Franchise Investments with Kim Daly

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Franchise Investments with Kim Daly

 

Guest: Kim Daly is an independent franchise consultant with FranChoice. She is also the co-author of Franchising Freedom & Mission Matters Volume 5, Top Tips to Success.

Big Idea: Kim Daly is an expert in franchise investment. Kim Daly has spent the last 20 years helping people achieve financial freedom by enabling them to find the perfect franchise opportunities. Her skill for matching a client’s background, interests, skills, finances and life goals to the ideal opportunity has made her one of the top franchise consultants in the country. On today’s episode we discuss the way some real estate investors transition from house flipping to owning a portfolio of franchise businesses-which might be a great solution in today’s low inventory real estate market. We also discuss the process of getting started and then building to scale, where you reap the real rewards of the franchise business.

 

 

    

 

Dan: Love it. I found a quote online. I think this would be a good place to start. I don’t know if you wrote this or someone wrote it about you, but it said “She worked as a personal trainer and had medical school dreams before entrepreneurship and franchising found her.” Tell me about that.

Kim: That is all true. In franchising, Dan. The question that’s commonly asked is, how did franchising find you? Because nobody really wakes up and says, “Oh yeah, I think I’m going to go get into franchising.” Right? It’s more like you’re looking for some outcome in your life and you stumble upon the advantages of franchising and go, “Ooh, this is a way to get where I want to go.” That’s pretty much what happened to me. There were two things I wanted to do when I was young. One was to become a motivational speaker, but like, how does one do that? You pursue the more logical thing. I was a straight-A student. I’m going to go to medical school and help people. Like I just always desired to be a person of influence, to do something that genuinely improves the lives of other people.

After undergrad, I answered a classified ad in the newspaper that was for a franchise consulting company, not the one I’m part of today. But literally, that classified ad changed my life when I found what franchising as an industry is and does for people, which is, it’s an industry of people helping people. It’s an industry where every single day people are realizing their dreams, living their dreams, just inspiring, and helping each other. I knew that I had found my homeland. I did make a temporary deviation into entrepreneurship because like every good business owner, I think we all think that we can go out there and do it on our own. I tried to do that for five years and figured out how hard it is and mainly how lonely it is and the things that I now help other people realize and learn about in franchising like that.

In a franchise, you’re in business for yourself, but not by yourself. You have the comradery of, not just a corporate office, but all of the other franchise owners that are out there that are part of this brand. Together you are building something. It’s like people who go off to war together often talk about the part they miss about being in the military is the comradery, right? People that go through an intense situation together in anything in life, they’ll reflect back fondly on the people that they went through that experience. Like if you’re bringing a company up to an IPO, right? I think the same thing is true in franchising. We’re all trying to achieve our own individual dreams, but collectively we’re coming together to build a brand altogether and so it has that same sense of camaraderie. Once I came back to entrepreneurship at the very old age of 29, I’m sorry, but once I came back to franchising at 29, I never left. I’ve spent 20 years now as a franchise consultant.

 

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

This Episode is Also Sponsored by the Lending Home. Lending Home Offers Reliable & Low Cost Fix & Flip Loans with Interest Rates as Low as 9.25%.  Buy & Hold Loans Offered Even Lower.  Get a FREE IPad when you Close Your First Deal by Registering Now at  http://REILineOfCredit.com

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

How to Invest in a Franchise Business with Jon Ostenson

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

Kim & I Discuss Franchise Investing:

  • Is Franchising Safe in an Uncertain Economy?

  • Why does Franchising Grow in Challenging Times?

  • How to Find the RIGHT Franchise for You

  • Best Franchise Opportunities in the Market Today

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 208 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Development with HBG Capital Founder Brandon Cobb

 

Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Development with HBG Capital Founder Brandon Cobb

 

Guest: Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Investor Brandon Cobb is the founder of HBG Capital.  He is also a licensed and bonded General Contractor in TN managing more than $1O Million of new development annually.

