“You only need a small axe to chop down a big tree.”

-Nico Salgado

Nico Salgado has a BS in Business Bargaining and Management and a minor in economics. He also holds a master's degree in Spanish language education, and has spent the last 17 years as a Spanish teacher. Apart from being a teacher, he has been investing in real estate. He's an entrepreneur, coach, mentor, and leader. Nico began investing in real estate in 2012 with a single family development project and has scaled to owning 194 units as a general partner. He also hosts a bi-weekly Meetup group titled The Multifamily Investors Network in New York. Nico also hosts the small acts podcast where he interviews industry leaders and multifamily where he believes it only takes small acts to build a lasting Empire.

In this episode, Trevor and Nico discuss:

• How this Spanish Teacher, avid surfer, woodworker and traveler hop into real estate investing.
• How to build a team from different locations.
• The property type or asset class best for multifamily space.
• The difficult challenges of a real estate investor.
• How losing $60,000 taught Nico and the team.
• How to overcome the negative mindset from an expensive and painful learning experience.
• How to build your personal brand and community from scratch.

“Sometimes you realize, this isn't necessarily where you want to end up, but it's going to help you get there.”

-Anthony Vicino

Anthony is a best selling author, real estate investor and serial entrepreneur committed to helping people maximize their return on life. He's the CO founding partner of Invictus capital, a multifamily acquisition firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with 15 million in assets under management that provides busy working professionals with the opportunity to invest better, as the host of the Multifamily investing Made Simple podcast and author of passive investing Made Simple, Anthony firmly believes investing shouldn't be complicated, scary, or overwhelming. 

In this episode, Trevor and Anthony discuss:

•  Anthony’s background, what attracted him to invest in real estate and how he got started.
•  Using Triplex to start investing in real estate and how it works.
•  Scaling from triplex to bigger units.
•  How to grow your network and how to present opportunities to potential investors.
•  Being in line with SEC expectations and law when raising capitals.
•  The importance of education when starting a real estate business.

“It's definitely fun to get to wake up every day and chase your own dreams instead of going to check in at a job and build somebody else's.”

-Wesley Yates

Wesley Yates is a proud marine veteran with over nine years of active duty service that brings a strategic outlook and goal oriented mindset to the team. He has mentored and trained over 2000 individuals for leadership and development roles. He was recognized in 2013 by Congressman Ralph Hall for his outstanding character and service to his community. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance from the University of Texas at Tyler. In late 2018. He turned down an operations management opportunity with Amazon to begin actively networking within the real estate investing community. Quickly building relationships with other like minded entrepreneurs has created an extensive network of accredited investors who believe in his vision for methodically acquiring commercial assets. Wesley is also an enthusiastic leader and brings with him skills crucial in building successful teams and driving performance. 

In this episode, Trevor and Wesley discuss:

●How Wesley started his real estate investing career.

●Where to find properties.

●Types of Asset Class.

●How to build a successful team.

●How to raise capital and the process of analyzing a deal.

“People move away from pain doubly, then they move towards pleasure.”

-Tim Lyons

Tim is a 16 year veteran of the New York City Fire Department and currently serves as Lieutenant in the borough of Queens. Until recently, he also worked part time as an emergency room nurse at a level one trauma center. He brings years of real world management and leadership experience to his real estate investment career. Tim's initial goal with real estate was to create passive income and in turn, be able to spend more time with his wife and three little girls. After partnering on a multifamily property, he saw firsthand the power of real estate investing as an opportunity to create passive income and build wealth for his family. Tim has since started cityside capital, with the goal of not only growing his own portfolio, but also to help others realize the power that real estate investing can have on creating passive income and building wealth. His company, suicide capital has 79 million assets under management, including 561 multifamily units, has also invested as a limited partner and a 256 multifamily unit deal in Texas and then a large retail super center, and Tennessee. temperate tributes his early success in real estate investing education, and resting in coaches and mentors, and surrounding himself with like minded people. And most recently, in April 2021, Tim became an Amazon number one best selling author and a book he co authored with other authorities.

In this episode, Trevor and Tim discuss:

• How Tim started his real estate investing career.
• The steps you need to take prior to starting your own real estate investing career.
• The process of buying the First Three Family.
• How force depreciation works.
• The process of syndication deals and how it works.

“You have to understand what you are good at, and what brings you passion and energy and joy.”
-Logan Freeman

Logan Freeman is a key principal co-founder and chief Development Officer of FTW investments. Prior to FTW investments, Logan was the director of acquisitions for a fund where he originated the concept, developed the operating plan and created the company's products worth over $50 million. He has also acquired over 1100 doors and a little over a year and completed a portfolio refinance returning all of the investors capital as well as maintaining a positive cash flow. Prior to working with the Real Estate Investment Group, Logan worked as a director of sales for a service management group.

