Hey Guys! You’ve found it! Welcome to the Fearless Pursuit of Freedom Podcast; I am your host Brandon Richards. I am a real estate investor and avid entrepreneur based out of Flagstaff Arizona. My company is OPF and we flip, wholesale and buy businesses. Listen in as I interview the nation’s leading entrepreneurs and discuss the monumental battles of business and life.
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Navigating the benefits of a 1031 exchange with Dave Foster
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Dave goes in depth on the process and benefits of a 1031 exchange to alleviate taxes, and why doing a 1031 and cost segregation can be powerful Reach Dave Here
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From single family rentals to commercial repurposing with Clint Harris
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Clint started like alot of real estate investors do by acquiring a few houses to create cashflow, but quickly discovered that the process and time/money efforts were a slow mans game to financial freedom. The exponential growth just wasn't there, so with some strategic partnerships, Clint moved into repurposing old retail box stores into temperatur…
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Expert probate attorney Paul Deloughery helps us understand common hurdles
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If you've dealt with a seller who has inherited a property, then you've likely dealt with these issues. Paul gives us the good, bad and ugly of helping a seller through a difficult time when it comes to the assets they've inherited....or thought they inherited!By Brandon Richards
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Developing Systems and Processes to scale a rental portfolio with Jon Nolen
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Jump in and listen to Jon walk us through the growing pains of building out a real estate business and working hand in hand with his wife, Amy Nolen. I personally know these wonderful people and can't wait for you to learn from their experiences, good and bad.By Brandon Richards
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Why you need multiple bank accounts for your Real Estate business with David Richter
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Have you ever gone a fews months, a quarter, or an entire year thinking "Man, I am killing it", only to discover that the bank account is empty? David tells us why we need to utilize the "envelope" method within our business to ride the waves of business. Find David Richter on FB at https://www.facebook.com/david.richter.395 SimpleCFO.com…
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Power couple Candace & Anthony Coffey dive into the struggles and wins of growing a family business
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Power couple Candace & Anthony Coffey dive into the struggles and wins of growing a family business. I love how vulnerable and open these guys were in regards to the struggles that all entrepreneurs deal with, and how they've overcome them to build a respectable, well known brand in the community.By The Fearless Pursuit of Freedom Podcast
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After over 1000 real estate deals, Nathan Brooks shares insights on what he's learned along the way
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After 1000 real estate deals, Nathan Brooks shares insights on what he's learned along the way. From building, empowering and managing a team around you to embracing vulnerability, and finding the strength to learn from our mistakesBy Brandon Richards
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Michael Rickerd on Passive Income with a Full Time W2 JOB.
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Mike really dives into the pitfalls, hurdles and massive positive impacts that simply changing your mindset can do for your life and business. We briefly discuss his growing rental portfolio and then really dig into his new endeavor, Overland Flagstaff. With his new company, he provides fully equipped Toyota Tacomas with a bed top tent, all the cam…
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Steven Todd Morris, from zero to over 650 doors, including 50 AirBnbs.
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Steven really dives in and shares with me how he’s been able to grow his real estate portfolio to over 650 units, including nearly 50 AirBnbs! Stevens Instagram: smorris802
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William Walker lets us in on how he's grown so fast in the Multi-Family world.
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William breaks down how he went from accounting and the CPA industry to swiftly growing his multi-family portfolioBy Brandon Richards
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Chad Bartlett on how to live abroad while running an investment company
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Chad and his family live in Columbia and works less than 5 hours a week on his virtual real estate business….ya, you read that right. BUT, it hasn’t always been like this. Listen in to hear all the struggles, failures and strategies he’s used to climb back to the top and be able to move his family around the world while his company keeps turning de…
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Sean Clemmenson on Real Estate law and title for wholesalers, investors and realtors.
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Sean covers all the bases in this interview, from wholesalers protecting themselves, to marketing law, cold calling law, mass texting law to realtors verifying E & O insurance before choosing the broker you have your license at. Sean can be reached at: Sean@TiagoTX.comBy Brandon RIchards
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Matt Aycock on how to protect your A*@ in your real estate dealings
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Man, where do I start? One of the longest interviews I’ve done thus far and I feel like we cut the interview short! Listen in to hear Matt discuss, Sub2, Wraps, Trusts, Land trusts, partnerships, contracts, wholesaling, entity formation for specific models and MUCH more! We even discuss how realtors can help mitigate the impending disruption to the…
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David Richter on building a real estate company with a solid foundation.
