The Investor Frame: Recent Episodes
Paul Sparks
Listen to some of the top Real Estate Investors & purpose-driven entrepreneurs in the country share their journeys of getting closer to financial certainty on their terms, without compromise.
John started his professional live in Critical Care Medicine as a PA (physician assistant) and worked real hard in the medical world doing cool stuff like simulation, podcast, started a residency program and many more but ultimately got bit by the entrepreneur bug and wanted to do all that innovating for himself and jumped into real estate. He started his wholesale company as an solopreneur in 2020 during COVID with his full time medical job and grew it into a successful small business at step 1. They branched out into commercial buildings and other projects. They have a diversified portfolio and have continued to grow their wholesale business.Find him here:@the.pa.investor on IG
Jay has been investing in real estate since 2015. In that time, he has completed 100s of deals in fix/flip, seller finance, vacant land, and wholesaling. His portfolio includes rentals and promissory notes, along with self storage and mobile home park holdings. He currently excels at creating cash flow and stable income opportunities for investors and retirees using the seller finance business model.
Prior to investing, he earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. From there, he spent 10+ years in the automotive industry managing projects, developing new products, and generating intellectual property.
Jay is engaged to his fiancé Mimi and they have a baby boy on the way. Outside of real estate, you can find him shredding mountain bike trails or on the golf course.
Find him here: @Jay.Chekansky on IG, appmtncapital.com
Carrick has worked at a top commercial real estate brokerage firm since 2017, specializing in Office and R&D leasing and sales. During his time at the firm, he was involved in over 3 Million Square Feet of leasing and over $187M of transaction volume in just 2022. He started investing in rentals in 2017 and has since built a portfolio of 38 units in multiple states including Florida, Ohio, and Georgia. His portfolio includes SFRs, small multifamily and an office building.
Find him here: @real.estaterick on IG
Josh is primarily above everything a man of faith. His relationship and trust in God has lead him throughout his life and business and the fruit of that is prevalent. Secondly he is a family man, with a cherished wife of 10 years and 4 kids (7, 5, 4, and 1). And thirdly, he is a business man with a history of starting businesses in marketing, fitness, and real estate. He lives in the Charlotte, NC Metro and has a thriving business and community that he loves.
Find him here: @joshswart on IG, Joshswart.com
Jesus is a successful entrepreneur with a track record of four successful startups, two of which have had successful exits. He has been actively involved in the real estate industry for the past six years, focusing on developing effective real estate lead generation solutions. He is also an active investor, helping other investors grow their businesses by providing strategic guidance on data and outbound marketing strategies. His company, 8020REI, is dedicated to helping professional real estate investors achieve their goals by being intentional with their data and marketing strategies.
For more information on Jesus and his work, please visit https://8020rei.com/learn-more-8020rei/ as well as the following:
Website: https://8020rei.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/8020REI?mibextid=ZbWKwL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/8020rei/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@user-lk4pu9mq8n
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@8020rei?
Max Vollmer is a 24-year-old Real Estate Entrepreneur and world-class track and field athlete initially born in Germany. Max came to the USA as a college athlete competing for the University of Oregon, where he met his wife and business partner, Kaitlin Vollmer.
Max Vollmer accomplished great academic and athletic success while being a student-athlete at the University of Oregon. Max and Kaitlin also started their entrepreneurial journey as full-time college students competing professionally. When COVID hit, both had to adjust massively to the new circumstances. While both were still college students, they dashed out of money, leading to the day when Max and Kaitlin had $76 to their name and needed to take action and responsibility for their future. Knowing nothing about real estate, both decided to jump into the journey of building a real estate business and being investors and entrepreneurs.
Max and Kaitlin started wholesaling vacant land across the USA and started their journey in Real Estate. Initially, they worked long days between classes and training, cold calling people, evaluating deals, and making offers (working from A to Z while learning about real estate). They jumped into this industry with no connections and prior knowledge, wanting to know everything while doing it. Both decided they had no time to acquire direct knowledge and took action immediately. Around four weeks into the journey, and after maxing out their 3k credit card for data and mailing, Max and Katie closed their first deal and made 25k. They took all that money and re-invested in themselves and their business. Eventually, they wholesaled 45 deals in the first seven months of doing business in 8 different states across the nation, then decided to scale their business, build out processes systems, and hire people to help them go from working in the industry to working on and building a business.
Max and Kaitlin transitioned from wholesaling vacant land to virtually wholesaling and novating houses in various markets. Eventually, they scaled into fix and flip and turnkey deals while also starting to acquire rentals. When Max and Kaitlin graduated from college, they decided to move to Tampa, FL, and focus 100% on building a strong and sustainable business. Realizing they were missing certain skill sets and expertise, they partnered with another entrepreneur and merged both companies. Now they are running a fully operational real estate business with 35 employees, operating all over FL and syndicating apartments all over the nation. They also managed to raise money internationally and are scaling to operate an international private equity fund. The business has its brokerage, an acquisition team, a TC department which will transition to its own standing title company, a disposition team, an in-house constriction team, property management, asset management, IT, bookkeeping, and a marketing team.
