The REI Diamonds Show-Real Estate Investment Podcast

Episode: How to Rehab a House the RIGHT Way with Van SturgeonGuest: Van Sturgeon owns more than 1,000 rental properties throughout the U.S. & Canada.  He’s rehabbed even more-picking up countless methods along the way.  Big Idea: Rehabbing houses is a breeze for highly successful real estate investors.  Buying property cheap, due to condition, then renovating them to force value is one of the most powerful methods of real estate investing for compounding wealth.  BRRR, or the buy, renovate, rent, & refi strategy is one of real estate investor’s favorite strategy for building a large portfolio with a limited amount of capital.This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/Resources Mentioned in this Episode:http://www.VanSturgeon.comFor Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-rehab-a-house-the-right-way-with-van-sturgeon/Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Van Sturgeon, personally owns more than 1,000 rental properties throughout the US and Canada. He’s rehabbed even more, picking up countless methods along the way. Rehabbing houses is a breeze for highly successful real estate investors. Buying property cheap due to the condition, then renovating those properties to force value is one of the most powerful methods for compounding wealth. The skill of rehab is crucial to the BRRRR method. You know, the Buy, Renovate, Rent, and Refi strategy is used to build a large portfolio using a limited amount of capital. During this episode, Van and I will dive deep into the renovation aspect of the real estate business along with other topics such as large multifamily investing and market selection. Let’s begin.Van:  I went off to University. Graduated. I had an opportunity to go off and become a lawyer. Got accepted to several law schools, but my heart wasn’t in it. And I had a very difficult conversation with my parents saying, “Hey, I just don’t want to do this. I don’t see myself being a lawyer. I really enjoy Real Estate, really enjoy being a junk contractor.” And so, that’s where they begrudgingly gave their approval, and I went off in Chicago and became a general contractor. I started knocking on doors, started to network, started to create relationships with individuals, and trying to grow this business. Thankfully, the early 90s was a period of time that I started to get busier, and one of the things I kept running into were these career Real Estate Investors. People that this was their means of business, whether they were buying and flipping properties or buying and adding them to their portfolio. I started to network with these people. Start to see what these people are doing, and then I got around to actually doing it myself.The first property, I remember it like it was yesterday, I purchased it for $43,000 or $44,000, something like that. It was a real beat-up little bungalow. I still have some decrepit, little photographs of it for what I did to it because I was so proud of it. I bought it and I renovated it. And several months later, it cost me around $17,000 to $18,000 at the time to renovate it, I put it up for sale. I sold it for 90 something thousand dollars. All in all, I made $30,000. At that time in 1991, to make $30,000, that was a heck of a lot of beans, because the average salary was around $25,000 to $30,000 and I made that in four, five months.So I immediately got hooked on it and I was like, well, this is something that I wanted to do. So it was sort of, it ran in parallel. I was growing just the general contracting business and at the same time doing flips on the side and growing that side of the business. I’ve been very lucky and for(continued)

Episode: Converting Dead Leads to Cash with Chris Craddock

Guest: Chris Craddock is the Founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 throughout the Washington DC & Richmond Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate Podcast.

Big Idea: Homebuying companies can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash. Direct to seller marketing for real estate investors is a great way to generate deal flow. The waste product of this lead generation is that you end up with many retail-price seeking sellers. Chris and I discuss the process of converting those leads to cash in this podcast-plus much more.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.WholesalingInc.com/Revive

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:
https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:
https://reidiamonds.com/converting-dead-leads-to-cash-with-chris-craddock/

Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Chris Craddock, is the founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate brokerage team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 alone, throughout the Washington DC and Richmond, Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate podcast, as well. The big idea for today’s episode is that home buying companies like us, your direct seller marketing companies, can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash.

Direct to seller marketing for real estate. investors is a phenomenal way to generate deal flow, however, the waste product of this type of lead generation is that you end up with many retail price-seeking sellers that simply don’t fit for most of our buy box, as real estate investors.

I know I’m looking for houses that need a renovation, can fix them up, can flip them retail, that’s what I’m looking for. There’s not much I can do with the retail price-seeking sellers.

Chris and I are going to do a deep dive on this, the converting of these leads into cash on this podcast, plus much more. Shall we get started?

All right. Welcome to the REI Diamond Show.,Chris, how are you doing today?

Chris Craddock: I’m great, brother. Glad to be here with you.

