Before The Millions | Lifestyle Design Through Real Estate | Rental Property Investing Tips And Strategies For Financial Free

Chris Voss is the CEO & Founder of the Black Swan Group Ltd and author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. He has used his many years of experience in international crisis and high-stakes negotiations to develop a unique program and team that applies these globally proven techniques to the business world.   Prior to 2008, Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the FBI’s hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. During Chris’s 24 year tenure in the Bureau, he was trained in the art of negotiation by not only the FBI but Scotland Yard and Harvard Law School. He is also a recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement and the FBI Agents Association Award for Distinguished and Exemplary Service.   Chris has taught business negotiation in the MBA program as an adjunct professor at University of Southern Califor

Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur, expert in remote hiring and eCommerce guru. Selling online since 2010, Nate has sold well over $25 million worth of product through his eCommerce business. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, the hands-on hiring marketplace connecting hundreds of online business owners with pre-vetted remote workers.   After building a team of over 30 remote workers, Nathan found he needed a system to make remote-worker hiring better and scalable. His business specializes in assisting eCommerce and digital marketing businesses remove the hassle of having to recruit and interview before making a reliable hire. Less time recruiting & interviewing means more time making money. Nathan understands the frustration: he and his business partner faced the same struggles with hiring online and wanted to redefine the way it was done.   Nathan got a taste of the transition path that most people take (get good grades, go to university and get a nice paying job, etc.). Duri

Dustin Heiner is a real estate investor with 24 single family properties and blogger from California. Dustin is the founder and host of Master Passive Income, a Blog and Podcast about investing in real estate rental properties. In 2004, Dustin realized he would never be wealthy working for someone else, so he needed to change something.   He decided to work hard toward quitting his job and being his own boss. After reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad Dustin knew he needed to become an investor. So he started investing in real estate and start earning cash flow in 2006. (Yep, just before the crash in 2009) He took a weekend course from a real estate guru that cost $1,000 and that started him down the path of rental properties. From that $1,000, Dustin has grown his investment income to $8,500 per month. It only took him 8 years to do it. In 2016, Dustin quit his job working for the local government. He will literally NEVER have to work for someone else ever again.   On today’s episode, we talk to Dustin about

AJ Wilcox is a long-time digital marketer who fell in love with the LinkedIn Ads platform in 2011. He founded B2Linked.com in 2014, which specializes in LinkedIn Ads account management, training, and consulting. Since then, he has managed hundreds of accounts and a combined $100 million in ad spend on the network. He has worked directly with several of LinkedIn’s top 10 accounts.   AJ’s entrepreneurial journey is deeply rooted in his faith. After he was fired from his last job, he was offered multiple job opportunities. He prayed to God to figure out what he should do and the answer was to turn them all down and start his own business — and he\'s never looking back!   On today’s episode we talk to AJ all things LinkedIN. AJ shares with us how to promote your real estate investing business, tips on growing your thought leadership platform and more. You’ll learn how to utilize LinkedIn as real estate investor and entrepreneur.   We discuss what first steps you need to take on advertising on Linke

Chad Doty has 12 years of experience as a multifamily investor, but he wasn’t born with real estate in his blood. Originally, Chad was a management consultant for Arthur Andersen. Watching that company meltdown prior to him making partner made him realize that letting outside circumstances control his life wasn’t for him.   So Chad then founded his own consulting company, only to realize he was simply trading time for money. Determined to control his own destiny, Chad decided to leverage commercial multifamily real estate to develop recurring, passive income. He formed 37th Parallel Properties, a private real estate acquisitions and asset management rm. As the CEO of 37th Parallel Properties, Chad specializes in syndicating multifamily investments. His offerings allow investors access and opportunities to generate stable streams of tax-advantaged passive income and equity growth without needing to manage the property themselves.   Through this approach, Chad helps investors get access to tax-

