Real Estate Investing For Professional Men & Women

Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed RE investor for 25+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read "Nothing Down" by Robert Allen. Mitch Stephen has purchased well over 2,000 houses in and around his hometown of San Antonio, TX. A high school graduate, who never stopped learning. Books, CDs, seminars, and webinars were his classroom. Today he specializes in owner financing properties to individuals left behind by traditional lending institutions and giving new life to properties that scar the neighborhoods. He has perfected a method of achieving cash-flow without having to be a landlord and without having to rehab properties. He’s mastered the art of raising private money and the classic "Nothing Down" deal. He has pioneered the idea that you don’t have to give discounts to sell your notes. A passionate speaker who delivers the message of integrity first and profits second; an expert at keeping it simple and explaining, in plain English, the theories that made him financi

Tamera founded and has run small businesses since her teenage years. At the age of 20, she founded her first multi-million dollar company. Since then she has grown many, many successful businesses both online and off. She discovered her passion for real estate investing in 2003 and has never looked back. Since that time Tamera Aragon has profited from investing in hundreds of properties to date, establishing her as an expert in the real estate investing field. Tamera finds her true passion lies in walking others toward success in the business of any kind. She has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to success since 2005. In 2014 she received her certification as a Life Coach. She continues to create and offer tools and training designed to support real estate investors as well as all types of entrepreneurs both online and off. Today, Tamera’s experience has earned her a solid reputation in the industry as well as the respect and friendship of many top national business and real estate investing experts. What Yo

Wayne Mullins is the Founder of Ugly Mug Marketing which he started 11 years ago out of a coffee shop. He is passionate about building a team at Ugly Mug Marketing that isn’t focused on checking off items on to-do lists, or winning design awards, but instead, on helping their clients sleep better at night. Today, thanks to his amazing team, is not uncommon for prospective clients to have to wait weeks - or even months - to become a client of Ugly Mug Marketing. Wayne directly influences more than a quarter million entrepreneurs each year through his blog, books, and training programs. What You Will Learn: Wayne shares about his journey on how they ended up on his "Ugly Mug Marketing" business. Wayne shares who he is and how he started into real estate. Wayne shares his other skills besides selling. Wayne shares how other people motivates him to start his Land and Landscape Company. Wayne shares where the name of his business, Ugly Mug Marketing came from. Wayne shares to presell services that people need to

Wendy Patton is a very successful creative real estate investor who started when she was young and broke. Creative seller financing is a way to invest in real estate without using traditional bank financing. Wendy Patton’s focus is on lease options, subject tos, and land contracts (contract for deed). At the age of 21, Wendy started investing in real estate. Like most young adults she was single, broke, thinking “Corporate America” was her only future. She graduated from college, was hired for that corporate America “dream job”, but was $20,000 in debt. She found real estate investing and realized that Corporate America wasn’t the golden path to what she wanted. When she began investing in real estate, she didn’t fully understand her financing options, so she started purchasing real estate investment properties on her credit cards. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Wendy shares how she started with real estate investing. Wendy shares how she bought properties without spending money. How to start Real

Zachary is an Amazon Best – Selling Author of the New Rules of Real Estate Investing and co-host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. He is a Partner, COO, and Coach at Smart Real Estate Coach. In September 2020, he released a revised edition of Real Estate On Your Terms, which Zach will be co-authoring. At the age of 25, Zach decided to leave the world of bartending and personal training and jump into a family business. It was one of the first big risks that he took in his life, as nothing was guaranteed. Plus, he knew absolutely nothing about real estate. Through hard work, in-house training, and implementation, Zach has now completed over 100 deals and growing. On top of that, he coaches students around the country on how to buy and sell a property just like his family still does. Now, as a group, they buy and sell 10-15 properties a month with a predictable and scalable system, controlling between $20-$25 million of real estate at any one time with little to no money in the deal and no banks involved.

