Today, the Richer Geek is proud to introduce the land geek. Mark Podolski, he's widely considered to be the country's most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land. Today, Mark will share his journey into the world of buying, selling, and leasing raw land as an investment. He has actively invested in real estate and raw land for almost 20 years and has completed over 5000 unique transactions during that time.

Mark has been actively investing in real estate and raw land and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.”

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Today we welcome Aaron Norris, whose real estate career started at five years old fixie houses his father's split business. After living in New York City for almost a decade he joined the family's hard money business as a mortgage officer and researcher. Today he's the Vice President of market insights for PropertyRadar.

He speaks and writes nationally on trends and the power of public records that helps Main Street compete with Wall Street. You'll find his works on forbes.com. Think realty magazine and bigger pockets. We're going to concentrate today on this wonderful software called property radar. This software allows you to research residential and commercial properties using enhanced public records data. You can connect with owners by phone, email, mail, in person, and online.

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In today's episode, we welcome Hugh Odom. He's a former AT&T attorney, and the founder and president of vertical consultant, a telecom consulting firm that has provided consulting advice for companies like Walmart, McDonald's, Disney, and governmental institutions like the United States Postal Service; New York Housing Authority; Veteran Affairs; the City of Atlanta and the City of Charlotte.

Hugh can share the evolving story of how the telecom industry has and will become more crucial based upon the COVID-19 pandemic. And the new normal that will result after COVID has run its course, as the founder and president of vertical consultants who wants to demystify not only what is being reported in the news. But what is going on behind the scenes inside companies like AT&T, Verizon, and T Mobile. He has been a resource in many newspapers, podcasts, radio shows, and blogs for years.

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Joining us today is Kris Benson, is the Chief Investment Officer of Reliant Investments, a subsidiary of Reliant Real Estate Management and one of the top 25 commercial self-storage operators in the U.S. in 2019. Reliant has completed over $650,000,000 in self-storage acquisitions and dispositions in the past 5 years and recently completed Reliant Self-Storage Fund I, a $50,000,000 equity fund focused on self-storage acquisitions in the southeastern U.S.

Kris is part of the investment committee at Reliant and helps to develop institutional quality self-storage investment opportunities for accredited investors.

Kris’s investing goals have always been about changing the paradigm of trading time for money in order to have time for more of the things we love to do. Likewise, investing in real estate has been Kris’s steadfast path to passive income and he is passionate about inspiring others to change their mindset around investing for their future.

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Joining us today is Chris Arnold, who has closed over 2,500 real estate deals using a marketing channel that is very effective but frequently overlooked, radio. In his 15 years of working in real estate, Chris has perfected a method of micro-targeting the exact audience he is looking for and then creating explosive radio spots that result in prospects approaching him to buy their homes. This marketing channel brings inconsistent and highly motivated sellers with virtually no completion!

Most recently Chris has launched his REI Radio coaching program. This program is designed to teach real estate investors the Marketing stream that everyone knows about NO ONE is doing!

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If you thought about quitting your day job and getting into real estate investing. Our next guest is a must to listen.

Leka Devatha moved to the US from India 13 years ago. She quit her corporate job at Nordstrom in 2014 and started Rehabit Homes, Inc. It's a company focused on residential redevelopment.

She has now flipped over 40 homes and has expanded her focus to include land development, additions, acquiring long term rentals both in state and out of state. Her strength is finding creative exit strategies on every deal.

She also serves as an advisor on the board of Certain Lending, a FinTech company based in SF. She enjoys inspiring and motivating other entrepreneurs to build successful businesses. And she's even co-authored a book.

Today's guest founded a company that provides a really interesting approach for homeowners to unlock the equity in their homes. And coming soon, investors can invest through this platform as well. The overall concept is called Home Equity Contracts.

Matthew Sullivan is the CEO and founder of QuantmRE he's a serial entrepreneur. He's also the founder and president of a Crowdfunding real estate company called crowdventure.com. He's the author of headfirst, a roadmap for entrepreneurs, and the host of hooked on startups podcast.

Matthew is a man on a mission to help homeowners get cash from their equity with no interest or monthly payments. He has helped hundreds of homeowners use their home equity to pay off expensive credit cards, remodel, pay college tuition fees, etc. without taking on extra debt.

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What are your thoughts on investing passively in the office space? If you thought like me, that offices were falling out of favor due to COVID? We are mistaken, offices in the right demographic and area are thriving and ripe for the picking. Brian Adams is going to let us know the details on why Excelsior Capital is investing in offices.

He has 10 years of experience in Real Estate private equity and has advanced knowledge in best practices for strategic real estate investing.

Prior to forming Excelsior Capital, Brian co-founded Priam Properties (an institutional Real Estate Private Equity Sponsor) in 2010 and provided leadership and direction for the firm in connection with capital markets, investment management, and investor relations.

Brian served as a member of the Board of NextGen Advisory Faculty for the Institute of Private Investors/Campden; a program designed to support next-generation family members in preparing the following generation for the responsibility of being a steward of family wealth.

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In today's episode, we're welcoming back Kenny Rose. He's a renowned franchise expert in this field. He's featured in Forbes, ABC American Express, The Hustle, Market Watch, and other publications, his media reaches over 220 million people.

Founder of Semfia Franchise Brokerage and FranShares, Kenny Rose is the go-to source for franchise investing knowledge.

He's going to be talking today about his latest company Fran Shares. This allows you to passively invest in a portfolio of professionally managed franchises in minutes, with no fees.

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How many of you have ever needed to hire a general contractor? Whether you're building or renovating? If you're working full time, this can be a daunting and most frustrating experience.

How are they doing their job? Are they keeping within your budget? Are they even showing up?

Paul Dashevsky and John Grishpul are here to help. They are the co-founders of Great builds, a completely free service that matches homeowners with top general contractors that have gone through a rigorous 10 step vetting process. They even stay by the client side, from the initial call to finishing remodel to ensure everything runs smoothly.

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