On today’s episode we catch up with our first guest on The Before The Millions Podcast, Sunny Burns. It’s been a year and Sunny’s life has drastically changed. Sunny brought this amazing triplex and still traveling the world.   On episode 1 of this podcast, Daray and Sunny got to know each other and we decided to bring Sunny back for an update on what’s going on in Sunny’s life. During this episode, Sunny shares great insight for real estate investors and entrepreneurs on what steps he took to purchase, rehab and close his triplex rental property.   Since we last spoke with Sunny he has been focused on his engineering career in the Department of Defense and just recently got a promotion from making 83K to six figures salary. Sunny closed on a triplex and own two properties (gross rents on the two properties are $100,000/year). Now he has a six figure salary and six figure passive gross rental income for the two properties.   We will breakdown exactly how Sunny brought his second property (the t

Ali Boone is a lifestyle entrepreneur, business consultant and real estate investor, and has literally defined non-conformity when it comes to her career. Ali left her corporate 9-to-5 job as an Aerospace Engineer, despite the “dream job” status that came with it, to follow her passion for being her own boss and creating true lifestyle design. She did this through real estate investing. Her own real estate portfolio started with pre-construction investments in Nicaragua and then she moved on to investing in turnkey rental properties in various markets throughout the U.S. She managed to invest in her first five properties in 18 months using primarily creative financing. After starting out as a real estate investor just for herself and her own financial benefit, she went on to create her company Hipster Investments which facilitated over $18M in real estate investment sales in its first five years of business.   She’s written roughly 190 articles for the BiggerPockets website, she’s been featured for h

Daniil Kleyman grew up in the cold, snowy city of Moscow, Russia. At age 12, he immigrated with his family to Richmond, VA. After a brief and not-so-successful run on Wall Street, Daniil finally realized that he was utterly unemployable and ventured into real estate investing and software development.   He hasn\'t looked back since. Daniil\'s real estate investing business currently includes a portfolio of rental properties, ground up residential construction, multi-family development and mixed-use commercial development. He is also incredibly passionate and hands on with the software development, constantly working with the development team on new releases.   Daniil has been involved in hundreds of transactions and different strategies including Wholesaling, Rehabbing, New Build Construction, Apartment Investing, & Commercial properties. But his favorite investing strategy today is still cash-flowing properties whether it’s single family homes or commercial.   He talks about why cash

Chris is the Amazon Best Selling author of Real Estate on your terms – Create continuous cash flow now, without using your cash or credit. He’s founder of Smart Real Estate Coach & Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for 25+ years. His experience includes the construction of over 100+ single family and duplex homes (mostly 1990’s and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker / owner which maintained high per agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000’s included coaching ½ million and higher realtors in order to scale & automate their business throughout US and Canada. He also participated (and still selectively to date) in doing condo conversions (multi family homes to condos) and “raise the roof” projects (converting single family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods). Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high end mastermind groups and consulting with pr

Mark Dolfini is a husband, father, and a veteran of the United States Marines. He owns several million dollars worth of real estate and has actively managed over $40 million in real estate in his 20 years of being in the real estate business. That is not what makes his story so compelling. Mark has Time-Wealth. He is now able to control his calendar to do the things he wants, when he wants, and with whom he wants to do them.   Marine veteran, Mark Dolfini received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting at Purdue University. He is the Managing Broker of June Palms Property Management, LLC and the CEO of Landlord Coach, LLC. Mark Dolfini is also the author of The Time-Wealthy Investor.   On today’s episode, we talk to Mark about his journey into entrepreneurship after leaving his corporate accounting career. He shares with us his story as a high school graduate to finally joining the U.S. Marine Corps and becoming an real estate investor. After he joined the military, Mark realized he needed to get

