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. 1D AGO

    #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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. APR 13

    #76 - How Craig Schaefer Ditched the Corporate Ladder for PM Entrepreneurship

    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. visit https://www.minnesotahosts.org/ Membership discount 25% code: Craig25 🎙️ 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 Craig Schaefer is the owner of SkyRun Rentals and a founding member of the Minnesota Short-Term Rental Association. He spent years working as a medical device sales representative before leaving his corporate career behind to become a franchise owner, applying his background in sales, operations, and client service to the short-term rental space. Craig brings a systems-driven, professional approach to short-term rental management, focusing on consistency, scalability, and long-term performance for property owners. Through his work with SkyRun and his role in helping establish the Minnesota Short-Term Rental Association, he’s been actively involved in shaping industry standards, advocating for operators, and helping investors navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

    1h 34m

  7. APR 6

    #75 - The Top 10 Appreciating Cities in the Twin Cities (2026 Update)

    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 In this episode, Adam and Tim break down what’s actually happening in the Twin Cities real estate market right now. They dig into early 2026 trends, highlight the top-performing cities in the metro for appreciation, and explain where they’re seeing the most momentum—and where things may be softening. They also walk through some of their favorite deals from Q1 2026, sharing what made them work, what to watch for, and how investors can find similar opportunities. To wrap it up, they answer listener questions covering financing, strategy, and navigating today’s market—giving you practical takeaways you can actually use on your next deal.

    58 min

  8. MAR 30

    #74 - Building a 5-Star STR Business in Minneapolis w/ Jo Hanson

    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 Jo Hanson, founder of The Works BnB, got her start during the COVID-era travel shift by investing in Minnesota vacation rentals near ski resorts. As demand surged, her properties performed exceptionally well—allowing her to cash out near the top of the market and strategically redeploy that capital into short-term rentals across the Twin Cities. Jo approaches short-term rentals like a true operator, not a hobbyist. She explains that in order to compete in the Minneapolis STR market, you need to run your units like a real business—dialed-in systems, intentional design, and a genuine 5-star guest experience. In this episode, she shares what it takes to stand out, though we only begin to scratch the surface of the systems and scale behind her growing portfolio.

    1h 33m
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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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