Send a message to “Faith Ignited” The historical figure discussed in this episode is a subject of debate in many circles, all of whom seem to have polarized opinions on his character and beliefs. When one analyzes Benjamin Franklin’s own words and experiences, it becomes clear what an extraordinary person he really was. Learn about the man behind t…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” After fighting a revolution, America thought it was finished contending with Britain, until the war of 1812 once again placed the patriots in peril. With the capitol in ashes, the arm of God was once again needed to save the infant nation from ruin. Learn the events that produced the words, "The land of the free an…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” In a time when faith is largely ridiculed and seen as foolish, we often forget that some of the most brilliant people in history had a firm belief in a Divine Creator. This episode discusses a contemporary of Charles Darwin whose name has been lost to the world because he stayed true to his beliefs. The great natur…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” This episode explores the Christian roots of America's universities and introduces you to an early educator, who crossed the ocean to play a critical role in the American Revolution. In a time when truth is subjective and morality is outdated, we need more than ever to look to the past to discover how education sha…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” Dark times reveal the best and worst of human nature. The French Revolution took place right on the cusp of the American Revolution, but their results were drastically different. With revolution erupting in France, Lafayette's family would witness the tragic fall of a nation. This episode explores what Charles Dick…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” This episode explores the life of a hero of two different nations. A young man who fled a life of luxury for the life of a volunteer soldier. Learn what inspired the Marquis de Lafayette to be an instrument in God's hands to change the outcome of the American Revolution. Resources: Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger h…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” The line between hero and villain can be very obscured in the mass of historical opinions, but this episode presents a case for the man largely criticized by scholars and the public alike, that can't seem to agree upon his character. Learn about the life, motivations and faith of Christopher Columbus. Resources: Ch…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” Benedict Arnold is undoubtably the most infamous traitor in American history, but few realize how his treachery nearly destroyed the American cause. It would have succeeded without miraculous intervention. Learn the little known story of West Point. References: https://www.azquotes.com/author/7392-Thomas_Jefferson/…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” With the Lincoln Presidency in shambles, and the Union on the brink of collapse, the North needed a miracle. As he has so many times before, God stepped in. Learn about the miracle that brought the Emancipation Proclamation into existence, how the enemies' battle plans ended up in the hands of a union soldier, and …

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” When facing the realities of darkness and evil in this world, many wonder why God doesn't intervene, or worse if he is cruel. The 1900s were ravaged by two world conflicts, causing many to question the reality and nature of God. One man's voice went out to millions in defense of faith. Learn about CS Lewis's path f…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” It took almost incomprehensible arranging, and miraculous deliverance to bring the Native Americans and Pilgrims to the same table to share a bountiful meal in peace. From a young man taken captive from his home, to a faith filled journey across the ocean. This episode highlights miraculous events that should fill …

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” In a time of immense suffering and war, one woman emerged as a hero. Her selfless efforts led her to be called the founder of modern nursing. Learn what motivated Florence Nightingale to abandon her privileged life for one of service and sacrifice. Resources: https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timel…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” When it comes to history, it's only too easy for things to be forgotten or misrepresented. This episode exposes some of the foundational truths associated with the foundation of America and explores the character of the man America claims as its Father. Truly the hand of God preserved him for that very purpose. Res…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” Sir Isaac Newton is a name most people recognize. His contributions to the science world make him one of the greatest minds of all time, but another side of this genius has come to light. Learn about the incredible faith exposed through his writings.By Mistylin Howard

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” In a time of oppression and intense suffering in America, a liberator would emerge in the most unexpected of forms. Harriet Tubman's faith in God propelled her to become a remarkable instrument in his hands. This episode discusses the miraculous visions and perilous journey that led her to become a modern Moses.…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” On December 17th, the Wright Brothers proved that man indeed could fly. As sons of a Bishop and faithful mother, Wilbur and Orville came from a foundation of faith, and determination. This episode covers some of the experiences that led to their successful flight.By Mistylin Howard

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” It may suprise you to learn of the powerful Christian origins of the original 1828 Webster Dictionary. Noah Webster's true intent behind the dictionary, as well as his own profound conversion story have largely been lost to history.By Mistylin Howard