Armed with only $3,000, gut-wrenching fear, and absolutely no real estate experience… Mark bought his first few parcels of raw land in 2001. Today Mark is the author of Dirt Rich, the ultimate guide to helping you build a passive income and owner of Frontier Properties, a very reputable and successful land investing company, and has been buying and selling land full time since 2001. By focusing on working smart, not hard, he has completed over 5,500 land deals with an average ROI of over 300% on cash flips, and over 1,000% on the deals he sells with financing terms. Prior to his land investing success, Mark had a high-stress, soulless corporate job, and felt trapped in a state of solo-economic-dependency (i.e. his income stopped as soon as he stopped working). Escaping solo-economic dependency changed Mark’s life in so many positive ways that he decided to teach, coach, and mentor others to help them achieve their financial goals. Even though Mark invests a lot of his time helping others, he stays actively in

Keir Weimer is an expert in entrepreneurship and real estate, having founded and successfully led multiple seven-figure companies in luxury real estate brokerage, hospitality development, investment, lifestyle show and brand, and education & information, training, and event enterprises. He has a passion for taking early-stage, novel ideas to market and growing teams, cultures, and businesses around them. An internationally-recognized, luxury real estate & lifestyle entrepreneur, Keir is now focused on sharing his expertise and success through a next-generation education and information company. Keir’s success is the result of a life-changing event that forever altered his path when he was in college. He was responsible for an alcohol-related boating accident that unfortunately and tragically killed his friend. Weimer served three and a half years in New York state prison for his crime. He overcame the adversity that became his daily life, including when he was released and faced rejection from graduat

Noah Brandy is a problem solver, an efficiency engineer by background, real estate investor, property manager, and entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He specializes in identifying ways and processes and has determined that there are a lot of inefficiencies in real estate. By observing his wife and mother-in-law who are tied into the local real estate investor networks in Pittsburgh, and through his own real estate experiences he has learned how to re-evaluate and prosper from a variety of obstacles that may occur. Building an organization across 41 states and 3 countries, the majority have made up real estate investors, agents, brokers, and even title companies. He saw that there are some holes that need to be addressed. Some companies did a great job, some did not. He believes that we are already in the age of innovation today for every kind of business. He has hit the top 1% of a billion-dollar company by creating a niche in the Real Estate space that no-one else has been able to take advantage of.

“I believe that given more knowledge and more information, people will be able to make better financial and business decisions.” Curtis May, the principal of Practical Wealth Advisors, LLC. He helps families and business owners learn to plan wisely for the future and to achieve financial independence. Much of Curtis’ time is devoted to hosting financial workshops where he lectures on financial literacy, cash flow management, managing home equity, and how to create a Private Family Capital Reserve System that lets families operate their personal economies like banks and financial companies operate theirs. He also teaches small business owners The 7 Steps to More Sales System – how to increase revenue from existing business assets with an effective marketing system. Curtis believes education is an integral part of his work as a financial consultant. Through Practical Wealth Advisors, Curtis focuses on helping his clients get organized with their money through cash flow management so they can make better financi

Raw land investing experts Adam Southey and Justin Sliva know exactly where new investors struggle. They’ve each had massive success in their own business, and today they’re on a mission to help others learn to harness the enormous potential offered by land investments: Incredible ROI, Massive Cash Profits, and Sustained Passive Income. After helping hundreds of other land investors find/sell amazing properties at unbelievable profits, Adam and Justin collaborated in creating powerful resources to support both new and seasoned land investors along their journey. They launched the Casual Fridays REI podcast and built a comprehensive online course that not only answered all the questions they had received from consulting clients but also incorporated the best of their own combined experience. Adam and Justin are here today to show our listeners there’s more than one way to achieve success when it comes to raw land investing. What You Will Learn: Adam talks about how he started with land investing and bought hi

