1000Houses.com Podcast

One of the great things about real estate is how there are many different avenues to succeed in this business. Someone who proves that to be true in the ways he plays the real estate game is Dan Zitofsky, the CEO and founder of Zitofsky Capital Management. Dan does business in emerging markets where he buys portfolios of distressed notes, reloads them with renters, gets them turnkey ready, and then owner finances to investors. In this episode, he joins host, Mitch Stephen, to talk about selling to investors and private money. Advocating for the ways private money can change the whole landscape of your investing career, Dan shares with us how he was able to grow his business through it and why it is important to success. He also addresses some of the limiting beliefs people have in this industry and how they can go from good to great in this business.

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Who wouldn’t want to know what the property can be financed for before applying for a loan? With the right tools, you can now gain leverage in financing deals by knowing what your property is worth and how much banks are willing to put in it. It sure feels great to be empowered in these conversations by having the right numbers up your sleeve. John Matheson, the CEO of Leverage, talks about how this can be done through software as he joins Mitch Stephen on the show. John is a real estate developer who has pivoted into software after discovering that it is an underutilized tool in the commercial lending space. His company now helps investors determine the maximum financing amount for their investment property before even talking to a lender.

Who wouldn’t want to know what the property can be financed for before applying for a loan? With the right tools, you can now gain leverage in financing deals by knowing what your property is worth and how much banks are willing to put in it. It sure feels great to be empowered in these conversations by having the right numbers up your sleeve. John Matheson, the CEO of Leverage, talks about how this can be done through software as he joins Mitch Stephen on the show. John is a real estate developer who has pivoted into software after discovering that it is an underutilized tool in the commercial lending space. His company now helps investors determine the maximum financing amount for their investment property before even talking to a lender.

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While hard work is admirable, grinding 24/7 on your business is just not sustainable. If you want it to grow, you should start making it work without you before it burns you out. After all, one of the great indicators of a good business is its ability to function without your hands all over it. So how can you achieve that? Mitch Stephen brings over Brayand Ponciano, the owner of Together We Grow, whose amazing mindset drives him to make his business work hard without him. Brayand shares what that mindset is with us and how it works in this episode. He talks about why the hustle life is not always the way and why working smarter, not harder, puts you in a place of abundance. The universe is infinite, and there is just so much out there—deals, properties, other opportunities—that you have yet to achieve, so why put yourself in a place of scarcity, of mental torture? Brayand imparts this great lesson he learned across his entrepreneurial journey and asks you to start changing your mindset in a way that will best serve you and your business.

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What an amazing real estate business would it be if you do good during the good times but also boom during recessions. That is undeniably doing real estate on your own terms, and Mitch Stephen’s guest in this episode is someone who does just that. He sits down with Zachary Beach, a real estate coach and the COO of Smart Real Estate Coach. Together, they talk about Zach’s secret to keeping the business thriving even amidst a downturn. They talk about why private money is important, how to find properties, what options to give sellers, and what strategies to use when just getting started. This conversation will surely open your eyes up to the great real estate opportunities that are out there, even when the times make it seem impossible. Dive deep to know more about doing real estate on nothing but your own terms.

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It used to be the adage that real estate is the best way to make passive income. Jason Criddle, who joins Mitch Stephen on the show, emphatically disagrees. He thinks that right now, the best way to make mailbox money is to invest in software companies. As the market becomes more uncertain with the ongoing pandemic, Jason believes that investing in software companies is the only way to make money out of something that doesn’t have to be considered essential to be in business. Jason is the CEO of SmartrHoldings, a company that allows investors to create passive income through software.

It used to be the adage that real estate is the best way to make passive income. Jason Criddle, who joins Mitch Stephen on the show, emphatically disagrees. He thinks that right now, the best way to make mailbox money is to invest in software companies. As the market becomes more uncertain with the ongoing pandemic, Jason believes that investing in software companies is the only way to make money out of something that doesn’t have to be considered essential to be in business. Jason is the CEO of SmartrHoldings, a company that allows investors to create passive income through software.

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For many of us, real estate is a way to live a freer life. However, for those in the rental property side of the industry, being an investor and being a landlord at the same time can be quite a lot of work, defeating the goals we have before entering. Host, Mitch Stephen, sits down with someone who has made it his mission to support other landlords by taking some of the tasks off their shoulders. He talks with Sam Kwak, the CEO and co-founder of Flowmatiks, a SaaS company that helps landlords and property managers automate and systemize their business. Here, Sam lets us in on how they are able to do that while taking us back to the beginning of his journey and the company. He then taps into some of the problems many amateur landlords have and gives a piece of advice or two on how they can up their game.

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Running a commercial real estate company is a tough hat to wear, let alone leading a statewide trade association that links the biggest players in the rental property business. For Mark Hurley, running the Texas Apartment Association is certainly challenging, especially with the coronavirus pandemic going on during his watch as the association’s president. Mark is not your stereotypical real estate investor, who is supposed to be aggressive in the way they pursue profit and growth. Building on his father’s legacy, he believes in the concept of small, consistent growth. Together with an organizational philosophy that creates the most satisfying working environment for employees, he has kept the company his father built afloat and growing even in a time of economic uncertainty and chaos. He now shares his journey and the lessons he has learned from it as he joins Mitch Stephen on the show. 

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Many people throw around the word passive income like it doesn’t require effort to maintain and get the right returns. Those who have been on the passive side of investing would know this to be false. Unlike what many think, trying to earn passive income can still be a challenge because often, expenses eat the investments up. So is true passive income achievable? In this solo cast, Mitch Stephen talks about passive passive income and how you can achieve that with way bigger rates of return. At the core of this episode is loaning your money out on real estate. Mitch tells us more as he discusses the Loan-to-Value ratio and private lenders as well as who loans their money and who to loan your money to.