Jake and Gino Podcast

Tom Cafarella was a career CPA, but always knew it wasn’t his calling. Getting fired got him FIRED UP about starting his true passion, real estate investing. An excellent conversation all about marketing ensues, including a discussion of what the top 4 working marketing strategies are, how Tom uses those in his market, and how he budgets for marketing. Tom explains how he scaled his business from doing everything himself to having a full staff and creating a great organizational culture.

Michael Becker oversees the Dallas, Texas Strategic Property Investment (SPI) Advisory office where he oversees all aspects of property operations. Michael and his partner have acquired about 5200 units over the course of 25 deals! With all of Michael’s success, Jake & Gino pick Michael’s brain on partnerships, lead generation, syndication, his team, and what he looks for in a deal, a property manager and a market.

Dr. Bruce Schneider, author, speaker and founder of IPEC (Excellence in Coach Training), explains WHAT a life coach is and WHO needs a life coach. What are the most powerful tools that a life coach uses? Dr. Bruce talks about his newest book that just came out and the strong messages in it. The conversation takes a deep dive into all of the facets of the book including feeling and embracing pain in order to experience true freedom.

Bob Burg, author of world-renowned best seller “The Go-Giver” and believer in free enterprise, played an important role in the partnership of Jake & Gino! If you work in sales whatsoever, you are surely concerned with increasing volume. By being an avid learner, Bob Burg taught himself how to dramatically increase his sales using systems and by building relationships. Thus, “The Go-Giver” was born, teaching the foundational concept: Being a Go-Giver is giving value to your relationships.

Kim Lisa Taylor (a nationally recognized expert in the securities industry) is the founder of Syndication Attorneys PLLC, where she and the other members of the Syndication Attorneys team focus on helping small business owners/developers structure and convey their investment opportunities in a way that will attract private investors, both domestic and foreign. This episode is all about navigating the waters of syndication law!

Dana Dunford is the CEO of Hemlane, a technology enabled property management platform. She is an advocate for real estate investors to improve their portfolio operations by partnering with property managers. Dana provides tons of insider insight in this episode. A great listen for investors looking to leverage systems.

Joseph Gozlan is the founder of EBG Acquisitions, a multifamily investment group in Texas. He details how he underwrites at a deal through the three different financing models and the three criteria he looks for when buying, and even touches on the amazing tax benefits of cost segregation and the process of syndication. Persistency is the name of the game!

T. Harv Eker is the best-selling author of “The Millionaire Mind” and the founder of Peak Potentials Training. Harv and Jake & Gino dive in deep to the core of how mindset affects the person and spurs them forward or holds them back. This is a deeply affecting episode that will help you examine your limiting beliefs and re-condition yourself to step on the gas pedal on your path to financial freedom!

Brian Dally is the CEO of GROUNDFLOOR, a company that specializes in the process of taking private lending public, where both accredited and non-accredited investors are earning 13 to 14%! Brian wanted to shake up and reformat the financial market so that everyone could participate. The multitude of customization possibilities in how you can invest your money with GROUNDFLOOR indicates a new frontier.

Dean Graziosi, author of Millionaire Success Habits, was an entrepreneur as early as his high school years. Now he is an extremely successful real estate investor. Dean talks through the concepts in his New York Times best-selling book “Millionaire Success Habits,” and encourages going to the next level by using the “immigrant mentality” to take big risks. This was an incredibly energetic and immeasurably valuable show that will help you take massive action to take control of your life!

Bruce Petersen is a serial syndicator of large multifamily properties throughout Texas, targeting stabilized cash-flowing assets in which he can drive value and he replicates this model across all of his syndication projects. The guys take a deep dive into that first deal and the strategies Bruce used to find his investors, finance the deal and running his own property management. Bruce knows how to buy multifamily!!

Matt Faircloth is the ​founder of The DeRosa Group, serving both investors and tenants. On this episode, ​the guys talk about everything from navigating 1031 exchanges and the nuances of financing and mortgages to structuring a syndication deal. A lot of great advice on getting the deal and big picture discussions of how and where the majority of people today are investing their money. The discussion even turns to partnerships - how to structure them and what is required to make them work.

John Ruhlin is in the business of building relationships – as a giver! His company, The Ruhlin Group, is a gift strategy and logistics group with the intentions of helping business owners build relationships with any and every caliber of client, even those that are highly sought after and exclusive. What are the pro secrets to using gifts to capture your clients? John’s tactics will help you stand out from the crowd and the results will be visible in your bottom line!

Devin Elder is a multifamily syndicator who has completed over 100 residential and commercial real estate projects in six years! Devin worked in the corporate IT world for ten years, but quickly became tired of the rate race and working so hard for zero job security.

Our guest Dave Zook owns over 3000 multifamily units internationally! Dave takes us through some of his early multifamily learning experiences. Dave divulges how he finds off market deals and the parameters in a market and also in the property itself that he looks for when buying a deal. Dave tells the guys who he believes the most important players on your team are. He also covers his first foray into syndication and how he makes his investors double digit returns!