Reggie Brooks has achieved what many people consider to be impossible. He went from making $36,000 per year at the local telephone company, to making over $40,000 per month in his real estate business. Starting out with very little money, Reggie began his investment career in 1986. After taking several real estate investment courses he began investing in rental properties in Los Angeles.   By educating himself about hidden opportunities in real estate and making well placed investments, he has become a multi-millionaire. Reggie is an international speaker/lecturer, an author, and an active real estate investor. Reggie has spoken on programs with such notables as Donald Trump, Magic Johnson, Suze Orman, Anthony Robbins, George Foreman, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Albert Lowry, Alan Greenspan, David Bach and Russell Simmons, to name a few.   On today’s episode, we learned about Reggie’s story of growing up in South Central Los Angeles and how he always knew there was more opportunity for him. Reggie began to a

Lyndsay Phillips and Tabitha Carro are two amazing entrepreneurs teaching entrepreneurs how to leverage online platforms to take their business to the next level. Lyndsay Phillips is CEO and Captain of Smooth Sailing Business Growth. Lyndsay helps entrepreneurs attract & acquire more customers faster through powerful content marketing. Lyndsay and her team helps you plan, create, implement and maintain systems, handle all elements of content marketing – from blogs, podcasting, video marketing, social media, emails, sales funnels, lead magnets, online events and more.   Tabitha Carro is the founder of Smartphone Marketing School. Tabitha is an elementary school teacher by day and a certified #couchhustler by night. She has created and sold thousands of educational resources for teachers and promoted them almost entirely with her iPhone. Tabitha teaches you how to take professional photos and videos and market your product all by using the pocket device you already have.   On today’s episode, we t

Tom\'s unique lead generation methods have allowed him to transform from an accountant who had never done a deal in his life to a full time investor who has acquired over 100 discounted properties in to fix and flip, wholesale and buy and hold without using his own money. Tom Cafarella is the co-founder of Ocean City Development, a real estate investment company based out of Boston, MA. Tom has always dreamt of following his grandfather’s footsteps. His grandfather was a very successful landlord in his local community. It didn’t take long after Tom got fired from his accounting job to get started in investing in real estate.   On today’s episode, we talk with Tom about his inspiration to learn about real estate investing. You’ll learn how Tom made $115K on his first real estate deal without having any money. Tom shares his story on how he built up the courage to start his real estate investing career after being fired from his accounting job. You’ll learn the importance of having mentors to guide you alo

Jay Conner has been buying and selling houses for 14 years and has been involved in over 52 Million dollars in transactions. In the past 7 years, Jay has completely automated his 7-Figure Income Business to where he works in his business less than 10 hours per week. He is a leading expert on Private Lending, once raising over $2M in less than 90 Days in private money while cut off from the banks. He is also a contributing author to the best-selling book Real Estate: Getting Deals Done In The New Economy.   On today’s episode, we talk with Jay about his journey into private lending for real estate investors. You’ll learn what exactly private lending is and how you can leverage this method in your own real estate investment deals. Jay talks about his transition from investing in mobile homes to single family homes. You’ll learn how Jay raised $2,150,000 in less than 90 Days with his simple system anyone can duplicate. Lastly, Jay shares the advantages of private money vs. other types of lending for real es

Trevor McGregor has been a business and personal coach of Daray’s for quite some time. Today Trevor tells us his 6 steps every real estate investor must have in place to succeed. Trevor is a Master Platinum Coach having completed over 15,000 coaching hours, working with hundreds of clients from around the world to achieve success and fulfillment, including Fortune 500 executives, high level real estate investors, entrepreneurs, world-class athletes and professionals.   Before launching his own coaching practice, Trevor was a Master Coach with the Anthony Robbins Group, offering elite coaching unlike any other program in the world. On today’s episode, we learn about what initially inspired Trevor to get into entrepreneurship. You’ll also learn about how he met someone at a local meet-up group that introduced him to the power of real estate investing. Trevor shares his coaching experience inside the Tony Robbins Group. He talks about how he knew he was ready to leave the Tony Robbins group and start p

