Episodes

Friday Aug 28, 2020
How to Raise Private Money with Confidence with Jay Conner - TRAILER
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Jay Conner is a real estate investor and an authority on the subject of raising money from private lenders.
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Monday Aug 24, 2020
Owner Financing in Post-Covid Time with Eddie Speed
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Eddie Speed has been a leader and innovator in the Note Business for over 30 years.
He has dedicated his professional life to the seller financing and non-performing note industry since 1980. Eddie is the founder of NoteSchool, a highly recognized training company, specialized in the teaching of buying both performing and non-performing discounted mortgage notes.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- How to prepare for 2021 in the real estate market
- Upcoming huge need for sellers financing
- What will happen with wholesalers in the current market trend
- What banks are going to do in the next five years
- Opportunities for buying rental properties with owners financing
- Why owner financing model works better in the time of recession
Resources:
- Note School https://noteschool.com/
- Interested in becoming a real estate investor? Book a discovery call with Brad Smotherman at www.bradsmotherman.com

Friday Aug 21, 2020
Owner Financing in Post-Covid Time with Eddie Speed-TRAILER
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
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Monday Aug 17, 2020
How to Invest in Mortgage Notes with Jim Maffuccio
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Jim Maffuccio is a 30-year real estate veteran and an expert in mortgage notes. In 2009, he began investing in mortgage loans, developing key sources and vendors and applying his extensive real estate experience to the note investment space. In 2012 he co-founded Aspen Funds, a fund management company focused on mortgage investments.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- How Jim sees the current state of the real estate market and where he sees the opportunities
- How regulation in real estate industry has become more complex over the years and across the states
- What kind of notes he is buying and what the deals are like
- What the due diligence process is like for investing in second mortgages
- What Jim’s business goals are with "rehabbing" non-performing mortgage notes
- What to do with completely “dead” seconds and the maximum value that can be extracted from them
- What is emotional equity
- The best and the worst transactions Jim has had in his career
- How to balance between cash flow business and wealth building business
Resources:
- Aspen Funds https://aspenfunds.us/
- http://www.bradsmotherman.com

Saturday Aug 15, 2020
How to Invest in Mortgage Notes with Jim Maffuccio-TRAILER
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
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Monday Aug 10, 2020
The Power of Direct Mail in the Acquisition Process with Scott Dawson
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
My guest today is Scott Dawson, a real estate entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years experience in the real estate industry. After struggling through his 20's to flip homes, Scott was able to build a team of realtors and sold homes traditionally until the big crash in 2008-2009. After the crash he did some traditional sales and flips all on his own. In 2018, Scott started Optionbee LLC, a home and land buying company. In this episode we talk about his rich background in residential, wholesale, flips, and hedge fund transactions.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- Conservative vs. aggressive approach right now in the real estate market
- How Scott got started in real estate and the value of being ready to just knock on doors
- Why he works by himself right now
- How Scott’s acquisition process works using direct mail
- How he got involved with hedge funds are what they are looking for in a purchase
- Scott's advice for first-time investors – define your goals, find out who you are, what you want, where you want to go, and pick up a good strategy
Resources:
- OptionBee https://www.optionbee.com/
- Connect with Scott on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/scott.dawson.925059

Saturday Aug 08, 2020
The Power of Direct Mail in the Acquisition Process with Scott Dawson-TRAILER
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
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Friday Aug 07, 2020
How To Pick A New Market
Friday Aug 07, 2020
Friday Aug 07, 2020
In today’s episode, we’re talking about how to pick a new market.
As we begin to rise through the hierarchy of flipping business, from struggling as startups to success and scaling, we start to identify new markets. We also find that fundamentals and conservatism are what drives profit in the business. Once we understand that, we can take that model and go to almost any market in the country, and create equity positions there.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- Being caught between two markets - market to buy and market to sell
- Choosing market based on your goal as an investor
- The importance of considering population and their problems at a new market
- Looking at the medium price in a potential market
- What the appreciation rate tells you about the given market
- Days on market and why it may be wiser to go to a softer market
- Getting to know the local cash buyer rate and local real estate investors association - REIA
Resources:

Monday Aug 03, 2020
Reverse Wholesaling in Real Estate With Kent Clothier
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Kent Clothier is the founder and CEO of Real Estate Worldwide, an education company where he teaches his proven reverse wholesaling systems to entrepreneurial students to help them build their real estate businesses.
He also owns and operates three multi-million dollar a year software-based brands that help real estate investors and agents to reach a specific marketing niche.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- Opportunities and cautions for sellers and investors in the current real estate market
- How Kent’s first multi-million business skyrocketed and failed
- How he overcame the failure and started a new business
- How he brought his reverse wholesaling concept into real estate world
- The most common mistakes that new investors are making
- How many properties Kent’s company manages right now
Resources:
- Kent Clothier’s website: https://kentclothier.com/
- Connect with Kent on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kent.clothier
- Connect with Kent on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kentclothier/

Friday Jul 31, 2020
Reverse Wholesaling In Real Estate With Kent Clothier-TRAILER
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
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