Big Idea: Investing in Nashville Tennessee real estate is like most of the U.S. at the time of this recording:  Low inventory combined with an insanely inflationary environment.  There is also a housing shortage which has created profitable conditions for residential real estate developers who are capable of building with scarce & expensive building materials and labor.  Not an easy task.  On today’s episode Brandon & I discuss this situation and the system he’s developed to build profitably.  Shall we begin?

 

 

    

 

Daniel Breslin: Today’s guest, Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Investor, Brandon Cobb, is the founder of HBG Capital. He’s also a licensed and bonded general contractor in Tennessee, managing more than $10 million of new development each year. Investing in Nashville Tennessee Real Estate is like most of the US at the time of this recording, super low inventory combined with insanely inflationary environment. There’s also a housing shortage, which has created profitable conditions for residential real estate developers who are capable of building with scarce and expensive building materials and labor, not an easy task.

In today’s episode, Brandon and I discussed this situation and the system he’s developed to actually build profitably.

Brandon: Yeah, so I could probably speak to Nashville more than I can in the other markets. I know Memphis is a very heavy rental market. Over there, you can still scoop up properties for pretty cheap, but you got to be really careful because your tenant base is if you don’t have a good system to processes for vetting tenants, you will get hosed on that. Knoxville, you’re probably referring to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, tons of cabins going up Airbnb, right? COVID kind of blew that area up. Everybody wants to go on a vacation, but they’re scared of COVID or there’s a lockdown. So those areas where you can kind of get the whole glamping experience or cabin experience blew up, that area’s phenomenal. The Smoky Mountains are obviously one of the best places to go and hike, especially during the fall when the leaves change. A little tip for everybody, right? If you have not been in the Smoky during the fall, it’s great.

Nashville’s probably the only city that has gosh, 30, 40 cranes downtown. So you can just look if you just had a picture of three cities, you be able to identify Nashville from those three because it’s got a ton of cranes. Nashville’s just exponential growth. I think all the national builders are now officially here. They set up shop in the building. That mean, you’ve got these ginormous developments that are being announced every single year. They just announced one. It was like a $2 billion development over in the Bordeaux area, which is your first development where you’re going to have heavy commercial skyscrapers that are kind of outside the downtown core. If you look at Nashville, you get the Cumberland River that kind of rolls through it, and that’s sort of your barrier to all these heavy, deep skyline commercial buildings. Well, now, it’s starting to get outside of that and it’s across the river now. So it’s very interesting, and you’re going to start to see that area really kind of explode. So Nashville’s just a hot, hot, hot housing market.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

This Episode is Also Sponsored by the Lending Home. Lending Home Offers Reliable & Low Cost Fix & Flip Loans with Interest Rates as Low as 6.99%.  Buy & Hold Loans Offered Even Lower.  Get a FREE IPad when you Close Your First Deal by Registering Now at  http://REILineOfCredit.com

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.HBGCapital.net

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

Brandon Cobb & I Discuss Investing in Nashville Tennessee Real Estate:

  • Nashville Tennessee Real Estate Market

  • Developing Residential Real Estate

  • Lessons Learned from Losing $40,000

  • Getting Past a Bad Deal

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 207 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Fast & Easy Multifamily Lending with StackSource Founder Tim Milazzo

 

Fast & Easy Multifamily Lending with StackSource Founder Tim Milazzo

 

Guest: Tim Milazzo is the co-founder of StackSource, a technology driven engine for funding commercial real estate deals of all types. 

 

Big Idea: Having access to fast & easy multifamily lending, or any other commercial funding, is the first step to scaling a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio.  The commercial loan landscape is extremely fragmented, with many lenders focused on only certain asset types, loan sizes, or other niche spaces at any given time.  StackSource is a national high volume aggregator of lenders, loan types & contacts, providing borrowers the faster method for finding the correct lender for your particular asset type.

Tim & I discuss how this volume of lenders will put you in a position of strength when you’re funding a deal.  Obtaining multiple, competing loan term sheets can be difficult when you’re buying a commercial deal because of the short timeline to closing.

