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Axel Meierhofer, founder of idealwealthgrower.com and host of the Ideal Wealth Grower Podcast, began coaching real estate investors for an unusual reason — he has a passion for making sure people in his care don’t die. Not that he has a particularly deadly approach to real estate investing. It’s just that as a mentor and a…

Don’t understand money? Maybe a talking toilet paper roll can teach you. And if not you, maybe your kids. That’s the bet that Randy Kujawa has made as the head of brand partnership for Toilet Paper Hands, an animated series paired with e-learning courses wherein trading principles (stocks and cryptocurrency), as well as basic financial…

Imagine setting out to buy your first rental real estate unit … and having the opportunity to buy thirteen. What would you do? Would you freeze like a deer in headlights? Run in the opposite direction? Or lean in and find a way to make it work? Luke Andrews, author of Amazon bestseller 10 Mistakes…

Hoan Thai likes to compare learning to invest in real estate to learning to snowboard.  “​​In order to snowboard, you have to lean either forward or backwards to turn right,” Thai said to Ricci Truong of the CamaPlan Podcast. “And when you first get snowboarding, it’s such an awkward position because you actually have to…

Bigger Pockets Podcast co-host Henry Washington used a highly sophisticated strategy to finance the purchase of his first investment property — he stumbled blindly into the local bank that was closest to his house. Washington had been telling people he was a real estate investor for weeks — despite having never invested in real estate…

Demian Klenk is a big fan of what he calls “ethical self-interest.” How could self-interest be ethical? Aren’t ethics about the greater good? What about when the greater good aligns with your self-interest — for example, making a profit not by harming the planet, but by helping it? That’s the intersection where Klenk intends to…

You’ve heard of a diversified portfolio. Your financial advisor may have even encouraged you to invest in foreign stocks — usually Europe and China.  But how many people have shopped for real estate in Uzbekistan? How many Americans could even find Uzbekistan on the map? But that’s exactly what Ladislas Maurice, known professionally as “The…

Every cookbook contains recipes. But how many cookbooks contain the recipe for retirement with one-to-two million more dollars in the bank? That’s exactly what The Cash Flow Cookbook is designed to do. For the author, Gordon Stein, it started with a few simple, profound discoveries. “I kind of stumbled into the idea of Cash Flow…

Not everybody is ready to talk to Fred Shatzoff, a veteran of the New Jersey real estate lending industry since 1989. “If you tell me you have $75,000 and I look at your bank statement and you only have $10,000 … well, where is the other $65,000?” Shatzoff said. “‘Well, I can get it.’ Okay,…

It started as a side hustle. Will Basta was working in corporate healthcare tech enterprises and startups when his love for alternative investments led him to an underserved niche — people who want to invest in the booming eCommerce industry, without having to build their own eCommerce store. “I’ll always believe in real estate long…