Our Speaker this month is Robin Eschliman. Robin is a small business owner of Eschliman Commercial Real Estate, a commercial real estate firm in Lincoln, NE. She is the founder of the Grow Lincoln shows, a local economic radio/podcast economic development show.

Eschliman majored in music education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and obtained a business degree from Southeast Community College. She has taught literacy classes for Lincoln Literacy Center and real estate continuing education classes for Realtors.

She served on Lincoln City Council from 2005-2009 and volunteered on several campaigns for local candidates. She has been heavily involved in the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, Realtors Association of Lincoln, and a number of local business groups for many years and previously served on the boards of Lincoln Independent Business Association and Vital Services. She is a self-published author of a series of fiction books about a commercial real estate agent. Currently she is a community advisor to, and an occasional writer for, the Lincoln Journal Star editorial board and attends New Covenant Community Church.

This months speakers are Four powerhouse females sharing their real estate journeys and what they have learned along the way. Even though these ladies have taken completely different paths, they have all become very successful in their own right. If you have any questions this would be a great opportunity to get many different perspectives.

Taija Golden - My name is Taija Golden, and I am a real estate investor here in Lincoln. I am employed full-time, been a realtor for 10 years, and a mother to 3 wonderful kids. My husband, Mark, and I specialize in finding and buying distressed properties, and remodeling them to add to our portfolio. We currently have 40 units. While working full time and raising a family we have relentlessly perused our dream for financial freedom through real estate.

Amanda Dickinson - Living Doors Real Estate started in 2017. I started the company so I could raise my daughters at home every day and have the flexibility to attend all their events as they grow up just like my parents did with me and my brother. In 2017, I started with managing my parents' rentals of about 50 units in Lincoln and Seward. Today I manage 220 residential units in Lincoln, Seward, York, Geneva, and Fairmont. We are always changing and growing to help keep our practices modern. Our relationships with our residents and owners are key and we create the freedom for our property owners and residents to live.

Andrea Trail - A little bit about my journey. I got started in real estate when I was around age 14 by greeting/giving information to people who came in at the Legacy Homes model homes in Lincoln and Omaha. That sparked my interest to sell homes and be a real estate agent. I started investing in RE at age 17th with my first rental. My dad gave me an opportunity to invest in a property with him so I took it. After that it was a slow start just trying to learn and obsorb as much as I could about different avenues to go down with RE. 2019-2020 is when I really started growing. To date I have 10 doors on my own and I have partnered with my dad on 25+ by managing them/running them for him. Since getting my license in Jan. 2021, I have sold a total of 10.4 million in sales. In the beginning I was focusing on working with anyone I could, it wasn't until this last year when I started primarily working with investor clients. Providing value to them by sharing my abilities to identify a deal, how to market it to sell, helping project manage for them if needed so they can be hands off, and pretty much any way I could be of service I am offering to help. I am married to my best friend and support system, Brenden, who now works full time on my dad, Steve, rentals and our rentals. We have 2 dogs so we love being outside with them as much as we can. Brendens very talented and can build/repair anything, so that fuels the outdoorsiness as well with jet skis, snowmobiles, sports cars etc. We are working hard now to create a life for ourselves and future family. We plan to involve our children in real estate to show them how it can provide for themselves and future family as well.

Megan Ahern - originally from California, moved with her husband Jeff to Lincoln Nebraska in 2018 to begin investing in real estate full time. They started their company, Acorn Properties and have since then bought over 50 properties consisting of single families and duplexes. They have owned long term rentals, short term rentals, sober living houses, and flipped and wholesaled houses. She has recently partnered to begin building new houses, and has built and sold her first spec build. Megan also owns Acorn Home Staging, which focuses on staging vacant houses for other flippers and realtors, and is also a licensed realtor herself.

Ryan is the president of GBE CPA out of Seward. Ryan is unlike other CPA's because he's actually a real estate investor himself. He will be sharing updated tax tips and concepts for real estate owners.

Paul has spent 21 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. In 1997, he embarked on his real estate sales and investing career. In 2000 he started teaching pre-licensing and continuing education class in Nebraska. In 2004, he hit the national training circuit which has taken him from Washington to West Virginia. He specialized in teaching property management and Fair Housing related topics. Currently, Paul is the Senior Vice President of Nebraska Realty, a real estate firm that employs over 900 sales agents and 60 employees. His firm owns Randall School of Real Estate which he is the director. Randall School is the largest provider of pre-licensing and continuing education in Nebraska. Paul is on the board of directors for an Omaha property management company that manages over 1,500 single-family and multi-family rentals. Paul still teaches on a variety of real estate topics. He is a published author of 2 real estate books.

As Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Collin oversees the success and growth of LeavenWealth.

