EntrePods

In this episode of Leafy, Host Jennifer Gligoric sits down with Joe Chatham, longtime business networker and founder and Chief Connecting Officer of USA 500 Clubs LLC (a business network for senior-level attorneys, accountants, financial services professionals, and business consultants).  Joe promotes business development practices based on authentic relationships built on trust, respect, and confidence in each others' professional skills and knowledge. Joe has helped hundreds of senior-level professionals develop their practices and business successes based on creating key relationships with complementary professionals and trusted advisors. Joe trains his members to accentuate their brands and business verticals to differentiate themselves. Joe tells us that being vulnerable instead of posturing to look successful will help you connect on a human level with the people you are trying to reach. Joe also says to find the networking organization or group that makes you most comfortable then to differentiate yourself and become memorable, make yourself a resource with the niche you are most successful in instead of being general.

Find out more about Joe Chatham, visit: http://www.USA500Clubs.com  

In this episode of Leafy Podcast, our hosts sit down with Monick Halm, founder of Real Estate Investor Goddesses.  She is an educator and advocate for women to create real wealth through real estate.  She is herself a real estate investor, syndicator, and developer with over 14 years of real estate investing experience in multi-family, mobile home parks, RV parks, flipping, commercial, vacation rentals, syndication, and ground-up development. Together with her husband and her investors, she owns over 1000 rental units across 5 states. Her mission is to assist 1 million women to achieve financial freedom through real estate. Monick got started in real estate investing pretty much by accident.  She started in house hacking, then picked up a few single family rentals and began flipping houses in the 2010 recession. She tells us to live where we want to live, invest where it makes the most sense and bring investors together and syndicate. Monick says to ask yourself why do you want to be in real estate and how do you want to invest? Monick strives to be a good steward of money for her investors and to always leave a community better than she’s found it.

Monick Halm’s upcoming event is the Wealth Through Real Estate Event, happening April 17-19. To learn more and purchase tickets, visit:  https://www.realestateinvestorgoddesses.com/april-2020-wtre-landing-page

Monick is the #1 bestselling author of The Real Estate Investor Goddess Handbook and Wealth for Women: Conversations with the Team That Creates the Dream, and host of the Real Estate Investor Goddesses Podcast.

Today on Leafy Podcast, Dave Wolf of BoydHardMoneyLoans.com drops a ton of value to our listeners about real estate investing and financing with hard money loans. Dave Wolf is a successful real estate investor and serial entrepreneur. Dave has built and sold seven-figure businesses that span from beef jerky & truck accessories to $700 silk sheets, purchasing distressed business, turning them around and then selling them as profitable businesses. He got into real estate in 2016 and has done close to 100 deals since then including wholesaling, flipping, hard money lending, seller financing, joint ventures, out of state investing, subject 2's, and spec homes.  Dave runs through about half a dozen scenarios to help us understand when we need a hard money loan and weighting the benefits vs. risks. Dave tells us that hard money loans average interest is about 10% and should be used as a bridge loan. He says to expect to finance about 80-85% and close on the home in 14 days. Listen in for more great tips from Dave Wolf.

You can find Dave Wolf at:  https://www.boydhardmoneyloans.com/

In today’s interesting episode on Leafy, we talk to GetFundable.com Merrill Chandler.  Over the past 25 years, Merrill has been a pioneer in Fundability Optimization™. He's leveraged his extensive knowledge of borrower behavior profiles, FICO® scoring metrics, and lender underwriting requirements, to create a system for helping real estate investors and entrepreneurs become more fundable. To date Merrill and his team have helped their clients with over $98,000,000 in funding! Merrill tells us that FICO scores and the traditional way we’ve all been told to raise credit scores is completely wrong.  To become fundable, borrower behaviors are what credit companies are actually looking at. Merrill does fundability analysis on his clients to show them what they can do to raise their fundability, not concentrating on just their FICO scores.

Find more on Merrill Chandler at  https://getfundable.com/

In this episode we talk to Chief Investment Officer of Enzo Multifamily, Veena Jetti.  Veena, Founding Partner at Enzo Multifamily, has 10+ years of real estate experience including overseeing management of $1B+ in real estate assets. Her expertise includes driving corporate growth strategy, asset management, and business development derived from working for multiple Fortune 500 companies. Her background includes acquisition, syndication, and growth strategy for multifamily assets. Veena has been using real time technology so that she can immediately see exact data on her investments and is then able to pivot quickly on decisions that sets her apart from her competition. Veena tells us to get started in multifamily, it’s easiest to find someone looking to syndicate and become an investor to learn from experienced partners at first. Listen to the entire episode for more great tips on everything multifamily.

