443: 1,500 Houses and Counting: Mitch Stephen Shares How You can Grow Wealth with Real Estate

Hear how to build wealth in real estate using the systems and real estate investing strategy Mitch Stephen has used to purchase over 1,500 houses himself. Fed up with being a landlord and watching his cash flow disappear with expenses and liabilities, Mitch started focusing on owner financing strategies which have helped him find financial freedom. Hear how to choose the right market to invest, his key to acquiring houses without using his own money, how systems lead to success and freedom, and much more.

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read “Nothing Down” by Robert Allen.

Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon purchased their fair share of local houses. Their company, Independence Day, Inc., has bought and sold over 1,300 properties in and about San Antonio, Tx since 1996. This company specializes in buying distressed properties with OPM and selling those properties with Owner Financing.

The Stephen family built wealth by purchasing very affordable homes, selling them for double the cost, and owner financing the sale by creating note to their buyer. In 1991, the family made plans to keep their wealth and create “Forever Money” by acquiring Self-Storage and Boat Storage facilities primarily around Canyon Lake where they live in Texas. They started with 13 boat storages in front of a state park at the lake, and the storage business has grown to over 1,100 storage doors in 16 locations.

Join us as Mitch shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by changing communities and helping over 1,000 families stop renting and start owning. Continue reading →

439: How to Go from $7 to Managing a $100 Million Real Estate Investment Portfolio with Vinney Chopra

Hear how Vinney Chopra came to the U.S. with $7 in his pocket and now manages a very successful real estate investment portfolio worth over $100 million in our latest Real Estate Rockstar Radio podcast. If you want to build wealth through investing in multi-family properties and would like to learn more about real estate syndication, then this interview is the place to start. Vinney touches on everything from how to decide where to invest, how to find your first million to buy a multi-family property, the emerging U.S. markets you should investigate investing in and much more in his interview with Pat Hiban.

Vinney Chopra came to the US from India with $7 in his pocket. He sold encyclopedias and bibles door-to-door as a student, graduated from George Washington University and became a mechanical engineer. As a syndication expert, Vinney has facilitated over 20 successful syndication deals and has acquired and manages a very successful real estate investment portfolio worth over $120 million.

Join us as Vinney shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming a syndication expert. Continue reading →

437: Your Guide to Selling Real Estate to International Buyers Successfully with Reed Goossens

Successfully selling real estate to international buyers can be tricky business due to all the hoops you and your clients must jump through to get deals done. If you want to be ready to pull the trigger when you find your international clients a good deal, then you must make sure to have a number of things in order ahead of time. Reed Goossens is an international buyer expert who, in this podcast interview with Pat Hiban, dives deep into everything you need to serve your international buyer clients successfully.

Reed moved to the U.S. in 2012 to pursue a career in structural engineering, however he discovered a passion for real estate investing. With limited funds, and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplexes to growing his own real estate investing firm, RSN Property Group. Reed now syndicates large multi-million dollar deals across the U.S. Over the past 3 years, he has been involved in over $50 million worth of multifamily real estate. He certainly lives up the ‘never say die’ Aussie attitude!

Join us as Reed shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by providing real estate solutions for both investors and sellers to aid with transforming underutilized urban properties into exceptional residential and diverse communities. Continue reading →

436: How Technology is Disrupting Real Estate Investing with RealtyShares Founder and CEO Nav Athwal

Get ready to dig deep into disruptive technology for real estate investing crowdfunding with Nav Athwal – the Founder and CEO of RealtyShares. In this podcast, Pat and Nav give you an in-depth look into exactly how individuals can invest in real estate using the RealtyShares platform. This is truly and informative and interesting podcast for anyone interested in real estate investing and what the future of investing may look like as more and more disruptive technology takes hold. 

Nav Athwal is the Founder and CEO of RealtyShares, a curated online marketplace for real estate investing. His platform connects individual and institutional investors to private U.S. real estate investments, raising $200 million across more than 400 deals in 31 states. Prior to founding RealtyShares, Nav was a real estate and land use attorney in San Francisco, representing developers, fund managers, nonprofits and public and private REIT’s on some of the largest US real estate and renewable energy projects. Nav holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis and a J.D. from UC Berkeley Law School where he was Class Valedictorian. Nav is also is a regulator contributor to Forbes and TechCrunch.

