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Headlines are buzzing about government shutdown, shifting interest rates, and all time highs for gold, but what do those stories actually mean for real estate investors?In this week's Not Your Average Insights, JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez look beyond the politics and into the data to reveal how these macro events really shape the housing market.They'll unpack:- What history tells us about how past government shutdowns affected prices, rents, and new construction- Why the concurrent all time highs of gold prices and the stock market is so unique (and what it could mean)- How a small drop in mortgage rates can trigger a major refi wave and what that means for investors' cash flowIf you've been wondering how to separate short-term noise from long-term opportunity, this episode will help you see what's really moving the market and how to prepare for what's next.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Today's Agenda00:13 Government Shutdown: Impact on Real Estate02:16 Short-Term Implications for Real Estate Investors09:58 Long-Term Effects of Government Shutdowns16:04 Refinance Wave: What It Means for Investors25:44 Gold and Stocks: Unusual Market Trends29:51 Economic Overview and Market Resilience30:33 COVID-19 Impact and Financial Market Observations31:29 Investment Mindsets: Fear vs. Growth32:31 The Value of Rental Properties38:33 Build-to-Rent Market Dynamics39:39 JWB's Unique Approach to Real Estate47:30 Community Announcements and Upcoming Events48:46 Q&A: REITs vs. Direct Investments49:39 Exploring Modular Homes and Innovation53:58 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
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Click Here for the Show Notes Curious what a true turnkey rental investment really looks like—beyond the buzzwords? This episode dives into a real-life example, walking you through the full process from purchase to profit. You'll learn how a single property can generate income through multiple channels, all while staying completely hands-off. With vetted teams, trusted property managers, and a proven system in place, this episode reveals how turnkey investing can build long-term wealth without the usual headaches of being a landlord. If you've been thinking about passive real estate investing, this is the behind-the-scenes breakdown you've been waiting for. Tune in now and book your free strategy call to see how you can start building wealth through turnkey real estate today. -------------------------------- Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing. See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties. SUBSCRIBE on iTunes If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to TBT: Ask Marco - Buying Foreclosures Our team of Investment Counselors has much more inventory available than what you see on our website. Contact us today for more deals. -------------------------------------------------------- #LearningRealEstate #AskMarco #PassiveRealEstateInvesting #Turnkeyproperties #RealEstatePodcast #Investment #investors #RealEstateInvestors #RentalProperties #TurnkeyProperties #NoradaRealEstateInvestments
It's official: Publix is opening a 31,000-square-foot store in Downtown Jacksonville's Pearl Square, part of Gateway Jax's $2 billion redevelopment plan. On the surface, it may look like just another grocery store opening, but for investors it is a powerful signal that downtown has reached its tipping point.In this episode of the Not Your Average Investor Show, JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez will break down why this milestone is much bigger than it seems.You'll learn:- Why grocery stores are considered anchor tenants in every major downtown revitalization- How Gateway Jax's scale and vision made Publix possible where others couldn't- Case studies from cities like Nashville, Tampa, and Austin that show what happens after high-end grocers arriveWhat this means for long-term rental property investors in JacksonvillePublix isn't just opening a store. It is unlocking a neighborhood, fueling daily foot traffic, and signaling future appreciation potential for investors who get in now.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Show Overview02:07 Celebrating JWB's Impact on Homeownership03:37 The Economic Flywheel of Jacksonville06:01 JWB's Commitment to Team and Community08:46 The Significance of Publix in Downtown Jacksonville17:04 The Premium Grocer Effect on Real Estate33:31 The Value of Urban Design33:54 Pearl Square: A Major Urban Redevelopment34:32 Investing in Single Family Rentals34:45 The Placemaking Concept35:25 The Publix Effect in Downtown Tampa36:09 The Impact of Premium Grocers38:57 Real Estate Investment Strategies44:14 Case Study: Austin's Whole Foods48:20 The Future of Urban Development56:03 Community Engagement and Final ThoughtsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
Send us a textWe show high‑earning W‑2s how to cut taxes now, not months from now, and convert savings into immediate cash flow. We walk through year‑end tactics, stacking limits, overlooked credits, and why adjusting your W‑4 can supercharge wealth growth.Ready to slash your tax bill? Schedule your free consultation and let's strategize your tax savings together! Book now at: https://www.prosperlcpa.com/applyTake our free Tax Planning Checklist & learn about what tax savings may be available for you in our minicourse at https://taxplanningchecklist.com At the very least, get on our newsletter to gain access to free live events and exclusive insight you won't find anywhere else: https://www.prosperlcpa.com/subscribe• Foundational strategies for high‑income W‑2 tax reduction• Year‑end actions still available in Q4• Real estate limits and how to stack credits• Turnkey short‑term rentals and cost segregation• Capital gains planning and expense acceleration• Solar credits and bonus depreciation on rentals• Adjusting W‑4 to unlock cash now• Reinvesting savings for compounding growth• Strategic Roth conversions in low‑bracket years• Building a multi‑year plan to preserve wealthGo to Prosperal, ProsperWithan L, CPA.com slash opportunity report, and you'll talk about how we can put that together for youProsperoCPA.com slash apply if you want to get started
Join us in Ohio as we sit down with Tim Johnson of Cannabis Safety First to explore the cutting-edge safety, security, and compliance strategies shaping the future of cannabis operations. In this video, Tim shares: His journey from law enforcement & government affairs to cannabis advocacy Ohio's regulatory landscape and major safety challenges Turnkey security solutions, facility risk assessments, and compliance best practices Accredited training and legislative policy work he's leading Tips for cultivators, processors, dispensaries, and cannabis businesses everywhere Whether you're in operations, policy, or just curious about how to run cannabis safely, this conversation delivers actionable insights.
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Many investors are noticing that rental property cash flows are looking stronger right now but what's actually driving that improvement?In this Portfolio of the Month episode, JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez will walk through a real investor portfolio live on the show and unpack how current market conditions are creating stronger-than-expected cash flow.They'll talk through:- How today's property pricing and interest rates are affecting returns- What role JWB's incentives play in boosting cash flow (and how it actually works)- A transparent walkthrough of how the JWB team selects properties for long-term success- Why it's important to look beyond the monthly number and understand what drives itIf you've had questions about how JWB's properties are performing right now or what makes one deal better than another, this episode will bring clarity.Watch it all unfold live. Ask your questions in real time. Walk away with a clearer view of what makes a great rental investment today.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:56 Show Preparation and Behind the Scenes02:43 Community Check-ins and Engagement03:28 Tax Savings Event Announcement05:42 Market Insights and Rental Property Investing10:15 Incentives and Cash Flow Benefits19:55 Portfolio of the Month and Financial Engineering20:57 Interactive Portfolio Generator Demo29:18 Debunking Misleading Return Rates29:50 Promoting Tax Savings Webinar30:45 Understanding IRR and Appreciation31:54 Outcome-Based Investing Explained32:29 Live Property Selection Process33:30 Financial Engineering for Cash Flow40:28 Case Study: 2018 vs. 2025 Investments49:27 Q&A and Upcoming Events51:49 Downtown Project and Future PlansStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
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Send us a textIn this engaging conversation, Bob Sorrentino and Rita Campolongo delve into the fascinating world of genealogy, exploring their Italian roots and the stories of their ancestors. They discuss the motivations behind family migration, the impact of DNA testing on connecting with relatives, and the role of social media in modern genealogy research. Rita shares her journey of uncovering noble ancestry and the complexities of family histories, while also reflecting on the importance of understanding one's heritage. The conversation highlights the emotional connections that come from exploring family history and the significance of traveling to ancestral hometowns.Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Instacart - Groceries delivered in as little as 1 hour.Free delivery on your first order over $35.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
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Send us a textA phone that doubles as your passport, paycheck, and permission slip sounds efficient—until the switch sits in someone else's hands. We take a clear-eyed look at digital ID: what it is, how it's rolling out across the US, UK, and EU, why China's fused ID–social credit model matters, and where convenience crosses into control. Along the way, we parse the difference between real security gains—less fraud, faster onboarding, reusable credentials—and the deeper risks that come with centralizing identity, payments, and access to daily life.I walk through what mandatory systems can mean for work, travel, healthcare, and speech, and why “turnkey totalitarianism” isn't about a conspiracy but about integration choices made in code and law. We revisit India's experience to understand failure modes at scale, and we examine how emerging frameworks pair digital IDs with CBDCs, data logging, and algorithmic decision-making. From a prophetic vantage point, I draw a careful line: this isn't the mark of the beast, but it could be the scaffolding that makes future coercion possible at global speed. History repeats in larger patterns; technology just accelerates them.Support the show
The number one thing we hear is: “I want to grow my portfolio… but I need more capital.” Our answer? Capital and cash flow are the easiest part. De-risking the experience is the hard partThat's what JWB's approach to rental property investing and Tardus Wealth Strategies income Snowball have in common. They are uncommon approaches to systematic wealth creation.That's why we're bringing the CEO of Tardus (and author of Creating Your Income Snowball), Tanisha Souza, on the Not Your Average Investor Show to share the innovative way she's developed to raise capital for real estate investing and increase cash flow for existing investments, while mitigating risk.Tanisha will join Gregg Cohen, co-founder of JWB, and Not Your Average Investor Show host, Pablo Gonzalez, to talk about:- How the Snowball Income System works to creates raise capital and increase cash flow- What to do to asses your tolerance for risk and mitigate for it by developing a smart investment criteria- Why Jacksonville rental properties are the ideal “slow-burning fuel” to compound your wealth over timeWhether you're a DIY investor curious about the mechanics, or someone looking for expert guidance, you'll walk away with clear ideas to move forward.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:41 Meet Tanisha: Author and CEO02:53 The Income Snowball Explained06:59 Cash Flow vs. Interest Rate Arbitrage13:56 Real-Life Success Stories16:50 Fast Burning Fuel Investments26:54 Mitigating Investment Risks32:29 The Importance of Cash Flow in Rental Properties33:31 The Reliability of Real Estate Investments34:11 Challenges and Misconceptions in Real Estate34:37 The Role of Financial Education and Team Support40:22 The Impact of AI on Job Markets and Investments42:55 Creating Income Streams and Financial Freedom50:06 Fast Burning Fuel Investments58:27 Final Thoughts and Call to ActionStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
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In this episode of the Investor Fuel Podcast, host Leo Wehdeking interviews Michael Evans, a real estate expert focused on managing properties in Detroit. Michael shares his journey in real estate, including his risk management strategies, challenges faced in the industry, and the importance of building personal relationships for success. He discusses his goals for scaling his business and the unique opportunities in the Detroit market. Professional Real Estate Investors - How we can help you: Investor Fuel Mastermind: Learn more about the Investor Fuel Mastermind, including 100% deal financing, massive discounts from vendors and sponsors you're already using, our world class community of over 150 members, and SO much more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/apply Investor Machine Marketing Partnership: Are you looking for consistent, high quality lead generation? Investor Machine is America's #1 lead generation service professional investors. Investor Machine provides true ‘white glove' support to help you build the perfect marketing plan, then we'll execute it for you…talking and working together on an ongoing basis to help you hit YOUR goals! Learn more here: http://www.investormachine.com Coaching with Mike Hambright: Interested in 1 on 1 coaching with Mike Hambright? Mike coaches entrepreneurs looking to level up, build coaching or service based businesses (Mike runs multiple 7 and 8 figure a year businesses), building a coaching program and more. Learn more here: https://investorfuel.com/coachingwithmike Attend a Vacation/Mastermind Retreat with Mike Hambright: Interested in joining a “mini-mastermind” with Mike and his private clients on an upcoming “Retreat”, either at locations like Cabo San Lucas, Napa, Park City ski trip, Yellowstone, or even at Mike's East Texas “Big H Ranch”? Learn more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/retreat Property Insurance: Join the largest and most investor friendly property insurance provider in 2 minutes. Free to join, and insure all your flips and rentals within minutes! There is NO easier insurance provider on the planet (turn insurance on or off in 1 minute without talking to anyone!), and there's no 15-30% agent mark up through this platform! Register here: https://myinvestorinsurance.com/ New Real Estate Investors - How we can work together: Investor Fuel Club (Coaching and Deal Partner Community): Looking to kickstart your real estate investing career? Join our one of a kind Coaching Community, Investor Fuel Club, where you'll get trained by some of the best real estate investors in America, and partner with them on deals! You don't need $ for deals…we'll partner with you and hold your hand along the way! Learn More here: http://www.investorfuel.com/club —--------------------
Sam McIngvale is the Head of Product at OP Labs, a core development team supporting Optimism's OP Stack. Prior to joining OP Labs, he co-founded wallet infrastructure provider Turnkey and was Head of Product for Coinbase Custody. Sam studied Computer Science at Northwestern University. In this conversation, we discuss:- Optimism's OP Stack - Moving parts of your business onchain - Fortune 500 companies will run their own blockchains - The growth of Coinbase Custody - Flashblocks - Why exchanges and fintechs are coming to Optimism - L1s vs L2s - Coinbase shareholders vs BASE token … what happens? - Providing infrastructure for stablecoins, payments - What is Superchain Optimism Website: optimism.ioX: @OptimismLinkedIn: Optimism FoundationSam McIngvale X: @sammcingvaleLinkedIn: Sam M.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50
In this episode, Anna Rose and Kobi Gurkan chat with Arnaud Brousseau and Jack Kearney from Turnkey about verifiable key management using trusted execution environments (TEEs). They share how their past work on custody and validators inspired them to build more sophisticated key management tools and some of the qualities TEEs enabled. The discussion covers a range of challenges and techniques: the role of remote attestation and reproducible builds in ensuring trust, strategies to prevent downgrade attacks, and the use of authorisation and policy layers to reduce misuse of keys while still enabling automation. Related links: Turnkey: a Verifiable Key Management SolutionTurnkey's ArchitectureStageXReflections on Trusting Trust By Ken ThompsonHow to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-ShamirTurnkey Blog: Remote attestations are useless without reproducible buildsEpisode 339: TEEs with Andrew Miller ZK Whiteboard Sessions is an educational video series produced by ZK Hack. It is focused on the building blocks of zero knowledge technology. Find season 3 of the Whiteboard Sessions as well as previous seasons here. **If you like what we do:** * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm * Join us on Telegram * Catch us on