Dan: Nice. For listeners who might not know who you are, do you want to do a little bit of a background story, Reader’s Digest, of what you have done and what your business looks like today?

Chris: Sure, yeah. I’ll try to give a one-minute version. 2000, I graduated college, then I stopped[?] with an organization called Young Life. Loved it, changed my life. It’s amazing. 2003, my wife got pregnant. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to live on 20,000 a year in the DC area, so I went to the library and checked out every book I could on real estate investing and read every book they had, almost like an idiot. I always say, “massive imperfect action”, right? Imperfect action trumps perfect inaction any day of the week. I just started knocking on distressed properties’ doors, and somehow in 4 months, I made 12 times what I made in a year. I was like, “This is awesome,” and so I just put that money away. We bought the house we live in now. I continued to administer stuff. I have 6 kids. As I got more kids, the money started disappearing fast, so I started flipping houses again.

At that point, it was after the crash, and so it was short sales. At the time, short sales are pretty easy to flip, but if you were licensed, they would pay a commission. Since then they changed their margin, so it’s a little bit harder to flip short sales these days. It’s still doable, but harder. I ended up getting licensed. During that time, in ministry, I’ve always led large groups of people, and so I got a Doctorate in Leadership because I just love leading people; I think it’s great. I think that’s the best way, success with others.

Somebody gave me Gary Keller’s book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent. I read it; it just blew my mind. We started a real estate team in December, 2014. Halfway through that, I realized I came from the investor world and investors and agents seem to live on 2 separate planets. If you could combine those 2 planets, then both people could make a fortune, so we started doing that. Last year we did 167 million in volume, netted, well over 7 figures, built a company that helped other investors make a fortune. I’ve got 9 businesses, a number of them, 7-figure net profit business.

It’s just been a heck of a ride over the last few years, and they’re a lot of fun.

Chris & I Discuss How to Convert Leads to Cash:
• Best Day of the Week to List ANY Property for Sale
• Generating $60,000 Per Month in Referral Fees!
• Tips for Selecting Quality Business Partners
• Process of Converting Dead Leads to Cash

Relevant Episodes: (There are 192 Content Packed Interviews in Total)
• Peter Vekselman on High Volume Investing & Retail Brokerage
https://bit.ly/3dd6FDt
• Investing in Real Estate with No Money Down with Chris Prefontaine
https://bit.ly/3vWqTrq
• Investing in Multi Family Properties-150 to 300 Unit Deals with Chris Larsen
https://bit.ly/3wXnsSL
• Motivated Seller Leads from REI Radio Advertising with Chris Arnold – Real Estate Investor
https://bit.ly/35OMHef

Episode: Converting Dead Leads to Cash with Chris Craddock

Guest: Chris Craddock is the Founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 throughout the Washington DC & Richmond Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate Podcast.

Big Idea: Homebuying companies can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash. Direct to seller marketing for real estate investors is a great way to generate deal flow. The waste product of this lead generation is that you end up with many retail-price seeking sellers. Chris and I discuss the process of converting those leads to cash in this podcast-plus much more.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

https://www.WholesalingInc.com/Revive

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:

https://reidiamonds.com/converting-dead-leads-to-cash-with-chris-craddock/

Dan Breslin: Today’s guest, Chris Craddock, is the founder and CEO of The Redux Group, a real estate brokerage team that sold over $150 million in real estate in 2020 alone, throughout the Washington DC and Richmond, Virginia region. He is the host of the Uncommon Real Estate podcast, as well. The big idea for today’s episode is that home buying companies like us, your direct seller marketing companies, can generate $10,000 or more every month by converting their dead leads into cash.

Direct to seller marketing for real estate. investors is a phenomenal way to generate deal flow, however, the waste product of this type of lead generation is that you end up with many retail price-seeking sellers that simply don’t fit for most of our buy box, as real estate investors.

I know I’m looking for houses that need a renovation, can fix them up, can flip them retail, that’s what I’m looking for. There’s not much I can do with the retail price-seeking sellers.

Chris and I are going to do a deep dive on this, the converting of these leads into cash on this podcast, plus much more. Shall we get started?

All right. Welcome to the REI Diamond Show.,Chris, how are you doing today?

Chris Craddock: I’m great, brother. Glad to be here with you.

Dan: Nice. For listeners who might not know who you are, do you want to do a little bit of a background story, Reader’s Digest, of what you have done and what your business looks like today?

