CHATTANOOGA REIA - Key Persons
Al Aiello had a long affiliation with Bill's firm. Al and Bill's father spoke at seminars to real estate agents and investors throughout the country beginning in the early 1980's. The Noll firm has utilized all of the strategies taught by Al Aeillo since the tax code was re-written in 1986. When Bill returned to work at Noll & Company he began attending and speaking at seminars with Al. Bill has been a co-author with Al of several of the publications that have been written during the past five years.
Bill has agreed to continue Al Aeillo's legacy of teaching tax strategies for the benefit of those people seeking a better understanding of the Internal Revenue Code through ISU.
Bill and Kim Cook are a husband and wife real estate investing team. They live in Adairsville, Georgia and have been investing in real estate since 1995.
Bill Ham has been investing in real estate for 8 years and has created a portfolio of nearly 400 units in Macon, GA. He created his entire real estate investing portfolio using creative and seller financing.
Bob Massey, the nation's leading expert on using Real Estate Agents to bring you deals, has a very unique background for a Real Estate Investing Trainer. Bob became a very successful Investor after retiring from a 30 year career in corporate sales and marketing. He is a career sales person, sales manager, sales trainer and former top level sales executive. Bob's last position was as a partner in the 2nd largest accounting firm in the world. His job was to teach the accountants how to sell their services. Bob has been building sales and marketing campaigns his entire career. What is exciting is that Bob has brought that experience to our industry and has introduced a unique concept with a level of professionalism that is second to none.
Bob has built an extremely successful investing business and along the way he got excited about short sales. For the last 6 years he has been focused heavily on making short sales successful. He is a master at flipping them and having a buyer in place before he actually closes. What a great way to keep yourself safe! Bob is the master at teaching folks how to work with real estate agents. They hate short sales and Bob loves them. What a great combination! His unique strategies and approach have proven very successful for novices and experienced investors. Big profits, massive deal flow, no risk, way lower cost of marketing per deal and others do most of the work for the deal. How can you beat that?
So, combine a great concept with Bob's unique professional background and you have an incredible opportunity for investors to profit big in this difficult market.
David Tilney began investing in real estate in 1978. He began managing properties when he couldn't find a competent company to manage his own rental portfolio. Over the years, David has invested in rentals, notes, foreclosures, tax sales, IRS liens and leasehold interests. David has become the "go to" guy for management of single-family homes and loves being a landlord. He looks forward to hearing from his tenants, but often feels like the repairman in the old Maytag appliance commercial who rarely gets a call.
David and Mary, his wife of 43 years, reside in Naples FL and spend summers in Colorado Springs. They manage their portfolio of rental houses from wherever they are without employees. Their three daughters and their husbands (who have blessed them with 8 grandchildren) have also invested in rental property. David believes that owning rentals is not a get rich quick scheme, but an investment that can sustain you when you choose to retire or can no longer work and continue to provide for your heirs when you have passed on.
As a small child moving to Atlanta in 1965, Deborah Harris has watched this city grow from a large town with less than a million people to the world recognized city that it is today. As a college student at Georgia Tech, she proclaimed to her auctioneer father that "Engineering is just way too boring for me." His simple response was, "Well, go get a real estate license!" Now, after 35 years, a 1000 houses, lots 2000 lot sales, and 100's of land and commercial deals, she still loves real estate. She is a facilitator for various acquisitions, JV, site search, development. She has numerous awards (The Phoenix Award from the Atlanta Board of Realtors, and Top Agent for Keller Williams International for April 2013, and KW First AtlantaTop Commercial Agent 2008-20010), and dozens of designations, Deborah still is passionate about real estate, loves negotiating the deal, and is striving to take her business to the next level. In addition, she is now teaching assorted real estate courses. The hardest working Realtor in Atlanta is looking for people that have the desire to be a successful real estate agent themselves.
