Money Tree Real Estate Investor Podcast William Holland

"From Football Captain to an Industrial and Commercial Broker”

“If you have your goals and you set your intentions, you have positive affirmations and you have that vision for what you want to accomplish, then you can't let anything sidetrack you from the ultimate goal of doing what you set out to do.“

Nick DeGregorio is an amazing person. He is the Illinois Wesleyan football team captain, worked at Lincoln property companies, and is currently an industrial and commercial broker. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-degregorio-b54a21204/.

He is an Industrial Real Estate broker at Cushman and Wakefield, which is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. As a former college football player and team captain for Illinois Wesleyan, he is very competitive. This helps him understand the concept of winning at a high level and working well with clients. 

He is looking to help or connect with anyone that is in warehousing, manufacturing, E-commerce, or is an industrial broker.

In this episode we discuss:
✅ Football
✅ Having A Team
✅ Building Relationships
✅ Brokerage
✅ Mentorship
✅ Love For People


Great quotes from the episode include:

“Building relationships stems from having a plan and taking action on that plan every single day.”

"Every day is a new adventure. You gotta take it one day at a time, one day at a time, and know that success is not going to come overnight.”

“One of the biggest lessons that I seek to learn is from the mistakes of other people you know. If I can figure out the things that they did that they wish they would have changed, and then I can navigate around that without having to go through that mistake.”

“The sign of a good friendship is when both sides are willing to help, support, encourage and offer advice and stuff like that.”

“Don’t expect success to come overnight.”

“At the end of the day, you want to put your clients first and that's kind of day-to-day for me is doing whatever is asking me from my team and doing whatever's asking me of my clients and servicing them in any way possible.“

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“Financial security gave me one of the most important things that I have now, and it's my time, my time is something that I truly cherish. My time to focus on my mindset, my spirituality, my body, my health, my family, building my legacy and helping others.”


Victor Leite is an awesome guy. Victor Leite is one of the founders of Twenty-Five Eight Capital, a real estate investment company focusing on multifamily syndications. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicleite/.

He got his start in the Single Family space and developed a consistent real estate investment track record with over 200+ single-family BRRRR and fix & flips projects completed along with building a sizable single-family rental portfolio. He has successfully transitioned his skill set towards the multifamily space, acquiring and managing over $30 million dollars’ worth of multifamily assets as a General Partner and Operator.

Additionally, Victor attended the George Washington University School of Medicine and has been practicing clinicians for over 13 years. Through real estate, he has been able to generate enough passive income to leave his full-time W2 jobs in healthcare.

He now enjoys spending his past time raising his two kids in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and has a passion for helping other busy professionals attain the same level of freedom in their own lives.


In this episode we discuss:
✅ The BRRRR (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) Method
✅ Fix & Flip Model
✅ Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
✅ Quitting W2 Job
✅ Financial Freedom
✅ Massive Action Plan (MAP)
✅ Legacy Wealth


Great quotes from the episode include:

“You can go fast by yourself, but you can go really far as a team.”

“True growth and true change occur when you start giving up control.”

“We're not all perfect. We all have our saboteurs in us, and the goal is to just focus on quieting down those saboteurs, focusing their belief systems and creating a new and positive version of yourself.“

“I want to use my time, abilities and the resources I’m granted to help and share the love with other people.”

“Commit to the level of self and standard that you want to be in, and just take action with the deadline on it.”

“We're trying to focus on legacy wealth, building long term investing and building communities that are proud of the properties that they're living in.”


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“Do stuff an average person wouldn’t do.”


Vlad Arakcheyev is an inspiring guy. He is an active investor, co-sponsor and JV partner in 60+ multifamily units and land development amounting to a multimillion-dollar portfolio. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladarakcheyev/

After taking on many challenges in entrepreneurship and failed attempts, Vlad joined the Jake & Gino real estate community, which ultimately led him to success. Now, Vlad is in charge of Zontik Ventures’ operations and asset management. He is a member of the national real estate investor network. He has an experience in sales and marketing for residential and commercial real estate and has been leading direct marketing efforts as well as acquisition and disposition efforts relating to investing in distressed, off-market properties.

Vlad is skilled in acquisition negotiations and multiple creative financing strategies. As a real estate agent licensed in NJ, he has developed an extensive network of investors, real estate agents, contractors and other relevant parties.


In this episode we discuss:
✅ Russia
✅ Travel
✅ Advantage of Real Estate Compared to Other Industries
✅ Importance of Mentorship
✅ Joint Venture and Syndication
✅ Social Media Impact
✅ GAP Funding


Great quotes from the episode include:

“Real estate is an industry where it’s always needed, and because everybody needs to live somewhere, real estate agents are always needed.”

“After speaking with all these real estate people for like 2 days, I was just floored by the generosity and how open they are and how much they're willing to teach and pass their knowledge forward.“

“Mentorship is important! Even if you can do it without mentorship. You don't have to pay, you know, whatever it is for the mentorship, but it's like going up the mountain and learning to ski. You can go up the mountain 20 times, fall down and be all bruised up and eventually learn how to ski or take one lesson.”

“I'm very proud of a person who gave me a shot. I mean, I was new, and he gave me an opportunity. He saw something in me and gave me an opportunity that accelerated my career further. So I'll always be grateful to people that give me shots and opportunities because I'm here to pass it forward. I'm here to teach and help others.”

“Picture this, I can say, oh, listen, Jake & Gino, Bill Ham, Marco Barbaro and Joe Sullivan are my mentors, and the big players in multifamily space. So that gives me credibility right away.”

