Dozell Varner is an Account Executive at Visio Lending, specializing in assisting real estate investors with long-term alternative financing for their rental properties. Dozell has been in the real estate investing arena since 2008. As a senior in college, he launched his first company – primarily focused on consulting and wholesaling – while sustaining a full athletic football scholarship at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.  Read More→

Nathan Trombetti is the Chief Investment Officer of Secured Investment Lending Corporation (SILC), which has operated as a licensed Hard Money lender in Florida since 2009, exclusively lending on non-owner occupied investment properties as well as commercial properties.

Mr. Trombetti believes in conservative lending practices and instills rigorous underwriting guidelines which has facilitated an increase in SILC’s servicing portfolio every year since inception. It has since expanded from a local mortgage lender in Central Florida to a regional lending institution. This traditional philosophy also prevents potential borrowers from taking on projects that may pose risk for all parties involved.  Read More→

While Gregory Emmer joined EquityMax full time since 2008, he has been actively involved with the business since 2002, when he first obtained his Real Estate Sales Associate license.  Subsequently, he has obtained his Real Estate Broker and Mortgage Loan Originator licenses in Florida.  Since he started at EquityMax, Gregory has been a key contributor in generating new client relationships as well as nurturing existing client business.  Read More→

Over 25 years’ experience in the Real Estate industry. His extensive background as an attorney whose focus was on was serving the investment property and commercial market. Currently he serves as the Business Development Director for Angel Oak Prime Bridge. Angel Oak Prime Bridge, LLC (AOPB) is a commercial residential lender providing financing solutions for today’s real estate investor. Our Mission Statement To be today’s best Residential Investment Property Lender by providing world class service and loan programs that are fast, simple, flexible, and dependable.

Paul Albano currently serves as Lima One Capital’s business development representative for the Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville markets with his office and primary focus in the Tampa area. He is responsible for originating investment loans for the company and discussing current financing options for residential real estate investors. Lima One Capital works with investors all over the country to provide funding for fix and flip projects as well as rental properties. Read More→

Karen Bershad has owned and operated several businesses during her career including a printing company and a remodeling business with her late husband. Having over thirty years of hands on business ownership experience, she learned many things about owning and operating a business and always felt “there has to be a better way”. This was the basis of developing The Small Business Advisor.

All the downsizing and our current economy has encouraged many who have been employees to change hats and become entrepreneurs. What has come to light is, most entrepreneurs know a product or service really well and decide to go into business for themselves, but they don’t know what they don’t know about running a business. Read More→

Jim “Mr Probate” Banks has been investing in Probate Real Estate and Probate Personal Property for over 30 years. Jim started with fixer-uppers then moved into tear-downs and building two story homes.

Jim is the creator of the Probate Investment System which he has taught and lectured on nationally decades.  He has also been a been a Real Estate Broker for over 30 years. He has attended Indiana University, the University of Southern California and West L.A. Law School.

Mark and Anne Lackey are well known around Atlanta and across the nation as Real Estate Investors, Authors, Speakers and Educators as well as Realtors. Whether listing a luxury home, showing out of town buyers where to live or buying for himself, Mark and Anne’s work, play and life are all about Real Estate. Late 1999 while working a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) in Corporate America, Mark and Anne made the decision to start a real estate investing career and they have never looked back. Their first month in the business, they purchased 4 rental homes and still own all 4 today as high cash flowing rentals.

Today, Mark and Anne own and manage close to forty residential properties in their own account, and manage 160 rentals for other investors. Each year they find, fix-up and flip for a good profit four to six properties. Together they own and operate Atlanta Housing Source and Rental Home Atlanta. They do everything together. They coach and train hundreds of investors on joining the ranks of successful real estate investors and can found on the stage at local investing events, on the radio as a guest with Jeff Davis GM at 1160 WCFO (where he and Anne had a successful 2 year radio show dedicated to real estate investing) or promoting his latest Amazon Number 1 e-book. He and Anne have written three books and developed multiple training modules in the area of Real Estate Investing. Read More→

Andrea “Andy” Tolbert has been active in the Central Florida real estate market since 1995.  She’s started in the mortgage industry, in fact owned a lender in Orlando for many years, and then got her real estate license to better serve her own investing.  She and her husband Tim have been investing since 1998 and they’ve done everything from wholesaling to lease options to seller financing.  They also own rental properties and are actively looking for more (although they’re a little more conservative now than pre-crash).  She did her first short sale in 2002 before it was even a thing and has taught many Realtors and investors about them ever since.  She’s a member of the Florida Realtors Faculty and a state permitted real estate instructor.  She’s also an NRA and USCCA firearms instructor and has been certified in self-defense and crime prevention techniques by various law enforcement training agencies.  

William “Bill” Noll is a lawyer and CPA currently working at Noll & Company, CPA’s and he operates a separate law practice focused on tax compliance and tax-related litigation.

Bill has a breadth of experience which gives him the ability to understand many different facets of business disputes and tax controversies.

