The Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Show

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. RPMVIKING.COM. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sit down with Jeff Salzbrun, owner of Commercial Equities Group, for an episode that is really as much about Jeff’s story as it is commercial real estate. Jeff got out of the Army as a young guy with a strong work ethic but no real estate career waiting for him. He started doing manual labor, was willing to learn, kept putting one foot in front of the other, and slowly worked his way into the commercial real estate business. Eventually, that kid doing the grunt work was brokering deals, investing, developing properties, and building a career that has now spanned more than 35 years. Jeff shares a ton of great stories from along the way, including his 20 years working with his longtime mentor John Allen at Industrial Equities, where they developed, repositioned, leased, and managed millions of square feet of commercial real estate. He talks about eventually leaving to start Commercial Equities Group, the lessons he learned from the people around him, deals that shaped his career, and what more than three decades in the business have taught him. Jeff's story is a pretty classic American dream story—work hard, stay curious, learn from good people, take opportunities when they come, and see where it takes you.

🎙️ Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Shuk Rentals. Built by landlords, for landlords, Shuk Rentals is simple, affordable property management software at just $5 per unit per month. Collect rent online, manage maintenance requests, communicate with tenants, and keep your rentals organized—all in one place. Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. This episode is also brought to you by RPM Viking Property Management. Whether you own one rental or an entire portfolio, RPM Viking can help you maximize your investment. Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up for management services. A big thank you to Network Title, our trusted title partner. Whether you're buying, selling, or refinancing, Network Title provides fast, reliable closings backed by an experienced local team. Check out Network-Title.com for more info.  🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel is a Realtor, investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam specializes in helping clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties throughout the Twin Cities while building his own rental portfolio. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek is a mortgage lender, real estate investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Tim helps investors structure financing that supports long-term wealth building and better investment returns. 📩 [email protected] 💡 Want to talk real estate investing? Schedule a free strategy call with Adam and Tim: https://TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sit down with Hannah Hamilton from Rental Research, a local tenant screening company that has been helping Minnesota landlords screen applicants for years. Tenant screening has gotten a lot more complicated. We talk with Hannah about the modern types of fraud landlords need to be watching for, especially as AI makes it easier to create fake documents, manipulate income information, and make an application look a lot better than it actually is. We also get into the constantly changing state and local rules around tenant screening, what landlords can and can't consider when reviewing an applicant, and how to put together a screening process that stays consistent while still protecting your property. Hannah walks us through some of the best practices for reviewing applications, verifying the information you're being given, spotting red flags, and avoiding some of the common mistakes landlords make during the screening process. If you own rental property or plan on becoming a landlord, there's a lot of useful information in this one. Learn more about Rental Research: https://www.rentalresearch.com If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor. It helps us continue growing the Twin Cities real estate investing community.

🎙️ Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Shuk Rentals. Built by landlords, for landlords, Shuk Rentals is simple, affordable property management software at just $5 per unit per month. Collect rent online, manage maintenance requests, communicate with tenants, and keep your rentals organized—all in one place. Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. This episode is also brought to you by RPM Viking Property Management. Whether you own one rental or an entire portfolio, RPM Viking can help you maximize your investment. Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up for management services. A big thank you to Network Title, our trusted title partner. Whether you're buying, selling, or refinancing, Network Title provides fast, reliable closings backed by an experienced local team. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel is a Realtor, investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam specializes in helping clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties throughout the Twin Cities while building his own rental portfolio. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek is a mortgage lender, real estate investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Tim helps investors structure financing that supports long-term wealth building and better investment returns. 📩 [email protected] 💡 Want to talk real estate investing? Schedule a free strategy call with Adam and Tim: https://TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we talk with Yuri Souder about his very unique path through a career in real estate. Yuri spent years working in the foreclosure world, where he became an expert in buying lien positions, understanding the foreclosure process, navigating redemption periods, distressed debt, and finding opportunities in deals that most investors don't know how to touch. Today, Yuri works part-time for a prominent local home buyer, closing on distressed properties, while also recently partnering with Rush Creek Development. On the development side, he's working directly with cities on entitlements, navigating zoning and approvals, raising capital, analyzing development opportunities, and helping take projects from an idea through the early stages of actually getting them built. Yuri is a really bright guy, and this is probably one of the most densely packed episodes we've ever done when it comes to technical real estate investing information. We get pretty deep into foreclosures, liens, distressed properties, development, raising money, working with cities, and a bunch of corners of the real estate business that we don't normally get to talk about. Really great conversation with a great guy. We're looking forward to having Yuri back. For more information on Yuri's project, check out  Rushcreekdevelopment.com or message him on LinkedIn   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor. It helps us continue growing the Twin Cities real estate investing community.

🎙️ Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Shuk Rentals. Built by landlords, for landlords, Shuk Rentals is simple, affordable property management software at just $5 per unit per month. Collect rent online, manage maintenance requests, communicate with tenants, and keep your rentals organized—all in one place. Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. This episode is also brought to you by RPM Viking Property Management. Whether you own one rental or an entire portfolio, RPM Viking can help you maximize your investment. Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up for management services. A big thank you to Network Title, our trusted title partner. Whether you're buying, selling, or refinancing, Network Title provides fast, reliable closings backed by an experienced local team. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel is a Realtor, investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam specializes in helping clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties throughout the Twin Cities while building his own rental portfolio. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek is a mortgage lender, real estate investor, and co-host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Tim helps investors structure financing that supports long-term wealth building and better investment returns. 📩 [email protected] 💡 Want to talk real estate investing? Schedule a free strategy call with Adam and Tim: https://TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This is our third time having Tyler Nash on the podcast, and if you caught his last episode, The 11 Unit From Hell, you know exactly where we left off. At the time, seemingly everything that could go wrong with Tyler's 11-unit deal in South Minneapolis was going wrong. Today, Tyler is back to close the book on the property. He reveals how much money he actually lost when he finally sold it, what he learned from the experience, what he'd do differently next time, and why—despite taking a pretty painful loss—he isn't completely heartbroken about the deal. We also catch up on what's next for Tyler. After balancing his day job with real estate for years, he has officially quit his job and gone full-time into real estate sales. It's an honest conversation about taking a loss, learning from a bad deal, and moving forward. Follow Tyler Nash LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-nash-081a381b Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnash481 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BeGF8mkkp/?mibextid=wwXIfr If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor. It helps us continue growing the Twin Cities real estate investing community.

🎙 The Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Show TCREI Show #30: 2025 St. Paul Multifamily Market Update The data is in. In this episode, Adam and Tim revisit the St. Paul multifamily market with a complete year of 2025 sales data. This is the second installment in our St. Paul market data series and expands on the analysis from our original market update. Using actual MLS sales and rental data, we break down what's happening across St. Paul neighborhood by neighborhood, helping investors understand where values have increased, where rental returns remain strong, and how the market has changed over the past year. Whether you're looking to buy your first duplex or grow an existing portfolio, this episode is packed with practical data you can use to make better investment decisions. In this episode you'll learn: How the 2025 St. Paul multifamily market compares to previous years Which neighborhoods experienced the strongest appreciation Which areas continue to offer the best rent to price ratios Sales volume trends throughout St. Paul How today's market compares with Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs What the data tells us about opportunities heading into the next year The biggest surprises we found while analyzing the numbers A Preview of What's Coming Good investment decisions start with good data. That's why we've been building a new resource called the Buyer Investing Tool, designed to analyze sold investment properties in bulk using real MLS sales data. The goal is to help investors quickly evaluate neighborhoods, compare properties, and make more informed buying decisions without spending hours building spreadsheets. The Buyer Investing Tool is currently in development and is expected to be released in the coming weeks. We'll update these show notes with additional information once it's available. Download the Data The spreadsheets discussed in this episode are available free at: https://www.TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com- Show 92 📊 Want to follow along with the charts and graphs discussed in this episode? Open the interactive dashboard while you listen: 2-4unitsales2024-present.netlify.app Meet Your Hosts Adam Tafel Realtor and Real Estate Investor 📞 715.456.7205 📧 [email protected] Tim Swierczek Mortgage Lender and Real Estate Investor 📞 651.772.9000 📧 [email protected] Schedule a meeting with Tim: https://calendly.com/timswierczek/30 Enjoying the Show? If you found this episode helpful: Follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Leave a rating and review to help more Twin Cities investors discover the show. Share this episode with another investor, landlord, Realtor, or anyone interested in multifamily real estate. You can also register for upcoming meetups, download free investing resources, and listen to every episode at:    

