Archive for Biographies

Shaun McCloskey

Posted on July 23, 2015 by

Shaun McCloskeyShaun McCloskey is a seasoned real estate investor, author and coach based in St. Louis, MO. that has used real estate as an investment strategy and educational tool to change thousands of lives across the United States. He is the author of several real estate investing courses and is widely known for his expertise in the fields of pre-foreclosure and short sales.

Although by the world’s standards Shaun was considered to be a very successful entrepreneur, in 2007 he realized that he was working far too much and was consumed by his business. By implementing the LIFEonaire and debt free investing principles into his own life, this is now a thing of the past.

“Everyone says they want to be a millionaire, but what they really want is LIFE! The American Dream says that more money equates to a better life, however, I know a number of people that have made millions of dollars and are also miserable. I know because I was one of them. I want to show you how to have both money and LIFE.” Read More→

Frank Iglesias

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

Frank IglesiasFrank Iglesias is one of the Founders and Managing Partners of Working With Houses, LLC, an Atlanta area Real Estate Investment Company that primarily works in the residential renovation industry, repairing and updating properties to bring value back to neighborhoods that have been devalued by the recent housing crisis. Frank has been involved in this industry for the last four years in which tremendous change has brought much volatility. He has been able to adapt with the times and to grow his business despite the ongoing changes. He looks forward to helping you along your path to real estate investing success as so many others have already helped him along his way.

In addition to renovating properties, Frank has also had much success in the wholesale and landlord aspects of Real Estate providing him and his team a broad spectrum of expertise as they encounter an endless variety of situations to assist with. With a background in Education and Information Technology, Frank helping other real estate investors with their investing needs and continues to do so daily.

Frank is happily married to his wife Jenni and they have two children who have enjoyed the benefits Real Estate brings to the opportunistic individuals who seek freedom with their time. As a result, he has also created a product called the 80/20 VA Office to bring the 80/20 rule to be a reality in one’s life.

TC Bradley

Posted on April 3, 2015 by

TC Bradley

  • Cape Coral Resident TC Bradley is a Number 1 Best Selling Author and has been online since 2003 when he launched his first website that sold over a million dollars online.
  • Founder and President of InstantCelebrityStatus.com
  • He is respected worldwide for his marketing insights and his “cut to the chase” style of doing business.
  • Both his online and offline reputation is impeccable in this his 12th year online. Read More→

Eddie Speed

Posted on February 22, 2015 by

Eddie SpeedFor over 32 years, Eddie Speed has been an active investor, leader and innovator in both Seller Financing and Non-Performing Notes. A-list corporations, Hedge Funds and the industries top producers such as HomeVestors of America have sought his expertise for decades.

His daily hands-on participation has kept him at the cutting edge of the note business and his industry vision has positioned him to play a prominent role in the changing real estate and financing landscape.

He has used his experience from purchasing more than 30,000 notes and brokering more notes than anyone in the industry, to develop training programs. These programs, which include seminars, workshops, mentorships and computer-based curriculum, have created more successful brokers and investors than anyone in the industry. Read More→

Roger Salam

Posted on November 28, 2014 by

Roger SalamW. “Roger” Salam is an award winning inspirational speaker, best-selling author of several books on sales & marketing and Real Estate investing courses. He’s been listed in America’s Premiere Experts and the recipient of “Thought Leader of The Year” award by the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors.

Roger is the chairman and founder of The Winner’s Circle, the largest and most respected invitation-only Mastermind Forum for top level business leaders and highly successful entrepreneurs.

Roger is also an active Real Estate Investor and presented his own seminars all over the US on the topic of Real Estate investing – “How to buy houses with no money and credit.” He and his partner owned over 500 investment properties in the greater Tampa Bay area.

In 1990, he joined the team of world-renowned author and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins and became the number one speaker & trainer. He has delivered over 4700 professional talks to various corporations, non-profit organizations and educational institutions in North America, Europe and Asia. Read More→

Lee Phillips

Posted on November 4, 2014 by

Attorney Lee PhillipsAttorney, Lee R. Phillips, will teach you how to reposition yourself in the law so that you can go out and make more money than you have ever thought possible. Yes, a good knowledge of the law will actually let you make more money. In today’s lawsuit happy society, making it isn’t enough. You also have to know how to protect your wealth, or someone will take it away from you. It might be your tenants, the IRS, the government regulations (like lead paint) or some greedy lawyer. Unless you are shielded, everything you have can be lost.