Don DeRosa is a real estate investor, author, teacher, coach and national speaker. He is past president of Georgia Real Estate Investors Association. Don is also an an active Charter Business Member of the Atlanta Real Estate Investors Alliance (Atlanta REIA). Don has trained thousands of new and experienced investors to build wealth in real estate using the same techniques that helped him build his fortune, particularly buying with owner financing, using private money, creatively structuring deals and selling quickly in any market.
Don was honored to be singled out among the top 21 real estate investors in the U.S. and Canada featured in The New York Times best-selling book The Millionaire Real Estate Investor.
Don is the first Real Estate teacher in the country to move all of his course material, plus hundreds of hours of seminars, bootcamps, video, and audio to the iPad in the iMasterReal Estate for the iPad series. He teaches how to save hundreds of hours a year using tools only available on the iPad.
He has bought and sold well over 200 properties in the last few years. This has given him the expertise and experience to train students on everything from finding owner finance purchase opportunities, to finding and negotiating successfully with sellers, analyzing deals, creating equity through short selling, finding private money to fund deals, quickly selling properties and collecting tens of thousand in profits on each deal!
Donna Bauer, nationally known as The Original NoteBuyer®, is one of the country's most recognized authorities on Discounted Notes, Seller Financing, and Defaulted Notes. Donna started out over twenty-five years ago, when she was babysitting nine children for a dollar an hour per child so that she could be a stay-at-home mom. Her life was changed forever when she discovered the amazing power of note buying and made over $5,000 on her very first deal. She went on to develop her own systematized approach to making amazing profits with notes. Since then, she has shared her exclusive note buying strategies and helped thousands of individuals to create, build, and maintain financial freedom.
Donna's extensive real estate background enables her to bring a wealth of knowledge to her students and uniquely qualifies her to integrate her exclusive creative note buying strategies into all areas of real estate investing. Her experience includes the management of single-family homes, an office park, downtown high rise, and 400 - 500 unit apartment complexes. In addition to her own extensive investment career involving both residential and commercial notes and properties, she has facilitated thousands of transactions as a real estate paralegal, as the owner of a title company, and as a personal mentor to investors across the country.
Donna will be quick to tell you that in her life time, she has never seen so many amazing opportunities with notes. With deals galore in the market place and bank financing hard to come by, seller financed notes have once again become the rage. This creates an awesome opportunity in the secondary market to make huge profits without all of the hassles of the proverbial "tenants, trash and toilets," not to mention without using your own cash or credit. There's no doubt, buying and selling other people's seller-financed notes is the quickest, easiest, safest way to CASH IN on today's fantastic real estate market!
Duncan Wierman is a full time investor in Greenville, South Carolina. His business revolves around automated systems so he can do less work and make more money. He has used internet marketing and automated internet systems for attracting buyers, sellers, and investors have allowed him to do over 300 deals a year without leaving his desk!
After working at real estate investing the hard way, Duncan finally swore to himself that he'd had enough: He then invested serious time and money into using systems that would pay off in less aggravation, more time, and more profits! He became an expert in finding motivated sellers, hungry buyers, and private lenders through the Internet.
For over 32 years, Eddie Speed has been an active investor, leader and innovator in both Seller Financing and Non-Performing Notes. A-list corporations, Hedge Funds and the industries top producers such as HomeVestors of America have sought his expertise for decades.
His daily hands-on participation has kept him at the cutting edge of the note business and his industry vision has positioned him to play a prominent role in the changing real estate and financing landscape.
He has used his experience from purchasing more than 30,000 notes and brokering more notes than anyone in the industry, to develop training programs. These programs, which include seminars, workshops, mentorships and computer-based curriculum, have created more successful brokers and investors than anyone in the industry.
Eddie, recipient of the 2006 Note Industry Achievement Award, understands how and why financial giants, such as the Federal Housing Administration, are falling in line with other organizations by shifting out of the REO and Short Sale Business and into "selling their delinquent notes", and the opportunities that this shift creates.