The StackSource platform allows you to provide details of your project-whether multi family, industrial, commercial, etc- and then matches your loan type with those lending institutions currently lending in your local market and funding your specific deal type.  The end result is multiple term sheets allowing you to select the best option for your deal.

This is a contrast to how I’ve bought my last half dozen multi family projects:  calling around asking people I know who is funding this type of deal-then submitting my deal details to that single lender and obtaining one term sheet.  My way is a position of weakness-I am stuck riding with that single lender on that deal.  It’s worked out for me because I’m lucky to have found the right lender for my type of loan.  Shall we begin?

 

 

    

 

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin, and this is episode 206 on fast and easy multifamily lending with StackSource founder, Tim Milazzo. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, methods used to create millions of dollars more in the business of real estate. Having access to fast and easy multifamily lending or any other commercial funding is the first step to scaling a multimillion-dollar commercial real estate portfolio. The commercial loan landscape is extremely fragmented with many lenders focused only on certain asset types, or certain loan sizes, or other niche spaces at any given time. StackSource is a national, high-volume, aggregator of those lenders, loan types, contacts, etcetara, providing you, the borrower, with the faster method for finding the correct lender for your particular asset type.

On today’s episode, Tim and I discuss how this volume of lenders that StackSource has aggregated will put you in a position of strength when you are funding a deal. Obtaining multiple competing loan term sheets can be difficult when you’re buying a commercial deal because of the short timeline to closing. It’s multiple calls to the lenders that you’re googling and they don’t do this kind of asset type, etcetara. Whereas the StackSource platform allows you to provide the details of your project, whether multifamily, industrial. commercial, etcetera, and then matches your loan type with those lending institutions currently lending in that local market and funding your specific deal type. So, the end result is a multiple term sheets allowing you to select the best option for your deal, and then proceed with a complete loan package. And this is in contrast to how I bought my last half dozen multifamily projects which was going around, asking people I know who is funding this type of deal, and then submitting my deal details to that single lender, and obtaining a single term sheet. So, I kind of had no other options if that lender did not work out, and I didn’t really have the ability to shop the deal due to lack of time and lack of contacts. Whereas I didn’t have access to this platform.

So, my way was a position of weakness and I’m stuck riding with that single lender on that deal. Now, luckily, it worked out for me because I found just the right lender for just the right loan type who lends in my market but that’s not always the case, and the challenge can be even greater if you’re investing all over the US.

 

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

This Episode is Also Sponsored by the Lending Home. Lending Home Offers Reliable & Low Cost Fix & Flip Loans with Interest Rates as Low as 6.99%.  Buy & Hold Loans Offered Even Lower.  Get a FREE IPad when you Close Your First Deal by Registering Now at  http://REILineOfCredit.com

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.StackSource.com

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

 

Tim & I Discuss StackSource & Multifamily Lending:

  • Hottest Sectors in Commercial Real Estate

  • How to Finance Multifamily Investments

  • Obtaining Fastest Rate & Term Quotes

  • Finding Commercial Funding Anywhere in the U.S.

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 206 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Investing in Hotels with Mike Stohler

 

Investing in Hotels with Mike Stohler

 

Guest: Investing in hotels with Mike Stohler.  Mike is a former commercial airline pilot, Navy veteran, and co-founder at Gateway Private Equity Group.  Including apartment complexes, houses, and hotels, Mike has owned or operated over 1300 units.  Seeking value-add opportunities and higher returns, Mike pivoted from multi-family to hotels and now focuses exclusively in this niche.

 

Big Idea: Investing in Hotels is really a two-fold investment.  First you’re investing in the real estate where the hotel is located.  Second, you’re investing in the business of running that hotel successfully.  Because of this dual nature, hotel investing can be riskier than other real estate investments while offering larger & faster returns when executed properly

 

 

    

 

Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Mike Stohler, is a former commercial airline pilot, Navy veteran, and co-founder at Gateway Private Equity Group. Including apartment complexes, houses, and hotels, Mike has owned or operated over 13,000 units. Seeking value-add opportunities and higher returns, Mike then pivoted from multifamily to hotels and now focuses exclusively on this niche. Investing in hotels is really a two-fold investment. First, you’re investing in the real estate where the hotel is located. Second and maybe more importantly, you’re investing in the business that is running that hotel successfully. Because of this dual nature, hotel investing can be riskier than other real estate investments but at the same time offer larger and faster returns when executed properly.

