RISE Real Estate Investing Podcast

Ep 69: The Godfather of REI

Alfonso Cuadra is an Award Winning Real Estate Entrepreneur, Speaker and Author who has been covered on multiple publications. He is a dynamic leader that is in the business of changing lives and has a special gift in his ability to connect with people and move them forward. He is a Real Estate Investor with 23 + years of experience and a multi-million dollar portfolio across Canada of multifamily properties. Join us today as we discuss scaling and growing your real estate portfolio with Alfonso.

In this episode we discussed;

- Alfonso’s early years and how he transitioned into a REI
- Building an entrepreneurial spirit at a young age
- How people tagged him as the “Godfather of real estate”
- His very first deal at 21 years old
- How he scaled up his apartment portfolio, the capital constraints he had along the way and how his business has grown most recently
- Importance of real estate fundamentals, knowing when not to do a deal and what the biggest risk is for real estate investors in todays market

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Ep 68: Severance and Redevelopment with Dan Illes

Dan Illes is a Civil Engineer - drafter, designer and inspector. He recently left his career to go into real estate investing full time and he has pulled off multiple successful BRRRR's and severance strategies since. He also operates a water meter separating company that services multifamily residential and commercial properties to allow landlords to better track and separate costs - WaterBillSolutions.com. 

 

In this episode we discussed;

• • How to assess the severability of a property 
  • How to determine what minor variances are reasonable and perform due diligence on a development or severance play
  • The costs, time and skills required to execute on this strategy

• Water sub-metering in small and medium size properties

• and much more!

 

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Ep 67: Investing in multiple cities across Ontario

Jared Henderson is from Montreal and has been investing in markets far away from home since 2012 including Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Orillia and Peterborough. Now focused in Peterborough, he is growing his portfolio through flipping and JV partnerships.

In this episodes we discussed;
- Investing in the Peterborough market and the journey to getting there

-  How he is scaling his investing and flipping businesses

- Joint venturing 

- A New market he is entering into now!

and much more!

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Ep 66: Growing Multiple Streams of Income

Join us for an update video with Mayu Thava as we dig through the last year and a half since his episode on the RISE podcast (Episode #2). Mayu is a mortgage agent, real estate investor, flipper, coach and co-founder of the RISE Networking group.In this episode we discussed;

• How he is growing through adding multiple income streams
• The pains and strengths of various existing income streams
• Growing the mortgage business
• What flipping really looks like and how it can be scaled
• New business ventures
• What the end game is!

and much more!

Ep 65: Building a 7 Figure Wholesaling Business with Austin Yeh

Join us for an update video with Austin Yeh as we dig through the last year and a half since his episode on the RISE podcast (Episode #3). Austin Yeh is a real estate wholesaler and the co-founder of the RISE Networking, also the Co-Founder of Ontario Property Deals featured in Toronto Life Article.In this episode we discussed;

• How a right system is important when scaling a wholesaling business
• What makes a wholesaling business successful and the necessary tools
• Goals for the wholesaling business and whats next
• Real Estate Investing with Joint Venture partners

and much more!

Ep 64: 2021 Year in Review

Mayu and Austin sit down to talk about the year in review, how both of their personal and business goals have come to fruition in 2021 - accomplishments and learning lessons along the way. They then talk about 2022 goals for personal, business and the RISE Network. Tune in to this episode to learn more!

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Ep 63: Jumping into Flipping full time with Chris Herlin

Chris Herlin is a mechanical engineer by trade; a real estate investor by passion; and a Brazilian by birth. In 2015, he decided to venture into real estate investing in Canada along with his full-time job. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Chris jumped into real estate full time. From May 2020 onwards, he has purchased and sold sixteen properties. In addition, he is currently developing and releasing an App named DOMALLY which is an innovative platform for real estate investors to source and market off market deals! This app will be in the android and apple app stores come mid January so stay tuned!

In this episode we discussed;

• Chris’s journey as an immigrant from Brazil to being a real estate investor in Canada
• How he creativity grew his portfolio circumventing the financing challenges as they came up
• How he structured his joint ventures and private loans when flipping
• Building systems and processes into his flipping business to allow him to do more
• His best and his worst flip so far

• and of course, DOMALLY - his app to help real estate investors do more and source better deals!

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Ep 62: Transitioning from a Realtor to a Wholesaler earning $200K+ in 3 months

Jon has been in real estate since 2016, getting fully licensed as a realtor in 2017, and working full time as an agent since then. He recently made the switch into being a full time wholesaler and shares the learning lessons he accumulated along the way. 

In this episode we discussed;
- Systems in the sales process 

- Working with sellers to create win-win situations

- How he went generated $250k+ in revenue in 3 months as a wholesaler. 

and much more!

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Ep 61:An Entrepreneurial Journey to a $500K weekend with Jordan Clement

Jordan Clements is a 24 year old Real Estate Investor from London, England.Currently based out of Niagara Region, done over 15 transactions in 2021 in his first year in Real Estate.

In this episode we discussed;
- His experience growing not one but two businesses
- How he started real estate investing
- The biggest learning curve
- How he sources deals himself

- How Jordan had a $500K+ weekend!

and much more!

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Ep 60: Organically accumulating a $1m net worth in real estate

This episode will be a bit different we wanted to showcase what gradually accumulating a real estate portfolio will look like to our guests. Antonio Yong is a 26 Year Old Real Estate Millionaire!  Antonio prides himself on his work ethic and determination to succeed. He worked in private equity, and start-ups. His heart lies in real estate and he invested in his first rental property at 22 years old with ONLY $12,000. Since then he's acquired 8 rental properties in 4 years and has accumulated a net worth of over $1 million!

In this episode we discussed;

- Why he wanted to become wealthy and his definition of wealth

- The journey of his first investment

- How he finance his investments

- Challenged he faced with a chaotic landlord tenant and how he overcame it

- His winning philosophy

and much more!

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