The Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Show

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Sponsored by UpsidePropertySales.com ”Real Stories, Real Success in Twin Cities Real Estate.” Join your hosts, Adam Tafel and Tim Swierczek, as they dive into the world of Twin Cities real estate investing. Together, they share valuable insights and practical tips to help both new and seasoned investors navigate the Minneapolis/St Paul market. With a focus on relatable stories from real people, this show will empower you with the knowledge and confidence to thrive in your investing journey.

  1. 3d ago

    #84 - From Life Insurance Sales to 27 Flips Per Year - Ashley Bachelor

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Ashley Bachelor from Fix and Flip MN. Ashley shares how she got her start in real estate after years of helping family members with home renovations before beginning a career in the life insurance industry. Her path changed when she was introduced to Glenn Williams, who was running a house flipping business and needed an operations manager. Ashley immediately attended a real estate investing boot camp, came back with a plan to get organized, and was quickly thrown into the business. Over the last 6.5 years, Ashley and Glenn have grown their team into one of the most active flipping operations in the Twin Cities, completing roughly 24 house flips per year. We discuss how they built systems and processes to scale the business, lessons learned from hundreds of renovation projects, and their newest venture helping other investors successfully manage renovation projects and house flips. Whether you're interested in your first flip or looking to grow an existing operation, Ashley shares practical insights from her experience building a high-volume real estate investing business. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

    1h 46m

  2. Jun 1

    #83 - Why This Summer Matters for Assisted Living Operators w/ Zach Rynders

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Zach Rynders, co-owner of R2 Studios Architecture, where he and his wife specialize in one of the most technical niches in real estate development: residential assisted living projects. Zach is one of the most knowledgeable people in the Twin Cities when it comes to the code, licensing requirements, and the maze of agencies involved in getting these projects approved. We talk through what it actually takes to bring one of these properties to life—from navigating state licensing and building code requirements to understanding which departments and decision-makers need to sign off before a project can open its doors. Zach also gets into the numbers behind assisted living operations, including what makes deals pencil, common mistakes operators make, pitfalls to avoid before buying or converting a property, and a few real-world stories from projects that went exceptionally well—and a few that didn’t. In the outro, Adam shares a quick update on Twin Cities inventory, what he’s seeing in today’s market, and breaks down a house he recently got under contract.   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

    1h 14m

  3. May 25

    #82 - Tim Unf*cks His Life - Listener Q&A

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out Shuk Rentals or booking a live demo in the show notes. Book a Shuk Demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Need help with property management in the Twin Cities? Check out RPM Viking Property Management — offering a $300 maintenance credit to podcast subscribers. RPMViking.com We recommend Network Title for investor-friendly service and smooth closings across the Twin Cities. Network-Title.com 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: twincitiesrealestateinvesting.com/schedule In this Adam & Tim episode, Tim breaks down the very real process of “unf*cking” his financial life after getting deeply entangled in multiple deals with a contractor partner. What started as a creative financing arrangement — including a CD-backed down payment agreement that never materialized — spiraled into a chain reaction of stress, surprise tax bills, forced property sales, and difficult decisions. Tim walks through the lessons learned from overleveraging partnerships, trying to “fix” one deal with another, and the emotional toll that comes with complicated financial entanglements. Adam and Tim also dive into broader conversations around leverage, HELOCs, paying cash versus using debt strategically, and some of the “velocity banking” concepts investors hear thrown around online. They answer a few listener questions and have an honest conversation about risk, liquidity, and why having access to cash often matters more than simply owning properties free and clear.

    1h 16m

  4. May 18

    #81 - How Kaylee Thomsen Navigated Househacks, Mindset, and Personal Finance

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Need property management help? Check out RPMViking.com — a local property management company serving Twin Cities investors. Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up for management services. Looking for an investor-friendly title company? We recommend Network Title. Learn more at Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Kaylee Thomsen is a real estate investor based in Plymouth, Minnesota, who has built a portfolio of mostly small multifamily properties alongside her husband, Dumi — a past guest on the show. Together, they’ve house hacked multiple times with their family while growing a mix of long-term, medium-term, and short-term rentals. Over the years, real estate has given Kaylee firsthand experience balancing investing, marriage, family life, and the constant evolution that comes with building a portfolio. In this episode, Kaylee talks openly about the mindset shifts she’s experienced throughout her investing journey, the relationship and family dynamics that come with real estate ownership, and the emotional highs and lows that happen along the way. Her perspective is thoughtful, honest, and grounded in the reality that building wealth through real estate can be both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging.

