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Brad Smotherman, a multiple 7 figure house flipper, shows you how to market for houses, negotiate, structure your deals, and fund your deals so that you can create a high 6 figure or 7 figure house flipping business, without sacrificing your freedom.
Brad Smotherman, a multiple 7 figure house flipper, shows you how to market for houses, negotiate, structure your deals, and fund your deals so that you can create a high 6 figure or 7 figure house flipping business, without sacrificing your freedom.
Episodes

Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Jump from Single-Family to Multi-Family with Jeff Klotz - TRAILER
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Saturday Sep 05, 2020
Jeff Klotz is the founder and operating manager of The Klotz Group of Companies, a vertically integrated & comprehensive private equity real estate investment platform operating in over 20 States throughout the US.
FULL EPISODE COMING SOON!!!

Monday Aug 31, 2020
How to Raise Private Money with Confidence with Jay Conner
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Jay Conner is a real estate investor and an authority on the subject of raising money from private lenders. Using a system he devised through trial and error, he managed to raise over $2.000.000 of private money in less than 3 months, and he is teaching others to do the same.
What We Cover In This Episode:
- What is the difference between private money, hard money and institutional money
- Which comes first - the deal or the private lender?
- How a new investor can win the confidence of private lenders
- What to do with the money that private lenders don’t want back
- The biggest mistakes people are making when trying to raise private money
Resources:
- Jay Conner’s website https://www.jayconner.com/
- FREE Book - Private Money and You https://www.jayconner.com/reports/3-gifts/
Interested in real estate investing? Get in touch with Brad Smotherman at https://www.bradsmotherman.com/

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:
