The Titanium Vault hosted by RJ Bates III

Andrea Stakes is a dynamic entrepreneur and the visionary founder of a successful virtual staffing company. She has provided job opportunities to over 1,500 talented Filipinos and helped more than 1,000 business owners effectively delegate tasks using virtual assistants.

As a half-Filipino and half-American professional, Andrea bridges the gap between American corporations and talented individuals in the Philippines. With ...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Eric Brewer and Chris Jefferson .

Topics discussed are
1. With Carmelo Anthony retiring after 19 years, how would your life look after you retire?
2. What's one Real Estate hack every investor needs to know?
3. With the news coming out about Bill Gates, When someone in your space is doing something...

After 4 years of trying and failing at multiple different strategies to break into real estate investing, Matt Porcaro learned about a little known government backed renovation loan that allowed him to purchase and renovate a duplex property for only a small amount of cash out of pocket. Using this strategy, he managed to turn a small $9,500 down payment into $130k in liquid equity and $2k a month passive cash flow... in just 8 mon...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Eric Brewer and Chris Jefferson .

Topics discussed are
1. Like Ja Morant's situation in Memphis, how would you handle a top talent continuously breaking company policies?
2. What would you tell the 79% of Americans who think now is not a good time to own a home, per Gallup's latest poll?
3. How sh...

Brent's Story is one for the record books!
It’s 2007, and Brent is living large as a real estate entrepreneur, well on his way to fulfilling his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” dreams: Designer clothes. Flashy cars. Big house.

A year later, the housing market crashed…His business goes under. His cars get repossessed. His house and five rental properties get foreclosed and he gets slapped with a $742,000 judgment for breaking...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Leon G. Barnes and Chris Jefferson's awful Wi-Fi .

Topics discussed are
1. In your company, what is your biggest distraction?
2. What has been your most costly misstep in your real estate career thus far? Is it monetary or personnel?
3. In honor of your mother, what is one value/lesson from her that ha...

Today's guest on The Titanium Vault is Tez Arbertha. He is a 31-year-old real estate investor and mentor from Oklahoma. Tez started out in the new construction industry, but soon realized that he wasn't going to be truly fulfilled without financial freedom.

That's when Tez expanded his focus to real estate investing and began wholesaling houses. Through this process, he learned how to find great deals, negotiate with ...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Chris Jefferson and special guest from the creative finance education program Sub To and BiggerPockets author, Pace Morby .

Topics discussed are
1. Are you actively acquiring properties to build your portfolio right now?
2. How do you feel about Joe Biden proposing to eliminate tax code 1031?
3. What are your thoughts o...

This is the podcast everyone has been wanting to see! RJ Bates III, The King Closer, and Eric Cline, The Sales GOAT, discussing their individual sales processes and giving explanations as to why they feel it is most effective. Eric gives a complete breakdown of his 5 step closing process while RJ gives feedback on the differences in his process while they debate on each, individual nuance!

Originally from Rockford, Illinoi...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Chris Jefferson and Eric Brewer.

Topics discussed are
1. Like the NFL Draft, What are some pieces that your organization needs?
2. When is the right time to buy properties via creative finance like sub-to, seller finance and novations if you're currently only wholesaling?
3. Will we see a boom of short...

Justin Moy has been in real estate as a career his entire professional life. He started out selling single family homes in Northern California and was able to become a top producer within his second year at the largest firm in the area. Through that experience he realized that there is a difference between being transactionally rich and being wealthy. It was at this point he started to look for ways to turn his high transactional i...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Chris Jefferson and Leon G. Barnes.

Topics discussed are
1. What are your thoughts on Loan Level Price Adjustments set to be enacted on May 1st?
2. Is failure an inevitable part of the entrepreneurial journey or can it be avoided with proper planning?
3. In honor of 4/20, should we drug test our employees?<...

Casey Smith has closed over 2,300 transactions as an Investor, Licensed Realtor and Owner of Atlas Transaction Coordinator Services, which assists real estate investing companies close creative deals nationwide. She has been licensed since 2017 and has extensive experience in creative deal types including subject to, seller financing, novations, real estate investing systems, processes, and building teams. To learn more about Casey...

Welcome to Pardon the Disruption, an entrepreneurship debate podcast featuring RJ Bates III, Steve Trang, Chris Jefferson and Eric Brewer.

Topics discussed are
1. If you were the NBA, how would you handle the Dallas Mavericks intentionally tanking to have a better NBA lottery pick?
2. When you're feeling down, what do you do to get your mind right?
3. If you're quitting the company you're working...

Leon G. Barnes is the Director of Membership for the Collective Genius Masters, the nation's #1 mastermind community for high volume/revenue for real estate investors.  In addition to helping the members of CG grow their businesses, he is an active real estate investor in his home state of Kansas. In 8+ years he has overseen 400 plus flip projects while continuing to add to his rental portfolio. To learn more about Leon and th...

Megan Ahern, CEO of Acorn Properties and Acorn Home Staging, is originally from California, but moved with her husband, Jeff Ahern, to Lincoln, Nebraska in 2018 to begin investing in real estate full time. They have since bought over 50 properties, consisting of single family residences and duplexes. They have owned long term and short term rentals, wholesaled and flipped in Lincoln, Nebraska. Currently their primary focus is flipp...

After graduating from UCLA in 2003 with an English degree, Justin Colby went directly into business for himself. He has never had a W-2 job. In 2005 he got into real estate by co-founding a brokerage in the Northern California area. Quickly he realized that being a realtor was not for him.

In 2007 he got into real estate investing full time. 15 years later, Justin has flipped well over 2000 properties, accumulated millions in rental...

At the age of 20, Jacob Blank has been able to build a seven figure real estate investment company. Along the way, he has gained a great amount of high level skills and he yearns to pass his knowledge on to others to help change their lives for the better, just like he has changed his.

Jacob has been around the real estate business since he was twelve as his father has been a Real Estate Broker/Investor since before Jacob ...

David Richter is an active real estate investor who has been essential in closing over 850 deals over the last 10 years. He has experience with wholesale, turnkey, BRRRR, owner finance, rentals, lease options, and any other exit strategy you can think of.
While growing and building a real estate business from 5 to over 25 deals a month, he realized that as much money was coming in, it was all going right out the door. With the ...