In this episode we call "Living in a Van Down by the River," NARPM(R) Radio host Pete Neubig interviews “Roofstock” real estate investor podcast host/Roofstock Academy director Michael Albaum , who discusses what it takes to live in a van down by the river! Michael lived in a van with his wife and traveled the country while working full time. Roofstock is a platform that helps real estate investors purchase single-family homes all over the country. Roofstock works with thousands of real estate investors ranging from newbies to experienced. Learn what investors are looking for in a property manager, why they self-manage and how to overcome it.

In this episode we call “Secrets of the Property Management Industry,” Pete interviews 2023 NARPM® President Tim Wehner, MPM® RMP®, and Vice President of Acquisition Integrations for Evernest, on discusses all things property management, including the Evernest/Dodson merger, why he gives back, how he got started in the business and sales secrets on growing your business. Also, Pete unveils the three numbers that changed his maintenance division around.

In this episode we call “Secrets to Starting a New Property Management Company," Pete interviews Amy Karns Hanson, MPM®, RMP®, of A Plus Management. Amy has successfully run her own brokerage for over 16 years and actively participates in real estate investing. In 2016, she moved to Dallas, Texas, where she currently is the Managing Broker for A Plus Management. She iwas 2022 Central Regional Vice President for NARPM® and is 2023 Treasurer. Pete’s hot topic of the day is "Owner Financing."

In this episode we call “How to Grow Your Property Management Business," Pete interviews Brian Hughes, co-founder of BizDev Mastermind. Pete and Brian discuss the difference between sales and marketing, what exactly does a BDM do, strategies to generate leads, key elements of a sales process and how to hire and compensate a property manager. Pete’s hot topic of the day is "Sales vs.Ops," the ying and the yang that is sales versus operations.

In this episode we call “Strategy: Pulling Out All the Stops to Onboard 150 Units in 7 Days," an onboarding success story, Pete interviews NARPM® member Julie Mullinax, co-owner and CEO of CRM Properties in Indianapolis, Indiana. Pete talks to Julie about how she came to manage over 920 units in five different markets in Indiana (Indianapolis, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, Muncie, Lafayette), including single-family and multi-family homes and three larger apartment complexes (25 to 60 units). She talks about her strategy of onboarding 150 units that had gone bad with another property management company and how she pulled out all stops to get the units onboarded in a seven-day period. Pete’s hot topic of the day is "Home Warranty Companies."

In this episode we call “Streamlining your lease renewal process,” Pete interviews NARPM® member Kyle Stepenson, president of KRS Holdings Inc. in Richmond, VA. Pete talks to Kyle about how he came to manage over 4,000 units in the Richmond area, including single-family and multi-family homes. He talks about his strategy of vertical specialties in property management and putting together a team that specializes in a specific area with specific purposes. Pete’s hot topic talks about streamlining your lease-renewal process.

In this episode we call “Catching Up With Kellie,” Pete interviews NARPM® Past President Kellie Tollifson (2020), MPM® RMP®, co-founder of T-Square Properties in the Greater Seattle area. Kellie began her 27-year career in property management as a landlord managing her own investment properties. After developing systems, processes and industry-leading service standards that answered needs in the marketplace for high-quality, tech-driven and cost-effective property management, she and her team grew T-Square Properties to over 600 single-family rentals and 110 homeowner associations. Kellie recently sold her business. Pete and Kellie discuss the main driver for that decision and the process she went through.

In this episode we call “Escaping the Rat Race,” Pete interviews David Richter, author of “Profit First for Real Estate Investing.” Richter discusses how so many of us come up living in this rat race mentality. We go to school, get a job, work 9-5 and then carry on this mentality when we start our own businesses - living paycheck to paycheck and owner to owner, not prioritizing ourselves as the business owner, and looking for the number to escape the rat race mentality.

In the new episode titled "Break Free From the Grind: Running Your Business Without It Running You," Pete catches up with Andrea Hardaway, president/founding partner of First Property Management, for a very candid conversation. Andrea is the author of the newly released "Property Management Freedom: Grow Your Property Management Company Without Burning Yourself Out" (2022). "Property Management Freedom" introduces a three-phase approach to breaking free of the endless operational work and moving towards living the type of life you set out to live when you started on this journey.

In an episode we call “Where are they now?” Pete catches up with his old business partner and co-founder of Empire Industries, Steve Rozenberg.  Steve discusses how he grew Empire Industries from inception to 950+ single family homes in three markets.  Steve discusses, marketing, leveraging, hiring and the importance of the business owner growing.  The business will only grow to the level of the business owner