Frank Iglesias is a real estate investor in the Atlanta metro area who enjoys creating win-win real estate transactions. Leveraging a mostly virtual staff, Frank has taken working with virtual assistants (VAs) to a high level where they do the majority of the work necessary to run his real estate investing business. As a result, Frank is able to do less while accomplishing more. As a result, he has the freedom to spend more time with friends and family and teach others to do the same.
He is the author of the system the ‘The 80/20 VA Office‘ where he shows you how to create your own team, virtual or not, to make the 80/20 rule a reality in your life so you can have the time you desire balancing business and play. He also is an avid educator and loves teaching from the ‘school of hard knocks' that so many people travel far too often. His way of communicating is pure and real allowing him to relate to people in a way they can identify with at many levels. One of his missions is to help people realize their potential and that Yes! they really can accomplish the awesome goals they have in their head.
Frank has been actively involved for some time in local investment groups and has been a guest speaker at the Equity Trust Networking Conference held annually in the fall. He has also been a speaker at numerous Real Estate group events throughout the Atlanta area as he enjoys sharing his knowledge helping people to ‘go for it'.
He is a regular writer for the Atlanta REIA and Tampa REIA newsletter ‘The Profit' and has also been featured in the new Orlando REIA newsletter ‘The Resource'. His company also has a regular newsletter they share with subscribers about the latest in Real Estate Investing.
With straight forward, yet calm advice, Frank has been inspiring his local community to own creating their success by taking responsibility for everything one can and realize that indeed, they can make anything happen they want if they are committed enough. Mix in some fun and lightheartedness and you have a recipe where success is expected, people are served regularly and differences are made that can last a lifetime.
Job Titles:
- MPactWealth Founder and Chief Wealth Strategist
MPactWealth founder and Chief Wealth Strategist George Antone is a financier, investor, entrepreneur, and national best-selling author of The Wealthy Code and The Banker's Code. He entered the business world at age 16 when his father put his knack for business to good use in several of the family enterprises.
For the last quarter-century, he has launched and operated a number of successful businesses, including The Millione Group, a business incubation and investment group, Full Throttle Venture, a private equity firm, and Wealth Classes (now MPactWealth). He also serves on the board of directors of several nationally renowned companies.
After graduating from the University of California at Davis, George honed his skills developing award-winning products for companies such as Intuit and Microsoft. His expertise was integral in the growth and launch of dozens of startups, including Total Entertainment Network (acquired by Electronic Arts), UpShot Corp. (acquired by Siebel), and Virage Corp (acquired by IBM).
A true American success story, George is also a philanthropist who enjoys giving back. At MPactWealth, George develops the most effective curriculum to teach strategies for alternative investments and personal finance. In addition to making sure the curriculum truly delivers, being available to his students and interacting with them is George's top priority.
Job Titles:
- Real Estate Investment Leader
Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging over $50,000 per deal. And... with little to no risk. "Jay is a real estate magician" as "He works seemingly magical deals for buyers and sellers alike."
When Jay was introduced to the world of Private Lending. Jay says, "PRIVATE LENDING ROCKED MY WORLD AND MY REAL-ESTATE INVESTING CAREER!" His first Private Lender gave him $250,000 in Private Money. Then, within less than 90 Days, Jay raised $2,150,000.00 in Private Money.
Jay has been a full-time Real-Estate Entrepreneur for 10 years in a population of only 40,000 while producing a seven figure net income per year. Just a few months ago, Jay became a National Best Selling Author with his new book: "The Masters of Real Estate : Getting deals done in the new economy." For the past 4 years, he has been mentoring Real-Estate Investing Students across the U.S. and Canada . Since he started raising Private Money, he has developed new, easy and simple techniques for raising all the money you'll ever want for your Real Estate Deals.
Jay pours his talents and energies into numerous activities. He is President of Conner Properties and EZ Mortgages, plus former CEO of Leader Homes, and past President of Business Networking International. In 1997 Jay formed Encore Music, a private record label, where he records original piano compositions. Jay and his wife, Carol Joy, reside in Newport, NC.
Jim "Mr Probate" Banks has been investing in Probate Real Estate and Probate Personal Property for over 30 years. Jim started with fixer-uppers then moved into tear-downs and building two story homes.
