Welcome to another episode of Eat, Sleep, Invest. Bryan Driscoll speaks with Casey Quinn to discuss how Casey’s company, CityLife Realty, has grown so fast in three years. They also dive into the importance of company culture. CityLife Realty works with property management, construction, wholesaling, and other real estate-related ventures. 

With “get shit done” as a core value of the company, they have grown to have about 225 buildings and over 500 units since 2019. They work with those interested in scaling and growing their investment businesses. Casey boils down the reason for his company’s success to a few key factors. Bryan and Casey talk in-depth about:

• Why building great relationships is the key to creating a bigger business
• The importance of thinking ahead without being paralyzed by inaction because of what’s to come
• Understanding action as adding value to someone else
• Defining what culture means in a company and the difference between perks and culture
• CityLife’s goal of creating happiness
• Finding the right people that fit your desired culture so that they can continue to cultivate it in the business
• The positive change a company can have on people by scaling and growing when companies are about benefiting people and communities
• Ways Casey’s company deals with more difficult properties by building solid relationships to make opportunities come to them
• Everything you can learn through conversations with potential sellers to see how you can help
• How people can work with CityLife to invest in real estate with private money

Contact Casey:

https://caseyryanquinn.com/

https://cityliferealtypgh.com/

https://www.instagram.com/cityliferealtygroup/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/pghcasey8/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/cityliferealtypgh/

Welcome to Eat, Sleep, Invest. On this podcast, we discuss topics relevant to real estate marketing to help you get more deals. Today, Bryan Driscoll sits down with Jason Hartman to talk about trends in the market. Jason started in the traditional real estate business and is now involved in real estate investing. With his company, Empowered Investor, he helps other investors learn about the business and make bigger portfolios. He also has created Real Estate Tool software to help people analyze and track real estate deals.

Using the Hartman Comparison Index, Jason shows in-depth examples of different ways to look at the price of a house to help investors rethink the market. He uses his experience to cut through the noise of the media to see what is really happening in the industry. Bryan and Jason dive into:

• The current trends in the real estate market
• Where the real estate market is headed
• What impact the higher mortgage rates might have on the real estate market
• The importance inventory plays in real estate and the declining trend in inventory
• Jason’s thoughts on selling rental properties right now and rent price increases
• Why turnover might not be as big of an issue in the rental market today
• How inflation rates are manipulated to look lower
• The concept of how all real estate is local
• The difference between linear, cyclical, and hybrid markets
• How to use the Hartman Comparison Index to understand how cheap or expensive real estate is in comparison to other assets like gold, oil, and rice
• Using data and comparisons to change how you think about the value of properties

Connect with Jason:

https://www.empoweredinvestor.com/slide-deck

https://www.jasonhartman.com/

Welcome to Eat, Sleep, Invest. Bryan Driscoll talks with Eric Brewer about his successful investment business. Eric is a real estate investor in York, PA, and he is on track to doing 400 deals this year. After getting out of the military, Eric started working at a car dealership and climbed the ladder, eventually ending up in sales. After years in sales, he found he wanted to free up more time for his family and started working with mortgages.

But when a former colleague proposed they start flipping houses together, he decided to go for it. He currently has 46 employees at his company Integrity First Home Buyers. Eric shares the story of his success and gives tips on hiring the best people and getting deals with noviations on properties you’d usually pass up. Bryan and Eric discuss:

• How Eric used what he learned from the car business and applied it to real estate for a successful start
• The steps he took to grow the business as he needed more people to manage different parts of the company
• How building a good team and getting everyone working together took making many mistakes and refocusing on leadership to make a great team
• Changing job postings and interviews to focus on what the company will give the employee and what they can expect
• The importance of good company culture in getting and keeping talented people
• The idea of turning skinny leads to fat profits with novations
• The seesawing between the condition of the house/person’s life and motivation to sell
• How the company’s core values have led them to find more ways to help homeowners and make deals
• How Eric helps other real estate investors succeed through his mastery course
• All the benefits and the right audience for Eric’s Brewer Method
• How real estate investors can offer certainty to homeowners

Connect with Eric:

https://brewermethod.com/

https://www.facebook.com/eric.brewer.79

https://www.instagram.com/eric_brewer_invest_/

This is Eat, Sleep, Invest, a podcast where we speak with real estate experts to help you get more deals. In today’s episode, Bryan Driscoll talks to Paul Lizell. Paul started in the real estate industry in 2001 by investing in HUD properties and running direct mail campaigns. By 2013, he was buying so many properties on online auctions and other avenues that he didn’t need to do anymore marketing. Now, Paul purchases properties in 44 out of 50 states. He also has been buying cryptocurrency since 2017 and has continued to build his crypto portfolio.

