Episodes

Dec. 27, 2016

MB 053: Don’t Lose it All – With Bobby Casey

Bobby Casey, an entrepreneur, and world traveler who now specializes in helping people protect their assets and live off the grid. He’s managing director of Global Wealth Protection, which provide asset protection strategies to shield your wealth...
Dec. 19, 2016

MB 052: Decide and Your Real Estate Success Will Follow (With Gino Barbaro)

Gino Barbaro is passionate about multifamily investing, and he believes it’s about the strength of your WHY that determines your success. You must DECIDE you want to change your life, and if you do, you have no choice but to take massive action....
Nov. 20, 2016

MB 051: From $7 In His Pocket to 1400 Units (with Vinney “Smile” Chopra)

Vinney “Smile” Chopra shares his amazing journey from arriving to this country from India with $7 in his pocket to building a $70M multifamily real estate empire.  In this episode, we focus in particular on how he started his multifamily...
Nov. 14, 2016

MB 050: Raising Money from Family Offices – With Richard Wilson

Learning how to find and analyze multi-family deals is important, but if you can’t afford to fund it yourself, you need a strategy for raising money! Doing what everyone else is doing to raise money is less and less effective, and that’s why...
Nov. 5, 2016

MB 049: How I Replaced My Income With Apartment Buildings – With Mark Walker

In this episode, Mark Walker shares with us how he replaced his income from a high-tech job with passive income from multifamily properties. Like so many people I’ve talked with, Mark started with single family investing before realizing that...
Oct. 30, 2016

MB 048: How I Closed My First 22-Unit Apartment Deal in 3 Months (With Ed Hermsen)

For many of these episodes, I bring on someone who is already very successful in multi-family investing and I will continue doing so because there is a lot to learn from these people! However, I also really enjoy talking with relatively new investors...
Oct. 11, 2016

MB 047: Make Your First Million with Real Estate - Then Change the World

This week’s guest is . Bill is truly one of the world’s good guys. He’s has done a lot in his life and most recently he spent 11 years as a missionary to orphans, abandoned and at-risk children in Haiti. At the age of 60, Bill realized that he...
Oct. 3, 2016

MB 046: How Can a UPS Driver Quit His Job With Small Apartment Buildings?

In Gary Keller’s book “” he asks the following question; What's the ONE thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? In this podcast I pretty much talk about one thing, that’s getting your FIRST deal....
Sept. 28, 2016

MB 045: Living Life to the Fullest as a Real Estate Entrepreneur

In this episode, I’m joined by Kathy Fettke, CEO and Co-Founder of the  and host of . She is a frequent contributor to national news including CNN, CNBC, NPR, FOX News, CBS MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal. Kathy...
Aug. 19, 2016

MB 044: The Rise of the AirBnB Multifamily Investor

The multi-family market is hot right now making it harder to find good deals. Finding a way to charge above market rents is one strategy that allows us to buy properties at market and still get the returns we are looking for. There are various...
Aug. 2, 2016

MB 043: Interview with SEC Attorney Steven Rinaldi

Ever wonder what SEC regulations apply to apartment building syndications? There is a lot to this subject and while it’s not crucial that you know everything, nor should you try, it is important that you have a basic understand of what’s involved...
July 27, 2016

MB 042: How To Do Your FIRST Apartment Building Deal in the NEXT 90 days

In the previous episode titled, "," I make the argument that Bigger is Better. I stand by that, so please listen to that episode before you listen to this one!  However, if you go through the exercises laid out in that episode and still don’t...
July 11, 2016

MB 041: How to Expand Your Mind To Go BIG with Multifamily Investing

It’s just me on this episode and I want to talk with you guys about mindset. Expanding your mind is something help you achieve your goals in the fastest way possible. Staying within your comfort zone can do the opposite. In this podcast I outline 5...
July 2, 2016

MB 040: All About Mobile Home Park Investing - With Jefferson Lilly

I’m doing something a bit different with this episode and I think you are going to really enjoy it. While I realize that the name of this podcast is “Apartment Building Investing” it’s good for us to expand our minds and see what else is out...
June 26, 2016

MB 039: Don't Think You Can Do Your First Apartment Deal (Then Listen To This)

This episode is a bit different than the norm because I am the one being interviewed! JP Moses with realestatemogul.com interviews me about apartment building investing and raising money. I talk a bit about my journey, the struggles I’ve had and why...
June 1, 2016

MB 038: Why Multifamily Investing is better than Single Family Rentals - With Rod Khleif

There are many advantages to investing in multifamily over single family rentals and this week I’m joined by a guy that has invested a lot in both. Rod Khleif has been a real estate investor for the past 25 years has owned over 2000 apartments and...
May 17, 2016

MB 037: Building Real Wealth with your IRA (With John Hyre)

About 98% of the people that come to me are not aware that they can invest in real estate from their RIA or 401k. Investing with your IRA or 401k brings enormous tax advantages, and therefore growth advantages, but there is quite a bit you need to...
May 12, 2016

MB 036: How to Pay Less Taxes (With John Hyre)

Bookkeeping is often an overlooked, underappreciated part of business for new investors. However, if you don’t understand your books and your business entity you are probably losing a lot of money, and not just during tax time. John Hyre is an...
May 11, 2016

MB 035: Just Do It (And Figure It Out Later) – With John Cohen

It’s never too early to get started. This week I’m joined by John Cohen who is just 29 years old and is the President of JC Property Group Inc., a company he formed in early 2013. John played college baseball and graduated with a degree in...
May 4, 2016

MB 034: Do THIS to Get Into Your First Multifamily Deal (With Keith Weinhold)

“Dream big but start small.”  Today, it doesn’t take much to get started in real estate investing and in this episode you will find out just how little it takes to get into your first multi-family unit. I invited Keith on the show to...
March 31, 2016

MB 033: The Definitive Guide to Investing in the U.S. From Abroad With Reed Goossens

Michael gets a lot of interest from all of you international investors who want to invest in the U.S. but there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before you can close that first deal. Like, what do I need to set up? Can I invest in apt...
March 17, 2016

MB 032: Everything You Need to Know About Crowdfunding

Michael welcomes to the podcast Nav Athwal, the founder and CEO of RealtyShares. RealtyShares is one of the oldest and largest companies out there in the relatively new and exciting market of real estate crowdfunding. Nav has drawn from his diverse...
March 15, 2016

John Hyre Outtakes

Feb. 19, 2016

MB 031: The Top 10 Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence Mistakes

This episode is all about doing due diligence on commercial real estate. Due Diligence is rarely talked about because it takes back seat to sexier topics like raising money and finding, analyzing and negotiating deals. But I have found that more...