Jim is the creator of the Probate Investment System which he has taught and lectured on nationally decades. He has also been a been a Real Estate Broker for over 30 years. He has attended Indiana University, the University of Southern California and West L.A. Law School.
John Hyre is a tax attorney, accountant and investor. His tax practice is based in Columbus, Ohio, but most of his clients are from states or countries outside of Ohio. He has been practicing for twenty years in the area of tax law, with a focus on the taxation of real estate, small businesses and self-directed IRA's/401k's. John frequently speaks nationally on taxation and has successfully represented clients in IRS audits and in Tax Court. He is one of the few attorneys in the country who has been (and as of this writing, is still involved in) IRS audits of IRA's as well as IRA-related Tax Court cases. John is accepting clients from all over the US (and overseas) for tax planning consultations and representation in IRS audits or in Tax Court.
Jon & Stephanie Iannotti have been business leaders since 2000. With over 30 years combined experience in Real Estate Investing/Teaching, and Mentoring and over 1900 creative deals under their belts, they are considered one of the best in the industry. They have also come up with some amazing ways to structure deals that are cutting edge. They have done many deals with their student partners using these state of the art techniques which are now being taught across the country and internationally. They are the creators of ACT (Agreeable Contract Terms). This program and has totally changed many investors' lives with the teachings and techniques. Then in 2012, due to even more changes in the Real Estate Market, the Iannotti's came up with another System called REACT (Reverse Engineered Assignment of Contract Terms). REACT is now taking the Real Estate Investing world by storm as well as their most recent program CATS (Complete Agreeable Terms System), which was just released in October of 2014.
Jon and Stephanie have trained with and worked with some of the biggest names in Real Estate Investing. To name a few, Ron LeGrand, Robin Thompson, Lee Phillips, Al Aiello, Ted Thomas, and many others. Not only have they mentored hundreds of their own students, they have also mentored hundreds of Ron LeGrand's real estate students.
Seeing a great need for another Real Estate Investing Association in the Southwest Florida Region to help educate and train Real Estate Investors, Jon & Stephanie approached some of their associates and decided to form the Florida Gulf Coast Real Estate Investing Alliance. They are looking forward to continuing to bring knowledge and training to as many Investors as possible and are always continuing to keep their skills fine-tuned and cutting edge so that their knowledge can be passed to those that they associate with. Their motto for Real Estate Investing…."Knowledge is key, Timing is crucial, Location is important and having a Mentor or Coach will keep you on the path to Success!"
The Iannotti's are also Amazon #1 Best Selling Authors of "The New Masters of Real Estate, Getting Deals Done in the New Economy." 12 of the 18 contributing authors were mentored or coached by them personally. They are also #1 Best Selling Authors of "Business Leaders Success". They are also highly sought after National Speakers and National & International Mentors to well over 400 students over the past few 10 years. Owning their own businesses have given them the freedom to live where they want to live, do what they want to do and when they want to do it.
Jonathan Henrich was a professional drummer from Philadelphia in his early 20's. He started his investing career in 2009 investing in paper, stocks, real estate wholesaling, then bought and rehabbed his first rental property in 2012 even after battling a debilitating brain tumor. His interest was piqued by Larry Harbolt who introduced him to a legendary real estate investor in the St. Pete area, he decided to move to Florida in 2012 as part of his recovery and to study under the legends of investing.
He worked alongside Wayne Arnold and Peter Fortunato to help develop the Creative Real Estate Exchangers (CREE) where he has gotten a unique look at the real estate business. He has since authored his first book The Secret Recipe for A Happy Life: Practical Guide to Conquering Fear Depression and Anxiety and spends his time writing, speaking, investing, working on his Tech Start-Up company Jinzi Tech, and enjoying life.
Karen Bershad has owned and operated several businesses during her career including a printing company and a remodeling business with her late husband. Having over thirty years of hands on business ownership experience, she learned many things about owning and operating a business and always felt "there has to be a better way". This was the basis of developing The Small Business Advisor.
