Personal Mentor Program
PREREQUISITE: 2 CLASSES MINIMUM
Schedule your one-on-one mentorship by reaching out to [email protected]
The best way to collapse time frames.
You Bring the Effort, We Bring the Support
The mentor program is the ultimate combination where training meets action in the market of your choice. This powerful program is all about getting outside, applying what you’ve learned, taking action, and growing your business.
Each mentorship is unique and customized to the student. You select your mentor and evaluate your starting point regarding investing experience, classes taken, access to capital, funding, and so much more. Together, you and your mentor set goals on what you want to accomplish. You will have three action-oriented days, focused on achieving and exceeding those goals.
You will have effective meetings with professionals such as mortgage brokers, realtors, and property managers to grow your business. Common goals for mentorships are making offers, utilizing creative financing, and getting you to the next level.
Imagine growing safely, quickly and being accompanied by someone with real-life investing experience to guide you.
We have multiple strategies you can learn to invest with little to none of your own money or credit, that minimize risk while maximizing profits. We have brought the best of the best to help you on your path.
“An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends” —Ben Franklin.
Goals from this Mentorship:
- Concentrated three days with your chosen mentor.
- Collapse timeframes and accelerate your success.
- Leverage your mentor’s skills and experience to get you to your goals faster.
- Safely push you outside your comfort zone.
- Hands-on experience in the market of your choice.
- Discover how to work efficiently and maximize your time to grow your business.
- Learn to interview and conduct meetings with real estate professionals to add to your team.
- Have an experienced mentor to keep you safe and reduce risks.
- Utilize your mentor’s experience and credibility to raise capital for your deals.
- Lifetime support from your mentor.
Mentors
Alfonso Salemi is the co-owner, co-founder, and current vice president of JAAG Properties Inc. JAAG specializes in Rent-To-Own (lease options) and has over 200 successful Rent-To-Own (lease options) projects. Alfonso loves sharing his passion for Rent-To-Own and the benefits it brings to people’s lives. He thrives on these interactions and enjoys helping others with the most significant purchase or investment of their lives.
He is the conduit to Tenant Buyer Clients, Joint-Venture Partners, Investors, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, and Other Real Estate Professionals. As a true ‘people person,’ Alfonso enjoys showing the benefits of JAAG’s Rent-To-Own program and how it enables those who have experienced roadblocks to becoming homeowners. Bringing these entities together is one of the things that Alfonso values most about his role.
Brent Trotter
Hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, Brent Trotter is a professional filmmaker, who made the transition into Real Estate. With a focus on short term rentals and property fix flips, he began building wealth by acquiring properties in California and Indiana. Brent’s main focus in asset acquisitions, is to help people on “both ends”, allowing financial freedom for burdened property owners while giving a new beginning to first time home buyers. Teaching financial literacy has become his biggest passion, allowing him to break generational barriers to finance, not previously accessible to many. Aside from being a comic book geek and movie buff, Brent enjoys good discussions on history and being a couch potato.
Gretchen started her real estate investment journey after attending a 3 day event in 2017. To her freedom, creativity and being of service is key. Gretchen specializes in creating unique short and midterm rental properties and stacking strategies. She strategically buys homes in places she loves to visit and furnishes her properties with style and design using antiques and salvaged furniture to create an upscale atmosphere. A multiple year Airbnb superhost, she boasts 5 star reviews only. Gretchen uses her homes as much as her guests do and spends every spring in Albuquerque and fall in Northern California.
Her favorite strategies to date are raw land development, negotiations, rehabbing, short/midterm rentals, leasing to sober living environments and commercial apartments. She has used the business principals and creative financing skills of real estate to start other businesses including a tech startup. Using the freedom real estate has created in her life she spends her free time volunteering in her community.
Francois moved to NYC from Cape Town, South Africa in 2012 searching for the American Dream. He comes from an Information Technology background and continued his career in the USA, by managing the IT infrastructure for a New York City nonprofit organization that helped homeless and low-income men and women by providing them everything they needed to reclaim their lives.
In August 2018 Francois attended a 3 Day Real Estate training event, where he met Pip who showed him how to use Real Estate as a tool to build financial freedom. He then started his Real Estate business part time, but quickly found that real estate investing was a perfect way to help those in need, find creative and simple solutions to seemingly complex problems and meet great people! He decided to resign from his IT job on December 31st, 2020 to pursue real estate full time.
Francois currently invests using multiple strategies which include: Lease Options, Smart Rehabbing, Pre-Foreclosures, Wholesaling, Commercial and has begun development on a 40 Unit apartment building.
Today, Francois lives in a small town with his daughter in Illinois, where he uses his time to assist others in building for their future. He enjoys spending time with his daughter, fishing, camping and traveling the world.
Jason & Kelley Ricker
After 20+ years in corporate America, Jason and Kelley decided it was time for a change. In 2018 they began their investing careers in real estate. With zero real estate experience, they immediately sought after education and mentorship. They, 100% committed to making it work, jumped in the game and never looked back!
