Road to Family Freedom
Business & Economics Podcasts
How much Money does it take to get started in a specific real estate investing niche? How much and what kind of Knowledge does it take? How much Time does it take once you're up and running? And how Location dependent is it? Tune in each week to follow our journey and learn as we interview successful investors and entrepreneurs who have achieved or are well on their way to achieving financial and location independence, with a special focus the Time, Money, Knowledge and Location dependence of their chosen investment niche.
Location:
United States
Description:
How much Money does it take to get started in a specific real estate investing niche? How much and what kind of Knowledge does it take? How much Time does it take once you're up and running? And how Location dependent is it? Tune in each week to follow our journey and learn as we interview successful investors and entrepreneurs who have achieved or are well on their way to achieving financial and location independence, with a special focus the Time, Money, Knowledge and Location dependence of their chosen investment niche.
Twitter:
@r2familyfreedom
Language:
English
Email:
neil.henderson@gmail.com
Episodes
Why Invest in Self-Storage? And Why Now?
1/28/2022
In the second part of our conversation with Clint Harris, we talk about how and why we are investing in self-storage. Clint is a successful active investor in short-term rentals, but he is transitioning into investing in self-storage. We talk about why he has made that shift, as well as the strengths of our partners at Nomad Capital.
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Duration:00:22:20
How to Scale Your Short-Term Rental Business with Clint Harris
1/25/2022
Clint Harris – a short-term rental investor and owner of Salt and Soul Property Management talks to Neil Henderson, the host of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. When we last spoke to Clint Harris in February of 2020, he owned 14 short-term rental units. In this episode, we talk to Clint about how he has scaled his portfolio to over 60 units under management. Clint has been a real estate investor for over a decade with his wife, starting with long-term single-family home investing but has...
Duration:00:59:33
How to Find Commercial Industrial Deals Like a Wholesaler with Darren Smith
1/17/2022
After serving almost six years in the Army, Darren Smith has spent the last eighteen years as a professional real estate investor. He has flipped, rented, and wholesaled hundreds of residential properties, and in recent years has purchased several million dollars of industrial properties as long-term holds. Darren’s greatest achievement has been to surround himself with an incredible team of industry and military veterans who are every bit as passionate about helping people as he is. His...
Duration:00:49:46
Building Your Network Using Clubhouse with Luke Wong
11/30/2021
Luke Wong, the founder of 9 Mile Capital, has been around real estate most of his life as his family has always been in real estate. From owning commercial and residential properties to land development. Luke grew up in Miami and graduated from Florida State University. He moved to Houston in 2001 and worked in land acquisitions acquiring land for residential subdivisions. From 2011 to 2020, he renovated houses and owned a wholesaling operation. In the last few years, he has also been...
Duration:00:36:50
Ditching the Grind of House Flipping for Self-Storage Success with Rob DuBroc
11/22/2021
Rob Dubroc is a 35-year-old real estate investor from Kansas City who went all-in on self-storage after testing the waters with house flipping, working as a realtor, and single-family rentals. After grinding those various side hustles he found his way into commercial real estate and self-storage.
In this episode, we talk to Rob about how he bought his first facility for cash and then promptly quit his W-2 job, the challenges of transitioning a poorly check and cash facility into auto...
Duration:01:04:28
How to Analyze a Market for Self-Storage with Katherine D’Agostino
11/15/2021
Katherine D’Agostino is the founder and sensei of Self-Storage Ninjas. After selling a previous business, Katherine jumped into the storage business building three facilities from the ground up in three years. She also runs a feasibility-analysis firm focused on delivering unbiased reports to self-storage investors that result in facilities with high occupancy and the highest possible returns.
In this episode, we talk to Katherine about how she got into the self-storage business, how to...
Duration:00:54:36
Commercial Lending Tips for Self-Storage with Mandy Monson
11/9/2021
In this episode we talk to Mandy Monson about her background in finance, how she found herself in the self-storage business, what a self-storage borrower should do to ensure a successful loan application, the 5 C’s of credit, and the big one you should pay attention as a self-storage owner.
Mandy Monson is the VP of Finance for Resort Lifestyle Communities, which manages a portfolio of senior independent living communities, but she’s also co-founder of Stor365 with previous guest Victor...
Duration:00:43:52
We are MOVING!
10/12/2021
In this episode, Neil & Brittany discuss their upcoming move to North Carolina to pursue self-storage full time and live in a house hack across the street from the beach.
In This Episode We Cover:
We bought a house across the street from the beach with the intention of doing a house hack “someday maybe” - We will go into more detail on the house in a later episode.What led us to decide to make the move now?First, we call this podcast The Road to Family Freedom. Our goal is financial and...
Duration:00:16:31
Lessons for New Storage Owners from an Experienced Manager with Victor Diaz
5/31/2021
In this episode, we talk to Victor Diaz about how he got his start in self-storage, the mistakes he sees many new self-storage owners making, how to stand out from the crowd when marketing to potential sellers, and the changes he’s seen in the storage industry since he got into it.
Victor Diaz is the co-founder of Stor365.com, a new consulting firm that specializes in helping self-storage owners operate their small storage portfolios the way a large REIT would. Victor’s entire adult life...
Duration:01:02:20
Passive Real Estate Investing Strategies with Alka Kumar
5/23/2021
In this episode, we talk to Alka Kumar about how concerns over burnout as a doctor led her to pursue additional streams of passive income, how she scaled after buying that first single-family rental, how she purchased a small mobile home park using her self-directed retirement account, and why she is focused on investing passively in real estate syndications.