    1h 44m

  5. May 11

    #80 - Serial Househacking to FHA 203k to Affordable Housing Pro - Evan Uribe

    Check out www.rpmviking.com for all your property management needs, the only management company endorsed by TCREI !    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Evan Uribe got his start in real estate investing around 2015 with a classic Minneapolis househack — and then just kept going. Over the years, Evan completed four more househacks, making him the unofficial king of househacking on the show. His most recent project was an FHA 203k renovation loan deal, where he learned firsthand just how powerful — and complicated — those programs can be. In this episode, Evan breaks down the lessons, mistakes, and unexpected challenges that came with using the FHA 203k program in a real-world project. A few years ago, Evan also stepped into the affordable housing world professionally, taking a job underwriting deals for a public housing fund. That experience gave him a crash course in affordable housing finance, including grants, tax credits, lending programs, layered financing structures, and the realities of how affordable housing projects actually get built. Evan brings a rare perspective because he’s lived on both sides — as a scrappy small investor building wealth one househack at a time, and as someone analyzing large-scale housing deals professionally. This episode is packed with practical insights for anyone interested in househacking, creative financing, or the affordable housing world. 🚨 If you enjoy the show, please share this episode with a friend, post it on social media, and leave us a review. It helps us grow the Twin Cities real estate investing community and continue bringing on great local guests.

    1h 40m

  6. May 4

    #79 - Tyler Joas on Building vs Buying a Small Business

    Hire a Property Manager with a 4.9 on Google from it's Tenants - Call the Leasing team at 612-416-7300 or email leasing@rpmviking.com.   At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out Shuk Rentals or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off.   🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Tyler Joas grew up working on job sites with his dad, a home builder, and always had an interest in construction. After graduating from the University of St. Thomas, he originally planned to go into development—but with COVID hitting during his senior year, the job market dried up fast. Instead, Tyler started a general contracting business from scratch, taking on small jobs with friends and hustling for work through forums and Facebook groups. His first deck project was such a frustrating experience that he told himself he’d never build another one. Fast forward to today, and Tyler is the founder of Northern Craft Building, a company on track to build around 200 decks this year alone. Even though Tyler isn’t a traditional real estate investor, this episode is packed with insight for Twin Cities investors—especially anyone renovating, managing contractors, or trying to scale projects. We get into what actually makes a contractor reliable (and what “cheap” really costs), how specialization leads to better outcomes and tighter execution, and how to think about construction through the lens of systems, margins, and repeatability. Tyler also shares how private equity is changing the trades, what they often get wrong operationally, and how he’s building his company with a clear exit strategy in mind—something every investor can learn from.

    1h 50m

  7. Apr 27

    #78 - The Economics of Co-Living Development with Alex Zikmund

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Alex Zikmund’s path into real estate started the way a lot of great investor stories do—by solving his own housing problem. After finishing undergrad, he bought a house for himself and his buddies to live in, and once those first rent checks started coming in, he was hooked. That early success led him to build a small portfolio of single-family rentals in his college town, learning the fundamentals of landlording and cash flow along the way. When Alex moved back to the Twin Cities, he set his sights on something bigger: development. He identified a lot in the West 7th neighborhood and took on his first ground-up project—one that came with major challenges and a steep learning curve. But by pushing through, he delivered a unique and forward-thinking concept: a co-living duplex with six individual suites per unit, each featuring private bathrooms and shared common spaces. The project was a success and became a launching point for Alex to deepen his expertise in affordable housing, including leveraging grants and tax credits to make deals work. Today, he’s actively working on another large-scale project in West 7th and is focused on scaling his development business to the next level.

    1h 53m

  8. Apr 20

    #77 - How Ozzy Zahran Scaled to Over 80 Units Before His 27th Birthday

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out Shuk Rentals or booking a live demo in the show notes. Tickets $25- Sign up here   🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Ozzy Zahran got his start while still in college at the University of Minnesota, grinding through a handful of low-cost wholesale deals before moving into heavier lifts with Category 2 renovations. His early momentum turned into a breakthrough when his first commercial deal on the east side of St. Paul appraised well above expectations, unlocking a line of credit that accelerated everything that followed. From there, Ozzy leaned into opportunity—acquiring discounted properties in North Minneapolis from a distressed investor, building out a portfolio that included sober housing and Section 8 rentals, and eventually scaling into larger multifamily with a 20-unit back on the east side. Today, at just 26 years old, he leads a team of 13 employees and manages a portfolio of over 80 units. Ozzy’s story is a case study in stacking small wins, staying aggressive when opportunity shows up, and using leverage the right way to build something meaningful, fast.

    2h 23m
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Sponsored by UpsidePropertySales.com ”Real Stories, Real Success in Twin Cities Real Estate.” Join your hosts, Adam Tafel and Tim Swierczek, as they dive into the world of Twin Cities real estate investing. Together, they share valuable insights and practical tips to help both new and seasoned investors navigate the Minneapolis/St Paul market. With a focus on relatable stories from real people, this show will empower you with the knowledge and confidence to thrive in your investing journey.

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