Dan: All right. To give some background, maybe you just want to start with the evolution of your real estate career and what your business looks like today.

Mike: Sure. Yeah. I’ll try to keep it quick. I’m a little bit older. I got started, I caught the PG days, the pre-Google days, and absolutely failed. I did probably what a lot of you did is I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, got excited, bought some tickets to seminar land, and then bam! Okay. I’m in small-town Indiana at the time. Buying was the easy part and then I didn’t know how to be Atlanta[?]. I’m like, “Okay, wait, there’s the paperwork? What’s the least- get out. Oh, I need a 5-day notice[?]. I didn’t know anything, right? I couldn’t google anything. I failed and failed miserably just because I just didn’t know what to do. We don’t have podcasts. We don’t have mentoring. We didn’t have any of that back in the days.

If I needed a tenant, it’s like, what do I do? Put an ad in the newspaper, and it’s the old day of doing things old way. Fast forward, now, what I did is I learned. I was like, “Man, this is the way that I need to do it. This is how you make money. Real estate is it.” I actually went to work for a property management group because I was like, that’s the part that- the buying was the easy part, but how do I get experience? How do I get a mentor? I actually went and worked for them and I learned that end of it.

I learned how to be a landlord because there are two parts of [inaudible]. You’re an investor, but then once you get the asset, how do you become the landlord of someone who wants to stay in your asset? You have to learn both sides of it. That’s what I did. Then I started in 20- about ten years later, this is probably 20- during the recession time period. I started getting back into it because I was like, “Okay, there’s going to be some deals. I now have money. I have some cash. I have a good job. Let’s get back into it.”

Fast forward, I went from fourplex to 2 hotels, to 20 homes. I owned, managed around 1300 units of multifamily, and I did that within about a 7, 8 year time period.

 

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Kiavi- Kiavi Offers Reliable & Low Cost Fix & Flip Loans with Interest Rates as Low as 9.25%.  Buy & Hold Loans Offered Even Lower.  Get a FREE IPad when you Close Your First Deal by Registering Now at  http://REILineOfCredit.com

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://www.GatewayPE.com/

 

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessRealEstateDeals.com/

 

Mike & I Discuss Hotel Investment:

  • Repositioning Hotels while Enjoying Cash Flow

  • Site Selection-Finding the Right Location

  • Recognizing Profitable Hotels Post-Covid

  • Outsize Returns from Investing in Hotel Deals

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 204 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

Probate Leads, Data, & Real Estate Deals with Bill Gross

 

Probate Leads, Data, & Real Estate Deals with Bill Gross

 

Guest:  Bill Gross is a real estate agent, investor, and probate expert working the California real estate market.

 

Big Idea: Most real estate attorneys, agents, & investors have no idea how to properly probate an estate quickly.  Probate deals often linger for months & sometimes years before finally receiving a clear to close.  Bill’s focus is exactly those types of deals.  He finds the most challenging probate cases and quickly clears the issue and gets to closing quickly, where everyone gets paid.  Bill and I go deep on Probate and share quite a few resources including where to get probate data, how to work probate leads, and the #1 nationwide resource for handling probate cases.  Hint, this is NOT your local attorney

 

 

    

 

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamonds Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. This is episode 202 on probate leads, probate data, and real estate deals with Bill Gross. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers. Invite them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.

Today’s guest, Bill Gross, is a real estate agent investor and probate expert. Currently working in the California real estate market. Most real estate attorneys, agents, and investors have no idea how to properly probate an estate quickly. Probate deals often linger on for months and sometimes years before finally receiving a clear to close and getting us all paid. Bill’s focus is exactly those types of deals. He finds the most challenging probate cases, and quickly clears the issues, and gets to closing quickly where everyone gets paid.

