Eddie Gant
Any real estate investor in Central Texas already knows that Eddie Gant is one of the leading real estate investors in Texas with more than 1300 property purchases and renovations under his belt. Eddie is the owner and manager of one of the most successful HomeVestors® offices in the nation, and he frequently charms his audience with his southern style on television and radio shows involving real estate investing. Eddie regularly shares his wealth of knowledge as a long-time REBaller supporter, so stay posted on opportunities to meet him and learn in person how to build an empire like his.
Jeffrey Taylor aka “Mr. Landlord”
This man can walk into a room of real estate investors without the need for an introduction. Jeffrey Taylor, also known as Mr. Landlord is superbly energizing and has an uncanny ability to turn every unsuccessful landlord-and-tenant situation into a win-win for both sides. His charisma draws in a crowd of any size, but its his invaluable insight that will make any listener a believer. As the author of The Landlord’s Survival Guide and The Landlord’s Kit among several others, Mr. Landlord is regularly sought after by national television, radio and podcast shows. He will return to a REBallers event in the future!
David Buttross
This angel investor sells real estate owner financing, manages a small business incubator, provides consulting services to small businesses, and runs a full-service real estate company called Buttross Properties, www.buttross.com.
As a visionary and hands-on business leader, he has proven his ability to generate profitable business investments and excel in the most challenging selling and business situations. He is the author of Long-Term Greedy and well-known Austin businessman and civic leader. With a real estate portfolio at the $60 million mark, David encompasses the definition of a REBaller.
Carl Zoellner
Anderson Advisors
A Texas attorney, Carl performs strategic planning for business owners with a focus on asset protection and tax planning. He is well-versed on legal and tax tools available for real estate investors. also do public speaking engagements for our clients to educate them on the tools that are available for their investments from a legal and tax perspective as well.
Shawn Woedl
VP of NREIG
One of the most successful minds in the real estate insurance industry, Shawn Woedl is a recognized expert in the field. As Vice President of National Real Estate Insurance Group, Shawn has helped the company grow to become the largest and most profitable national insurance program for real estate investors in the country.
Nathan Long
President of Quest Trust Company
The brother of Quest Trust CEO/Owner H. Quincy Long, Nathan has a background, and comes from, a real estate investing family. Nathan has helped Quest Trust grow from a small 8 person family business to a small company with more than 100 employees and over $1.5 Billion under administration for over 15,000 clients. He is an expert on the subject of “alternative” investments like real estate, notes, precious metals, oil & gas, private placements, etc. within a self directed IRA, Health Savings Account (HSA), Coverdell Education Savings Account (ESA) and/or 401(k)s.
Matt Matza
Executive Vice President of Visio Lending
Matt is responsible for spearheading our capital raising efforts and other strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Visio Lending, Matt was Managing Director at Cypress Real Estate Advisors where he led capital market activities and oversight for investment acquisitions, dispositions, and asset management activities. Matt’s involvement with Cypress included the investment of over $700 million in equity across various asset classes. Matt previously worked in Houston, Texas, for Centennial Ventures, a venture capital firm, where he evaluated investment opportunities in the telecom sector. Earlier in his career, Matt worked in San Francisco, California, for McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, where he advised clients across various industries. Matt received his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Texas and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Cole Schindler
Executive Vice President & Strategic Development Officer of Southstar Bank
Over the last decade, Cole Schindler has helped meet the lending needs of Southstar Bank customers. He enjoys networking after work and is a member of the Austin Country Club. He also enjoys fishing, music, hunting, and working on rental properties that he manages.
Haley Gant
Certified IRA Specialist of Quest Trust Company
From a young age, Haley Gant has always been involved in real estate. After being exposed to this lifestyle and finding that she enjoyed it, she decided to go to college for Agricultural Economics with a focus in Finance and Real Estate, staying in the field of what she knows best. This set her up for a perfect opportunity at Quest.
Since starting at Quest Trust Company in June of 2016, she has played a major role in the development of multiple Quest offices. From managing the grand opening of our Dallas classroom to the business development role she currently holds in our marketing department in Houston, Haley has played an important role in growing the company through business relations and helping educate people across the US about SDIRAs. You can often catch her on a weekly webinar or other featured podcast as a guest speaker educating people about the world of alternative investments.
