Brian Meara is the Acquisitions Manager for Bormio Properties. He joins the show to explain short sale is and how it can benefit real estate investors. 

Meara started investing in short sales in 2009 and had ZERO experience. Now, he's near the top of his industry and is closing 5-10 deals per month.

Meara is a leading short sale specialist that is made up of two divisions. One sector works with homeowners of properties in pre-foreclosure and/or with their real estate agent. The other sector specializes in the sale of properties in pre-foreclosure.

Visit Bormio Properties at www.bormioproperties.com. 

Find out more about Brian Meara at www.shortsalestallion.com and www.flipfreeprofits.com.

Michael Craig is a serial real estate investor, marketing expert, and real estate futurist. He's the Director of Sales & Marketing at the Grand Sierra Resort Condo Hotel in Nevada.

Craig explains how he goes about prospecting and marketing real estate. He developed a mobile SMS real estate notification program and gives a glimpse of the real estate search engine optimization space. 

Craig then discusses some game-changing real estate innovations in 2014 and talks about how real estate crowdfunding fits into the future of real estate ownership. 

Real estate futurist Michael Craig leverages his specialized knowledge and a proprietary technology application to maintain his stature as one of the real estate industry’s most sought after marketing prospecting specialists. Among Michael’s many accomplishments, he developed a Mobile SMS Real Estate Notification Program and also oversees marketing and sales for the famed Grand Sierra Resort Condo Hotel located in Nevada.  

He is based in Southern California and is one of California’s top experts in real estate search engine optimization.

Visit the Grand Sierra Resort Condo Hotel at www.grandsierraresort.com.

Frank McKinney is a real estate artist and international bestselling author of, "Burst This!: Frank McKinney's Bubble Proof Real Estate Strategies" and "Frank McKinney's Maverick Approach to Real Estate Success: How You can Go From a $50,000 Fixer Upper to a $100 Million Mansion."

McKinney breaks down one of his favorite quotes: "To whom much is entrusted, much is expected." (Luke 12:48). He just launched The Make It Big Event, which will be four live seminars in which he hopes to revolutionize the real estate education market with the best content and the best advice about what works in real estate. 

Natural disasters have impacted families all around the world, and McKinney describes what he's done in Haiti through the Caring House Project, providing entire self-sufficient villages for the world's poorest country. Over the past decade, McKinney has built housing for 21 villages to shelter more than 10,000 people. 

Find out more about Frank McKinney at www.frank-mckinney.com

Victoria Shtainer is a leading broker with Douglas Elliman. She joins the show to discuss how the crisis in Ukraine has affected real estate deals in New York City. She says the worsening state of Russian-American relations make for awkward conversations with clients. Shtainer discusses which nationalities are big purchasers in Manhattan. 

Victoria Shtainer is a veteran residential specialist. She is as creative as she is tenacious in hunting out the best properties for her clients. Along with her seasoned knowledge of the real estate market comes a thorough education of various neighborhoods for buyers who benefit from her expert, attentive guidance. Victoria's insight into the potential of properties begins way before they are actually built. Her in-depth experience with preconstruction enables her to visualize both space and possibilities in terms of aesthetics as well as value. Victoria's keen vision has helped homeowners and investors alike, not to mention herself and her husband who have developed commercial and residential projects - plus handled the litigations and sales for them - throughout Brooklyn. As one who classifies herself as a "real estate junkie," Victoria has thrived in and been thrilled by the business for nine rewarding years. She still enjoys the hunt, and finding that diamond in the rough. Her equal passion is spending time with her husband and two small children, her pride and joy. Fluent in Russian, Victoria came to the US when age six, and has since fueled her passion for studying and doing her homework on everything, especially cutting-edge trends in real estate. 

Find out more about Victoria Shtainer at www.thevictoriashtainerteam.elliman.com.

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Scott Foerst is the Director of Luxury Real Estate at Heritage Auctions. With high-end markets running hot and cold nationally,  seller’s and brokers are turning to auctions to sell their multimillion dollar properties. As the third largest auction company in the world, Heritage brings global marketing and influence to the table for its sellers. Foerst explains in greater detail in this podcast.

Foerst also discusses the market changes he is seeing in 2014 versus his decade of auctioning luxury homes. He analyzes whether he typically sees higher prices via the auction method versus traditional methods. 

Foerst finishes the show by talking about the ideal client or broker referral for Heritage and the auction process. 

Scott Foerst joined Heritage Luxury Real Estate Auctions with more than 20 years of private real estate experience ranging from design, construction, and the sale of exclusive properties throughout North America and the Caribbean. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture, Scott worked as project designer where he oversaw $28 million of private residential projects and client relations. His broad knowledge of auctioning one-of-a-kind residences includes management of the marketing and sales efforts in addition to procuring future clients by collaborating with national brokers and private owners. Additionally, he has lectured on high-end residential auctions throughout the country as well as maintaining positions on nonprofit boards.

Visit Heritage Auctions at http://www.ha.com/.

Justin Ford is the Founder of Pax-Properties and an active investor in real estate and global stock markets. He has published, edited and written for over a dozen international investment newsletters. He launched the US version of the Fleet Street Letter, the oldest continuously published newsletter in the English Language. One of his employees was a young Porter Stansberry. 

Ford is also the founder 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. 

On the show, Ford discusses whether real estate is the best investment anyone can make. he gives his strategies for real estate investing and explains how anyone can properly analyze real estate deals.

Ford then discusses why he switched careers from newsletter publishing to real estate and how he made the smooth transition. 

Find out more about Pax-Properties at www.pax-properties.com. 

Sean Dalesandro is the Managing Principal at Osprey Real Estate Capital and Head of the Internal Investment Committee of Parallel Real Estate Advisors. He joins the show to discuss his favorite markets for real estate deals share his overview and outlook of the retail and hospitality real estate spaces.

Dalesandro specifically explains how he is creating and closing deals that exclusively support the needs of physicians and PhDs in response to Obamacare. He talks about the uncertainty physicians face today due to Obamacare and whether more doctors are retiring because of Obamacare. Dalesandro believes Obamacare affects the ability for doctors to save for retirement.

Visit Osprey Real Estate Capital at www.ospreyrec.com. 

Visit Parallel Real Estate Advisors at www.parallelre.com.

Jilliene Helman is the CEO of Realty Mogul. She was the 2013 Crowdfunding CEO of the Year and was also named one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in 2013. Realty Mogul was named one of the Top Startups in the Country for 2013.

Helman discusses the kind of properties Realty Mogul allows investors to buy through crowdfunding, which she thinks will disrupt the real estate industry. She believes Title III and the SEC will affect the future of this business.

Helman also explains how Realty Mogul is different from other real estate crowdfunding platforms. 

Helman is only 26-years-old. She talks about how she got into real estate entrepreneurship.

Visit Realty Mogul at www.realtymogul.com.