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I'm excited to Introduce my friend Jens Nielsen. Jens and I know each-other through a multifamily mastermind group. I have been able to observe Jens and over the last couple years he has taken down some great investment properties with his partners at Open Doors Capital. Jens is also an avid mountain biker and is always riding in the mountains of Colorado where he lives and just got back form an exciting mountain biking trip to the Alps in Europe. Jens has been transitioning into full time real estate investing and has a background in telecommunication and sales where he used to travel the world for his company.

On This Episode:

• Jens talk about growing up in a small town and how he developed big dreams.
• Hear Jens morning routine.
• Learn the thought process that helped Jens set clear goals for himself.
• Find out the negative aspects of smaller properties.

Key Takeaways:

1. Start your day intentionally.
2. Keep healthy - both your body and mind.
3. Real Estate can’t go to $0.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Anything worth having does not come easy."

Jens Nielsen:

[email protected]

opendoorscapital.com/call

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I'm excited to Introduce my friend Jens Nielsen. Jens and I know each-other through a multifamily mastermind group. I have been able to observe Jens and over the last couple years he has taken down some great investment properties with his partners at Open Doors Capital. Jens is also an avid mountain biker and is always riding in the mountains of Colorado where he lives and just got back form an exciting mountain biking trip to the Alps in Europe. Jens has been transitioning into full time real estate investing and has a background in telecommunication and sales where he used to travel the world for his company.

On This Episode:

• Jens talk about growing up in a small town and how he developed big dreams.
• Hear Jens morning routine.
• Learn the thought process that helped Jens set clear goals for himself.
• Find out the negative aspects of smaller properties.

Key Takeaways:

1. Start your day intentionally.
2. Keep healthy - both your body and mind.
3. Real Estate can’t go to $0.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "Anything worth having does not come easy."

Jens Nielsen:

[email protected]

opendoorscapital.com/call

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Devin Elder is a Real Estate entrepreneur and San Antonio native with a proven track record of repositioning properties, delivering quality renovated housing products to market, and delivering consistent double digit returns to investment partners. 

Devin has extensive experience acquiring distressed properties, managing renovations, raising private capital, and managing single family & multifamily investment property. Other investments include a vacation rental in Downtown San Antonio and passive multifamily investing. Devin began investing in Real Estate in 2012 and has grown revenue and profit every year since.

Prior to his Real Estate investing career, Devin managed Sales Operations for 650 sales reps at a $2B medical device company headquartered in San Antonio. Previous corporate experience includes Sales & Management at Rackspace, a $1B+ technology company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Devin Elder is sole owner of DJE Texas Management Group LLC, which manages all aspects of acquisition, repositioning, and sale of single family and multifamily properties in Central Texas. DJE Texas Management Group has successfully completed over 200 Real Estate renovation projects since 2012, with renovation budgets ranging from $10k to $1.2MM+. DJE Texas Management Group currently has ownership interest in over 1,400 units of multifamily in Central Texas valued at over $130MM.

Devin earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and has been married to his wife Amber since 2008. They reside in far North San Antonio with their three children.

Mr. Elder is the host of The DJE Podcast, a weekly show interviewing the top Commercial Real Estate investment experts in the country, and is himself a regular expert guest on the top multifamily investment podcasts in the world.

Devin has a broad network of experienced and trusted advisors, attorneys, brokers, investors, and accountants that facilitate the continued success and growth of DJE Texas Management Group. During downtime, Devin enjoys travel, family time, and is an avid reader, golfer, and musician.

On This Episode:

• Devin talks about watching his retirement company get cut in half during the recession.
• Hear why flipping single-family homes is not a long term plan for success.
• Discover the importance of having an amazing team.

Key Takeaways:

• Get around people who are doing what you want to achieve.
• If you have a high W-2, don’t waste time on smaller flips.
• Partner up to avoid mistakes on deals.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “You’ve gotta have equity in something in life.”
• “Don’t do something you can pay someone to do for way less.”

Devin Elder:

Djetexas.com

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Brian Hamrick began investing in single-family homes in 2002. During the Great Recession he purchased his first multifamily property and has since worked with private investors to acquire apartment communities, self-storage facilities, and non-performing notes. In 2012 he founded Hamrick Investment Group ("HIG") to help other qualified investors take advantage of the lucrative returns real estate has to offer.

