Landlording for Life: Recent Episodes
Sean Morrissey
Landlording for Life provides real estate tips, tricks, and stories of success and failure from landlords and aspiring real estate investors. Creative real estate investing | Commercial real estate investing | Creative financing | Real Estate Syndication | Tenant Screening | Lease Ideas
Sean Morrissey, host of the "Landlording for Life" podcast, says goodbye to the podcast series, explains what he has learned, and what he recommends for podcast listeners moving forward.
Heather Dreves, Directing of Funding at Secured Investment Corp, discusses why investing in a real estate funds makes sense and what profile investor it makes sense for as well as sources of funding to secure a passive investment as an accredited investor.
Frank Furman, of Padsplit, chats about the advantages and disadvantages of home sharing and offering rooms for rent as an investor. He also discusses how to use Padsplit.com as a platform for filling these leasing vacanices.
Jason Earle, Founder of 1-800-GOT-MOLD?, discusses the causes and methods of prevention and testing when it comes to dealing with mold within building structures. Receive a 10% discount for the GOT MOLD?Test Kit by following this link : https://www.gotmold.com/landlordingforlife/
Lazaro Vento, Founder of Happy Travels Miami LLC, discusses how he built his Air BnB portfolio, how to research a market, systems to put in place to automate and build a sustainable Air BnB hosting system, and what he would change if he started all over again.
Janet Fields, CEO and co-owner of Oak Trust Properties, discusses the qualifies, services, and traits we should look for in a property manager as well as how to go about terminating a property management agreement.
Stephanie Walter, Founder of Erbe Wealth, discusses her experiences with how the wealthy view money and where our listeners should be putting their cash to best work for wealth preservation over time.
Drew White, Modern Financial Planner for investors, discusses the pitfalls of keeping US dollars in bank accounts, where to be putting our dollars to retain value, and how we can learn more on the "Bank on Yourself" system.
Brent Bowers, Founder of Landsharks, discusses his first real estate investing deal, how he chooses a market and finds sellers, and goes about building his buyer list in an effort to create passive income through land investing.
Nick Perry, Found of the 7 Figure Cartel Mastermind Group, discusses his tips for building a virtual real estate wholesaling business. His business covers the entire United States and prospects for seller leads using pay per click advertising in above average after-repair value real estate markets.
Bill Gross, Real Estate Broker and LA Probate Expert, discusses why investing in probate real estate leads can be profitable and the best means to establish your network to maintain an effective real estate probate lead flow.
Lauren Hardy, host of the Wholesaling Inc. podcast, joins us to discuss how to become a wholesaler in an out of state market, what team members to focus upon to build your brand, and why you should consider a joint venture partner and mentor before starting to wholesale in an "out of state" market.
Henry Washington, Owner of Independance Realty Group LLC, discusses the systems, tools, mindset, financing alternatives, and prospecting ideas necessary to become a real estate investor.
Dave Dubeau, author of the Money Partner Formula, discusses the five steps for raising capital and why it's important to build a database of investors prior to finding a real estate deal to invest in as a general partner.
David Olds, Coach for Nationwide Property Liquidators, discusses strategy for wholesaling properties, strategy for evaluating new real estate investment deals that cross your desk, how to choose a wholesaling market, and developing a buyer pool of wholesalers.
Steven Rozenberg, Coach and Mentor of Unlimited Mindset, discusses common landlord mistakes made throughout the process of purchasing, marketing, and managing rental property as well as providing recommendations along the way.
Mark Dolfini, the "Landlord Coach", discusses his process to focus on the vision of creating a lifestyle condusive to the creation of the housing provider or landlord while not putting your process before that vision you create for yourself.
Flip and Dani Lynn Robison, CEO and Director of Acquisitions for Freedom Capital Group, discuss the purchase of a 56 unit portfolio in Dayton, Ohio and the success and lessons learned along the way.
Elizabeth Dodson, Co-Founder of Homezada.com, discusses the Homezada software and how it enables homeowners, landlords, Realtors, and property managers to better service their properties mechanicals and appliances through a suite of applications.
Jonathan Klemm, Founder of Quality Builders in the Chicagoland area, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of ground up construction in today's real estate market along with some tips in evaluating and working with contractors in the process.
Daniel Johnson, Founder of Refocus Financial Planning, discusses why a financial plan is important for real estate investors, greatest weaknesses in reference to a financial plan in reference to landlords, and how we can maximize our ability to build a solid estate plan.
Matthew Riccardelli, Founder and Managing Partner of Crystal View Capital in Las Vegas, NV, discusses how to source real estate deals focused towards value-add investment and his thoughts in building a team focused on culture.
