The Best Ever CRE Show

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JF298: Why YOU Need to Start Gaining Clients From Social Media Jun 27, 2015

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how he gains clients from social media and his blog and how to determine what is REAL and what is speculation. We also discuss all you need to know about real estate investing in Miami, and why it may be the market you are forgetting about.

Best Ever Tweet:

In real estate, consistency is the best tool you have.

Adrian Foley’s real estate background:

- Attended law school and keeps his law license active but focuses the bulk of his time to real estate

- Real estate agent at GSL Properties based in Miami, Florida who works with buyers and sellers in Miami’s top luxury submarkets

- Fluent in both English and Spanish

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JF297: How to Take Creative Investing To the MAX Jun 26, 2015

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KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how to keep the investing game simple. We also discuss how he analyzes markets, nationally and internationally, to determine how he should hold his money and how to creatively invest in real estate. Listen up, because he shares with us some incredibly creative advice!

Best Ever Tweet:

The money is in the deals, and you need to start looking for the deals.

Matthew Elmer’s real estate background:

- Based in Dallas, Texas

- Been an active investor for 7 years

- CEO of The Real Alliance and has helped students do 200 transactions in the last 12 months

- Owner of Skyward Properties, a property flipping business

- CEO of Simplified Realty to simplify the real estate process

- Author of “Against the Grain”

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JF296: How to Manage Everything From a Single-Family Home to Hundreds of Apartment Units Jun 25, 2015

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us everything you need to know about property management. Whether a property manager or not, here are the things YOU need to know about it and what you need to look for in a potential property manager.

Best Ever Tweet:

Manage one door like you manage one hundred.

Clint Collins’ real estate background:

- Began managing apartments while in grad school for free rent 10 years ago

- Been investing and managing properties ever since

- His team now runs over 1,800 units and Clint directs an accredited property management training program for www.RentLikeAPro.com and HUDU University

- He is currently consulting for a multifamily project in Micronesia

- Based in Guam and Idaho and Utah

- Here is the sample doc we discussed SAMPLEApplicationScoring.pdf

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JF295: EVERYTHING You Need to Know About Forming LLC’s, C-Corps and S-Corps Jun 24, 2015

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Ever want to start your own investment company, but don’t know where to start? Well, today’s Best Ever guest shares with us just how to start one, and the Best Ever way to protect your assets. We discuss the pros and cons of each, so listen up because the future of you may be able to determine where to take your young company after today’s episode.

Best Ever Tweet:

The minute you walk on to that property, you should know that you are making money on it.

Nellie Akalp’s real estate background:

- Based in Westlake Village, California

- Founder and CEO of www.corpnet.com

- Started being an entrepreneur in 1997 when she started her first company

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JF294: How to Prove That YOU Are a Credible Investor and Why It’s So Important to Prove Jun 23, 2015

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Now, I know if you’re a Best Ever listener you’re certainly not lazy, but today’s Best Ever guest was and now look at him. He shares with us how to quickly estimate the cost for a flip, what YOU need to do to ensure sellers that you are a credible buyer. He is a world class flipper, so listen up because your path to financial freedom is here!

Best Ever Tweet:

Whenever you have a call for a property, you need to be prepared to be able to make an offer on the spot.

Danny Johnson’s real estate background:

- Professional house flipper, and has flipped hundreds of houses over the past 11 years

- Based in San Antonio, TX

- Author of “Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 weeks in the life of a successful house flipper”

- Say hi to him at www.flippingjunkie.com

- Danny Johnson's Scope of Work Document

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JF293: Why the Most Important Return on Your Investment is Your Return on TIME Jun 22, 2015

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Today’s Best Ever guest is probably going to run a marathon after today’s conversation, but listen up while we have him because we discuss some fascinating loans that he has used to buy properties, and how to use equity to make sure you have NO liability. We also discuss how important your ROT (return on time) truly is.

Best Ever Tweet:

Once a real estate investor understands leverage, it can change their life.

Keith Weinhold’s real estate background:

- Founder of Get Rich Education focused on passive real estate investing

- Passive real estate investor

- Based out of Anchorage, Alaska

- Bought a four-plex and lived in one unit rented out the others

- Listen to his podcast at Get Rich Education

- Regularly does running and cross country skiing marathons

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JF292: The Top Five Things I’ve Recently Learned About Multi-Family Properties #skillset Sunday Jun 21, 2015

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Today, we have a conversation about the mechanics of optimizing your cash flow with multi-family properties. I’ve learned a lot recently with my multi-family investing, and I’d be a fool not to share my Best Ever advice with my Best Ever listeners!

Best Ever Tweet:

Make sure you’re keeping track of where money is going and who it’s going to.

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JF291: How Getting Kicked Out of College Led to a Lucrative Real Estate Career Jun 20, 2015

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Today’s Best Ever guest has SO many stories to share, and they include having his credit stolen, and buying stolen properties! Phew, I’m anxious after conducting this interview I can’t even imagine going through it! Listen up, because he shares with us all about hard money lending, and why he will absolutely lend to first time investors.

Best Ever Tweet:

Before you’re doing any deal, make sure your numbers make sense.

Rod Stanback’s real estate background:

- Owner of Flip Funding LLC which is a hard money lender which does over $20M of funding annually

- Owner of over $1M in real estate holdings and acquires 4 buy and holds annually

- Don’t get in a fight with him either! His favorite hobby is boxing.

- Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

- www.Flipfunding.com

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JF290: How to Determine if a Property Is a Good Investment in FIVE Minutes Jun 19, 2015

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Today’s Best Ever actor turned real estate investor has used his experiences in life to have tremendous real estate success. Having bought thousands of multi-family units, he shares with us how to determine if a property is worth an investment in 5 minutes, and most importantly about his acting career!

Best Ever Tweet:

Be easy to do business with, and make your brokers look good.

Sean Sweeney’s real estate background:

- Real estate professional with over 11 years of experience in multifamily industry

- Currently at Timberland Partners, where his two person acquisition team has successfully acquired over 4,000 multifamily units with a combined value over $250,000,000

- Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

- Was in the movie ”What Women Want” with Mel Gibson and has had dinner with him

- Here is the spreadsheet we discussed during the show: https://goo.gl/cWpZCy

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JF289: The Power of Numbers…Why More Investors Can Lead to Cheaper Deals Jun 18, 2015

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Bienvenidos, Best Ever listeners! Today, we discuss why buying in numbers may just lead to cheaper deals, which markets YOU should be investing in now, and what to look for in a market. If you apply these simple tips today, YOU will be making all the moola!

Best Ever Tweet:

View real estate as a vehicle. Real estate is not the end game, real estate is a vehicle to achieve other things.

Matt Bowles’s real estate background:

- Partner at Maverick Investor Group where he and his partners have helped real estate investors buy over $100 million in turnkey rental property

- Joining us from Spain

- Personally has bought and sold over $4 million in real estate

- Lived in 14 countries since 2013

- Say hi to him at www.Maverickinvestorgroup.com

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