Chris: Sure, yeah. I’ll try to give a one-minute version. 2000, I graduated college, then I stopped[?] with an organization called Young Life. Loved it, changed my life. It’s amazing. 2003, my wife got pregnant. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to live on 20,000 a year in the DC area, so I went to the library and checked out every book I could on real estate investing and read every book they had, almost like an idiot. I always say, “massive imperfect action”, right? Imperfect action trumps perfect inaction any day of the week. I just started knocking on distressed properties’ doors, and somehow in 4 months, I made 12 times what I made in a year. I was like, “This is awesome,” and so I just put that money away. We bought the house we live in now. I continued to administer stuff. I have 6 kids. As I got more kids, the money started disappearing fast, so I started flipping houses again.

At that point, it was after the crash, and so it was short sales. At the time, short sales are pretty easy to flip, but if you were licensed, they would pay a commission. Since then they changed their margin, so it’s a little bit harder to flip short sales these days. It’s still doable, but harder. I ended up getting licensed. During that time(continued)

Episode: How to Become a Real Estate Developer with Adam Gilbert

Guest: Adam Gilbert is the President of The Firm Commercial where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value added entitlement development deals.

Big Idea: Any Real Estate Agent, Developer, or Investor Generates Consistent Income by Positioning themselves to Receive a Continuous Flow of Deals Crossing their Path. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate, as discussed during this episode.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.TheFirmCommercial.com

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:
https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:
https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-become-a-real-estate-developer-with-adam-gilbert/

Dan Breslin: Some of my best partners have come through listening this podcast. Maybe you’re the next. Today’s guest is Adam Gilbert, the president of The Firm Commercial, where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value-added land entitlement development deals. Any real estate agent developer or investor will generate a consistent income through positioning themselves to receive a continuous flow of deals that are coming across their desk. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate as discussed during this episode. And we also dive deep on how to become a real estate developer covering details of a few recent development deals and we also touch on the Palm Springs, California Real Estate market.

So, I was doing some research for our show here and I found that you’ve recently exited your vacation rental business. So, I’d like to begin right at that point if we could, and maybe you could touch on how you built the business, how it operated at scale, and then what was the ultimate reasoning that led you to selling and exiting.

Adam: Sure. So, quick background, I’m born and raised here in Palm Springs, and I left for school. I came back in about 2011, which was an interesting time in the market for a variety of reasons. But that summer, I had stayed in this new thing called an Airbnb in 2011, Washington, DC. We had spent the summer in New York and my wife was like, “We’re going to spend the night in someone’s room at their house? This is crazy.” I’m like, “We did it. This is the future, honey. This is going to be amazing.” And so, when I moved back to Palm Springs, there we have like a long history of vacation, rental properties for 50-60 years, but not on the platform of Airbnb. So, I was one of the ones who got just a couple of condos on the platform and they just started crushing. Absolutely amazing because this whole new marketplace of people were looking for properties on Airbnb. So, it kind of just grew organically. I was like, “Okay. Well, I’ve got a housekeeping service, I’ve got a handyman, I know how to do these reservations, and we just built this business.” By the time 2018 came around, I had 35 full-time properties. We had like, 50 around the time Coachella came. It was a great business. It’s a very labor-intensive business and it takes a lot of time, and it’s holidays and all that kind of stuff. So, at that point in my real estate investing career, it was just a little bit too much. And so, I made a deal with TurnKey, who’s a venture-backed vacation rental company out of Austin, Texas and they were acquiring small companies like mine at the time. I made an exit and focus my attention on other ventures.

Dan: Okay, so was it more of a freedom thing? Or was there some timing and pricing that also made it worthwhile?

Adam: There were a few factors in there. Just the perils of running a business, partners, all that kind of stuff. I think it was more timing. I had to decide. It was that point when I had 35 properties, I would have needed to invest in the business, in terms of employees. I did some calculations, I wasn’t going to make any money again until I got 75 properties, and I’m like, “Okay. Is this what I want to spend my time doing?” So, it’s kind of an 80/20 principle thing of “Where am I going to focus my time to have the best ROI?”

Dan: Got you. So, what’s been the focus of your career? Since 2018, you exited, you jettisoned the responsibilities, which was kind of what I was expecting an answer there. So, what’s been the focus since then?