With a strong desire for passive income and legacy wealth, today they specialize in Single Family homes and love to find off market deals to add to their portfolio. They’re also very active in Retail Fix and Flips, Wholesaling, and have started a Hard Money Lending business. They are now expanding into markets to start Lease Options and Commercial real estate. They are living proof that it is possible to vision out the dream life a person or couple wants and then build a business around it. They believe strongly in the 80/20 principle and have implemented systems that allow them more time to enjoy life while requiring only a few hours a week in their business. Jason and Kelley have helped numerous investors in their local market and have started speaking at local real estate meetups. They have shown people how to find cheap private money, organize their business, how to work together as a married couple, and provide guidance to investors all around northeast Tennessee.
Kathryn is a real estate investor and has mentored, coached, and trained thousands of students in the US, including students from Asia. She has also invested internationally.
She does the majority of her investing in the US but has invested internationally, also. She has specialized in foreclosures, rentals, property management, rehabbing, wholesaling and creative financing. Her most recent project was a venture into the short-term rental market. Her favorite strategy is to buy a property using either cash or OPM (other people’s money), rehab it, and do a cash-out refinance, thereby getting all her money back and pocketing or reinvesting the rest –– all tax-free! That strategy is often referred to as a BRRRR – buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat! Kathryn tries to source her deals in different ways and, during mentorships, teaches her students over 100 different ways of finding deals! She even once bought a property from a guy in jail!! In addition to helping people in foreclosure, Kathryn likes to sell a house to a long-term tenant (a good paying one, of course!) and then owner finance them, thereby helping them buy a property they likely wouldn’t have an opportunity to otherwise.
Darrell Teddick & Tracy Freeman
Their story is relatable and inspiring. They met, fell in love, got married and raised their blended family (Ron’s two sons & Jean’s plentiful pets) while working successful corporate careers. Life was “good” for many years. They were busy doing what they thought they were supposed to do: working long hours, making money, and providing the best life they could for their family. Truth is the pace of life was hectic and stressful with never enough time. They felt stuck and decided to do the unthinkable. They took a leap of faith and left corporate. They slowed down in search of their purpose, more meaning, and enjoyment in life. They redesign their life to be what they wanted, something extraordinary.
What does an extraordinary life look like? For Ron and Jean, it’s simple. It is making choices every day that align with their values. It is being who they are, doing what they love and making a positive impact. It’s MOVING FORWARD daily and helping others to do the same.
Their style of teaching, coaching, and mentoring is to keep it real, simplify the complex, help students to overcome their fears and enjoy the process!
Ron & Jean have been investing in real estate since 2014. Their experience and success spans across multiple strategies including Lease Option, Long Term Rentals (in-state and out-of-state), Vacation Rentals, Rehabbing, Creative Finance and Private Lending. They have a strong understanding of Creative Finance/Deal Structure and extensive experience with Rehabbing which serves them well in all strategies they implement. In addition to Mentoring, Ron and Jean lead our Tuesday night REIA and they teach SMART Rehabbing and our Acceleration Mastermind here at Pip’s Path.
Anita Winkles has over 25 years of experience in the real estate and financial services industry. In addition to her banking and real estate background, Anita has successfully launched two commercial service companies proving she understands the importance of relationship building, attention to detail, the art of management, and the spirit of entrepreneurship. Her experience led her to sit on the board of directors for a financial institution in the Dallas metroplex.
Sam Winkles was born in Wisconsin but quickly made it to Texas, where he lives today with his bride Anita. Sam is a Navy Veteran and has 25 years of management experience. After years of being an investor/Realtor, Sam and his wife saw how important using other people’s money is. Hence, they started their Commercial and Real Estate Finance company. Now they can lend in over 30 different categories and have over a hundred funding sources backing them.
Cheryl Bednar-Jimenez, MA., Realtor®, is a Florida real estate expert. She combines her love for helping people with her passion for the real estate industry.
From 2013 to the present, Cheryl has done over 100 real estate investment transactions, including, Wholesaling (assignments and double closings); Fixing and Flipping; Creative Deals (Lease Option, Wrap, Subject to, and Seller Financing); and Holding (Renting). As a real estate entrepreneur, Cheryl identifies the seller’s problem and what they “need” instead of just what they “want.” Then she creates a solution with value and is a win/win for both her and the seller.
Cheryl has the expertise, proven track record, and resources to help you achieve your goals. Cheryl’s clients have praised her for listening carefully to understand their goals and working hard to provide the solution and the support that worked for them.
Bob Haggerty
Bob Haggerty, aka “Property Bob,” started his investing career in 2016 after meeting Pip in Richmond, VA. Bob was born and raised in California and quickly went to work as a firefighter after high school spending 7 serving as a wild land and municipal firefighter. In 2013, He made a life changing decision and moved across the country to work for the Richmond City Fire Department. Just a few years into this new career he knew he needed to make a change and was ‘Burnt’ out on his new job. With the support of Pip, Real Estate Education, and Mentorship. He was able to replace his fire department income and leave Richmond Fire in just 26 months.
Bob loves to help serve other people, loves to travel, camping, fishing, and a lot of other outdoor activities. His real estate specialties are Wholesale, Lease Options, Marketing, Creative Finance, Furnished Rentals, and Recovery Housing.
A Few Favorite quotes:
“If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. If you do what is hard, your life will be easy” – Les Brown
“You don’t have to be great to start, buy you have to start to be great”- Zig Ziglar