Alka Kumar of YourWealthMD.com came to the United States from India with $40 in her pocket. Fast forward to today and she has been...
Duration:00:23:57
40,000 Square Foot Self-Storage Deal as First Facility with Christian Mercado
5/17/2021
In this episode, we talk to Christian Mercado about how he purchased his first piece of real estate using a VA loan, how a light bulb went off after he started renting one of his rooms out, how he purchased his first self-storage for zero money down, and the key to negotiating with self-storage owners.
Christian Mercado is a full-time real estate investor and Army Captain. He got his start in real estate in 2017 with the purchase of his first house utilizing a VA loan. 6 months later, he...
Duration:00:39:30
Building Multiple Streams of Income using Passive Real Estate Investments with Jeff Anzalone
5/10/2021
In this episode, we talk about two key setbacks that shifted Jeff Anzalone’s mindset towards building multiple streams of passive income, why he doesn’t invest in single-family rentals, the lessons learned from losing his first $50,000 he invested in a syndication, and the great question he uses to find other potential groups to invest with.
Dr. Jeff Anzalone is a full-time practicing periodontist in the great state of Louisiana, author, and founder of DebtFreeDr.com. He focuses on teaching...
Duration:00:37:21
Shifting from Multifamily to Self-Storage Investments with Powell Chee
5/3/2021
In this episode, we talk to Powell Chee about his start in real estate and why quickly he shifted into multi-tenant assets, the three main roles of a real estate syndication team, a key difference between residential and commercial lending that challenges many investors making the switch, and how to build relationships with commercial real estate brokers that last.
Powell Chee is a Los Angeles-based real estate investor who does all his investing out of state. After buying his first...
Duration:00:41:02
From Rentals and Flipping to Raw Land Success with Landon and Teria Harris
4/26/2021
Landon and Teria Harris started out rehabbing single-family homes. After a few successful projects, they realized it was not the direction they wanted. The amount of time, work, and capital was more than they wanted to manage. Their love of real estate led them to other investing opportunities. After hearing a podcast on vacant land sales, they immediately knew land investing was the right direction for them!
Their land business began in 2019 where they immediately set up structure,...
Duration:00:31:36
Adventures in Real Estate Investing from a Mortgage Broker with Matt Gouge
4/19/2021
Matt Gouge, aka Matt the Mortgage Guy, got his start in lending back in 2013. As a self-proclaimed math nerd and a people person, he burned his proverbial ships, leaving a steady paycheck with the State of California, for the commission-based world of brokering residential mortgages. He has excelled in the field because he himself is a real estate investor and he can advise clients at a high level. As a real estate investor himself, he is able to help clients not only analyze the mortgage on...
Duration:00:54:05
From $165K in Debt to Five Single-Family Rentals with Mindy Templeton
4/12/2021
Mindy Templeton is a Kansas City-based real estate investor who was, at one time, $165,000 in debt. A mindset shift a few years ago led her and her husband to aggressively pay down that debt and start buying single-family rentals in the Kansas City area.
She and her husband have full-time jobs and are parents to two young children. She started Investinginyourwealth.com about two years ago as a way to track her journey to paying off that $165k of debt, and now that they are debt-free, she is...
Duration:00:30:07
How to Earn $100k in 3 Months with Sara Witz and Anthony Gair
4/5/2021
Sara Witz and Anthony Gair are a soon-to-be husband and wife real estate investing team focused on wholesaling, flipping, and the BRRRR strategy. Two oil and gas employees from Houston, Texas who decided to take advantage of the extra time they had after their wedding was delayed by the Covid pandemic. They started investing less than 12 months ago and already have 13 deals under their belt. At the beginning of 2021, they set a goal for themselves of earning $100,000 in three months from...
Duration:00:36:18
Using the BRRRR Method to Scale to 35 Short-Term Rental Units with Shane & Rachel Sigsbee
3/29/2021
Shane Sigsbee – Short Term Rental Investor and CEO or Sigsbee Homes talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Shane graduated from Notre Dame in 2007 with a degree in finance. He became a derivatives trader right out of school but lost his job in the financial crisis in 2009. He then left to pursue a career in gambling, starting the venture Imawhale Staking in 2010, which he still runs to this day. In 2017 he began investing in real...
Duration:00:47:39
The Keys to Successful SBA Lending on Self-Storage with Moe Kruger
3/22/2021
Moe Kruger – Senior Loan Officer at Live Oak Bank talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. Moe Kruger is a 30-year banking veteran that specializes in storage financing for small business owners. Over his 30 years in banking, Moe has been a branch manager, bank business development officer, residential mortgage specialist, private banking manager, commercial relationship manager before settling in and focusing on helping small business...
Duration:00:31:12
Consistent Passive Cash Flow using Triple Net Lease Industrial with Neil Wahlgren
3/15/2021
Neil Wahlgren – Chief Operations Officer at MAG Capital Partners, talks to Neil Henderson and Brittany Henderson, the hosts of The Road to Family Freedom podcast. MAG Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in sale-leaseback and industrial real estate investments. Neil brings nearly two decades of leadership in operations and capital markets. Prior to MAG Capital, Neil led a Bay Area real estate investment firm, raising capital for over $200M in projects. He came to real...
Duration:00:18:30