“You need to figure out what you want in your investment career and kind of work backwards from there.”

-Craig Curelop

Craig Curelop (aka the FI Guy), is stationed in Denver, Colo., and is a real estate agent, investor, author, and employee of Bigger Pockets. He is primarily known for taking a very aggressive approach toward achieving financial independence. He moved to Denver in April 2017 and closed his first property in June 2017, a duplex that he house hacked for one year. He is also the author of the house hacking strategy book, which teaches the tricks that savvy investors have been using in the real estate industry to save 1000s of dollars in monthly expenses.

In this episode, Trevor and Craig discuss:

-Craig's introduction in real estate investing and the type of investment he started

-How to house hack

-The difference between house hacking by room and house hacking in different units

-Recommendations on whether to start with house hacking or pay off student loans first

-How to grow your portfolio

-How to manage properties that are halfway across the country

-The financing for house hacking and how to get more deals

-The pros and cons of being a real estate agent

-And a lot more!

“If you have a weak stomach, do not invest in hands on real estate. If you want to get into real estate, do REITs, do syndications, do things where you're not directly involved, but a lot of learning lessons.”

-Cody Berman

Cody Berman is the creator of Fly To FI, and CO hosts of the FI shows. Cody quit his corporate banking job at 22 to pursue entrepreneurship full time, he has found success working on many different types of side hustles and creating multiple streams of passive income.

In this episode, Trevor and Cody discuss:

-How Cody started in real estate investing and his portfolio

-The house hacking strategies

-Buying properties through commercial loan

-Investing outside Massachusetts

-How to deal with family and friends who don't see the benefits of real estate investing

-Learning experiences in real estate investing

-Tips to overcome the challenges in real estate investing

-How to Prepare for Potential Problems in Your Rental Property

-The mindset you need to have to start investing in real estate

-The difference between passive income and side hustles

-And a lot more!

“What I found is by sort of being in the arena and taking action, you're provided more opportunities to be lucky.”

-Phil Capron

Phil Capron, served as a Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman. Upon getting out of the military, Phil found his passion for real estate. It was during this venture he noticed that he couldn’t include his veteran and military brothers and sisters due to regulations surrounding net worth or income. He decided he was going to level the playing field and fix that. Mission First Capital was born. His next mission is to create 1000 veteran-owned small businesses in the next 10 years. He continues to share his real estate knowledge through his book “Your VA Loan and How it Can Make You a Millionaire ,podcast and conferences.

In this episode, Trevor and Phil discuss:

-How a veteran hopped into real estate investing

-How Phil got his first property

-How to acquire a property with little amount of money

-How to fund a deal and what does creative financing look like

-The value add strategy to look when finding another deal

-The difficult challenges that an investor will experience

-And a lot more incredible topics!

“Don't be afraid to start when you don't know what it's gonna end up like.”

Zoey Berghoff went from being a broke college student living off of $250 to in six months living debt free at 22 years old, traveling around the world, making six figures a year, owning her own business, buying her first car, to having a salary sized savings account and investing for her retirement and future kids. Today, Zoe is a personal finance and Airbnb host and coach. She began coaching others after applying the same habits and steps to her own life, showing young adults the impact and importance of investing in your future, and how it changed the direction of the opportunities in your life.

In this episode, Trevor and Zoey discuss:

-Zoey’s experience and how it led her to real estate investing

-How she started Airbnb

-Overview on how Airbnb works

-The key to have a successful Airbnb or short term rental

-The things to look when buying a potential property

-How to automate your business to make those processes seamless

-The platforms where you can find freelance jobs

-Two financial tips for those who is planning to start a business

“When you acquire properties little by little over a long period of time, it's easier to keep organized and keep everything straight in your head.”

-Bill Hamel

Bill Hamel of Hamel Real Estate has been investing since the age of 21. He has accumulated 40 plus buildings and over 240 units over a long period of time in the capital region of New York. He specializes in family properties, the 30 unit style assets managing and house until 2020. They now focus on buying and selling large multifamily properties ranging from 30 to 100 units in the towns of the capital region, and Tampa Bay area Florida.

In this episode, Trevor and Bill discuss:

-How a 21 year old restaurant employee started real estate investing.

-Finding the right market place.

-The difference between investing in Tampa Bay and the Capital Region.

-The process of liquidating properties.

-The strategies in buying properties.

-How to start investing without utilizing all your cash resources

-How to scale up your business quickly.

“We can overcome the challenges for a variety of reasons, the main one is having a really deep connections with your partners”

 -Mataan Lis

Mataan Lis is the investor relations manager at GSH. He includes the ongoing reporting for active GSH contributors and fundraising and communication for new acquisitions. But Mataan also oversees GSH, his corporate marketing strategy, and additionally, Asset Management primarily as it relates to property management, and renovation project oversight. But Mataan earned a BA in international relations and Media Studies at the University of Michigan. Prior to GSH, he worked at a security consulting firm managing corporate and private clients and traveled extensively throughout Africa, Europe and Asia.

In this episode, Trevor and Mataan discuss:

-What is workforce housing and what asset class has the highest demand.

-Workforce housing strategies and market to look at in the US.

-The process of getting investors into deals.

-The challenges of an investor during COVID.

-The challenges in finding the deals  during COVID and how to overcome them.

“If I look back at what I was doing wrong, and here's what I was doing wrong in a nutshell, I won't spend tons of time on it. I'll spend a little more time on what I did to fix it.”

-Mike Simmons

Mike Simmons  is an entrepreneur, a business coach / mentor since 2013 and has helped several entrepreneurs start, build and scale their businesses to 7 figures. As a master of taking strategic risks, he coaches others to do the same to love and become unstoppable with this program called convincing me. Mike has personally worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs to take strategic risks that have paid off. He has shared the stage with Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Serhant, Russell Brunson and among others. He's also been featured in Business Insider magazine, and produces and hosts the podcast, Just Start Real Estate where he interviews successful entrepreneurs. Mike is also the author of Level Jumping and this book is about generating a profit of $1 million and his business in just 12 months.

In this episode, Trevor and Mike discuss:

-Mike’s real estate background and why he started this business.

-What made Mike leave his corporate job.

-How his mistakes made him reach a million dollars within 12 months.

-A few key points about Mike's path to a million dollars.

-How podcasting can help you connect with others and expand your network.

-The importance of creating a system and process in a business.

-What the deal looks like in the new market.

-Excellent advice when fixing and flipping.

-The benefits of joining a coaching program.

“Just make sure you're geared up and ready to go whatever you do because it will help you keep going if you experience that much hardship.”

-Johnny Wolff

Johnny Wolff is the CEO and founder of Homeroom Coliving, one of the fastest growing Coliving companies in the United States. After starting his career as a financial analyst in Silicon Valley, working for EA sand desk and Guide Spark. He relocated to Austin, Texas to pursue real estate investing full time. His love for real estate investing as he's also been investing since 2008 and living with roommates, which has done since 2002 motivated him to start homeroom in 2017 after an unusually terrible Craigslist roommate experience.

In this episode, Trevor and Johnny discuss:

-What sparked Johnny's interest in real estate investing.
-How Johnny managed to overcome his fears, despite the fact that he didn't know how to run figures at first, he still continued to focus on real estate investing.
-How the idea of homeroom started.
-The two important criteria to consider when looking for a potential property.
-The benefits of homeroom rentals.
-The experiences they had in the first few months of the pandemic given that they were going through the process of building the company and how they managed them.
-How they switched to fully remote leasing.
-The process when bringing in a new roommate.
-The unusual roommate search experience Johnny had that led and motivated him to start Homeroom in 2017.