business Podcast
Podio
InvestorPO
REIpro
PropStream
ListSource
LeadSherpa
David Goggins on Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Gary Johnston

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331: 10 Deals on a $20K Waitress Salary With Ashley Hamilton May 23, 2019

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Ten doors free and clear on a blue-collar salary—today’s guest shares exactly how she did just that!

Brandon and David sit down with Ashley Hamilton, who shares the incredible story of how she went from poverty to success through real estate investing with very little help or guidance.

Ashley shares her remarkable strategies for investing in a market where very few others could, how she used BiggerPockets to develop a system, and how she got the city of Detroit to offer her a deal to buy a property at $500! Ashley also shares how she buys cheap houses at auctions, how she finds banks to finance her rehabs, and how she uses keyword alerts in the BiggerPockets forums to snag deals before anyone else! And be sure to listen for Ashley’s “no milk for her cereal” strategy to overcome and succeed!

If you’re looking for an incredibly inspirational story that highlights how creativity and resiliency can pay off, you want to download this today.

In This Episode We Cover:

How Ashley found a way to invest in a market when very few others could
How she got the city of Detroit to call her and offer her a deal to buy for $500
Getting to nearly a half a million dollars in equity in a few short years
How she got started investing with nothing but BiggerPockets as a guide
Finding the best part of the city to invest in
Why she fix her rentals up to suburb quality even in low-income neighborhoods
Building a portfolio of 10 doors free and clear
The way she uses the BiggerPockets forums to help her make money
Landlording like a boss
Giving back to your tenants
And SO much more!

Links from the Show:

BiggerPockets Forums
BiggerPockets Webinar
Tarl Yarber's BiggerPockets Profile
Dave Van Horn's BiggerPockets Profile
Brie Schmidt's BiggerPockets Profile
Joe Fairless' BiggerPockets Profile
BiggerPockets Instagram
Brandon's Instagram
David's Instagram
Rentometer
Rich Dad Poor Dad Seminar
GoBundance
BiggerPockets Podcast 260: The Ultimate Guide to Negotiating (for the Negotiation-Averse) With Former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss

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330: How to Ditch Distractions and Get WAY More Done With Cal Newport May 16, 2019

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Incredible show alert! You don’t want to miss this one: Brandon and David sit down with bestselling author Cal Newport (who wrote So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, and so on) to discuss just what makes high performers different than the rest.

Cal shares incredible insight based on his research as a professor at Georgetown University, including how boredom can serve a very useful purpose, how to improve your focus to master your craft, and how building “career capital” can open doors to the life you’ve always wanted.

Cal also shares life-changing advice on how starting the day in “monk mode” can supercharge your productivity, how to set better expectations with team members, and how to rebuild your digital life in 30 days.

This episode is so good you’ll feel guilty you didn’t have to pay. Download it today!

In This Episode We Cover:

Cal’s story
Improve your focus and remove distractions to increase productivity
How to combine “deep work” with “shallow work” to stay mentally energized
Building career capital you can then invest to build a better life
What successful people do that unsuccessful people don’t
How to set better expectations with team members
How to start your day in “monk mode” and be insanely productive
How to give your hours a job and make time work for you
How to use boredom to recharge and motivate you
His thoughts on social media and how it can rob you of time
Taking the information you’re learning and letting it sink in
Detox and rebuild your digital life in 30 days
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

Books Mentioned in this Show

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Lifeonaire by Steve Cook
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
The 4-Hour Week by Timothy Ferriss
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Gates by Stephen Manes

Connect with Cal

Cal’s Personal Website

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329: Financial Freedom Before 30 Through Just 10 Deals With Felipe Mejia May 09, 2019

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Financially independent before 30 years old! Today’s guest Felipe Mejiasits down with Brandon and David and shares the incredible story of how he scaled from a $3,000 mobile home to 10 units and financial independence!

Felipe has created a unique system that involves multi-unit properties, short-term rentals, and leveraging others to help run his business. The result? He is currently crushing it!

