The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs

Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Craig Curelop the man who literally wrote the book on House Hacking! He is a real estate agent, investor, author, podcast host and a staple in the Biggerpockets community and left his position there to chase his own financial freedom full time and went from sleeping behind a sheet in a shared apartment to making over a million dollars in one single year!

Craig runs the Fi Brokerage and heads the Fi Team helping average people break into real estate Investing through various forms of the real estate strategy known as house-hacking. He and his team have established profitable deals and relationships in many markets across the country including Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Being inspired to model his business and lifestyle after being inspired by the famous Tim Ferris book The 4-Hour Work Week he has navigated the rocky waters of scaling and delegation and now has over 17 agents helping his team close over 125 deals and counting per year. Check out Craig's content and resources including his book The House Hacking Strategy and of course his podcast Invest2Fi

Topics for this episode include:

✅ What is the real estate strategy house hacking?

✅ What is a low risk high reward real estate strategy for beginners?

✅ The difference between patience and over analysis

✅ Biggest mistakes real estate investors make house hacking

✅ Huge tip on getting around restrictions on house hacking

✅ What is the best size house to house hack + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest David Lecko is a real estate investor and founder of the wildly successful Dealmachine App helping real estate investors drive for dollars from the comfort of their own homes and lock down off market deals. He is an engineer turned software developer who went from working at McDonald's to pay for engineering school, eventually read the 4-hour work week and reshaped his entire mindset to build a quality of life and plan an early retirement.

He sold a software he created and was bit by the bug that made him the superhero he is today. When working for a real estate investor and developer realizing more than ever the appreciation of trading time for dollars as he decided to put the effort in for building his own business. He went on to develop his game changing app and acquired over a 2 million dollar real estate portfolio and now spends his time competing in professional bodybuilding competitions and racing cars!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ What is driving for dollars and why should investors do it?

✅ How to use tenant information to make more money

✅ How using this one strategy can create lifetime wealth

✅ How to hire someone to drive for dollars and find properties

✅ Work like balance tips for physical and mental health + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast on this solo episode as he gives an update on some of the ways he's been investing and marketing in 2024 so far. How has his model changed? What is he doing to find deals in early 2024? What are some of the stress points and obstacles currently going on and how is he managing the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur?!

Let's do some deals together! Message us "Real Estate" to discuss options or text us 516.540.5733 today! Please listen, share and subscribe to the podcast available everywhere you get your podcasts!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Vlad Vidaeff the President and CMO of REI Network, the parent company of MyHouseDeals which has been described as the Zillow of Off-Market properties! Vlad has over a decade of experience as a leader, strategist, and content creator as well as former soccer player. He earned a degree in law and business before using the mix of his degrees and marketing background to find a home at REI Network and work his way up the ladder all the way to the top!

As a platform for buyers and sellers to exchange real estate all over the country Vlad is dedicated to providing a rewarding experience to all members of the members continuously innovating to address the needs and aspirations of the community. He has used his background and skills in communication and leadership that we can all apply to our own businesses and investments!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ What are the most common mistakes investing in real estate?

✅ What are some of the hottest real estate markets to invest?

✅ Great advice for new real estate investors starting out

✅ What is something investors look for in good business partners?

✅ How do you know if someone should be fired + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Rob Swanson, a full time real estate investor and CEO of Freesomsoft revolutionizing lead generation, follow-up automation and helping real estate investors have a higher conversion of closing deals! This former wrestler and civil engineer turned investor, entrepreneur and data specialist is fighting out of Colorado has over 20 years of experience investing in real estate all over the country.

In addition to successfully completing multiple exit strategies in real estate, his impeccable instincts to enter and exit markets at the perfect time to maximize profit and minimize risks have made him an absolute authority in the industry. Not only is he a pilot, a father, dog lover, finds time to ski and run but he is now on a mission to help ONE MILLION people start their path to financial freedom through real estate investing!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ How does a presidential election affect the real estate market?

✅ What are signs a market is going up or down?

✅ How to predict when the real estate market hits the bottom?

✅ What is the key to building wealth in real estate?

✅ What can wrestling and grappling teach you about business?

✅ Will we see rents drop soon + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Nate Kennedy, a marketing genius with over 100 million in ad spend for investors and sending out over 70 million newsletter emails per month! Nate is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, author and business owner who is best known for his high level success he has found in marketing. Nate left an extremely profitable marketing company when he made a bold decision to find a way to make a business around the quality of life he wanted rather than make the business his life. He was the head of a major digital marketing company to generate leads of motivated sellers for real estate investors and now has taken his decades of experience and shifted his focusing to building, nurturing and monetizing newsletters for investors, business owners and entrepreneurs.