Bill worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia) from 1992 to 1994.  During that period of three years he was prosecuting cases on a daily basis.  In 1994, Bill transitioned to private practice in a Chester County.  For the next ten years he worked as a litigator trying dozens of cases to verdict.  Bill’s litigation experience was in the context of criminal defense, white collar crime, tax compliance and general commercial litigation.  Bill was also chosen as a panel member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to represent defendants in federal prosecutions in multi-defendant conspiracy cases.  Read More→

John Hyre is a tax attorney, accountant and real estate investor with 20 years of experience. He consults with real estate investors, small business owners and self-directed IRA/401k owners nationwide. He also represents taxpayers in audits and in Tax Court nationwide. He frequently speaks nationally on the topic of taxation of self-directed IRA’s/401k’s, taxation of real estate & small businesses, and asset protection. John invests in low-income single family houses, mostly in Columbus, Ohio.

Michael Mathe, Acquisitions with Little Pink Houses of America

Michael Mathe is a graduate of Bowling Green State University and native of Columbus Ohio. Michael has 15 years of entrepreneurial business experience specializing in the areas of marketing and real estate investing. His areas of expertise include networking, sales training and management, marketing and business development. He has built a strong reputation in real estate as an aggressive and trustworthy deal maker.

Marcy Moyer, Buyer Representative with Little Pink Houses of America

Marcy Moyer brings over 12 years of Real Estate experience, wit, and a bad singing voice to Team PINK. Her background includes on-site new home sales where she received numerous productivity and customer service awards. When she transitioned into general Real Estate sales in 2005, her efforts were recognized immediately. Marcy is a very hard worker and has been awarded “Agent Spotlights” by her brokerage, as well as, “Top Producer” for her selling efforts on multiple occasions.

Jim Miera has been involved with real estate in the tampa bay area for the last eleven years. He specializes in wholesaling houses to various investors and doing rehabs of various sizes. He especially loves the art of taking an ugly house that nobody wants and transitioning it into a beautiful masterpiece. Each home provides its own set of challenges and dynamics in taking it from an absolutely ugly house to a stunning home with a whole new personality!! It gives him great pleasure in witnessing people of “dropping their jaws” in seeing the “before pictures” compared to the “stunning new look” of the new home! Every home is a unique story in its transition to a whole new finished product. Jim also leads the Tampa/Clearwater real estate group and invites everyone to attend for a great platform of networking, information and properties.

Ron Mustari has been a Home Vestors franchisee in the Tampa area for the past four years. During that time he has been doing rehab projects and wholesaling homes to other investors. Prior to that, Ron was the President of a public trading home builder in Florida. That company ended up being a casualty of the banking problems in 2007. Before Ron moved to Florida in 1986, he was the President of Lankmark Properties, Inc in Chicago and completed historical rehabs for investor tax creds. Ron was also a joint venture partner with the second largest S & L in the Midwest.

As an energetic Real Estate entrepreneur Denise is diversified in her efforts, as well as, solutions to everything real estate! She is focused on everything that is real estate and that makes Tampa Bay so great! As a licensed Realtor, Denise helps anyone from first time home buyers to investors find the right investment. By targeting the Real Estate Investment market by purchasing homes in the Tampa Bay area, Rehabbing, and selling them to the public she also brings a different perspective to the profession. Strategic net worker with proven success and implementation of Real Estate Flipping, Short Sales, Buyers Agent, Multi-Family & Commercial as well other Investment & Entrepreneurial endeavors.

Rex Gaugh started in Real Estate in St. Pete Beach, where he was born and raised, over 20 years ago. He has owned properties in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. He currently helps investors use IRA’s and 401k’s to buy property and earn a better return than the stock market. Rex is an ex-college basketball player, golfer, fisherman, member of NW Church of Christ, husband, and an All-Pro dad of 3. He looks forward to sharing with others how to beat the stock market returns. He specializes in investment opportunities and strategies.

Mark Lepzinski has been involved in Real Estate since 2004. He is currently the President of Structured Deals. During this time, Mark has completed hundreds of wholesale transactions which included land, condos, single-family houses, multi-family property, apartments, storage units, and a cell tower. Mark has become an expert at “out of the box” transactions and creative deal structuring including subject-to, sandwich leases, wraps, seller financing, and note sales. Currently, Mark is involved in real estate investing and consulting, wholesaling, working with off-market properties, turnkey rentals, portfolio properties, joint ventures, introductions, negotiations, and exchange.

Michael Vazquez graduated in 2004 from the University of Houston with a BS in biology and minor in marketing. By applying his marketing know-how he has been able to consistently acquire and sell multiple properties month after month. He is now the senior acquisition associate in Atlanta and leads the acquisitions team in finding the great deals Networth Realty has become known for. He has been with Networth Realty since 2006 and has grown into a well rounded associate having done many investments of his own. Michael taken on projects starting with just 4 brick walls (literally) to managing his own rental portfolio. When it comes to investing in real estate he has done much more than many twice his age, so Networth Realty entrusts that he will do the same for his investors.

After graduating from Florida Southern College with a degree in finance, Paul Rossano returned to his home town in the suburbs of New York City where he immediately entered the world of real estate. Throughout his 15 year career as an investor and broker, Paul has bought and sold dozens of properties and been involved in hundreds transaction on both the residential and commercial side of the business.

Paul is a devoted student and teacher of success, and embraces a philosophy of constant and never-ending improvement in all areas of life. Now a lead trainer for MPactWealth (recognized by Inc. 500), Paul’s mission is to share his vast knowledge and experience with others to help them achieve the level of success and freedom they desire and deserve.