You don’t want to miss the insanely powerful “no-why principle” he’s used relentlessly to succeed whenever he’s told no. Felipe also discusses how he leveraged the job of communicating with his Airbnb guests to buy his time back, and how he took advantage of a construction boom in his hometown to service its workers. He also talks about how he lost 30 pounds after realizing he was in the wrong profession, and how he bought a mobile home for $3,000 and then later got paid $30,000 for it!

This episode is jam packed with fun, exciting content and practical advice for those looking to exit the rat race and achieve financial independence through creative strategies with real estate.

Download it today!

In This Episode We Cover:

How he took his disappointment from missing out on a police career and turned it into RE investing success
His “no-why principle”
How he got his wife to buy into his vision
How he took advantage of a booming construction industry to rent rooms out to builders
His advice for pushing through being told no
How he would listen to the BiggerPockets podcast in headphones while working in a construction job
Real estate replacing his full time job before age 30
Delegating the work of his various businesses
How he lives for free in Nashville
How he leverages out communicating with his Airbnb guests and loves it
How he got paid $30,000 on a property he paid $3,000 for
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

Books Mentioned in this Show

Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Lifeonaire by Steve Cook
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer by Robert Kiyosaki

Tweetable Topics:

“Success is the other side of fear.” (Tweet This!)
“People stop at no and don’t ask why.” (Tweet This!)
“Do whatever works for you.” (Tweet This!)
“My rentals feed my life, my flips feed my rentals.” (Tweet This!)

Connect with Felipe

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328: How to Laser-Focus on the Wildly Important With Author Chris McChesney May 03, 2019

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If you’ve ever had an interest in turning your desire to invest in real estate into a well-oiled business machine, today’s episode is for you!

Chris McChesney, bestselling author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution, shares some mind-blowing strategies recognized worldwide for their ability to help followers achieve more success! Chris shares the difference between lead and lag activities, how to use the power of leverage to move your business forward, and how staying busy isn’t always in your best interest.

He also shares eye-opening insight into the way we use confirmation bias to avoid making progress, how to break major wars into smaller, winnable battles, and the secret of “tendency override.” Chris has developed an amazing system using four key strategies to improve your odds to succeed and has implemented them with companies like Coca-Cola, Comcast, The Ritz-Carlton, and more!

Don’t miss this episode chock full of actionable advice for improving your life, as well as your business!

In This Episode We Cover:

The difference between lag and lead activities
How to use the power of leverage to move your business forward
How staying busy isn’t always in your best interest
How to identify your most important goal
The secret to losing weight—and how to apply it to real estate
What most business owners do wrong
How confirmation bias clouds your vision
Learning the secret of “tendency override”
Breaking major wars down into small battles
How to keep your goals small to make sure you achieve them
How to avoid giving in to self-victimization
How to develop a scorecard to track your progress
How to use accountability to stay on track
And SO much more!

Links from the Show

Books Mentioned in this Show

The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran
90 Day Journal by Brandon Turner
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Built to Last by Jim Collins
Good to Great by Jim Collins

Tweetable Topics:

“The real enemy of execution is your day job.” (Tweet This!)
“You can be busy all day long and not be a step closer to your goal.” (Tweet This!)
“The most strategic work you do will feel like you’re wasting time.” (Tweet This!)
“If we don’t track, we lie to our selves.” (Tweet This!)
“Make and keep a promise to yourself.” (Tweet This!)
“If you think the problem is out there, that very thought is your problem.” (Tweet This!)

Connect with Chris

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Special Announcement! May 02, 2019

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Today, we’re introducing the BiggerPockets Business Podcast, co-hosted by J and Carol Scott. Subscribe now using the links below; Episode 1 is up now! SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS (IPHONE): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/biggerpockets-business-podcast/id1460051721 SUBSCRIBE ON GOOGLE PODCASTS (ANDROID): https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9icGJ1c2luZXNzLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz The BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast will be back tomorrow, and we’ll be back to regular programming next week. Future episodes of BiggerPockets Business will drop on Tuesdays -- the day after the BiggerPockets Money Podcast. Oh, and go follow the BiggerPockets Business Podcast on Twitter @BPBusinessShow and Instagram @BiggerPockets!

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