On this show, Karoline talks to regular people, turned real estate investors, about their first investment property. Join her on the First Deal Show with her esteemed guests to discuss the good, bad and ugly of the first deal.

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Margaret Kozlark is a co-founder of Noblivest, based in Connecticut and an active real estate agent. Margaret started off as a passive investor. She left her corporate career to become an active real estate investor, as well as a full time as a real estate agent. Find free information about syndication, how to source deals and underwrite them at <a href="https://noblivest.com/" rel="nofollow">Noblivest - Syndicated Multifamily Investing</a>.

057 Margaret Kozlark

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Joshua Brooks is a flipper based in Shelby, North Carolina. He talks about his first deal and how teaming up with his cousin helped him get over the hurdle of going into real estate.

056 Joshua Brooks

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Senate Eskridge, a real estate investor based in Idaho. On this episode Senate shares insight into his first commercial deal. Imagine going under contract for your first deal and then all of that changes because of one phone call. Tune in to find out what happened.

055 Senate Eskridge

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Jeremy is an agent, property manager and real estate investor in Maryland. He talks about his first deal experience with a condominium in Maryland. Jeremy gives insight into some of the stress with dealing with residents as a property manager before going into his experience purchasing his deal in 2020. Tune in to learn how he sourced the deal and how it all worked out.

054 Jeremy Shifflett

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Holli McCormick is perpetually self-employed! She was able to do her first deal as a gig employee. If you are in the gig economy, this is the episode for you to check out. Holli goes into infinite Banking, gig life, working as a gig employee and how that led to her meeting a real estate agent. This opened up her eyes to rental property. Short Term Rental Management, Coaching, DesigningBook Direct: <a href="http://www.allergyfriendlystays.com/" rel="nofollow">www.allergyfriendlystays.com</a>IG: @allergyfriendlystaysBook with Holli: <a href="https://calendly.com/hollimccormick/initialconnection?month=2022-12" rel="nofollow">https://calendly.com/hollimccormick/initialconnection?month=2022-12</a>  Financial Education &amp; Help@hollicmccormickYouTube (have some videos) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MovementMedicine" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/MovementMedicine</a> And Asset (Infinite Banking) with Betterwealth (let them know Holli McCormick sent ya!)<a href="https://www.andasset.com/home?r_done=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.andasset.com/home?r_done=1</a> Hard Money Mastermind - for finding private investors <a href="https://www.hardmoneymastermind.com/share/K3K61zf-4y74MznA?utm_source=manual" rel="nofollow">https://www.hardmoneymastermind.com/share/K3K61zf-4y74MznA?utm_source=manual</a>

053 Holli McCormick

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IG: @CreatingGenerationalFireLinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-healy" rel="nofollow">www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-healy</a> Website: <a href="http://www.creatinggenerationalfire.com/" rel="nofollow">www.creatinggenerationalfire.com</a>

052 Kyle Healy

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K. Trevor Thompson had an amazing boss that gave him a gift, which in an alternate universe might have started his investing career. But in this reality, it did not. Trevor had an encounter with the IRS that led him to dig into real estate to reduce his tax burden. Tune in to find out how he started off as a passive investor and soon decided to go full time as a real estate investor.

051 K. Trevor Thompson

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Randy Smith is a former passive investor gone rogue. Just kidding! He started off in the turn-key real estate game. Randy highlights how he took his time before jumping into investing and how his corporate career played into that. Randy had enough of the get fired, apply for another gig at his company and then get re-hired in the same company under a different job title. He was let go and decided to take on real estate full time as an active investor. Tune in if you’re interested in investing with turn key properties or are a few years into waiting to get started. This story will motivate you to get going~

050 Randy Smith

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Michael Hicks creates cool Airbnb experiences through his short-term rentals in his backyard: northwest Georgia. Michael is an example of how watching his family invest in real estate inspired him to buy property. Even though not everyone is fortunate to have that experience, his family’s willingness to invest in real estate did influence him! He bought his first property at nineteen years old when he realized college was not his jam. Tune into to learn about how his “pre-historic” experience investing before the internet, just kidding!

049 Michael Hicks

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Crystal Ribal is a real estate investor based in El Paso Texas and invests locally in her backyard. Crystal oddly enough got burned out from her job during the pandemic. Her work was overworking her. She started educating herself on how to transition out of her job and into real estate. Oddly enough her teacher inspired her to buy her first property. Her first deal happened right in 2007 before the ’08 crash. Tune into find out more about how she got her first deal.

