Jordan Isham is the co-founder of My Tennessee Home Solution, a United States Military Academy at West Point graduate, and currently serves as an Infantry Officer in the Army. He is passionate about using the wealth generated from real estate to serve as a force for Good in the world, fueled by his faith in God and intimacy with Jesus.

Today, Jordan talks about real estate investing, and shares insights on the importance of personal development, mindset shifts, keys to building a team, ideal systems and tools for business, and the framework of living a life on your terms!

KEY POINTS

1. Transitioning from the army to a real estate investor
2. Scaling life by building a foundation within yourself
3. Inspiring leadership to self-actualization
4. Mindset shift: memetic desires to life in freedom
5. How Jordan got into real estate investing
6. Building virtual teams and businesses
7. Systems and tools in Jordan’s business

LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle in getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

• ·       Capital, thus, partnered with a buddy with money.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

•  Investing in performance coaching.

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• LinkedIn

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

•  Rich Dad Poor Dad book by Robert Kiyosaki
•  Think Rich Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill
• Atomic Habits book by James Clear

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

• Take massive action on your ideas!

RESOURCES

The Richest Man in Babylon book by George Samuel Clason

Entrepreneurial Operating System book by Rodolfo Yong

Traction book by Gino Wickman

Good to Great book by Jim Collins

Building an Elite Organization book by Don Wenner

LinkedIn

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Marcin Drozdz is a multifamily real estate investor, team builder, and Managing Partner at M1 Real Capital, focused on acquiring value-add multifamily properties throughout the southeast. He started investing in real estate in 2006 and has since sourced 9-figures in private capital that has helped acquire over 1,500 units across the US. He is also the host of “The Game” podcast.

Topics we discuss with Marcin include mindset, motivation, building networks, and capital raising. When he’s not on the lookout for opportunities, Marcin is teaching up-and-coming real estate investors how to raise capital & scale their real estate business.

Marcin was turned on to real estate as he read the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book. Now, he is having fun giving back, teaching, and growing. He is teaching and helping real estate investors how to raise capital and scale their real estate business.

KEY POINTS

How Marcin got involved in the real estate world

Investing in private equity funds

Tips on attracting and raising private capital

The 6 components of niche assessment

Advice for newbie real estate investors

LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle in getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

Marcin’s credibility was tested and questioned and overcame it by doing the crap work.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

•  Get up at 5:00 am in morning and take a few minutes to meditate and reflect.

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• Set google alerts that send you a curated weekly list of content you’re interested in. 

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

• The Obstacle Is the Way book by Ryan Holiday

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

• Success is not a destination. Be in a state of being appreciative of where you’re at. 

RESOURCES

M1 Real Capital

MarcinDrozdz.com

The Game Podcast

LinkedIn

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Jorge Newbery is a serial entrepreneur, distressed debt and real estate investor, endurance athlete, author, a regular contributor to Huffington Post and other publications, speaker on debt, investing, finance, and housing issues, and Founder and CEO of American Homeowner Preservation (AHP), and PreREO. He also wrote the books, “Burn Zones”, and "Debt Cleanse: How to Settle Your Unaffordable Debts for Pennies On the Dollar (And Not Pay Some At All) that help people resolve debts and rebuild their lives.

His journey went from bike racing to the mortgage industry as a loan officer and branch manager and eventually started his own mortgage company with a partner. His lowest point in multifamily investing is when he found himself with a distressed property, rebuilding, and being wrecked by a natural disaster that left him with massive debts. Jorge never filed bankruptcy instead he applied a unique approach in investment philosophy to settle debts!

KEY POINTS

1. Facing jail time with a distressed/condemned apartment building 
2. Tackling headache properties and overcoming massive challenges in distressed apartments 
3. What Jorge learned in the mortgage industry that he applied in his own investing company
4. Lessons learned from losing a $26 million portfolio
5. Benefits of investing in notes
6. How to invest in distressed notes with PreREO

RESOURCES

Prereo.com

Burn Zones book by Jorge Newbery

Twitter

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Bob Lachance is a professional hockey athlete turned real estate investor, speaker, mentor, and Founder CEO of REVA Global, LLC, one of the premiere Real Estate Virtual Assistant Staffing companies, He is also the co-host of Pucks to Properties Podcast, and Friday Coffee Break Unfiltered alongside Amy Ransdell and Pat Precourt. Likewise, he is the founder and CEO of Perch Rock Management, LLC, an alternative asset capital firm focused on acquiring distressed, non-performing, and undervalued single-family and multifamily real estate assets in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts markets.

In today’s episode, Bob talks about building and utilizing the power of virtual assistants to scale businesses, how to increase business productivity, gaining back lost time while focusing on the income-producing tasks that grow your business, and building a team of Virtual Assistants, and outsourcing business to prevent burnout!

KEY POINTS

1.     How a hockey athlete turns into a real-estate investor

2.     Similarities in business and sports

3.     Scaling your real estate business through Virtual Assistants

4.     Misconceptions about hiring VAs

5.     Increasing productivity while working less with VAs

LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle in getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

·        There were a lot of naysayers, and overcame it by blocking all the noise.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

•  Positivity in ups and downs

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• PropStream (bonus - use this link for a free trial!) 

