Jake and Gino Podcast

Lucas is the founder of Landlordology, Chief Landlordologist and head of industry relations at Cozy. He has been a successful landlord for over 10 years, with dozens of happy tenants and a profitable income property portfolio. He’s an experienced landlord, real estate investor, national speaker, husband, father, and puppy-daddy. He speaks with Gino and Josh about Landlordology, Cozy.co, valuing your tenants and creating systems.

Omar is responsible for capital raising, strategic planning and investor relations at Boardwalk Wealth a private equity firm specializing in connecting International investors with US-based multifamily real estate opportunities. He has participated in capital financing and M&A transactions valued at $3.7 billion. He is a CFA Charterholder and graduated with honors from the University of Toronto with a B.Com in Finance. He speaks with us about picking a market, underwriting and family.

American Sensei. Yokido Founder. 5th Degree Black Belt. Financial Mentor to Transformation Nation. Best selling author in personal finance. Rewriting the rules and plan for retirement. Gino and Josh talk with Damion about giving up his formal education, QRP over self-directed IRAs and UDFI’s

Brie started in corporate sales in 2005, she acquired her first investment property in 2011. She left the steady paycheck world in 2014. In this podcast, Gino and Josh ask Brie about that transition, how she built her investment portfolio, her business and her plans for the future.

J Scott drops some knowledge on us about everything from where to begin to long term vision. Scaling up your business to suit your needs and goals. He talks about the motivation behind creating a lifestyle and shares how his partner (his wife) helps with accountability. He also shares his thoughts on education in the real estate space a subject near and dear to our hearts.

Today’s episode is dedicated to a big theme for Jake & Gino this year: Multi-Faceted Multifamily – building a multifamily business with multiple streams of income. Starting as just an investing business, Jake & Gino went on to build out their own in-house property management, design an education platform, and now they are adding another facet to their business allowing YOU to invest alongside Jake & Gino as an equity partner! So many facets!

Scott Maurer is the Director of Business Development at Advanta IRA and during today’s show Scott explains how to use self-directed IRAs to invest in multifamily assets! The facts and figures in this episode will both surprise you and keep you riveted!

This week’s exciting guest has been fondly nicknamed “Mr. Smiles” for good reason! Vinney Chopra, one of our happiest guests ever, oversees Moneil Investment Group, LLC, and Moneil Management Group, LLC, in addition to teaching through his academies. He has funded over 26 syndications to date! We are so impressed with Vinney Chopra’s expertise in all areas of real estate investing, property management and scaling his businesses!

Our return guest this week is Dave Zook, experienced in multifamily investing (over 3000 units), self-storage and resort community development! This episode has a great discussion around sheltering your investment and Dave describes how he does that, as well as how he got ‘chased’ into multifamily. Dave will be joining us as a guest speaker at the Jake & Gino Live Event 2018 “Multifamily Mastery 2”!

Mark Ke​n​ney, founder of Think Multifamily, is a hustler and seasoned real estate investor. All coming from a blue-collar work ethic and upbringing, the guys talk about specifically seeking and internalizing advice from people who are successfully doing what you want to do and not just anyone. Mark gives us his breakdown of how he structures his syndication deals and details his favorite ways to value-add during renovations on his multifamily acquisitions.

Scott Smith, founder of Royal Legal Solutions, gives some great advice on how to hire the right professional to advise you on your real estate investments and how to place your assets in an LLC the smart (and unexpected) way. Scott warns: there are certain situations in which insurance just won’t protect you! It’s important to use the right entity structure to safeguard yourself.

In 2007, Andrew Cushman did something crazy! He left his corporate job and start investing in real estate. With 24 successful single-family transactions under his belt, he moved into multifamily acquisitions, and has now syndicated and repositioned over 1600 units. Andrew is a book of knowledge on great tips for repositioning! Tons of great packed into this show!

Todd Dexheimer purchases and syndicates multifamily apartments in emerging markets. He specializes in buying distressed properties, renovating and repositioning them. The guys talk about getting over the fear of the first deal and never giving up when waiting for the right deal to come along. Todd explains the creative ways he got into his first multifamily deal and his strategies with all of the properties he currently owns. This podcast is all about getting out of your comfort zone!

Entrepreneur and author, Jairek Robbins, has a rich background in non-profit work. He loved to help others but was unsettled by the less-than-awesome paycheck that accompanied the selfless work he was doing. So he got creative and started an at-home and over the phone “practice” of coaching people (in time management and optimizing health and fitness) for a profit, and it rapidly scaled into a wildly successful company! He still got to help people, but now was making a much better income.

Our guest this week is Andrew Campbell, who has built a personal portfolio of 74 units by acquiring small multifamily properties (duplexes, quads) one at a time and then turning to larger properties. Now he raises money for large multifamily deals! His multifamily buying criteria is 100+ unit properties with a ‘story’ (a.k.a. ways to add value – which is discussed at length). Andrew evens gives our listeners his BEST tip on raising capital!