Chris Miles, host of the "Chris Miles Money Show" podcast, discusses the drawbacks of traditional retirement plans and how we should be focusing our energy to build sustainable wealth and cashflow through the retirement years of life.
Van Sturgeon, former General Contractor, Developer, and Home Builder, discusses how we can save significant costs by becoming our own General Contractor for renovation of homes when fix and flipping for real estate investment income.
Rod Khleif, Director of the Lifetime Cashflow Academy, discusses the power of mindset in achieving goals, basics in goalsetting and visualization of goals, definition of limiting beliefs and how to overcome limiting beliefs, and the future of the multifamily real estate market.
David Spooner, Co-Founder of Innago, discusses opportunities in automating self-management of a real estate portfolio and where the future of automation make take us as landlords.
Martin Tyler, CEO of Hemeek LLC Real Estate Holdings, discusses Sheriff Sale real estate foreclosure auctions and his tips for success when competing in the real estate auction process.
Steve White, CEO of RentPrep, discusses specifics regarding credit scores, how to evaluate credit reports, criminal and eviction background checks, as well as how to approach bankruptcies and previous evictions in relation to filling new vacancies.
Kent Ritter, Managing Director of Birge and Held Management, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing small multifamily properties and the future of the multifamily over the coming years.
Bryan Driscoll, Landlord and Co-Founder of Motivated Leads, discusses best practices for pay per click lead generation, budgeting for pay for click, and the top three metrics to use when evaluating the performance of pay per click advertising for real estate investors.
Willie Mandrell, Founder of The Mandrell Group, discusses the benefits of commercial real estate investing, his favorite markets and why, and where he see the commercial real estate market headed in the coming years.
Max Fisch, investor and entreprenuer, shares his system of wholesaling, rehabbing, and referring out leads on real estate transactions with listeners and how they can do the same.
Matt DiBara, 4th generation masonry contractor, discussing best practices for hiring ethical general contractors for renovation of residential and commercial real estate projects.
Maurice Philogene, Founder of Quattro Capital, discusses his Five Principles of Freedom. In essence, the principles necessary for financial freedom, time freedom, relationship freedom, freedom of purpose, and relationship freedom.
Chris Craddock, Founder and CEO of the Redux Group at ExP Realty, discusses ways in which his team revitalizes old leads and using local partners to match leads with the right source.
Matt Gouge, known as "Matt the Mortgage Guy", discusses the 2021 mortgage market, basics when it comes to financing as a buy and hold investor, and what we should be asking our mortgage broker prior to doing business with them.
Prashant Kumar, Founder of My Realty Gains, discusses the means in which he is finding offmarket multifamily apartment buildings in a tight seller market where overpaying for a property is easy but not desired.
Melissa Leon, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Sense Consulting, discusses outsourcing tasks as a landlord, quick ways to build business efficiences, and the benefit of having a Virtual CFO perform a business review for you.
Sean O'Toole, CEO and Founder of Property Radar, discusses tools and strategies to utilize in farming data to find motivated home sellers in generating leads for purchasing real estate in your local marketplace.
Jay Harvey, Co-Founder of Trailer Cash Academy, discusses how to invest in mobile homes, underwriting and financing mobile homes, and what team members work best for developing a wealth building real estate strategy with mobile home investment.
Scott Choppin, CEO of Urban Pacific Companies in southern California, discusses the realities of being a real estate developer and how those compare to those of the everyday real estate investor and how we can evolve into real estate developers as well.
Dan Brault, Coach and 7 Figure Wholesaler, discusses wholesaling real estate as a strategy for generating cash and improving the velocity of cash flow within real estate investment.
Erik Engebreson, Founder of ME Real Estate Companies, discusses his model of establishing short term rentals as a means to generate cashflow while building home equity along the way.
Faizan Ali Khan, CEO and Co-Founder of Lethub.co, discusses use of the chatbot (named River) that has evolved to provide landlords and property managers the ability to prescreen and set showings while providing an overview of the where we stand in reference to understanding Artificial Intelligence in the process.
Dr. Axel Meierhofer, Founder of idealwealthgrowth.com, provides listeners insight on generational wealth building tactics that can be used in conjunction with real estate "buy and hold" investment.
Matt Engle, founder of the Columbus, OH Multifamily Meetup group, discusses his system for creating "magical" resident experiences in multifamily housing, his definition of financial freedom, and an overview of the Columbus, OH residential real estate investment market.