Bill and I go deep on probate and share quite a few resources including where to get probate data. How to work probate leads? The number 1 nationwide resource for handling probate cases. Hint, this is not your local attorney. Please enjoy this conversation with Bill Gross.

Dan: Bill Gross, welcome to the REI Diamonds Show. How are you doing today?

Bill Gross: I’m doing great. How are you?

Dan: I’m doing good. So I like to location and market stamp my episodes lately. Whereabouts in the US are you recording from and doing business?

Bill: Well, I’m in Los Angeles, California, where I live. I have lived here for 25 years. I’m a native Southern Californian. I do business throughout California. In probate real estate has wide geography. So I currently have sold or currently listed property in 8 Counties in California. I stayed in California overall.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

Driving for Dollars Software to Build a Team of Drivers, Manage Routes, & Even Automate Marketing.  Free Access at  http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.TheLAProbateExpert.com

 

Bill & I Discuss Probate Leads, Data, & Real Estate Deals

  • California Real Estate market

  • How to find the BEST Probate Opportunities

  • Benefits of Being a Broker INSTEAD of an Investor

  • #1 Resource for Handling Probate Cases Nationwide

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 202 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

How to Run Real Estate Facebook Ads with Chad Keller

 

How to Run Real Estate Facebook Ads with Chad Keller

 

Guest: Chad Keller is a real estate investor, a Facebook and marketing funnel expert, and the Co-Founder of Motivated Leads, a digital marketing agency that helps real estate investors expand their portfolios quickly by generating quality motivated seller leads.

 

Big Idea: Advertising directly to sellers for off Market deals is one of the most reliable methods for building a real estate agent OR investor business.  Chad & I discuss how to run Facebook & Google ads for motivated sellers.  We also dive into his own experience as a real estate investor with his method on choosing very specific house in very specific reasons to maximize returns.

 

 

    

 

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond show. I’m your host Dan Breslin and this is episode 201 on how to run real estate Facebook ads with Chad Keller. If you are into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom – those tactics, mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars more in the business of real estate. Our guest today is Chad Keller. Chad is a real estate investor, a Facebook and marketing funnel expert and the co-founder of Motivated Leads, a digital marketing agency that helps real estate investors expand their portfolios quickly by generating quality-motivated seller leads.
The big idea here is advertising directly to sellers for off-market deals. It is one of the most reliable methods for building a real estate agent or a real estate investing business. Chad and I discuss how to run Facebook and Google ads for motivated sellers. We also dive deep into his own experience as a real estate investor, with his method on choosing very specific houses in very specific neighborhoods, for very specific reasons to maximize returns. Shall We Begin? Hi, welcome to the REI Diamond Show, Chad. How you doing today?

Chad Keller: Good, Dan. How about yourself?

Dan: I’m also doing well. Yeah, so let’s get started with a little bit of a location stamp. I’m recording from Chicago. What market are you living focused in? And, before we dive into the rest of it, will probably start with real estate stuff. So market location.

Chad: We’re in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We work with investors throughout the nation, but our market specifically is Pittsburgh.

Dan: Okay, cool. Before we get into the real estate topic. I was doing some research on LinkedIn. I think I saw that you had built and sold 3 e-commerce brands. Would you mind just touching on that? Going a little bit of a dive on that before we get started?

Chad: Yeah, that’s pretty much actually how I got into marketing. It was about 8 years ago. I was selling products on Amazon. Facebook was kind of in its heyday where you could really put up anything and have a good product that differentiate itself a little bit. And that’s when ads were so new, ad space was very cheap. You could get like 10 to 15 row ads which is return on your spend on those channel, on Facebook specifically. So I was able to grow e-commerce brand, pretty large and about 18 months off of that one brand. It was actually a brand that we put wood veneer that you put on kitchen cabinets. We put on phone cases, bottle openers, a lot of wholesale and everything. But also then created other brands that would sell those products without the veneer on. So it was like three brands and companies within one product. It’s able to do that acquired. We were making so much money having videos go viral. Reinvesting that money in Facebook so I kind of self-taught myself Facebook from that. And then, started consulting for startups and then get more into market, in certain marketing agency.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