With his vast experience buying homes in online auctions, he outlines the process. He also gives valuable tips for people who want to take that avenue for investing. Bryan and Paul touch on their thoughts on the up-and-coming crosses between cryptocurrency and real estate. Bryan and Paul discuss:

• Strategies for getting involved in cryptocurrency and some of Paul’s experiences
• How to buy sight unseen properties with research, pictures, and local agents
• Using realtor referrals for contractors in markets you are less familiar with
• How to find reputable online auction houses and where they get their properties
• The process of buying homes online at auctions and how financing works
• Pros and cons of vacant versus occupied properties purchased at auctions
• Some of the resources and mentorship Paul has online for people looking to buy properties online
• What the competition looks like and using secondary and tertiary markets to limit the competition
• Top mistakes that people looking to buy from auctions make, including buying homes with foundation issues or getting involved in too many markets at the same time
• Why three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes are perfect for rental properties
• The cross between real estate and cryptocurrency, including crowdfunding for properties
• The future of NFTs with showing ownership and the music industry

Contact Paul:

https://www.reoauctionacademy.com/

https://www.fliprealestatevirtually.com/

https://thevirtualinvestor.co/podcasts/

https://www.patreon.com/cryptodegen

Welcome to Eat, Sleep, Invest, the podcast where we talk with real estate experts to help you get more deals. In this episode, Bryan Driscoll speaks with Angelo Thompson, a real estate investor in Tampa. While working for private colleges, Angelo began a part-time real estate investment business. Now he does this full time and does wholesale, fix and flips, and rental properties.

In about seven years, he built an efficient team and now has more time to spend with his family and church. Angelo explains how he got his start and gives tips for other investors. Bryan and Angelo discuss:

• How Angelo started with a direct mail campaign and bandit signs, taking about 90 days to close the first deal
• How motivated sellers don’t need to be convinced to sell their homes
• How moving to a virtual process allowed the team to make more offers and close more deals
• The process for offering fair prices virtually: gathering information, providing an offer range, and then getting photos and inspections to get a specific price
• The benefits of having a few smaller, more concentrated markets
• Why virtual allows you to scale but only when you have good processes
• Why Angelo made the jump into doing real estate full time
• Tips for building your business while keeping your day job to start
• How creating a business gave Angelo more time freedom

Connect with Angelo:

[email protected]

Welcome back to Eat, Sleep, Invest. In this episode, Bryan Driscoll speaks with Mike Hambright, a seasoned real estate investor with valuable experience for investors at all stages. He has been investing since 2008 and is involved in rentals, marketing, networking, and coaching. Mike started the mastermind group, Investor Fuel, and the marketing company, The Investor Machine.

Throughout his career, Mike has learned to take the challenges and opportunities to continue moving and growing his businesses. This strategy has led him to succeed with real estate investing and created his desire to help others achieve their goals. Bryan and Mike discuss:

• How entrepreneurs are in the opportunity business and should be open to how they can grow
• Separating shiny object syndrome from real opportunities by giving ideas time to simmer
• How Mike used wholesaling and rehabbing as his way into the business, allowing him to develop a rental portfolio with many multi-family and commercial properties
• The benefits of a team effort for multi-family properties
• Finding people to fill in the gaps of what you can’t do to grow what you can do
• How you can’t scale your business if you do everything yourself
• What The Investor Machine looks for and does to help real estate investors get potential properties
• Spending money efficiently to narrow your focus and do more deals
• Mike’s journey into coaching by starting local, making a podcast, and creating the mastermind group, Investor Fuel
• Having your business fuel your life, not take away from it
• Being innovating and creative inside your current business instead of stretching yourself in too many different directions

Learn more:

https://www.milliondollarmeeting.co/2022

https://go.investorfuel.com/eatsleepinvest1

https://www.theinvestormachine.com/eatsleepinvest

https://flipnerd.com/

Welcome back to Eat, Sleep, Invest. In this episode, Bryan Driscoll sits down with Nick Perry to talk about his experiences in real estate investing. Nick has been investing for the last eight years after working various other jobs. He left his hometown, moved to Texas, and started wholesaling to start his own business. After 11 months of hard work and learning about real estate investing, he made his first deal.

