The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing

Mike Banks is the COO and Marketing Director of Fund & Grow and works directly with CEO Ari Page. With over 8 years of success and growth, they have built a thriving business based on offering exceptional service to their customers and a dynamic and rewarding work environment for their employees.

Mike regularly hosts live webinars and creates elite Joint Ventures and Partnerships with other Expert Trainers and Affiliate networks, many of which are looking to help their clientele finance deals and purchases at 0% for 12-18 months.

• Why real estate investors can benefit from networking with professionals
• How to repair your credit quickly in order to start investing
• Using business credit lines to obtain financing for deals and protect your personal credit
• Keeping personal and business finances separate to reduce risk
• How to understand the business credit line market
• An easy to grasp negotiating process to help you win every time
• Working with the right underwriters for your business
• What to expect throughout the capital raising process
• Finding the guidance you need as a new investor

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After Lee developed his highly acclaimed Foreclosure and Short Sale Courses, he began to speak all over the country on these two profitable strategies. In all of his travels he was constantly bombarded by the same question, "Where do I get the money"? Tired of seeing dreams dashed over something so simple, Lee immediately set out to create the most comprehensive curriculum on the subject of Private Money ever complied in one place.

Recently featured in Forbes, the Boston Globe, Market Watch, Reuters, and Business Week as a leading investment strategy expert and as a consultant to Donald Trump's, "Trump University", Lee Arnold has built a personal fortune with private and hard money transactions. As a Real Estate Broker and Lender of both Private and Hard Money, Lee Arnold has helped countless people in the United States and Canada successfully and lucratively obtain the capital they need to be successful in real estate investment. A master at networking, Lee connects investors to lenders from all over the United States and Canada.

Lee created The Lee Arnold System of Real Estate Investing to teach clients how to translate workbook education and real estate theory into the real world of real estate investment success. However, after years of teaching and mentoring around the nation, he found that education doesn't mean a lick, if the person being taught doesn't have the capital to put their knowledge into genuine action. Lee already had access to capital, but his students didn't.

So, Lee took the challenge and created Cogo Capital®, where real estate investors could go for unlimited funds for their non-owner occupied investments. Since then, Lee has been involved in over 1 Billion Dollars-worth of real estate deals with clients.

While the progression seemed natural, they were missing one, very large and essential piece of the pie. The marketplace was teeming with people who had the funds, who aspired to make higher returns on their invested dollar, but lacked the desire to get involved in real estate at the ground level.

In light of this opportunity came Secured Investment Corp, which gave people the training they needed to safely lend on first trust liens (real estate), and make higher returns than they were currently seeing in their stock market, bank CDs, or bond investments. As we combined all these facets—training, funding, and the education to lend on real property—we began to notice a progressing trend of growth and success with the clients involved.

Through this model, what we call "The Circle of Wealth," we noticed that people who entered in at the training level and borrowed funds for their real estate investments, eventually became lenders in their own right. They then helped others obtain the capital needed to grow their real estate portfolios. This allowed everyone, on every side, to succeed.

It is our goal that everyone can enjoy some level of success in The Circle of Wealth, and inevitably lap it several times over.

• Why money is the easiest part of a real estate transaction
• How finding new opportunities will attract investment funding
• Using the appraisal process as a key part of your strategy
• Managing rehabilitation projects appropriately and keeping them on track
• Getting funding even with difficult credit or financial situations
• Finding a deal before you ask for the money to fund it
• Wholesaling as a newer investor while avoiding the time commitment of renovations
• Why seller-financed deals move faster than any other kind
• Using zoning laws the enhance your profits on a deal

• Website: www.CogoCapital.com

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John started researching real estate in 2002 and found there were many avenues to success in real estate. He kept stumbling upon lease options and at the time there wasn't much information out there about them, but he had been an active day trader for a few years so he understood options and decided to pursue lease options because they didn't require any money or risk.

John built his company Leasing To Buy having zero clues what he was doing and with nobody who had a business model like he was trying to build, he just had to wing it. Since 2003, his company has done over 600 lease options, most of them in the Ft. Worth area and John now trains people from all over how to duplicate his business model.

John came to be known as the "Texas Lease Option Guy," because TX has specific laws about lease options and he is one of very few teachers in the lease options business in TX.

• Why you should take the high road when investing in real estate
• How to really help others while making money investing
• What to do to have an actual business model others will respect
• How to be discerning when seeking advice on your business
• Why the ability to adapt is the key to success
• Where to get the prosperity mentality and how to use it
• The meaning and utility of the acronym and lifestyle: BUCK
• How to bust through your comfort zone
• Where to find easy to use resources to improve your business

• Website: www.leaseoptionclasses.com
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• Twitter: @leasingtobuy
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Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. In the early 1990's Chris built over 100 single family homes, in the mid-1990's to 2000's he owned a Realty Executives Franchise, and eventually sold his brokerage business as a realtor to Coldwell Banker in 2000. In the 2000's he transitioned to coaching people throughout US and Canada while doing converting multi-family homes to condos and "raise the roof" projects where he converted single family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods.

Chris is an advocate of constant education and participates annually in a high-end mastermind group personally with Ron LeGrand, with whom he does JV deals for properties valued over $1 million. Chris' company Pre Property Solutions buys between 4-10 properties monthly and a large percentage of those are done via lease options as well as selling via special terms lease. Chris and his team have done over $75 million in real estate transactions.

Chris coaches others throughout the country to do the same. He has a passion for helping others and spurring them to grow to their full potential.