All the downsizing and our current economy has encouraged many who have been employees to change hats and become entrepreneurs. What has come to light is, most entrepreneurs know a product or service really well and decide to go into business for themselves, but they don't know what they don't know about running a business.
This is where Karen has focused her business, on those who want to be in business but don't know what the right next steps should be. Along with her experience, Karen has taken several products and services that she teaches and markets to assist the small business owner in running their business in a more efficient manner than if they just jump in and start the business with no direction or systems in place.
Karen has been asked to speak and teach courses for many organizations including the Atlanta Urban League and North Metro Real Estate Investors Association. Currently, Karen is running Atlanta REIA's Small Business Group which is designed to help real estate entrepreneurs and other small business owners run their business more efficiently and profitably.
Kimberlee Frank is known as "The Real Estate Junkie" is a Foreclosure Short Sale Expert who is regularly sought out by the media. She has been featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS as well as Wall Street Journal, Newsletter, USA Today and numerous other publications. She is the best selling author of "Big Ideas for Your Business" (Advantage Media 2009). She is also 1 of Americas Premier's Experts.
Kimberlee Frank has been a successful real estate investor since 1998. By successful I mean she has bought and sold hundreds of homes all with "no money down." She is also a real estate broker, author, mentor, and teacher.
Her success began in Fenton, Michigan where she specialized in purchasing, renovating, retailing and lease optioning single-family homes. In her first 6 years of business, she bought and sold 60 properties - profiting over one million ($1,000,000) dollars.
Before becoming a full time investor, she was a legal secretary for 18 years for various attorneys, real estate brokers, and builders. She has crossed the "t's" and dotted the "i's" on hundreds of real estate deals and thousands of documents which qualifies her as an expert in real estate documentation as well.
She has created many different courses which teach you how to set yourself up in the business from Corporations, Book keeping, Land Trusts, Buy and Sell, Lease Options, Short Sales and Subject To. Her newest program, which teaches the serious real estate investor who wants to become a local real estate guru, is called "Apprenticeship Business System" and is a unique niche that no one is teaching. This program has been very well received in the real estate community. In fact, Ron LeGrand likes it so much, he scheduled her for his Customer Appreciation Event in he which teaches other investors multiple streams of income. Kimberlee is a true "transaction engineer".
Several years ago, she was offered the first Female Mentor Position with Russ Whitney's Building Wealth. Kimberlee and her husband, Larry's story are in Ron LeGrand's "How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire Book", page 101. She has shared the stage with Jeff Kaller and Ron LeGrand. She was in the newspaper and on the television for giving away a FREE MERCEDES with the purchase of a home which shows that she is very creative in selling houses fast.
In 2003 the real estate market changed, foreclosures were on the rise and she started investing in foreclosures and became a short sale specialist.
Larry Harbolt is the nation's leading creative Seller Financing expert as well as a popular national real estate speaker and teacher whose time-tested strategies and nuts and bolts teaching style has helped thousands of aspiring real estate entrepreneurs realize their financial dreams with little or no money and without the need for credit. Larry has been successful creatively buying and selling real estate for over 30 years and has written numerous popular articles and real estate courses.
Larry is so respected in the industry that NBA Super Star, Shaquille O'Neill has purchased his courses and he is one of only two real estate teachers whose works have ever been inducted into the Library of Congress. Larry Harbolt 's reputation of being one of the best "kitchen-table" negotiators who has the ability to make a deal where others cannot see an opportunity has made him a sought after consultant and mentor for real estate investors everywhere he goes. Larry is the real deal!
Mark Jackson, fondly known as MJ, has become the go to Valuation Specialist for people who want to achieve more in their real estate investing business.
In 1999, MJ founded an appraisal company and soon after found his true gift was Analyzing Property value for real estate investors. Once MJ began investing himself, the flood gates opened.