Dustin Nulf is an Associate Broker with Keller Williams Realty in Pittsburgh, a self-made millionaire, serial entrepreneur, and graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. As a Top Sales Agent for over 12 years, Dustin closed as many as 50 real estate sales in a single year while growing multiple businesses. In his best year, he closed 50 units while spending over 3 months traveling. Dustin is a firm believer in time and people leverage in order to "live the good life" spending time with his family every chance he can get. His ultimate goal is to help others achieve this same quality of life through their own Sales, Investing & Real Estate Businesses. Originally from the small town of Dubois, PA, Dustin has a wide variety of experience, hobbies, and background. After nearly 16 years in the restaurant industry and restaurant management, Dustin became interested in wealth-building and made the decision to get into Real Estate in 2007 with original intentions to gain a Re

Greg Hanna has shared his message on the same stage as Martha Stewart, Suzanne Somers, Iced-T and Coco, Michael E. Gerber, and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's. At Great Corporations and places like Nasdaq, Carnegie Hall, the New York City Bar, the Harvard Club of New York City and the Harvard Club of Boston And in the Media on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, and weekly on WABC Radio as the weekly recurring Cyber Technology and Effectiveness Expert on The Greatest Show of All Time, who built several multi-million dollar companies using techniques developed and practiced over the last 30 years and makes them now available to you. What You Will Learn: How Greg shares about tools they’ve developed such as TechTarget.com and Gartner Magic Quadrant. The three main areas in technology that Greg’s company is focused with. Greg explains about an information security program platform they have developed called “Five-Star Compliance”, a cloud-based solution that manages data compliance for small to mid-size business acco

Shannon Goldsmith is a 3rd generation native Angeleno, Los Angeles REALTOR®, Certified Investor Agent, and member of the Global Investor Agent Team. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University, is a Certified Pricing Strategy Advisor, Probate Specialist, and Short Sale & Foreclosure Resource. She is a former corporate slave who later became a real estate agent. She spent a lot of time in the corporate world working for other people until realizing in her mid-'30s that she couldn’t stick with it anymore. Hence, she was able to transition into real estate and also realized that she’s more interested in the investing side of it rather than the traditional one. A self-professed real estate junkie, Shannon believes that real estate investing is life’s greatest vehicle to personal and financial freedom. She enjoys helping seasoned or soon-to-be-seasoned investors grow and evolve their portfolios quickly while keeping their risks in check. Where some investors are comfortable spending money based

Andrew Cushman has a BS in a Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. After graduation, Andrew worked in a Chemical Engineering company for 7 years in a variety of supervisory positions. During that time, Andrew (joined by his wife in 2004) experimented with a variety of businesses in the hopes of making the jump from W-2 employee to entrepreneur. In 2007 Andrew discovered house flipping and left his corporate position to start a business in real estate investment. Starting off with single-family properties in the depths of the recession, Andrew completed 24 single family flips (purchase, rehab, sell), all of which were very profitable. In 2011 Andrew transitioned to the acquisition and repositioning of multifamily properties, acquiring a mostly vacant 92 unit property on the other side of the country as a first deal. That first property was eventually sold for several times its original purchase price, and Andrew now acquires B Class, Value-add properties throughout the Southeast. In total, Andrew

Louis Racette was on a long journey before becoming a successful real estate investor. He wasn’t really good at school and actually hated attending to it due to his impatient and serious personality. He feels that he had a lot of challenges around him. After his high school education, he started off working for his dad’s company. His dad was in an insurance agency so he did a lot of investigation into accidents and claims. This kind of job taught him to think and ask questions for seeking a solution to a problem that will satisfy a claimant and the insurance company as well. This led him to become a more analytical thinker. He ended his job from the insurance company and was able to travel the world when he became a pilot. He decided to do something more such as broadcasting and went into actual communication. He was in sales for a CTV camera which taught him communications and marketing. Then after 12 years, he built his own company, an advertising agency, which served national and regional retail clients. T