Adam: Yeah. So, mostly since then, it’s been building of my real estate brokerage, both commercial and residential, here. It’s mostly commercial, but on the residential side, I do specialize in short-term vacation rentals, which the Palm Springs Market is well known for and has been absolutely blasting since COVID. Palm Springs has been a great market since that’s happened and then, I’m also working on my own deals and I have a little niche in value-add entitlement deals and zone changes. And so, I spent a lot of my time kind of doing that and entitlement work.

Adam & I Discuss How to Become a Real Estate Developer
• Government Relations During Land Development
• Identifying Value in Underzoned Property
• Palm Springs California Real Estate Market
• The Group Any Commercial Real Estate Broker is Wise to Join

Relevant Episodes: (There are 191 Content Packed Interviews in Total)
• Land Entitlement Process for Multi Family Development with Reed Goossens https://bit.ly/3wKf7l7
• Million Dollar Wholesaling & Multi-Family Apartments with Aaron Fragnito https://bit.ly/3uu0rFd
• Marketing, Meetups & $100 Million in Apartment Syndications with Adam Adams https://bit.ly/2TqguqE
• Negotiating No Money Down Commercial Real Estate Deals with Peter Conti https://bit.ly/3usoggx
• 100+ Unit Apartment Syndication with Stephanie Walter https://bit.ly/3vwHfaZ

Episode: How to Become a Real Estate Developer with Adam Gilbert

Guest: Adam Gilbert is the President of The Firm Commercial where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value added entitlement development deals.

Big Idea: Any Real Estate Agent, Developer, or Investor Generates Consistent Income by Positioning themselves to Receive a Continuous Flow of Deals Crossing their Path. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate, as discussed during this episode.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

https://www.TheFirmCommercial.com

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:

https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-become-a-real-estate-developer-with-adam-gilbert/

Dan Breslin: Some of my best partners have come through listening this podcast. Maybe you’re the next. Today’s guest is Adam Gilbert, the president of The Firm Commercial, where he leads a team of agents specializing in commercial real estate sales, leasing, land acquisition, development, government relations, and value-added land entitlement development deals. Any real estate agent developer or investor will generate a consistent income through positioning themselves to receive a continuous flow of deals that are coming across their desk. Adam has a unique way of doing this in the realm of commercial real estate as discussed during this episode. And we also dive deep on how to become a real estate developer covering details of a few recent development deals and we also touch on the Palm Springs, California Real Estate market.

So, I was doing some research for our show here and I found that you’ve recently exited your vacation rental business. So, I’d like to begin right at that point if we could, and maybe you could touch on how you built the business, how it operated at scale, and then what was the ultimate reasoning that led you to selling and exiting.

Adam: Sure. So, quick background, I’m born and raised here in Palm Springs, and I left for school. I came back in about 2011, which was an interesting time in the market for a variety of reasons. But that summer, I had stayed in this new thing called an Airbnb in 2011, Washington, DC. We had spent the summer in New York and my wife was like, “We’re going to spend the night in someone’s room at their house? This is crazy.” I’m like, “We did it. This is the future, honey. This is going to be amazing.” And so, when I moved back to Palm Springs, there we have like a long history of vacation, rental properties for 50-60 years, but not on the platform of Airbnb. So, I was one of the ones who got just a couple of condos on the platform and they just started crushing. Absolutely amazing because this whole new marketplace of people were looking for properties on Airbnb. So, it kind of just grew organically. I was like, “Okay. Well, I’ve got a housekeeping service, I’ve got a handyman, I know how to do these reservations, and we just built this business.” By the time 2018 came around, I had 35 full-time properties. We had like, 50 around the time Coachella came. It was a great business. It’s a very labor-intensive business and it takes a lot of time, and it’s holidays and all that kind of stuff. So, at that point in my real estate investing career, it was just a little bit too much. And so, I made a deal with TurnKey, who’s a venture-backed vacation rental company out of Austin, Texas and they were acquiring small companies like mine at the time. I made an exit and focus my attention on other ventures.

Dan: Okay, so was (continued)

Episode: 100+ Unit Apartment Complex Syndication with Stephanie Walter

Guest: Stephanie Walter is the Founder & CEO of Erbe Wealth. Stephanie began investing in single family homes in Colorado while owning & operating her insurance agency business. She has since exited that business and sold all of her single family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals.

