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168: How to Lose Money by Not Checking Your Spam Email with James Kandasamy Jul 08, 2019

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James Kandasamy is the principal at Achieve Investment Group, a vertically integrated investment company actively engaged in multifamily acquisition, asset management, property and construction management. A well-known multifamily operator, James has over 4 years of multifamily experience, and 6 plus years of experience in real estate overall. In addition to his work, James has built a reputation for creative marketing tactics to find motivated sellers and unlock hidden value in multifamily operations. James has identified, underwritten and overseen the acquisition of over 65 million of quality multifamily investments over a total of 6 assets. He's also routinely lead passive investors to an average IRR of over 20% in the past deals he's done.

Prior to real estate investing, James pursued a career in engineering, having earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with honors and an MBA from a reputable university.

167: How to Lose Money by Surviving Hurricane Katrina with Anna Myers Jul 01, 2019

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Anna Myers is the vice president of Grocapitus Investments, LLC, teaches underwriting for MultifamilyU, and co-hosts a real estate investor meet-up in the San Francisco Bay area. With an extensive background as a programmer in systems architect in the tech industry, she uses these skills to evaluate multifamily deals, identify key investment markets, and implement systems and processes to acquire and manage multifamily assets. Anna partnered with Neal Bawa to purchase 500 units of apartment projects in 2018, and added another 300 units in the first few months of 2019.

166: How to Lose Money by Saying "No" on Shark Tank with Maneesh Sethi Jun 24, 2019

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Maneesh is the founder of Pavlok and Shock Clock, helping people change their habits for good. In 2008, Maneesh took a two year break from studying at Stanford to travel and start hackthesystem.com, a travel blog about credit card hacking and digital nomads. In 2012, his article, "Why I Hired a Girl on Craigslist to Slap Me in the Face- And How it Quadrupled my Productivity", went viral. In 2013, he took that idea to start a company that earned almost 8 figures in revenue over the last several years building devices that use psychology and sensory stimuli to help you change habits and wake up early. That company helped over 75,000 customers wake up in the morning, reduce cravings, quit smoking and defend against distractions, and, therefore, essentially helping people get fitter and healthier.

165: How to Lose Money by Buying Cheap with Vinney Chopra Jun 17, 2019

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Vinney Chopra's success in real estate investment and syndication is a testament to the power of enthusiasm, passion, persistence and positivity. He came to the United States from India over 40 years ago. He had only seven dollars in his pocket, but he knew without a doubt that the opportunities offered by this country were within reach because he had a vision for his life plus the commitment to learn, work hard and sacrifice to achieve his goals. He has successfully completed 27 multifamily syndications over the years, controlling 3500 units valued at $220 million. He also has a new fund for accredited investors who want to invest in multifamily.

164: How to Lose Money by Buying Apartments in the Sticks with Fernando Angelucci Jun 10, 2019

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Fernando Angelucci is the 27-year-old senior managing partner of Titan Wealth Group based out of Chicago. He first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad when he was 16 and subsequently started his first business at the age of 19 while attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When Fernando graduated with a bioengineering AG degree in 2013, he went on to work in a Fortune 50 company and immediately started investing in single family homes on the side. By the age of 23, he was able to replace his income and exit the "9-5" life to begin investing in single family and multifamily properties full time. By 24, he began purchasing value-add self-storage facilities and within two years began pooling funds from his investors to build ground-up, class A self-storage facilities to flip to publicly traded REITs.

163: How to Lose Money by Not Vetting Your Partners with Adam Adams Jun 03, 2019

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Adam started investing in real estate in 2005 after repositioning his first apartment community in 2007 from a $2 million value to a $4 million value in 12 months as a property manager. Adam bought his first multifamily apartment building. Since then, Adam has managed several single family "fix-and-flips" and holds over 100 multifamily rental doors. Adam is the organizer of Colorado's most active real estate group, and he hosts the "Creative Real Estate Podcast". Adam has been a guest on countless popular podcasts, including the "Best Ever Show", "Investor Army", and the "Investability Podcast".

162: How to Lose Money by Trying to Do it All Yourself with Jason Hull May 27, 2019

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Jason Hull's personal mission statement is to inspire others to love true principles. This means he's all about figuring out what works and sharing it with others. Jason is the world's leading property management growth hacker, and enjoys helping property management business owners grow their businesses. He's the host of the "Door Grow Show", founder of the Door Grow Club, a free Facebook group for property management entrepreneurs, and the creator of The Seed Program: The Ultimate Foundation for Property Management Growth. His mission at Door Grow is to transform property management businesses and their owners.

161: How to Lose Money by Trusting a Seller on Their Word with Zach Beach May 20, 2019

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Zach Beach works with smartrealestatecoach.com, located in Newport, Rhode Island. He works alongside his wife, Kayla, brother-in-law, Nick, father-in-law, Chris, and a great support team. He's a successful real estate investor, completing over 100 deals in under 3 years and continues to buy and sell property without using his own cash, credit or investor's money. Zach is co-authoring their second book, The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. At age 25, Zach decided to jump into the family real estate business. It was one of the first big risks he took in his life, and nothing was guaranteed. He didn't know anything about real estate, so through hard work, in-house training and implementation, Zach has now completed these 100 deals and growing. Additionally, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell property just like his family does.

160: How to Lose Money by Losing All Your Customers with Ian Ippolito May 13, 2019

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Ian Ippolito is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of the investment analysis website called therealestatecrowdfundingreview.com. The site has over 12,000 visitors per month and has been featured in USA Today, Bloomberg News, Realtor.com, Curbed and more. Ippolito is also the founder of a private investor club for alternative investing, with over 1,300 members and over 1.35 billion in investable assets. In 2001, Ippolito created one of the first remote work websites from an extra bedroom in his house, rentacoder.com, which was later renamed vworker.com. Ippolito grew it to 450,000 users, 15 employees, and 11.1 million in revenue before selling it to freelancer.com for an undisclosed price in the millions. Before that, he created one of the first open-source websites for programmers, planitsourcecode.com. At its peak, the site had 1.5 million visitors per month. Ippolito has been awarded the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Company Award four years in a row, and named to the 100 Most Innovative and Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur Magazine. Ippolito has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Time, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, CBS News, Fox News and many more.

159: How to Lose Money by Doing Something Crazy with Brendon Lundberg May 06, 2019

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With a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centers. He combines his mission to change the way chronic pain is treated with deep experience and healthcare management, marketing, business development and sales. Prior to opening the first center in 2014, Brendon played key operational and business development roles for two Portland-area Business Journal and Inc. Magazine growth award-winning companies and was the director of sales and marketing for another Portland-based medical device start-up. Brendon holds a B.S. in Business Marketing and an MBA.

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