Since 2000, MJ has been able to close real estate transactions totaling in the Millions and maintains a substantial net worth. REIAComps.com was created to help investors like you do exactly the same. Since 2006 real estate investors both domestically and internationally use REIAComps.com to confidently profit every time the buy a property, knowing the right price before they buy.
When not traveling in the US and abroad, sharing his "valuation comes first" message, MJ is usually at home working on his many domestic and international business ventures. MJ is married to his lovely bride Toni and has five children. MJ's main passions are: faith, family, playing golf and real estate.
Michael Vazquez has been acquiring and selling investment properties since 2004. For years he provided investors with amazing wholesale deals that made them loyal investors. Eventually, Michael began investing in those same deals and partnered with his long time investors. In 2012, Michael founded Venture Realty, a real estate brokerage that caters to everyone, especially investors, builders and developers. He now mentors, consults and joint ventures with fellow real estate investors, leads a knowledgeable and talented acquisitions team that provides him and his investors with great deals month after month, and teaches every day people how to invest their 401K, self-directed IRA, CD, etc. in real estate without lifting a finger. When it comes to investing in real estate he has done much more than many twice his age.
After graduating from Florida Southern College with a degree in finance, Paul Rossano returned to his home town in the suburbs of New York City where he immediately entered the world of real estate. Throughout his 15 year career as an investor and broker, Paul has bought and sold dozens of properties and been involved in hundreds transaction on both the residential and commercial side of the business.
Paul is a devoted student and teacher of success, and embraces a philosophy of constant and never-ending improvement in all areas of life. Now a lead trainer for MPactWealth (recognized by Inc. 500), Paul's mission is to share his vast knowledge and experience with others to help them achieve the level of success and freedom they desire and deserve.
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. "It's very simple when you take the time to learn how", Reggie says. Over the years, Reggie has developed his Success Systems that consistently turn marginal $15,000 to $20,000 real estate deals into $50,000 to $75,000 deals. Reggie teaches his Success Systems all over America. His students say that the combination of his insightful knowledge with a sheer joy for teaching makes the learning process pleasurable.
Reggie has earned the respect of the real estate investment community as well as the seminar community because of his many investment accomplishments and his ability to teach them in a seminar or classroom setting. Of his many successful students Reggie is most proud of his two kids, Keith and Arlett. Through his mentoring they have both become successful, full time millionaire real estate investors.
Robyn Thompson is the nation's leading expert on buying, renovating and selling homes for huge chunks of cash and is known throughout the United States and Canada as "The Queen of Rehab"?.
After spending 9 years working a dead end corporate job, Robyn realized that her hard work and dedication for IBM was not going to provided financial independence. She walked away from her secure paycheck and never looked back.
Over the past 13 years since Robyn left IBM, she has bought, fixed and sold 300+ homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. She has spent as much as $2,100,000 in labor and materials in one year to renovate properties with more than 22 contractors working full time to take the run down homes she bought and turn them into little castles at lightening speed.
Robyn will be sharing her strategies on: 1) How to find the profitable homes that need renovated, 2) How to find and control the contractors to get the job done and 3) Selling houses quickly for huge chunks of cash.
Robyn has taught thousands of students throughout the United States how to become financially independent. She has shared the stage with Donald Trump, Dr Phil, Mark Victor Hansen, Ron LeGrand, Marshall Sylver & many more legends.
Robyn uses her success in the real estate business to help those less fortunate. The most critical construction project that Robyn completed was an orphanage in one of the poorest countries in the world for 165 children.
Robyn presents the most up to date strategies for buying low and selling high to ensure large profits and that is why she is one of the most high demand speakers in the nation.
Ron LeGrand is the world's leading expert in residential quick turn real estate and a prominent commercial property developer. Ron has bought and sold over 2,000 single family homes over the past 30 years, and currently owns commercial developments in nine states ranging from retail, office, warehouse, residential subdivisions and resorts. The developed value of his current projects tops two billion dollars and many of the profits are shared with student partners.