Driving for Dollars Software to Build a Team of Drivers, Manage Routes, & Even Automate Marketing.  Free Access at  http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://Motivated-Leads.com/

 

Chad & I Discuss Running Ads on Facebook:

  • How to Run Effective Ads

  • Why Spending MORE per Lead is Better

  • Minimum Effective Budgets

  • Mistakes made When Advertising for Seller Leads

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 201 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Life Lessons on Prosperity with The Wealthy Gardener author John Soforic

 

Life Lessons on Prosperity with The Wealthy Gardener author John Soforic

 

Guest: Dr. John Soforic was a once chiropractor with 200k in student debt. He retired at 49 with a retirement income of $240,000. He then wrote a book for his son in college: The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons on Prosperity between Father and Son. The book became an Amazon bestseller, hit #46 worldwide on audible, and has been translated into 6 languages.

 

Big Idea: Generational Wealth is not just money, equity, or numbers on the balance sheet.   One very critical component of wealth his the knowledge on how to steward that wealth, a critical piece missing from so many estate plans.  John viewed this challenge in his own life as he sought to inspire his 19 year old son to absorb and learn the wisdom he’d discovered over the decade of building his own wealth.  And so The Wealthy Gardener was born.

I listened on audible myself and then found myself immediately recommending the book to a few friends of mine who are early in their real estate investing career.  I’d describe this book as the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” for the new generation, but with a greater focus on real estate and the mindsets needed to create a wealthy life.  John and I discuss real estate, my juvenile delinquent past, our shared experience of having a child attend Temple University, and of course his book, The Wealthy Gardener.  Please enjoy this conversation with John Soforic.

 

    

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the R.E.I Diamond Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. And this is Episode 200 with Life Lessons on Prosperity with The Wealthy Gardener author John Soforic.

If you are into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers. I’d invite them on the show and then draw out the jewels of wisdom, those tactics and mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars or more in the business of real estate.

Dr. John Soforic was once a chiropractor with more than $200,000 in student debt. He retired at age 49, with a retirement income of $240,000 per year. He then wrote a book for his son in college, The Wealthy Gardener: Lessons on Prosperity Between Father and Son. The book went on to become an Amazon bestseller. Hit number 46 worldwide on Audible and has been translated into six languages.

Generational wealth is not just money. It’s not just equity or numbers on a balance sheet. One very critical component of wealth is the knowledge on how to steward that wealth, a critical piece missing from so many estate plans. John viewed this challenge in his own life as he sought to inspire his 19-year-old son to absorb and learn the wisdom he discovered over the decade or more building his own wealth. And so, The Wealthy Gardener was born.

I listened on Audible myself and then found myself immediately recommending the book to a few friends of mine who are early in their real estate investing career. I describe this book as the Rich Dad Poor Dad for the new generation, but with a greater focus on real estate and the mindsets needed to actually create that wealthy life.

John and I discussed real estate, my juvenile delinquent past, our shared experience of having a child attend Temple University and, of course, his book, The Wealthy Gardener. Please enjoy this conversation with John Soforic.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

Driving for Dollars Software to Build a Team of Drivers, Manage Routes, & Even Automate Marketing.  Free Access at  http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

https://WealthyGardener.com/

 

John & I Discuss Life Lessons on Prosperity:

  • How to Pass on Generational Wealth

  • Overcoming Challenges in Life

  • Building a $20K Per Month Portfolio

  • The Wealthy Gardener

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 200 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

The iCandy Realty Fix & List Model with Steve Budzik

 

The iCandy Realty Fix & List Model with Steve Budzik

 

Guest: Steve Budzik is the managing broker & founder of iCandy Realty, a Boutique Real Estate Brokerage in Mokena, IL serving the greater Chicago Real Estate Market.  Steve is also an accomplished high volume fix & flip investor.  Long time listeners will remember Steve’s past REI Diamonds episode where we discussed high dollar house flipping.