Join us as Nav shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by transforming the real estate investment landscape. Continue reading →

433: How Working Smarter with Investors Can Make Real Estate Agents More Money with Larry Goins

Real estate investors can be an excellent source of income for real estate agents as they treat buying and selling houses as a business and do not get emotionally involved in transactions. Investors want to build relationships and work with agents who bring something to the table. Larry Goins, a successful investor for 30 years, gets most of his deals from real estate agents and the mls. He loves working with real estate agents and shares how agents can work smarter with investors to make more money in this podcast interview with Pat Hiban.

Larry has been investing in real estate for over 30 years. Previously, Larry served as president of the Metrolina Real Estate Investors Association in Charlotte NC, a not-for-profit organization that has over 350 members and is the local chapter of the National Real Estate Investors Association. He is an active real estate investor and travels throughout the United States speaking and training audiences at conventions, expos, and Real Estate Investment Associations on his strategies for buying and selling houses. Larry has also written several books on real estate investing that are available wherever books are sold. He and Kandas are also the host of the BRAG Radio Show. BRAG is all about using real estate to Be Rich And Generous.

Between speaking engagements and mentoring other investors, Larry oversees the daily operations of his investing business that wholesales properties, seller finances properties and holds properties for investment.

On a personal note,  Larry and his wife, Pam, have two children, Linda and Noah. He also has a grand daughter, Ember. They are a member of New River Community Church in Lake Wylie, SC. As a husband, father, businessman, and real estate investor, Larry holds true to his core values and moral integrity. 

His personal and business motto is, “People and principles before profits.”

Join us as Larry shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming a real estate investing expert! Continue reading →

429: Crashing and Burning in Real Estate and The Drastic Shift in Strategy Kevin Bupp is Using to Grow Wealth

Podcast guest Kevin Bupp bought his first real estate investment property at age 20 and never looked back amassing a $15 million dollar portfolio. That was, however, until the real estate world was turned upside down and he lost everything when the market crashed. After taking a 2-year hiatus, Kevin came back stronger and smarter with a new real estate investing strategy that has helped him start rebuilding his wealth. Listen to his podcast interview with Pat to hear about this drastic change in direction from his previous real estate strategy and you can start making more money following in his footsteps.

Kevin Bupp has been an entrepreneur all his life. It all began with a paper route when he was 12. Once Kevin had gotten a good taste of making money for himself, he moved on to a far more profitable endeavor: buying, selling, and installing automobile electronics out of his parents’ garage at the age of 14. Thankfully, his parents have always been blissfully supportive of Kevin’s enthusiasm, even when the most well-laid plans went astray.

Kevin briefly tended bar, filling his requisite “food service” quotient for kids his age (and, incidentally, teaching himself how not to treat bartenders), then jumped right into real estate investing by the age of 20. Kevin completed a degree in business at a small community college in PA, but eventually decided to focus all of his energy on real estate. This turned out to be a good move, because for more than thirteen years Kevin has been investing and consulting with tremendous results, having personally completed in excess of $40 million in real estate transactions. Currently, Kevin is a candidate for CCIM, the highest commercial real estate designation around.

Join us as Kevin shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming a real estate expert and serial entrepreneur developing systems, tools, educational platform and coaching program to accelerate one’s path to success as a Mobile Home Park Investor. Continue reading →

423: Use the Infinite Banking Concept to Create Wealth and Streams of Income with M.C Laubscher

Learn how to grow wealth with real estate investing using a cash flow management system which captures wealth and redirects cashflow back into your own personal economy instead of an outside economy such as a bank. Using the infinite banking concept, you leverage your money and create multiple income streams by acting as both the saver and the borrower. Intrigued? Then listen to M.C. Laubscher break down this nontraditional way to invest in real estate and grow wealth in our latest podcast.

M.C. Laubscher is a wealth strategist, educator, and financial freedom fighter.  He is the founder and president of Valhalla Wealth Financial and host of the popular business and investing podcast, Cashflow Ninja.

He believes the best way to achieve this in the Information Age, is by reclaiming the banking function in your own financial life through structuring an efficient cash flow management system and creating and building assets that provide multiple streams of income.

M.C. challenges existing societal belief systems and misinformation around concepts such as money, saving, investing, wealth and retirement.

Join us as M.C shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by helping as many people as possible eliminate the control banks and financial institutions have over their lives by building their wealth in a variety of ways outside of Wall Street. Continue reading →