Morad Fiki
Upon honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy in 2013, Morad Fiki has built his business on Integrity, Honor, Honesty, and Trust. With his burning passion for the industry, Morad has become one of the faces of the luxury real estate concierge service in Houston.
Recognized as the forerunner in Houston real estate, Morad strives to be at the forefront of the “next new thing” to provide the freshest and most modern marketing strategies. His legacy brings flavor, creativity, and excellence to the real estate field, dubbing him as “The Future” of luxury real estate in Houston. Named by Houston Luxury Magazine as one of “Houston’s Luxury Real Estate Professionals,” Morad continues to use his expertise to help his clients achieve their goals of homeownership and investment.
George Salas
Short-Term Rental Expert
George is a man of massive action.
His leap of faith from a more than 10 years branding & marketing journey into the competitive Houston real estate space took place in early 2018. Within such a relatively short period, George & his team successfully executed more than 80 Real estate transactions that include fix & flips, wholesale deals, owner finance & subject to wraps.
His mission is to build his entire empire through empowering real estate investors & Airbnb hosts to create even more cash flow through his many diversified real estate, short-term rental & business strategies.
He now teaches these unique success strategies in a step-by-step blueprint exclusively to those who choose to… Jumpstart their business & lives to the next level.
Tony Cappaert
Founder & CEO, Blue Maple/Head of Lead Generation, Compass
Tony Cappaert is the Founder & CEO at Blue Maple, a vacation rental investment firm and property management company. Blue Maple owns and manages a portfolio of unique, high-demand cabins and cottages in the vacation markets outside Washington, DC — and manages all portfolio and property operations.
Previously, Tony was the Co-Founder and COO at Contactually, a CRM software company for real estate brokerages and agents. Tony sold Contactually to Compass — the largest US independent real estate brokerage — in 2019. Today he manages all lead generation and partnerships for the company. In 2021, Compass went public on the NYSE (COMP).
Tony regularly speaks and writes about startups and real estate. He has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and other publications.
Earlier in his career, Tony was a product manager at Microsoft and an investment analyst for an impact investment firm.
Clint Yates
Clint Yates is a mortgage lender and real estate investor in the Texas Market. A Navy Veteran and Washington State University Graduate with a bachelors degree in finance.
Clint has been in the real estate field most of his life. He grew up watching his parents build a large real estate portfolio and has followed in their foot steps building his own portfolio.
Clint loves to travel and has learned how to capitalize on credit card rewards through his real estate expenditures allowing him to travel the world for virtually free.
Brodrick Norman
Land Guru / Army Veteran / Cowboy
BRODRICK NORMAN always had a love for livestock & some good ol’ fashion Texas ranch life but didn’t know in his FFA (Future Farmers of America) days in high school, he’d come full circle to be a “land guy” with a knack for finance.
In the late 90’s, Brodrick joined an Austin start-up which quickly grew from 4-60. In 2000, he bought his first duplex, but was part of the dot.com boom, which forced his path to reroute. He started graduate school in 2003 at The University of Texas & received his MBA in Finance. He catapulted straight to Wall Street covering hedge funds, pension funds & CTAs for Merrill Lynch.
The GTA Real Estate Fund I, LLC (the parent company of LandKey TX) was born. Today, the business has grown exponentially & he believes everyone should be able to own land…so he offers seller financing to help get folks there.
Russell Simmons
Broker – Texas Area Properties
Russell Simmons was born and raised in Houston, Texas and has had a passion for real estate since buying his first property as a teenager, becoming a real estate agent at 21 years old and running his own brokerage firm Texas Area Properties since 1993. Russell as an investor has renovated, owned and operated more than 500 units of houses, warehouses, offices and apartments in the Houston area while simultaneously helping his clients build their own solid portfolios.
Russell enjoys mentoring young agents and investors on how to build a solid real estate portfolio that is diversified and can withstand the market fluctuations over a long period of time.
Nathan Haley
Realtor | Owner – Coastal Palm Investments LLC
Nathan have been investing for 10 years. He was also a realtor in the Houston area for the last 8 of those 10 years.
He started his investing career with wholesaling properties which takes no money. He also worked with a business partner of his at the same time who acquired over 430 properties. he have grown his knowledge in investing and have wholesaled and flipped over 475 properties ranging from $2,000 to $83K in profits.