To find out more about Veena Jetti, visit: https://enzomultifamily.com/retire-in-luxury/

Today, Leafy Podcast talk with Sean Pan, CEO and Founder of https://everythingrei.com/ and Host of Podcast The Everything Real Estate Investing Show. Sean is a real estate investor in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He focuses on single family renovations as well as out of state investments in Jacksonville, FL. Sean hosts local meetups in the South Bay area and highly recommends to any investor, especially those just starting out, to find your local reia or real estate meetup to network and learn from experienced investors. Sean also talks to us about hard money loans.  He tells us that the main difference between a hard money loan and a traditional bank loan is that hard money loans look at assets instead of personal income.  These types of loans are mostly for a 1 year term and have a higher interest rate.

To learn more about Sean Pan, visit his site: https://everythingrei.com/

Today on Leafy, host Jennifer Gligoric talks to Dave Foster, Founder and CEO of The 1031 Investor.  Dave is a degreed accountant and serial real estate investor who is a qualified intermediary and consultant for tax saving strategies such as the 1031 exchange and the section 121 homestead exemption. Dave started fix and flipping in the 90s and realized that about 40% of his profits were going directly to the IRS. Dave tells us about the updated rules and regulations around using the1031 exchange to legally compound your tax interest that will stay with you instead of going straight to the government. Dave breaks down exactly how to use the 1031 exchange in layman’s terms. He explains to us how he moved his way from Denver, CO to Tampa, FL over 10 years using the section 121 homestead exemption, so that he and his family could move onto a boat (which was a huge dream of his). Tune in to listen to how Dave raised 4 boys on his boat while investing in properties with the 1031 exchange.

Find Dave Foster at https://www.the1031investor.com/             

In this episode of Leafy Podcast, we interview Anne Amagrande, Founder and CEO of Grande AMA & Associates.  Anne founded AMA & Associates to create a company that is fully vested in not only their clients, but to create a Win-Win-Win scenario that is truly a unique system designed for the success of their investors, long term residents, and locally owed and operated preferred vendors, all while maintaining a profitable model for their business. Anne believes that when everyone wins the world is a better place. For investors, Anne is looking for stability and security. She tells us that blue collar residential investments are more recession proof than white collar residential, because in a recession, there will always still be a need for blue collar type jobs. Anne tells us that in states that allow lease-to-own options, her company is always favorable to allow their residents the option to rent to own (another win-win scenario).

To learn more about Anne, visit: https://amagrande.com/

Joining us today on Leafy Podcast is Ellis Hammond. Out of college, Ellis started a Christian non-profit focused on serving the San Diego community.  While in the process of helping his community, he also wanted to create generational wealth for his family and the families in his community and began to research investing in multifamily apartments in emerging real estate markets across the U.S. Today, he has a wealth building model aligned with respected and proven professionals who are investing in income-producing real estate that has value add opportunity through rehab, remodel, or rebranding. Ellis says in pooling resources with his investors, they grow both the reach and scope of their portfolio, and thus multiply their return on investment. He says that pooling assets with syndicators makes the multifamily investments available to those who aren’t necessarily the very wealthy. Ellis also tells us that the best advantages in leveraging your money into larger assets is that you are not personally taking on the debt,  working with consistent and reliable passive income stream backed by a physical assets, and partnering with other experts focused on positive returns.

Find out more about Ellis Hammond by visiting his website: https://ellishammond.com/ and https://kingdomcapitalists.co/

In this episode of Leafy Podcast, we sit down with Charles Dobens. Charles is principal at Dobens Law and founder of the Multifamily Investing Academy. In his illustrious career, Charles has been a Consultant, Coach, Mentor to Multifamily Investors of all levels. As a successful attorney and consultant to multifamily investors all over the country, Charles has personally acquired over $20,000,000 of apartments and been involved, on behalf of his clients, in over $3B in multifamily transactions (yes, that's Billions with a 'B'!). Charles tells us about his step-by-step program, The Owner Forum, that shows new investors to seasoned professionals how to get started in the multifamily real estate investing business even with limited cash, credit or experience. His legal and consulting practice has one specialty - helping new investors overcome any lack of confidence in moving toward their financial objective of owning and operating apartments. Throughout the interview it’s very evident that Charles loves to teach and his passion is multifamily investing.  Listen in for all of Charles’s great tips and good humor.

To fine more on Charles Dobens, visit https://www.multifamilyinvestingacademy.com/