Brian has created strategic partnerships with experts who understand all of the complex and specialized in's & out's of finding, negotiating, acquiring, managing and profiting from commercial real estate and npn's.

To date, HIG has bought & sold over $21 Million in assets and continues to seek opportunities that provide strong returns for his investors.

On This Episode:

• Brian gives examples about investing in notes.
• Learn how Sam has never made less than a 20% return on his investments
• Sam talks about the importance of a “human factor” in real estate investing.
• Brian reflects on the moves he made during the 2008 downturn.
• Hear the benefits of both single family and multi-family real estate.
• Brian explains the background and purpose of his show, The Rental Property Owner and Real Estate Investor Podcast.

Key Takeaways:

• Have money set aside for contingency plans - unexpected repairs, mortgage payments, etc.
• Consume actionable content.
• Be cautious what deals you go into. Stress test them and have minimum standards.
• A lot of people underestimate the amount of money they might have to put back into a property.

Tweetable Quotes:

“You can’t retire on single family homes.” - Sam Newell

“All real estate is a people business.” – Brian Hamrick

Brian Hamrick

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rental-property-owner-real-estate-investor-podcast/id1083618984?l=es

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Blair G. Van Dyke is a full-time instructor at the Orem Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah Valley University. He earned his BA in English literature from BYU in 1989. At that time he was hired to teach in the Church Educational System (CES) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Van Dyke took a Masters of Education degree in 1992, and a Doctor of Educational Philosophy in 1997, both from BYU. His dissertation, "Education in an Autonomous Palestine: Palestinian Perspectives," explores the emergence of an independent Palestinian educational system after centuries of colonialism.

He established the "Literature, Arts, and Letters for Global Understanding" campaign, an ongoing community and educational engagement initiative between educators and students in the United States and the West Bank. Van Dyke is the coauthor of Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East. He has also written a number of articles on biblical culture, history, and texts, including "In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land" (BYU Studies). Van Dyke met his wife in Jerusalem and was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies (2001-2002). He travels annually to the Near East to conduct research and guide travel study tours of the region.

On This Episode:

• Learn how Blair got into religious education and ended up doing graduate work in the middle east.
• Sam and Blair discuss the harsh reality of racism.
• Hear the responsibility of investors and realtors to break through the barriers of racism.
• Sam talks about raising children who are not privileged and the value travel has in that regard.
• Blair shares his great success with owning investment properties and why he is trying to build up TWO retirements.

Blair Van Dyke

http://www.mmetours.com/index.php/blair-van-dyke

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Blair G. Van Dyke is a full-time instructor at the Orem Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah Valley University. He earned his BA in English literature from BYU in 1989. At that time he was hired to teach in the Church Educational System (CES) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Van Dyke took a Masters of Education degree in 1992, and a Doctor of Educational Philosophy in 1997, both from BYU. His dissertation, "Education in an Autonomous Palestine: Palestinian Perspectives," explores the emergence of an independent Palestinian educational system after centuries of colonialism.

He established the "Literature, Arts, and Letters for Global Understanding" campaign, an ongoing community and educational engagement initiative between educators and students in the United States and the West Bank. Van Dyke is the coauthor of Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East. He has also written a number of articles on biblical culture, history, and texts, including "In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land" (BYU Studies). Van Dyke met his wife in Jerusalem and was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies (2001-2002). He travels annually to the Near East to conduct research and guide travel study tours of the region.

On This Episode:

• Learn how Blair got into religious education and ended up doing graduate work in the middle east.
• Sam and Blair discuss the harsh reality of racism.
• Hear the responsibility of investors and realtors to break through the barriers of racism.
• Sam talks about raising children who are not privileged and the value travel has in that regard.
• Blair shares his great success with owning investment properties and why he is trying to build up TWO retirements.

Blair Van Dyke

http://www.mmetours.com/index.php/blair-van-dyke

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Blair G. Van Dyke is a full-time instructor at the Orem Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah Valley University. He earned his BA in English literature from BYU in 1989. At that time he was hired to teach in the Church Educational System (CES) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Van Dyke took a Masters of Education degree in 1992, and a Doctor of Educational Philosophy in 1997, both from BYU. His dissertation, "Education in an Autonomous Palestine: Palestinian Perspectives," explores the emergence of an independent Palestinian educational system after centuries of colonialism.