Big Idea: Recognizing the Opportunity to Sell Appreciated, Low Cash Flowing Deals and Transitioning to Larger Apartment Syndication Deals. Stephanie and I discuss her decisions to exit both single family rentals AND her insurance agency business to focus solely on larger, less active-truly passive commercial real estate deals.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
http://www.ErbeInvestmentGroup.com/

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:
https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:
https://reidiamonds.com/100-unit-apartment-syndication-with-stephanie-walter/

Dan Breslin: Today’s guest Stephanie Walter is the founder and CEO of Erbe wealth, Stephanie began investing in single-family homes in Colorado while owning and operating her insurance agency. She has since exited that insurance agency business and sold off all of her single-family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals. Today we are going to dive deep into those decisions, her investment selection process, and a few big recent wins, and of course, an upcoming deal. So let’s get started. So I did a little research on you and your background, and I figured that we could begin with your sale of the insurance agency, what led up to that what your thoughts were, how you emotionally changed chapters, let’s say, and then got on to the next place that you currently are.

Stephanie: Yeah, well, I’ve had my agency since 2006, so about 16 years. And before that, I was actually an insurance adjuster for eight years. So my whole working life, I’ve been involved in insurance in some way. And I do love it. But I also love real estate. So I used to buy and hold single-family homes and really, really loved doing that and actually became more curious. In 2016 I joined a group of people that do some education, great education, about kind of how to buy larger commercial properties through syndications. And that was in 2016. And from there, there was really no looking back I found a partner and group of people I like to work with and found that I really liked raising money. And from that just ended up working with a lot of really wealthy people and learned a lot from watching the way that they handled their finances and started changing the way that I was viewing my finances and 2018 started selling off my single-family rentals and investing that money into these syndicated deals where we were getting double-digit returns and that allowed me to replace my income in the matter of a little over two years. I sold my agency and December 2020 and so now I’m retired but I am still raising money occasionally once or twice a year for a deal and I like to talk to people about kind of changing their views on money because it was life-changing for me. Because I’ve been able to retire and now I can spend a lot more time with my family.

Dan: Congratulations on the sale. That’s pretty cool. I imagine that must have been… I don’t know. I mean, was it a decision brewing for a year, six months? Did you just wake up one day and say, “Hi, we got to get going here.” This is too much weight. Was it the daily responsibility of you running and managing a team? What was it that led up to the sale, I guess?

Stephanie: I like to work a lot. I’m a nerd that way. But so I really like what I was doing. But as I continue to invest in these deals, and the money came in, and eventually it replaced what I was making in my insurance agency, all of a sudden, I was like, well, it would be nice not to be having to work every day and not having and being able to take a vacation. I hadn’t taken like, over a week’s vacation since 2006. So then, my eyes were opened a little bit more. And it was a little bit emotional to sell it. But, this is the direction that I’m going. And I really love helping people get into these syndicated real estate deals. And but yeah, it definitely was emotional. Because you get very close to your clients over 16 years. And just kind of that’s your identity.

Stephanie & I Discuss Commercial Real Estate Syndication:
• Owning, Operating, & Exiting 100 Unit+ Apartment Deals
• Luxury Single Family Home Development
• Exiting a Successful Insurance Business
• Exiting Single Family Rentals for Larger Deals

Relevant Episodes: (There are 190 Content Packed Interviews in Total)
• Mark Walker on Graduating from the Rat Race to Multi-Family Investment Deals
https://bit.ly/3b72CY8
• Marketing, Meetups & $100 Million in Apartment Syndications with Adam Adams
https://bit.ly/2SzdoAf
• Andy Shamberg on Property Insurance Fundamentals
https://bit.ly/33oq5A4
• From House Hacking to $300 Million in Commercial Real Estate with Ivan Barratt
https://bit.ly/3nUkRW5

Episode: 100+ Unit Apartment Complex Syndication with Stephanie Walter

Guest: Stephanie Walter is the Founder & CEO of Erbe Wealth. Stephanie began investing in single family homes in Colorado while owning & operating her insurance agency business. She has since exited that business and sold all of her single family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals.