Lee is a counselor to the Supreme Court of the United States and an engaging speaker. He will walk you through how to make it and how to keep it using the tools of wealth. Nobody ever gets rich without an understanding of the tools that create wealth and protect it. Lee has used the tools of wealth and “done very well.” His primary residence is on Siesta Key in the Blue Gulf of Mexico, but he grows fruit trees and a big vegetable garden in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. Lee has many lives. Read More→

Gary Johnston

Posted on September 30, 2014 by

Gary JohnstonGary Johnston has been an active investor in real estate and notes for over 20 years. He grew up without a lot of money in a small logging and ranching community in eastern Oregon. His dad always said, “There’s a big difference between being broke and being poor.” He taught Gary that one is a temporary money state and the other is a debilitating mental process. Gary was fortunate to have mentors like his parents and a neighboring rancher named Norbert Volny, who taught him, “You’ll never get rich on a W-2.” Volny encouraged Gary from an early age to build assets that generate cash flow.

After high school Gary attended Oregon Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor of science in software engineering. Over the next sixteen years he worked for Hewlett-Packard and earned a master of science in management from Purdue. During that time he applied what he learned from my parents, Volny and other mentors he met along the way which as to buy real estate and built assets that generate cash flow. He was fortunate enough to be able to leave HP and the rat race at the age of thirty-eight.

Gary now teaches people how to build a solid financial foundation and obtain financial freedom through assets that generate cash flow. He can’t teach you how to make a million dollars in 30 days, but he can teach you how to build a solid financial foundation and how to make your money make money for you.

Jay Conner

Posted on September 4, 2014 by

Jay ConnerJay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging over $50,000 per deal. And…. with little to no risk. “Jay is a real estate magician” as “He works seemingly magical deals for buyers and sellers alike.”

When Jay was introduced to the world of Private Lending. Jay says, “PRIVATE LENDING ROCKED MY WORLD AND MY REAL-ESTATE INVESTING CAREER!” His first Private Lender gave him $250,000 in Private Money. Then, within less than 90 Days, Jay raised $2,150,000.00 in Private Money.

Jay has been a full-time Real-Estate Entrepreneur for 10 years in a population of only 40,000 while producing a seven figure net income per year. Just a few months ago, Jay became a National Best Selling Author with his new book: “The Masters of Real Estate : Getting deals done in the new economy.” For the past 4 years, he has been mentoring Real-Estate Investing Students across the U.S. and Canada . Since he started raising Private Money, he has developed new, easy and simple techniques for raising all the money you’ll ever want for your Real Estate Deals. Read More→

Jonathan Henrich

Posted on July 1, 2014 by

Jonathan HenrichJonathan Henrich was a professional drummer from Philadelphia in his early 20’s. He started his investing career in 2009 investing in paper, stocks, real estate wholesaling, then bought and rehabbed his first rental property in 2012 even after battling a debilitating brain tumor. His interest was piqued by Larry Harbolt who introduced him to a legendary real estate investor in the St. Pete area, he decided to move to Florida in 2012 as part of his recovery and to study under the legends of investing.

He worked alongside Wayne Arnold and Peter Fortunato to help develop the Creative Real Estate Exchangers (CREE) where he has gotten a unique look at the real estate business. He has since authored his first book The Secret Recipe for A Happy Life: Practical Guide to Conquering Fear Depression and Anxiety and spends his time writing, speaking, investing, working on his Tech Start-Up company Jinzi Tech, and enjoying life.

Wayne Arnold

Posted on July 1, 2014 by

Wayne ArnoldWayne Arnold started his investing career part time in his 20’s while he worked full time in a Steel Mill in North Jersey. At the age of 40 he resigned from the Steel Mill, packed up and moved down to Florida to buy, sell, and hold real estate and has been for the last 20 years. Wayne’s history consists of deals ranging from Self Storage Buildings, Single Family Houses, Warehouses, Apt Buildings, and Paper Deals. He has very high knowledge of the in’s and outs of any kind of rehab project. Wayne runs the weekly Creative Real Estate Exchangers (CREE) meeting with Peter Fortunato and Jonathan Henrich.

