Former attorney Justin Spillers shares how he transitioned into full time real estate investing and built a vertically integrated multifamily company across western Ohio.

Justin explains how his team identifies apartment communities with significant rent upside, renovates units at incredible speed, and stabilizes properties in roughly 12 months. He also discusses the importance of focus, avoiding distractions, and building internal systems that support rapid growth.

The conversation includes a deep dive into his preferred equity fund that won first place at the Best Ever Pitch Fest, including the structure, investor benefits, and why years of self funding helped establish a strong track record before raising outside capital.

Kevin Amolsch has spent more than 18 years building Pine Financial Group into a major private lending company focused on real estate investors and developers.

In this episode, Kevin explains why financing is often the most important part of a real estate deal and how private lending can help investors execute fix and flip, BRRR, and value add commercial projects.

He also shares how private lending evolved from a niche business into a mature industry with institutional capital, increasing competition, and lower borrowing costs. Along the way, Kevin discusses raising capital, managing investor relationships, and how Pine Financial continues to grow while maintaining a personal approach.

Craig Eppler started buying real estate in 2019 and has grown his portfolio to 43 units across Central Pennsylvania. Along the way, he leveraged creative deal structures, including a large seller credit on a portfolio acquisition from a retiring landlord.

In this conversation, Craig explains how he moved from managing investment portfolios to launching his own private debt fund. He shares how the fund provides capital to small and medium sized businesses through asset backed lending and why he focuses on hard collateral when evaluating opportunities.

Craig also discusses the realities of raising capital, lessons learned from trying different marketing approaches, and why building trust through personal relationships continues to be his most effective strategy.

Building wealth is important, but what happens after you're gone?

In this episode, Aaron Chapman shares how surviving a life changing motorcycle accident completely changed the way he thinks about investing, family, and financial planning. He explains why investors should focus not only on acquiring assets but also on creating systems that allow future generations to manage and preserve them.

Aaron also discusses how he works with investors on financing, why he developed software to organize ownership structures, and how his own family trust has become the foundation for his long term investment strategy.

• How a 2008 motorcycle accident changed Aaron's outlook
• Why succession planning matters for every investor
• Simplifying trusts, entities, and business structures
• Helping children understand family finances
• Using real estate to build long term family stability
• Defining success on your own terms

Aaron Chapman is a real estate financing expert, investor, entrepreneur, and author of Redneck Economics. He helps investors secure financing while building structures designed to preserve wealth across generations.

Website: AaronChapman.com

Visit AaronChapman.com to learn more about his books, financing services, and strategies for building lasting family wealth.

Alex Pardo spent years mastering wholesaling.

Then he realized he was building transactions instead of assets.

In this conversation, Alex explains why he walked away from a successful wholesaling operation and shifted into self storage investing. He shares how seeing one of his coaching clients buy a facility introduced him to the asset class and eventually led him to unwind a business with significant overhead to pursue something different.

Alex also discusses his buy box, why location matters so much, how he manages facilities remotely, and why many of the skills he learned in residential investing apply directly to self storage.

A chicken and a duck in the backyard were not exactly what Derek Morton expected to find.

In this episode, Derek shares stories from the front lines of property management and explains how technology is changing the business. As the owner of Net Gain Property Management, he oversees 650 units across Utah and uses systems that help owners reduce vacancies and improve communication.

Derek explains why he prefers working with experienced investors, why he is stepping away from student housing, and how AI is already helping troubleshoot maintenance requests and automate processes.

One expensive tax bill changed the course of Dave Foster's investing career.

After discovering the power of the 1031 exchange, Dave used the strategy to grow his portfolio and eventually fund ten years of life aboard a sailboat with his family. Today, he helps other investors use tax deferred exchanges to align their investments with their goals.

Dave explains how investors can exchange properties across different markets, common mistakes to avoid, and why a successful 1031 strategy starts with understanding the reason behind the move.

A fire that wiped out 12 units led David Kamara to make an unusual decision. Instead of replacing his property manager, he made them a true partner.

In this conversation, David shares how that decision transformed the way his company operates. Today, Cape Sierra Capital owns nearly 1,200 apartments throughout Michigan and focuses on multifamily properties that sit between the small mom and pop space and the large institutional market.

David explains how aligning incentives with his management team has improved deal selection, operations, and investor results. He also talks about patient capital, measured growth, and why he prefers long term ownership when properties are performing well.