Big Idea: Recognizing the Opportunity to Sell Appreciated, Low Cash Flowing Deals and Transitioning to Larger Apartment Syndication Deals. Stephanie and I discuss her decisions to exit both single family rentals AND her insurance agency business to focus solely on larger, less active-truly passive commercial real estate deals.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

http://www.ErbeInvestmentGroup.com/

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:

https://reidiamonds.com/100-unit-apartment-syndication-with-stephanie-walter/

Dan Breslin: Today’s guest Stephanie Walter is the founder and CEO of Erbe wealth, Stephanie began investing in single-family homes in Colorado while owning and operating her insurance agency. She has since exited that insurance agency business and sold off all of her single-family rentals to focus solely on larger commercial real estate syndication deals. Today we are going to dive deep into those decisions, her investment selection process, and a few big recent wins, and of course, an upcoming deal. So let’s get started. So I did a little research on you and your background, and I figured that we could begin with your sale of the insurance agency, what led up to that what your thoughts were, how you emotionally changed chapters, let’s say, and then got on to the next place that you currently are.

Stephanie: Yeah, well, I’ve had my agency since 2006, so about 16 years. And before that, I was actually an insurance adjuster for eight years. So my whole working life, I’ve been involved in insurance in some way. And I do love it. But I also love real estate. So I used to buy and hold single-family homes and really, really loved doing that and actually became more curious. In 2016 I joined a group of people that do some education, great education, about kind of how to buy larger commercial properties through syndications. And that was in 2016. And from there, there was really no looking back I found a partner and group of people I like to work with and found that I really liked raising money. And from that just ended up working with a lot of really wealthy people and learned a lot from watching the way that they handled their finances and started changing the way that I was viewing my finances and 2018 started selling off my single-family rentals and investing that money into these syndicated deals where we were getting double-digit returns and that allowed me to replace my income in the matter of a little over two years. I sold my agency and December 2020 and so now I’m retired but I am still raising money occasionally once or twice a year for a deal and I like to talk to people about kind of changing their views on money because it was life-changing for me. Because I’ve been able to retire and now I can spend a lot more time with my family.

Dan: Congratulations on the sale. That’s pretty cool. I imagine that must have been… I don’t know. I mean, was it a decision brewing for a year, six months? Did you just wake up one day and say, “Hi, we got to get going here.” This is too much weight. Was it the daily responsibility of you running and managing a team? What was it that led up to the sale, I guess?

Stephanie: I like to work a lot.(continued)

Episode: How to Release Home Equity WITHOUT a Refi or Payments-a conversation with Matthew Sullivan

Guest: Matthew Sullivan is the Founder & CEO of QuantumRE as well as the host of his own podcast, “Hooked on Startups”. He is originally from London and has a background working with Richard Branson’s corporate finance team and was a director of the Virgin-sponsored London Air Ambulance.

Big Idea: How to Cash Out Home Equity while making NO monthly payments. Add in blockchain technology to provide a secondary market for real estate investors to participate in hot real estate markets around the world in a truly passive manner.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
www.QuantumRE.com

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:
https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:
https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-release-home-equity-without-a-refi-monthly-payments-or-mortgage-with-matthew-sullivan/

Dan Breslin: Matthew joins us today sharing his unique business model of providing cash to homeowners without a refi mortgage or monthly payments. The conversation includes tokenization of real estate through blockchain technology, the underwriting process to obtain this cash, and a brief history of Matthew’s background as a helicopter pilot and how that applies to running a business. Let us begin.

Matthew Sullivan: Very well, Dan. Thanks for having me on.

Dan: Nice. So you have a bit of a history, which, I mean, maybe people already recognize the accent. But do you want to kind of talk about where you came from in your career and kind of how it evolved to what you are doing today?

Matthew: Yes, of course. So I am originally from England and I moved to Southern California about seven years ago. And before that, I had spent about the last previous twenty-something years and really running my own businesses in finance, telecommunications, and technology. I think back in the late 90’s I had the amazing privilege of working closely with Sir Richard Branson as well for a few years and it was involved with a number of companies like Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Clothing.

I was a trustee of the London Air Ambulance that was sponsored by Virgin, so that was a fantastic time. I moved here with a big changed in circumstances back in England, so fresh start over here. And the first thing I did was just launch myself into real estate, which is something that I always wanted to do when I was in the UK, but I got distracted by the internet and other sorts of platforms. So, it was really a great opportunity to explore this fantastic universe of real estate.

Dan: Nice. Okay, so a couple of things before we dive into some of our big topics here. But I am curious, I do not know a lot about UK real estate. I have heard that it operates a little bit differently, it is more constrained, there is not the type of supply of real estate that we have in almost all the markets in the US. Would you mind shedding some light on that assumption for me?

