Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing

By Michael Blank, Garrett Lynch

Business Investing

What's Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing about?

The Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing podcast is about helping you achieve financial independence and control your time through apartment building investing. Michael Blank and Garrett Lynch interview experts in real estate, business, and investing. From learning how to invest in multifamily real estate to navigating entrepreneurship, you will learn the keys to success in your journey towards financial freedom. Previous guests include Grant Cardone, Robert Kiyosaki, Ken McElroy, Robert Helms, Brandon Turner, and Hal Elrod. Whether you're new to real estate investing or a seasoned investor, you'll enjoy stories from our expert guests as well as hear from people who quit their jobs and are living life on their own terms because of investing in multifamily real estate. Thanks for listening and leave a review for a chance to get a shout-out on the show.

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There are risks associated with running short-term rentals, especially when your Airbnb units are in a multifamily building. But Syed Lateef has found a way to scale a STR business in apartment buildings. And the landlords don’t just ALLOW Syed ...

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12.04.2023 MB399: Can You Achieve Financial Freedom with Short-Term Rentals? – With Syed Lateef There are risks associated with running short-term rentals, especially when your Airbnb units are in a multifamily building. But Syed Lateef has found a way to scale a STR business in apartment buildings. And the landlords don’t just ALLOW Syed ...
11.27.2023 MB398: How to Earn Passive Income Through Land Flipping – With Travis King I'm not really a big fan of flipping anything. I flipped three dozen houses early in my real estate career. But couldn't figure out how to turn that into a financial freedom business. That's why I switched to apartments. And ...
11.20.2023 MB397: Reduce Risk & Earn Solid Returns (Even in a Recession!) – With Mark Khuri Mark Khuri’s real estate business survived the crash of 2008. And the lessons he learned through that experience can help us take advantage of similar circumstances in the current market. But how do you find good deals in tough times? ...
11.13.2023 MB396: Why Your Real Estate Business Needs an Exit Strategy – With Ross Hamilton Wherever you are in the process of building a company (real estate or otherwise), it’s important to consider your exit strategy. Because even if you don’t plan on selling your business anytime soon, that pushes you to eliminate yourself from ...
11.06.2023 MB395: Get Rid of Your Golden Handcuffs with Real Estate – With Brooke Ceballos-Pinero Is your corporate job making you miserable? Are you tired of giving everything to your company for eight hours (or more) and being too exhausted to spend quality time with your family at the end of the day? What if ...
10.30.2023 MB394: Regaining Investor Trust After a Foreclosure – With Robert Martinez Robert Martinez has been a successful real estate investor for more than a decade. But he made headlines recently when MF1 Capital foreclosed on one of his Houston properties. So, how did it happen? What factors contributed to Robert losing ...
10.23.2023 MB393: From US Marine to Multifamily Fund Manager – With Joseph Kimbrough Former Marine Joseph Kimbrough was a successful wholesaler, but the work was a constant grind. Joseph realized that to achieve financial freedom, what he needed was equity. And he was already comfortable pitching investors on big-ticket wholesale deals So, Joseph ...
10.16.2023 MB392: Business Boost with Michael Blank: ‘It’s Been 9 Months & I Haven’t Closed My First Deal!’ – With Mario Rapaj Mario Rapaj has been in our mentoring program for nine months now, but he hasn’t closed his first deal. And he’s frustrated. So, what’s holding Mario back? Is he doing the right activities? Does he have any limiting beliefs? What ...
10.09.2023 MB391: The Exception to the Law of the First Deal – With Ed Hermsen Ed Hermsen’s first multifamily deal fell in his lap, and he got it done fast. But because that initial success came somewhat easy, Ed hadn’t taken the time to work on his mindset. He didn’t have a morning routine. He ...
10.02.2023 MB390: Business Boost with Michael Blank: Fast-Track Your Path to Financial Freedom with a Mentor – With Andrew Elio Andrew Elio is a 22-year-old recent college graduate, but he already knows that he doesn’t want to work for someone else the rest of his life. That’s what motivated him to join our Deal Maker Certification program a month ago. ...
09.25.2023 MB389: Business Boost with Michael Blank: How to Get Back on Track When Your Multifamily Journey Stalls – With Sudhir Jarajapu Sudhir Jarajapu took the first steps on his multifamily investing journey and invested in our mentoring program. But then he got off track. In fact, it took Sudhir nine months to work through the first 90 days of the program! ...
09.18.2023 MB388: From Simply Doing Deals to Building a Real Estate Business – With Chris Pomerleau It took Chris Pomerleau four years to realize he didn’t have to replace toilets himself and another four years to realize he didn’t have to do his own books. That’s when Chris went from simply doing deals to building a ...
09.11.2023 MB387: Surrounding Yourself with Seasoned Real Estate Investors – With Matt Faircloth Are you surrounding yourself with people who will get you to the next level? Five years ago, a group of seasoned multifamily investors got together and established a Mastermind to support each other as we scale our real estate businesses. ...
09.04.2023 MB386: How a ‘Numbers Guy’ Learned to Raise Money for Deals – With Chad Schieler Chad Schieler saw himself as the numbers guy, so he let partners handle the task of raising money for his first big real estate syndication. But his team was short. At closing, they had $1M of a $1.4M raise, and ...
08.28.2023 MB385: How to Turn Your Business Profits Into Personal Wealth – With Todd Polke Does your business feel like a black hole? Are you feeding it all your time, energy and money? But it just keeps sucking away? Too many business owners get to the end of their career and don’t have much to ...
08.21.2023 MB384: How Real Estate Can Help You Through Challenging Life Experiences – With Rachel Richards We all go through challenging life experiences, be it the loss of a loved one, a serious illness, or painful divorce. And the last thing we need in those circumstances is to worry about money. But what is the best ...
08.14.2023 MB383: Leveraging AI to Optimize Your Asset Management Strategy – With Marc Rutzen Asset management can be a real challenge for multifamily operators, especially if you’re managing properties from a distance. If a site is not working, how do you figure out what’s wrong? Is it the staff? Are rents too high? Do ...
08.07.2023 MB382: 9 Questions to Ask Before You Invest in Your Next Syndication A multifamily operator in Houston recently lost 3,200 units to foreclosure. Is that a sign of calamity to come? Or can we learn from their mistakes and ask better questions before we invest in our next syndication? On this episode ...
07.31.2023 MB381: How to Grow a $9M Real Estate Portfolio by Age 25 – With Caleb Johnson Caleb Johnson’s mother had just had surgery and was living off savings while she recovered. But after three months, she wasn’t healed and had to make an impossible decision: Return to work in excruciating pain or prolong retirement by several ...
07.24.2023 MB380: Transition to Multifamily Faster by Investing in Yourself – With John Manfredy So, you’ve got some money set aside to jumpstart your real estate career. What should you invest in? An apartment building? Mobile home park? Something else? The answer is no. Don't do any of those things. If you have money ...
07.17.2023 MB379: Leveraging Referrals to Scale Your Real Estate Business – With Dan Reilly and Greg Danielson Scaling up a multifamily investing business starts with scaling up your capital raise. And one key strategy for expanding your investor network is to get referrals from friends and family who already invest with you. But how do you encourage ...
07.10.2023 MB378: Reinventing Yourself to Achieve Financial Freedom – With PJ Ghadimi You say you want financial freedom. You want to build wealth and have money for extraordinary experiences. But if you’re doing what everyone else does, if you’re trying to save your way to wealthy, you’re never going to get results. ...
07.03.2023 MB377: Overcoming Low Market Sentiment in Multifamily – With John Casmon The recent foreclosure on 3,200 units in Houston has investors nervous about putting their money in multifamily. But does that default mean we should all be sitting on the sidelines? John Casmon argues that investing in apartments is a business, ...
06.26.2023 MB376: How to Build a Powerful Sphere of Influence – With Matt King of GoBundance You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. But what if you don’t want the same life as your current sphere of influence? How do you connect with successful people who will help you ...
06.19.2023 MB375: How to Raise Capital (Even If You’re an Introvert!) – With Camilla Jeffs & Mandy McAllister Who is better at raising capital, extroverts or introverts? You might think extroverts have the advantage when it comes to raising money for real estate deals. But the truth is, introverts can be just as good at sourcing funds. The ...
06.12.2023 MB374: A Risk Averse Investor’s Secret to Taking Action – With Nicole Gauthier Those of us with analytical minds tend to be fairly risk averse. But entrepreneurship requires that we move forward with incomplete information. So, what can we do to overcome that fear of the unknown and get into our first real ...
06.05.2023 MB373: What’s the Best Real Estate Investing Strategy for 2023? – With Hayato Hori, Kyle Stanley, Chris Clothier & Henry Washington What is the best real estate investing strategy for 2023? Should you try wholesaling? Or invest in Airbnbs? How about fix-and-flips? Turnkey rentals? Or maybe a multifamily syndication? On this episode of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing, Garrett takes ...
05.29.2023 MB372: ADUs as a Steppingstone to Multifamily Investing – With Derek Sherrell Are you interested in multifamily investing but overwhelmed by the prospect of buying an entire apartment building? What if you could dip your toe in the water with accessory dwelling units or ADUs? The ADU strategy involves either converting a ...
05.22.2023 MB371: Overcome Fear with Practice, Invest with Confidence – With Mai Duong Most aspiring real estate investors struggle with fear. But the ones who become successful GPs work through their fears with practice. Mai Duong is Harvard-educated CPA with 25 years of experience in corporate finance and accounting. She is also on ...
05.15.2023 MB370: Finding Your Niche in Short-Term Rentals – With Kyle Stanley There are so many ways to invest in real estate. And when you’re first learning about the options, it can get overwhelming. But the most successful investors niche down to a single strategy, perfect their processes and rinse, repeat to ...
05.08.2023 MB369: How to Make Money Flipping Land – With Jon Jasniak How do you make money flipping land? What are the pros and cons of investing in land deals as opposed to other kinds of real estate? Jon Jasniak started flipping land in 2016 when he was 23 years’ old and ...
05.01.2023 MB368: Alternative Investments in Latin America – With Cole Shepherd In multifamily real estate, we look for opportunities in a given market and then build relationships with the bankers, brokers, and boots on the ground we need to make a deal work. But what if the business opportunity you identify ...
04.24.2023 MB367: Alternative Investing in Wine & Whisky – With Maxwell Nee Maxwell Nee was drinking an Old Fashioned at a swanky bar in Chicago when he came to appreciate the significant price difference between Macallan 18 and Macallan 12 whisky. Because it had aged an additional six years, Macallan 18 cost ...
04.17.2023 MB366: A Low-Risk Approach to Investing in Oil & Gas – With Eric Rice Historically, oil and gas operators only give investors the cashflow from wells and keep the land value for themselves. But King Operating Corporation does things differently, structuring their deals very much like a multifamily syndication. So, what are the benefits ...
04.10.2023 MB365: The Making of a Successful Entrepreneur – With Chris Naugle Are entrepreneurs born or made? If you ask Chris Naugle, they are created. But to become a successful entrepreneur, you must be willing to take risks. And you can’t conform to someone else’s failed reality. As a former pro snowboarder, ...
04.03.2023 MB364: Investing in Farmland as Part of a Diversified Portfolio – With Artem Milinchuk Smart investors diversify their portfolios. And while multifamily real estate is our favorite asset class, we love learning about other alternatives to the stock market. Artem Milinchuk suggests investing in farmland, an asset class that does well in times of ...
03.27.2023 MB363: Achieving Financial Freedom as a Passive Investor – With Spencer Hilligoss Is your financial advisor really looking out for you? Many investors question whether their FA has their best interests at heart. But seeking out alternative investments on your own can be scary, especially if the stock market is all you’ve ...
