The Real Estate Locker Room Show with John Carney

Before founding Groundbreaker, Jake Marmulstein held a number of roles involving real estate and technology, supporting the growth of early stage digital technology ventures while working with the government on foreign direct investment by Fortune 500s. In 2011, he started his career in real estate, underwriting hotel investments for Watermark Capital Partners.

At Groundbreaker, Jake owns the Company's strategic vision and execution. He is responsible for sales, management of the departments and the people leading them. Jake also manages Company finances and capitalization, as well as the Board.

Jake Marmulstein joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to share how using technology platforms will increase investor confidence.

Imagine a world where one apartment could replace your salary.

After a health scare in 2010, Sri and her husband shifted their focus to real estate, starting with a 12-unit in Dallas before transitioning to California. After many successful multifamily deals, Sri is now looking to reposition hotels into multifamily communities.

Sri Latha joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to discuss her strategy for real estate success.

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit Damion started his first business at age 11, (even hiring his parents for logistics support). Over the last quarter century he's started and owned more than 50 different companies including an insurance agency, precious metals firms, a venture capital company, a coaching and consulting firm, and more than a dozen real estate investment and development companies. Damion is a martial artist who holds three black belts and is the founder of Yokido ™, a martial art practice that he developed.

Damion is a sought-after financial consultant for high-profile private clients. He leverages his vast depth of knowledge on financial markets, money psychology and unconscious pattern motivation to quickly assess hidden financial cancers and holistically heal his clients (and their organizations) through awareness, empowerment and vision development. Damion's personal philosophy centers on Self-Responsibility and a conviction that the only path to freedom is through candor, growth and a big vision. The big vision ideal is what drove him to narrow the focus on the Retirement System and teach about the eQRP®, a tool to design retirement vs. getting destroyed by it. Today Damion works with change agents to Disrupt Wall Street's manipulative system of enriching itself at the expense of its client. He's on a mission to Empower Main Street through tools and teachings of financial transformation. His overriding mission is to elevate humanity's power and control over their life by reducing complexity and creating a simple and transparent conversation around money and investing.

Damion Lupo joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to discuss discipline in your everyday life.

Hamza Ali is the Founder and CEO of Gray Spear Capital with an investment portfolio of over $50M multi family assets in Texas. His career spans 15 years in strategic investment, real estate development and mentoring.

Hamza immigrated to the United States from Dubai and started his real estate business in Houston, Texas. He started small and worked his way to the multi family asset class. Hamza is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience with young entrepreneurs who are looking to get started in the real estate business.

Hamza Ali joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to discuss networking and finding your solution with your team.

With a deep background in financial services at companies like Monett, Missouri-based Jack Henry & Associates Inc., Travis started Tribevest after a terrible experience trying to get into real estate investment with his brothers. TribeVest began when five relatives decided to pool their resources, each saving $500 a month to invest. The agreement was fruitful! They've been able to purchase investment properties, become partners in a physician's practice, even buy a prize-winning racehorse. As a result, Travis has harnessed his expertise leadership to help others. Travis is leading Tribevest to solve the financial collaboration problem and evolve as the problems of our users do.

Travis Smith joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to discuss the benefit of finding your tribe.

Originally from Denmark, Jens Nielsen has lived in the United States since 1996. After a successful career in telecommunications and IT, Jens shifted his focus from being an employee to becoming an entrepreneur. He was attracted to multifamily real estate due to the many benefits and began investing in his home state of Colorado where he is currently the key principal of an 82-unit apartment portfolio.

After achieving success as a Limited Partner (LP), Jens decided to raise money as the General Partner (GP) in real estate syndication and raised over $1M in 2019 alone. He has passively invested in 14 real estate syndications / private investments that include over 800 apartment units, 2,000 mobile park lots and over 6000 storage units as well as mortgage note funds and private money lending. Jens mission is to help more people invest in private placements for the strong cash flow and equity growth. His company's mission is to "Open Doors to your secure financial future through multifamily investing."

Jens Nielsen joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to talk about the real estate syndication process.

Peter Sisson is a product-focused entrepreneur who has successfully started and exited four tech companies. Peter recently launched his fifth business, Yaza, creating an authentic and secure video mapping app. Peter's expertise covers all aspects of designing, building, launching, growing and monetizing great products, as well as designing and scaling organizations to support those products and make them profitable. Peter also invests his time volunteering and mentoring startup founders at the European Innovation Academy and Start Out Growth Lab. During his tenure, twenty-four companies have graduated. These businesses have closed over $45M in funding and created more than 200 new jobs. Peter believes that entrepreneurship provides a path to economic self-empowerment that doesn't t require people to "fit in" with the traditional corporate grind. It offers a path to success and fulfillment for dreamers, big thinkers, innovators and creative people who want to have an impact on the world.

Peter Sisson joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to explain how to make Yaza work for you.

Brett Swarts is an entrepreneur, deferred sales trust expert, investor, podcaster, and multifamily broker. His leadership roles include serving as the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions, Commercial Realty Apartment Advisors, and the Capital Gains Tax Solutions podcast.

Brett leads a team of extraordinary people at his companies. He serves ultra high net worth clients and enables them to create and preserve their wealth through real estate investment. Brett leads clients through a wealth preservation process by leveraging the optimal timing capital gains tax deferral structure known as The Deferred Sales Trust. Its purpose is to help individuals escape feeling hostage to the 1031 exchange and 30-50% capital gains tax when they sell their highly appreciated real estate assets.

By focusing on the timeless aspects of being the guide, Capital Gains Tax Solutions' educational platform helps high net worth individuals and their trusted advisors who help them execute a passive/active capital gains tax deferral wealth plan of their own.

Brett Swarts joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to advise us on how to create and protect your wealth.

Chris Prefontaine has been in the real estate game for 25+ years and is a two-time Amazon best-selling author of "Real Estate On Your Terms" and "The New Rules of Real Estate Investing".

Chris is a big advocate of constant and continuing education. He participates annually in high-end mastermind groups and boot camps and invests in private mentors in order to stay competitive in the ever-changing real estate market.

Chris and his family/team have participated in over $80 million in real estate transactions as a group. The team currently focuses on purchasing homes via Lease/Purchase or Owner financing with sellers and helping buyers gain the time they need for credit enhancement, mortgage qualifying seasoning, or down payment build-up. The team believes in win/win relationships and strives to structure deals for both seller and buyer to achieve favorable outcomes.

Chris Prefontaine joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to talk about helping out, adding value, and solving problems.

Kevin Bupp is the Founder & CEO of Sunrise Capital Investors, which invests in mobile home parks, parking lots, apartments, offices, and single-family homes all across the US.

Kevin has sixteen years of experience educating investors to locate, acquire, and create "higher than average" returns from the widely misunderstood niche of mobile home park investing.

He shares his expertise through the Mobile Home Academy and also as the host of The Real Estate Investing for Cashflow Podcast, which is one of the hottest real estate podcasts on iTunes.

We are all fighting this together. Kevin Bupp joins John Carney today in The Real Estate Locker Room to share how he is managing his real estate portfolio and navigating the Covid-19 crisis.