Mark Ferguson has been flipping houses since 2001, he started buying rentals in 2010, and has been a real estate agent the entire time. Mark loves flipping houses for the income they produce, and rentals for the long-term cash flow they provide. Over the years Mark has flipped over 130 houses, bought 18 rentals, and sold thousands of houses as an agent.   On today’s episode, we learn how Mark had an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age to be his own boss. You’ll also learn about his observations of his friends and family feeling stuck in the corporate trap. He talks about how he initially didn’t want to get involved in real estate, but saw how it could provide him the freedom he was ultimately looking for. Mark shares why he made the transition from flipping homes into buying rental properties. He also talks about the #1 reason why most real estate agent never become investors.   Key Points From This Episode: The story of Mark’s childhood watching his father’s fanstinating real estate career

Marco Santarelli purchased his first real estate investment at the age of 18. He successfully handled the entire rehab and property management of his first property without ever taking a course or reading a book on the subject. Marco is an investor, author, and founder of Norada Real Estate Investments -- a national real estate investment firm offering turnkey investment property in growth markets nationwide. On today’s show, we discussed how Marco got his start in real estate and what inspired him to start his company, Norada Real Estate Investments. You’ll also learn the importance of educating yourself on real estate, asking the right questions and taking action. Marco talks about why real estate is a great place to create and store long-term wealth. In the episode, you’ll learn what turnkey investing is and the pros and cons of active vs. passive real estate investing. Key Points From This Episode: Why you should never pursue an investment only for the money Importance of investing in assets that you unde

Mark was able to go from being a part-time investor with a full-time job in high tech, to someone who quit the corporate rat race in pursuit of his passion and now thrives as a multifamily investor. Mark Walker is founder of Luxmana Investments, which focuses on residential and multifamily investments. Mark has been an active real estate investor since 2004, so he brought a wealth of knowledge with him when he founded Luxmana Investments in 2011. He started out as a part-time investor––holding a full-time job in high tech––and his passion for real estate enabled him to escape the rat race of Corporate America.   Prior to Luxmana, Mark succeeded in multiple development projects in the trendy Highlands and Berkley areas of Denver, Colorado. Since then, he\'s acquired dozens of residential and multifamily income properties through Luxmana Investments LLC, which he founded in 2011, and Peak Margin Partners LLC, which he co-founded in 2013. Mark has successfully overseen the operations of his own as

Eric accidentally got into real estate back in college when he and his wife decided to buy a house near the University. They purchased a 3 unit building, living in one unit and renting the rest. One night while watching a movie with his wife, he heard a knock on the door. It was one of their tenants there to pay rent. At that moment he realized that I would become a real estate investor. That was the easiest money he had ever earned in his entire life. At that moment he realized that I would become a real estate investor. Eric Bowlin started investing in real estate in 2009 with the purchase of his first three family property. He got into real estate full time at the end of 2011 and became financially independent at the end of 2015 when he quit his job forever. Now, Eric is working on larger multifamily deals and syndications. He owns or is a GP on over 470 doors in Massachusetts and Texas. Also, Eric talks constantly about financial independence and is the founder of IdealREI (a top resource for real estate

On today’s show we welcome Buck Joffrey. Buck is an accomplished Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Asset Manager and Podcaster. He is also the #1 best-selling author of The 7 Secrets of Eternal Wealth. With a negative net worth upon finishing his surgical training in 2008, Buck quickly became a serial entrepreneur and real asset investor amassing an 8 figure net worth. In order to help his high paid professional colleagues, he started a financial education website called WealthFormula.com and hosts the popular Wealth Formula Podcast. Buck knows the old mantra of “investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds,” is outdated and dangerous for high paid professionals given the volatility and instability of the current global economy. Therefore, he advocates entrepreneurship and/or investing in hard assets that provide cash flow as a more reliable way of approaching personal finance. Through a strong foundation of financial education and emphasis on cash flow investing, Buck teaches professionals ho