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” When the American troops marched into Valley Forge the year 1777, they would experience testing to their very core as long, cold days tried their endurance. However, this time of refinement in the forge of affliction created a powerful army. George Washington received a vision of the destiny of the United States, w…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” Known primarily for her ride naked through the streets, Lady Godiva's name stirs up a range of feelings for most people. This episode explores what led to her legendary ride, and how her selfless act blessed the lives of the people of Coventry.By Mistylin Howard

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” With the Civil War tearing apart the The United States of America, and Abraham Lincoln simultaneously learning to cope with grief, the weary President had more than his share of burdens in 1862. During this time, God taught him through a humble and unexpected source. Learn the untold story of Rebecca Pomeroy. Resou…

Send a message to “Faith Ignited” This episode highlights a character from history that most people know little to nothing about, despite the fact that a major holiday honors him. A runaway slave, and a faith filled journey that leads a captive back to convert his captors. The real story of St. Patrick. Resources: https://www.britannica.com/biograp…

Today we have Misty Flanagan, co-founder and head of marketing at Elevated Development, a local Houston based residential and commercial development firm. Misty came from a strong corporate background having worked for a Fortune 500 general contractor firm before diving into her real estate career. What I found so fascinating about Misty is not onl…

Today we have Grant Burwash from Landlord Credit Bureau, which is a company based out of Toronto Canada started by a serial tech entrepreneur who was trying to solve his own problems with his rental portfolio to improve property management and rent collection. LCB is a consumer reporting agency when a landlord signs up, they can report all their re…

Today we have Michael Seago, a local investor and broker who has been investing in the great Houston area for more than 25 years. As he mentioned during the introduction, Michael graduated from Texas A&M and got a business degree from Houston Baptist University. He went on to become the CFO for a multimillion dollar company before following his pas…

Today we have Evan Trinidad, President and co-founder of Tourlie. What’s Tourlie you might ask. Tourlie is a new start-up company that helps busy real estate agents with showings and open houses and also provide extra income other agents who has time and looking to do some side hustles. It’s almost like Uber/Lyft concept but for real estate showing…

Today we have Howard Wang from Alpha One Capital to share some of his experience in the multifamily real estate syndication world. As you'll hear in our conversation, Howard has a very impressive background. He worked in private equity consulting firm and performed valuation for over $600m of transactions. Then he started his own RE investment care…

Today we have Christine Lin from Fidelity National Title to shed some light on what title companies do during the real estate transactions in Texas and also what to look for in Schedule A through D of the Title commitment documents, and most importantly what are some of the state regulated fees vs. other negotiable fees. She also offered some tips …

This was one of the last episodes we recorded before COVID. Sam Yee is a Vice President on the Debt and Structured Finance team at CBRE, focused on small balance apartment lending in Houston and across the US. During his time at the firm, CBRE funded over $2 billion in small multifamily loans and in 2017 became the nation’s top SBL lender. Sam has …

Vivian Khai is a CPA and has a MBA from University of Houston. She has a very extensive professional background in accounting, project management, and software training on Microsoft Office products for small businesses and accountants. For the last seven and half years, she has been running her own tax preparation firm here in Houston and has a lot…

Today’s guest is Huy Nguyen from eXp Realty and one of the longest standing members of the Landlord Association. This conversation was hosted by Jimmy Lam where the three of us shared our experiences from both a part-time and full-time real estate agents’ perspectives. As many of you know, Huy transitioned from a W2 job to being a full-time real es…

This is a follow-up interview with our guest from the last episode, Na Guo of River Bridge Investments who develops residential and mixed-use projects here in Houston. She gave us an update on the townhouse projects in Independence Heights and her two new projects in the Medical Center and Conroe. We’ll talk about some of the financing hurdles as w…

Today we have an interview with Na Guo from River Bridge Investments who specializes in ground-up developments. This was also recorded before COVID. And like what we did with Nikhil on the commercial retail side, hopefully we can bring Na back to give us an update on how the pandemic has affected the real estate business from a developer’s perspect…

Today we have a follow up episode with Nikhil Shah from SGRE Capital, whose business model is purely focused on buy, value-add, and sell commercial retail properties in the Houston and Dallas areas. We brought him back to give us an update on how the retail sector is holding up relative to other real estate asset classes as well as get his future o…

Nikhil Shah is a founder of SGRE Capital, which focuses on the commercial retail space in the greater Dallas and Houston areas. Before SGRE Capital, Nikhil has done more than $1b of transactions at GE Capital and has 6yrs of energy investment experience at Enron. Today, Nikhil and his team focuses on value-added retail and neighborhood shopping mal…

Today, Jimmy is going to give us an update on his portfolio as an example and a glimpse of the market conditions. He also mentions how he is dealing with some of the tenants who are struggling to pay rent and how his group is leveraging the SBA loan programs. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/landlord-association-podcast/donations…

Hello everyone, welcome back to new season of the Landlord Association podcast. Today we episode 18 that has been long overdue. This was a recording from our last meet-up in February with featuring Thaison Hua and a founding member of the Hua Law Group. Thaison is a fantastic young attorney here in Houston that provides legal services on LLC format…

Today we have another Ask Jimmy session that was recorded on a webinar and converted into a short podcast. We’re hoping that in the future, we can host live webinars online, have Q&A sessions to answer questions, host guests online instead of in-person meet-ups, presentations, excel tutorials, the possibilities are endless. So we’re very excited. I…

Today we have David Williams and David Hoke from Red Door Funding, a Houston based hard money lender focused on helping real estate investors for more than a decade and have done thousands of deals. They went over the basics of what is hard money lending, also the different products they have for fix-n-flippers and buy-n-hold landlord investors; as…

This is a recording from our September monthly meeting last Thursday. We invited Lance Langenhoven, who is a commercial real estate broker who has done more than $150M of transactions in the Houston area. This is not a typical presentation about apartments and multi-families. Lance focuses on properties that doesn’t have ‘overnight’ tenants, that i…

We have a great episode for you this week. We met up with John Hernandez from Houston Rooming Houses to talk about his investing experience and how he differentiates himself from other investors with an unique investment style that specializes in buying fixer-uppers and turning them into rooms for rent that really maximizes the cash flow per proper…

Today we have another Q&A session with Jimmy Lam, the president of the Landlord Association, to answer some of the questions posted on our Facebook page. We always get great questions from our members and so Jimmy is here to give his perspectives. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/landlord-association-podcast/donations…

Last week, we have the honor of speaking with Michael Plaks, who founded the tax accounting company call REI Tax Firm. Michael is an expert on IRS taxation and real estate business and he frequently writes and speaks on these topics and is a regular contributor on the biggerpockets forums. Michael also has over 20 year of experience representing cl…

Today we have the pleasure speaking with Charles Nguyen, a Houston-based wholesaler who was corporate IT professional and built a wholesaling business with scalable systems and processes while maintaining his full-time job. So he has since became known as the “wholescaling ninja”. Now Charles has expanded his wholesaling business into multiple mark…

We have another installment of the #askJimmy segment where he answers some of the burning questions posted on our facebook page. Also, as a bonus, just to give our listeners a different perspective: we talked at a high level about the commercial office building asset class, based on Jimmy’s professional experience at Hines. Obviously, class A offic…

This was recorded at our last monthly meeting when Nacy Zheng invited Hang Dao and Richard Blanchard from the Loan Factory, where they have closed more than 60 loans last month. Because it was recorded at the meeting, some of the questions didn’t come out but you’ll understand the gist based on Hanh and Richard’s response. They also walked through …

Today we have Tommy Lee from Kirkwood Haven Partners, a real estate development company where he is a managing partner responsible for overseeing construction projects. I have known Tommy and his wife Nancy for about a year. Together, they own many single family rentals in their portfolio as well as have done about 30 fix and flips in the last twel…

Jimmy Lam answers questions about rent-to-own, appliances warranty, benefits of owning rental properties and how he does rental inspections. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/landlord-association-podcast/donationsBy George Gao

Today we have MaKieba Hatton from Salvation Army where she currently works as a Housing Navigator or case manager, which means she helps veterans and other Houston residents find affordable housing with the support of government agencies based on their unique situations. She came to our meeting last week to tell us about the different types of publ…

Rich Drake is the CEO of Renters Warehouse franchise in Houston as well as an active investor. Rich and his team grew Renters Warehouse into one of the biggest property management companies for single family residences in the Houston area. In this show, we’ll talk about some new ideas and strategies for property owners like how to increase you pote…

#asJimmy segment where Jimmy answers Facebook member questions on trampolines, evictions and rent increases Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/landlord-association-podcast/donationsBy George Gao