In this episode, Trevor and Logan discuss:

• How Logan started in real estate investing and his strategies.
• The process of raising capital for the deals.
• The process of building an extensive network.
• The difficult experiences in real estate investing and how to overcome them.
• What the Kansas City Market looks like.
• Why focus on Class C space?

“I'm the person who helps you realize your vision as a real estate investor, just like how I used to help artists realize their vision of what they wanted to do in music.”

Tom Laune is the Infinite Banking specialist at Stress Free Planning. He is the leader in guiding real estate investors to becoming their own banker. He solved the problem of low returns and increased taxes when storing money in a traditional bank by creating a line of credit using specially designed whole life insurance to help real estate investors across the country.

In this episode, Trevor and Tom discuss:

• How Tom started his real estate career by accident.
• How Tom helped real estate investors solve their problems.
• How to build equity within the policy and how to use that money and invest.
• How tax free distribution works at the end of the policy.
• The strategies to become tax free and why most investors are not using these strategies.

“If we make that choice to get up and move forward, we can do a lot of things not only for ourselves, but the people around us.”

-Mike Morawski

Michael Morawski is a 30 plus year real estate investment veteran. He has controlled over $285,000,000 in real estate transactions. An entrepreneur, author, real estate trainer, public speaker, and personal coach. With a strong personal resilience and a deep desire to help others live an extraordinary life. He has coached hundreds of real estate investors to fulfill their dreams.

In this episode, Trevor and Mike discuss:

• Mike’s background and how he got started in real estate.
• Mike’s experience during the global recession, his biggest mistake and how he was able to get back on track.
• The number one thing that holds people back from becoming a successful investor.
• How to set up a team when investing out of state.
• And a lot more exciting topics!

“I wanted to make sure that when I grew up my family, I wanted to have a lot of margin and I wanted to have rock solid relationships.”

Brett is considered one of the most well rounded capital gains tax deferral experts and foreigners speakers on the west coast. His audiences are challenged to create and develop a tax deferred transformational exit wealth plan using the deferred sales trust so that they can create and preserve more wealth. Brett is also the founder of capital gains tax solutions and host of the capital gains tax solution podcast. Each year he equips hundreds of high net worth business professionals. With the deferred sales trust tool, their high net worth clients solve capital gains tax deferral limitations.

In this episode, Trevor and Brett discuss:

• How Brett started his real estate career.
• The difference between 1031 exchange and deferred sales trust.
• How to save your failed 1031 exchange and how to move over to deferred sales trust.
• The minimum amount that you would look for someone who's opening up a deferred sales trust.
• The number one way for commercial real estate syndicators to unlock capital.

“Whatever you want to do, take action, just start and speak it into existence”

Jimmy is a millennial house hacker turned corporate dropout. He is co-host of The Cashflow King’s podcast and owns Lyon Property Management. Lyon Property Management is responsible for the management of 500 units in Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts. Jimmy is also an active investor that specializes in flipping two to four-unit multi-family properties. His ideal client is an investor who wants an agent with an investment-focused skill set to maximize the returns on their investment properties.

In this episode, Trevor and Jimmy discuss:

• The transition timeline from being a Corporate employee to a successful real estate investor.
• The tools and analysis you can use to determine when investing in a property.
• Excellent advice when starting to invest in real estate; advantage of multifamily investing.
• How to run a multifamily property.
• The process of successful multifamily deals.

“There's no way to build the life you want, increase your wealth capability and still have it all in one place.”
-Neil Wahlgren

Neil brings nearly two decades of leadership and operations and capital markets. Prior to Mag Capital Partners, he led the Bay Area real estate investment firm raising capital for over $200 million, and projects. Before that, Neil logged over 2500 flight hours piloting the C 130 in the Air Force Navy, following combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. To conclude this military career as a Lieutenant Commander, Neil now resides with his wife and son in San Francisco, where they enjoy flying and sailing. And he also holds a BS from the Air Force Academy, an MBA from Texas a&m and an MS from Troy University.

In this episode, Trevor and Neil discuss:

• What made Neil switch from Lieutenant Commander to Real Estate Investor.
• The types of asset classes and what’s best to choose when you start investing.
• How does triple net lease work?
• The overview in Industrial Real Estate Investing.
• How to raise a capital for industrial real estate.