I speak about the challenges of setting prices for B2C and B2B customers. I share why B2C is more price-sensitive and talk about Podsqueeze's shift to bigger B2B clients. I give examples from other SaaS companies—how some only show enterprise pricing and others adjust based on value or usage. I talk about Podsqueeze's new pricing strategy for enterprise clients and my lessons from past mistakes. If you want to connect or have questions, reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn.Twitter: https://x.com/wbetiagoLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiago-ferreira-48562095/Timestamps por PodSqueezeIntroduction and Episode Overview (00:00:01) Podsqueeze's B2C Beginnings (00:01:35) Transition to B2B and Hitting a Growth Plateau (00:03:07) First B2B Sales Meetings and Pricing Challenges (00:06:21) The Challenge of Serving Both B2C and B2B (00:07:53) Example 1: Get Vocals' B2B-Only Flexible Pricing (00:09:20) Example 2: Turnkey's Value-Based Pricing (00:12:04) Example 3: SendGrid's Usage-Based Tiered Pricing (00:14:41) Podsqueeze's Pricing Adjustments and Negotiation Issues (00:17:18) Future Plans: Unlimited Enterprise Plan and Flexibility (00:18:26) Conference Preparation and Closing Remarks (00:20:42)
The Fed just cut interest rates, and that's a clear signal that change is coming for real estate investors. Lower rates should lead to more cash flow and better buying power.But there's still a lot of confusion about what happens next.Just one day after the Fed's announcement, 30-year mortgage rates actually went up. That doesn't mean the Fed's move won't work—it just means the mechanics of the market take time, and most people don't understand how this all plays out.That's why this week on the Not Your Average Investor Show, JWB co-founder Gregg Cohen and show host Pablo Gonzalez are unpacking the timing, the psychology, and the opportunity in front of investors right now. You'll learn:- Why Fed cuts don't always immediately result in lower mortgage rates- What smart investors are watching for before they make their next move- How to prepare now to benefit from lower rates once they start flowing through- Why staying plugged into this show keeps you ahead of the average investorThis is one of those moments where clarity gives you the edge. Don't miss it.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Big News: Fed Drops Funds Rate01:08 Welcome to the Not Your Average Investors Show01:54 Gregg Cohen's Real Estate Market Outlook02:30 JWB Charity Golf Tournament Success05:12 Silent Auction for a Cause08:31 Ryan Lee's New Book and Upcoming Event11:42 Impact of Fed's Rate Cut on Real Estate15:37 Understanding Mortgage Rates and Market Signals25:31 Understanding Treasury Yields and Inflation26:34 Impact of Treasury Demand on Mortgage Rates28:42 Current Market Snapshot for Rental Property Investors29:02 Inflation and Its Effects on Investment Strategies31:37 Economic Signals and Real Estate Investment33:24 Navigating Uncertain Economic Times35:02 The Role of Cash Reserves and Investment Decisions47:24 Warren Buffett's Cash Strategy and Rental Properties51:08 Community Engagement and Upcoming EventsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
Send us a textIn this engaging conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews Angelo Parker, who shares his unique Italian-American heritage, including his experiences growing up with a dual cultural identity. They discuss the complexities of Italian citizenship, culinary traditions, and the importance of family recipes. Angelo reflects on his family's history, the challenges of tracing ancestry, and the cultural experiences that shape their identities. The conversation also touches on the impact of immigration and the significance of food in both Italian and African-American cultures.Angelo was named after his grandfather from Italy.He has a unique perspective on Italian-American identity.Citizenship in Italy is often based on blood relations.Food quality in Italy is superior to that in the U.S.Pasta water is essential for perfecting sauces.Family connections are crucial for understanding heritage.Genealogy research can uncover surprising family stories.Cultural experiences in Texas enrich Angelo's identity.Exploring ancestry requires patience and creativity.Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
The countdown is on to one of the biggest days of the year in New York City - Thanksgiving! This month, we're giving you everything you need to turn your clients' dreams of attending the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade into a seamless, crowd-free, unforgettable holiday experience.Join Business Development Manager, Audra Fuest, Experience Designer, Mary Eggert and Senior Operations Manager, Mirka Villavicencio as they walk you through our most in-demand holiday offering - our Exclusive Thanksgiving Day Parade Viewing Party at Del Frisco's. You'll see what makes it a client favorite (hint: floor-to-ceiling views, gourmet brunch, live entertainment, and zero crowds) and how to pair it with hotel stays and multiday itineraries to create turnkey itineraries that sell.We'll also break down how to match the right experience with the right client, how to book quickly and easily, and what you need to know about pricing, availability, and logistics before seats sell out.What You'll Learn: • What's included in our Exclusive Thanksgiving Day Parade Viewing Party and why it sells out every year • How to position and sell our 5-Day NYC Thanksgiving itinerary • Hotel options and logistics - featuring the Marriott Marquis and Lotte New York Palace • Key booking tips: deadlines, table sizes, stroller/ADA access, and more • How to set client expectations with confidence and ease • Where to find sales tools like brochures and marketing assets • How to partner with American Stories Travel to create seamless holiday stories for your clients
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Send us a textIn this engaging conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews Christian Meehan, who shares his rich family history and experiences as an Italian-American. They explore Christian's roots, including his family's migration from Italy to North America, the impact of historical events on their lives, and the cultural identity that shapes his perspective today. Christian discusses his journey to Italy, the challenges of living abroad, and the importance of connecting with one's heritage. The conversation emphasizes the value of family stories and the significance of understanding one's ancestry.Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
Join us for the Q4 2025 Jacksonville Real Estate Market Outlook by JWB. We'll be joined by Gregg Cohen, Co-Founder of JWB Real Estate Capital.Here's what we'll discuss:* Current Jacksonville real estate market pricing, rents, and months of inventory (MOI)* Key trends and updates impacting the Jacksonville market* JWB company stats and Key Performance IndicatorsYou won't want to miss this opportunity to spend some time with one of JWB's owners and learn more about how you can take advantage of the Jacksonville real estate market. Hope to see you there!Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Host Welcome01:54 Market Overview and Preparation04:27 Jacksonville Real Estate Market Snapshot05:59 Interest Rates and Economic Impact07:45 Home Price Trends and Predictions14:22 Rental Market Insights15:47 Factors Behind Price Declines19:03 Historical Context and Future Outlook25:42 New Construction vs. Existing Homes32:25 Comparing 2025 to the 2008 Recession36:16 Equity and Market Stability37:10 Advice for Rental Property Investors40:22 Future of Jacksonville Market Prices41:28 Interest Rates and Market Dynamics44:31 Is Now a Good Time to Buy?48:16 JWB's Investment Strategy49:50 Q&A Session01:06:02 Closing Remarks and Contact InformationStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Clay is a frequent EOFire guest, former United States Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner, author, a master of scale, and business growth coach. Stephanie is a long-time EOFire listener who Clay has helped to grow her business by 1,462 percent. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. The quality of the team you have is the quality of the dream you get to live. 2. Act. Measure. Refine. 3. You have to simultaneously learn and apply. Be hopeful, yet realistic. Dream while measuring. Schedule your free 13-point assessment with Clay - Thrive Time Show Sponsors HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com. Thrivetime Show - Attend the world's highest rated business growth workshop taught personally by Clay Clark and featuring Football Star and Entrepreneur, Tim Tebow and President Trump's Son Eric Trump at ThrivetimeShow.com/eofire.
Join us as we sit down with Andrew Jackson from Turnkey Coach to explore how their innovative platform is changing the fitness industry. Discover insights on building strong business partnerships, delivering exceptional hospitality, and using technology to boost efficiency and client connection. Whether you're a gym owner, coach, or fitness enthusiast, this episode offers valuable lessons on elevating your business and client experience.Check out the Turnkey Coach website here!https://turnkey.coach
In this episode, hosts Brad and Michael, along with series regular Jay Reyero, share the story of a primary care physician who signed on to a turnkey diagnostic service promising fast revenue with minimal effort. When insurance policy changes, poor contract protections, and vendor limitations created unexpected financial and operational risks, they learned that “turnkey” does not mean “risk-free.” Tune in for practical lessons on vetting vendors, reviewing contracts, ensuring billing compliance, and maintaining control over your practice when new opportunities arise.Chapters00:00 Intro0:39 Banter 06:17 Story 20:57 Access+ 21:31 Legal Takeaways 29:48 OutroWatch full episodes of our podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@byrdadatto Stay connected for the latest business and health care legal updates:WebsiteFacebookInstagramLinkedIn
In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss AI decisioning, the latest buzzword confusing marketers. You will learn the true meaning of AI decisioning and the crucial difference between classical AI and generative AI for making sound business choices. You’ll discover when AI is an invaluable asset for decision support and when relying on it fully can lead to costly mistakes. You’ll gain practical strategies, including the 5P framework and key questions, to confidently evaluate AI decisioning software and vendors. You will also consider whether building your own AI solution could be a more effective path for your organization. Watch now to make smarter, data-driven decisions about adopting AI in your business! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-what-is-ai-decisioning.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. **Christopher S. Penn – 00:00** In this week’s In-Ear Insights, let’s talk about a topic that is both old and new. This is decision optimization or decision planning, or the latest buzzword term AI decisioning. Katie, you are the one who brought this topic to the table. What the heck is this? Is this just more expensive consulting speak? What’s going on here? **Katie Robbert – 00:23** Well, to set the context, I’m actually doing a panel for the Martech organization on Wednesday, September 17, about how AI decisioning will change our marketing. There are a lot of questions we’ll be going over, but the first question that all of the panelists will be asked is, what is AI decisioning? I’ll be honest, Chris, it was not a term I had heard prior to being asked to do this panel. But, I am the worst at keeping up with trends and buzzwords. When I did a little bit of research, I just kind of rolled my eyes and I was like, oh, so basically it’s the act of using AI to optimize the way in which decisions are made. Sort of. It’s exactly what it sounds like. **Katie Robbert – 01:12** But it’s also, I think, to your point, it’s a consultant word to make things sound more expensive than they should because people love to do that. So at a high level, it’s sticking a bunch of automated processes together to help support the act of making business decisions. I’m sure that there are companies that are fully comfortable with taking your data and letting their software take over all of your decisions without human intervention, which I could rant about for a very long time. When I asked you this question last week, Chris, what is AI decisioning? You gave me a few different definitions. So why don’t you run through your understanding of AI decisioning? **Christopher S. Penn – 02:07** The big one comes from our friends at IBM. IBM used to have this platform called IBM Decision Optimization. I don’t actually know if it still exists or not, but it predated generative AI by about 10 years. IBM’s take on it, because they were using classical AI, was: decision optimization is the use of AI to improve or validate decisions. The way they would do this was you take a bunch of quantitative data, put it into a system, and it basically would run a lot of binary tree classification. If this, then that—if this, then that—to try and come out with, okay, what’s the best decision to make here? That correlates to the outcome you care about. So that was classic AI decisioning from 2010-2020. Really, 2010-2020. **Christopher S. Penn – 03:06** Now everybody and their cousin is throwing this stuff at tools like ChatGPT and stuff like that. Boy, do I have some opinions about that—about why that’s not necessarily a great idea. **Katie Robbert – 03:19** What I like—the description you gave, the logical flow of “if this, then that”—is the way I understand AI decisioning to work. It should be a series of almost like a choose-your-own-adventure points: if this happens, go here; if this happens, go here. That’s the way I think about AI-assisted. I’m going to keep using the word assisted because I don’t think it should ever take over human decisioning. But that’s one person’s opinion. But I like that very binary “if this, then that” flow. So that’s the way you and I agree it should be used. Let’s talk about the way it’s actually being used and the pros and cons of what the reality is today of AI decisioning. **Christopher S. Penn – 04:12** The way it’s being used or the way people want to use it is to fully outsource the decision-making to say, “AI, go and do this stuff for me and tell me when it’s done.” There are cases where that’s appropriate. We have an entire framework called the TRIPS framework, which is part of the new AI strategy course that you can get at TrustInsights AI strategy course. Katie teaches the TRIPS framework: Time, Repetitiveness, Importance, Pain, and Sufficient Data. What’s weird about TRIPS that throws people off is that the “I” for importance means the less important a task is, the better a fit it is for AI—which fits perfectly into AI decisioning. Do you want to hand off completely a really important decision to AI? No. Do you want to hand off unimportant decisions to AI? Yes. The consequences for getting it wrong are so much lower. **Christopher S. Penn – 05:05** Imagine you had a GPT you built that said, “Where do we want to order lunch from today?” It has 10 choices, runs, and spits out an answer. If it gives you a wrong answer—wrong answer out of 10 places you generally like—you’re not going to be hugely upset. That is a great example of AI decisioning, where you’re just hanging out saying, “I don’t care, just make a decision. I don’t even care—we all know the places are all good.” But would you say, “Let’s hand off our go-to-market strategy for our flagship product line”? God, I hope not. **Katie Robbert – 05:46** It’s funny you say that because this morning I was using Gemini to create a go-to-market strategy for our flagship product line. However, with the huge caveat that I was not using generative AI to make decisions—I was using it to organize the existing data we already have. Our sales playbook, our ICPs, all the different products—giving generative AI the context that we’re a small sales and marketing team. Every tactic we take needs to be really thoughtful, strategic, and impactful. We can’t do everything. So I was using it in that sense, but I wasn’t saying, “Okay, now you go ahead and execute a non-human-reviewed go-to-market strategy, and I’m going to measure you on the success of it.” That is absolutely not how I was using it. **Katie Robbert – 06:46** It was more of—I think the use case you would probably put that under is either summarization first and then synthesis next, but never decisioning. **Christopher S. Penn – 07:00** Yeah, and where this new crop of AI decisioning is going to run into trouble is the very nature of large language models—LLMs. They are language tools, they’re really good at language. So a lot of the qualitative stuff around decisions—like how something makes you feel or how words are used—yes, that is 100% where you should be using AI. However, most decision optimization software—like the IBM Decision