Jimmy Napier

Posted on May 28, 2014 by

Jimmy NapierA former farm boy from Chipley, Florida who has amassed personal wealth and Knowledge by practicing creative real estate investing. Jimmy is the author of the best selling book Invest in Debt, a monthly newsletter entitled The Money Maker Report and numerous courses on investing in paper and single family homes.

He has been named twice by his peers as the Outstanding Educator at the Creative Real Estate Expo. He has been selected as Exchangor of the Year for the State of Florida and has also been inducted into the Exchangors’ Hall of Fame.

As Jimmy said in a recent newsletter “I want to teach classes that I feel are necessary for a person to reach financial security and be able to maintain that position in life. Time value of money with present value and future value concepts is the most valuable lesson I ever learned.”

Jimmy Napier’s achievements, humility and humanitarianism could serve as an inspiration to all of us. He has that rare ability to teach the average person how to win.

John Schaub

Posted on April 18, 2014 by

John SchaubJohn Schaub has prospered during three recessions, four tax law changes and interest rates ranging from 6-16% in his 35 years as a real estate investor. His 2005 best-selling book, Building Wealth One House at a Time, assisted more than 50,000 real estate enthusiasts on their way to successful invest­ing. His 2007 book, Building Wealth in a Changing Real Estate Market, is available online and in bookstores.

John recommends buying better, well-located houses rather than cheaper houses and other management-intensive properties. Better houses are more profitable and far less trouble. He advocates paying off debt, owning properties free and clear, and renting only to long term, high quality tenants.

John buys, sells and manages his own properties, and enjoys providing quality housing at fair prices for working families in his community. He teaches two Making It Big On Little Deals seminars each year where students learn how to identify the best investment property in their town, how to buy it at below-market prices, and how to negotiate terms that guarantee a profit. Read More→

Jon & Stephanie Iannotti

Posted on February 28, 2014 by

Jon & Stephanie IannottiJon & Stephanie Iannotti are Amazon #1 Best Selling Authors of “The New Masters of Real Estate, Getting Deals Done in the New Economy.”  12 of the 18 contributing authors were mentored or coached by them personally.  They are also National Speakers and National & International Mentors to well over 250 students over the past few years.

With over 30 years combined experience in Real Estate Investing/Teaching, and Mentoring and over 1500 creative deals under their belts, they are considered one of the best in the industry.  They have also come up with some amazing ways to structure deals that are cutting edge and they have done many deals with their student partners using these state of the art techniques which are now being taught across the country and internationally. 

They have trained and worked with some of the biggest names in Real Estate Investing.  To name a few, Ron LeGrand, Robin Thompson, Lee Phillips, Al Aiello, Ted Thomas, and many others. Read More→

Tom DiAgostino

Posted on January 25, 2014 by

Tom DiAgostinoTom DiAgostino grew up the hard way in the Monroe Housing Projects in the South Bronx of New York City. He seized opportunity and started his college career at CUNY and then Pace University, joined the Army ROTC and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, eventually retiring from the Army. At Pace he did an internship at Reynolds Securities, a financial firm where he achieved a tremendous education in the markets, and has been heavily involved in the trading markets ever since.

His business career started in 1988 as a project manager for Orenstein Construction. It was then he purchased his first batch of Tax Liens through the tax sale process. In 1992, he struck out on his own and formed the company T-GRAM, Inc. an acronym for his bride of 24 years and 4 children, Thomas, Grace, Rick, Ann, & Maegan (he says he is the hyphen). He started as a site builder, then to a developer of small subdivisions, then to a Superior Wall franchise that set over 4,000 homes. Tom has kept current through education and seminars adding new tools to his business practice to stay on top of the ever-changing market place. Tom has been a rehabber, builder, and Tax Sale investor for the last decade. His experiences entail every facet of real estate, and throughout his career he has utilized tax sale properties for rehab projects, wholesales and rentals. Growing wealth by acquiring real estate for pennies on the dollar via Tax Sales is the foundation of Tom’s real estate business in Fortris LLC.

Tom is the Co-Author of Dare to Succeed with The New York Times Best-Selling Author Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul). Available now on Amazon.com.

