Before the Millions

Mark was able to go from being a part-time investor with a full-time job in high tech, to someone who quit the corporate rat race in pursuit of his passion and now thrives as a multifamily investor. Mark Walker is founder of Luxmana Investments, which focuses on residential and multifamily investments. Mark has been an active real estate investor since 2004, so he brought a wealth of knowledge with him when he founded Luxmana Investments in 2011.  He started out as a part-time investor––holding a full-time job in high tech––and his passion for real estate enabled him to escape the rat race of Corporate America.   Prior to Luxmana, Mark succeeded in multiple development projects in the trendy Highlands and Berkley areas of Denver, Colorado.  Since then, he’s acquired dozens of residential and multifamily income properties through Luxmana Investments LLC, which he founded in 2011, and Peak Margin Partners LLC, which he co-founded in 2013. Mark has successfully overseen the operations of his own assets, and that of other investors, in Colorado, Texas, Florida and Illinois.  This includes his active involvement with MBP Capital and Catalyst Multifamily Management—a highly successful multifamily investment, management and brokerage firm.  During this tenure, Mark has had property management oversight of his Dallas area multifamily portfolio, while assisting with acquisitions and dispositions of assets as well. Mark also spent over a decade at Seagate Technology where he held senior leadership roles in Marketing, Product Line Management and Sales. In addition to being a licensed real estate broker in Colorado, Mark holds a degree in Marketing from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In his spare time, he enjoys theater, camping, cycling, and spending time with his wife and daughter. Key Points From This Episode: How Mark earned his P.h.D. in real estate during his time of testifying in a grand jury indictment in the largest prison sentencing in Colorado for fraud * Why every investor must invest in mentorship to be successful * Importance of asking a lot of questions when learning real estate investing * What first time investors can do now to escape the rat race * #1 action step you can do today without spending a dime * The value in learning how to relate to people and meeting people on their level * How to choose your investment criteria * Type of questions you should ask property managers when analyzing deals (What are the rents in this area? What the property might rent for? What areas are you seeing the shortest marketing time? What features in property that you see is the easiest to rent?) * What is a cash-on-cash return in real estate investing? * How Mark helps people conquer their fear and inaction with investing Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode Free Gift for BTM’s Listeners Luxmana Investments Rich Dad Poor Dad Strides Audible Free Trial  Join Our Free Facebook Group   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

Eric accidentally got into real estate back in college when he and his wife decided to buy a house near the University. They purchased a 3 unit building, living in one unit and renting the rest. One night while watching a movie with his wife, he heard a knock on the door. It was one of their tenants there to pay rent. At that moment he realized that I would become a real estate investor. That was the easiest money he had ever earned in his entire life. At that moment he realized that I would become a real estate investor. Eric Bowlin started investing in real estate in 2009 with the purchase of his first three family property. He got into real estate full time at the end of 2011 and became financially independent at the end of 2015 when he quit his job forever. Now, Eric is working on larger multifamily deals and syndications. He owns or is a GP on over 470 doors in Massachusetts and Texas. Also, Eric talks constantly about financial independence and is the founder of IdealREI (a top resource for real estate investors trying to achieve financial freedom) and Stacking Millions (a community where investors can learn and grow together). Key Points From This Episode: How Eric went from full-time student to building a multifamily empire The story of him convincing his wife during a deployment to start to invest in real estate Importance of taking action and why you shouldn’t let people caution you away from investing The Differences between real estate business vs. real estate investing How Eric found his niche in real estate investing The break down of his process of finding deals, talking to owners and creating offers What steps Eric took to escape the rat race Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode Eric Bowlin  Rich Dad Poor Dad Buildium Join Our Free Facebook Group   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

