Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you how he identified a niche in the flipping industry by buying properties nobody else wanted.

Best Ever Tweet: 

You don’t need to learn a lot to get started.

Mike Simmons’s real estate background:

-        Managing Member of Modern Real Estate Solutions based in Troy, Michigan

-        Started in 2008 and is focused on flipping single family homes in Southeast Michigan

-        Host of popular podcast, Just Start Real Estate

-        Say hi to him at www.juststartrealestate.com

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Want to invest in a market outside of where you live? Want to learn how to structure partnership agreements with local team members? Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you TWO ways

Best Ever Tweet:

You can’t steal second base with a foot on first base.

Anthony Dadlani’s real estate background:

-        President of A Plus World Group based in New York City, New York

-        15 years as an equity markets trader and portfolio manager

-        Experience buying and selling private liens, notes and mortgages

-        Actively buying single family homes

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Today’s Best Ever guest gives you two Stock Market tips to apply in your real estate investing. Plus she gives you advice for how to minimize your risk when you get started investing in real estate. 

Best Ever Tweet:

Buy in a low cost of living area.

Barbara Friedberg’s real estate background:

-        Veteran portfolio manager, has a master’s degree in business administration and is a former university finance instructor and based in San Jose, California

-        Author of multiple investing books including Invest and Beat the Pros- Create and Manage a Successful Investment Portfolio  - buy em here: http://barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/wealth-shop/

-        Say hi to her and learn personal finance tips at http://barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/blog/

-        Host of the popular podcast Young & Oldish Money 

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Get your pencil and paper ready…or Word doc and keyboard because you’re about to get a list of all the due diligence items that get missed when doing a walkthrough of the property.  PLUS she shares with you the best ways to add value to a multifamily property.

Best Ever Tweet:

Experienced investors need to have a vision. Then the rest will follow.

Mindy Sharp’s real estate background:

-        Regional Manager for Prime Property Investors based in South Bend, Indiana

-        15 years of real estate and property management experience

-        Blogger for Multifamily Insiders and has a blog called My Life As A Property Manager

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We’re speaking to one of the leading real estate entrepreneurs and technology innovators and he is going to share with you the NEXT BIG THING in real estate technology. Let’s go!

Best Ever Tweet:

It takes time for things to change.

Dave Eraker’s real estate background:

-        Serial entrepreneur with an interest and focus on the intersection of economics and applied technology

-        Co-founder at Surefield  and is based in Seattle, Washington

o   Surefield is a full-service brokerage that has virtual tour technology that builds virtual models of homes allowing house hunters to navigate a property inside and out from their computers

-        As the founder and CEO of Redfin, he led the product development efforts for a new web-based form of map search and developed a salaried model for residential real estate agents

o   Company received the Innovator of the Year award by Inman News

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Here’s the step-by-step process for how to evaluate a single family home investment property.

Best Ever Tweet:

Get multiple bids on mortgage financing.

Leonard Baron’s real estate background:

-        Investor, past lecturer at San Diego State University and teaches continuing education to Realtors

-        Has a nationally syndicated real estate A&A at Zillow.com Featured Blog and in newspapers around the country

-        Say hi to him at www.professorbaron.com

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How do you qualify a crowdfunding platform? What specific questions do you ask the platform reps? What is it like to invest in a crowdfunded deal?

Today we’re going to answer those questions and then some.

Who we’re talking to today:

AdaPia d’Errico, Chief Marketing Officer at Patch of Land

Mark Robertson, President at CrowdDD based in Charlotte, North Carolina  

Jamie McIntyre, Founder at Rewire Capital based in Washington D.C.

Some things you’ll discover on today’s episode:

-        Two surprising lessons learned by investing in Crowdfunded deals

-        The list of questions you should ask a crowdfunding platform

-        The step-by-step process for what it’s like to invest in a crowdfunded deal from an investor’s standpoint

-        Pros and cons of debt and equity investing

-        How to diversify your portfolio in crowdfunded deals

And much, much more!

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This episode is bought to you by our Best Ever sponsor, Patch of Land.

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares why he went back to buying single family homes after dabbling in wholesaling and apartment investing. He also talks about low income housing and how to effectively manage low income properties. 

Best Ever Tweet:

Treat real estate like a business.

Steve Rozenberg’s real estate background:

-        Property Manager at Empire Industries based in Houston, Texas

-        Licensed real estate agent with over 13 years of owning and operating properties

-        Has flipped and negotiated hundreds of transactions

-        Currently focused on single family home properties

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Half sale? Nope, WHOLESALE! Today’s Best Ever guest shares with you how to create your A-team as a wholesaler AND he shares with you his Best Ever deal that netted $80,000 buckeroos.

Best Ever Tweet:

We’re stronger than we think we are.

Andy McFarland’s real estate background:

-        Owner of Quality Property Renovations which flips 10 – 12 houses a year based in Salt Lake City, Utah

-        Owner of Treehouse Investments which wholesales over 100 properties a year in three different states

-        Active investor since 2002 when he purchased his first property (“the Treehouse”)

-        Since then has purchased hundreds of properties and does hard money loans

-        Say hi to him at http://www.iloverealestatestories.com/

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