Optimization Project product—requires quantitative data. It requires an outcome to do regression analysis against. Behind the scenes, a lot of these tools take categorical data—like topics on your blog, for example—and reduce that to numbers so they can do binary classification. They figure out “if this, then that; if this, then that” and come up with the decision. Language models can’t do that because that’s math. So if you are just blanket handing off decisioning to a tool like ChatGPT, it will imitate doing the math, but it will not do the math. So you will end up with decisions that are basically hallucinations. **Katie Robbert – 08:15** For those software companies promoting their tools to be AI decision tools or AI decisioning tools—whatever the buzz term is—what is the caution for the buyer, for the end user? What are the things we should be asking and looking for? Just as Chris mentioned, we have the new AI strategy course. One of the tools in the AI strategy course—or just the toolkit itself, if you want that at a lower cost—is the AI Vendor cheat sheet. It contains all the questions you should be asking AI vendors. But Chris, if someone doesn’t know where to start and their CMO or COO is saying, “Hey, this tool has AI decisioning in it, look how much we can hand over.” What are the things we should be looking for, and what should we never do? **Christopher S. Penn – 09:16** First things I would ask are: “Show me your system map. Show me your system architecture map.” It should be high level enough that they don’t worry about giving away their proprietary secret sauce. But if the system map is just a big black box on a sheet of paper—no good. Show me how the system works: how do you handle qualitative data? How do you handle quantitative data? How do you blend the two together? What are broadly the algorithm families involved? At some point, you should probably have binary classification trees in there. At some point, you should have regression analysis, like gradient boosting, in there. Those would be the technical terms I’d be looking for in a system map for decisioning software. Let me talk to an engineer without a salesperson present. That’s my favorite. **Christopher S. Penn – 10:05** And if a company says, “No, no, we can’t do”—clearly, then, there’s a problem because I know I’m going to ask the engineer something that “doesn’t do that.” What are you talking about? That is always the red flag for me. If you will not let me talk to an actual engineer with no salesperson present—no minder or keeper present—then, yeah, you’re not doing the right things. The thing to not do is the common-sense thing, which is: don’t sign for a system until you’ve had a chance to evaluate. If you don’t know how to evaluate a system like that, ask for help. Ask: you can join our free Slack group. Go to analytics for Marketers, Trust Insights, AI analytics for Marketers. **Christopher S. Penn – 10:51** You can ask questions in there of all of us, like, “Hey, has anyone heard of this software?” We had someone share a piece of software last week in the chat, and people said, “What do you think about this?” I offered my opinion, which is: “Hey, this is going to be gathering very personal data, and their data protection clauses in their terms of service are really not strong.” So perhaps don’t use the software. Of course, if something you want to have handled privately, you’re always welcome to work with Trust Insights. We will help you do these evaluations. That’s what we’re really good at. But those would be my things. The other big thing, Katie, I would ask you as the people person is— **Christopher S. Penn – 11:33** How do you know when a salesperson or a company rep is just bullshitting you? **Katie Robbert – 11:40** I get asked that question a lot, and there’s definitely an art to it. But the most simple response to that is: Can they give you direct answers, or not? Do they actually respond with, “I don’t know, but let me look into that for you”? Some people are really bad at BSing, so they’ll kind of talk in circles and never really get to the point and answer your question. So that’s an obvious tell. There are a lot of people who are very good at BSing and do it with confidence, making you feel like, “Oh, well, they must be telling the truth.” Look how authoritative they are in their answer. **Katie Robbert – 12:26** So it’s on you—the end user, the potential buyer—to come ready with the list of questions that are important to you. I think that’s really the thing: they might be BSing everybody else. Great, let them. That’s not your problem. Your main focus is what is important to you. Believe it or not, it’s going to start with getting your thoughts organized. The best way to do that is with the 5P framework. So, if you’re looking at AI decisioning software: What is the purpose? Why do we think we need AI decisioning software? What problem is it solving if we have AI decisioning software? That’s one of the first questions you ask the software vendors: “This is the problem I’m looking to solve. Talk to me about how you solve that problem and give me examples of how you solved that problem with other people.” **Katie Robbert – 13:24** And it’s okay to ask for references too. So you can say, “Hey, can I contact your other customers and talk to them about their experience using your software?” That’s a great way to cut through the BS. If they say, “No, we can’t do that”—that’s a huge red flag—because they want to sell as much product as possible. If they’re not willing to, or if there are NDAs in place, or whatever it is, they need to be able to explain why you can’t talk to their other customers who they’ve solved the same problem for. Next is People. Think about it internally and externally. Internally: who’s using this software, who’s setting it up, who’s maintaining it, who’s accepting the outcomes, who’s doing the QA on it? Externally, from their side: who is your support system? Do they have 24/7 support? **Katie Robbert – 14:19** Is there a software license agreement you would need to sign to get support? Or are they just going to throw you to a cycle of never-ending chatbots that keep pointing you back to their FAQs and don’t actually answer your question? Third is Process. How are we integrating this system into our existing tech stack? What does it look like to disrupt the existing tech stack with new software that takes in data? Does it take in our existing data? Do we have to do something different? Basically, outlining the different data formats and the systems you have for the sales rep, and saying, “This is what we have. Will your AI decisioning software fit within our existing process?” This leads into Platform. These are the tools in our tech stack. Is there a natural integration, or will we have to set up external third-party integrations? Do we have to develop against APIs to get the data in, to get the data out? Those are not overly technical questions. Those are questions anyone should be able to answer, and that you should be able to understand the response to. Lastly is Performance. How do we know this solved a problem? If your purpose for bringing in AI decisioning is efficiency or increased sales—that’s the metric you need to hold this piece of software to. **Katie Robbert – 15:51** Then ask the sales guy: “Let’s say we do a trial run of your software and it doesn’t do what it needs to do. How do you back your system out of our tech stack? How do you extract our data from your cloud servers? How do you just go away and pretend this never happened? What’s your money-back guarantee for performance?” Those are basic, high-level questions. So use the 5P’s to get yourself organized. But those are the questions you should be asking any software vendor—AI or otherwise. But with AI decisioning—where the tool is meant to take the decisions out of your hands and do it for you—you want to make sure—100% sure—that you are confident in the decisions it’s making. **Christopher S. Penn – 16:40** One of the best things you can do—and we’ve covered this on previous Trust Insights Live Streams—is looking at qualitative data that exists on the internet from places like G2 Crowd, Capterra, Reddit, et cetera, and looking at the reviews for the software. For example, this is one company I know that makes decisioning software. We’re not going to share the name here, but when I looked at their reviews on Capterra, one of the reviews said it’s very expensive, it’s tricky to implement—and this was a big one. The company regularly updates their software, but their updates do not align with our organizational needs. So the software drifts out of alignment and makes changes to decisioning software that we did not request. **Katie Robbert – 17:30** That’s a huge problem. **Christopher S. Penn – 17:31** That’s a real big problem. So if someone is out there on stage talking about their company’s AI decisioning software, and you look at the reviews, you might say, “It seems some of your customers say the decision-making process for how you do change management needs a little upgrade there, buddy.” **Katie Robbert – 17:52** Again, it’s not unreasonable to ask for referrals. Especially now, where there are so many software vendors to choose from—think about it like real estate, it’s a buyer’s market. You have no shortage of options. So how do you make the best decisions? One of those ways is talking to other people who have tried the software, left a review, or purchased the software and locked into a three-year agreement. Ask if you can talk to them and get their opinions of how it went; how was the implementation; how is the support? In terms—you know, Chris, to your point—how often is the company making updates, and how well are they at not only communicating the updates, but what does it break? Because the sales team of the software, they’re going to tell you, “Here’s my talking points. Don’t go off script. I have a commission I need to meet for Q4.” So once they sell, it’s out of their hands. That’s now development and customer support’s problem. **Christopher S. Penn – 19:13** One of the things I would recommend people do—and this goes right along with the 5P’s—is, after you’ve documented how you currently make decisions and what you want the system to do. Set up a deep research project—or several, if it’s a big-ticket expense—and have generative AI build you the short list of. See, here are the companies that meet this criteria. Here’s how we make decisions: we have this data; we want to do it like this. Give it a prompt. Something along the lines of, “You’re going to build a short list of companies that make AI decisioning software that meets these criteria, that is at this rough price point or range you’re willing to spend. These are the outcomes we’re looking for.” **Christopher S. Penn – 19:58** You should use review sites like G2 Crowd and Capterra, discussion forums like Reddit, and customer service messages—all to identify which platform is the best fit for our criteria. Create a list in descending order by goodness of fit, and make sure the software and the company have made substantial updates to their software in the last 365 days. Today’s date is whatever. Put that in as a generative AI deep research prompt. Put it in ChatGPT, put it in Gemini, put it in Perplexity. Get a few different reports, merge them together, and see which vendors make the cut—which vendors are the best fit for your company for what’s going to be a very big, very expensive, and very painful process. Because decisioning software is big and painful. You will be surprised. **Christopher S. Penn – 20:51** When you go into that sales call, to your point, Katie, when the sales guy is trying to make his commission, you can say, “Here’s the criteria. Here’s what AI research came up with. Tell me what here is true and what is not.” Or even better, have generative AI build the list of questions for the salesperson so you can really dig down to the specifics. And I guarantee that the first response for half the questions will be, “I need to check with our sales engineer on that.” You can say, “Great, why don’t you go ahead and do that?” Their incentive is not to help you succeed. **Katie Robbert – 21:39** And here’s the thing: This is not a knock at AI decisioning software. What we’re trying to do is make sure that you—the end user, the buyer—go into the process with both eyes open and that you’re fully prepared so that when you make a decision, when you make a commitment and purchase a piece of enterprise software, you feel confident with the decision you’ve made. I know, ironic! We’re talking about human decision and AI decisioning, but the same is true of getting the AI decisioning software ready to make decisions. You would do all this due diligence and research, and you would want to understand your process. When the AI software takes over the decisioning, why not do the same amount of preparation for going into choosing which software is going to do this for you? **Katie Robbert – 22:34** It’s a huge undertaking integrating a new piece of tech into your existing environment. There’s no sugarcoating it. It’s not as simple as just plug it in and go. That’s what a lot of vendors—for better or worse—would have you believe. That it’s a seamless integration that does not exist. Turnkey integration—it does not exist. That is a huge myth we can bust. If you are just starting tomorrow and it is your first piece of software ever, and there’s no other software to integrate it with, there is still no such thing as seamless integration because you still have to set it up. You still have to give it data that’s got to come from somewhere. There is no such thing as seamless integration. I will go on record: I will die on that hill. **Christopher S. Penn – 23:30** One other thing that is worth considering these days: if you have done the 5P’s and you know your decision processes cold—you know them like the back of your hand. In today’s world of generative AI, you might be better served building it yourself with generative AI tools. You might not need a vendor to spend $3 million a year with for what is essentially some gradient boosted trees and some language model processing. You might want to evaluate whether to buy or build, whether build is the better choice for your organization. As generative AI tools get better and more capable, building becomes more feasible and reasonable, even for less technical organizations. There is still expertise required. **Christopher S. Penn – 24:27** To be clear, you still need subject matter expertise, but if you have developers already in your company—or you have a developer agency or something like that—you might want to put that on the table. You might not have to buy it. Especially since the cost of these systems keeps going up and up, and the brand-name ones don’t start for less than seven figures. **Katie Robbert – 24:54** It’s a huge expense. And here’s the thing, I hate this phrase, but “in this economy”—because, guess what, there’s always issues in the economy. But in this economy, spending seven figures is not a small decision to make. So you really want to make sure you’re making the right decision. **Christopher S. Penn – 25:13** Exactly. So ironic! **Katie Robbert – 25:17** I know. **Christopher S. Penn – 25:18** That’s what AI decisioning is: using artificial intelligence as part of a decision-making system—using both classical and generative AI appropriately for their areas of expertise. Don’t mix the two up, like generative AI should not be allowed to do math. You really have to do your homework before you make a decision about whether it’s buy or build. 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In today's episode, host Pete Moore sits down with returning guest Jason Moore, CEO and founder of Spren (formerly Elite HRV.) Jason shares the journey of his company's cutting-edge technology, which transforms any smartphone into an advanced biomarker and body composition analysis tool. With over a million users and thousands of coaches trained, Spren's platform is accelerating how gyms, coaches, and fitness enthusiasts track results and stay motivated. Pete and Jason dive into the evolution of Spren's technology, lessons learned from the pandemic, and how partnerships with industry leaders like Fitness On Demand are reshaping the member experience across more than a thousand gyms. Jason also pulls back the curtain on the powerful data trends Spren has uncovered, including what truly drives lasting health changes among gym members—and why focusing on muscle may be the key to long-term success. Whether you're a club operator, coach, or just passionate about fitness technology, this episode is a candid look at where health and wellness measurement is headed, how to engage members both inside and outside the gym, and the grit it takes to keep innovating in the HALO sector. In discussions surrounding tech, there's always the question of data. On that Jason states, "Ultimately the member owns their data . . . that's how we think of it. Like you Pete, or whoever's listening, you own your own data, you can delete it all or take it with you. There's a big trend towards data portability." Key themes discussed Evolution of Spren's body composition technology. Integration with Fitness on Demand and gyms. Seamless, phone-based body measurement solutions. Learnings from SDK/API versus turnkey offerings. Role of data and biomarkers in fitness journeys. Member engagement and personalized coaching tools. Trends in gym programming and equipment preferences. 1. Spren's Technological Evolution: Spren has transitioned from a prototype-focused company to delivering a full-fledged, scalable product. Their tech uses just a phone camera to provide accurate body composition analysis comparable to a DEXA scan. Over the last two years, they've moved towards offering turnkey solutions that require no IT or development resources, making implementation easier for fitness operators of all sizes. 2. Strategic Partnerships & Expansion: Spren has formed partnerships with major fitness platforms like Fitness on Demand, enabling rollouts across over a thousand gyms. These collaborations let gyms effortlessly integrate body composition tracking and personalized coaching for members, meeting the growing demand for accountability and measurable wellness outcomes. 3. Market Learnings & Business Model Shift: Jason shared that initially, Spren focused on offering their technology as an SDK/API for other tech teams to integrate. However, long implementation timelines and the complexity of custom integrations led them to shift toward simple, self-contained solutions that appeal directly to operators and members—and the market has responded positively to this shift. 4. Holistic Data & User Experience: Spren not only tracks body fat and muscle composition but also integrates data from blood labs and wearables to provide a more comprehensive view of a member's health. The company emphasizes user privacy and data ownership, and keeps the member in control of their own data, with growing features for research and cross-platform health data portability. 5. Industry Trends and Actionable Insights: One of the biggest insights from Spren's dataset is that consistent gym-goers and those who work with qualified coaches show significantly better health outcomes. Also, members who focus on muscle building and preservation, not just fat loss, enjoy better long-term outcomes. Jason also noted a shift in club operators showing a greater willingness to pay for high-impact technology that enhances retention and member results, acknowledging that wellness tech can be an investment rather than just an expense. Resources: Jason Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thehumanjason Spren: https://www.spren.com Jason's First HALO Talks Episode: https://www.halotalks.com/episode-384-unlocking-biometric-sensing-technology-w-jason-moore-of-spren-elite-hrv Integrity Square: https://www.integritysq.com Prospect Wizard: https://www.theprospectwizard.com Promotion Vault: http://www.promotionvault.com HigherDose: http://www.higherdose.com
Most investors know property management is critical to rental property success, but very few know the right questions to ask before choosing a manager. The truth is, better questions lead to better results.On this episode, Gregg sits down with Kate Winter from JWB's property management team to break down the key questions every investor should ask before hiring. You'll learn how to spot if a manager's incentives align with your goals, how their team and systems are built to deliver on the promise of consistent returns, and what separates the best from the rest.They'll cover topics like:- What is the telltale sign that will tell you that you can trust a PM longterm?- How can property managers prioritize relationships in a way that adds value beyond the investment?- Why is transparency so key to staying in the game as an investor?If you're serious about building a rental portfolio that performs for the long run, this conversation will show you how to evaluate property management the right way — before you sign on the dotted line.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:57 Meet Kate Winter: Property Management Expert03:19 Common Questions When Hiring a Property Manager07:25 Understanding Property Management Fees08:33 Maintenance and Goal Alignment19:38 The Importance of Renewals24:06 Resident Experience and Satisfaction30:58 Aligning Goals for Better ROI31:17 Ensuring Resident and Investor Satisfaction31:41 Addressing Viewer Questions32:06 Implementing AI in Property Management34:04 Property Management Software35:08 Maintenance Fees and Vendor Selection39:19 Setting and Adjusting Rent41:06 Unique Property Management Structure43:41 Specialized Roles in Property Management48:51 Client Service and Communication51:16 Rapid Fire Q&A59:34 Concluding Remarks and Upcoming EventsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
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Send us a textIn this engaging conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews Stephanie Detton, the creator and host of the podcast 'Italian American Stories.' They delve into Stephanie's family heritage, her journey into genealogy, and the inspiration behind her podcast. The discussion highlights the importance of storytelling in preserving cultural history, the challenges of researching family backgrounds, and the fascinating tales that emerge from Italian American archives. Stephanie shares unique stories, including the intriguing lives of her ancestors and the weird and wonderful tales she has uncovered in her research.Genealogy drives a passion for storytelling.Everyday Americans have fascinating stories worth sharing.Researching family history can uncover unexpected tales.Italian Americans have a rich cultural history in the U.S.Podcasts can be a powerful medium for storytelling.Unique stories often come from local archives and newspapers.The importance of community support in creative endeavors.Researching names can lead to surprising discoveries.Cultural heritage is a vital part of identity.The podcasting journey can evolve from personal interests.Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
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Bryce Ferguson is the founder of Turnkey. Turnkey provides secure, flexible, scalable wallet infrastructure. Turnkey is private key management made simple. Create wallets, sign transactions, and automate onchain actions, all with one elegant API. Why you should listen Turnkey provides secure, flexible, scalable wallet infrastructure, offering developers an elegant API to create wallets, sign transactions, and automate on-chain actions. Built on non-custodial principles and leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Turnkey ensures that private keys remain fully under the users' control while also delivering enterprise-grade performance with low latency (around 50–100ms) and high availability (99.9% uptime). Their infrastructure supports multichain operations and is designed for scale—capable of signing millions of transactions in minutes, and able to power embedded wallets seamlessly across diverse applications in DeFi, payments, developer tooling, consumer apps, and AI agents. Turnkey is on a mission to secure the open internet by building verifiable, programmable primitives for crypto applications. The founding team brings deep expertise from their work at Coinbase Custody, and together they've amassed over 100 years of experience in cryptography, security, and low-level systems design. In June 2025, Turnkey raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto (with support from Sequoia, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute, and Variant), reaffirming its vision to provide open, composable, developer-friendly infrastructure for the next generation of crypto services. Turnkey recently earned recognition as one of CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies, underscoring its growing influence and leadership within the financial technology landscape. Supporting links Fidelity Crypto Careers Turnkey Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.
This week on Not Your Average Insights, JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez discuss President Trump's landmark executive order that opens the door for Americans to invest their 401(k) retirement savings in alternative assets like cryptocurrency, private equity, and real estate along with other interesting headlines for real estate investors.We'll explore:- How will this executive order affect the investment real estate market?- What the rise in age of 1st time home buyers means for the housing market- Why professional sports franchises are becoming sophisticated real estate investorsListen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Overview00:06 Executive Orders and 401k Investments00:26 Football Season and Stadium Deals01:48 Welcome to the Show02:28 Alternative Assets in 401k Plans03:05 Real Estate vs. Other Investments05:20 Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate08:00 JWB's Business Model and Fund Structures16:42 Median Age of Home Buyers17:24 Affordability Challenges and Solutions18:45 Investing in Workforce Housing19:19 The Importance of Home Ownership24:49 Encouraging Young People to Invest29:08 Understanding Real Estate Affordability29:34 Teaching Kids About Real Estate30:11 The Importance of Financial Education for Kids30:43 The Role of Relationships and Education in Real Estate31:24 Challenges and Opportunities in Real Estate Investment32:22 Discussing Real Estate with Kids33:36 Community Shares and Foreign Investment34:17 The Economic Impact of Professional Sports Teams35:21 Stadium Deals: Downtown vs. Suburban42:03 Jacksonville's Stadium Renovation and Economic Growth49:14 Addressing Real Estate Taxes and Affordability53:56 Future Topics and Closing RemarksStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
Kathleen Peddicord shares her experience living investing overseas. Her journey took her from publishing to becoming an authority on global real estate investing. She discusses why she prefers real estate over stocks while also outlining challenges such as lack of MLS systems, legal complexities, and cultural differences. Kathleen explained how to evaluate markets, avoid overpaying, plan exit strategies, and select properties with unique value rather than cookie-cutter developments. She stressed the importance of freehold title, sound property rights, and turnkey management solutions, while also addressing issues of safety, infrastructure, and research hurdles in foreign markets. We discuss... Kathleen Peddicord began her career in publishing with Agora but developed lifelong interests in global diversification and real estate investing. She prefers real estate over stocks because it offers stability, control, personal use, and both cash flow and appreciation potential. International real estate yields vary widely, with Panama highlighted as a safe haven market where she has achieved strong rental returns. A major challenge abroad is the lack of MLS systems, requiring investors to do extensive legwork to determine fair property values. Ensuring freehold title is essential to avoid risks of losing property to unclear or cooperative land ownership structures. Investors should plan their exit strategy before buying and avoid cookie-cutter developments that force competition solely on price. Properties with unique features, amenities, or historical value are better positioned to hold and increase resale value. Turnkey solutions with property and rental management are crucial for those who don't live locally. Legal systems, language barriers, and cultural differences add complexity compared to U.S. real estate. Safety perceptions are relative, and many international markets can feel safer than U.S. cities depending on the context. Choosing a country to invest in requires matching personal goals, budget, and lifestyle priorities to the market options. Visiting potential markets in person is essential, as spreadsheets and research alone can't capture whether a location will feel right. Success stories, like a couple thriving in Portugal, show the upside of international moves, while failures, like an unhappy relocation to Belize, highlight the importance of fit and flexibility. Small surprises—such as homes without hot water—illustrate the cultural adjustments investors must be prepared for. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth Phil Weiss | Apprise Wealth Management Douglas Heagren | Mergent College Advisors Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moneytreepodcast Follow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/money-tree-investing-podcast Follow on Twitter/X: https://x.com/MTIPodcast For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/living-and-investing-overseas-kathleen-peddicord-744
Are tales of rising insurance rates making you second-guess investing in Florida real estate? For the past two years, headlines have fueled fear but the reality looks very different today.On this episode of the Not Your Average Investor Show, we're bringing back community favorite Whitney Ricci to clear the air. Her past appearances drew record attendance, and she's back with critical updates investors need to hear.Join JWB Co-Founder, Gregg Cohen, and Show Host, Pablo Gonzalez, as they talk with Whitney about:- The New Reality of Florida Insurance: What's actually happening in the market and why things are turning around- Conquering Investor Anxiety: Straight answers to your biggest concerns about hurricanes and insurance risks- Unlocking Opportunity: How up-to-date info can give you a strategic edge in Florida investingDon't let old headlines shape your decisions. Get the facts, understand the trends, and move forward with confidence.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome01:32 Meet the Guests02:23 Insurance Market Overview02:43 Florida's Insurance Crisis07:31 Tort Reform and Its Impact08:11 Current Insurance Landscape25:25 Hurricane Season Preparedness32:59 AI and Technology in Insurance35:00 Reflecting on AI's Impact on Insurance35:22 A Real-Life Example of AI in Claims Processing36:39 The Humanizing Effect of AI in Business37:33 Predictions for AI in Future Hurricane Seasons40:47 Understanding Sinkhole and Catastrophic Ground Collapse Coverage45:37 Proactive Measures for Insurance Rate Reductions47:40 High-Risk Umbrella Insurance and New Carrier Options50:39 Flood Insurance and Risk Management58:18 Fun Memories and Community Engagement01:01:24 Charity Referral Program and Final ThoughtsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
In today's episode of Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing, Jonathan sits down with Lindsay Davis, CEO of Spartan Invest, to explore the world of turn-key real estate. Lindsay shares her journey from college landlord to building one of the leading turn-key investment companies in the Southeast. Their discussion covers the advantages of passive investing, the realities of property management, and how Spartan's approach makes real estate accessible for investors nationwide. Lindsay began her investing journey as a college student in Alabama, renting rooms to reduce tuition costs. After a rocky start as a landlord and a stint in corporate America, she shifted to flipping houses before finding stability and scale in rental properties. This led her to co-found Spartan Invest, a full-service turn-key provider offering single-family homes in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. For investors hesitant about the headaches of being a landlord, Lindsay explains how Spartan handles property acquisition, renovation, tenant placement, and ongoing management. By focusing on durability, affordability, and transparency, Spartan delivers rental properties designed for long-term performance and reduced maintenance. Jonathan and Lindsay also discuss the profile of today's turn-key investors, from W-2 employees seeking diversification to high earners priced out of their own markets. They cover the importance of choosing landlord-friendly states, understanding pro forma numbers, and staying engaged with your property manager. With entry points averaging around $165,000 and financing options that include competitive rates, Spartan opens the door to investors ready to grow their portfolios without the grind of flipping or self-management. If you've ever wondered how to build a real estate legacy with minimal stress, this episode provides a clear look at how turn-key investing works and why it's an attractive strategy in today's housing market. In this episode, you will hear: Lindsay's first experience as a college landlord and the lessons it provided Spartan's shift from flipping to rental properties Advantages of a one-stop-shop turn-key model Renovation priorities designed for long-term durability Types of investors who benefit most from turn-key investing Key factors to evaluate when choosing property managers The role of consistency and early investing in building wealth Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Supporting Resources: Spartan Invest website - spartaninvest.com Spartan Invest on YouTube - www.youtube.com/@SpartanInvest Find Spartan on Facebook - www.facebook.com/spartanturnkey Spartan Invest's Instagram - www.instagram.com/SpartanInvest Connect with Lindsay Davis on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-davis-3996a778 Website - www.streamlined.properties YouTube - www.youtube.com/c/JonathanGreeneRE/videos Instagram - www.instagram.com/trustgreene Instagram - www.instagram.com/streamlinedproperties TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@trustgreene Zillow - www.zillow.com/profile/StreamlinedReal Bigger Pockets - www.biggerpockets.com/users/TrustGreene Facebook - www.facebook.com/streamlinedproperties Email - info@streamlined.properties Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.