Ben Riehle currently resides in Tucson, Arizona who runs a couple of real estate service companies. He is a licensed agent with over nine years of real estate, construction, property management, and investment experience. He studied at the University of Arizona receiving an undergraduate degree in Accounting in 2011. Then, he continued to a law school where he specialized in business formation and tax law and finishing it in 2014. However, he never was able to practice his law degree realizing that his real passion was in real estate investing. Being fortunate enough, he was able to purchase his first property at the young age of 18 years old. With a great passion for the real estate industry, he realized the profound need for a start to finish solutions for real estate investors. As a result, he began to build a real estate service company called “The Apex Real Estate Network” handling everything from construction development to property management. When he built this service company, it was like all under o

Sid Hameed has migrated to the US in October 1977 with his family due to the ongoing war between India and Pakistan in the ‘60s. He grew up in a travel area and used to go underground during the war.  He worked at a young age about 10-12 years old at the moment of arriving in the US. He delivered thousands of papers every single day and recruited about 15-20 kids to help him deliver these papers in the afternoon after school. These kids helped him collect money so they can get it done a lot faster. A true entrepreneurial spirit. Back in 1989, he started a residential construction and initially worked as a labor and learned a lot of other construction skills until forming his own solid team. He was also a Home Inspector for 22 years Washington DC - MD and owned and operated Real Estate Brokerage for 15 years Washington DC and MD. He has educated and trained thousands of people for over 20 years. He learned a lot by taking actions and has proven it through real-life experiences. What You Will Learn: Sid's most

A Note to Our Listeners: Due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, I have made the difficult decision to cancel all future episodes of Real Estate Investing for Professional Men and Women and pause the podcast indefinitely. At this moment, it is best for me to focus on my business and everything that is coming down the pipe. It has been an honor to learn and grow with each of you and I sincerely appreciate your loyalty to the show. Stay tuned for more updates, I am hopeful for the opportunity to pick up where we left off sometime in the future. – Gary Youman Kouta has a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing and spent much of her career as a midwife. She also worked in sales and served as an assistant manager for ACDC Controls. After getting involved with real estate earlier this year, Youman became an investor-agent in the Houston metro market. And outside of her chaotic work schedule, Youman spends much of her time with her three children. What You Will Learn: How Youman became an investor-agent in the Houston,

Paul Ritter has over 25 years’ experience in the mortgage and credit enhancement industries. He has developed software, which invokes mortgage-underwriting guidelines. It is very useful for anyone looking to buy a home, wants to run “what if” scenarios and is especially useful for Lease Option transactions. Paul has formerly owned and operated several mortgage companies. He is currently the owner of Credit Investigation Service, dba My Credit Team that specializes in credit enhancement for the Real Estate Industry. He also owns a screening company, which provides the front-end piece to evaluate potential tenants/buyers. He is an expert in building Business Credit. Paul is well versed in identity theft protection and repairing a credit report after an ID theft incident. He is FICO certified, an expert in his field and a nationally sought after speaker. Paul Ritter is a credit repair and lease options specialist. He owns a credit repair company in the Pittsburgh area. He partnered with a tenant screening compan

Apt-Guy℠, Bruce Petersen, is an award-winning real estate syndicator, TV personality, public speaker, and business coach. His syndications have spanned multiple years and have consisted of over 1100 units. Bruce was a stockbroker in the early 90s and after a long and successful career in retail management, he has been investing in real estate since 2012. Bruce began mentoring others in the syndication, acquisition, operation, and disposition of multiple apartment complexes in 2014. Bruce’s passion is providing passive streams of income to investors by improving apartment complexes and creating communities residents love to call home. What You Will Learn: Bruce Petersen’s journey into real estate syndication How Bruce built a portfolio that has included over 1100 units in the Austin/San Antonio area How Bruce structured and executed the deal for his forty-eight unit apartment complex Bruce’s strategy for selecting and breaking into a new real estate market How to determine the best time for you to invest in r