440: How to be a Rockstar Farming Agent and Dominate Your Local Market with Allison Van Wig

Get tips, actionable advice and valuable nuggets on how you can create a hyper-focused farming strategy that dominates your local market. Rockstar farming agent Allison Van Wig shared a ton of great information in her interview with Pat Hiban. You’ll hear about using Zillow ads combined with Facebook retargeting to reach the right prospects, why your listings should always be within a 5 to 10 min. drive of your location, what Allison does to strategically to beat her competition on a regular basis and so much more. Don’t miss this podcast!

For more than 28 years, Allison Van Wig has been serving the needs of Long Beach and Lakewood home sellers and buyers. She has maintained her status as a Top Home Seller for 15 straight years by providing not only the finest service, but also providing the most vital component of any successful real estate transaction.

Join us as Allison shares her mindset and a glance at her journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming the recognized expert in the Long Beach and Lakewood real estate markets. Continue reading →

439: How to Go from $7 to Managing a $100 Million Real Estate Investment Portfolio with Vinney Chopra

Hear how Vinney Chopra came to the U.S. with $7 in his pocket and now manages a very successful real estate investment portfolio worth over $100 million in our latest Real Estate Rockstar Radio podcast. If you want to build wealth through investing in multi-family properties and would like to learn more about real estate syndication, then this interview is the place to start. Vinney touches on everything from how to decide where to invest, how to find your first million to buy a multi-family property, the emerging U.S. markets you should investigate investing in and much more in his interview with Pat Hiban.

Vinney Chopra came to the US from India with $7 in his pocket. He sold encyclopedias and bibles door-to-door as a student, graduated from George Washington University and became a mechanical engineer. As a syndication expert, Vinney has facilitated over 20 successful syndication deals and has acquired and manages a very successful real estate investment portfolio worth over $120 million.

Join us as Vinney shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming a syndication expert. Continue reading →

437: Your Guide to Selling Real Estate to International Buyers Successfully with Reed Goossens

Successfully selling real estate to international buyers can be tricky business due to all the hoops you and your clients must jump through to get deals done. If you want to be ready to pull the trigger when you find your international clients a good deal, then you must make sure to have a number of things in order ahead of time. Reed Goossens is an international buyer expert who, in this podcast interview with Pat Hiban, dives deep into everything you need to serve your international buyer clients successfully.

Reed moved to the U.S. in 2012 to pursue a career in structural engineering, however he discovered a passion for real estate investing. With limited funds, and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplexes to growing his own real estate investing firm, RSN Property Group. Reed now syndicates large multi-million dollar deals across the U.S. Over the past 3 years, he has been involved in over $50 million worth of multifamily real estate. He certainly lives up the ‘never say die’ Aussie attitude!

Join us as Reed shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by providing real estate solutions for both investors and sellers to aid with transforming underutilized urban properties into exceptional residential and diverse communities. Continue reading →

436: How Technology is Disrupting Real Estate Investing with RealtyShares Founder and CEO Nav Athwal

Get ready to dig deep into disruptive technology for real estate investing crowdfunding with Nav Athwal – the Founder and CEO of RealtyShares. In this podcast, Pat and Nav give you an in-depth look into exactly how individuals can invest in real estate using the RealtyShares platform. This is truly and informative and interesting podcast for anyone interested in real estate investing and what the future of investing may look like as more and more disruptive technology takes hold. 

Nav Athwal is the Founder and CEO of RealtyShares, a curated online marketplace for real estate investing. His platform connects individual and institutional investors to private U.S. real estate investments, raising $200 million across more than 400 deals in 31 states. Prior to founding RealtyShares, Nav was a real estate and land use attorney in San Francisco, representing developers, fund managers, nonprofits and public and private REIT’s on some of the largest US real estate and renewable energy projects. Nav holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis and a J.D. from UC Berkeley Law School where he was Class Valedictorian. Nav is also is a regulator contributor to Forbes and TechCrunch.

Join us as Nav shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by transforming the real estate investment landscape. Continue reading →

431: How to Become the Go-To Luxury Listing Agent in Your Market with Michael LaFido

Ready to move up to luxury listings? More importantly, are you ready to become the go-to luxury listing agent in your local market? Don’t miss this podcast with luxury listing expert to get a wealth of actionable information you can put to use right away and turn yourself into a luxury listing specialist in your local real estate market.

Michael LaFido is a top-producing Realtor® and real estate consultant with over sixteen years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, Michael learned the importance of high-caliber marketing versus “traditional marketing”, which has become the key to his success. This approach is based on developing and maintaining relationships with his clients, so that he can serve them with the highest standard of customer service and respect. Michael LaFido is the author of the book “Marketing Luxury”.

Michael is the founder of the Marketing Luxury Group. The Marketing Luxury Group assists other real estate agents and affluent home owners by providing premium Bespoke services including “lifestyle marketing’, consulting, and PR services to help agents and owners sell their luxury homes using our proven and reputable strategies.

Michael also created the nationally recognized luxury certification for real estate agents which is known as Luxury Listing Specialist (LUXE). This new certification establishes a minimum set of standards for agents that represent luxury homes and is offered as Continuing Education (CE) for real estate agents in certain states.

Join us as Michael shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by having his methods become “The New Standard” for marketing luxury homes today. Continue reading →

430: Mastering Multiple Income Streams for Real Estate Wealth with Heath Higgins

Heath Higgins is growing real estate wealth by utilizing 9 active real estate partnerships and by owning multiple real estate related businesses. Hear the Jefferson City, Missouri real estate agent share his secrets and strategies for success with Pat in our latest Pat Hiban’s Real Estate Rockstar Radio podcast. And as Pat says in the beginning of the interview, Heath has grown his business and wealth the smart way and “you’re going to want to listen to this several times in a row.”

Heath Higgins is a husband and father of 3. He is a licensed agent since 2001 and broker of his own Company (Realty Executives) since 2007. Heath is the Team leader of the Heath Higgins team of Expert Advisors which consist of anywhere between 8-12 agents. Heath Higgins just opened a second Real Estate office in Columbia, MO which is 30 miles north of Current office in Jefferson City, MO. Since 2001, Heath has offered his Guaranteed Sales Program. He believes whole heartedly in Multiple Streams of Income and the # 1 Key to Success is being Coachable- Which is the Title to his new book that he is currently writing.

Heath currently owns an Insurance Agency (Allstate Franchise), a Home Inspections Co (paramount home inspections), he has 9 Active LLC partnerships that fix and flip, own and manage rentals (52 Units), Lease Purchase Homes (7 Currently Under Contract), Commercial Real estate including the Building that he owns that all of his other Businesses rent from, another Commercial Building and lot that a Burger King Franchise operates out of.
Heath has been a big fan of the Real Estate Rockstars Podcast for a while and was just thinking to himself how much he would love to be on the show. Then Boom, Heath got an email asking to do so. Power of “as a man think”.

Join us as Heath shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by becoming ranked among the Top 10 Real Estate Teams in the Midwest Region! Continue reading →

428: Building a Million-Dollar Business from Day One with Anthony Marguleas

Want to start your own real estate business? Real Estate Rockstar Anthony Marguleas jumped right in the real estate game with his own business from day 1. Hear how Anthony forgoed the traditional route of cutting his teeth with an established company and instead, created a highly successful real estate business which generated $4 million in sales his first year as a real estate agent. You’ll also hear how Anthony established himself as the go-to expert in his market along with driving leads to his company with a free marketing technique any agent can put into action.

Anthony Marguleas is the owner of Amalfi Estates, one of Los Angeles’ leading independent real estate companies. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Pacific Palisades. Anthony is a true entrepreneur whose success comes through perseverance, hard work, and an unshakeable belief in the right of his clients to be well informed. He ensures that they receive the best possible information. His service is founded on the question, “Is it in my client’s best interest?”

He has individually sold close to $1 billion in properties, and is ranked #60 by The Wall Street Journal out of over one million agents nationwide. His award-winning approach to service has been profiled on ABC News and the Fine Living Network, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a Real Estate columnist for local newspapers and has published 200 real estate articles. Since 2004, Anthony has guest lectured for UCLA’s real estate principles class, and he co-authored the book California Real Estate Client Strategies.

Anthony has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of California, Riverside, where he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award. In addition, he was enrolled in the MRED program (Masters in Real Estate Development and Finance) at USC. He is an active member in several real estate organizations, including the State and National Association of Realtors, and holds several professional designations such as Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist. He is an expert negotiator thanks to his completion of the highly respected KARASS seminars course, which has helped save tens of thousands of dollars for his many clients. He truly believes in giving back to his community. As a former vice president of the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, Anthony is passionate about giving back 10% of his net commission from every sale to the charity of his clients’ choice. View the complete list of his donations.

Join us as Anthony shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by providing exclusive representation to both buyers and sellers. Continue reading →

427: Commercial Pilot to Crushing it with 400-Plus Sales with Nick McLean

Make more money in real estate by jumping in the co-pilot’s seat and following former international freight pilot Nick McLean’s success strategies and systems. Hear Nick share how he went from 1 sale his first year to growing his business to 400-plus sales by year 8 while becoming the big fish in a small pond of 40,000 residents. Nick dealt out some serious meat and potatoes in this podcast – everything from closing more leads using the “scrum” process to using a training process which helped one of his new agents get 11 pending sales in the first 35 days. Get out the pen and paper and listen to this podcast now!

Nick McLean is the leader of the Nick McLean Real Estate Group, and is the host of KPQ 560 AM’s Real Estate Now show. He and his team have a proven repeatable system for selling homes in less time and for more money. Nick’s team certainly did become the fastest growing real estate firm in North Central WA and the #1 Real Estate Team in Wenatchee, Leavenworth & Lake Chelan area. He focuses on marketing his client’s homes on every available marketing outlet, including internet radio and TV.

Join us as Nick shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by consistently providing the highest quality real estate service and changing the way real estate is sold in North Central WA. Continue reading →

426: Stop Wasting Your Time with Zillow! Learn How John Lieber Closes 20 Deals Annually from Zillow Online Leads

Hear solo real estate agent John Lieber share money-making strategies that helped him grow his business year after year. You’ll hear John tell Pat the exact steps he uses to bring in 20 sales annually from Zillow – simple steps that most agents fail to perform, thus failing to see results from Zillow online leads. Listen now as this former professional golfer and house flipper shared a wealth of actionable advice in his discussion with Pat.

John Lieber came into real estate after a career as a world-ranked professional golfer with a belief that an attitude of excellence carries over to all career endeavors. John has grown his real estate practice every single year since he started his real estate career in 2008. John developed many of his sales techniques from extensive work with large real estate investment groups who needed to acquire properties at the lowest possible price and to market and sell effectively for profit. John has helped numerous clients—from first-time home buyers to experienced investors—acquire property at a significant discount. John is a licensed real estate broker and holds a Business Management degree from San Diego State University. With a firm belief in continuing education, John holds the Certified Distressed Property Expert designation (CDPE), Certified Investment Agent Specialist (CIAS) and has taken multiple real estate and investment courses.

Join us as John shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by providing unparalleled client satisfaction! Continue reading →

424: The 100% Virtual Team Model that Delivers More Profits and Creates Raving Fans with Mike Mazyck

Can you make more profits, work fewer hours and sell even more units with a 100% virtual team? Dallas, Texas area real estate rockstar Mike Mazyck is proof positive that you can do all of that and more using the right systems, recruiting the right team members and doing the right things to wow your clients during, not just after, the transaction. Hear exactly how Mike is doing things differently than most real estate teams, but doing those things in a way that is delivering massive success for his team in today’s interview with Pat Hiban.

Mike Mazyck is the owner/broker of Mike Mazyck Realty. His team has a thriving real estate team just outside of Dallas and will close close to 700 homes this year. Mike graduated from Bible College in 2003. He did personal training for 4 years with 24hr. Fitness prior to real estate.  Mike was licensed since 2003 and became Rookie of the year during his first full year in business. He is married to his wife Tiffany and they have two children, Madeline and Pierson.

Join us as Mike shares his mindset and a glance at his journey to becoming a Real Estate Rockstar by providing better customer service to both buyer and seller clients.

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