 

Big Idea: Steve developed the fix & list program to help his brokerage sell houses faster & at a higher price.  The experience and contacts he developed flipping houses has dovetailed neatly into this new program.  Steve has built both his brokerage & real estate investing business with a priority on high level service to the market place over high volume advertising.  Our conversation begins with Steve’s evolution to the fix & list business model, his views on how to mitigate risk both as an investor and as a real estate agent, as well as a few reasons he believes every real estate agent should offer a program like this.  Let’s begin:

 

    

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I’m your host Dan Breslin and this is episode 199 on the iCandy Realty fix and flip model with Steve Budzik. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, inviting them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods, used to create millions of dollars more in the business of real estate.

Steve Budzik is the managing broker and founder of iCandy Realty. A boutique real estate brokerage in Mokena, Illinois, serving the greater Chicago real estate market. Steve is also an accomplished high-volume fix and flip investor. Long-time listeners will remember Steve’s past REI Diamonds episode where we discussed his high-dollar house flipping strategy. Since then, Steve has developed the fix and list program to help his brokerage sell houses faster and at a higher price. The experience and contacts he developed flipping houses along the way have dovetailed neatly into this new program. Steve has built both his brokerage and real estate investing business with a priority on high-level service to the marketplace over high-volume advertising. Our conversation begins with Steve’s evolution into the fix and flip business model, his views on how to mitigate risk both as an investor and as a real estate agent, as well as a few reasons he believes every real estate agent should offer a program like this. Let’s begin. All right, cool. Welcome back, Steve. How are you doing today?

Steve Budzik: Good, good. Thanks for having me on the show, Dan.

Dan: Yeah. Absolutely. I guess it’s been maybe what? 2017 or something like that? Maybe in 2016? One of the early guests of the REI Diamond Show is returning.

Steve: Yeah. Absolutely, man. I love it. I love it.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

http://www.SteveBudzik.com

http://www.iCandyRealty.com

 

Steve & I Discuss the Fix & List Real Estate Brokerage Model:

  • Generating Faster Sales & Higher Prices (& Higher Commission!)

  • How to Generate 80% of Business from REFERRALS

  • Landlords Using the Fix & List Program

  • Listing a Property Per Week with NO Ad Spend

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 199 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
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Flipping Houses in Florida with Viktor Jiracek

 

Flipping Houses in Florida with Viktor Jiracek

 

Guest: Viktor is a full time real estate investor focused on flipping houses in Florida.  He also coaches new investors on how to find off market deals then fund, fix & flip those deals.

 

Big Idea: If you’re just getting started in real estate investing, constructing a plan to earn $100K per year flipping houses is a good place to start.  This was my own plan back in 2006 when I just got started.  It turned out pretty well so far.

Viktor & I discuss how to find & fund that first flip.  We also talk about finding and managing contractors, avoiding costly mistakes, and of course everyone’s favorite type of deal.

 

    

Dan Breslin: Welcome to the REI Diamond Show. I’m your host Dan Breslin, and this is episode 198. On flipping houses in Florida with Viktor Jiracek. If you’re in the building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw out the jewels of wisdom. Those tactics, mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars and more in the business of real estate.

So Viktor is a full-time real estate investor focused on flipping houses in Florida. He also coaches new investors on how to find off-market deals, then fun, fix, and flip those deals. So if you’re just getting started in real estate investing, constructing a plan to earn $100,000 per year flipping houses, is a pretty good place to start. That was my own plan back in 2006 when I got started and it’s turned out pretty well so far. Viktor and I discussed that plan as well as how to find and fun that first flip. We also talked about finding, managing contractors, avoiding costly mistakes. Of course, everyone’s favorite type of deal. Shall we begin?

All right. Welcome to the REI Diamond Show, Viktor. How are you doing today?

Viktor Jiracek: I’m good. Thanks for having me.