Ron is an active teacher, author and writer with a best selling book in stores today and a new one recently released. He's shared the stage with some of the most famous people in the world, including Donald Trump, Dr. Phil, Jay Leno, Jerry Rice, past presidents, corporate CEO's and movie/TV stars, and spends a great deal of his time conducting real estate training in rooms as small as 100 to as large as 20,000.
Ron is a former mechanic that has helped create millionaires numbering in the thousands and has hundreds of thousands of students all over North America and numerous other countries. He's famous for his "tell it like it is" style and down to earth, humorous presentation about the real business of investing in real estate with little or no money or credit and building a fortune quickly with time tested and proven techniques, many created and trademarked by him.
About Ron LeGrand in His Own Words
I sat down one Friday evening to pay my bills and realized my outgo was bigger than my income and my upkeep was becoming my downfall. All I had accomplished was create a big, ugly mess. I'd spent two years buying the wrong properties the wrong way in the wrong areas for the wrong reasons. I built my empire on a house of cards, not a solid foundation.
You see, I really didn't understand the real estate business. I just bought properties because I could, without money or credit. I bought all the crap savvy investors wouldn't touch. They'd already been to the school I was about to graduate from… The School of Hard Knocks. All my low income properties in war zone areas with brainless tenants were sucking me dry, financially and mentally. My days were spent solving their petty problems and listening to all the worthless excuses why they couldn't pay rent.
I spent the next five years selling off my junk for dimes on the dollar. It took me seven years into the business to really understand it and get my life back. Oh, I made a good living during that time. Several times my job income. But I sure wish I'd known me back then and had the system then that my students have now. On second thought it wouldn't have mattered anyway. I wouldn't have listened. I'm a man, men don't follow instructions. It's testosterone. It's not our fault. We can't help it.
After about seven years into the business and over 400 houses later I built an easy system to turn real estate into cash now, cash monthly and cash later. I made it a real business anyone could do from home and make obscene amounts of money. That's about the time I started teaching what I had learned. Somewhere along the line someone called me "The World's Leading Expert at Quick Turning Houses" and the name stuck.
Russ Hiner is an active real estate investor, coach and mentor. Russ teaches several workshops throughout the year on a variety of real estate investing topics such as Negotiations, Wholesaling 101, Wholesaling 401, Real Estate 101 and more.
Russ got started by working as a medical technologist in hospital and manufacturing setting before becoming involved in real estate. One year later the company shut down that department. RUSS lost HIS job! The life lesson was, he needed to work for himself and started the entrepreneurial adventure.
Russ started out 30 years ago by working the exit strategy of "buy and rent". His business started and stopped. Then as Russ put together more money it started then stopped. Due to these life lessons, Russ became an individual who likes to put together systems and people to allow everyone on the team to prosper, and the machine to roll. With this philosophy, Russ was able to build a business system that works all the time in any economic condition. He focuses on replicating himself in order to move his business forward. Russ is passionate about what he does. He is constantly learning. Over the years Russ has used education, mentors and surrounded himself with people who have help further his career. Russ has been consistently reaching goals in real estate for 30 years. He worked with Rich Dad and Russ Whitney as a mentor for 13 years. Keeping a great sense of Humor has also helped.
In 2004, Russ wanted to move in to the B quadrant described in Robert Kiyosaki books. Russ started a manufacturing business Media Safe, Inc and in 2006 started an investment company. Russ's current real estate business is focused on the rentals, wholesale real estate transactions, lease options, notes and deeds, loaning private money, commercial and note buying. Russ believes that your guarantee success depends on you action.
Scott bought his first home when he was 14 years old and started investing full-time right after high school. Since then he has done over 1,500 real estate transactions, specializing in non-traditional, creative, no-money, no-credit style deals.
Using his years of experience, Scott pioneered a new and innovative approach to investing in which even the novice can use to build an immediate Cash Flow of $1,000 to $10,000 or more a month using his unique Lease-Purchase program that ANYONE at ANY level can start investing in real estate in today's market with little money and no credit with this technique coined "ABLE" (Assembling Buyer Lease Estates).