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

• The Compound Effect book by Darren Hardy

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

• Start buying and holding sooner!

RESOURCES

PropStream (use this link for a free trial!) 

Pucks To Properties Podcast

Friday Coffee Break Unfiltered Podcast

Revaglobal.com

Connect with Bob on Social Media

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram

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Top 10 Lessons from 400 Episodes with Jacob Ayers

Thank you so much for investing your time to listen to numerous insights and wisdom from all the remarkable guests in the past years. We are asking you to continually support and listen to us in the upcoming episodes. The right mindset with the right vision, having the knowledge, and taking action are keys to realizing our goals!

KEY POINTS

1. Top 10 lessons that Jacob learned in 400 podcast episodes
2. How to create thousands of dollars’ equity through 1 multi-family property
3. Risk mitigation methods to protect deals during this COVID-19 pandemic
4. Jacob’s recent deals and refinance

Top 10 Lessons I’ve learned from 400 podcast episodes

1. You don’t have to have it all figured out before you get started (this podcast for example)
2.  Success is built on consistent action
3. You can achieve anything you want if you’re intentional (Intention Journal)
4. Pick an investing strategy and stick with it
5. Surround yourself with people who are like the type of person you want to become
6. Do something every single day that your tomorrow self will thank you for
7. Measure your success not based on other people, but rather based on your past. Always measure backwards.  Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy
8. Build positive momentum with little wins
9. Create a vision for your life and slowly make that vision a reality (Cam Herald’s Vivid Vision)
10. Do what makes you happy. You only have 1 life. Live it to the fullest based on your own rules.

Bonus: If you’re not embarrassed by where you were 3 years ago, you’re not growing enough. 

RESOURCES

Propstream

Exactly What to Say book by Phil M. Jones

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Rafael Cortez is an organizational psychologist, real estate coach, broker, investor, all-around rock star entrepreneur, high-level wholesaler, and host of CEO Pulse Podcast, a show where you'll access to first-hand business experience, strategies & exclusive performance tools from successful entrepreneurs, CEOs and Game Changers.

In this episode, Rafael shares insights about the mindset and psychology of entrepreneurs, a lot of stuff about real estate wholesaling, and the systems and processes he uses in his real estate business!

KEY POINTS

 1.   Shifting from a firefighter into real estate 

2.   The benefits of real estate wholesaling

3.   The 6 steps to real estate finding, negotiating, and buying off-market deal 

4.   Pre-qualifying sales leads

5.   The importance of real estate cold calling

6.   The 3 stages of conversation

7.   Advice for a real estate wholesaling newbie

LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

• Taking the leap, but overcome by listening to podcasts, and taking massive imperfect action.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

•  Morning rituals through meditation, journaling, working out, listening to podcasts, and reading books.

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• Audible

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

• Psycho-Cybernetics book by Maxwell Maltz
• The Alchemist book by Paulo Coelhos

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

• Cut the learning curve through coaching and mentoring!

RESOURCES

CEO Pulse Podcast

Rafael Cortez

Instagram

YouTube

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Jamie Gruber is an entrepreneur, a full-time multifamily investor, performance coach, community founder, and leader of Multifamily and More, Gobundance Emerge, and Gobundance Ascend. He is a recovering W2 employee and currently helping people find purpose & fulfillment in life!

 KEY POINTS

1. Living an authentic life and not led by ego
2. What a mastermind can do for you
3. How to treat people in mastermind and be part of it
4. GoBundance
5. Jamie’s real estate investing journey
6. The three superpowers that a team must have

 LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

• Deal flow, therefore found another market.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

• Mindfulness practice through meditation and exploring things.

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• YouTube

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

• Be the Breakthrough book by David Nurse
•  Outwitting the Devil book by Napoleon Hill
• The Gap and the Gain book by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

• Just start in real estate and buy something!

RESOURCES

Instagram

www.gobundanceemerge.com

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Ryan Bolduc, based in Southern Maine, is an electrical engineer and multifamily investor. Wanting more control of his time, he set out to invest in real estate buying and holding small multifamily properties. Ryan has been documenting his journey to financial & time freedom and beyond. Ryan is a professional engineer, along with being a husband and dad. 

KEY POINTS

1. Scaling your real estate portfolio with a day job
2. Keeping your money working - HELOC vs. refinancing
3. Time freedom, Location Freedom, and Financial Freedom
4. How to get started in an expensive market
5. How masterminds and coaching can fuel your growth

LIGHTNING QUESTIONS

1. What was your biggest hurdle getting started in real estate investing, and how did you overcome it?

·        Mindset and taking action, therefore started listening to real estate investing podcasts.

2. Do you have a personal habit that contributes to your success?

·        Keep grinding and going after until he accomplished his goal.

3.  Do you have an online resource that you find valuable?

• YouTube
• Instagram

4. What book would you recommend to the listeners and why?

·        Rich Dad, Poor Dad book by Robert Kiyosaki

5. If you’d go back and give advice to your 20-year-old self to get started investing in real estate, what would you tell?

·        Go buy 4 units now!

RESOURCES

@mainemultifamily

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