He grew his business through trial and error, and now his company makes two to three deals a day. He is a successful entrepreneur who coaches other real estate investors to get their business to the next level. Bryan and Nick discuss:

• How Nick learned from his clients as a personal trainer to get started as an entrepreneur
• What Nick discovered through the 104 appointments it took him to make his first deal
• How Nick took the money from his first deal and reinvested it into marketing
• Nick’s move to virtual wholesales to get out-of-state leads
• How Nick’s wholesales have allowed him to venture into other areas like rental properties and oil and gas
• Ways to keep moving upward when you hit a plateau in your business to move from 2-5 deals a month to 40 and beyond
• How going to a mastermind helped Nick see his business from the outside to make improvements and the three things he needed to do
• The benefits of looking at a business’s KPIs and using marketing efficiently
• Building a business one brick at a time to be intentional about growth
• Only keeping A-players on your team and hiring top talent
• The ideal person for Nick’s coaching—the entrepreneur that’s already up and running but not seeing the money and lifestyle they were hoping to get
• Nick’s coaching process that shows entrepreneurs how to run a seven-figure company

Contact Nick:

https://www.7figurecartel.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nick_perry_rei/

Welcome to another episode of Eat, Sleep, Invest. In today’s episode, Bryan Driscoll sits down with Nicole Espinosa to discuss short sales. Nicole works in the Dallas area and specializes in a real estate niche that many investors don’t know much about. She helps homeowners behind on mortgages that owe too much to sell their homes through traditional methods.

Bryan and Nicole talk about:

• Working with banks to get houses and help homeowners walk away with no debt
• Recent trends in the real estate market as more inventory and price reductions are common
• The opportunities foreclosures bring real estate investors
• Predictions of trends for the rest of this year, including real estate investors getting out of the business
• Changes in who is a motivated seller in today’s market
• What to consider for your business as the market changes
• Knowing the solutions to any leads’ issues to create win-win solutions for homeowners
• The importance of getting homeowners locked in with a contract, even if it needs to be tweaked later
• The timeline of short sales and how Nicole’s team makes it more efficient
• Approaching the sale from a human perspective, not just a deal

Contact Nicole:

https://thessqueen.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheShortSaleQueen?reload=9

Thanks for joining us on another episode of Eat, Sleep, Invest. In today’s episode, Bryan Driscoll is joined by Ryan Fisher. Ryan has done wholesale, flips, hard money lending, and nearly everything else in real estate investing. His company, PV Settlement, helps some of the biggest investors in PA with title insurance and closing deals.

PV Settlements completes sales contracts, background searches for titles, and more for investors. He works in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida to get investors a free and clear title and ownership of the property, protecting them now and in the future. Bryan and Ryan dive into:

• The benefits of obtaining title insurance and how it protects you for 60 years
• Some examples of covered risks like fraudulent deeds and errors
• How underwriters are the ones who back title insurance
• Ways real estate investing is different from traditional sales regarding titles
• Some of the scenarios that investors come across when they don’t buy off the MLS
• Benefits of PV Settlement when compared to title companies the agents are pushing
• Why creative real estate investors need creative title companies
• How pricing works with title companies
• Ryan’s process and ways he works to make working with investors into long-term relationships

Contact Ryan and PV Settlements:

PVsettlement.com

412-593-4800

[email protected]

Thank you for joining us on another episode of Eat, Sleep, Invest. In this episode, Bryan Driscoll speaks with Corey Geary. Corey started in the real estate industry part-time in 2016 while working as a blackjack dealer. Corey began wholesaling with direct mail campaigns and bandit signs locally. Then, he moved into novations. He eventually made real estate his full-time career.

Corey helps others learn how to do PPC, novations, and wholesaling nationally. He also gives an introduction to deals with a novation. Bryan and Corey discuss:

• How Corey got started and began to scale his process nationwide
• Learning about novations from a mastermind group and connecting it with his pain points in wholesaling
• The difficulties of virtual and national wholesaling even when you’re doing well locally
• The differences between buying locally versus nationally
• How to get in front of buyers in a virtual market
• What novations are and how you get paid with them
• Examples of wholesale deals versus novations
• The benefits of working with conventional financing regarding inspection repairs
• Why having many tools in your toolbelt to buy and sell houses is crucial for making it in this business
• The importance of having your paperwork in order with novations
• Why Corey doesn’t use power of attorney with novations anymore

Contact Corey:

https://www.facebook.com/corey.geary.7

https://www.instagram.com/thecoreygeary/?hl=en

https://www.novationnation.com/replay-access52568869

https://newagewholesaling.com/order-form1619495732158