Cape Coral Resident TC Bradley is a Number 1 Best Selling Author and has been online since 2003 when he launched his first website that sold over a million dollars online.
Tom DiAgostino grew up the hard way in the Monroe Housing Projects in the South Bronx of New York City. He seized opportunity and started his college career at CUNY and then Pace University, joined the Army ROTC and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, eventually retiring from the Army. At Pace he did an internship at Reynolds Securities, a financial firm where he achieved a tremendous education in the markets, and has been heavily involved in the trading markets ever since.
His business career started in 1988 as a project manager for Orenstein Construction. It was then he purchased his first batch of Tax Liens through the tax sale process. In 1992, he struck out on his own and formed the company T-GRAM, Inc. an acronym for his bride of 24 years and 4 children, Thomas, Grace, Rick, Ann, & Maegan (he says he is the hyphen). He started as a site builder, then to a developer of small subdivisions, then to a Superior Wall franchise that set over 4,000 homes. Tom has kept current through education and seminars adding new tools to his business practice to stay on top of the ever-changing market place. Tom has been a rehabber, builder, and Tax Sale investor for the last decade. His experiences entail every facet of real estate, and throughout his career he has utilized tax sale properties for rehab projects, wholesales and rentals. Growing wealth by acquiring real estate for pennies on the dollar via Tax Sales is the foundation of Tom's real estate business in Fortris LLC.
Tom is the Co-Author of Dare to Succeed with The New York Times Best-Selling Author Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul). Available now on Amazon.com.
Tony Pearl is an entrepreneur, copywriter, proud father, mentor, marketing consultant and talented teacher who resides in the Washington, DC area. He has traveled to over 26 countries, speaks 4 languages, and continues to travel extensively. He has been a professional Ballroom and Latin dance instructor, competitor, and exhibitor for over 19 years. As a Real Estate Investor, Tony has bought and sold over Ten Million dollars worth of real estate, and has been educated by and associates with the best.
The only thing Vena Jones-Cox loves more than teaching people how to set their financial lives to rights by wholesaling houses is…wholesaling houses.
Wholesaling is a time-tested strategy that, in 5 simple steps, puts big chunks of cash into your pocket-without getting involved in risky rehabs, rental management, borrowing money, or even having to buy the properties themselves. It's a strategy that's both financially and personally rewarding-not to mention a lot of fun.
At the same time, she's a huge advocate for rigorous training in the wholesaling business-Vena says, "Wholesalers who don't know what they're doing burn sellers, burn buyers, burn their own reputations and attract the attention of regulators. Wholesalers who've bothered to invest time and money in real training are the ones that make real money, build real businesses, and provide real benefits to their customers and the community."
Following a blessedly-brief stint in corporate America, Vena began investing in real estate full time in 1989. Since that time, she's been a principal in over 800 transactions including rentals, lease/options, note purchases, rehabs, and, of course, wholesale deals. She's a licensed real estate broker and founder of REStructure Opportunity Fund, a privately-held equity fund that buys houses, notes and small apartment properties in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
William "Bill" Noll is a lawyer and CPA currently working at Noll & Company, CPA's and he operates a separate law practice focused on tax compliance and tax-related litigation.
Bill has a breadth of experience which gives him the ability to understand many different facets of business disputes and tax controversies.
Bill worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) from 1992 to 1994. During that period of three years he was prosecuting cases on a daily basis. In 1994, Bill transitioned to private practice in a Chester County. For the next ten years he worked as a litigator trying dozens of cases to verdict. Bill's litigation experience was in the context of criminal defense, white collar crime, tax compliance and general commercial litigation. Bill was also chosen as a panel member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to represent defendants in federal prosecutions in multi-defendant conspiracy cases.
In 2004 Bill returned to his roots in rejoining Noll & Company which is a local CPA firm founded by his father. Since that time, Bill has limited his practice to tax consulting, tax compliance and complex tax litigation. Bill has a wealth of experience before the IRS at both the examination and the appeal level. He is also admitted to practice in the United States Tax Court.