

The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast|Real Estate Investing
Chris Prefontaine
Welcome to the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast. Our episodes are designed to help YOU reach the next level of real estate investing no matter where you are right now.
To make this a reality, we lean into our 32+ years of experience, our huge network of experts, and our thriving community of Associates. With the right tools, the right education, and the right mindset YOU can take control of your financial future.
At Smart Real Estate Coach, we empower individuals and families to create the life of their dreams through real estate.
If you are an aspiring or seasoned real estate investor looking for a proven investment system, robust education, and a thriving support community, you have come to the right place.
We share the best information from our own deals, our Associate's deals, and our guest experts, helping you potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in costly mistakes.
And we know what the work actually takes. Between our Associates and our own deals, we're still completing deals every month and control, at any given time between $60-100 million dollars worth of real estate with little to no money down. If you're serious about making money in the world of real estate investment, then keep listening to learn more!
To make this a reality, we lean into our 32+ years of experience, our huge network of experts, and our thriving community of Associates. With the right tools, the right education, and the right mindset YOU can take control of your financial future.
At Smart Real Estate Coach, we empower individuals and families to create the life of their dreams through real estate.
If you are an aspiring or seasoned real estate investor looking for a proven investment system, robust education, and a thriving support community, you have come to the right place.
We share the best information from our own deals, our Associate's deals, and our guest experts, helping you potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in costly mistakes.
And we know what the work actually takes. Between our Associates and our own deals, we're still completing deals every month and control, at any given time between $60-100 million dollars worth of real estate with little to no money down. If you're serious about making money in the world of real estate investment, then keep listening to learn more!
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Dec 20, 2017 • 38min
Episode 23: How to Protect Your Assets with These Asset Protection Strategies
Attorney Lee R. Phillips is a Counselor of the United States Supreme Court. He has three university degrees — BS, MS, JD — and has held licenses in real estate, mortgage brokering, securities, and life insurance, as well as being a registered investment advisor. Lee is nationally recognized in the fields of business structure, asset protection, financial planning and estate planning. He is the founder of LegaLees Corporation, a company specializing in solving asset protection and tax problems for high net worth individuals. Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/legalees (Promo code CHRIS) SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/lee-phillips/

Dec 13, 2017 • 46min
Episode 22: The Entrepreneur's Journey: How to Navigate Through the Ups and Downs
For more than 20 years, David Mammano has been a serial entrepreneur. Having started seven businesses from scratch, he thrives on starting and growing businesses. Today he thrives on helping others start or grow their businesses by infusing the latest entrepreneurial principles into their strategy. Relevant experiences include being a three-time Inc. Magazine 5000 Growth Company, the host of The Avanti Entrepreneur podcast, a TEDx speaker, a Forbes.com contributing writer, an adjunct professor at the University of Rochester, and the author of business and college planning books. David has started, sold, franchised, licensed, and taken on partners as well as investors with his companies. He's done it all, and now Dave is ready to help others start or grow their companies. David graduated from the University at Buffalo with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications/Advertising. He is also a graduate of the MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program, an executive education program offered through the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). David's community activities include being a local board member for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a local board member for Junior Achievement, and starting his local EO Chapter. In 2004, David published his first book, 101 Things You Can Do To Become an Outstanding Young Adult. His second book, Make Love in the Workplace, a guide to awesome culture in the office, was published in 2014. David is a prolific speaker — speaking at hundreds of business and education events. David is most proud of his family in Victor, NY, including three young children, Gianluca, Melania, and Alessio. His hobbies include family activities, reading, cooking, eating, exercise and repeated attempts at humor. Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/AvantiCoaching SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/AvantiEvent SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/AvantiFreeBook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Dec 6, 2017 • 41min
Episode 21: How to Make a Fortune Doing Student Housing
Dixie Decker has extensive experience with complex real estate transactions. Her expertise is reflected by her extensive 15 years of experience in mortgage lending and real estate investing and she currently holds her license as a real estate agent in Missouri. She's bought, financed, and overseen real estate transactions in excess of 26 million dollars. Her success can be attributed in large part to her team building talents, marketing acumen, and cutting-edge business systems. Through hands-on experience of real estate investing in hundreds of deals, her customer service and quick response time is top notch. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/dixie-decker/ Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/DixieLive SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/DixieSeminar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Nov 29, 2017 • 25min
Episode 20: What Does it Take to Become a Real Estate Professional?
Chris is the Amazon Bestselling author of Real Estate on your terms – Create continuous cash flow now, without using your cash or credit. He's also founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and SmartRealEstatecoachPodcast.com. Chris has been in real estate for 25+ years. His experience includes the construction of over 100+ single family and duplex homes (mostly 1990's and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker / owner which maintained high per agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000's included coaching ½ million and higher realtors in order to scale & automate their business throughout US and Canada. He also participated (and still selectively to date) in doing condo conversions (multi-family homes to condos) and "raise the roof" projects (converting single-family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods). Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high-end mastermind groups and consulting with private mentors. He runs his own buying and selling businesses with his family team which buys 2-5 properties monthly so they're in the trenches every single week. They also help clients do the same thing around the Country. Chris and his family/team have done over 80 million in real estate transactions. They mentor, coach, consult and actually partner with students around the Country (by application only) to do exactly what they do. Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/chris-solocast-3/