  🎙️ Sponsors This episode is brought to you by Shuk Rentals. At just $5 per unit per month, Shuk makes rental property management simple with online rent collection, maintenance tracking, tenant communication, and more. Check them out at ShukRentals.com or book a live demo using the link in the show notes. Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. This episode is also brought to you by RPM Viking Property Management. Looking for professional property management in the Twin Cities? Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up. We also want to thank Network Title, our trusted title partner. Whether you're buying, selling, or refinancing, visit Network-Title.com for all your title needs. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We'd love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week on Twin Cities Real Estate Investing, we sit down with Dan Manion, a local investor who has built an impressive 14-door portfolio in just a few short years—all while working a full-time job. Dan owns a duplex, a triplex, two fourplexes, and still rents out his former single-family home. Like many successful investors, he got his start by turning that first home into a rental and moving into a fourplex, proving that house hacking can be one of the most effective ways to begin building wealth through real estate. In this episode, Dan shares how he has grown his portfolio by focusing on lower-cost properties that produce strong cash flow. He talks about finding deals in more affordable neighborhoods while looking for the best blocks within those areas, why his investment strategy prioritizes returns over flashy properties, and how he's continued to scale despite having a full-time career outside of real estate. Dan has been a familiar face at our monthly meetups, an active member of the Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Facebook group, and a longtime listener of the podcast, so we were excited to finally have him join us for this conversation. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor. It helps us reach more people looking to build wealth through smart real estate investing.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week is a little different. We took the podcast on the road and recorded live from InvestFest at Boom Island Brewing. Instead of sitting down with one guest, we grabbed investors, landlords, flippers, wholesalers, agents, and other attendees throughout the event for a series of rapid-fire interviews. We asked everyone to share their best landlord stories, craziest flipping experiences, biggest lessons learned, and whatever else came to mind. This episode is a fun snapshot of the Twin Cities real estate investing community and the conversations that happen when you get hundreds of local investors in one room. Whether you're looking for a laugh, a lesson, or just want to hear how other investors are building their businesses, we think you'll enjoy this special InvestFest edition of the podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. https://www.rpmviking.com/ We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Jake Weierke of AW Properties LLC, a family-owned real estate business built over the last 30 years. Jake shares the story of how his dad slowly grew a portfolio of more than 60 rental properties throughout the south metro and Rochester by sticking to the fundamentals—buying quality properties that cash flow and holding them for the long term. After graduating from college just before the pandemic, Jake started his career managing properties for another established family business before returning home in 2020 to help run AW Properties full time. Today, Jake and his family manage more than 200 rental units, 60 of which they own themselves, all while operating with an incredibly lean team. We talk about why Jake still handles many of the day-to-day tasks himself, how keeping things simple has helped the business grow, and why cash flow and disciplined underwriting continue to be the foundation of everything they buy. We also discuss the balance between Jake's ambition to keep growing and his dad's conservative investing style, creating a partnership that helps them find deals that are exciting enough for Jake while still safe enough for Dad. It's a great reminder that the small decisions and sacrifices you make today can create life-changing opportunities for the next generation. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week, return guest Nate Hood is back on the podcast, joined by his friend Steve Windels, for an episode full of funny landlording stories and plenty of laughs. Nate is a St. Paul landlord, stand-up comedian, and former Planning Commissioner for the City of St. Paul, giving him a unique perspective on real estate, city government, and the challenges of owning rental property in the capital city. We also get Nate to share his honest thoughts on some of St. Paul's most talked-about projects, including the proposed Summit Avenue reconstruction and the I-94 land bridge. As both a landlord and taxpayer—and someone who has served as a Planning Commissioner—Nate offers a perspective you don't often hear. Whether you're interested in local politics, real estate investing, or just want to hear some entertaining landlord stories, this episode has a little bit of everything. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Oliver Lerner, a landlord in St. Louis Park and the creator of ShukRentals, a property management software built by landlords, for landlords. As a proud sponsor of the podcast, Oliver shares the story behind building ShukRentals, the challenges of balancing life as both a landlord and tech entrepreneur, and the lessons he's learned growing a software company while actively investing in real estate. We also spend a lot of time talking about InvestFest, the Twin Cities real estate networking event we're co-hosting with Oliver and several other well-known local real estate meetup hosts. Join us on July 14th at Boom Island Brewing to network with investors from across the Twin Cities, hear from experienced operators, and connect with others in the local real estate community. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/investfest-tickets-1984804239911?aff=oddtdtcreator If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule   ***EMAIL [email protected] if you want John's Slide Deck on RUBS, subject "slide deck request"*** This week, we're joined once again by John Scribante of RPM Viking Property Management for a special Ask Me Anything episode featuring questions submitted by members of our Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Facebook group. Since John has already shared his background and approach to property management on a previous episode, this conversation dives straight into the questions that Minnesota landlords and investors actually want answered. We cover how a great property manager earns their management fee, how to properly price a rental in today's market, rent increases, maintenance, tenant communication, leasing strategies, and the biggest mistakes self-managing landlords make. Of course, no AMA would be complete without a few fun questions along the way—including the very important topic of exactly how many bottles of gin John drinks each day. Show Notes Rent Engine – https://rentengine.io/ The Guarantors – https://www.theguarantors.com/ True Submeter – https://truesubmeter.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you're buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we'd love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Ford Wagner to talk about flipping houses in a cooling market, the challenges of running a large-scale flipping operation, and why some investors thrive when things get difficult. Ford shares lessons from his latest BRRRR fourplex project, what he's seeing in today's market, and how his business is adapting as conditions continue to change. We also discuss the realities of managing multiple renovation projects at once, decision-making under pressure, and why Ford believes he operates at his best when the stakes are high. In the outro, Adam shares a funny story about a former tenant who threatened to sue him, proving once again that real estate investing is never boring. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/s... — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Ashley Bachelor from Fix and Flip MN. Ashley shares how she got her start in real estate after years of helping family members with home renovations before beginning a career in the life insurance industry. Her path changed when she was introduced to Glenn Williams, who was running a house flipping business and needed an operations manager. Ashley immediately attended a real estate investing boot camp, came back with a plan to get organized, and was quickly thrown into the business. Over the last 6.5 years, Ashley and Glenn have grown their team into one of the most active flipping operations in the Twin Cities, completing roughly 24 house flips per year. We discuss how they built systems and processes to scale the business, lessons learned from hundreds of renovation projects, and their newest venture helping other investors successfully manage renovation projects and house flips. Whether you're interested in your first flip or looking to grow an existing operation, Ashley shares practical insights from her experience building a high-volume real estate investing business. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Get a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up with RPM Viking Property Management. We recommend Network Title for all your title needs. Visit Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule This week we sat down with Zach Rynders, co-owner of R2 Studios Architecture, where he and his wife specialize in one of the most technical niches in real estate development: residential assisted living projects. Zach is one of the most knowledgeable people in the Twin Cities when it comes to the code, licensing requirements, and the maze of agencies involved in getting these projects approved. We talk through what it actually takes to bring one of these properties to life—from navigating state licensing and building code requirements to understanding which departments and decision-makers need to sign off before a project can open its doors. Zach also gets into the numbers behind assisted living operations, including what makes deals pencil, common mistakes operators make, pitfalls to avoid before buying or converting a property, and a few real-world stories from projects that went exceptionally well—and a few that didn’t. In the outro, Adam shares a quick update on Twin Cities inventory, what he’s seeing in today’s market, and breaks down a house he recently got under contract.   If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave us a review, and share it with another investor who would find it helpful. Your support helps us keep bringing on great guests from around the Twin Cities real estate community. If you’re buying, selling, house hacking, or investing in Minnesota real estate, reach out anytime—we’d love to connect.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out Shuk Rentals or booking a live demo in the show notes. Book a Shuk Demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Need help with property management in the Twin Cities? Check out RPM Viking Property Management — offering a $300 maintenance credit to podcast subscribers. RPMViking.com We recommend Network Title for investor-friendly service and smooth closings across the Twin Cities. Network-Title.com 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: twincitiesrealestateinvesting.com/schedule In this Adam & Tim episode, Tim breaks down the very real process of “unf*cking” his financial life after getting deeply entangled in multiple deals with a contractor partner. What started as a creative financing arrangement — including a CD-backed down payment agreement that never materialized — spiraled into a chain reaction of stress, surprise tax bills, forced property sales, and difficult decisions. Tim walks through the lessons learned from overleveraging partnerships, trying to “fix” one deal with another, and the emotional toll that comes with complicated financial entanglements. Adam and Tim also dive into broader conversations around leverage, HELOCs, paying cash versus using debt strategically, and some of the “velocity banking” concepts investors hear thrown around online. They answer a few listener questions and have an honest conversation about risk, liquidity, and why having access to cash often matters more than simply owning properties free and clear.

At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. Need property management help? Check out RPMViking.com — a local property management company serving Twin Cities investors. Mention the podcast and receive a $300 maintenance credit when you sign up for management services. Looking for an investor-friendly title company? We recommend Network Title. Learn more at Network-Title.com. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Kaylee Thomsen is a real estate investor based in Plymouth, Minnesota, who has built a portfolio of mostly small multifamily properties alongside her husband, Dumi — a past guest on the show. Together, they’ve house hacked multiple times with their family while growing a mix of long-term, medium-term, and short-term rentals. Over the years, real estate has given Kaylee firsthand experience balancing investing, marriage, family life, and the constant evolution that comes with building a portfolio. In this episode, Kaylee talks openly about the mindset shifts she’s experienced throughout her investing journey, the relationship and family dynamics that come with real estate ownership, and the emotional highs and lows that happen along the way. Her perspective is thoughtful, honest, and grounded in the reality that building wealth through real estate can be both deeply rewarding and incredibly challenging.

Check out www.rpmviking.com for all your property management needs, the only management company endorsed by TCREI !    At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out shukrentals.com or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off. 🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Evan Uribe got his start in real estate investing around 2015 with a classic Minneapolis househack — and then just kept going. Over the years, Evan completed four more househacks, making him the unofficial king of househacking on the show. His most recent project was an FHA 203k renovation loan deal, where he learned firsthand just how powerful — and complicated — those programs can be. In this episode, Evan breaks down the lessons, mistakes, and unexpected challenges that came with using the FHA 203k program in a real-world project. A few years ago, Evan also stepped into the affordable housing world professionally, taking a job underwriting deals for a public housing fund. That experience gave him a crash course in affordable housing finance, including grants, tax credits, lending programs, layered financing structures, and the realities of how affordable housing projects actually get built. Evan brings a rare perspective because he’s lived on both sides — as a scrappy small investor building wealth one househack at a time, and as someone analyzing large-scale housing deals professionally. This episode is packed with practical insights for anyone interested in househacking, creative financing, or the affordable housing world. 🚨 If you enjoy the show, please share this episode with a friend, post it on social media, and leave us a review. It helps us grow the Twin Cities real estate investing community and continue bringing on great local guests.

Hire a Property Manager with a 4.9 on Google from it's Tenants - Call the Leasing team at 612-416-7300 or email [email protected].   At just $5 a unit per month, it's worth checking out Shuk Rentals or booking a live demo in the show notes. https://calendly.com/oliver-theshuk/shuk-demo — Use discount code TCREI20 for 20% off.   🎙️ About the TCREI Hosts Adam Tafel – Investor, Realtor, and host of Twin Cities Real Estate Investing. Adam has helped hundreds of clients buy, sell, and analyze investment properties across the metro. He works daily with local investors and is passionate about building wealth through smart real estate strategies. 📩 [email protected] Tim Swierczek – Mortgage lender and experienced investor who helps clients structure financing to maximize returns and long-term wealth. Tim brings a practical, numbers-first approach that makes deals work in the real world. 📩 [email protected] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule Tyler Joas grew up working on job sites with his dad, a home builder, and always had an interest in construction. After graduating from the University of St. Thomas, he originally planned to go into development—but with COVID hitting during his senior year, the job market dried up fast. Instead, Tyler started a general contracting business from scratch, taking on small jobs with friends and hustling for work through forums and Facebook groups. His first deck project was such a frustrating experience that he told himself he’d never build another one. Fast forward to today, and Tyler is the founder of Northern Craft Building, a company on track to build around 200 decks this year alone. Even though Tyler isn’t a traditional real estate investor, this episode is packed with insight for Twin Cities investors—especially anyone renovating, managing contractors, or trying to scale projects. We get into what actually makes a contractor reliable (and what “cheap” really costs), how specialization leads to better outcomes and tighter execution, and how to think about construction through the lens of systems, margins, and repeatability. Tyler also shares how private equity is changing the trades, what they often get wrong operationally, and how he’s building his company with a clear exit strategy in mind—something every investor can learn from.