On today’s show we welcome Buck Joffrey. Buck is an accomplished Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Asset Manager and Podcaster. He is also the #1 best-selling author of The 7 Secrets of Eternal Wealth. With a negative net worth upon finishing his surgical training in 2008, Buck quickly became a serial entrepreneur and real asset investor amassing an 8 figure net worth. In order to help his high paid professional colleagues, he started a financial education website called WealthFormula.com and hosts the popular Wealth Formula Podcast. Buck knows the old mantra of “investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds,” is outdated and dangerous for high paid professionals given the volatility and instability of the current global economy. Therefore, he advocates entrepreneurship and/or investing in hard assets that provide cash flow as a more reliable way of approaching personal finance. Through a strong foundation of financial education and emphasis on cash flow investing, Buck teaches professionals how to take charge of their money and prosper. Key Points From This Episode * Buck’s story from surgeon to real estate investor/entrepreneur * What is the “Wealth Formula” and how you can use this to achieve financial freedom * Why most successful people never “retire” * Importance of shifting your mindset to life life on your own terms * What made Buck change his focus on making money from a different quadrant * Why your focus should be on buying streams of income * How Buck lost 300K on his first real estate investment and the #1 thing he would do differently Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode Buck Joffrey Wealth Formula Roadmap Evernote CASHFLOW QUADRANT  Join Our Free Facebook Group   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

Have you heard of the Rule of 97? In 1897, 97% of Americans were employers. By 1997, 97% of Americans were employees. A new time is upon us and another major shift is coming. As we continue to leverage the power of the internet and technology, it’s easier than ever to become a location independent entrepreneur and investor. We discuss this immensely in this weeks’ Tip of the Week. Even more profound, on todays show, today’s guest Edna Keep and I are going to show you the path to 5k in 90 Days. Edna Keep’s journey from single mom at age 16 – living in subsidized housing with a daughter in subsidized daycare – to multi-millionaire Real Estate Entrepreneur and Coach inspires others. Her major operations are long-term buy-and-hold rentals apartment buildings. Her claim to fame is a $60 Million real estate portfolio built with “Other People’s Money.” She is the author of Multiple Ways To Wealth: Creating Your Prosperous Lifestyle and real estate investment teacher, has a deep understanding of what investors want in a deal. As a former financial advisor, Edna helps connect investors with everyday people who want to create true passive income for the long term. We share a passion for helping individuals hit their first milestone of 5k in passive income and we breakdown exact how you can achieve this in 3 easy steps: * Build a “Power” Team around you to do the heavy lifting (most important – you need a mentor to be apart of that team). * Shift your MINDSET -> You are the prize! * GO BIG (we’ll define this in the episode)   Links mentioned in the show: Edna Keep Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students and Why “B” Students Work for the Government Meditation App: Omvana 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

We’ve been going strong for a good 10 years now. We, as in the general real estate market. We’ve been on cruise control and loving it. Can it get any better? Or is our time up? Every 10 years there seems to be some major event that disrupts our market. Today’s guest, Mark Walters, breakdowns down our current disruptions and if we should be sitting on the sidelines, cash in hand, waiting for the crash. In either event, one of the best ways to approach the situation is buying great deals. The way you buy great deals is to find motivated sellers. We cover this extensively on today’s show. Mark, however, is a 3rd generation real estate investor who got his start as a broker. After the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, in 1992 him and his family packed up all their California belongings – moved to Arizona and began buying properties with the intention of riding the market up. Guess what? The old crystal ball must have been working because over the following years Phoenix became one of the top real estate investing areas in the country. Today’s crystal ball may bring doom and gloom to some but opportunity to others. Find out how on today’s show….   Links mentioned in the show: Cashflow Institute Creating Wealth Club How to Win Friends and Influence People 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

David Sweeney, today’s guest, is currently a lieutenant with the Seattle Police Department. He’s been with SPD for over 30 years! At the early age of 53, he made a life decision to start investing in cash flow real estate. Today, David is an active real estate investor and a licensed Windermere real estate agent in Washington State. He enjoys helping people achieve their real estate goals. On this episode he provides a wide array of knowledge whether you are an investor, a flipper, or a homeowner, he provides actionable knowledge and inspiration for all walks of life. If you think it’s too late to start investing, you’re wrong! If you want to learn how you can never have to worry about money again, this episode is for you!   P.S We’re Hiring! —–>>>> click here for job openings P.P.S Live Q&A this Thursday @ 1pm CST! —–>>>> click here to join   Links mentioned in the show: David Sweeney Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate: How a Small Investor Can Make It Big 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Contractor and Investor Thelonious C. Jones. In 2007  Thelonious moved from  Oakland California to Atlanta, Georgia to pursue a career in music but quickly realized the opportunity in real estate.  He purchased his first rental property at the age of 23 in 2009. By 2014 owned and managed a portfolio of over 25 units. On this episode we were able to get into the nuts and bolt of Section 8 housing and how to go about investing in section 8. We discuss common pitfalls and misconceptions of the concept as well. This episode with Thelonious is heartfelt as he strives to improve low income housing for the community and as he helps investors “How To Stack Your Money”.   P.S We’re Hiring! —–>>>> click here for job openings P.P.S Live Q&A this Thursday @ 1pm CST! —–>>>> click here to join   Links mentioned in the show: Thelonious C. Jones The 80/20 Principle 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

