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Dominating Your Real Estate Market at a Young Age

Anthony Todesco is a young Houston-based real estate investor with operations across 7 states in the country through his company, Amplified Properties. He has experience in multiple asset classes and he is with us on the show today to talk about what it’s been like to get into real estate investing at a very young age and the lessons he learned along the way. Listen to this episode to learn more about Anthony, his journey into real estate investing, and what it’s like to be a young blood investor in today’s market! Quotables “I buy what makes sense. Where the most equity is, where the best rental markets are, that’s where I buy.” “You can do things without money, but obviously, money helps.” “Most networking events are all free and a saying I like is “the more hands you shake, the more money you make,” and that is super important.” Links Website: Amplified Properties https://amplifiedprops.com/ Instagram: Anthony Todesco / themrmonopoly   Book: Who Moved My Cheese? https://www.amazon.com/Moved-Cheese-S…. Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Strategies for Real Estate Legal Safeguards & Protecting Your Investments in 2024

Randall Miller is the President and CEO of Randall S. Miller & Associates, a Michigan-based law firm that specializes in representing mortgage lenders, servicers, financial institutions, credit unions, and private investors. Randall has been in practice for over 30 years now and he is on the show today to help us better understand the best ways we can protect ourselves in this business. Listen now to learn more about the reality of investing in defaulted mortgages and the best ways you can protect yourself as a real estate professional today! Quotables “If you’re buying something at auction, you’re not buying a house. You’re buying the note, but it doesn’t mean that you own the property yet and there are certain things that have to take place before you can make a move.” “Keep in mind – you have to know where you stand, you have to know where you are, and you have to have an attorney advise you as to really what is going on, and that attorney has to be from the state where you’re buying that note.” Links Phone: Randall Miller (248) 335 – 0800 Email: Randall Miller rmiller@millerlaw.biz rmiller@rsmalaw.com Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Unlocking Success Through Perseverance

Dean Rogers is a former NFL player and currently one of the biggest names in the real estate space. Dean started his journey in real estate investing 10 years ago and today, he is the founder of Home Helpers Group, he actively invests in real estate, and he is coaching people who are interested in getting into the space too. Listen now to learn how Dean found success in real estate investing over the years and how he is helping new investors achieve their goals! Quotables “The right type of deals for me is not getting into the big, long, difficult projects. I wanna be doing easy, in-and-out type of projects and for me, I’m only doing the best type of projects to flip or keep as a rental.” “The biggest thing that I took away, what not only got me to the success in sports but also in life now, is you don’t always have to be the best.” “I had this mindset of “I’ll do it myself” – I always have and I’ll keep putting in the work and I’ll grind it out.” Links Website: Dean Rogers https://deanrogers.com/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Redefining Real Estate Insights & The Importance of Customer Service

Robert Rakowski is the founder and publisher of REI INK magazine – one of the industry’s most reliable sources of data today. Robert is an industry expert with years of experience in different magazine companies and today, he is on the show to shed some light on the purpose of REI INK and how it is changing the real estate investing industry. Listen now to learn more about the story behind REI INK, the work that is put into each issue, how it impacts the real estate industry, and what the future looks like for the magazine! Quotables “We founded the magazine on customer service and it’s amazing how far customer service goes.” “Be careful who you listen to, find the experts in the field, and go with the data.” “There’s never a good time to start anything, so if you’re presented with an opportunity, do it and figure out the details later. That’s the way I look at it.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/ Email: Robert Rakowski Robert@rei-ink.com

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Redefining Rehab Standards 

Clint Lien is the Executive Vice President of The Bluebook International, a company that provides solutions for real estate investors to help them estimate rehab costs efficiently and accurately. He has been in the industry for years, helping provide reliable resources for real estate investors, and he is on the show to help us better understand the work that goes into rehabbing properties and how we can be more efficient with them. Listen now to learn more about rehabbing properties and how you can be efficient with estimating and planning for the expenses that come with it! Quotables “Build relationships with contractors. Build relationships with realtors. Whoever is going to be interacting with you in that middle sphere, on that middle lever, build those relationships before you pull the trigger.” “There’s a risk, right? If there was no risk, everybody would do it, that’s what they say. There’s a risk, but you can limit that risk by educating yourself in multiple different ways.” “Ignorance is usually based on a conscious decision, so if you think about what happened, if you think about what went wrong, you can look back and say “oh, that’s where I made that ignorant decision that got me there.” Links Website: The Bluebook International https://www.bluebook.net/ Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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Decoding Real Estate Investment Trends

John Beacham is the founder and CEO of Toorak Capital Partners, a company that works with lenders across the US and UK to originate business-purpose loans. He has decades of experience in leading financial institutions and building successful businesses and he is with us on the show to talk about things that we need to be focused on in today’s market if we want to succeed as investors. Listen now to learn more from an expert in financing and real estate investing, so you can be prepared to make better decisions for your business! Quotables “Don’t think about necessarily what it is, but think about what it could be.” “Single-family is unique as an asset class because you really have two different and somewhat independent sets of buyers.” “You don’t necessarily need to have a college education, but you need to have a good work ethic and a good business sense in order to buy and renovate properties.” Links Website: RCN Capital https://www.rcncapital.com/podcast Website: REI INK https://rei-ink.com/

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