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Most Americans invest their retirement money in traditional assets, mainly stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and CDs. Unfortunately, these types of assets often don’t keep pace with inflation and are not designed to provide stable monthly income. This week’s episode is about to change all that!

Today, I sit down with Amanda Holbrook who is the Vice President of Business Development at Specialized IRA Services. Amanda and I discuss what a self-directed IRA is, how to use it, why to use it and the tax benefits of using it for investments. Amanda goes through the steps on how to use a self-directed IRA using a real-world investment scenario and the returns you can get while not having to pay Uncle Sam.

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Undrea King, Founder, and CEO of Drayco Properties has been a successful business operator for almost two decades. Andy Speed, Co-Owner, and COO has been a full-time real estate investor since February of 2015. Together, Undrea and Andy find that they are better at finding awesome deals and passing those on to other investors to do the work. It’s just what works best for them.

In this weeks episode, Undrea and Andy take us through how they developed their profitable wholesale business. We discuss how they built their team through strategic recruitment, and why it’s their biggest struggle. Undrea goes into detail about the marketing methods they use to get good leads in, build their brand and position themselves as thought leaders. Other nuggets of wisdom you don’t want to miss: Online marketing, the good, the bad and the useful; how to handle a growth phase and what lists convert best for them.

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Erich Reichenberger, VP and Area Manager of the Pioneer Title Agency, has twenty years of Title and Escrow experience in the greater Phoenix and Scottsdale area. His specialties include strategic marketing for realtors, investors, commercial brokers, lenders, and builders.

In this weeks episode, Erich covers a lot of ground (pun intended). He discusses the importance of having an escrow officer that understands how wholesale works vs. fix/flip, fixing files that other title companies have not handled well. And you don’t want to miss his thoughts on how he leaps legal hurdles.

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Kent Clothier is the founder and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide, which builds disruptive systems that push the entrepreneur dream and the real estate industry forward. He also founded Find Cash Buyers Now and 1-800-SELL-NOW and in 2013 he created the Time Is Now Project as a way of giving back to communities and the world at large.

I’m so proud to sit down and interview Kent, who is a mentor and a friend because his story is quite incredible, and he shares much of it during this episode. He also goes into detail about how he created the cash-buyer list and the reverse wholesale model, as well as who inspired him to start Real Estate Worldwide and how he built this amazing company and community.

There is so much inspiring information in this episode, don’t miss it!

The Time is Now Podcast

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“Every deal you close should be treated as an opportunity to grow your real estate wholesaling business.” –Fortune Builders

Michael Cowper is a real estate investor that quickly grew from land lording to running a wholesale business, Return on Investments, with his partner, Mike Simmons.

In this weeks episode, Michael delivers detailed information on how he started and grew his wholesale business. He shares his story about the beginning of his investing career, and why he offered his services and sales expertise for free to learn the trade and how that decision turned into his current partnership with Mike Simmons. Michael also provides detailed advice on how he utilizes his CRM to the utmost to streamline his business, his secret of how he obtains 400-500 leads a month and directs his lead managers to ongoing success, as well as the specifics of how he expanded his business.

This weeks episode is chock-full of detailed advice you could start incorporating into your business today!

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Continuous learning enabled Reed Goossens to achieve a $40MM portfolio of multi-family real estate.

Reed Goossens, owner of RSN Property Group who lives by the rule “never say die,” lends his humor and his knowledge in this weeks podcast. Reed delves into what it takes to move from another country and start investing in the US. We also talk about how he developed his personal brand, his technique for successful project management, why a social pitch is important and how to build a recession-proof business.

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“Even though many would argue the industry [student housing] is in the ‘awkward teen’ phase at the moment, I remain confident that it will grow and evolve into becoming a mature and stabilized ‘adult’ in the years to come.” –Forbes Real Estate Council, June 2018

Jeff Greenberg, who is the CEO and Managing Member Synergetic Investment Group, has been investing in multi-family and student housing assets in emerging markets since 2007.

In this weeks episode, I sit down with Jeff who takes us through his process of investing in student housing, how to manage it and find the best management companies to run them. During our conversation, Jeff also advises on how to pivot passive investing to enter the multi-family market, as well as some practical tax advice for passive investors. Additionally, Jeff provides solid tips on how to protect yourself in down market cycles.

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You won’t hear this tax advice for real estate investors anywhere else!

I’ve been working with Scott Garner, who is an Enrolled Agent and currently works for CLA CPA, for the last year, and I’m very excited to bring his expertise to you today. In this episode, Scott shares advice on the difference between an Enrolled Agent and a CPA, and which one you should work with based on your needs. He answers the “scary” question of what you should do if you get a letter from the IRS. He also shares his knowledge on what questions you should ask your current tax preparer to see if they are working in your best interest. And, you don’t want to miss his insight into the main focal point the IRS looks at for real estate investor filings.

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Michael Pouliot, a financial analyst by day and real estate investor by choice, shares his step-by-step process of how to enter new markets and make big profits.

In this week episode, Michael takes us through his tried-and-true method of entering new markets. He explains how to build solid relationships with brokers and how to create a 60-second elevator pitch that works. He also talks about his analysis process to determine whether he wants to syndicate or not, as well as how he has systemized his flipping business.

There is so much valuable information in this podcast; you might have to take notes!

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Jason and Pili Yarusi, Founders of Yarusi Holdings started out helping storm-ravaged homes in New Jersey, moved on to flipping and leveraged those ventures into multi-family investing.

In this weeks episode, I talk with Jason and Pili about how they changed their mindset from just investing in single-family/flipping homes to scaling up to multi-family units. Learn how they are systemizing and growing their business, how they use syndication to buy larger units and you don’t want to miss their advice on how to tackle the imminent interest rate hikes.

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