Accredited Income Property Investment Specialist (AIPIS)

Gary has spent most of his career building businesses in the real estate, hospitality, and tech sectors. Immediately before Roofstock, Gary was co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (NYSE: SWAY), one of the leading Single-Family Rental companies in the US.

Gary founded Roofstock on the belief that the Single-Family Rental sector has stuck to the old way of doing things for far too long – it’s an industry ripe for disruption.

Roofstock is the first online marketplace created exclusively for investing in leased Single-Family Rental homes that generate cash flow day one. Created by investors for investors, Roofstock provides research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties.

Roofstock turns the old way of investing on its head, bringing transparency and efficiency to create a better way to transact. Buyers access vetted homes with current cash flow. Sellers market homes without lost income or disrupting tenants. Neighborhoods avoid signs in yards which could depress values. It’s win-win all around.

The most revolutionary aspect of the Roofstock marketplace is enabling investors to treat their real estate investments more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than dealing with the hassles of researching and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.

Key Takeaways:

[1:42] What Roofstock is

[4:35] The reality of the single-family rental home investor

[7:10] Where Roofstock's inventory comes from

[10:00] The 3D Rendering Roofstock does of each home in their inventory, and what benefit it creates

[12:15] Who is there in the walk through for the property and how sellers don't have to pay for a lot of things they usually do

[15:35] The number of transactions Roofstock has been able to do in their first 18 months

[18:45] How the buying process works

[22:00] The investment fund Roofstock recently released (and who is managing it)

[25:00] Why Roofstock has properties in high end areas with RTVs below 1%

[27:30] How the valuations of the property are done

[30:10] What Roofstock does to find and certify property managers, and why investing close to where you live is an outdated idea

Websites Mentioned:

www.roofstock.com

Zbigniew found Reality Games in October 2014 and launched Landlord mobile game in January 2015. He is also the Programming Director of Promotion of Poland 2020 of The Kosciuszko Institute. Zbigniew has over 12 years of online advertising and over 10 years of real estate experience. He founded and exited a few other companies such as Second Poland and Supremum 360: Digital Outsourcing & Advertising Service. Key Takeaways: [2:20] How the Landlord app works [3:35] How data mining is helping the app become more and more accurate and how it can make you a better investor [8:00] How check-ins can increase the value of your properties, but how they've safeguarded against abuses [10:20] Buying properties in places that you can't physically get to [12:55] The power of crowd sourcing and apps [16:20] Where Jan sees the future of tech and the digital divide [18:50] The app business model and how much one MLB player has spent on the app (and isn't even the top player in the game) [22:50] If there's a social component to the game and if people are actually meeting through it Website Mentioned:

www.wearerealitygames.com Find the Landlord app on iTunes and Google Play

Zbigniew found Reality Games in October 2014 and launched Landlord mobile game in January 2015. He is also the Programming Director of Promotion of Poland 2020 of The Kosciuszko Institute. Zbigniew has over 12 years of online advertising and over 10 years of real estate experience. He founded and exited a few other companies such as Second Poland and Supremum 360: Digital Outsourcing & Advertising Service.

Key Takeaways:

[2:20] How the Landlord app works

[3:35] How data mining is helping the app become more and more accurate and how it can make you a better investor

[8:00] How check-ins can increase the value of your properties, but how they've safeguarded against abuses

[10:20] Buying properties in places that you can't physically get to

[12:55] The power of crowd sourcing and apps

[16:20] Where Jan sees the future of tech and the digital divide

[18:50] The app business model and how much one MLB player has spent on the app (and isn't even the top player in the game)

[22:50] If there's a social component to the game and if people are actually meeting through it

Website Mentioned:

www.wearerealitygames.com
Find the Landlord app on iTunes and Google Play

Jack Cashill is an independent writer and producer and, on a contractual basis, the Executive Editor of Ingram's Magazine. In addition to his work with Ingram's, Jack has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, AmericanThinker.com, and regularly for WorldNetDaily. Within the last decade Jack has written seven books of non-fiction — First Strike, Ron Brown's Body, Hoodwinked, Sucker Punch,What's the Matter with California, and Deconstructing Obama. Three of his books have cracked Amazon's top ten list. Jack has produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels, including the Emmy Award-winning, The Royal Years. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies, has taught media and literature at Purdue and at Kansas City area universities, and served as a Fulbright professor in France Key Takeaways: [2:38] Jack's thoughts on the Brexit [4:15] Who the base of the left are these days [7:19] Where the breakthrough came in terms of creating a culture that would create a long term, successful economy [9:40] Where the contempt for our culture is derived [13:05] How greed pervaded all layers of our culture in the 2008 housing crisis, not just the lenders like the media portrayed [16:33] How the Jewish code and the usury ban led to a helpful (but not exactly healthy) relationship between the two [19:30] Whether the bible conflicts when it comes to credit [21:50] What we need to make capitalism succeed [23:31] Why we need to question the root cause of things, not just address the symptoms, or else we end up hurting the people we're trying to help [26:16] What actually happened with TWA 800 Website Mentioned: www.cashill.com

Jack Cashill  is an independent writer and producer and, on a contractual basis, the Executive Editor of Ingram’s Magazine.

In addition to his work with Ingram’s, Jack has written for Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, AmericanThinker.com, and regularly for WorldNetDaily.

Within the last decade Jack has written seven books of non-fiction — First Strike, Ron Brown’s Body, Hoodwinked, Sucker Punch,What's the Matter with California, and Deconstructing Obama. Three of his books have cracked Amazon’s top ten list. Jack has produced a score of documentaries for regional PBS and national cable channels, including the Emmy Award-winning, The Royal Years.

Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies, has taught media and literature at Purdue and at Kansas City area universities, and served as a Fulbright professor in France

Key Takeaways:

[2:38] Jack's thoughts on the Brexit

[4:15] Who the base of the left are these days

[7:19] Where the breakthrough came in terms of creating a culture that would create a long term, successful economy

[9:40] Where the contempt for our culture is derived

[13:05] How greed pervaded all layers of our culture in the 2008 housing crisis, not just the lenders like the media portrayed

[16:33] How the Jewish code and the usury ban led to a helpful (but not exactly healthy) relationship between the two

[19:30] Whether the bible conflicts when it comes to credit

[21:50] What we need to make capitalism succeed

[23:31] Why we need to question the root cause of things, not just address the symptoms, or else we end up hurting the people we're trying to help

[26:16] What actually happened with TWA 800

Website Mentioned:

www.cashill.com

Lane Kawaoka is a City Project Engineer and Licensed Professional (PE) Civil/Industrial Engineer. Short after graduating college, during his first 5 years of his career, he supervised a traveling, union-based crew that required 100% travel away home. During this time, he traded the most important resource, time, for money. In 2009, he was able to save for an A-class rental that rented for $2200/a month in the Pacific Northwest (how embarrassing a Rent-to-Value Ratio of 0.5%!). After his 2nd acquisition of a duplex in 2012, he was looking to make a 3rd but the market was appreciating and he saw the numbers would yield negative cashflow. With this realization, Lane converted his portfolio to markets with stable multifaceted job markets and Rent-to-Value Ratios that would yield healthy $250-$400/month spreads between the rents and expenses (mortgage, vacancy, professional management, repairs, and capital expenses). Today Lane's portfolio consists of 11 single family homes in Birmingham, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Pennsylvania. Jason caught up with Lane to discuss some 1031 exchange tips that Lane utilizes with his properties. Key Takeaways: [1:55] How Lane became interested in real estate [4:10] Why Lane believes the stock market formula is impossible to beat or even project [7:46] Lane's home auction experience that showed him not everyone with money is smart [10:28] Why Lane is in the markets he's in right now [13:00] The 45 Day Deadline with your 1031 [16:01] What you need to ask yourself before your start your 1031 exchange [20:29] When you start approaching the end of your 1031 exchange deadline [22:20] Filling out "To Whom It May Concern" letters, and Jason's paid off $237 tax lien from the 90s that's made his own "To Whom It May Concern" letter a part of every deal he makes Website Mentioned: www.simplepassivecashflow.com

Lane Kawaoka is a City Project Engineer and Licensed Professional (PE) Civil/Industrial Engineer. Short after graduating college, during his first 5 years of his career, he supervised a traveling, union-based crew that required 100% travel away home.  During this time, he traded the most important resource, time, for money.

In 2009, he was able to save for an A-class rental that rented for $2200/a month in the Pacific Northwest (how embarrassing a Rent-to-Value Ratio of 0.5%!). After his 2nd acquisition of a duplex in 2012, he was looking to make a 3rd but the market was appreciating and he saw the numbers would yield negative cashflow.

With this realization, Lane converted his portfolio to markets with stable multifaceted job markets and Rent-to-Value Ratios that would yield healthy $250-$400/month spreads between the rents and expenses (mortgage, vacancy, professional management, repairs, and capital expenses).

Today Lane's portfolio consists of 11 single family homes in Birmingham, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Pennsylvania. Jason caught up with Lane to discuss some 1031 exchange tips that Lane utilizes with his properties.

Key Takeaways:

[1:55] How Lane became interested in real estate

[4:10] Why Lane believes the stock market formula is impossible to beat or even project

[7:46] Lane's home auction experience that showed him not everyone with money is smart

[10:28] Why Lane is in the markets he's in right now

[13:00] The 45 Day Deadline with your 1031

[16:01] What you need to ask yourself before your start your 1031 exchange

[20:29] When you start approaching the end of your 1031 exchange deadline

[22:20] Filling out "To Whom It May Concern" letters, and Jason's paid off $237 tax lien from the 90s that's made his own "To Whom It May Concern" letter a part of every deal he makes

Website Mentioned:

www.simplepassivecashflow.com

John Tesh's highly successful and varied career path includes a 10-year run as anchor on Entertainment Tonight, six hit public television specials, including his landmark Live At Red Rocks in 1994, a string of #1 radio hits, his popular nationally syndicated radio show "Intelligence For Your Life" in which he has 14.5 million listeners, and a high profile advertising and marketing company. His musical accolades since releasing his debut album Tour De France in 1988 include seven million units in total sales; a Keyboard Magazine Award; a 2003 Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for his double CD The Power of Love; and gold certification for his Live At Red Rocks album. His advertising and marketing company, TeshMedia, handles clients such as numerous Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Home Depot, Macy's, Kohl's Petsmart, Amway, Geico Insurance and PetSmart. Tesh's book "Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth", has spent time on the New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Wall Street Journal & Amazon.com best-seller lists. The award-winning daily and weekly show he calls "purpose driven radio", recently secured the trademarks for three more categories in their "Intelligence for...." family. "Intelligence for Your Health," "Intelligence for Your Pets" and "Intelligence for Your Love Life" have been added to Tesh's core brand, and will be developed into stand-alone content-rich websites with products designed around the "Intelligence" Tesh and his staff have gathered in the 10 years since they launched the show. Key Takeaways: [4:36] How The John Tesh Radio Show found its niche and is designed to run on any format [9:35] The importance of "picking a lane" in life and how it can lead to success [15:15] The most important type of books John thinks you should be reading [20:07] How John and his wife met, and why pretty women don't seem to get asked out as much Resources Mentioned: www.ifylondemand.com www.tesh.com www.teshmusic.com Al Ries' Get Focused Differentiate or Die

John Tesh’s highly successful and varied career path includes a 10-year run as anchor on Entertainment Tonight, six hit public television specials, including his landmark Live At Red Rocks in 1994, a string of #1 radio hits, his popular nationally syndicated radio show “Intelligence For Your Life” in which he has 14.5 million listeners, and a high profile advertising and marketing company. His musical accolades since releasing his debut album Tour De France in 1988 include seven million units in total sales; a Keyboard Magazine Award; a 2003 Grammy nomination for “Best Pop Instrumental Album” for his double CD The Power of Love; and gold certification for his Live At Red Rocks album.

His advertising and marketing company, TeshMedia, handles clients such as numerous Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Home Depot, Macy’s, Kohl’s Petsmart, Amway, Geico Insurance and PetSmart. Tesh’s book “Intelligence for Your Life: Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth”, has spent time on the New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, Wall Street Journal & Amazon.com best-seller lists. The award-winning daily and weekly show he calls “purpose driven radio”, recently secured the trademarks for three more categories in their “Intelligence for....” family. “Intelligence for Your Health,” “Intelligence for Your Pets” and “Intelligence for Your Love Life” have been added to Tesh's core brand, and will be developed into stand-alone content-rich websites with products designed around the “Intelligence” Tesh and his staff have gathered in the 10 years since they launched the show.

Key Takeaways:

[4:36] How The John Tesh Radio Show found its niche and is designed to run on any format

[9:35] The importance of "picking a lane" in life and how it can lead to success

[15:15] The most important type of books John thinks you should be reading

[20:07] How John and his wife met, and why pretty women don't seem to get asked out as much

Resources Mentioned:

www.ifylondemand.com
www.tesh.com
www.teshmusic.com
Al Ries' Get Focused
Differentiate or Die

Susan Lassiter-Lyons is the founder of TheInvestorInsights.com, twice voted the #1 real estate investing blog. An investor since 1994, Susan has closed more than 600 transactions and raised $26.2 million in private capital. Susan is a passionate teacher, growth strategist, and private money coach. She is also the author of Getting the Money: The Simple System for Getting Private Money for Your Real Estate Deals Key Takeaways: [2:58] If the bulk REO purchases are even available anymore [6:20] The size of bulk REOs that you're looking at with the big banks, and how a smaller investor can find REOs of their own [10:15] The quality of house you can find in the REO market [14:20] The art of financing a deal [16:05] Susan's 2 prong system to financing [20:22] The types of rate Susan has been able to get ( for her and her students) when going through agencies and private investors [23:09] How a hard money lender turned Susan down for a loan and changed her investing for the better [26:27] The paradigm shift that needs to happen in terms of how real estate investors think of private money [29:24] The question Susan asks to private money investors that helps her get low rates while helping them stay happy Websites Mentioned: www.theinvestorinsights.com