He established the "Literature, Arts, and Letters for Global Understanding" campaign, an ongoing community and educational engagement initiative between educators and students in the United States and the West Bank. Van Dyke is the coauthor of Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East. He has also written a number of articles on biblical culture, history, and texts, including "In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land" (BYU Studies). Van Dyke met his wife in Jerusalem and was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies (2001-2002). He travels annually to the Near East to conduct research and guide travel study tours of the region.

On This Episode:

• Learn how Blair got into religious education and ended up doing graduate work in the middle east.
• Sam and Blair discuss the harsh reality of racism.
• Hear the responsibility of investors and realtors to break through the barriers of racism.
• Sam talks about raising children who are not privileged and the value travel has in that regard.
• Blair shares his great success with owning investment properties and why he is trying to build up TWO retirements.

Blair Van Dyke

http://www.mmetours.com/index.php/blair-van-dyke

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Blair G. Van Dyke is a full-time instructor at the Orem Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah Valley University. He earned his BA in English literature from BYU in 1989. At that time he was hired to teach in the Church Educational System (CES) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Van Dyke took a Masters of Education degree in 1992, and a Doctor of Educational Philosophy in 1997, both from BYU. His dissertation, "Education in an Autonomous Palestine: Palestinian Perspectives," explores the emergence of an independent Palestinian educational system after centuries of colonialism.

He established the "Literature, Arts, and Letters for Global Understanding" campaign, an ongoing community and educational engagement initiative between educators and students in the United States and the West Bank. Van Dyke is the coauthor of Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Near East. He has also written a number of articles on biblical culture, history, and texts, including "In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land" (BYU Studies). Van Dyke met his wife in Jerusalem and was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies (2001-2002). He travels annually to the Near East to conduct research and guide travel study tours of the region.

On This Episode:

• Learn how Blair got into religious education and ended up doing graduate work in the middle east.
• Sam and Blair discuss the harsh reality of racism.
• Hear the responsibility of investors and realtors to break through the barriers of racism.
• Sam talks about raising children who are not privileged and the value travel has in that regard.
• Blair shares his great success with owning investment properties and why he is trying to build up TWO retirements.

Blair Van Dyke

http://www.mmetours.com/index.php/blair-van-dyke

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Founder of Life Bridge Capital LLC, Whitney began his real estate investing career in 2009. Whitney’s passion is working with investors, helping them secure financial security via the exceptional opportunities that multifamily syndication offers. Whitney hosts The Real Estate Syndication Show, a daily podcast where he has now interviewed over 600 experts providing cutting-edge tools and strategies of the syndication business. Whitney and his wife Chelsea are on a mission to help other families through the process of adoption. They have personally endured the financial burdens that the process puts on families and have committed 50% of their profits to this goal. Whitney and Chelsea have three children by adoption.

On This Episode:

• Whitney discusses his transition from the military to real estate investing.
• Sam and Whitney discuss whether or not people should ever invest in smaller properties.
• Discover the importance of outsourcing.
• Whitney shares how having a supportive spouse has been critical to his success.

Key Takeaways:

1. Find your why. (Money is not enough.)
2. Set a reserve budget to weather unexpected storms.
3. Don’t try to invest in a property with no knowledge of the area.

Whitney Sewell

• https://lifebridgecapital.com/

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Founder of Life Bridge Capital LLC, Whitney began his real estate investing career in 2009. Whitney’s passion is working with investors, helping them secure financial security via the exceptional opportunities that multifamily syndication offers. Whitney hosts The Real Estate Syndication Show, a daily podcast where he has now interviewed over 600 experts providing cutting-edge tools and strategies of the syndication business. Whitney and his wife Chelsea are on a mission to help other families through the process of adoption. They have personally endured the financial burdens that the process puts on families and have committed 50% of their profits to this goal. Whitney and Chelsea have three children by adoption.

On This Episode:

• Whitney discusses his transition from the military to real estate investing.
• Sam and Whitney discuss whether or not people should ever invest in smaller properties.
• Discover the importance of outsourcing.
• Whitney shares how having a supportive spouse has been critical to his success.

Key Takeaways:

1. Find your why. (Money is not enough.)
2. Set a reserve budget to weather unexpected storms.
3. Don’t try to invest in a property with no knowledge of the area.

Whitney Sewell

• https://lifebridgecapital.com/

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