Meet the Experts
Dave Lindhal has rehabbed over 521 houses in just under 10 years and owns over 2204 apartment units. Starting out as a struggling landscaper with no experience in construction, Dave accepted an opportunity to renovate a foreclosed house for a local bank during the wintertime when there was no landscaping to do in Boston. The job was completed mostly with the advice of relatives and friends who knew how to do the work.
After completing the first house, he did another and then (after getting over his initial fears) began to buy and hold small apartment buildings for himself. To get the money for down payments (he originally used credit cards until they ran out!), Dave would rehab single-family houses to “flip” for chunks of money, so he could buy more apartment buildings. With in the first 14 months, Dave’s apartment buildings created a positive cash flow of over $10,300 a month for him and his family and with in three and one half years Dave became a multi-millionaire.
Today, Dave has earned millions of dollars renovating houses for resale, and owns over 1811 apartment units with a monthly cash flow equaling what most people make in a year!
E. Alan Cowgill is the owner of Colby Properties, LLC. and President of Integrity Home Buyers, Inc. Alan is a full-time Real Estate Investor, investing in single family and small multi-family properties in Springfield, Ohio.
Since 1995, Alan has bought and sold over 200 investment properties. Alan uses Private Lenders, not banks; to fund his real estate purchases. By doing this, he has created his own private bank of $2,000,000 in funds. Alan looks for "Win - Win" situations, where the seller, the lender, and the eventual homeowner can all "Win". He is not a Realtor, but a Private Investor. Alan has served as an elected official to the Board of Directors for the Clark County Property Management Association. He is an author, consultant and national speaker.
He has been asked to speak on the topics of “Investing for the Beginning Investor.” and “Finding Private Lenders.” His home study system, “Private Lending Made Easy”, shows new and seasoned real estate investors how to find private lenders for their own real estate business. Alan is married and the father of (3) children.
Justin Ford is an active investor in real estate and global stock markets. He is also a veteran financial writer. He has published, edited and written for over a dozen international investment newsletters, including launching the US version of the Fleet Street Letter, the oldest continuously published newsletter in the English Language.
He is the author of Seeds of Wealth, a program for getting children to adopt good money habits from an early age. He is the editor of the Seeds of Wealth Quarterly Investment Update Bulletin. He is a contributing editor and author to a number of books on personal finance, including Michael Masterson’s Automatic Wealth and Dr. Van Tharp’s Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom.
He is also the author of Main Street Millionaire a value-focused real estate investment program.
Steve Cook With no money, bad credit, and a ton of debt from a failed business venture, Steve Cook jumped into real estate investing in 1998. Through hard work, determination and investing correctly, Steve changed his life for the better and became financially free four years later. He did this by specializing in buying and selling ugly houses.
Today, he is known as The Ugly House Investor. He is an expert in wholesaling and rehabbing homes and has done hundreds of deals since beginning his real estate investment career seven years ago. He continues to be an active investor. Using his practical and down-to-earth techniques for investing, Steve has written several books and hosts numerous seminars across the U.S. each year.
His desire to help others get started in the fruitful career of real estate investing and teach them how to invest ethically and morally has helped hundreds of his students become successful investors. Steve is the creator of The Wholesaling for Quick Cash program.
Thomas Phelan offers a unique blend of expertise regarding the Self-Directed IRA and 1031 Exchanging including the purchasing of foreign real estate using one or both of the latter. Thomas Phelan’s articles have been published by ETR, Escape Artist, International Living and the Wall Street Journal and he currently speaks on these most important subjects of the Self-Directed IRA and 1031 Exchanging for International Living in Mexico, Panama, Honduras and Buenos Aires to name a few of the countries he has visited. Thomas has been in the real estate and financial business for over 25 years. He began his career with a degree in Law.
He has held a Series 7 Stock Broker’s License while working for Smith Barney in New York. He has held various Insurance Licenses and Real Estate Broker Licenses in California, Colorado, Wyoming and New York. Since 1999 Thomas has been a Certified 1031 Exchange Specialist. He was a Representative for Starker Services and currently represents Asset Preservations, a national 1031 Exchange Intermediary. Thomas conducts IRA and 1031 Exchange Classes for numerous real estate firms including: Coldwell Banker, Re/Max, Century 21, Prudential and ERA. Thomas wrote: “How To Buy And Sell Real Estate And Never Pay Taxes (legally)”©2003”, a definitive work on the dynamics of 1031 Exchanging especially suited for Realtors®. The foreword is written by real estate legend Ron LeGrand who considers Thomas the Leading Expert in the 1031 Exchange field.
In 2002 Thomas created a seminar based on The Myths of the Self-Directed IRA. Soon Thomas was being invited to speak around the country about this most misunderstood and underutilized controversial subject. Thomas created the first Self-Directed IRA/SEP Wealth Building Boot Camp that specifically addresses the issue of what and how Non Traditional items, especially real estate (including foreign real estate) can be placed in a Self-Directed IRA, SEP, Solo 401(k) or the brand new ROTH 401(k). Thomas is editor of ETR’s Million Dollar IRA, 1031, and Instant Tax Relief programs.
Marko Rubel . Marko was an amateur boxer and computer programmer by training before he immigrated to the US from Croatia 10 years ago. He didn’t speak English when he arrived with nothing more than a small suitcase, $3,000 cash, and zero real estate experience. Within five years, he built up a multi-million-dollar net worth by purchasing Pre-foreclosures and negotiating "Subject to Deals" (purchasing real estate by taking over a property’s existing loan).
Marko’s foreclosure investing system quickly provides three sources of income-an immediate chunk of cash, a steady monthly cash flow and a big payday down the road-all from the same property. You’ll learn the refined system that provides him with over $1 million a year in foreclosure investing income.