David Lindahl

Posted on October 24, 2013 by

David LindahlWith more than 18 years of experience in Real Estate Investing, David Lindahl has rehabbed over 820 houses, and currently controls over 7,400 apartment units. Starting out as a struggling landscaper with no experience in construction, Dave accepted an opportunity to renovate a foreclosed house for a local bank during the wintertime when there was no landscaping to do in Boston.

The job was completed mostly with the advice of relatives and friends who knew how to do the work. After completing the first house, he did another and then (after getting over his initial fears) began to buy and hold small apartment buildings for himself.

To get the money for down payments (he originally used credit cards until they ran out!), Dave would rehab single-family houses to “flip” for chunks of money, so he could buy more apartment buildings.

Within the first 14 months, Dave’s apartment buildings created a positive cash flow of more than $10,300 a month for him and his family and within three and one half years Dave became a multi-millionaire. Read More→

Reggie Brooks

Posted on October 8, 2013 by

Reggie BrooksReggie Brooks has achieved what many people consider to be impossible. He went from making $36,000 per year at the local telephone company, to making over $40,000 per month in his real estate business. Starting out with very little money, Reggie began his investment career in 1986. After taking several real estate investment courses he began investing in rental properties in Los Angeles. By educating himself about hidden opportunities in real estate and making well placed investments, he has become a multi-millionaire.

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Jack Shea

Posted on September 25, 2013 by

Jack SheaJack Shea moved to Florida in 1978, and began investing in real estate.  He is a licensed Realtor and Mortgage Broker.  He has done syndications and  mobile home development.  He also has bought and sold mortgages and notes on real and personal property.  Jack Shea has concentrated on buying and selling options on real estate, and has been an investor in single-family and mobile homes.  Jack operates a 1031 exchange facilitator business with his wife, Merle, and his son Daniel.

He has taught classes to investors nationwide on lease-purchase contracts, note buying, Land Trusts, exchanges and IRA investing. Jack has developed several unique strategies in options, trusts, exchanges and IRA investing. He, along with Jack Miller and a few other investors pioneered the technique of gaining personal control of IRA funds. This required working with several IRA custodians to develop the trust documents necessary to accomplish this. These documents needed to meet the requirements of the custodians and be compliant with the IRS regulations. As a result, every IRA owner is now able to move their funds from the custodian to their corner bank and have checkbook control of the funds.

Matt & Courtney Larsen

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Matt and Courtney LarsenMatt and Courtney Larsen are a husband and wife real estate investing team specializing in wholesale property deals.  Courtney is also a licensed Realtor with Keller Williams – Tampa Central.  Together, their mission is to provide Real Estate Investors with deep discount properties that maximize cash flow and profits.  They are committed to helping others achieve success in real estate through their online program… “Mr.& Mrs. Quickflip.”   Matt & Courtney are the founders and host of Beach REIA and when they’re not working on the business, they are enjoying all that beach living has to offer!

Dyches Boddiford

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Dyches BoddifordDyches Boddiford (pronounced Dykes) is a full time investor who speaks from experience in a variety of real estate areas. His seminars and conferences are intended for the serious real estate investor, though entrepreneurs in other businesses or investments will find his material helpful as well.

Dyches has written books and teaches seminars on Financial Freedom, Asset Protection, The Corporate Fortress, The Nevada Corporation, Limited Liability Companies & Partnerships, Real Estate Investment Using Self-Directed IRAs, Advanced Strategies, Business Tax Strategies, Estate Planning with Asset Protection, Guerrilla Bankruptcy Tactics for Creditors, The Mobile Home Money Machine, Deals in Dirt, Discount Notes & Mortgages, Private Money Lending as well as other topics. Read More→

Mark Jackson

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Mark JacksonMark Jackson, fondly known as MJ, has become the go to Valuation Specialist for people who want to achieve more in their real estate investing business.

In 1999, MJ founded an appraisal company and soon after found his true gift was Analyzing Property value for real estate investors. Once MJ began investing himself, the flood gates opened.

Since 2000, MJ has been able to close real estate transactions totaling in the Millions and maintains a substantial net worth. REIAComps.com was created to help investors like you do exactly the same. Since 2006 real estate investors both domestically and internationally use REIAComps.com to confidently profit every time the buy a property, knowing the right price before they buy. Read More→