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By Mark Ainley

Episode 10: 80 Off-Market Leads Calling YOU Each Month with Blake McCreight

Chicagoland is an insanely competitive market, making constant deal flow one of the toughest challenges for investors across the city. As an investor, how successful would you be if you constantly had 80-100 off-market deals calling you each month asking you to make an offer? Thr...

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Episode 9: Dominating the Western Suburbs With John Warren

Price points can be appealing in the Western Suburbs, especially compared to each areas of the city. However, it's not as simple as looking at rental rates and population statistics; our guest today is uniquely qualified to shed light on all the pros and cons that come along ...

By Mark Ainley

Episode 8: Working a 9-5 While Building a Robust Real Estate Operation with Ibn Abney

So many people working day jobs want to build wealth through real estate but don’t know how to get started. Ibn gives great advice on how to leverage the day job as a springboard to grow your real estate business. Ibn not only oversee his own rehabs and self-manage his tena...

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Episode 7: Over 500 Rehabs on the Southside of Chicago with Bryan Sonn

Nothing kills a real estate investing career quicker than a horrendous rehab experience that spirals from the original budget and timeline. In this episode, Bryan Sonn gives golden advise on how to avoid this scenario and ultimately scale your construction process. Bryan ha...

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Episode 6: 250+ properties and 1% vacancy in Lake County with Bill Powers

Have you considered investing in Lake County? Or minimizing vacancies with a 3yr rent-to-own lease? Our guest today, Bill Powers, has successfully done both of these actions to scale his business to 250+ rent to own properties in the last ten years. Listen to Bill lay out his str...

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Episode 5: North Side House Hacking & How It Has Changed In Last 5 Years

If you've gone on the Bigger Pockets forums, you've probably seen the wealth of knowledge she shares with everyone, but today Brie Schmidt of Second City Real Estate is getting down to the Chicago specific details for you. Ever wonder why north center has had such a stron...

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Episode 4: Building & Selling 600 Unit SFR Portfolio in South Suburbs

How can you use your skills from your day job to scale an investment portfolio to 450 units? Listen to our guest, Ron Plonis, explain how he used his computer science background to help him build systems and scale his own portfolio, then sold it off completely. His career has spa...

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Episode 3: BRRRR Strategy to Scale With Andrew and Angie Taggart

Andrew and Angie Taggert, an electrician and a teacher by trade, walk us through how their drive for learning and growth has pivoted their careers into scaling up a real estate portfolio. They give tons of great information on networking events that have been pivotal in getting m...

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Episode 2: Chicago's Best Up & Coming Areas To Invest By Zip Code

Originally from Philadelphia, Dan is a great case study of how an out of state investor can crush it in this market. Today he operates in three markets: Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta. Starting in ‘06 as a wholesaler with not much guidance, Dan gives tremendous insight i...

By Mark Ainley

Episode 1: Meet the Hosts, Mark Ainley and Tom Shallcross

Mark and Tom introduce the first podcast to deep dive into real estate investing in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. We are going to take a look at specific neighborhoods and specific strategies, dissect obstacles that real investors have dealt with and explore the solutions ...