The Crash is coming! So they say. There’s no real way to actually know if we are facing a crash soon. What we do have is historical data and people with experience who’ve weathered the storm and have lived to tell about it. Today’s guest, has done just that losing everything he worked so many years for in just a few short months. Todays guest, Kevin Bupp, is a Florida-based Real Estate Investor, top iTunes podcast host and serial entrepreneur with over $40 million of real estate transactions. His extensive investment experience spans the gamut of apartment buildings, single-family homes, office buildings, raw land, condos and his favorite and by far the most profitable for him, Mobile Home Parks. We touch on this extensively and why Kevin thinks these parks are such good investments. More importantly we discuss his experience with the crash and lessons learned so that you can avoid those same pitfalls if we do in fact have another pending crash looming above us. Lastly, I’d like to leave you with this. Wealth is rightfully yours and ready for the taking – so much so that God himself has already ordained it. If this confuses you then be sure to listen to this episode and I’ll discuss it further in the Tip of the Week!   P.S We’re Hiring! —–>>>> click here for job openings P.P.S Live Q&A this Thursday @ 1pm CST! —–>>>> click here to join   Links mentioned in the show: www.kevinbupp.com Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

From a 7-Figure Record Label to $7 an hour as a grocery bagger. Matt Theriualt, today’s guest, encountered a pivotal moment in has life as he was in the middle of bagging groceries for a young lady and his life was never the same. It is during our darkest times that our true destiny is formed. In the 9th inning when your back is against the way and you completely focus on success because you have no choice, that’s when I’ve found divine intervention to occur. Matt am a fifth-generation California native and Desert Storm Veteran (USMC) and has worked as a full-time real estate professional since 2003. After building a small real estate empire with hardly using one dime of his own money or one point of his own credit (mostly because he was lacking in both), he discovered that he had a knack for simplifying the complicated, implementing systems and producing passive cash flow. Matt is an ordinary guy who once had a goal to be successful in real estate investing and become a master of the “multiple streams of passive income” concept. He is an inspiration to many of us when believe that we do not possess what it takes become a successful investor. Tune in as Matt share a wealth of knowledge when it comes to finding and interacting with motivate sellers. I guarantee that you will learn more than a trick or 2 when it comes to working with a real estate owner looking to sell their property. Links mentioned in the show: Epic Real Estate Investing The Slight Edge 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community

I’m not sure if there is a truly 100% passive investment out there but rental real estate comes pretty close, especially when you have the right property management team in place to oversee the day to day activities of your business. Today we had the pleasure of interviewing multifamily investor, Sepehr Bekam. In our conversation, we learn about how we can truly create passive income with real estate investing through property management. We learn the pitfalls of hiring a bad manager  and we get to hear some horror stories as well. Sep Bekam is founder and CEO of Bekam Investment Group. He is a former electrical engineer and started investing in 2010. He retired at the age of 31 and is a full-time, professional real estate investor. Sep and his Team have successfully repositioned challenging neighborhoods and have literally “moved the line” to make communities safer, cleaner, and more affordable. Bekam Investment Group currently owns 9 multi-family properties, an office building, and more than 120 houses in 5 states. You don’t want to miss this one!   Links mentioned in the show: Bekam Investments Conspiracy of the Rich Equity Happens Creature From Jekyll Island 2 Free Books Today on Audible   Access The Best Strategies, Tips & Advice! Every week, we send an email sharing my best advice, tips and strategies related to Real Estate Investing. Each of these weekly emails contain relevant and actionable information that can help you no matter where you are in your investing journey. Sign up to join our community