Adam Schneider
Real Estate Investor, Private Lender
Adam Schneider is a franchise operator and development agent with HomeVestors of America (the We Buy Ugly Houses people). He owns a residential real estate brokerage firm (Homewood Realty, LLC—a member of the Triangle MLS and the Fayetteville MLS). He is an AAPL-certified private lender, a member of the Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA), and leads the TREIA Experienced Investor sub-group meetings. He also leads the Triangle Deal Maker Sessions meetings. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School, B.S. in Economics)
Juan Cristales
Real Estate Investor
Juan Cristales is an Honors Entrepreneurship graduate who focuses on putting together lucrative real estate opportunities so that his investors make safe, consistent returns.
He is a sought-after professional for advice on creative real estate investments and deal structuring. Juan has developed those leadership qualities sought after in trust-worthy partner from years of experience in leading others.
Amanda Fisher
Chief Strategy Officer – Trinity Safety Group
Amanda is an engaging team builder and Director of Leadership and Sales Management. A respected leader, Amanda inspires original thinking as she trains organizations to effectively motivate and empower their most indispensable asset – the humans within.
Chris Bounds
Christian | Husband & Father | Investor-Realtor | eXp Realty Top 1% Influencer
Chris Bounds is a distinguished real estate professional, mentor, educator, and Texas Realtor with eXp Realty.
He is a Christian, husband, father of two, private pilot, and IRONMAN finisher.
With his wife Jamie, Chris has used more than $18 million in private lender funds to flip over 200 houses.
Chris is an active Realtor and team leader of Bounds Realty Group by eXp Realty.
He enjoys helping homeowners find the best solution to sell their house and remodeling homes for first-time homebuyers.
Chris founded Invested Agents to help real estate agents increase their income, build wealth, and create a lifestyle they deserve.
Mike Jesowshek, CPA
CPA at JETRO and Associates
Mike is the Founder of JETRO and Host of the Small Business Tax Savings Podcast. Mike has spent the majority of his career as an entrepreneur. He was CFO and co-founded several companies and has experience in all business stages.Mike earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Master’s degree in Accounting. He is a licensed CPA.
Megan McCrea
Founder, The Hospitality Creator | President, NASTRA
Megan McCrea owns and self-manages a small group of 5 traditional short-term rentals and 1 extended stay rental, Southbound Stays in Nashville and the surrounding area.
In addition to her own rentals, she also offers interior styling & furnishing and consulting services to fellow short-term rental owners and property managers through her company, Hospitality Creator, and serves as the President of the Nashville Short Term Rental Association (NASTRA).
Her efforts in the industry have received recognition in the short-term rental industry, named “1 of 10 most empowered hosts” worldwide by Airbnb and “1 of 19 women making waves in the vacation rental industry” worldwide by Lodgify.
Glenn Stromberg
Founder, Stromberg Investment Group
Glenn began his career in real estate in 1982, quickly rising to the top of the real estate game.
In 2006 Stromberg Investment Group was formed with the mission to be one of the best real estate investment companies in the country. The 2008 crisis that took over the American economy led Glenn to redefine his business model and create the current model used by Stromberg Investment Group, which allows investors a safer option to investing and receiving higher returns without the high risk that Wall Street or the “flipping game” yields.
Stromberg Investments offers investors lucrative passive Turn Key options and Long-Term Lending opportunities
Brian J. Buhr
Founder – PowerMind, Wealth LLC
For more than 15 years, Brian J. Buhr has successfully created, developed, and sold companies within the healthcare and real estate industry.
In 2008, while building an extremity medical company, Brian began purchasing single family rental houses for cash-flow and for tax deductions against his primary medical income. This is where Brian began to realize that real estate would eventually become his passion.
It wasn’t until 2015 that he was offered a buyout agreement to sell his entire company to a leading medical competitor. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as this allowed Brian to focus exclusively on all aspects of real estate investing. His primary interests today include teaching private money lending, financial education, debt relief, and wealth accumulation strategies within real estate.
Huy Nguyen
Investment Property Specialist
Huy is very passionate about Real Estate for him, Real Estate is the best vehicle on Earth to preserve wealth and generate cash flow.
He and his wife have been investing actively in the real estate market for the past 8 years. His business really took off 4 years ago when he finally had the courage to let go of his full time job! (1st year was rough, but it got better). That’s when he started helping other people buy and sell more real estate.