Their mission is PEOPLE over PROFIT, and they want to inspire as many people as possible and give as much value as possible. Their motivation revolves around the people they work with and the lives that can impact/change.
Find them here:
Business:
Cell Phone for Business Inquires: (541)526-3369
Mentorship: https://vollmercoaching.com/
Social Media:
Instagram: Katie_Max_Vollmer
Facebook: KatieMax Vollmer
TikTok: Katie_Max_Vollmer
YouTube: vollmer_realestate
David is a financially free Marine Corps veteran who devotes his free time to helping service members and veterans learn how to build wealth through real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and personal finance!
Find him here:thebestpodcastguest.com (free PDF of his book) https://www.frommilitarytomillionaire.com/podcast/ (his show) https://www.facebook.com/groups/militarymillionaire (FB group)
David Richter is an active real estate investor who has been essential in closing over 850 deals over the last 10 years. He has experience with wholesale, turnkey, BRRRR, owner finance, rentals, lease options, and any other exit strategy you can think of.
While growing and building a real estate business from 5 to over 25 deals a month, he realized that as much money was coming in, it was all going right out the door. With the unique opportunity of being in every seat as a real estate investor, he found a calling in the company’s finance seat to help businesses see where their money really went.
David has helped real estate companies completely turn around from going out of business to building cash reserves by using the Profit First cash flow system. He has been featured on Biggerpockets, Real Estate Disruptors with Steve Trang, and many other podcasts, shows, and stages.
To help even more people, he wrote Profit First for Real Estate Investing - a derivative of the original Profit First by Mike Michalowicz that is tailored specifically to Real Estate Investors. His goal is to completely transform the Real Estate Investing industry by helping real estate investors make and KEEP more money in their businesses. As the founder and owner of SimpleCFO Solutions, he wants to bring investors true financial clarity and freedom and help every investor stop living deal to deal.
Find him here:https://simplecfo.com/https://www.facebook.com/thesimplecfo
Councial is from the Southside of Chicago. A current Greensboro resident, Councial picked up construction in 9th grade drafting class. Once he took a construction management class, he knew he wanted to be in the field. Starting with rehabs for customers Councial soon did new construction homes and began to do work for investors. He learned how to "wholesale" and quickly did well with it. Having the knowledge he began to source his own flips and started to learn land development and entitlement. Councial currently has 6 land development projection in the works along with several flips.
Find him here:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064812228074
https://twitter.com/CouncialGlenn
https://www.instagram.com/councialfglenn/
Esteban is the founder and CEO of Hesel Media (MotivatedSellerOnline.com) and Co-founder of RemoteLatinos.com. He is a multiple 7 figure business owner and real estate entrepreneur. Esteban is committed to the big vision of helping 10,000 real estate investors scale their business through smart digital marketing systems and growing their business by creating remote teams from Latin America. His vision , along with his partner Omer Bloch, is to generate 10,000 careers within the Real Estate space for Remote Workers around the world, and he is starting by scaling Remote Latinos.Find him here:heselmedia.com remotelatinos.com@estenick on IG
In addition to being an investing nerd, Dean "GOGS" Valentini is currently an Active Duty Air Force Flight Test Engineer. He began his journey to financial freedom in 2017 when he bought his first househack in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Since then, he has acquired two more househacks in Denver, CO (one long-term rental and one short-term rental) as well as 15 small multifamily units in Dayton, OH (owned and managed with his business partner Rocky). He is also an avid technologist, health & fitness enthusiast, investor in stocks and crypto, and serial entrepreneur having built several other businesses along the way including being a licensed CO Realtor on The FI Team. GOGS is passionate about sharing knowledge and lessons learned from his journey, with the goal of helping educate others, especially fellow military, so they too can rapidly achieve financial independence!
Find him here:
@18alphainvesting on IG
18alphainvesting.com
@warfighterwealth on IG
warfighterwealth.com
Micah joined 8020REI as the Business Development Manager in June 2022 and quickly made a significant impact by acquiring 40 new clients within his first 8 months. With a background in the real estate industry since 2014, Micah has a diverse range of experience, from being a retail agent to leading an acquisitions team and serving as the VP of professional development, where he taught agents how to work with investors and grow their businesses. Micah is driven by his passion for connecting individuals with real estate opportunities and supporting them in reaching their goals within the industry.
Find him here:
www.8020REI.com
@micahjames07 on Instagram
Devin is an ADHD powered entrepreneur that wants to believes in people over profit and wants to help and serve as many people as possible!