• What John F. Kennedy has to teach you about learning and leadership
• The principles of what Tony Robbins calls, "Never ending improvement"
• What growing your business requires of you
• Why your income is always determined by your commitment to personal development
• The two key action items for you to take to experience a quantum leap
• What you can do every day, starting from when you get up, to improve yourself
• How to jumpstart your day with meditation, reviewing your life plan, and more
• Why you need to go take action right now

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Joe Fairless is a full-time real estate investor that started buying multi family properties in 2013 and now controls over $135,000,000 worth of real estate. Prior to that, he was the youngest vice president at an award-winning advertising agency in New York City. He is the host of the extremely popular leading iTunes podcast, Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, where he has interviewed guests such as Barbara Corcoran and Robert Kiyosaki.

Joe is the author of "The Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever, Volumes 1 & 2," which has been personally endorsed by Barbara Corcoran. All profits from the sale of the book are being donated to Junior Achievement.

• How to talk to high net worth individuals as potential investment partners
• Increasing your own gains while growing your business with outside investment
• Turning your failure into success
• What to avoid when investing in multi family real estate
• Why hidden costs can be avoided with the right knowledge base
• Business relationships that are better left alone
• How you can choose what you want to do with your time
• Creating a business model you can stick to for the long haul

• Website: www.joefairless.com
• Twitter: @joefairless
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Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed real estate investor for 20+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read "Nothing Down" by Robert Allen.

Through their company, Independence Day, Inc., Mitch, together with his wife, Tommi, and his daughter, Shannon have bought and sold over 1,500 properties in and around San Antonio, TX since 1996. Their company specializes in buying distressed properties with other people's money and selling those properties with owner financing.

The Stephen family built wealth by purchasing homes, selling them for double the cost, and owner financing the sale by creating a note to their buyer. In 1991 the family made plans to keep their wealth and create what Mitch calls, "forever money" by acquiring self-storage and boat storage facilities primarily around Canyon Lake, TX. They started with 13 boat storages around the lake, and the storage business has grown to over 1,100 storage doors in 16 locations.

Mitch is the author 3 books, "Failing Forward to Financial Freedom," "200+ Ways to Find Bargain Properties," and "The Art of Owner Financing."

Mitch, now semi-retired, is a prolific coach and educator who takes a personalized approach to his network of students. Mitch's personal expertise includes raising private money, finding bargain properties, negotiating favorable terms, dealing with renovations and contractors, selling houses, selling notes with little to no discount, and helping others deal with the every day throws of life in business.

• How to use other people's money to find success quickly
• Why Mitch made a promise to himself to, "never take another job," and how he kept it
• What to do when you fail and how to move forward
• The tactics needed to automate and grow your real estate business
• How to make yourself the sole benefactor of your earning potential
• Why he dedicates himself to teaching and what his students bring to him
• Where to find the knowledge you need to grow your business

• Twitter: @Mitch_Stephen
• Buying Site: Cash4Houses.NET
• Selling Site: Homes2Go.NET
• Note Servicing: MoatNoteServicing.com
• Website: CanyonLakeStorage.com
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• Website: RockportFultonBoatStorage.com
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Boston-based attorney Charles Dobens teaches a step-by-step program that will show new investors to seasoned professionals how to get started in the multifamily real estate investing business even with limited cash, credit or experience.

A successful attorney and consultant to multifamily investors all over the country, Charles Dobens has personally acquired over $20,000,00 of apartments and been involved, on behalf of his clients, in over $3B in multifamily transactions (yes, that's Billions with a 'B').

His legal and consulting practice has one objective – helping new investors overcome any lack of confidence in moving towards their financial objective of owning and operating apartments.

As an investor himself, he has seen all sides of multifamily deals. In his self-deprecating, humor-filled, training style, he will walk you through the entire buying process in a way that no one else teaches. By the end of your time with him, you will totally understand what it takes to be a success in the multifamily business.

• What to watch out for when starting out in the multifamily real estate business
• The mistakes and pitfalls to avoid at any stage of your career
• Where to put your money and how to analyze a property to get maximum ROI
• How to market yourself for success and know, "what business you're in"
• The best ways to build your "tribe" of clients and students
• What you need to do to avoid losing your shirt in the multifamily market
• How to find the best partners and avoid trouble

• Website: www.TheMultiFamilyAttorney.com
• Twitter: @cdobenslaw

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Ted Thomas, best-selling author and publisher is best known as America's Tax Lien Certificate and Tax Deed Authority. Thomas has sat for more than 200 radio and TV interviews, most recently on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and he has been recognized in Newsweek, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Ted Thomas is the go-to guy when people want to discover how to invest in secure government certificates that pay 16% and 18%.

Ted Thomas organization is the single largest Source of Tax Lien Certificate & Tax Deed Informational Products in the World…To Help You… We are knowledge brokers and we provide financial solutions in many forms.

For example: Guidebooks and Manuals, Directories, Newsletters, Audio Home Study Courses, Video Learning Systems, plus Live Weekly Teleconference Sessions, Workshops, Seminars, and Coaching.

Ted's best selling Home Study Course titled, Quick Start to Buying Government Tax Lien Certificates & Tax Deeds, is considered the benchmark standard for the Tax Lien Certificate and Tax Deed industry. Thomas also conducts live tours of Tax Lien Certificate and Tax Deed auctions.

In summary: Jones & Trevor Marketing is the single largest SOURCE of the Tax Lien Certificate & Tax Deed Informational Products In The World!

• The best ways to utilize the tax lien foreclosure system to maximize your real estate ROI
• Some simple tricks to find the best properties at auctions
• How to navigate the "industry of abundance" and why so many opportunities exist
• What an industry-leading investor has learned from the ups and downs of the market
• The strategies needed to turn failure into success
• Where to get the money to invest in properties and what to do with it when you do
• Why the tax lien foreclosure market is the hottest untapped resource in real estate

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