Matthew: Yes. Well again, I did not have any great exposure to the real estate markets in the UK, so all of my real operating experience comes from the US. But I can tell you from my experiences as an investor, as a business person in the UK, property there, obviously it is a much smaller country, so you have got far fewer people and the number of opportunities is nowhere near as numerous as they are in the US.

Real estate in the US is a multi-layered industry, which comprises everything from huge public company investments down to individuals that are fixing and flipping. There is a large private money universe. One of the things that you do not have so much in the UK, so you do not have that same depth to the private capital. And also there is just nowhere near the scale of real estate opportunities that you see over here. If you look at just California for example, the size of the Californian economy is not far off the size of the UK economy and so that just puts it into perspective. It is much bigger over here, much faster-moving, and is much more the bedrock of the economy as a whole.

Matthew & I Discuss How to Unlock Home Equity
• What is a “Home Equity Contract”?
• Own a Piece of Appreciation in Hot Markets
• Tokenizing Residential Real Estate
• Using Option Contracts instead of Mortgages
• Cash Out Home Equity WITHOUT a Refi

Relevant Episodes: (189 Content Packed Interviews in Total)
• Deferring Taxes on ANY Highly Appreciated Asset Sale with Brett Swarts
https://bit.ly/2QA8diX
• Investing in Real Estate Using an IRA with Jason DeBono
https://bit.ly/3eGnfLP
• How to Take HUGE Depreciation using Cost Segregation with Yonah Weiss
https://bit.ly/3t5aOOQ

Episode: How to Release Home Equity WITHOUT a Refi or Payments-a conversation with Matthew Sullivan

Guest: Matthew Sullivan is the Founder & CEO of QuantumRE as well as the host of his own podcast, “Hooked on Startups”. He is originally from London and has a background working with Richard Branson’s corporate finance team and was a director of the Virgin-sponsored London Air Ambulance.

Big Idea: How to Cash Out Home Equity while making NO monthly payments. Add in blockchain technology to provide a secondary market for real estate investors to participate in hot real estate markets around the world in a truly passive manner.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

www.QuantumRE.com

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:

https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:

https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-release-home-equity-without-a-refi-monthly-payments-or-mortgage-with-matthew-sullivan/

Dan Breslin: Matthew joins us today sharing his unique business model of providing cash to homeowners without a refi mortgage or monthly payments. The conversation includes tokenization of real estate through blockchain technology, the underwriting process to obtain this cash, and a brief history of Matthew’s background as a helicopter pilot and how that applies to running a business. Let us begin.

Matthew Sullivan: Very well, Dan. Thanks for having me on.

Dan: Nice. So you have a bit of a history, which, I mean, maybe people already recognize the accent. But do you want to kind of talk about where you came from in your career and kind of how it evolved to what you are doing today?

Matthew: Yes, of course. So I am originally from England and I moved to Southern California about seven years ago. And before that, I had spent about the last previous twenty-something years and really running my own businesses in finance, telecommunications, and technology. I think back in the late 90’s I had the amazing privilege of working closely with Sir Richard Branson as well for a few years and it was involved with a number of companies like Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Clothing.

I was a trustee of the London Air Ambulance that was sponsored by Virgin, so that was a fantastic time. I moved here with a big changed in circumstances back in England, so fresh start over here. And the first thing I did was just launch myself into real estate, which is something that I always wanted to do when I was in the UK, but I got distracted by the internet and other sorts of platforms. So, it was really a great opportunity to explore this fantastic universe of real estate.

Dan: Nice. Okay, so a couple of things before we dive into some of our big topics here. But I am curious, I do not know a lot about UK real estate. I have heard that it operates a little bit differently, it is more constrained, there is not the type of supply of real estate that we have in almost all the markets in the US. Would you mind shedding some light on that assumption for me?

Matthew: Yes. Well again, I did not have any great exposure to the real estate markets in the UK, so all of my real operating experience comes from the US. But I can tell you from my experiences as an investor, as a business person in the UK, property there, obviously it is a much smaller country, so you have got far fewer people and the number of opportunities is nowhere near as numerous as they are in the US.