Nate went from a former scuba instructor and bartender to building and exiting over 7 businesses making 6 and 7 figure exits. He has had his ups and downs in business and used his toughness developed in wrestling to fight back and rebuild bigger and better than ever. He has found his superpower in email marketing and newsletters specializing in building and nurturing audiences and is currently sending out an astounding 70 million emails per month! Check out his newsletter and podcast by the same name Uncommon Advice! Link in show notes!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ Why is it important to have a newsletter for your brand or business

✅ How to build and organize a client marketing list

✅ How to use AI to create content for your newsletter

✅ How to start a newsletter when you don't have free time

✅ Tools to have a higher deliver rate on your emails

✅ How often should you email newsletters + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Kevin Chemidlin the founder and host of Grow The Show! Kevin went from a software developer to Entrepreneur, Mastermind founder, Podcast host and marketing master. He pivoted his focus after hitting Podcast burnout on his successful first podcast he then zigged and zagged and did a deep dive into the top podcasts in the world and found the SECRET SAUCE!

He has since tested, proven and taught this over and over again to countless podcasters, influencers and business owners across the nation and the results are staggering. As the host of Grow The Show his podcast has grown to over 100,000 listeners and $100,000 in revenue in almost record time. You can catch Grow the Show everywhere to listen and watch Kevin share his massively successful recipe for success and lessons learned from the most successful Podcasts and Podcasters in the world.

As he approaches a 7 figure business and counting he has been shouted out by some of your favorite influencers and entrepreneurs as being the man responsible for the success of their brand and podcast growth! He is on a mission to Help YOU Grow and Monetize YOUR podcast and brand! Do not miss his brand new live upcoming training! See the show notes for details on Grow The Show LIVE!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ Quickly build your brand through podcasts

✅ What is relationship capital and why is it important?

✅ Is it too late to start a successful podcast?

✅ How to correctly use social media to grow your audience

✅ Three steps for getting more listeners to your podcast

✅ how can you make money doing a podcast?

✅ Tips for beginners starting a podcast + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Matt Larson, one of the most well known virtual real estate investors in the country with a super power of finding, hiring and training virtual assistants to scale your real estate business and truly get your time back. Matt went from a shop worker in Illinois to completing over 4000 transactions today with a value of over 85 million dollars.

He has done it all from fix and flips to owning over 400 rentals and countless wholesale deals. Looking to truly create the 4 hour work week he began creating systems and processes to run his multimillion dollar investing business utilizing overseas VA's. He now helps investors do the same through his companies Rapid Assistants and The Deal Lab with some huge feathers in his cap of entrepreneurs he has trained including the one and only Tony Robbins!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ How to recognize a real estate market opportunity

✅ Top tasks real estate investors can have VA's do

✅ How to stop having long unnecessary business meetings

✅ Virtual Assistants or artificial intelligence for investors?

✅ How important is good English for your virtual assistant

✅ Should virtual assistants get paid bonuses + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Jason Hartman, one of the most brilliant real estate investors in the country who has been involved in thousands of transactions and owned income properties in 11 states and over 17 cities and counting. He is a master at identifying opportunities in real estate and finding the most lucrative markets in the country for real estate investing. His ability to analyze and translate data that matters in a world of over-information makes him an informational and financial GPS for investors all over the world.

After selling off his company to Coldwell Banker he turned his full time focus to the investing side not only for himself but for helping others achieve the American Dream of financial freedom through acquiring income producing properties nationwide. He educates investors through mentoring and educational events as well as many podcasts including his crown jewel Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing which has published over 2000 episodes being downloaded in over 189 countries.

Don't miss the opportunity to attend his Ultimate Investors Voyage: Making Money On the High Seas. This will be a transformative Mastermind journey that combines luxury, networking & top-tier investing education where you can learn strategies, connect with seasoned investors and explore breathtaking destinations. Check the show notes for more details!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ Where is the best real estate opportunity in 2024?

✅ Could this be the end of the due on sale clause?

✅ What could trigger a real estate market crash?

✅ Will prices of new homes go down soon?

✅ Will commercial real estate crash this year?

✅ The power of Jason's Inflation Induced Debt Destruction + More!

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Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with his guest Javier "Showtime" Vazquez, a business owner, UFC Veteran, cancer survivor and high level black belt who is reshaping the way Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is being taught and practiced. Javier has an incredible story being the 1st American Black Belt of Cuban ancestry accomplishing the rank in under five and a half years. He competed in the UFC, King of the Kage, WEC and even the ADCC Trials.

Being no stranger to a good scrap he found himself in the fight of his life and changing his mind and body to get a victory of Cancer. His new found understanding of clean living and nutrition were applied to all aspects of his life and he now runs Javier Vazquez Jiu Jitsu in Rancho Cucamonga, California and is taking over the internet with his mindset and technical concepts he is now sharing through his online systems JVOS and JVTV among many other amazing lessons coming soon. Javier is reinventing the way we train, think and teach Jiu Jitsu and you will hear many lessons you can take and apply to your life and business whether you train Jiu Jitsu or not. This is an inspiring story from a true disruptor!

Topics for this episode include:

✅ How to train your mind to find solutions not problems

✅ Beating cancer with lessons learned from fighting

✅ Do you have a fear of winning and don't realize it?

✅ Improve your Jiu Jitsu faster by changing the way we train and teach

✅ Lessons In learning to stay calm in discomfort from Ryron Gracie + More!

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