Send us a textIn this conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews Vincent Maione, the chairman of the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission. They discuss Vincent's family's immigration story from Italy to New Jersey, the rich Italian heritage in the state, and the commission's efforts to promote Italian culture and history in schools. The conversation also touches on the importance of maintaining cultural identity, reflections on family history during wartime, and the role of Italian Americans in shaping the community.Vincent's family immigrated to New Jersey in 1964.The New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission was established to preserve Italian culture.The commission aims to integrate Italian heritage lessons into school curriculums.Vincent emphasizes the importance of cultural pride and education.New Jersey Italian Heritage CommissionPreserving and Promoting Italian Heritage in New Jersey Our Mission The New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission (NJIHC) is committed to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the rich cultural heritage of Italians and Italian Americans in New Jersey. Through education, community engagement, and advocacy, we ensure that Italian contributions to history, arts, and society are recognized and honored for generations to come.Our Vision We envision a future where the legacy of Italian heritage continues to inspire and educate, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of Italian culture among all people. By developing educational programs, cultural initiatives, and historical preservation efforts, we aim to keep the Italian spirit alive in the Garden State.Our Commitment to Education At the core of our mission is a dedication to education. The NJIHC has developed a comprehensive K-12 curriculum designed to integrate Italian and Italian American history, culture, and achievements into classrooms across New Jersey. This curriculum, aligned with state educational standards, provides students with engaging lessons that highlight the profound impact of Italians on American society.Beyond the classroom, we further our educational mission through public programs, cultural events, and community initiatives that bring Italian heritage to life. From book lectures, workshops to art exhibits and storytelling, we aim to educate and inspire individuals of all ages about the contributions of Italians in New Jersey and beyond.Our Goal Our goal is to provide meaningful resources, events, and collaborations that highlight the impact of Italians in New Jersey. We work with educators, community leaders, and cultural institutions to integrate Italian heritage into schools, promote Italian American achievements, and support initiatives that strengthen our community.To learn more about our work or to get involved, visit njitalianheritage.org.Contact: Executive Director - Margaret Fontana mfontana@njitalianheritage.org Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
This month's Portfolio of the Month isn't just about property selection, it's about tax deferment and leverage.JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez break down how property selection goes when you use a 1031 Exchange.You'll see:- Why you need an easy way to pick properties to meet the 45-day and 180-day rules - How “like-kind” requirements shape your next purchase- What type of mistakes can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in a 1031 exchange If you own an investment property, this episode will show you how to multiply your returns without multiplying your tax bill in one easy to understand case study.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction to 1031 Exchange01:24 Meet the Hosts: Pablo Gonzalez and Gregg Cohen01:43 Understanding the Importance of 1031 Exchange03:21 How 1031 Exchange Works05:41 Real-Life Example: California Property06:44 Maximizing Tax Savings with 1031 Exchange09:14 Interactive Q&A: Alex Diaz's Scenario11:07 JWB's Portfolio Generator Explained15:34 Selecting Properties for 1031 Exchange16:08 Key Players and Timelines in 1031 Exchange20:40 Financial Engineering: Optimizing Your Investment25:13 Interest Rates and Down Payments29:48 Investment Down Payment Strategy30:13 Maximizing Tax Savings30:50 Adjusting Down Payments for Optimal Returns33:14 Exploring Additional Property Investments36:08 Handling Unexpected Scenarios40:04 Q&A Session42:46 Community Engagement and Future PlansStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
For episode 587 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Bryce Ferguson, Co-founder & CEO of Turnkey.Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto infrastructure for embedded wallets and onchain transaction automation. Turnkey provides low-level wallet infrastructure primitives that can be mixed, matched, and configured for any use case.⏳ Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction(1:03) Who is Bryce Ferguson?(3:56) What is Turnkey?(7:16) Modernization of Crypto Wallets(10:12) Turnkey Solutions(13:23) Use-cases(14:50) AI Agents & Crypto Wallets(18:26) Crypto Policy(25:05) Turnkey Roadmap(27:02) Contact Turnkey
Send us a textIn this engaging conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews award-winning author Carmen Amato, who shares her Italian heritage and family history, particularly focusing on her roots in Calabria. They discuss the journey of Italian immigrants to the United States, the challenges they faced, and the vibrant Italian-American community in upstate New York. Carmen reflects on her upbringing, the influence of her family stories on her writing, and her experiences during World War II. She also shares insights from her career in the CIA and how it has shaped her fiction writing. The conversation touches on travel experiences in Italy, the importance of genealogy, and the secrets of family history, culminating in Carmen's future writing projects.Carmen Amato is the award-winning author of 18 mysteries and thrillers. Starting with Cliff Diver, her Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series pits the first female police detective in Acapulco against cartels, corruption and social inequality amid the search for Mexico's missing. Optioned for television, National Public Radio hailed it as “A thrilling series.”Carmen's Galliano Club historical fiction thrillers include Murder at the Galliano Club, which won the 2023 Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical. Her standalone political thriller The Hidden Light of Mexico City was longlisted for the 2020 Millennium Book Award.A 30-year veteran of the CIA where she focused on technical collection and counterdrug issues, Carmen is a recipient of both the National Intelligence Award and the Career Intelligence Medal. Originally from upstate New York, after years of globe-trotting she and her husband enjoy life in Tennessee. Website: https://carmenamato.net/linksNewsletter: https://mysteryahead.substack.comFacebook: https://facebook.com/authorcarmenamatoInstagram: https://instagram.com/authorcarmenamato Carmen Amato's family hails from Calabria, Italy.Italian immigrants faced significant challenges upon arriving in the U.S.The Italian-American community in upstate New York is rich and vibrant.Carmen's upbringing was heavily influenced by her Italian heritage.Her writing is inspired by family stories and historical events.World War II had a profound impact on her mother's life.Carmen's career in the CIA provided unique insights for her writing.Traveling to Italy evokes a sense of home for Carmen.Genealogy research has uncovered family secrets and stories.Carmen's future projects include more historical fiction inspired by her family. Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansGalliano Club3 utcasts try to outrun the past, to end up at the Galliano Club, where trouble is always on tap.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
Title: Why Most Capital Raisers Will Get Sued in the Next Crash with Rob Beardsley and Craig McGrouther Summary: In this episode of “Fund Friday,” hosts discuss the innovative solutions offered by Tribe Vest, a pioneering fund-of-funds startup, which is poised to transform the landscape for emerging fund managers, investors, and capital raisers. Guests Travis Smith and Seth Bradley delve into their personal journeys and the genesis of Tribe Vest, highlighting the advantages of adopting a fund-of-funds model that enhances compliance and increases access for numerous accredited investors. They detail how Tribe Vest supports fund managers through its comprehensive services, allowing them to raise capital efficiently while ensuring legal and financial compliance. The conversation unfolds various industry challenges faced by fund managers, such as the difficulties in connecting accredited investors with good deals and maintaining compliance in the ever-evolving regulatory environment. Smith and Bradley underscore the essence of Tribe Vest, focusing on its operational efficiency—providing essential support like K-1 tax distribution, capital-raising infrastructure, and investor onboarding—all streamlined with technology. In conclusion, they not only spotlight the competitive pricing and quick service turnaround of Tribe Vest but also express their commitment to fostering a landscape that democratizes access to high-quality investing opportunities while empowering fund managers. Their vision seeks to break down barriers traditionally faced in private investment, paving the way for a more inclusive investment future. Links to Listen and Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fund-friday-e49-the-cost-effective-way-to-launch-a/id1511202840?i=1000673582673 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4tLAtXFe3OrqtCwyc7gfBE Links to Watch and Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgT4GMrPPI&t=70s Bullet Point Highlights: Tribe Vest revolutionizes the fund-of-funds model for emerging fund managers. The connection of accredited investors to high-quality private investment opportunities is crucial yet challenging. Efficient operational support, including compliance and investor onboarding, sets Tribe Vest apart. The need for compliance amid industry scrutiny has shifted sentiment towards fund-of-funds for risk mitigation. Tribe Vest empowers fund managers by providing an institutional-level infrastructure for capital raises. Cost-effective solutions allow fund managers to focus on relationships rather than administrative burdens. Quick setup times (just five days) streamline the capital-raising process for fund managers. Transcript: welcome back to another episode of fund Friday this is going to be a very nutrient dense jam-packed episode with two amazing people we just had the pleasure of connecting with them once more at our Flagship uh summon event in New York City the gentleman behind tribe vest here a cuttingedge fun to fun group VC backed the whole nine this is going to be such an important episode for all you emerging fund managers you Capital raisers Maybe investors who kind of want to know behind the curtain what's going on and also just from a structural perspective as to how we've been able to scale our business safely and compliantly but with that said let's give a warm introduction to Travis Smith and Seth Bradley how are you both today good craigg good to see you it's been just a few weeks since we were in New York together which was an awesome event glad to be here yeah well there's been a lot of great updates to the product that tribe is offering since our initial conversation we had so I would almost even argue um for the better Awards you can maybe even scrap that episode for future purposes don't need to look back because we're going to cover that and then some here today so I'm absolutely elated and thrilled to talk about that so let's get right into it and just to start with for some some context because we're gonna just keep it moving forward here how did Seth and Travis and the team have tried best kind of Forge and kind of come together from you know this Alliance from a business perspective yeah tra you want to kick that off man sure sure and look you can't scrap that first episode because I think it's the first episode yeah like we're in the record books at this time right yeah so yeah no look uh me finding Seth and Seth Finding Me is a big part of our story no doubt really uh in early 2023 we had built out the infrastructure and the technology uh we' even been challenged by our clients to build out the back office where we do all the distributions cap table management uh k1s taxes and um but I hadn't quite figured out the fun to fun portion of this yet and uh good story you know met Seth Bradley at a a conference in the British Virgin Islands where we were both speaking at the event uh both of our wives were there and uh they hit it off we hit it off and just had a wonderful wonderful week and weekend and um and that was when Seth kind of really opened my eyes to um this opportunity Seth you know how how do you remember it where where you know how how did it go from there yeah well funny enough my my pitch or my speaking engagement was on fund of funds it was it was teaching the group about fund of funds what is it how can you how can you go from basically a passive investor and and start a business raising capital and and fund of funds is kind of the the next step and at the same time the industry was was pivoting there was uh you know there were Winds of Change so to speak from the the cgp model and people were starting to really take the fun of funds model more seriously and take a deeper look at it and the timing just couldn't be better as Travis was taking his company and and trying to make it pivot himself into the the syndicator and the fund and the capital raising market and you know originally there was a cgp type of model that was being uh thrown around and actually had a good bit of success Travis right going into uh earlier that year and you know I I we just got into some deeper discussions about where the market is and where it's going and the market was really going to fund to funds and I said' look Travis if you're going to if you're going to take this business to the next level get ahead of the game like this is where it's going it's going to fun and fund is kind of getting away from the cgp model so if you're going to build a product around that market really should focus in on fun to funds yeah I mean and I'll just go as well just to to piggyback off that timing is so funny there because I think it was roughly around the summer of 2023 when fun to fun was the biggest buzzword in the industry what is a fun of fund how does it work why is this the most compliant way do I need to do it what is it how does it structure everything included there so we're going to unpack that all there but it sounds like Travis you might have had an additional comment well I was say it really it truly was right place right time for Seth and I to meet you think about leading up to that it was the becc 2023 and there just all these Rumblings with some some bigger names in our industry that were under an investigation for the CP model and that was really how the industry was working with capital Partners at the time and uh collectively realized that there's got to be a more compliant better way and there I was with a two-thirds of the solution talking to Seth who rep represented the the last third of the solution so really was right place right time and and uh you know we're we're we're so glad to be partnered together and and solving a big problem Big Challenge yeah well and let's get right into that problem so the the problem of the industry so how can someone like loans start Capital safely compliantly bring dollars into our deals from outside investors fund managers capital allocators and opportunity so what is the industry problem and what are you guys both solving Seth I I'll hand it over to you I think from a big industry problem I mean there's just the age-old you know you have awesome lead sponsors that are working hard finding great deals private deals out there like Lone Star and and then on the other side there's over 20 million accredited investors that want the benefits of private investing they want the the benefits that come with real estate they want cash flow they want tax advantages uh you know they they want the appreciation all those things that are Why Real Estate so awesome they want to invest with these lead sponsors in these deals but as as we know unless you're kind of in a country club or in the network it's really hard to access those so that's the big problem the big problem is we have great lead sponsors with great deals and then on the other side we have have awesome accredited uh investors looking for those deals meanwhile they can't find each other and uh they don't know how to access them and so the the industry as a whole you know a big conduit to solving that is this Capital Partner right the fund manager and Seth I'll turn it over to you kind of again maybe start with how the industry was solving it and what the problem was with that right yeah I mean I think you framed it correctly it's it's access we know these these accredited investors are out there there's Millions U maybe tens of millions out there in the United States that um maybe they know it maybe they don't but they they might want to invest um they need educated they need access to Deals and on the other side you've got uh lead sponsors you've got fund managers you've got Capital aggregators who want to get access to these folks and we work on that in our business every single day about how do we reach these accredited investors um and then we all have our own little networks of people that we can raise capital from and that we know and that they no like and trust us to be able to place their Capital with us um you know since the jobs act in 2012 which is um what enabled us to start going out and soliciting