Nov 22, 2017 • 48min
Episode 19: How to Become an Authority in Your Real Estate Niche
Adam Witty is the Chief Executive Officer of Advantage Media Group and ForbesBooks. Adam has built Advantage Media Group, the business growth company, into one of the largest business book publishers in America serving over 1,000 members in 40 US states and 13 countries. Advantage was also listed on the Inc. 5,000 list of America's most rapidly growing private companies from 2012 all the way through to 2016. Most recently, Advantage has actually partnered with Forbes to create ForbesBooks, the first book publishing imprint for the global media company. Launched in 2016, ForbesBooks is the next step in Forbes 100 year history of distribution and innovation in the media business. Utilizing the Forbes multi-platform media network, ForbesBooks offers a branding, visibility, and marketing platform to business authors. The exclusive imprint not only gets books to market faster than other top business book publishers, which is super important, it also provides a holistic branding, visibility and marketing platform for leading business leaders and idea makers. In addition to his work with Advantage and ForbesBooks, Adam is a sought after speaker, teacher, and consultant on marketing and business growth techniques for entrepreneurs and authors. He's actually shared the stage with Steve Forbes, Gene Simmons of Kiss, Peter Guber, and Bobby Bowden. Adam has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, in US Today and more. He was named actually to the Young Presidents Organization 40 Under 40, 50 most progressive, and was also named to the 2011 Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list of America's coolest entrepreneurs. Ways to contact Adam: Email: awitty@advantageww.com Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/LeadTheField SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/adam-witty/