03.20.2023 MB362: How to Use Your IRA or 401(k) to Invest in Real Estate – With Henry Yoshida When I first started raising money for real estate syndications, I had lunch with a prospective investor who was interested but didn’t have the $50,000 minimum it took to get in on the deal. But then I asked, ‘Do you ...
03.13.2023 MB361: Why Real Estate Investors Need the Right Coach – With Faisal Ensaun & Dr. Sheri Fluellen You have all the skills you need to become a successful multifamily investor. But without the right mindset, you’re unlikely to achieve financial freedom. So, what can aspiring investors do to overcome the limiting beliefs and bad habits that are ...
03.06.2023 MB360: Give More to the Missions You Believe In with Real Estate – With Burnie Lund Most of us get into real estate investing because we want to quit our jobs. But Burnie Lund is different. Though he’s already achieved financial freedom, Burnie has no intention of leaving his ministry work. In fact, he got into ...
02.27.2023 MB359: Apply Cardone Capital’s Tactics to Scale Your Syndication Business – With Jarrod Glandt The name Grant Cardone is synonymous with scale. Each new venture he launches quickly grows 10X bigger than anyone else in the business. So, what drives that desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible? How might you apply the ...
02.20.2023 MB358: Why Numbers Are the Source of Truth in Real Estate – With Jason Baik Words hide red flags in a real estate deal. But numbers are the source of truth. So, what numbers should you be looking at when you evaluate a multifamily deal? Jason Baik is Managing Principal at Compounding Capital Group and ...
02.13.2023 MB357: Scale Your Capital Raise from $4M to $294M in 5 Years – With Dan Handford When Dan Handford got into multifamily syndications in 2018, he raised $4M. By 2022, he had scaled his capital raise to $294M. What’s his secret? How did Dan grow his investor database to nearly 1,700 and his portfolio to 4,000+ ...
02.06.2023 MB356: Brilliant Strategies to Raise Capital for Real Estate – With Brad Blazar When you’re raising capital for a real estate deal, it’s tempting to pitch potential investors right away. But if you try to sell a high-net-worth individual before you’ve established trust, your chances of conversion are slim to none. So, how ...
01.30.2023 MB355: Our Multifamily Market Outlook for 2023 – With Drew Kniffin As with most things, the economy goes through different seasons. And prior to the pandemic, it was red-hot summer in the real estate market. COVID caused a quick Arctic freeze, but things warmed up again and multifamily prices peaked in ...
01.23.2023 MB354: Retire in 3 Years with This Deal Analysis Tool – with Matthew Amabile Matthew Amabile had been out of college for a year. He was making decent money at his sales job, but not enough to afford his own place. And he was tired of sleeping on his cousin’s couch. That’s when Matt ...
01.16.2023 MB353: The Right Insurance Coverage for Your Real Estate Portfolio – With Matthew Sutika Are you treating insurance like a commodity? We made that same mistake early in our syndication journey. But now we look for the best combination of value and quality we can get. Matthew Sutika is Chief Insurance Officer at Obie, ...
01.09.2023 MB352: Investing in Oil & Gas vs. Real Estate Syndications – With Grant Norwood Did you know that there are many parallels between investing in oil and gas and real estate syndications? Grant Norwood is CEO of Norwood Energy Corp, an oil and gas exploration company out of Southlake, Texas. Grant’s specialty is recognizing ...
01.02.2023 MB351: Reflecting on 2022 & Setting Goals for 2023 Mindfulness matters. The more self-aware you become, the better your relationships and the more fulfillment you get out of life. That’s why I take an entire week off at the end of every year, not to eat bonbons, but to ...
12.26.2022 MB350: The Best of 2022 on Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing – With Jerome Maldonado, Jilliene Helman, Dan Brisse, Lee Prosenjak, Veena Jetti, Sterling Griffin, Lili Thompson, Ryan Pineda, Every week, we bring you conversations with elite investors and entrepreneurs, in hopes that you’ll learn from their experiences to accelerate your success. On this Best of 2022 edition of Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing, we reflect on some ...

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