While you’re building a real estate team, bringing a real estate attorney on early and keeping him in the loop can smooth out any potential legal snags you may run into. Ohio real estate attorney David Streeter shares some best practices for what you’d want your attorney to keep an eye on during your deals, and the biggest mistake real estate investors make with their attorney.

Getting called by an SEC regulator could be the beginning of a dark chapter in your real estate career, but if you are prepared with an airtight disclosure, it’s not going to be a big deal. Syndication attorney Mauricio Rauld knows exactly how to keep you compliant and safe so that you can continue to work your deal-making magic on this side of a jail cell.

Despite technology’s huge importance in a business, people are still what makes a business grow. If mediocre performances seem to follow your team around, then Rick Crossland’s advice for building an A team is something you do not want to miss. Build a better recruiting system that finds and retains the absolute best employees who will take your business to the next level.

Losing a $50 million dollar portfolio in the real estate crash seems like a cataclysmic event that no one could recover from, but not for Rod Kleif. He has used his goal setting and visualization techniques to rebuild his real estate empire, and he offers up actionable ways that you can too. We talk about the definition of true success for every entrepreneur that is measured by how we give back to our communities, and not just by how many homes we own.

Pouring your whole heart into a business changes how you do business. I talk with Corey Peterson from Kahuna Wealth Builders about the pivotal moment that changed the way he does

business, forever. What drives Corey’s passion for real estate is fun and freedom because life is about people and relationships, and not about the things we acquire.

JV Crum III (Founder & CEO of the Conscious Millionaire Institute and host of the Conscious Millionaire podcast) shares his advice for entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate leaders who want to identify their passions, uncover their purpose, and take action to achieve their versions of financial freedom.

Whether you’re new to the business or an experienced dealmaker, building real relationships based on trust are incredibly important for your long term real estate business strategy. Kenny Wolfe from Wolfe Investments gives up some great advice today on how to develop a real estate portfolio that thrives on relationships.

If you’re looking to accelerate your real estate portfolio, moving into multi-family units can do just that for you. Michael Blank, from The Apartment Building Investing Podcast, and I talk about the huge boons of multi-family apartments including the cash flow, stability, and tax benefits. We also touch on potential strategies in a recession, and how the multi-family unit can help with that.

As I reflect back on 2019, there are 10 powerful real estate lessons I learned that I’ll carry with me to optimize my business, do more deals, make more money and take less risk in 2020.

After raising $34,000,000 of private money, flipping and lending on over 200+ houses, and acquiring a significant equity stake in over 2,400 unit of apartments this year, I certainly learned a lot. We made a lot of great investments and great decisions.

I also whiffed on a few. Uggg!!! (when you do as many deals as I

Financial freedom is a great thing to have and all of us want to get there at some point. However, being a successful entrepreneur also means having to make sacrifices in your personal life. Or does it? Well, I talk to Cliff Hayden, entrepreneur/real estate investor, about how he got into the real estate business, how financial freedom affected his personal life and what he had to develop to find the hard yet rewarding balance between his purpose in life and financial freedom.