FBF #910: Advise From Retired Military Medic Zach Lemaster - A Master Investor
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Release Date: 06/13/2025
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Today's episode is from Mobile Home Park #21 that originally aired on Aug. 8, 2016. Charles and I will discuss mistake number 10 from our popular eBook, “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them.” We have all heard the phrase, “Use the seller’s numbers” time and time again. This works great when you notice a seller is paying twice as much as they should for management or when your seller is paying for a utility you plan to pass through. However, this can quickly go awry when talking about repairs and maintenance,...
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Welcome back a returning guest-someone who’s made a huge impact in the passive investing world and continues to be aleading voice in the space, Jim Pfeifer. Jim, co-host of the Passive Pockets Podcast and when we last spoke a little over a year ago, he shared his journey transitioning from an active realestate investor to a full-time passive investor. Since then, he’s been busy growing his community, Left Field Investors, which recently merged with Bigger Pockets to create what is now Passive Pockets—a thriving network designed to empower limited partners through connection, education,...
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Cagri Kanver is a managing partner at Watermark investments, a multi-family office LP that invests in various assets across a variety of price brackets nationwide. Their investment strategy revolves around ground-up projects and partnerships with reliable developers, ensuring good income and diversity in their portfolio. To date they have 13 projects nationwide-rental buildings in Oklahoma, Chicago, and Brooklyn, a logistics center, doctor’s offices, an office campus in Tampa, Bay, all of which have been highly profitable and successful ventures. Highlights: 7:52 - The Most Important Things...
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Today's episode is from Mobile Home Park #78 that origainlly aired on Aug. 22, 2017. Two mobile home park investors who are fairly new to the business being that they bought their first park less than 1 year ago but who are absolutely crushing it and have acquired 3 parks to date totaling 652 lots. These two rockstars go by the name Ryan Narus and Ian Tudor and are based out of Charlotte, NC. Today we’re going to dig deep into their business and learn how they went from struggling new investors to owning a portfolio worth in excess of $13 million in just a few short years. Recommended...
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Today's Flash Back Friday episode is from #738 that origianlly aired on May 6, 2024. Zach is a seasoned real estate investor that has accumulated a large portfolio of rental properties across multiple markets including single family, multi-family, commercial and new construction. Zach started his real estate investment journey while working as an Optometrist & Captain for the US Air Force. The cash flow from his real estate investments eventually allowed him to retire early from his career in medicine to be a professional investor by strategically investing in markets that maximize cash...
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Today's episode is from Mobile Home Park #64 that originally aired on April 25, 2017. Charles and I will discuss mistake number 19 from our popular eBook, “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them.” You’ll run across many parks during your search that have park owned units that are being sold on rent to own contracts or owner financing notes. In todays show Charles and I will discuss why you don’t want to pay face value for these notes. Recommended Resources: Accredited Investors, you’re invited...
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Richard Barkham joined CBRE in 2014 as Global Chief Economist and in 2018 he was appointed Senior Economic Advisor. He is based in Dallas and leads a team of 600 researchers worldwide. He holds a PhD in Economics and is the author of two books and numerous academic publications. On apart-time basis he is Senior Fellow and Lecturer in Real Estate at Harvard University and Professor of the Practice at University of North Carolina. He is a Chartered Surveyor, Counsellor of Real Estate and Honorary Professor of the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at The University of London. Connect...
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Today's Flash Back Friday episode is from #771 that originally aired on July 22, 2024. Mark Podolsky is the owner of Frontier Properties, a very reputable and successful land investing company, and has been buying and selling land full time since 2001. Mark has completed over 6,000l and deals with an average ROI of over 300% on cash flips, and over 1,000% on the deals he sells on seller carry terms. Additionally, Mark is a published author and hosts a successful podcast titled the art of passive income. Connect with Mark Podolsky: https://www.thelandgeek.com/ Get Mark's Book: Dirt Rich ...
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Today's episode is from Mobile Home Park #122 that originally aired on Jan. 6, 2021. The practice in grading mobile home parks with the "star" rating (usually one to five stars), which exists for no other type of commercial real estate. What makes this interesting is that almost no one who uses the rating knows what it means or where it comes from. Ask a broker, lender, or even large corporate operators what the difference is between a three-star and a five-star park, and you will likely get a muddled response referring to amenities, paved streets, or swimming pools, but no hard data about how...
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We’re diving deep into the world of short-term rentals—Airbnbs, vacation properties, and everything in between. Everything from market saturation, competition from hotels, bad reviews, regulatory threats, operational pit falls, and what Quentin West believes about the long-term viability of this model. Quentin has built a sizable portfolio of short-term rentals across multiple markets. He’s seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of this business model—and today, he’s pulling back the curtain to share the lessons he’s learned the hard way. Connect with Quentin: IG @qdealshomes Free...
info_outlineToday's Flash Back Friday episode is from #738 that origianlly aired on May 6, 2024.
Zach is a seasoned real estate investor that has accumulated a large portfolio of rental properties across multiple markets including single family, multi-family, commercial and new construction. Zach started his real estate investment journey while working as an Optometrist & Captain for the US Air Force. The cash flow from his real estate investments eventually allowed him to retire early from his career in medicine to be a professional investor by strategically investing in markets that maximize cash flow, appreciation & equity.
Highlights:
3:47 - Zach's Start From Military to Investments
7:45 - Options For Owning Single Family Properties
16:00 - Finding Labor (construction)
20:39 - Gauging Proporty Value (formula)
30:32 - Retention Rate On The Single Family Side
Quote: "There's been an evolution of build to rent space for sure."
Connect with Zach Lemaster: renttoretirement.com
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- If you’re a high net worth investor with capital to deploy in the next 12 months and you want to build passive income and wealth with a trusted partner, go to InvestWithKB.com for opportunities to invest in real estate projects alongside Kevin and his team.
- Looking for the ultimate guide to passive investing? Grab a copy of my latest book, The Cash Flow Investor at KevinBupp.com.
- Tap into a wealth of free information on Commercial Real Estate Investing by listening to past podcast episodes at KevinBupp.com/Podcast.