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David brings on his CFO and explain how he built his business and why. After years of working for largely known and successful companies, he decided to branch off on his own to help other companies. David has a knack for getting down to the dollars and cents to show you how your company is truly performing. Dialing in the numbers or KPI’s while tel…
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Elizabeth Navarrese on how fear inhibits newbies from starting in real estate.
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Elizabeth has been through the ups and downs in business and has come back up stronger than ever. Learning from her mistakes, she’s been able to build an even stronger business, but more importantly, a stronger financial foundation. She goes over why she decided to join hands and launch Wholesaling Live, her call center and much more! Elizabeth can…
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Steven Libman on going from high volume house flipping to $70+ million in commercial deals in 2019a
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Had a great time learning how Steven went from flipping 15+ houses a month to phasing the company into what it is now. Just 14 months ago, he flipped the switch and in 2019 alone, he’s been a part of $70million in commercial deals ranging from storage facility builds in Florida to housing in Ohio. Listen in to see how he made the switch and brought…
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Mike Hambright’s take on real estate investing and power of mentorships/masterminds
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Mike runs several podcast, masterminds and a successful investing company out of the Dallas market. But he wasn’t able to achieve all of this without the right people in place and an evolution of trial and error. He started up FlipNerd and over time has evolved into several podcasts, a nationwide mastermind community and a sizable portfolio. Listen…
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Rob Swanson on living a life of Freedom through virtual Real Estate Investing
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We do our best to capture as much knowledge as could be from a 20 year Real Estate rockstar. Rob graduated college with a degree in engineering. But after taking the knowledge from a real estate seminar, he stumbled through his first transaction and found a passion in real estate. After going full time, spent a few years “figuring it out”, before g…
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Scaling multiple businesses through leadership with Greg Dickerson
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Based out of Virgina, Greg started in real estate in 1997. Since then, he’s been able to build, scale, and sell multiple businesses. From plumbing companies, to pool maintenance, to real estate brokerages, Greg has developed a great talent of sculpting people and businesses to operate at their best. Listen in to see what fuels Greg, how he’s been a…
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John goes into why he started doing lease options back in 2003 and how he’s gotten over 650 transactions under his belt. John left the day trading world of stocks and options to become one of the nations leading coaches in lease options. He explains how this model differs from Sub2 wraps, rent to own and sandwich models. Find more info at www.leasi…
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Dax Ferguson walks us through how he built a Multi-Family construction and consulting business in several states.
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Dax Ferguson walks us through how he built a Multi-Family construction and consulting business in several states. Dax explains the reasoning and process behind moving from single family renovations to multi-family remodels. We speak on what makes an apartment complex a community, which in return gives the property what Dax calls “sticky factor”. Te…
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Connor Steinbrook, how his eXp Realtor team has grown to 22 states and Canada in 18 months
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Today we sit down and set the record straight on all the benefits of eXp Realty and why all the Mega Real Estate Teams, Investors and Real Estate coaches are hanging their licenses with the brokerage. We talk a great deal on wealth creation, creating a path to retirement as an agent and passive income. Connor breaks down the 3 income streams of eXp…
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Millionaire Mailman Tom Nardone on tax free investing and recession proof assets
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I had the honor of having the one and only Millionaire Mailman on the show today, Tom Nardone. I met Tom early last year on an investor cruise and had the pleasure of doing a swamp tour on his fan boat whilst we all prepared to depart on a week long cruise to soak up rays and knowledge. Tom has been in the real estate world since the mid 80’s and s…
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Crypto investing basics with Seth Maniscalco.
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After a short audio interruption, we are able to dive into what mining means, where the coins are stored, and good portion of the basics of how to invest in crypto currency. Seth does an excellent job handling my ignorance in crypto. I ask all the dumb questions to help gain an idea of how the blockchain space operates. Learn more about how to work…
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Chris Jefferson on building a team to dominate real estate.