Chris Prefontaine, author of "Real Estate on Your Own Terms" and Founder of Smart Real Estate Coach, joins us to educate listeners on basic terminology used with owner financing in real estate. This includes "subject to", sandwich lease, lease to own, and how to get paid three ways when wholesaling.
Jay Chang, a Civil Engineer by trade and Real Estate Developer by choice, joins us to discuss cap rate in regards to real estate investment and how we should consider this calculation when considering our next commercial real estate investment.
Jonas Bordo, cofounder of dwellsy.com, discusses ideas to improve our rental listings as landlords, frustrations tenants and landlords may have regarding rental listing platforms, ideas to streamline the leasing process, and how dwellsy.com assists in matching landlords and tenants.
Todd Dexheimer, Founder of Venture D Properties, is a multifamily syndicator who discusses with listeners how he is targeting markets, underwriting apartment deals, and structuring financing in 2021 while reviewing key metrics in determining a real estate investment worth chasing.
Brian Birdy, Director of Education and Outreach with Petscreening.com, discusses best practice when renting to tenants with pets, how to look at rentals with pets as a source of revenue, and educates landlords on the petscreening.com product.
Elle Perlman, licensed attorney and MBA, is Founder of Blue Lake Capital and discusses her perspective on opportunities, underwriting deals, and ideas to improve net operating income in the Covid19 era.
Jered Sturm, Co-Founder of SNS Capital, discusses his philosophy behind finding balance between lifestyle and income in the form of financial freedom and how others can put the foundational steps in place to become financially literate.
Bob LaChance, Founder and CEO of REVA Global, is a former pro hockey player turned real estate investor. Bob founded and designed his Virtual Assistant company to suit real estate investor needs and discusses building a VA system for the aspiring landlord.
Edna Keep, the "Queen of Real Estate, is one of Canada's top real estate investors and discusses her "90 Days to $5K" real estate investment system and how mindset and setting visionary goals is a key component to obtaining your goals through real estate investing.
Bradford Shepherd, Managing Partner at Sugar House Investment, discusses how he progressed from landlord, to passive real estate investor, to co-syndicator on apartment buildings, self-storage facilities, and owner of mobile home parks in multiple US real estate markets.
Craig Curelop, renowned house-hacking real estate investor and real estate broker for The FI Team in Denver, CO, discusses frugality and the five myths he commonly finds around the concept of being frugal while building a real estate portfolio for wealth creation.
Brian Davis, founder of Spark Rental, discusses ideas and best practices in automating landlording systems to assist real estate investors in self-management and building a rental real estate portfolio.
Marcus Maloney is the Founder of Equity Realty and Investments and discusses communication as the most important factor when negotiating real estate deals as well as a general overview of the DISC Profile and how we can implement the DISC Profile as landlords and investors.
Anson Young, author of "Finding and Funding Great Deals", discusses the pros and cons of obtaining a real estate license as a real estate investor as well as why it may make sense to obtaining your real estate license in 2020.
Terrance Doyle, Founder of the Value Add Real Estate Company in Denver, CO, discusses opportunities, market statistic resources, lending practices, and how he is targeting apartment and multifamily deals during the pandemic of 2020.
Whitney Elkins-Hutten is the Founder of Ash Wealth and discusses her thoughts and opinon on how to best protect yourself, as a landlord, when it comes to personal character traits, insurance, and asset protection.
Ryan Letzeiser, Co-founder of Obie Risk, discusses the state of the commercial real estate market, ideas for landlords in prepping the 2021 real estate market, while providing resources for mortgage deferment, emergency Covid19 rent assistance, and "cash for keys".
Mark Willis, podcast host of "Not Your Average Financial Podcast", discusses the concept of Self-Banking or using a specially designed whole life insurance policy built on generating cash value to assist in building wealth through real estate.
Palak Shah is the founder of Open Spaces Capital and discusses the five reasons that 30 year mortgage financing is better for landlords and buy and hold real estate investors over 15 year mortgage financing.
Matt Deboth is a Bigger Pockets contributor who has built a strong real estate portfolio in the Des Moines, IA market. Matt discusses his favorite unusual methods for generating downpayment funds in order to purchase real estate.
Megan Greathouse is a real estate investor, located in St. Louis, MO, who discusses what the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) Movement is, the pillars of FIRE, common misconceptions, and how we can apply the FIRE Movement to our daily lifestyle.
David Pere is a active duty Marine who has built a community around investing in real estate while serving in the Armed Forces. David discusses ways to get your offer accepted and negotiation techniques and resources.
Tamar Hermes is a Wealth Coach of Wealth Warrior Woman International and we discuss her six ways in which we may refinance our mortgage for the wrong reasons in an effort to stay focused on wealth building through investment real estate.
