The Twin Cities Real Estate Investing Show

#89 - How Jake Weierke's Family Built a 60-Property Portfolio

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 [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. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com [adam@UpsidePropertySales.com] 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. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com [tim@timswierczek.com] 💡 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.

#88- Tenant Stories & Other Poor Decisions w/ Nate and Steve

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 [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. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com [adam@UpsidePropertySales.com] 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. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com [tim@timswierczek.com] 💡 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.

#87 - INVESTFEST (Oliver Lerner Round 2)

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 [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. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com [adam@UpsidePropertySales.com] 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. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com [tim@timswierczek.com] 💡 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 [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.

#86 - "I've Managed 100s of Units for 7 Years, Ask Me Anything" John Scribante Returns

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 [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. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com [adam@UpsidePropertySales.com] 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. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com [tim@timswierczek.com] 💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here: TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule   ***EMAIL Admin@upsidepropertysales.com [Admin@upsidepropertysales.com] 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/ [https://rentengine.io/] * The Guarantors – https://www.theguarantors.com/ [https://www.theguarantors.com/] * True Submeter – https://truesubmeter.com/ [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.

#85 - Flipping Houses in a Cooling Market w/ Ford Wagner

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 [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. 📩 adam@UpsidePropertySales.com [adam@UpsidePropertySales.com] 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. 📩 tim@timswierczek.com [tim@timswierczek.com] 💡 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.