and advertising um in the public uh for deals and raising capital in that manner and the the problem is that everything's been great since then up until covid right the real estate market has just been going absolutely through the roof so anybody that decided to jump into the the sector during that time had success I mean you could just you know throw paint in a wall and you're G to have success because the market just really helped us out a lot like you had to make a lot of mistakes operationally um for things to go wrong right I mean you really did you really did um not to not not Lone Star Lone Star is awesome right you're you're absolutely right no you you you hit the hammer on the nail there for sure yeah and it's uh you know until covid hit and we got that little blip and that was just kind of a you know something that you know came and went um but now you've seen in the last year and a half or so the market has slowed down um you've seen Capital calls you've seen um you know some SEC um interactions with folks and trying to see if Capital was raised correctly things like that um kind of looking into how the market evolved the market evolved beginning with a cgp model um you know initially the C GP model was thought to be compliant and if it executed properly it is compliant if you have all people in a group that are raising capital for their own deal they're all active participants they're all General Partners they're all executing the business plan and participating in decision-making all good that's an age-old uh way to do business and it's been done for all the time right like you've got Capital you've got people actively participating and all is good but just like anything else you know us entrepreneurs we like to go around the edges and try to pick and choose like oh well can we do this or can we do this let's push the limits and unfortunately the market kind of changed into this this um this thing where we push the limits too far and we've had 10 15 20 CPS in an active deal where you know really all they're doing is Raising Capital right like we might try to say on paper that this person's doing that and this person's doing investor relations and this person's doing a little bit of underwriting which all may be true true but at the end of the day if the SEC comes in and says let's take a look at your whole business plan plan with this particular asset in this particular offering and see how you raise capital and who's doing what and they're going to look under the hood and they're going to be able to figure it out they're they're smart people back there they can figure out what you're doing they can figure out that hey this person raised uh $200,000 and got 2% and this person raised $600,000 and got 6% it's pretty easy to put those pieces together um but like I had mentioned before the market you know kind of went our Direction and there were really happy investors nobody was upset nobody was suing nobody was asking questions and now since the market has changed you've seen the capital calls you've seen the foreclosures you've seen the investors upset um and now that's what Travis was alluding to earlier is there were certain folks in the industry that were um you know getting interviewed by the SEC I don't think anything ever came of it but it was enough for people to be like look we've still got to raise Capital we've still got to do these deals somehow what other way is there to do it that's more compliant than this cgp model that the industry has turned to and the answer is fun to funds and it's always been fun to funds you know there's people out there that have preached that for years but it's just a little bit you know more nuanced a little bit more complicated a little bit more expensive so people have stayed away from it yeah so exactly and and thank you so much for painting such a Picasso beautiful picture here pertaining to the why before and why now and kind of the context there because I think so many people are missing that why y component so you beautifully explained that so but then why is the fun of fund the route to do it in because it's pretty similar right and fun of funds to your point have actually been around for really not going to say forever but for a long period of time so just curious to know you know why fun of fun is this the solution from a client's perspective and and things of that nature yeah and we can and Travis jump in here whenever you want but we can kind of go through um with each stakeholder why why it's compliant why they love funded funds maybe why they don't you know let's talk about the pluses and the minuses um I think we can start with the lead sponsor I mean for the lead sponsor um to me there's there's really no downside and I'd love for somebody to may maybe making a counterargument to that but to me there there's no downside for the lead sponsor themselves right the people that are actually operating buying executing the business plan by them creating a level of Separation through the fund to funds model and not uh inviting other folks into their deal to raise Capital they're creating they're creating uh risk mitigation and dissipating liability for themselves right and they don't have to worry about bringing people into their business because it's a totally separate offering that the fund manager is going to be putting out there separate from the actual lead sponsors right and and uh another reason why the lead sponsors love it other than it's compliant creates that separation is it's way more uh efficient way more efficient when you're working with a capital partner and they're the ones that are pulling the fund to fund they might be bringing in five 10 15 20 investors into their fund to fund well uh they can coordinate that from a sales perspective and then also on the ongoing Administration right it's one line on their uh on their cap table right so instead of getting 15 smaller checks you're getting you're getting one big check and it's just way more efficient and way more safer is is Seth said too yeah and your your listeners are are very educated but just in case there a few out there that are wondering I mean the the fund of fund itself is just an LLC it's just a a group of investors it's a you know somebody managing that which is the fund manager and that LLC or that partnership however you want to structure it legally is actually just a passive investor for the lead sponsor it's just going to be a big aggregated passive investor for the lead sponsor so I just wanted to clarify that yeah and then let's talk about from so and there's also been some Evolution I hit on that word to start the conversation but before we were partnering or triest was partnering with this a couple handful of lead sponsors but there's been some Evolution so can we talk about how you guys have maybe handpicked and cherry-picked some of the top you know first and- class sponsors and how it worked kind of before and now the new product lines rolling out and how you know why fund managers are loving it and should even love it more moving forward absolutely yeah great great question and great points here so you know as you mentioned Craig when we were initially rolling this out uh it made sense for us to to cherry pick and go work with uh the lead sponsors with the best track record the best reputation and we're proud to say that you know Lone Star is one of our earliest lead sponsor partners and um and then since then uh really we had almost a requirement where you had to go through one of our our lead sponsor partners and there's good reason for it we'll we'll come back to that in a second but since if you're lead sponsor and looking to do this on different deals I'm sorry if you're a fund manager and looking to do a fun to fun on different deals working with different lead sponsors you can absolutely work with tribe best so and you think about the benefits of that right what you're what you're able to do is you can control your own brand right you you get to build your own um your your company you're building a business one deal at a time and from your Investor's perspective instead of them going to one investor portal and then you know going to another deal that has another investor uh portal they can actually all come to one portal uh as you're using tribe vest so um I want to again just point out that fund managers can now uh absolutely work directly with us they don't need a lead sponsor now I will tell you this think about the benefits though you do get when we are partnered with the lead sponsor and lonar is a perfect example of that right lonar has done the work to say look if you're a capital raiser you get these marketing resources right you get we we'll we'll put together a you know a deck that you can configure um we've thought through all the economic for you so if you're wondering how to communicate the terms and the returns you know lone Stars gone as far as adding it to their their underwriting spreadsheet so you can play with the numbers calculate it and that's a huge deal right and so all these things that a a lead sponsor partner of ours like lonar does just makes it so so much more seamless when we do engage with the funder manager right we don't have to go back and kind of figure out well what are the economics and and how are you you know doing uh you know commitments from your investors all those types of things so fund manager can absolutely come and work directly with us it's still way more smooth because we already have the offering docks ready we already have the calculator ready we already have marketing materials right all those things are reasons why by working with one of our lead sponsor Partners just makes the experience that much better for you and your investors yeah and just a little back and for a lot of people who may not be privy to this but if you are a capital allocator specifically that we're talking about in this situation who is looking to work with the loans or capital or a group similar to us your other sponsors there's just some groups that are just not really built or have the infrastructure in place to really streamline the funto fund process I.E and the underwriting model IE it already been kind of baked in there we've done this before some groups are kind of in Old way of doing things maybe they only do a couple deals a year that's totally fine I'm not saying that's a bad thing but they might have to create a funto fund breakdown economics setup for the double waterfall there where everyone gets paid out the investors get their returns that should be you know similar to what our investors get and then the fund manager needs to figure out his compensation for his basically part in the opportunity so we have that baked in and we've done this now enough times to know how this is going to look and actually as a matter of fact to go through that process even one step further before we even go to public or live with the opportunity to even start the capital raising those numbers are ironed out those numbers are in place you know what's going on it's not a scramble drill amongst everything else to get your partners going so on and so forth when you do partner and work with us which is a key benefit to do and solve for one of the most important uh places in the capital raising you know equation which is speed and time so we kind of shrink that time Gap versus other groups when do that or the other people that you work with which is highly crucial there are a lot more groups now that are tailored to the fund of fund but not every group is um so that's the exciting thing and then going back to now being partnered with a fund manager at at the fund manager level as much that's amazing for a multitude of things number one if you're a capital allocator fund manager we don't see who your investors are because as Travis alluded to it's one check going into our opportunity so you get the shield and Sheltering in that perspective in that equation there so that's number one number two is we're not going to create the other big problem in the business I would say which is Portal fatigue so it's not a big issue it's not the endl be all but you know if you're let's say a alt uh a big alternative investor guy right guy or gal person what's GNA end up happening let's say if you've got five to 10 sponsors you're probably going to have you know a bunch of different portals to go into but if you work with a couple of capital raisers who only use triest as your back office well that's immensely beneficial because you can just keep your accounts there so I just want to really highlight those two things and if you want to expand on that further please feel free to do so yeah I mean I'll jump in for sure I mean you know I've got to mention again compliance right like think about you know the fun to fun model where the fund manager is going to create their own business they're going to create their own entity that they're going to manage um that going to administrate and they're going to operate so by doing so yes there are more responsibilities you are running your own business you are taking accountability for you and your investors and your business but uh on the flip side of that is hey the old CP model you're getting into bed with all these other CPS that you don't even know I mean you may they may be an acquaintance off of social media or you might not even know who they are at all let alone the lead sponsor so if one of those folks does something wrong you guys are all in the same boat like you're not just taking care of yourself but you've got to worry about all the other people that you're in business with and if they do something wrong they're going to put your investment and your past investors um in a bad situation and let's get to the next idea which is some of the problems that some people have experienced with a fun of fund that I think you guys are really really Cutting Edge on to solve for them so let's just talk about maybe a couple of the problems which I think is you know the expense I think there's a lot of misnomers about how expensive it can be um and also what you kind of solve for it how you bundle and Pat package it together because if you're the typical person that's going to be very expensive but that's why we love you guys uh the administration burden and then also time so let's T let's just kind of break down those problems there how you see fit accordingly and uh we'll let you take it away again SE I'll let you jump in because you were saying you were just at a conference in uh think that uh maybe rais Masters conference in in San Diego and you the conversations you were having with fund managers once they kind of fully understood what we did and how we did it it really kind of uh popped for them so anyway I thought since that was fresh i' I'd ask you to to talk about it yeah I think people that have any kind of experience uh raising Capital under when they hear about all the things that we do and for the amount of money that we do it for they are absolutely blown away I think the problem that comes up is that it's a misunderstanding of what we do and what we are so a lot of folks that don't understand will put us in a category of just being an investor portal they'll be like hey triest is like cash flow portal or like syndication Pro or invest next or one of those and they just kind of lump Us in with them and we're like that's the smallest thing that we do the smallest thing that we do is the investor portal that's that's one of the services that we provide but we provide everything Soup To Nuts I mean from start to finish I mean it includes everything that you could possibly imagine I mean from getting your EI and letter to setting up your LLC to opening your business banking account to doing your legal documents and setting those up for signatures for your investors and actually onboarding your investors or hurting the cats I was going to say you actually get a account manager to help you on board your investors professionally and uh yeah you mentioned hurting cats that's maybe one of the things that we're the best in the world at is helping hurt cats yeah I think that's something definitely gets so much fun Craig knows about it all too well yeah lot a lot of work lot of uh reaching out to investors lot of questions on hey where how how do we fill out these form fields on these subscription documents right like where do we sign how do we fill this out what does this mean those things those they they take time they take effort um it's an administrative burden for you and your company and we take that off your hands and then we also Badger the passive investors till they actually send the wire right like a lot of times they get cold feet and you know we prompt them to to send the wire and actually finish their investment all the things that investor relations manager might do we handle that now there's there's some teamwork involved as well because they're your passive investors but um you know we do the heavy lifting on on that side and then even on the back end we are managing your cap table so we're setting that up for you on our dashboard and actually making distributions to your passive investors now you can log on to your dashboard if you want to and send them out manually when you want how you want and what amounts but if you want us to just take those over pursuant to the terms of your offering documents we'll handle that as well it's amazing and and the and the taxes yeah I think Craig tax can't forget the taxes yeah the taxes k1s again one K1 comes in from Lone Star uh we we of course at our core the banking and the cap table so we have the ownership percentage makes it easy for us to and our CPAs to create that K1 for each one of the members we distribute it they find it right in their uh document Management on their dashboard and uh literally two days after After we receive the K1 your investors have the K1 so think about that and I know everybody's going through tax season here yesterday was kind of a a big day uh but it it's um it's a it's amazing that it really speaks to the technology that we have that we can receive the K1 on behalf of the the deal and then create those k1s in two days and distribute them to to the members I was just going to make one last Point Craig you know I think if you think about what we do if you think about an Institutional level group or fund so I think the way fund managers can think about what we do is we really bring this institutional level uh setup legal Administration so think about a family office all the organization all the administration everything they need to have in place to operate well we bring that down to the individual level so you can have that institutional level Administration and setup as a you know a oneman business and therefore you can you can really build a business and a brand here's the thing one deal at a time you don't have to go invest tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars you can do this one deal at a time because try best is in the business of of helping you uh launch a capital raising business efficiently amazing so let's get into the next two components which is expense and time so let's talk about time and then we'll bring it home for the the of course the the elephant in the room which is what is this going to cost me so let's get into the time factor and how long it takes to set everything up from Soup To Nuts from Hey I want to work with the deal to you know funding and things of that nature Seth you want yeah yeah I'll jump in um timing wise you know we are industry leading in that in that as soon as you give us the basic information that you that we need for your fund of fund so you know just simple stuff like what do you want to call your LLC what do you want your preferred return to be what do you want your profit split to be those those things that you're going to make some decisions on as soon as you get those items to us which is in a simple form that we provide that you fill out and we walk you through that as well we can have your business banking account and your LLC set up in two days and we'll have you ready to raise Capital meaning we're going to have your legal setup we're gonna have your business bank account open all those things done within five business days so that's why you know it's we should emphasize what Travis said there that it's a deal based decision I mean you can come to us with a deal that's already that's already under contract that that maybe the lead sponsor is already raising for and say hey look I want to raise for this deal but I've only got a few weeks to go that that's plenty of time for us to to jump into action so it's really tough to do that with let's say you know if you came to me and I have my security attorney hat on i' would be like there's there's no way we we've got to get this going weeks before that like you've got to give us some setup time um with triest we've we've got it streamlined and efficient to the point where five business days you're raising Capital that's incredible and that's just really a big X Factor that should make everyone feel comfortable with the process because you know there's situations just like go out a sponsor level here where hey a capital raiser might have not been able to get an allocation to deal because of the commitments were there and guess what someone Falls up short well now as you know as a sponsor whatever dollar is not coming in you got to make up for that so it's kind of a a moving moving Target a kind of moving goal post in many respects so it's very nice that five days you're in you're out you're ready to go to the next that is awesome and then the next thought I have there is a capital allocator maybe you were late you're on vacation and there's this great deal that maybe your inbox is flooded and then one they you know peaked your interest and you could get the space into it well hey the deal could be live but you could have a five-day window to get your turntable going to raise Capital safely and compliantly um in within this structure and infrastructure yeah great great points again I'll just come back to the benefits of working with some of our our lead sponsor partners like Lone Star so you heard Seth say hey as soon as you have all these things in order and you push the tri the tribit button we spring into action and you're ready to go right well you do need to have certain things figured out before you hit that tribit button and again the nice thing of working with a a group like lonar amongst many other reasons is they have really ironed out the program the fun to fun program so if you're coming through them you already have those things figured out you hand them we get handed off or you get handed off to us and we're you're pushing that button and in five days you're ready to do onboard investors it's incredible that's amazing now the final thing what people have been waiting for what does this cost cuz you have to think for the amazing benefits and the amazing opportunity you get to raise in this time and environment this has to cost a fortune maybe there's a massive upfront cost you know I'm not going to get into names but some groups charge an arm and a leg to get things set up if you want to do the more Boutique bespoke route where you're doing everything yourself without a name brand in a sense of the the setup you've got to go through the painstaking process of finding a Seth and a Travis and a this and a that to get all your documents ready to go however it's pretty cost efficient and effective here so let's get into that I'll let Travis speak to our pricing at trivest but I do want to frame it with this when I worked in big law and you know massive Law Firm thousands of attorneys you would come to our law firm and want to put a fund of fund together or you know maybe even a more sophisticated fund but our prices started at $75,000 I think a lot of people out there in the industry are used to seeing kind of oh yeah maybe it costs like $115,000 maybe it cost $12,000 $225,000 on the top end when you get into the big leagues $75,000 to start and that's just your first drafts of your offering documents and then maybe one round of revisions and then we start charging you $1,000 doll plus an hour um to get across the finish line and that is just the legal by itself and guess what you may get there and then some could change a Nuance could happen and guess what you got to start it all over again and make further res revisions and have more billable hours to your incredible attorney like s uh these people make a lot of money okay so this is a incredible opportunity to be in a very nice spot here where it might be cheaper and to your point there about that dollar fee I'm hearing 25 Grand from certain Services I'm hearing 75k 50k to make it do it yourself and for some people that's great that's fine that fits into their budget but for I would say the most people that are doing this that probably makes it to a point where you're paying to raise capital and that's what we're looking to avoid and solve with try this so with that said Travis lead us away absolutely no what a great discussion and I teased Seth all all the time about his his industry it is it is it's the establishment right so we're disrupting The Establishment no doubt about it and uh so we just talked about what it would cost kind of going the more traditional routes well we're able to do everything that we just shared with you the setup the legal offering do uh the banking the uh helping of the onboarding setting up the cap table you know doing the servicing of the filing for you all that for $5,000 so literally say that one more time please $5,000 yes only $5,000 and here's the other thing right when we talk about having the economics of the fun to fund set up and again getting back to the benefits of working with loone star is they've they've figured out the terms and uh even added in all the expenses of tribe vest right so that $5,000 is actually included in those in the economics so it's you don't have to kind of add on additional uh cost it's all in there right and and you can do that with tri best because it's contained there's there's no creep of cost right and and I think it's also important to call out how we're able to do this is we have made a very firm box of what we're doing of course we've we've tailored it to these deals like to these deals so everything's in there that you need including the compliance includ you know everything we just talked about um but that's how we're able to do that this at scale and TurnKey and done for for you so it's $5,000 to set up now we could also talk about what's it cost to administer this over five five years six years right most of these business plans are five years before they're exiting you know working with an administrator an Administration uh you know administrator you're talking about $155,000 a year well with tri best it's $2,000 a year remember we're doing all your uh distributions for you your cap table management that includes your k1s your taxes so you know anybody that's done this before they're like it's more than $2,000 just to do the taxes every year right never mind you get the portal your investors have a a dashboard to see all their Investments and and set up their payout accounts and they get to see when their distributions are how many distributions they've had that's all there and and the distribution so anyway it's you know I think about we we mentioned right right place right time Craig and we've talked about all those things that kind of lined up for us but the industry has been trying to figure this out and we just like to think that we're a small part of it we're that technology that kind of was the major unlock that kind of opened up the floodgates if you will and um and now our job is to go out there and tell people that this exists like this tool in technology is available for you and you should build a business on it yeah I want to make some other kind of comments and points there so you hear right there so just to summarize that it's $5,000 takes five days and it's you know roughly $2,000 maybe a little bit more depending on the number of investors you have in the opportunity but all that's fine and dandy but if the product wasn't good that is where the problem is and it's sucks and I mean it sucks to spend money for something to not work well and people's experience that we've worked with have really liked the infrastructure of the product what it solves for because I think I'm someone personally that I am not afraid to spend a dollar I'm very good at spending money but I like to spend money in areas where it's actually worth the money and I've had very good reviews here from people who have of course used the product so I just want to share that right there and that's kind of been some of the burden with some of the other products out there as well you spend a lot of money for the technology to not be great I mean Travis has a background with tech so inherently having that there to have the infrastructure be supported by a good product is the difference between coming back and not coming back so I just want to tip the cap there to make it not only a good product but also have people come back to it but um it being cost efficient and effective as well and then the other time factor that I want to speak on is more from a sales perspective being someone that's been in sales by basically my entire career since I was 21 um almost a decade of sales in real estate specifically the last thing that I want to worry about and think about and do is uh had there be a burden of having you know to go through Administration stuff talking to an attorney doing this doing that doing everything that's not shaking hands and legitimately moving the conversation forward and funding dollars into the account and what tribe best solves for is a cost- effective route with good technology and done quickly where you don't have to think about any admin stuff I want to connect with people I want to talk with people I want to grow the relationships and raise the capital I do not want to deal with in the your view and the peripheral stuff and I'm sure you guys can appreciate that sentiment and also I've had people say similar things as well it means a ton to hear you say that of course that's we're building our business on fund managers coming back and building their business on our platform so um you know it's funny as as the founder and you know always improving and growing uh the the the the business and our solution We're Never Satisfied and um we always think we're disappointing in terms of the experience or and we can be doing this better and we can right and we will but when we get feedback and we we do net promoter scores and get the feedback back from the fund managers and we get you know seven plus you know would you recommend this to friends and family and would you come back and that's just a super high rating if anybody's familiar with it and um and we're we're we're proud of that but we are just getting started I mean we are just getting started so I think we nailed the fact that we bring a ton of value you know you're getting a good value uh but now we're going to really wow you and your investors that's our goal and uh we're going to keep pushing yeah so let's talk into maybe just the mission as the why you know why you guys are so passionate about this and want to create this product because you both are really smart guys you're very successful prior to this endeavor and Venture so you know why is this your mission and in your day to-day right now because you have the option of working so and doing really what you want to do so let's talk about that maybe man that's Travis that's you again buddy you're the you're the big picture guy bring it oh man no look I think Seth and I this is personal for both of us right um my brothers and I wanted to get into real estate we didn't come from a real estate family you didn't get it you know that education in in school and we did what you know we've been doing since the beginning which is you know you come together with your tribe when you need to figure something out and that's what we did and we we we started a a a tribe pulled our capital and started investing together and it changed our lives and it changed the trajectory of our of our family's Financial lives and um and that's why we're doing it um you know by doing this the fund managers right they're they're the they're the heroes in this movie the fund managers are the heroes in this movie that's how millions of investors are going to get access to these deals like the wealthy right we all know why we love real estate it it's it appreciates it cash flow there's tax advantages you you name it there's a reason why the wealthy invest in these private deals these private real estate deals well most people don't have access to it the conduit to getting into those deals are you are the fund managers are those Capital raisers we're just happy that we're providing a tool for them that makes it easy that makes it easy but as you can tell we're passionate about it Seth I mean he he was a capital Riser right Seth's done a lot he's an entrepreneur but he knows how hard it is to be a capital Riser and uh maybe you could talk a little bit about what what's motivating you s yeah I mean just quickly you know I took the the Bigger Pockets route so to speak you know read Rich Dad Poor Dad startlist to the Bigger Pockets podcast did a house hacked into a duplex and then started buying single family properties fixing flips and then started investing you're a grinder grinder just level by level by level right um started investing passively in deals when I became a little bit more sophisticated um and then I was like okay now what now I want to be on the active side and at that point I really wanted to switch over to not practicing law whatsoever I was like screw this I'm leaving Big law I'm not doing this anymore I'm only going to invest in real estate um but then kind of along the the Journey of becoming an active investor and a syndicator and capital Riser I realized that my highest and best use is actually still as a Securities attorney and I'm pretty good at it so I've kind of integrated that into my real estate business and and use that to um uh join join triest which is at the Forefront of I think perfect timing in this industry right like real estate and legal are two industries that just move extremely slow they're dinosaurs they don't want change and they're resistant to any kind of change right so we've got to as entrepreneurs even if we're fund managers or passive investors that are looking to um diversify our assets or lead sponsors we're the ones that have to propel this forward and say hey we've got technology now behind us we've got all these different tools and ways to do things we need to take advantage of that and at Tri bestest we're building that so like what we are today is going to be completely different than what we are in q1 2025 and Beyond we are we are constantly building taking in feedback from all of our stakeholders and and and looking to take over the market I love it well then let's just real quickly go back into this we've kind of touched on it but maybe just more specifically how you do work with everyone from lead sponsors fund managers and I know you're obviously always going to conferences and masterminds you're very accessible in many respects but let's just get into you know how you work with everyone once more just to maybe spoon feed everyone a little bit more information yeah absolutely so the lead sponsor uh we help them form their funto fun program right and that's a huge Advantage for them uh that they can offer a turnkey funto fund program to their Capital Partners their their Capital raisers their fund managers and we'll we'll actually sit down and talk about all the things that you need to do for that to be