Real estate in the US is a multi-layered industry, which comprises everything from huge public company investments down to individuals that are fixing and flipping. There is a large private money universe. One of the things that you do not have so much in the UK, (continued)

Episode: How to Buy a House with No Money Down with Tim Padavic

Guest: Tim Padavic is the Vice President of The Federal Savings Bank. He’s licensed to lend in all 50 states.

Big Idea: Offering Your Retail Buyer “No Money Down” Wins More Deals (for Agents) & Keeps More Money in YOUR Pocket (for Flippers). Buying a house with no money down allows more buyers to participate in the red-hot real estate market. Recent surveys show the reason many buyers remain on the sideline is a limited savings for the down payment.

Agents & buyers obviously benefit by knowing how to buy house with no money down. Fix & Flip investors also benefit because they can offer buyers of their projects the option of no-or certainly very low money down.

If you’re flipping houses and use a real estate agent to sell your flips-you can share this episode & Tim’s contact info as a resource they might use in selling your house at a higher price. Think about it-if a buyer doesn’t need any money down-or any seller credits for down payment assistance, that money stays in YOUR pocket. Worth noting-this no money down strategy is only applicable on Owner Occupied residential property.

This Episode of The REI Diamonds Show is Sponsored by the Deal Machine. This Software Enables Real Estate Investors to Develop a Reliable & Low Cost Source of Off Market Deals. For a Limited Time, You Get Free Access at http://REIDealMachine.com/

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.TheFederalSavingsBank.com

For Access to Real Estate Deals You Can Buy & Sell for Profit:
https://AccessOffMarketDeals.com/podcast/

View the Episode Description & Transcript Here:
https://reidiamonds.com/how-to-buy-a-house-with-no-money-down-with-tim-padavic/

Dan Breslin: This episode was created for you. Agents and buyers obviously benefit by knowing how to buy a house with no money down and fix-and-flip investors also benefit because they can offer the buyers of their projects—the houses they’ve fixed to flip—the option of no money down or certainly very low money down financing. That’s the topic today.

And if you’re flipping houses and you use a real estate agent to sell those flips, I suggest that you share this episode and Tim Padavic’s contact info at the end as a resource that they might use in selling your house at a higher price. Think about it. If a buyer doesn’t need any money down or any seller credits to cover closing costs or down payment assistance, the money stays in your pocket. I’m not getting paid for this. Tim’s not kicking me anything back. I just know Tim from my network. He’s a valuable resource for me on my flips and he is licensed in all 50 states so I invited him to come on the show as a value-add to you, the valued member of my network.

Worth noting here before we get into the interview, this no money down strategy is only applicable on owner-occupied residential property. So, this is for owner-occupied properties. Tim, this episode, we do not discuss investor financing on this episode. Tim does not even get into investor financing. He specializes in homeowners looking to buy houses in which to live and that’s where the no money down financing mechanism that we’re going to discuss here today works. Ready to get started? Tim Padavic, welcome to the REI Diamond Show.

Tim: In regards to how I get started, in ’98, I got started brokering loans. We actually did most of our business in the refinance and remodel business. We helped rehabbers remodel homes for the homebuyer or the homeowner and we would lower their payment and get them their home improvement, all the way until about 2008 when the collapse happened and then I’ve been doing purchases ever since.

And most of my purchases, if not all of them, my specialty is people getting into their home either for the first time or maybe a move. They don’t really work with investors or second homes or anything like that. It’s not that I wouldn’t it, it’s just not my specialty. My specialty’s getting people into homes. People who are looking for a possibly a rehabbed home or upgrading to a rehabbed home. Something that is real nice for them to move into and the south side of Chicago has been a key focus of those rehabbed homes and the price points are right and some of the programs that we have available tie in really nicely.

Tim & I Discuss Buying a House with Low Down Payment:
• How to Access Grant Money for Down Payment
• Income & Debt Levels to Qualify
• How to Get Offers Accepted in this HOT Real Estate Market
• Importance of Beginning the Mortgage Process Now

Relevant Episodes: (There are 188 Content Packed Interviews in Total)
• Russell Walker on $45K/Month Positive Cash Flow with Airbnb
https://bit.ly/3xbAZ9Q
• How to Make $300K/Year Investing in Mobile Homes with No Money Down
https://bit.ly/3gx3t89
• Buying Mortgage Notes Generates 15% + Returns with Brian Lauchner
https://bit.ly/2QKYiqm
• Dan Breslin on Raising Private Money for Single Family Flips
https://bit.ly/3dJfeqo