Chris Seveney is the owner and operator of 7E Investments and discusses the advantages to note investing, how to invest in note/mortgage debt, and the best US states to invest within for notes.
Robert Leonard operates from the east coast and invests in Texas and other markets. Robert goes into detail as to how to evaluate a real estate market as a long distance investor and how to develop a trusted team of advisors along the way.
Mike Simmons discusses how he recommends real estate investors scale a real estate portfolio through the leveraging of other peoples talents while resisting overleveraging equity as he discusses in his book "Level Jumping".
Robert Feol discusses the myth of homeownership and how to leverage your home as an asset to produce income rather than take your paycheck away from monthly expenses.
Zach Sloan is a co-founder of Rentgrata offering referral fees to tenants who answer questions of prospective tenants to fill vacancies for landlords and property managers. Zach digs in on technologies developing for property managers and landlords in 2020 as well.
Fritz Ritter is a Principle with Kronos Investment Advisors and has built his real estate business on multifamily syndication in out of area markets. Fritz discusses his thoughts on how to operate in a tight cap rate environment.
Michael Brady is an attorney and Qualified Intermediary who assists clients with 1031 exchanges and directs clients to Delaware Statutory Trust investment brokers. Michael discusses a Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) and how to utilize this real estate investment tool.
Paul Detlefs is a cofounder of The Traction Group and coach for the Entreprenuerial Operating System(EOS). Paul discusses what the EOS system provides business owners looking to growing and scale their business and how it relates to real estate investment.
Tim Bratz is a premier real estate syndicator who has raised capital for the purchase of large apartment complexes. Tim discusses proper mindset, goalsetting, and the basics behind how to raise capital in a real estate syndication.
Austin Rutherford hosts a team which assists him in the acquisition, wholesale, rental, flip, and joint venturing of homes throughout the Columbus, Ohio market. Austin discusses his BRRRR model and what he considers when underwriting a property purchase.
Lee Kearney is the CEO of Spin Companies and discusses how he built a rental portfolio of 300 units, why wholesaling makes sense, and where we are at in the market cycle.
Kevin Gardner is owner of Multifamily Utility Solutions. His company assists landlords in setting up contracts with cable providers and earn an income stream from the exclusive use from the cable provider or through a "bulk build" contract. Kevin explains how landlords can benefit from these contracts and increase net operating income.
Kevin Bupp chats about how his property management team is handling tenants in a Covid19 era, what he is doing right now to prepare for investment opportunities, and his background as a real estate investor and syndicator.
Mark Podolsky describes how to invest in raw land as, not only a real estate investment vehicle, but also how to owner finance the land purchase as a passive income stream for years to come.
RJ DeLeon is a "buy and hold" real estate investor that owns and operates a construction firm in the Chicagoland area. RJ discusses how new real estate investors can get started in real estate by networking and educating while building a team.
Brett Swarts is founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions and provides listeners with insight on the concept of a Deferred Sales Trust (DST) and how to use this tool as an alternative to a 1031 exchange in the sale of real estate investments.
Christian Olin discusses negotiating the best mortgage deal as a landlord or owner occupant. Christian points out sales tactics used and costs to anticipate with breaking down the difference between a broker, direct lender, and mortgage banker.
Dana Dunford is CEO of the Hemlane Property Management platform and discusses tenant issues and recommendations regarding Covid 19 / Coronavirus impact and how landlords and property managers should be approaching challenges regarding rental payment, repair requests, and showing of leased rental homes.
Brie Schmidt was aggressive in scaling her residential real estate portfolio and discusses her lessons learned as well as how she focused on delegating and understanding her strengths to becoming a leader in the Chicagoland area for buying and brokering investment properties.
Lauren Spiegel is a Qualified Intermediary with Exeter 1031 Services and discusses what a 1031 exchange is, timelines involved in completing a property exchange, as well as touches on the concept of a Delaware Statutory Trust.
Rob Claus provides his 30+ years of home inspection experience in providing listeners with a means to evaluate home inspectors, discuss licensing standards from state to state, and the different types of inspections that can be performed for a buyer, seller, or landlord.
Jim Droske discusses the top three activities that a credit borrower can consistently perform to improve credit, differences between credit bureaus, the best means to appeal an error on your credit report, and more for both landlords and tenants.
Tom has been a Title Insurance officer, for over 25 years, and explains to listeners how Title Insurance works, how Title Insurance claims are filed, and the difference between an escrow and attorney State in regards to real estate closings.