Find him here:
@devin.robinson1 on Instagram
Rhen Bartlett is a serial entrepreneur with a gift for leadership. As a master of excellence and data-driven results, Rhen started his career in marketing and advertising and quickly developed an expert-level understanding that data and processes drive sales. Focused on using lessons in extreme ownership and accountability, relentless drive, and purposeful leadership to create a culture of opportunity growth for each and every one based on merit. Rhen is a business process design specialist and an expert in creating solutions that improve performance and maximize profit.
Find him here:
https://www.instagram.com/rhen.bartlett/
Nick was a restaurant manager for 16 years, and then spent 3 years as an executive running a real estate education company. He didn’t have more than 3k in his bank account until he was 32 years old. For the past 6 years, Nick is a truly dedicated entrepreneur and is the founder of Lead Mining. He finds that the secret to Lead Mining’s success is their amazing customer service.
Meet Mike Kehoe, a 36-year-old fintech and real estate entrepreneur, based in Chicago. With a background in finance and technology, Mike has established a successful real estate investment/wholesale company in Raleigh-Durham North Carolina. Throughout his decade-long entrepreneurial journey, he has taken on a diverse range of business ventures, with a mix of successes and failures that have only further fueled his drive. Mike is a proud Chicago resident, husband, and father of two kids and a dog.
Former firefighter who successfully broke free from the rat race with the help of real estate. Today, he's built a 7-figure business and on the way to become an 8-figure business, all while becoming a loving father to his children and loving husband.
Jason is one of the happiest individuals you will ever meet. He understands and lives by the notion that life is short and he does everything he can for himself and for others to ensure they can be and are the happiest they can be. He has the most amazing wife; the ying to his yang, 8 animals, 2 successful businesses, avid lover of old school gangster rap while at the same time, Pearl Jam is his favorite band of all time. He loves Golf, loves hard work, and loves to recharge his batteries at the beach. He's a special one for suure.. :)
Nathan Brooks is the co-founder and CEO of Bridge Turnkey Investments, a home builder in the Kansas City metro poised to construct 60 new homes in its first year of operation. Prior to building homes, Nathan led Bridge as one of the top-producing turnkey rental providers in the nation, adding over $45 million in value to his clients' portfolios in just a few short years. Having invested in real estate since 2007, Nathan is an accomplished investor, sought-after speaker, writer, and real estate coach. He regularly produces educational content to fuel his passion for helping other people learn about and find success in real estate investing. To this end, he recently wrote his first book, The No Quitters Guide to Investing in Real Estate, which has already received accolades from heavy hitters in the industry like Bigger Pockets’ Brandon Turner.
Nathan is a passionate leader, well-respected investor, and friend to everyone he meets. He currently lives in Kansas City on his 11-acre property with his wife and two beautiful children where he enjoys the outdoors, training MMA, hunting, and finding new ways to challenge himself.
Matt is originally from "1 red light, small town USA" Adamsville, TN. Grew up on a farm, played basketball, Loves fast cars. He married way up when he convinced Laura to be his wife. Proud father of 2 daughters, Reese (11) and Garner (9). Today he lives in Memphis, TN. His 1st business venture after basketball was in the fitness industry where he has owned Maximum Health & Fitness since 2004. He then jumped into the Real Estate Investing world in 2016 and this is where he found his passion in Rentals and Rehabs. His most recent unexpected opportunity came when a restaurant owner was looking for an exit and he was able to buy this business with a combination of traditional and seller financing. Next up is a self storage facility conveniently located right behind his fitness center.
Tyler is 27 years old and lives in Virginia Beach with his beautiful wife, Alexis, and their 2-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Bentley.
After attending the College of William & Mary for a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Masters of Accounting degree, obtaining his Certified Public Accountant license, and working for a Big 4 Accounting firm, Tyler realized he was heading down the wrong path. During his time at William & Mary and the corporate world, he spent as many hours as he feasibly could before and after class/work to read books, listen to podcasts, and research anything he could get his hands on pertaining to real estate investing. It didn’t take long before he became obsessed with real estate and couldn’t spend another year without taking action. In April 2019, Tyler resigned from the corporate world and jumped full time into real estate investing. From that time to today, Tyler built a business that has bought and sold over 200 investment properties over several markets and holds over 70 rental units, most of which were acquired using no-money-down creative investing strategies. He has developed a reputation that speaks for itself by upholding a high ethical standard and consistently ensuring all commitments are honored.
Seena Ghetmiri is a former dentist turned real estate investor and host of the “Ghet Investing” podcast.
In his first year of real estate he and his wife Kacia, purchased 3.5 million dollars of investment property with a combination of long term rental, small multi-family and luxury AirBnB utilizing creative financing strategies.
