50 Shades of Wealth - Confessions of a Real Estate Investor Sara Jung

“Let’s say you had a $200,000 income and you had $100,000 of deductions, well, instead of paying taxes on $200,000, you’re now only paying taxes on $100,000. That creates a net, real cash value of how much you would have had to pay in taxes, and that's pretty significant. Again, over $500,000 is like ten x-ing your money!" - Yonah Weiss I’m joined this week by Yonah Weiss, a Business Director at Madison SPECS, a national real estate cost segregation leader. While at Madison, Yonah has a...

“You mean to tell me that if I invest in one offering, I'm diversified? And, on top of that, I'm only sitting down and looking at it one time? Alright, cool, let me see the newsletters and distributions after that because I'm pretty much sold on that aspect!" - John Fortes I’m joined this week by John Fortes, Managing Director of The Fortes Company, a multifamily private equity investment firm. Looking for a passive income while refereeing high-level NCAA basketball games led John to da...

“I wanted to build up enough cash flow to achieve financial freedom so that I could live life on my own terms. What that meant for me was, eventually getting to a point where I could replace my 'earned' income with 'passive' income, and the key to that, for me, was through cash-flow investment properties.” - Jacob AyersI’m joined this week by multifamily real estate investor, Jacob Ayers. After earning a degree in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering at Oklahoma State University...

“A self-directed IRA just means that it's a retirement account. It's a tax-deferred retirement account where you can control exactly what you want to invest in rather than being limited by a bank or a brokerage firm.” - Scott MaurerWe’re switching things up just a little bit this week and talking about one funding stream in particular for your real estate investments. My guest works with many of my current clients and helps them to better understand how a “self-directed IRA” can help th...

“He literally put his hand on my shoulder, and he's like, 'Brian, you don't need to be doing that...just find a partner and go big.' I'll use the seventh grade dance analogy, you now, your first dance in the seventh grade. There's a couple people in the middle dancing and everybody else is standing on the wall. That conversation basically took me from the wall to the dance floor.” - Brian BriscoeI’m joined this week by a dedicated Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel-turned-real estate inves...

“I went back to an old game we played and it's called Monopoly. And I realized you don't broker real estate in Monopoly, you buy the land; you build wealth.” - Chris SalernoI’m joined this week by a really impressive young investor, the Founder and CEO of QC Capital, LLC, out of Charlotte, North Carolina, Chris Salerno. By the time Chris was 24, he had successfully transacted more than $40 million in real estate volume and helped lead his team to produce more than $140 million in annual...