Dan: Cool. I think we’d start with a location drop a pin in your market and kind of talk about where you’re doing business first and then, maybe as part of that, you could talk about, how you got in real estate and what your business looks like today?

Viktor: Sure. I live in Gainesville, Florida. I flipped in the surrounding area so mostly Alachua County but a little bit like if it’s a good deal we’ll go a little bit farther but I like to keep it private within an hour driving distance is how I typically look at it. Yeah, so I primarily do fix and flip. So by it, fix it up, sell it, is how I typically do it. I got started full-time out two and a half years ago. I was working full-time, that wasn’t working out. Just wanna make a shift in real state, I’m happy, and I don’t wanna look back. I’m happy about this. This is it. This is the goal.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

Driving for Dollars Software to Build a Team of Drivers, Manage Routes, & Even Automate Marketing.  Free Access at  http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.SellYourGainesvilleHomeToday.com

 

Viktor & I Discuss Flipping Houses in Florida:

  • How to Find the Best Deals

  • Funding your 1st Deal

  • Impact of Design on Resale

  • Building a Funnel of Contractors

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 198 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

How to Invest in a Franchise Business with Jon Ostenson

 

How to Invest in a Franchise Business with Jon Ostenson

 

Guest: Jon is a consultant, investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising. Having served as the President of an Inc. 500 franchise system and now as a multi-brand franchisee, himself, Jon is uniquely positioned to educate others on franchising and franchise selection. In addition to serving as the CEO of FranBridge Consulting, Jon oversees FranBridge Capital where he and his partners own multiple service franchises.

 

Big Idea: Real Estate investors rely on the next deal in order to remain profitable.  With the tightening of the real estate market over the past 2 years and deals becoming harder to find, some investors are turning to franchise business ownership.  Jon & I discuss opportunity for consistent cash flow by investing in non-food franchise businesses.

 

 

    

Dan Breslin: Welcome to The REI Diamond Show. I’m your host, Dan Breslin. And this is Episode 197 on how to invest in a franchise business with Jon Ostenson. If you’re into building wealth through real estate investing, you are in the right place. My goal is to identify high-caliber real estate investors and other industry service providers, invite them on the show, and then draw all out Jewels of Wisdom, those tactics mindsets, and methods used to create millions of dollars or more in the business of the real estate.

So today’s guest, Jon, is a consultant, investor, author, and international speaker specializing in the area of non-food franchising. Having served as the President of an Inc. 500 franchise system, and now as a multi-brand franchisee himself, Jon is uniquely positioned to educate others on franchising and franchise selection. In addition to serving as the CEO of FranBridge Consulting Jon oversees Franbridge Capital where he and his partners actually own and operate multiple service franchises.

So today’s episode is a little bit of a different avenue than we normally go. But it ties in because real estate investors like me and you, rely on the next deal in order to remain profitable. I’m always hunting for the next deal. I’m sure you know the feeling. And with the tightening of the real estate market over the past two years and deals becoming harder to find, some real estate investors are turning to franchise business ownership. Jon and I discussed an opportunity to get consistent cash flow by investing in these non-food franchise businesses.

We also discussed Jon’s building of a portfolio of franchise businesses. The reasons why exiting, meaning, selling a franchise business is often more profitable and much easier than exiting a business that you’ve constructed yourself and why you should run from food franchise business models. Normally, what most people think of when you hear the word franchise. Please enjoy this conversation with Jon Ostenson.

 

Episode Sponsored by the Deal Machine:

Driving for Dollars Software to Build a Team of Drivers, Manage Routes, & Even Automate Marketing.  Free Access at  http://REIDealMachine.com/

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

www.FranBridgeConsulting.com

 

Jon & I Discuss How to Invest in a Franchise Business:

  • Building a Portfolio of Franchise Businesses

  • Franchise Business Exit-there are a Pool of Qualified Buyers

  • Opportunities that Require Just 10-15 Hrs to Run

  • Why to RUN from Food Franchise Businesses

    

Relevant Episodes: (There are 197 Content Packed Interviews in Total)

 

The transcript of this episode can be found here.
Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.