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Chris walks us through how he has spent his last 10years investing in real estate, from wholesaling to rehabbing to building houses. Chris left college to pursue his passion in real estate and with his work ethic, it has paid off in a big way. Just as many others who venture into real estate, he started out with wholesaling. After building up some …
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Nancy dropped it all, sold the house, quite her job and moved across the country with her husband to start a new life in real estate. As any new entrepreneur, she had struggles learning her craft and knew she needed to find guidance. Finding a mentor was an obvious choice, which led to a 9 year partnership in property management, and then on to buy…
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Gary Boomershine on a lifestyle by design through Real Estate Investing
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Gary has been in the real estate world since 2004. In that time he’s flipped hundreds of houses and been through a couple market cycles. Aside from learning to change directions during shifts, he found that building systems and get coaching from those he looked up to, became far more important to build a sustainable long term business. So Gary took…
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Anson Young, on how to build a successful fix n’ flip business!
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Anson has been in real estate for about 10 years now and has built an incredible model based around wholesaling, flipping and wholesaling single family houses. In the beginning, he had an abundance of leads, as they were as simple as going on the MLS around that time. Since then however, he’s had to learn marketing and acquisition. We speak briefly…
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Troy Fullwood on generational wealth through note investing!
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Troy has been in the real estate industry for over 23years now. He knew that real estate was his way to freedom and generational wealth, but didn’t know exactly how to achieve that right off the bat. As a child, his punishment was painting the house. Ultimately, he became a very good painter, but knew that house flipping was NOT the way he was goin…
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Tucker Merrihew, from rehabbing to Multi-Million dollar New Builds!
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Tucker has been in the real estate world in some form since he was 22 yrs old. He started out just as a good portion of us investors do, by wholesaling and rehabbing single family houses. But as the years progressed and his name, brand and capital raising skills improved, so did his companies projects. 2011 marked the year it all changed for him wh…
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Dustin Miles on Multi-Family Apartment Buying.
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Dustin has been in the Real Estate world 10+ years in some form or fashion, but moved into Apartment investing about 7 years ago. Dustin is a master at problem solving, systems and lowering costs within a business. He dives in deep on a recent sale, from acquisition, financing, rehab, the freakin office burning down and to now, a stable asset which…
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John Martinez on how to optimize sales to boost monster revenue!
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John has been in some form of sales training for over 20 years now and has within the past 4 years turned his focus to 100% real estate. With the help of his team has trained thousands of entrepreneurs on how to boost company income by helping them improve their inbound and outbound sales. He’s done so by perfecting the face to face and over the ph…
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Chad Wittfeldt on living a life of freedom through apartment investing.
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Selfishly, Chad caught my eye because he was always making FB posts about going snowboarding, dirt biking, mountain biking and everything else outdoors. Knowing he was into real estate investing, I had to have him on to learn more! Chad and I talk in depth about how he got started in the real estate world, and how/why he chose apartments as his nic…
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Michael Zuber, from w2 employee to over 100 rentals and financially free, One Rental at a Time.
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Based out of California, Michael and his wife, Olivia decided to take their future into their own hands and figure out a way to leave the 9-5 rat race. After reading countless real estate books and finally jumping into the game, they grabbed a rental shortly after. Years went by as they acquire another handful before discovering the power of a 1031…
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Dave Marsh on apartment investing and decluttering our lives for a better life
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Dave tells us why apartments have been his target and why being an out of state operator works for him. We discuss what makes a long distance asset profitable and the systems/people he put in place to continue to cashflow amidst a troubled tenant base. Seems we both have the “Squirrel Syndrome”, so the topic quickly diverts to how the entrepreneur …
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Lance Wakefield on 0 deals to 170 in his first year!
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Lance goes back in time with us to show us why real estate, and what he did to go from 0 deals to 170 in the first year. We discuss many times that you need to learn to adapt to the every changing landscape of marketing. Learning to be creative within the business, but also when making offers. What fears are holding you back? Oh, and we talk about …
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Carlos Reyes on mindset and what it takes to survive in business and life!
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Love the interviews where we talk a lot on mindset, as most entrepreneurs have many internal battles of “Am I doing it right?”, “Am I growing, making progress?”, “What is my why?”.We discuss what it takes to grow in business and continue to run a successful, profitable business. We talk on how money is just a tool to leverage and buy back time, to …
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Todd Fleming on cashflow and how to obtain it!
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I had Todd back on on to talk about CASHFLOW. We had such a great time talking about wholesaling last time, that I just had to have him back on to talk about his new book, “If you can’t cashflow after this, I’ve got nothing for you”.We also spill the beans on a new project he’s designed to help the future generation of America.In this episode we ta…
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Mark Kenney on Multi-Family syndication and how he has acquired over 4000 doors in under 5 years!
