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REL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson & Mike Gengler - Analyzing Our 146 Unit Apartment PurchaseDo you want to know what to look for in analyzing a deal and when a deal looks good enough to move forward? Join us as we break down one of our best deals that we've taken on, how we found it, what was most appealing about it, what our future plan is with it, and where things are at today. This was a 146 unit property that we closed in July of 2024 in southern Minnesota.Follow Us 👇http://FreedomThroughRealEstate.comhttps://www.relfreedom.com/investhttp://RELFreedom.TVReal People. Real Life Sto...
2025-01-0927 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson & Mike Gengler - How To Invest In Real Estate With An IRADid you know that you can use an IRA to invest in real estate? This is a secret that real estate investors have been using for years to build their wealth. In this episode we discuss how you can take an IRA and turn it into a self-directed IRA that can be used for real estate investing. Whether you have a lot of money saved up in an IRA or not much, you can unlock this powerful tool today. Download our eBook to get all of the information you need here: https://www.relfreedom.com/investFollow...
2024-12-2619 min
Estes Valley Voice PodcastSpecial district elections will be here soonCandidates interested in standing for election on one of five area boards can submit their name from Jan. 26 through Feb. 20Story by Suzy BlackhurstOn Jan. 26, just six short weeks from now, people interested in serving on one of five special taxing districts in the Estes Valley can get an early jump on other candidates. Procrastinators have until Feb. 20 for their name to be printed on a ballot for the elections which will be held May 6, 2025.Operating as Estes Park Health, the Park Hospital District may be the first such special district to...
2024-12-1705 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson & Mike Gengler - How To Invest In A Real Estate SyndicationMany people want to get started investing in real estate, but may not have enough money to get a property themselves, nor do they want to take on a property themselves. Today we cover how people can invest in a real estate syndication with minimal money down, while not having to manage the property themselves, and they get to leverage the experience of full-time real estate professionals. We discuss the benefits of investing in real estate vs other investment options & when a real estate syndication could be a great fit for a real estate investor. We also cover what...
2024-12-1223 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Gengler - From Real Estate Agent To InvestorMike Gengler became a real estate agent and got his license in 2020. He started out working with residential clients, but pretty quickly realized that working with investors and eventually becoming an investor himself better aligned with his future goals. Hear Mike share his journey to building a portfolio of over 200 units and $6.5M in assets under management in the past 2 years while giving up being a real estate agent for residential clients and focusing on helping investors achieve their goals, while Mike's able to work on achieving his own personal goals at the same time!Follow Mike 👇
2024-08-1528 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson & Mike Gengler: Acquiring Our First Short-Term RentalAre you considering getting a short term rental for your real estate investing portfolio? We're in the same boat! Get a sneak peek into our lives as we discuss our short-term rental purchase set to close within the next week in the Finger Lakes region of New York! We talk about our overall investing strategy, what we're looking for in a short-term rental opportunity, what we liked about this particular deal, partnering with investors in deals, and what we're planning on doing with this property in the future to add additional streams of income per night to the property. G...
2023-07-2720 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson & Mike Gengler: How To Set Up A Real Estate SyndicationOftentime real estate agents focus on purchasing single-family flips and dip their toes into smaller multi-family properties ranging from 2-4 units. What would it look like to set up a purchase of a 30+ unit property? This week we discuss setting up a real estate syndication to be able to leverage an agents' ability to find great properties and execute on increasing the value of an asset while having passive investors place their money in these syndications. We discuss why a passive investor would be excited to invest in these types of opportunities, building good strong relationships with your investors...
2023-04-0633 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson, Mike Gengler, Justin Rademacher: Getting Started With Short-Term RentalsReal People. Real Life Stories. Real Wealth Building. REL (Real Estate Leveraged) Freedom: Founded By Mike SwensonShort-Term Rentals on AirBnb and VRBO have been all the rage in recent years. You might be wondering if the market is too saturated or if it's too late to get started investing in your own short-term rental. What are the first steps you can take to get your own short-term rental? We discuss how to pick a market that is a great fit for you, how to pick specific areas within your market, what types of properties to focus...
2023-03-0232 minREL Freedom PodcastMike Swenson - How We Acquired A 25 Unit Property With No Money Out of PocketOn the surface, you'll see that 3 teammates helped purchase a 25 unit apartment property with no money out of pocket! What you don't see is all of the work it took behind the scenes to make it happen. Mike Swenson, Justin Rademacher, and Mike Gengler, co-founders of Elite Advantage Properties, walk through the journey they've taken over the past 2 years that led them to this point. We discuss the ways we've helped investors buy their own properties, all the relationships that we've made and cultivated along the way, and all the deals we've analyzed, to where we were able to...
2022-10-2029 min
KUOW ShortsSubtext: Let your wristband speak for youCOVID shutdowns threatened to kill Mike Gengler’s wristband business until he realized that his product comes in handy in a pandemic. In this episode, KUOW employees experiment with letting their color-coded wristbands say it all -- so they don’t have to. Plus: Should you ask who got COVID and who didn’t?We want to hear your Subtext stories and episode pitches! Contact host Bill Radke at bradke@kuow.org or text 206-926-9955.Â
2022-05-3117 min
Building Great LeadersLeading through ChangeMike Gengler, the President of American Fire Protection Group, discusses his professional journey and his experience with key individuals that have shaped him, both personally and career wise. Gengler offers insights into change management and the use of guiding coalitions to implement new ideas into AFPG. Finally, Gengler shares his opinions on learning from failure and encourages listeners to take calculated risks, even if failure is a possibility.Â
2022-04-1318 minREL Freedom Podcast67: Mike Gengler - What I Learned From My First FlipIf you haven't done a flip before, you're probably wanting to hear some feedback from someone that just went through it. What was that first flip like? What lessons did you learn? What surprised you about your experience? Would you do it again? Meet Mike Gengler, real estate agent with the Elite Advantage Team, based out of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area in Minnesota. He's fresh off of his first flip that he did with the team & working with an investor partner. He shares his firsthand experience on this episode to be able to help others move f...
2022-01-2033 min
Political ClimateA Blueprint for American Climate Action and a Modern Clean Energy Economy
The past few years have been a mixed bag for climate. U.S. emissions declined to their lowest level in three decade this year, but these reductions came at an incredible cost as the economy shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic. The challenge now is to make these emissions cuts sustainable for years to come, while getting millions of Americans back to work.We dig into a new analysis on how to put the U.S. on a path to deep decarbonization and economic growth on this episode of Political Climate — the final episode in our...
2020-12-3151 min
Let's Talk About LifeNo Greater Love
Join us today for the love story of a young couple who were planning their future until a medical diagnosis changed everything. Josie Brown and her boyfriend, Mike Rogers Jr., had no idea that healing would come from Karey Gengler, Josie's mom, in a time a tragedy.
2020-07-2712 min