Collin has over $211 million in assets under management and 2,500+ units throughout the Midwest. Collin owns Brick Town Construction, Brick Town Property Management and Liquid Lending Solutions, which are synergistic in improving the longevity and value of LeavenWealth’s assets.

He is also the creator of the largest real estate meet-up in Nebraska. He is a father to three children, with his wife, Emily. Collin graduated from Bellevue University with his MBA in finance.

Ed has been a senior manager and President with large international companies and has owned his own multi-million-dollar business. He started his entrepreneurial adventure as a shoeshine boy on the south side of Chicago at 8 years of age. Ed has lived and worked abroad in England, Germany, and India and has been responsible for multiple start-ups of businesses and branch operations in a variety of situations. While the owner of a local business in Lincoln, he was able to grow the company from 13 employees to almost 200.

Ed has a bachelor’s degree and is a member of the John Maxwell Team of Coaches, Trainers, and Speakers. He has been an Associate Trainer with Equip and traveled internationally teaching biblical leadership. He has operated his own small Coaching/Consulting business as Nix & Company Inc. and volunteers with Alcoholics Anonymous and Juvenile Detention Services. He is gifted in the areas of Faith, Leadership, Administration, Teaching and Exhortation and his Gallup strengths are Activator, arranger, command, communication, and maximizer. He is active in real estate investing and consulting with various other business enterprises.

Our speaker this month is Dan Delgado. Raised in the Cypress Hills Housing Projects in East New York, Brooklyn, real estate investing was the last thing on Dan's mind growing up. After moving to Nebraska, Dan did what most others do. He had goals of going to college and obtaining a 9-5 job like everyone else. He went on this path for several years, and eventually settled on a career in IT. The decision seemed safe, and Dan climbed the ranks over the next 12 years. However, all was not as it seemed. Although a career in IT provided Dan with good pay, he still felt something was missing. After several failed attempts at receiving any raises or promotions, he felt stuck and at the mercy of others. He came across Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad Poor Dad", and everything changed. Dan immediately felt drawn to real estate investing and started learning everything he could. He read books, listened to podcasts, listened to audio books, and started attending real estate investing meetups. Analysis paralysis set in, and it took Dan over a year to make his first move. But for the next three years, Dan continued to flip houses while working a 9-5 job. In that time, Dan finally moved to a new employer and got that leadership position and pay he so greatly desired. The autonomy and freedom of the position allowed Dan to do his job at work, while also managing flips on the side. This seemed ideal at the time, but it didn't take long for Dan to see the opportunity cost of keeping his day job. It took him over three years to make the jump, but Dan finally made the move recently and hasn't looked back. Since leaving his job Dan's been able to acquire several projects to add to the dozens he's completed over the last couple of years. Dan has been able to run his flipping business without ever using any of his own money, and he doesn't spend much, if anything, on marketing. This month, Dan will go deeper into his story and share his tips on acquiring "zero-down" deals by focusing on one niche, pre-foreclosures, how Covid almost shut him down, and how he had to get creative to bounce back and start finding deals again.

Chase is an engineer by degree turned entrepreneur with ownership in over five companies that have all been started in the last four years. His main focus is real estate but originally start started by buying a restaurant/bar with his wife and having over 20 employees. When they sold this three years after owning it, Chase dove straight into real estate.

In just a couple years he’s been able to grow in many avenues in the real estate space. Today he’s part owner in 16 doors, does flipping, is high producing agent, has a hard money lending company, part owner of a beach club in Florida, and more.

Lynette Sorrentino, isn't a real estate professional but she brings 30+ years of experience working as an entrepreneur as well as enjoying coaching and teaching others how to have thriving families and successful businesses. She was a high-ranking leader in a Fortune 500 sales organization earning multiple awards and accolades. She is a sought-after Chaos Consultant, Boss Lady, and speaker dedicated to busy professionals, solopreneurs, and mom-preneurs who are sick of feeling exhausted stressed, and guilty due to the life they find themselves leading. They’re afraid they’re failing their family. Lynette helps them find balance and reclaim their energy so they can relax and have the freedom to do the things they want to do.

This month’s speaker is Owen Dashner. Owen is the true definition of an entrepreneur. While starting his professional career in the recruiting industry with ConAgra Foods, IBM and Ricoh, Owen gained the experience and knowledge of structuring organizations and the power of synergy, which naturally gave him the upper hand when he decided to move into the real estate investing world, which he now does full time.

Owen has 17 years worth of real estate experience and is the Co-owner/partner of multiple successful real estate companies, and most recently started Galaxy Title & Escrow.

Outside of real estate investing, Owen enjoys spending time with his family, boating, traveling, reading and golfing.