He’s passionate about helping people build an additional stream of income through real estate, and reminding them that regardless of title, at any point in life they can change their mind to build a career path that feels aligned.
On this episode, co-host Nick interviews Orion who shares his insights on falling into house hacking, his mentorship, and so much more.
On this episode, Chad shares his insights on his team, his first wholesale deal, and so much more.
Chad Young is from the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho area and invests there and in Spokane, Washington. He founded his company, The Easy Home Buyer, in 2020 and has grown it to doing about 90 deals a year and rapidly increasing. He is passionate about investing in his staff and growing leaders. He has 3 young kids and a smoking hot wife and enjoys getting to do anything outdoors with his family, serving in his church, and growing people and businesses.
On this episode, Jeremiah shares his insights on his transition into flipping, navigating the roller coaster of REI, and so much more.
He is a full time fix and flip investor in Long Island and a devoted father.
On this episode, Chandler shares his insights on his journey into RE, mentorship, and so much more.
Chandler started wholesaling in 2020 and has been doing so for almost 3 years with his partner Gino. They have a team of 32 and will do around 2.5 mil in gross profit in 2022. He started a call center and had around 30 cold callers and texters and then closed that down. Now he has an education company teaching people how to execute exactly what he did to grow from 6 to 7 figures a year. They have 40 students. Before getting into wholesaling, he made money working for his father and ran teams of 5+ doing jobs. He also did some sales, marketing, and project management for around 5 years over the summers when he was 15 until around 20 years old.
On this episode, Eric shares his insights about novations, maximizing opportunities in REI, and so much more.
Since 2006, as a real estate investor, Eric Brewer has done over 1,000 novations and a total of over 3000 residential real estate deals in Pennsylvania and Maryland. His experience covers novations, purchase, renovation, direct-to-seller marketing, turnkey rentals, property management, and wholesale. Eric is the owner of Brewer Method, which provides education and coaching to investors all over the country who want to increase their investment options and profitability. Eric is also the owner of Integrity First Home Buyers, which does nearly 350 deals per year, and is composed of 40+ members of the staff, including a COO and full executive leadership team.
On this episode, Anson shares his insights on moving on from failed investments, flipping houses, and so much more.
On this episode, Kyle shares his insights on his journey into entrepreneurship, househacking, and so much more.
On this episode, co-host Phillip interviews Shawn who shares his insights about finding his niche in real estate, creative deals, and so much more.
On this episode, co-host Phillip interviews Chad who shares his insights on starting his own Real Estate team, marketing strategies, and so much more.
Carson is a 22 year old entrepreneur with an attraction towards growth and pursuing his purpose in this world. His superpower is the ability to learn from anyone and distinguish/search out wise counsel.
Blake Schofield is a mom to 3 & former corporate executive who spent 18 years building, growing & turning around 8-9 figure businesses before finally getting tired of sacrificing her life for a comfortable paycheck.
Blake's superpower is ALIGNMENT, with a unique ability to hone into & get to the root cause of an issue, remove misalignment, help others gain a deeper understanding of their strengths and value, then create a clear, strategic plan to maximize all of the parts of their lives. Blake is the founder & CEO of two coaching businesses: The Bridge to Fulfillment®, where she & her team help professional women, help professional women take the RIGHT next step in their career™, have more time with their family & transition into more fulfilling work WITHOUT taking a pay cut or starting over.™
Her other business, Ascend, was launched in August 2022. Ascend is a place to come home to™ for purpose driven men & women who want to lead a life of alignment, ease & achieve their goals with more consistency all while being surrounded by people who truly see, hear and understand you.
On this episode, Stephanie Betters shares her insights on delving into flips, leveraging technology, and so much more.
Casey is a serial entrepreneur ranging from Real Estate to the Sports & Fitness industries. After buying his first property while in college over 10 years ago, he has gone on to develop integrated real estate businesses in multiple regions across the United States. He is now sharing his knowledge and experience as a real estate investor and business owner through digital and in-person gatherings. Find out more about how to engage and connect with Casey at his website! CaseyGregersen.com
On this episode, Jake Rhodes joins us to share his insights about his investing journey, building community, and so much more.
On this episode, Dr. Jeff Spencer shares his insights about the Champion Mindset, how to be a high performer, and so much more. Dr. Jeff lives in Los Angeles, specializes in highest achiever personal performance, and wants listeners to know that if you’re serious about consistently winning big without blowing yourself up, you want him watching your back!
Listen to Justin Bourn, a real estate investor in Denver, CO, tell us how he got into real estate. We swap stories and scars about getting started in an extremely competitive market, and share what is working for us now. His expertise lies in Wholesaling & Flipping.
On this episode, Austin Hancock shares his insights on building a business, nurturing relationships, and so much more.