Bill Cook

With more than 30-years of face-to-face dealmaking experience, Bill is one of the most imaginative advanced creative deal structurers in the country. Whether you need to know how to creatively construct, or creatively fund, or creatively hold, or creatively sell a property, Bill is the person many experienced real estate investors turn to for help.

When it comes to advanced creative deal structuring, Bill’s focus is on Structure Stacking. With Structure Stacking, multiple creative deal structuring tools are used to make a single real estate investing transaction work. By using Structure Stacking, an investor can make impossible deals possible. Structure Stacking allows you to leave your competition, such that it is, in the dust.

In addition, Bill is one of a handful of real estate investors who has the know-how, skill, and experience to work with Pure Options. Less than 1% of the real estate investing world has ever heard of a Pure Option, even though it’s one of the most effective deal structuring tools in the business. For over 20 years, Bill has used Pure Options to generate cash flow, profit and to protect his and Kim’s assets.

Bill has taught his What Box? Seminar for six years and has helped investors all over the country to become better, more creative deal-structurers. Bill’s methods and ‘What Box?’ thinking has helped his friends and fellow investors to become more financially sound, more financially free than they could ever imagine! You are going to benefit greatly from this event……..we promise!

Maria Giordano

In a former life, Maria was a trauma nurse for Scottsdale Healthcare working days, nights, weekends, holidays and not seeing much of her family. She’s been a divorced single mother, her oldest is disabled and Maria knows all too well what it is like to have more month than money. Maria learned early on that real estate is the answer creating more millionaires and billionaires than any other industry.

Once Maria and her husband Gary started investing in real estate Maria was able to replace her income as a trauma nurse in less than 45 days and made over $648,000 in their first 6 months investing in real estate. Together Maria and her husband Gary created a multi-million-dollar real estate business exclusively using other people’s money.

Maria has done just about every deal you can imagine, fix-n-flip, Airbnb, land lording, owner financing, spec builds, minor land divisions, short sale, rent-to-own, and her favorite creative deal structuring. But Maria’s real specialty is making the impossible possible through options, subject-tos, and WRAPS. This means she has seen every scenario out there of what gets people in trouble.

Maria is the author of 4 books on real estate, interviewed in many news articles and websites, including RealtyTrac, Investors Business Daily and The Wall Street Journal. She’s been featured on ABC’s Nightline and Good Morning America to name a few.

Maria is passionate about helping people learn to invest in real estate using little to no money of their own. Creating an investment portfolio, which will allow you to create the life of your dreams, a life on your own terms.

Maria brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to What Box? and we are thrilled to have her on the stage this year!

Lindsey Jensen

Lindsey Jensen is a wife and a mother to a 4 year old daughter and 7 year old son. She is also a phenomenal real estate investor who uses creative deal making to solve others real estate problems. She is also a landlord with over 70 doors.

When asked about real estate investing, Lindsey replies: I have wanted to be a real estate investor since I was 21 when I first read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I grew up around real estate, my Dad has been a real estate appraiser since I was born. I grew up helping him at work, walking houses with him, looking addresses and streets up on the microfiche, and later helping my dad with his real estate flips. My background includes working as a loan officer and as an account executive for lenders. I had bought 2 houses by the time I was 24 and was already the landlord to my first house.

I first learned about creative deal making in real estate in 2016. It was the first time I ever heard about all these fantastic ways to purchase real estate! My mind was blown and I was in love. I learned all I could that year and bought some marketing and made some offers. I bought my first creative deal in December of 2016 as a 0% seller finance deal. I was able to refinance that deal the next year and, by slamming the note, was able to pay down $9,600 in principle that same year.

In 2017 I had the pleasure of meeting 3 investors that would teach me the most important things I needed to start my real estate investing career.

The 3 things I learned that year that changed how I thought of investing:

1. The amazing art of property management
2. I am not buying houses; I am solving people’s problems.
3. Flipping houses is another job, keeping them long term creates wealth.

Since 2017, I have gone on to grow my portfolio to 28 properties. Most of my properties are single family but I recently dipped my toe into some multi-family deals that were too good to pass up. I have built a professional landlord company, allowing me to master lease properties, and I have learned how to rehab a property from top to bottom.

I creatively purchase properties via Subject-to, seller finance, lease purchase, and creative brrrr refinance for rentals. I have JV’d (Joint Ventured) deals, been a hard money lender, and have drafted the paperwork to memorialize these unique deals.

I have purchased houses by sending mailers, cold calling, door knocking, texting, referrals, and more.

I have built systems, managed people, and utilized creative structures, all while helping so many people in so many different situations.

Lindsey brings her experience and knowledge in landlording and Master Leasing to the What Box? Seminar and we are honored that she joins us this year.