Nov 15, 2017 • 56min
Episode 18: Make an Impact Doing Overage Deals
Bob Diamond is a practicing real estate attorney and investor with years of experience in real estate law, investment, development, and is also the author of three books on real estate investing. You may be familiar with Bob from his appearances on Fox, NBC, CNBC, NPR, or Flip That House television show on the TLC network. Bob graduated from Villanova University with a degree in finance in '87 and from Temple University School of Law in 1993. He became a Pennsylvania licensed attorney in '93. During his career outside of the real estate world in law, Bob worked for Meridian Mortgage in their default and REO department. He also worked for Arthur Andersen and Coopers & Lybrand as a business consultant and for the international law firm, Cozen O'Connor, as a real estate attorney. Bob has been investing in real estate for over 20 years and has participated as the buyer, seller, and/or attorney in over $100 million in real estate transactions over the past 20 years. Bob has been teaching real estate investing since 1999, so you have probably heard of Bob in the investor world out there where he's known as the guru's guru. Because of his legal expertise and experience as a real estate attorney, he's actually sought after for his advice and counsel. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/bob-diamond/ Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/blueprint SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/overages SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Nov 8, 2017 • 36min
Episode 17: Automating Your Real Estate Business
Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the Country's most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States. He has been actively investing in Real Estate and Raw Land since 2001, and has completed over 5,200 unique transactions. Mark's company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – "Happy Customers Guaranteed." Mark is the host of one of the top rated podcast in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly title The Best Passive Income Model. He is also the host of the Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/mark-podolsky/ Ways to contact Mark: Website: www.thelandgeek.com Email: support@thelandgeek.com (email with the subject line "Chris Prefontaine podcast" to get the $97 Passive Income Launch Kit for free) Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/landgeek SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/BootcampTickets SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/FlightSchool SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/FlightSchoolPayments SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/IVTwebinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ToolKit SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/geekpay SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Nov 1, 2017 • 45min
Episode 16: Living Life With No Regrets
Former Iowa Prison Guard turned real estate investor, Darin Garman is now a bank owner and board member. Darin quit being a prison guard to go into the real estate business full time but with no experience or capital. Today Darin has helped to start a bank, been on its board of directors, and oversaw almost $40,000,000 in real estate assets. Darin has also raised over $100,000,000 in capital for real estate investments. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/darin-garman/ Ways to contact Darin: Website: heartlandinvestmentpartners.com Website: www.GetRichinRealestatePartnerships.com Twitter: @darinrgarman Books for Investors: www.GarmanToolbox.com Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/garman SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/partners SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Oct 25, 2017 • 46min
Episode 15: Become an Awakened Millionaire
Dr. Joe Vitale is a globally famous author, musician, marketing expert, movie, TV, and radio personality, and also one of the top motivational speakers in the world. His many bestselling books include "The Attractor Factor," "The Key," "Attract Money Now," and "Zero Limits." His latest release is out, "The Awakened Millionaire" and "The Miracle: Six Steps to Enlightenment." A popular expert on the law of attraction and several movies including "The Secret," Joe has also appeared on all top TV networks and in The New York Times and appeared on Newsweek as well. His most recent accomplishments include being the world's first self-help singer-songwriter as seen in Rolling Stone Magazine. To date, Joe has released 17 albums. Several of the songs were recognized and nominated for the Posse Award, the Grammys of positive music. Dr. Joe also created the Miracles Coaching program, which you're going to hear more about to help people achieve their dreams. This man, once homeless, is today a bestselling author who believes in magic and miracles and has spent the last four decades learning how to master the powers that allow us to channel the pure creative energy of life without resistance. A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/joe-vitale/ Ways to contact Joe: Website: www.miraclescoaching.com Website: www.attractmoneynow.com Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS

Oct 18, 2017 • 1h 3min
Episode 14: Make the Call Right Now
Jason Lucchesi founded real estate investing company, Global Fortune Solutions, in the year 2008. Jason has been enjoying a successful career in the real estate industry since 2002 where he started as a Loan Officer for Illinois brokerage, Bancgroup Mortgage. In 2004, Jason joined the Management team at Countrywide Home Loans, which was the nation's #1 lender. In 2008, Jason established his own company to pursue his dream of being a full-time entrepreneur and business owner. Over the past several years as a real estate investor, Jason's interests have been: Real Estate Coaching and Mentoring Working directly with Hedge Funds, Banks, Private Equity Firms and Private Sellers Pre-Foreclosures and Foreclosures, HUD and Government Foreclosures, Short Sales, REOs Non-Performing Notes and Performing Notes Bulk Packages: Notes, Residential and Commercial Properties Wholesaling Residential and Commercial Properties Rehabs Apartment Buildings Income Producing Properties Lease Options Self-Storage Facilities Jason has been married to his wonderful wife, Jamie, for 9 years, and they are proud parents to three children, Brady (age 9), Gavin (age 7), and Cordelia (age 2). A transcript of this episode is available here: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/jason-lucchesi/ Ways to contact Jason: Website: www.JasonLucchesi.com Twitter: @jasonlucchesi Jason's Book: www.getmyflippingbook.com Training: getmyflippingtraining.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/jasonlucchesipage Instagram: @jasonlucchesipage LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonlucchesi Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/lucchesi SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS


