Today’s Best Ever guest has SO many stories to share, and they include having his credit stolen, and buying stolen properties! Phew, I’m anxious after conducting this interview I can’t even imagine going through it! Listen up, because he shares with us all about hard money lending, and why he will absolutely lend to first time investors.                  

Best Ever Tweet:

Before you’re doing any deal, make sure your numbers make sense.

Rod Stanback’s real estate background:

-          Owner of Flip Funding LLC which is a hard money lender which does over $20M of funding annually

-          Owner of over $1M in real estate holdings and acquires 4 buy and holds annually

-          Don’t get in a fight with him either! His favorite hobby is boxing.

-          Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

-          www.Flipfunding.com 

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Today’s Best Ever actor turned real estate investor has used his experiences in life to have tremendous real estate success. Having bought thousands of multi-family units, he shares with us how to determine if a property is worth an investment in 5 minutes, and most importantly about his acting career!

Best Ever Tweet:

Be easy to do business with, and make your brokers look good.

Sean Sweeney’s real estate background:

-          Real estate professional with over 11 years of experience in multifamily industry

-          Currently at Timberland Partners, where his two person acquisition team has successfully acquired over 4,000 multifamily units with a combined value over $250,000,000

-          Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

-          Was in the movie ”What Women Want” with Mel Gibson and has had dinner with him

-          Here is the spreadsheet we discussed during the show: https://goo.gl/cWpZCy

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Bienvenidos, Best Ever listeners! Today, we discuss why buying in numbers may just lead to cheaper deals, which markets YOU should be investing in now, and what to look for in a market. If you apply these simple tips today, YOU will be making all the moola!

Best Ever Tweet:

View real estate as a vehicle. Real estate is not the end game, real estate is a vehicle to achieve other things.

Matt Bowles’s real estate background:

-          Partner at Maverick Investor Group where he and his partners have helped real estate investors buy over $100 million in turnkey rental property 

-          Joining us  from Spain

-          Personally has bought and sold over $4 million in real estate

-          Lived in 14 countries since 2013

-          Say hi to him at www.Maverickinvestorgroup.com 

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 Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us the behind the scenes aspect of the real estate statistics that you base your deals off of. He studies real estate and consults would be investors as to their best ever options for an investment. Listen up, because he teaches us how to shoot under par in real estate investing.

Best Ever Tweet:

You reall need to keep an eye on your properties, especially if you're a direct owner.

Jack McCabe’s real estate background:

-          Based in Deerfield Beach, FL and has been in real estate for 33 years

-          CEO of McCabe Research and Consulting

-          Last two rounds of golf he played he has shot a 78

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Today’s Best Ever guest is a business coach who has worked with some incredibly high profile business people including Steve Jobs. He shares with us how to elevate our personal brand online, how to stand out in business, and just how you need to face and act on your business related fears. Listen up, because your business just may be the Apple of the real estate industry!

Best Ever Tweet:

One of the easiest ways to stand out is to be authentic, vulnerable and to speak your truth.

Jason Treu’s real estate background:

-          Business coach based in Dallas, Texas

-          Author of Social Wealth, a guide to creating extraordinary relationships

-          Say hi to him at http://beextraordinary.tv/

-          Host of the BeExtraordinary Podcast Show

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Today’s Best Ever guest, shares with us why you should NEVER stop investing, some of his best ever keys to generating more leads, and how to study a deal in order to be sure if it makes sense. Today’s episode is so full of great wholesaling tips, so listen up!

Best Ever Tweet:

You have to know what you’re good at, and outsource the rest.

Aaron Lockhart’s real estate background:

-          Over 10 years of experience as real estate investor and 2 years as a full-time investor

-          Bought first property at 21 years old and has purchased properties in several states

-          Primarily is a wholesaler and has done over 20 deals in the last year

-          Plays keyboard and bass guitar in a band called Functional Groove

-          Founder of First Integrity Group based in Chicago, Illinois

-          Say hi to him at www.Firstintegritygroup.com  

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Today, we discuss what you need to do to start seeing your life in a different light. If we apply these THREE tips to our lives today, we will slowly but surely be able to visualize the future by using the past and the present.

Best Ever Tweet:

It’s really about the amount of magical moments we have with the people we love.

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Today’s Best Ever guest may throw you for a loop with his Chinese/Wisconsin accent, but don’t let him fool you because he shares with some incredibly valuable experience about building and maintaining relationships with out of state investors, and where you need to look to determine whether or not your investment is in a safe neighborhood.

Best Ever Tweet:

I need to have an identity outside my performance in real estate.

Mark Shaffer’s real estate background:

-          Purchased 5 turnkey rentals starting in 2010 and currently own 10 units

-          Bought all of them while living in China

-          Based in Madison, Wisconsin at Midwest Equity Partner  

-          Today is his 38^th birthday

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Today’s Best Ever guest shares with us how he looks at deals differently than you probably do, and why there HAS to be something to lose on both sides of the investment in order to win. Listen up, because today’s episode is PACKED with value.

Best Ever Tweet:

When you make investments with groups that have survived those times, those are the kind of people you want to be associated with.

Steven Bettinger’s real estate background:

-          CEO and co-Founder of Acquire Real Estate an online crowd investing platform

-          2-time national lacrosse champion at Syracuse

-          40 under 40 business professionals in South Florida

-          Based in Boca Raton, Florida

-          Download Steven’s sample document here: https://goo.gl/GolCrH

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Today’s Best Ever guest used Bigger Pockets to fund his first deal. Wait, what?! Yeah, that’s right. Listen up because he shares with us how he did it, and the formula you should use to decide what your business model should be.

Best Ever Tweet:

Never fall in love with a property.

Andrew Davis’s real estate background:

-          Investor agent at Keller Williams

-          Full time investor based in Orlando, Florida

-          Started investing full-time last August

-           Has a single family home and a duplex and has two single family homes under contract right now

-          Download the presentation we talked about on this show here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/19pchjudmq7ri2f/Knollwood.pdf?dl=0

-          Went to state in chess in 5^th grade

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