Today – They own and operate 4 main businesses. eXp, which includes production and agent attraction. On top of that they still owning rentals, Airbnb is an another exciting part of their life on top of everything else, and the classic fix and flip business with his awesome partners.
Jerry Ta
CPA | Real Estate Broker
Jerry is a Houston, TX-based Real Estate Broker, investor, and property manager who has been involved in real estate since 2011. Prior to his work in real estate, he served as an external auditor for Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers as well as an internal auditor for a large oil and gas corporation. In his work as an auditor, he performed full-scope audits of financial statements for large SEC and non-SEC clients, including companies in the global 500 and multinationals.
Propertycare, was founded in 2013 by Jerry and has since managed over a thousand rental properties throughout the greater Houston area. The Company was founded in order to allow landlord investors to truly own rentals in a passive manner it was meant to be. It provides the investors the ability to let go of the day to day responsibilities of owning rental property.
Benny Benavides
Realtor | President – Just Buying Houses
Benny is actively buying and selling houses, negotiating with sellers, and managing contractors every day in Houston, TX. Benny has won several awards as a top producing agent at Re/Max 5 Star Realty.
In his younger days, Benny was a manager at Outback Steakhouse. Benny landed his first real estate investment deal using the old-school handwritten letters and driving for dollars. He wholesaled that property and made over $15k. His real estate journey wasn’t sailing as smoothly as Benny wanted, but that did not stop him from staying in the game. Through persistence and hard work, Benny and his wife had their best year ever in 2020. Join us in this episode as Benny tells us his story, his secret sauce, and his advice for other real estate investors.
Will Hull
COO – Nuparadox
After venturing into the real estate realm over seven years ago, Will spearheaded Nuparadox into an avenue where real estate investors near and far could invest in real estate with confidence and freedom.
Will has cultivated his business by learning from each deal and focusing on wholesaling, rehabbing, and rentals. Nuparadox is currently doing over 160 transactions per year.
David Lindner
Vice President – City Bank
David Lindner has been in finance since 2011. He’s currently working as a Vice President at City Bank. He has helped several investors to secure financing for investment properties.
What makes him unique is that he himself also owns rental properties.
Steve Rozenberg
Airline Pilot | Top Contributor to Bigger Pockets
An international commercial airline pilot who, after the tragedies of 9/11 was forced to realize that his “Safe and Secure Career” was nowhere near as safe and secure as he had thought. Steve chose real estate investing to be able to control his own destiny and create his own generational wealth.
Parlaying all of the success from real estate investing and property management growth. Steve has gone on to be one of the most well-known influencers in the Real Estate Community, he is a top contributor to BiggerPockets as well as other top-level Real Estate platforms. He has been a guest and collaborated on countless panels, webinars, masterminds, conferences, podcasts as well as being a published author and popular speaker.
Shenoah Grove
Co-founder of Texas Real Estate Investing Association
Shenoah Grove is a fourth-generation Texas real estate investor. She started investing in 2003 and became a full-time investor in 2004. Shenoah and her husband, Phillip Grove, have transacted over 1,000 real estate deals.
Shenoah joined her local real estate investing association in Austin in 2003 and started to lead it in 2004 and formally purchased the association in 2008. In 2013 Shenoah created associations throughout Texas with monthly meetings in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Every month hundreds of members, guests, and vendors attend. If you’d like to attend a meeting, head over to www.TexasREIAS.com to get started in your investing.
Shenoah is a licensed Texas Realtor (#0518223) and Broker (#0591721). She has her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her MBA from Rice University. Shenoah, Phill, and their son, Zilker, live in the Barton Creek community in Austin, TX. She actively invests in single-family and commercial real estate throughout Texas.
Luke Wong
Commercial Real Estate & Self Storage Investor
Luke grew up in Miami and graduated from Florida State University. He moved to Houston in 2001 and worked in land acquisitions acquiring land for residential subdivisions. From 2011 to 2020, he renovated houses and owned a wholesaling operation.
In the last few years, he has also been actively investing in Commercial Real Estate, such as Retail Centers and Apartment Complexes.
Currently, he is focusing on operating, growing, and acquiring more self-storage facilities. He owns/ co-owns about 1200 storage units.
He is married to his beautiful Moroccan wife, Douniazed, and has two children, Zayne and Soraya.
He is a licensed real estate Broker in the State of Texas. Loves to travel, spend time with family and help others.