successful you know how are you going to work with the fund manager um economics we talked about that you got to build in the fun to fun economics into your underwriting you know uh how are you how are you going to give them access to the marketing tools those types of things and really the the blueprint is is um you know is Lone Star so lone Stars uh leading the way as they do in most things out there and have built just an awesome fun to fun program and that's why so many fun to fun managers are working with them but um you know that's how we work with the the uh the lead sponsors and we talked about all the benefits of that cool and then go ahead Seth on the are any questions there Craig no I think that that was really well said um kind of building out the blueprint that many people don't have and just how it works and pertains to us if you are a capital allocator you kind of have understanding of the deal functions and then there's a additional level there of of underwriting materials so you can raise Capital so you understand the ever important what's in it for me conversation you can assess your opportunity cost between us and other sponsor if you're looking at other deals and whatnot I'll tell you this right now I'll say it again and again again we under promise and overd deliver that's kind of the the Mantra that we try to have here like everything we're probably never going to show you the highest Returns on projections um we like to beat our deals up as much as possible prior to going live because it doesn't serve us nor you the investors to see what the best case scenario is um we try to make it as modest as possible with our assumptions so you know we have our infrastructure for what the deal looks like from an underwriting perspective what your theoretical compensation could look like so these are things are just very important to think about uh we want basically everyone to be at parody what do I mean by that well if you're a capital raiser looking to raise for our deals we want your investor returns and our investor returns to look very similar they're going to vary ever so slightly because there's a slight drag you know for the fees Associated to the deal what do I mean by that well there's the administration fees that could be about $2,000 so sometimes that by comes by way of affecting the cash on cash return minuscule from a couple you know basis points I would say roughly about the what looks like but you'll make it on the back end for the lift and raise of the deal there when the deal goes to sell so it's never going to be 100% similar because there are some you know technical nuances there but it is to be fair to everyone there and then you'll be getting you know a nice return on the deal that you raise for as well should there be profit split um above the preferred return so I just think that's a really important thing to hit on as to how that fundamentally works now let's get into Seth with you over there on fund managers yeah fund managers we kind of touched on it already but you know we' we've changed our business so we're ready to work with fund managers directly um you know you can reach out to us and have an exploratory call if you want but really when you have a deal or you have a lead sponsor that you're ready to to work with that's really when we can spring into action um make that introduction reach out to us make the introduction to the lead sponsor we can start going to work and again we can have you uh once we have the the information and and the things that we need from all the stakeholders we can have you up and running in five days and you know I'll just go ahead and talk about the passive investors too because they are really important maybe the most important I know a lot of those folks are are listening right now and just know that that's on our that's always on our road map to make the passive investors happy to make that user experience awesome and streamlined and um you know just just an awesome experience for that passive investor because ultimately that's who we're serving we're trying to reach the passive investors let them get their money moving and so they can uh create multiple streams of income and we want to make that experience awesome for them because if they're happy then the fund managers are happy and the lead sponsors are happy too yeah there's two things that this show is about it's about the for this particular episode two things it is the fund manager to be safely raising money in an everchanging business business and it is all about at the end of the day the investor the investor is the straw that stirs the drink they are the king of the beach so to speak they're the ones that this is all about for us to be able to give people who may not know that they can invest in those beautiful commercial real estate buildings that we drive by all the time you know it's sad to think that you know that's not in the hands of Main Street so to speak you know a $50,000 investment gives you access uh to that product type now I'm not saying that's where every dollar should be you should have money probably in the stock market maybe you should have some money in your primary residence maybe you don't believe that mattra but you should have also some money in these institutional grade ACC or assets and that's what we're delivering here and it's so fun to be in a conversation with you both because you guys really are creating and are the future so it's cool to be in in the moment to be having the conversation now but to be also progressing accordingly with with you all moving forward we just appreciate the partnership there's a reason why when we were cherry picking our initial lead sponsors that we we started to work with lonar and uh just you know couldn't couldn't tell you couldn't tell you how much we appreciate uh this partnership and and like you looking forward to what's to come in the future here yeah well with that said we could talk forever but we got to wrap it up at some point so let's do that now Travis and sth thank you so much for giving us so much of your time here being generous how can people reach out with you want to learn more with maybe partnering at a sponsor level investor level and or a uh fund manager level absolutely LinkedIn is always the best place to kind of find me and follow me let me know you you heard me on this show I'd love to connect with you and uh and then you can email me and we'll also have a link on the show notes Here If that's uh if that's uh okay yeah of course you can check out trib vest.com obviously and then for me you can find me all over any social media platform so feel free to reach out excellent well gentlemen thank you so much for your time today for those listening I hope you enjoyed this informative conversation about how the industry is moving and grooving and Ever Changing uh so we'll see you next week everyone have a great rest of your day peace Links from the Show and Guest Info and Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVgT4GMrPPI&t=70s https://www.structuringandraising.com https://www.lscre.com/content/passive… https://www.lscre.com/resource/underw Seth Bradley's Links: https://x.com/sethbradleyesq 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Feeling stuck investing only where you live? Many believe local real estate is their only option but what if you could build wealth from anywhere?On this episode of the Not Your Average Investor Show, we're joined by Michael Santorios, a highly mobile JWB client who retired at 53 after building a long-distance rental portfolio that gave him freedom and peace of mind.Join JWB Co-Founder, Gregg Cohen, and Show Host, Pablo Gonzalez, as they talk with Michael about:- Overcoming the “time crunch” of hands-on, local investments- Leveraging a 1031 exchange to build a remote portfolio in Jacksonville- Achieving stress-free passive income and a truly mobile lifestyle through JWB's turnkey model- Gregg's insights on “time ownership” and how Michael's portfolio gained in appreciationThis is a powerful conversation for anyone looking to break free from traditional real estate constraints and embrace a truly location-independent investing strategy.Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Welcome02:19 Michael Santorios' Real Estate Journey Begins03:42 Gregg's Similar Start in Real Estate04:41 Challenges and Realizations in Property Management05:03 Transition to High Tech and Expanding Portfolio07:15 Meeting Gregg and Formulating a Plan12:42 Achieving Financial Freedom22:59 The Importance of Team and Market Selection29:29 Advanced Real Estate Strategies and Tax Benefits31:04 Promoting the Jacksonville Real Estate Market Report32:13 Introduction to Jacksonville Real Estate Report34:11 The Importance of Local Focus in Real Estate35:16 Michael's Referral Success Story36:02 Understanding Investment Portfolios and End Games37:45 The Benefits of Real Estate Over Stocks41:44 Michael's Real Estate Portfolio Breakdown44:02 Tax Strategies and 1031 Exchanges48:03 Michael's Retirement and Cash Flow Strategy57:44 Final Thoughts and Community EngagementStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
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Send us a textIn this conversation, Bob Sorrentino interviews Nick Cimino, who shares his journey of exploring his Italian roots and family history. Nick discusses his family's migration from Sicily to the United States, the challenges of finding Italian products in Texas, and his passion for ancestry research. He recounts his experiences visiting Sicily, connecting with relatives, and helping others with their genealogy. The conversation highlights the importance of cultural connections and the joy of discovering family heritage.For more information, check out Nick's website Ancestor Puzzles and Facebook group Ancestor PuzzlesNick's grandfather was born in Lentini, Sicily.The family migrated to Omaha due to labor demand.Chain migration played a significant role in their settlement.Nick's interest in ancestry began with a family tree project.He organized Zoom meetings during the pandemic for genealogy.Nick visited Sicily in 2022 and connected with relatives.He helps others with their ancestry research through Ancestor Puzzles.Cultural connections are vital in understanding family history.Nick's wife has Native American roots and a rich family history.The conversation emphasizes the joy of discovering one's heritage.Turnkey. The only thing you'll lift are your spirits.Italian Marketplace LLCOnline tee shirts, hoodies and more for ItaliansDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showPurchase my book "Farmers and Nobles" here or at Amazon.
Think today's mortgage rates are stopping you from getting rich with rental properties? Think again. Today's guest built an 11-unit rental portfolio—starting in 2022, with high interest rates—and is cash flowing on each property. In fact, he's making more cash flow than most investors we know, even with still sky-high rates. How's he doing it with such little money down? No creative finance, no expert skills—Justin Albrecht is just following a simple, repeatable rental formula. After moving back in with his mom, Justin was getting the itch to find his own place. The problem? This was 2022, where single-family homes for sale were rife with bidding wars. What about small multifamily properties, like a duplex, triplex, or quadplex? That seemed to be the sweet spot. With zero experience in property management or landlording, Justin took the plunge. Fast forward three years, Justin now owns four properties totaling 11 rental units, and just quit his W2 job to focus his full-time efforts on his rentals. He did it all without putting a ton of money down and dealing with 7% interest rates on most of his properties. Still, he's making sizable cash flow, impressive return on equity numbers, and living for free. Today, he's breaking down his blueprint. In This Episode We Cover The small multifamily rentals that average investors can use to build massive wealth How to unlock monthly cash flow even with interest rates at 7% (or higher!) Getting into your first real estate deal with just 3.5% down Does the 1% rule still exist in the 2020s? Yes! Here's how Justin is finding these deals “Turnkey” rentals that are move-in ready but still produce serious cash flow And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on BiggerPockets.com and https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-1159 Interested in learning more about today's sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email advertise@biggerpockets.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the Fed's latest decision to hold rates, one thing became clear- tariffs are already affecting the real estate market.This week on Not Your Average Insights, JWB Co-Founder Gregg Cohen and host Pablo Gonzalez break down the role tariffs play in the Fed's decision, and other headlines to consider.We'll talk about:• Why the Fed's pause on rate hikes is tied to tariffs• What Florida's governor is proposing that has everyone looking at Florida real estate• Where the “10 Slowest Housing Markets” were reported to be, and which ones we agree with• and more!Listen NOW!Chapters:00:00 Introduction to Not Your Average Insights01:24 Welcome Back to the Show04:13 Discussion on Fed's Interest Rate Decision06:05 Impact of Tariffs on Housing Market13:05 Jobs Report and Fed's Future Decisions19:34 Ron DeSantis' Proposal to Eliminate Property Taxes25:06 Debating Property Tax Elimination25:44 Governor's Perspective on Government Spending26:19 Impact of Sales Tax on Different Income Groups26:54 Feasibility of Sales Tax Increase28:57 Potential Property Tax Rebate29:14 Revisions to Government Job Numbers32:52 Interest Rates and Mortgage Market36:59 JWB Cares Fundraising Update38:25 Analyzing Housing Market Data42:54 Long-Term Investment Strategies49:40 Conclusion and Upcoming EventsStay connected to us! Join our real estate investor community LIVE: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/nyai/Schedule a Turnkey strategy call: https://jwbrealestatecapital.com/turnkey/ *Get social with us:*Subscribe to our channel @notyouraverageinvestor Subscribe to @JWBRealEstateCompanies
Click Here for the Show Notes In this solo episode, Melissa breaks down everything you need to know about turnkey real estate investing, defining it through her proven "3 P's" framework: Property, People, and Process. She answers the most common questions investors have, from how turnkey investing actually works and which markets to target, to financing options and the real pros and cons of this investment strategy. Melissa explains her four non-negotiable market criteria, breaks down the difference between cash flow, growth, and hybrid markets, and walks listeners through the entire buying process from start to finish. Whether you're frustrated with your local market's lack of cash flow or looking to build passive income through out-of-state rental properties, this episode provides a comprehensive roadmap for getting started with turnkey investing while avoiding common pitfalls.
Scott Sutter, the newest member of the Turnkey Podcast team, is bringing digital marketing to the toolkit of our agency.Scott comes from the world of performance content marketing, focusing on the data and insights we can pull from each episode to learn how to grow and expand the reach of what a podcast can do for a business.Having spent close to 10 years focused on digital sales and marketing, Scott's addition to our team is helping us level up our own reach, as well as the reach of our clients.Connect with Scott Sutter:Website: https://www.creatingapodcast.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-sutter-04914993/ TurnKey Podcast Productions Important Links:Guest to Gold Video Series: www.TurnkeyPodcast.com/gold The Ultimate Podcast Launch Formula- www.TurnkeyPodcast.com/UPLFplusFREE workshop on how to "Be A Great Guest."Free E-Book 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting at www.Turnkeypodcast.com/gift Ready to earn 6-figures with your podcast? See if you've got what it takes at TurnkeyPodcast.com/quizSales Training for Podcasters: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sales-training-for-podcasters/id1540644376Nice Guys on Business: http://www.niceguysonbusiness.com/subscribe/The Turnkey Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turnkey-podcast/id1485077152
This week on the Hosting Hotline, Lori from Fort Wayne, Indiana calls in with a big-picture question: how do you prepare your short-term rental (STR) for sale—and is it possible to sell it as a functioning business, not just a piece of real estate?In this episode, Sarah and Annette walk through everything you need to know before listing your STR, including how appraisers and lenders view short-term rentals, why finding the right realtor is essential, and how to identify—and package—your property's intangible value. They also share strategies for maximizing your sale price by building out a direct booking system, collecting guest emails, and keeping historical data.Whether you're thinking about an exit strategy or just want to better understand your business's future value, this episode is packed with insight.In this episode, we cover:Why STRs are typically valued as residential properties, not businessesHow to find a short-term rental-friendly realtorWhat makes your listing more appealing to investor buyersThe value of email lists, websites, and direct bookings in a saleCreative ways to structure a win-win sale (including co-hosting transitions)Why historical performance data adds credibilityTips for networking your way to a buyer Resources Mentioned:StayFi – StayFi helps you collect guest emails for future marketing and direct bookings. Google Vacation Rentals – A powerful way to generate direct bookings outside Airbnb. Hosting Business Mastery – Learn how to run your STR like a business with Thanks for Visiting's exclusive program.
