This week Danny is joined by Jim Huntzicker, a licensed real estate broker with over 500 deals under his belt after nearly 15 years in the business. Jim Huntzicker is also the creator of MLS domination, and was featured in episode 46 of the FlippingJunkie Podcast where he dives more into how he finds his deals. He stops by to discuss how he finds success across the country with multi-family units as long-term investments. Jim walks us through a detailed example of what a multi-family deal looks like including how he analyzes the numbers, how he puts together funding for these more expensive deals, and how he has scaled his REI business across the country. Jim also discusses his future goals for his business as well as how he plans to actually achieve them.

This week Danny is joined by Brad Smotherman, an investor from Tennessee with a successful 7-figure flipping business spanning across the U.S. Brad shares with us the methods and strategies, specifically in marketing, that helped push his business to where it is now, as well as the ins-and-outs of how he prefers to run his business today. Brad breaks it all down with thorough examples and real-world data that he’s gathered through his time as an investor to really break down topics like owner financing, pay per click, direct mail, and more.

This episode is all about innovative ways to make real estate investing work both for you, and your tenants! Anne Amagrande joins Danny to discuss her creative approach to leasing that has helped her business generate even more passive income by finding new ways to both save money on renovations as well as keep her tenants happy; she calls it “rentovation” and it’s a game changer! She also touches on the 3:1 ratio and how it can and has helped many investors create more income for their business. We recommend this episode for investors at any stage in their journey. Anne is a serial entrepreneur, owner of Grande AMA & Associates and 2 other businesses. She is an expert on investing, specifically Real Estate Investing, Generational Wealth, and owning and growing a business, and her passion is creating businesses that help one another.

This episode Danny speaks about what to do when those leads start coming in from your LeadPropeller website (or wherever you purchased your REI website)! We’ve seen too many people cancel their accounts with us because they started receiving TOO MANY leads from their website so Danny is here to tell you the proven methods for handling them. No matter who you purchased your REI site from, these are important lessons every investor with a new site should be aware of.

We must be on a marketing kick because this week’s episode is all about knowing your numbers for your marketing campaigns!! It’s not enough just to send mailers out into the world and doing that over and over and over and over without ever taking the time to analyze your data and see if what you’re doing is even working! Don Costa of the FlipTalk podcast joins Danny this week to talk about why investors should be regularly looking at their marketing numbers. He walks us through an actual marketing campaign of his and shares how he would analyze the results, and most importantly the decisions that would come out of the analyzation. Data and numbers are an investors very best friend and this episode tells you why and how!

This week Danny is joined by Brian Ellwood of Virtue Real Estate Investing to talk about how he tackles direct mail, and what has and hasn’t worked for him in the past. The two discuss the essence of “No B.S.” marketing and what it means to disrupt the constant feed of “We Buy Houses” mailers and really position yourself from the rest of the crowd. Brian even shares with us his top 4 favorite lists to mail that have shown the highest ROI overall. Brian teaches 9-5'ers how to stop trading their time for dollars by purchasing their first 12 rental properties, but VREI’s underlying message is that you CAN live a life you truly love and you don't have to make sacrifices! Brian was able to "retire" from the working world at the age of 30 by accumulating several dozen properties, and is now passionate about helping others do the same.

This episode is a super, super, must for all investors!! This is a special episode of the FlippingJunkie podcast because Danny shares with us the top 3 secrets that provide consistent success with online motivated seller lead generation (yes, the actual stuff he and Melissa did and are still doing!). Most investors fail at generating motivated seller leads online because of these 3 crucial missing pieces, and he’s here to talk about what investors can do to prevent their business from falling through the cracks because of something that could have been prevented if they’d only known! Danny dives deep into how they’re able to maintain a successful flipping business while also running a podcast AND a blog AND a youtube channel AND a training course AND providing REI websites AND a business management software and so on and so on… He explains why house flipping is a numbers game and how they were able to use that to their advantage to generate exactly how many leads they would need to get a real, genuine, “worth-it” deal! Absolutely a great episode full of a ton of great info that anyone considering getting a website, or wondering how they can best use their website to find more, quality leads for their real estate investing business!!

Josh Cantwell, Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Real Estate Coach and Freeland Ventures Danny is joined this week by Josh Cantwell, Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Real Estate Coach and Freeland Ventures, to talk about his experience as a financial coach. A native of Northeast Ohio, Josh Cantwell graduated from Baldwin Wallace College in 1998 with a Major in Business Administration and a Minor in Communications. Although a full-time student and college athlete, Josh was already driven to succeed in his career. After graduation, he obtained his Series 6, 63, 66 and life and health insurance licenses, and worked as a Financial Advisor from 1997-2004. 
 In 2004, Josh took his knowledge of raising capital and the financial markets and started investing in real estate full time. He was able to combine his knowledge of Financial Investing with real estate to create a very successful business, which quickly grew. In turn he began training and teaching apprentice partners and students. He founded Strategic Real Estate Coach in 2007, and since then has been involved in 700+ wholesale, rehab, rental, foreclosure, pre-foreclosure and short sale transactions, and taught thousands of investors how to replicate his success. Josh has vast knowledge and experience in helping coaching clients, mentor students and apprentice partners from across the US in finding, structuring, negotiating and closing various types of transactions for a profit. He has bought and sold over 700 properties in 25 states, and currently holds a robust rental portfolio of cash-flowing properties. He is the founder of a variety of successful businesses including Freeland Ventures, Strategic Real Estate Coach, and several others. Josh lives in Northeast, Ohio with his wife Lisa Marie and three children.

Chris and Jamie Bounds are real estate investors out of Houston, TX. They own and operate Texas Ideal Properties, and live in Richmond, TX with their two children, Nathan and Ellie. Chris got started in real estate in 2005 while attending Texas A&M University. He bought 4 properties in his first year before graduating, and took a sales job in Houston. Shortly before getting married in 2011, Chris and Jamie started investing in real estate part-time. By August 2015, they were both full-time real estate investors and have since bought over 100 propertie. In 2018 they closed on roughly 50 houses, nearly doubling their business since the year before. Their goals are to continue to grow and scale their flipping & wholesaling business while continually adding properties to their rental portfolio. In this episode Chris and Jamie share what it’s like working together as a couple, and the steps they took from day one to ensure that their business would be on the right track for growth and success. They tell Danny how they worked to figure out what they should be doing fromthe very beginning, and how they worked on not only their skillset, but who they are as people in order to take their business where it is now. With over $11 million raised in private money, you won’t want to miss out on what they have to say!

Jason Lavender has owned and operated a painting company for 25 years, but caught the real estate investing bug listening to podcasts and reading Danny Johnson’s book, Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 weeks in the life of a successful house flipper. Jason began flipping houses in September of 2017 and has since completed 5 flips, with 2 more underway. After this, he took on wholesaling in October of 2018, and has completed 4 deals with one more in the pipeline. He’s now a member of Justin Williams’ coaching program, and is focusing on learning to scale and automate. In this episode Jason joins Danny to talk about what it was like to move from reading the book to getting established in the market and in a position to grow. Jason shares the do’s and don’ts of starting out and the lessons he’s learned along his journey (some of them the hard way!), so this is a perfect episode for those who are still a little hesitant about taking that first step and making it happen.