Flippin Off Podcast

Coming from a mostly blue collar background, Kevin knew from an early age that he wanted to be his own boss. When he came to New Wealth Advisors Club he was a shy 18 year old with braces. Kevin's very first deal was a BIG win, but forced him to learn some lessons that most kids don't get. According to Kevin, after eight years of growth in the club, learning from Dave and Melina, and partnering with various other club members, the most important lesson: "Get around people that are successful and doing what you want to do."

A club is a community. A home for collaboration, resource sharing and answers. Tim and Oscar had been good friends and members of New Wealth Advisors Club for years. However, they only recently began to partner on real estate investment deals. Each knew that the other had unique experiences and expertise to bring to the table and that, in order to successfully tackle complicated real estate transactions, it would be necessary to work with the right folks. Information and financing is easy to come by, but in order for them to architect solutions out of chaos, problem solving based on an intentional relationship and team building was imperative.

Melina Boswell broke one of the first rules of real estate investing: There is no such thing as a real estate emergency. Actually, she stretched the rule to prove that real estate deals are not found, they are created. Melina came across a filthy and uninhabitable home saddled with a divorce, substance abuse, a non-judicial foreclosure, an imminent auction, multiple people on title, 1st and 2nd mortgages, a collection agency, liens from the Franchise Tax Board and an attorney, a homeowner with children who needed a roof and, of course, negative equity. She should have walked away. Instead, she put her head down and went to work executing a strategy called Forced Equity by crafting four legs to a sturdy stool: her network, her experience, her bravado to negotiate and her will to help a distressed homeowner.

On a journey from personally experienced struggle, Dave and Melina discuss building a food bank then joining forces with an important local charity. In a chat with Damien O'Farrell, CEO of Path of Life Ministries, they explore their growth and evolving opinions about how to serve. As a society, we label homelessness; our initial thoughts might make us hesitate to support or participate in such an effort. At New Wealth Advisors Club, what we do isn't nearly as important as why we do it. If you'd like more information, please check out thepathoflife.com.

Oscar was driven. He started busing tables at 13, married at 18, spent 14 years as a decorated Marine, climbed up through leadership as a consultant, raking in over 6 figures. Burnt out, he returned to the military, took a massive pay cut, and kicked up his heals. He was comfortable. Too comfortable. When the feds stripped his security clearance without a reason, he ended up jobless. After trying his hand at real estate alone and hitting a dead end, he got back on the horse and tried again. However, the second time around, he didn't go it alone and learned an important lesson on his journey.

Solving problems for people is the most important challenge to succesful real estate investing. Tim Wilkinson had one weakness: people. For him, smarts, research, financing and creatively architecting solutions was the easy part. But those talents weren't enough and communicating with other humans was way outside Tim's comfort zone. In this episode, Tim walks through his journey from sleeping on a friends couch with a dissapearing 401k to closing six figure deals flipping houses.

We usually get smarter with age and advance our careers via experience, but that doesn't mean we have to grow up to wise up. In this episode Christian Rios explores what it means to break the mold of being old and shares his rapid rise from a high schooler selling sandwiches to the youngest real estate investor at New Wealth Advisors Club.

Faith - to move overseas, to marry, to learn a new language, to quit a job - sometimes what we think is a security blanket is actually an anchor. In this Episode, John and Selene Slater, two immigrants from England and Mexico, share their voyage from sleeping on a friends couch, raising other people's children and working three jobs to creating a full time career investing in real estate and flipping houses.

Real estate investors are nothing more than problem solvers, but it's not the houses that have problems. In this episode, real estate investor Peter Vanderlinde shares a story about flipping a house, turning a would-be short sale into a profitable sale, and partnering with a homeowner to save a marriage and help a family get a fresh start.

For many years, we search to answer the question: What am I supposed to be doing? Today, education, teamwork and mentorship can bring us to the answer. In this episode, Myke Van Ness shares his journey, from waiting tables while living in a hotel room on Catalina Island to investing in seven figure real estate deals and offers a testimony on how to overcome our fear of change and turn our passion into a career.