Mark Ainley takes his 16+ years experience as a property manager, developer, real estate broker, and entreprenuer to discuss when is the right time to hire a property manager for rental properties and how to go about hiring them.
Ryan invests one hour from where he lives and has effectively house hacked multiple homes in California while providing college students more affordable housing than the local college.
Steve Olson of, the Fourplex Investment Group, discusses why fourplex multifamily apartment buildings are a preferred investment in the world of residential investing.
Linda Martin-Schumacher discusses the concept of cost segregation as a tool for commercial investors looking to take accelerated tax advantages into 2020.
Sean chats about "good debt" versus "bad debt" with a focus on using debt that generates an income stream for you as a landlord or business owner.
Paul Winterowd, with Bonneville Multifamily Capital, reviews multifamily financing trends for early 2020 for investors.
Sean's reintroduces the podcast after an 18 month rest to review his accomplishments, goals for 2020, waterfall banking model, and ideas for 2020 real estate market and the podcast itself.
Erik is a private lender with Renovo Capital and discusses some of the truths and myths behind private lending and how using a private lender can assist you in building your real estate portfolio.
Caleb started his investing career at the ripe age of 19. Now 25 years old, Caleb has 30 rental units outside of St. Louis, Missouri. He discusses how he scaled to 30 units, why he likes the St. Louis market, and how he has used creative financing to put deals together.
As a broker/owner of Centurion property management, Mendell has had a number or experiences that has helped shape his investment style while developing his property management technique. Mendell discusses how he broke into the real estate industry, a few deals he has structured through the years, and some sound advice as an experienced property manager.
Ali Boone is an aerospace engineer turned real estate turnkey operator who operates rental real estate in multiple markets. Ali discusses her challenges, growth plans, and why she choose real estate as an investment over other choices in life.
Brian Hennessey is an established commercial real estate broker and syndicator who hosts impactcoachingsystems.com and discusses the top ten mistakes made when handling due diligence once under contract for a commercial real estate transaction.
Our host, Sean Morrissey, discusses his background in real estate and why buy and hold investments generate four ways to building wealth long term.
Dr. Brian Robbins is a chiropractor who has an amazing story of supporting his family! While a professional by day, Dr. Robbins has been a real estate syndicator and tells us his story in this episode while providing valuable lessons along the way.
Paul Moore is an author and real estate syndicator who discusses how he evolved into multifamily housing and why it is considered the perfect investment.
Dave Foster has been performing 1031 exchanges for over 20 years. He discusses the concept of a 1031 exchange as well as some of the challenges coming from Capitol Hill in regards to 1031 exchange.
James Evans is a real estate investor based out of Boston MA. He loves scouring for great deals, and focuses on distressed residential properties in the greater Boston and southern NH markets. On this episode, James discusses how he grows, manages, and finances his growing portfolio, why he thinks multifamily investing is a great long term strategy, and what he thinks new / aspiring investors can do to grow their portfolios. Feel free to reach out to him through his e-mail, James@gladcap.com for any questions or comments.
Jason Bott is a Commercial Insurance Broker from Milwaukee, WI. Jason discusses the basis of insurance, riders, additional insured, and other ideas to save landlords on premiums and assist in proper coverage.
Jake Miller is a Principal Owner of Intelligent Infrastructure and assists landlords and HOA management companies improve their IT and network capability. Jake discusses installations performed to improve security in buildings for landlords as well as condo/homeowner associations.
Jason is an experienced landlord and real estate agent from Grand Rapids, MI. On this episode, Jason speaks of the challenges getting started and how the BRRR method has assisted him in building his rental inventory and client base.
Paul Winterowd discusses finances multifamily buildings in today's hot market of multifamily purchases.
Ted Fish is a mortgage broker who owns rental properties in multiple US states. We discuss how to manage a property out of state and the pros and cons of using a property manager.
Mike discusses how HappyCo produces inspection software, for landlords and property managers, and the tools to help landlords limit liability over the term of a lease period.
Ryan Scully has done it all! As a landlord, fix/flipper, and partnership artist, Ryan will discuss how rookie investors should get into the business and his model for success.
Brandon Hall is a landlord and CPA who discusses the tax advantages of investment real estate. We also cover the top tax deductions missed by landlords and how the tax reform bill impact landlords going into 2018.
Robin Russo, of rentapplication.net, discusses the rental application process and the pros/cons of an online application process versus a paper process.
Joe Nielsen is the President of Clear Capital Group which provides a consultancy to business owners and real estate investors. Joe discusses options for financing for landlords and ideas for creative financing.
Brent discusses how to clean floors and the types of cleaning for carpets as well as hard surface floors when it comes to landlording and renting a home.