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Mark has been a good friend of mine and a huge inspiration to me, not only in business but in life. Mark truly embodies what it is to live a balanced work/family lifestyle. After working for years doing 85+ hrs a week at his IT business, he knew things had to change to have a healthier life, mentally, physically and with his family.Mark now runs al…
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Mark Bloom on scaling to 18 markets and how to survive a market shift.
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Mark spends a great deal of time talking about where the market is heading and on how to prevent getting caught unprepared when there is a shift of any size.We also talk on how staying in your lane can often times be more fruitful than chasing the shiny penny.How did he take his company from solopreneur in 2008 to 18+ markets and counting? Listen i…
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Nathan Brooks, going from bankruptcy to tremendous success in the turnkey world by taking massive action.
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This interview is a must listen as we dig into how Nathan clawed his way back to success by not letting what seemed to be failure, define his future. How does he structure his company? How do you buy real estate with little to no money? How has he built an environment within his company to breed growth? How to nurture Private Money relationships? W…
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Chad Molyneux on having a healthy mind and body helps entrepreneurs stay on the top of their game.
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All entrepreneurs have their idea of success or freedom, but what happens when you obtain that ideal and you are so out of shape or unhealthy that you cant enjoy it, or live a lengthy life for your family? Why work so hard, just to squander it when a simple shift in diet and mindset now, can allow you to live years, if not a decade longer?We really…
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Brant Phillips, from law enforcement, to corporate world to full time Real Estate Investor and eXp Realty Team Leader.
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Brant got into law enforcement right out of the gates and loved his job. After some disagreements with the way things were done, he left the field for the corporate world. He knew day one that he was going to hate his new position. 4 years later, he’s top in the company and making great money but knew it wasn’t what he wanted.Fast forward and now h…
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Joshua Morse shares how he went from working at Buffalo Wild Wings to owning an Audi R8.
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Joshua didn’t grow up in money, and in fact, went beyond broke several times before grabbing traction. After making a decent living buying and selling cell phones on craigslist, he lost it all moving to Austin to continue his business there.After watching friends make a little bit of money wholesaling, he decided to give it a shot.Taking imperfect …
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Brian Rockwell on going from school teacher/coach to full time wholesaler.
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Brian walks us through the battles of leaving his 9-5 to pursue his own freedom and unlock more time to spend with his family.We talk a little on what works in his business, what tech we use, building a team, and more!Contact Brian here:Brian@sellyourhousedfw.comFB: https://www.facebook.com/brianrockwell84Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brianrockw…
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Vance Wampler on transitioning from single family investments to commercial assets to obtain financial freedom.
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One of my longest interviews to date and for good reason. We do talk a lot on what goes into finding, funding, rehabbing, leasing out and marketing an RV park and other commercial asset classes.Vance explains why he sold off his SF portfolio to move into commercial deals to have less stress and better economy of scale.With an emphasis on freedom, V…
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Justin Morales on how building systems, teams and automation to can lead to total financial and time freedom.
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Justin bought his first house nearly 20 years ago and has since expanded into several markets rehabbing for long-term holds.After years of successful real estate endeavors, he began to take interest in other avenues and now runs a successful manufacturing company as well as an oil company out of San Antonio all from his home base of Colorado. We ta…
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Donald Ross on starting a tech company from scratch to cater to hundreds of RE Investors!
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Donald, a former contract specialist for the US Dept of Veteran Affairs, shares how and why he started one of the nations leading CRM platform for investors, REI Automation Squad.We briefly touch on his partnership in a brokerage back home in Wisconsin and why they decided to start that endeavor and where its headed.We talk in depth of the reasonin…
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Justin Peters really dives deep into what makes his wholesaling company tick!
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Justin is what seems to be an over night success. But looks can be deceiving. Justin shares how he went from small town punk kid to dominating the Dallas wholesale market in 2018.He shares his struggles and what a massive mindset shift taught him on overcoming fears and living with the abundance mentality.Whats even more badass….. he does not hold …
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Donovan Ruffin shares how he has built a wholesale/rehab company in 3 markets in just 3 years at the age of 24!
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Donny shares his experiences in running 2 companies simultaneously and the ups and downs associated with it.Why failing often has lead him to massive growth into 2 states and 3 markets, essentially running acquisitions almost completely virtually.Why have an abundance mindset is key in growth, networking and happiness.And of course, we dive a littl…
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