“You have to put yourself out there, even if it might seem weird, always be consistent, not giving up and driving forward. If you fall down, get up and keep going. Don’t just give up!”

“Real estate is a huge machine. You have to kind of realize that it's not just you there, there's a team that's involved and you're just one part of the whole machine that is moving forward. You don't have to do everything, but you have to do what you do great.”


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“It is super helpful to have a mentor. It's invaluable just like that, having those one-on-one conversations and actually learning from someone who's doing it firsthand. You can't learn that in a book.”

Michael Piehler is a great guy. He is the Co-Founder of North Lone Star Capital, a private equity real estate investment firm based out of the Twin Cities, where Michael and his wife Miranda currently reside. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-piehler-141211174/.

Born and raised in Plano, Texas, Michael made his way up to Minnesota where he attended Bethel University in Saint Paul, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in Economics and Finance. Michael began his career in commercial real estate as a broker and currently works on Acquisitions and Investor Relations with North Lone Star. The first deal they closed on as a new company was last year, a 120-unit in Houston.

Michael’s competitive nature, work ethic, and passion to serve others are invaluable to the firm.

Fun Fact: He was captain of the hockey team and also played on the golf team.

In this episode we discuss:
✅ Value of Mentorship
✅ Collaborative Space and Competitive Space
✅ Importance of Due Diligence
✅ Passive Investors
✅ General Partnership\
✅ Loan Assumption

Great quotes from the episode include:

“To get anywhere, you have to find people that can mentor you and guide you, and at the very least, you have to find partners to really grow beyond a certain point.”

“Absolutely don't feel like you're doing someone a disservice by trying to have a cup of coffee with them. Like that is 100% how businesses are made in the real estate space and how deals are formed.”

“I don't think a lot of passive investors understand the amount of work that goes into just one deal.”

“One of the huge benefits of being a passive investor is working with good operators that are actually going to take those steps to ensure a solid investment.”

“A lesson I've learned, and this would be for your active investors out there, to not be afraid to pick up the phone and make those calls.”


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“I believe that good things happen at the intersection of faith and hard work.“

Jason Wright is a very inspiring guy. Jason is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, consultant, and digital marketing architect with a passion for helping real estate investors and entrepreneurs with their sales funnels. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonjwright/.

Jason prides himself on his ability to connect with people and speak to them in a language they understand. Jason is able to design successful marketing automation machines all while keeping a positive attitude and sense of humor along the way. He works with real estate investors and entrepreneurs to help them automate their digital marketing. His focus is sales funnel strategy and architecture, specifically in ActiveCampaign and Zapier.

In this episode we discuss:
✅ Digital Marketing
✅ Architecture
✅ Upwork
✅ Capital Raising
✅ Public Speaking
✅ Automation
✅ Active Campaign

Great quotes from the episode include:

“Speaking can make a really big difference in business and everything, and if I can impact people personally and professionally, it's a win.”

“Pain is one of the best teachers of lessons. So if you were to take your hand right now and hold it over a candle, at some point, you're going to move your hand because it hurts. So as an entrepreneur or a capital raise or just anybody in life, if you experience actual pain from failure, whether it's shame or you lose a bunch of money, or waste a bunch of time, or all those things, guess what? You're going to pay attention to it and go, ‘I'm not going to do that combination of things again, because it burned my hand. I'm going to make an adjustment somewhere and try again.’”

“There is a razor-thin line between success and failure. It's amazing how close they are together.”

“Any relationship in life you care about requires effort. It requires you talking and giving some value, and it can be really, really effective that way.”

“I believe that good things happen at the intersection of faith and hard work.“

“A good quote from the Bible is faith without works is dead, so it requires faith, but faith in motion. I would say that belief in motion is a good way to describe faith.”

“I don't wish I would have done anything differently because the path has been the education.”

“Momentum is harder to start, but much easier to maintain, so that patience piece is really big because a lot of people give up.”

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“A lot of people make decisions based on the short term rather than the long term, and the ones that are making the decisions off the long term will obviously do much better over time.”

Pete Reese is such an amazing guy. He is the President of Reelvest Properties, a land development and investment company. Go give him a follow on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/petereese1/.

With nearly two decades of real estate experience as a broker and investor, Pete has successfully purchased and sold hundreds of pieces of real estate for a profit over the years for himself and on behalf of his clients. He’s on track to earn $4 million in revenue in 2023 with his land flipping and development business. Pete’s always looking for his next deal, including his longtime dream of his own private island.

Besides his professional accomplishments, Pete is a proud father to three girls, keeps up with his family by working out and enjoying a vegan diet, and is the 31st great-grandson of King Henry II. 🤯


In this episode we discuss:
✅ Land-Flipping
✅ Travel Blogging Business
✅ Data Scraping and Newsletters Distributions
✅ Buying Off-Market and Selling On-Market
✅ REO (Real Estate Owned - Banks)


Great quotes from the episode include:

“Land-flipping has a simple business model in a way, but not as easy as it may appear.”

“Our main thing is we like to look for areas where there's some good activity in the land market, and when I mean good activity, there are sales where there's not an overabundance of listings.”

“The whole goal is to buy them right so we can list them at an aggressive price on the market with the real estate broker and do whatever we need to do to make it retailable.”

“I've noticed the longer I hold something, the less profitable it's going to be, whether it's holding for you to get some approval on something or do some type of construction work, it seems like I always make out better if we can just sell things quickly and don't get into all that stuff.”

“My proudest accomplishment aside from real estate is my family and my kids.”


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