048 Crystal Ribal

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Tereva Jacobson invests both locally in Hawaii, as well as out of state in Indianapolis, and Kansas. Find out how building rapport with someone can give you an upper hand when looking to buy a property. Tereva’s first deal was in Hawaii and she got a GREAT deal on the purchase price. Tereva realized the lack of time to interact with her family led her to make a drastic decision to leave her W2 in 2019 and pursue real estate full timr. To learn more about Tereva, connect with her on Instagram @terevainvests.

047 Tereva Jacobson

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Miranda Bereza is based in Ohio and is a former corporate fashion employee turned real estate investor. Miranda’s quote “not my journey” is a great reminder to FOCUS on your journey. Miranda’s parents ran vacation rentals and as a child she had experience with running the family business. Currently Miranda owns three short-term rentals and was able to maintain her lifestyle without having to go back to corporate America. Miranda runs Mark Simpson’s Book Club called Boostly Book Club on Facebook on short term rentals. If you are interested in staying in OH, check out her site <a href="https://homegrownstays.hospitable.rentals/" rel="nofollow">Homegrownstays.hospitable.rentals</a>

046 Miranda Bereza

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Ethan Gao is a practicing attorney and real estate investor based in Houston, Texas. Ethan got started in the single-family space and moved into commercial real estate investments online during the pandemic. Ethan realized that being a private money lender was the best way for him to maximize his skills as an attorney to do his first deal. His first deal was as a private money lender; he met someone through biggerpockets and lent him cash to do a deal. Now, he is actively doing deals in the syndication space.

045 Ethan Gao

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Ian Jimeno, from the Bay area and now living in Denver graces us with his first deal experience. Ian is a former Environmental Consultant who worked as a geologist helping banks understand the risks of buying properties. His day job paid for him to learn about real estate in non-traditional way. Ian is a full-time real estate agent in Colorado and today we learn about how he house hacked his first rental. Tune in to find out how Ian underestimated the types of lending options available to him and how his knowledge propelled him to the place he is today! Check out his page for awesome content!

044 Ian Jimeno

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Have you considered investing internationally? Well Bob shortsleeves has done it! Bob has a wholesale company in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His first deal in real estate was a deal in Indonesia of all places! He found out about real estate investing and took a chance. He has not looked back and is moving into commercial real estate. Tune in to hear this great story.

043 Bob Shortsleeves

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402, We have Lawarence Latty who said &#34;It is you against you. Life is a mindset game.&#34; Mr. International is based in the home of hip hop. A retired MTA employee, who in the last few years has started building is rental portfolio. He talks about his first investment property as well as losing an investment property he inherited in NYC. Mr. International has an event happening on December 3rd, so connect and come out! As Mr. International said your network is your networth.

042 Lawerance Latty aka Mr. International

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Based in NYC and had hesitation to invest in his backyard. Yosef is an attorney, and during the pandemic invested in his education to learn about commercial real estate. He decided to break into new markets and leveraged partners to get him there. Acting during the pandemic propelled Yosef’s career in real estate investing. This lawyer did not let the pandemic keep him from starting his career. Tune in to learn how you can leverage relationships to get into real estate investing.

041 Yosef Lee

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Wendy Davis has quite the background in a variety of interests. She started in real estate later in life but it has worked out favorably for her. Tune into her journey from the service industry into real estate through short term rentals. If you have felt behind or like you are well past the time to get started, then you won&#39;t want to miss this episode.

040 Wendy Davis

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Amanda Howell, former teacher now full-time real estate investor talks about her first deal on her own. This episode means a lot to me because Amanda’s story reflects how she took her skills in teaching and uses those skills into real estate. Teacher Edition comes a month shy of my birthday, and it is a Friday. This can’t get any better. In life, we are given second chances. Amanda got a second chance to invest in real estate solo. This story is an inspiration for anyone second guessing if it is possible to start all over again. Amanda owns several short-term rentals, a real estate investing company and is an awesome mom!This quote sums up the theme of this episode “As long as you learn from it, there are no mistakes.”

039 Amanda Howell* Teacher Edition

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Sandhya Seshadri shares her knowledge about how If you think you have to be handy to get into real estate investing, then this is the episode for you. Sandhya recognized that her limited knowledge in construction kept her from investing in the single-family world. She invested passively in a deal before making the jump to become a full-time syndicator. She invested her retirement account money into a deal passively. Sandhya&#39;s mentors also helped her underwrite deals to ensure that it was a good deal. She soon realized her ability to give her time in exchange for experience as a general partner provided a win-win solution for her to do her first general partnership.

038 Sandhya Seshadri

Real Estate Investing

On this show, Karoline talks to regular people, turned real estate investors, about their first investment property. Join her on the First Deal Show with her esteemed guests to discuss the good, bad and ugly of the first deal.