YOUR REI MENTOR Lineup

Michael Ketchen

Host · Multi-Family, Short-Term Rental & Hospitality

From teacher to a $250M+ portfolio. Michael built the Bet On Yourself Immersion to be the room he wishes he'd walked into ten years ago — no gurus, no fluff, just operators who've actually done it. 

Michael Ketchen is the Co-Founder of Commonwealth Collective, a New Hampshire–based real estate investment firm with over $250 million in assets under management, as well as Co-Founder of Residents First Property Management Group and Commonwealth Hospitality Group. He is also the Co-Founder of The Vault Society and Bet On Yourself Education Co., where he teaches real estate, marketing, and mindset strategies to entrepreneurs and investors. 

Michael is widely recognized as an expert in the BRRRR Method (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat) and creative financing strategies used to rapidly scale real estate portfolios. Through these strategies, he has helped return more than $20 million in equity to investors while continuing to expand his own portfolio. 

In addition to long-term multifamily investments, he is an active luxury short-term rental investor and mentor to real estate entrepreneurs seeking financial independence and time freedom through property ownership. Michael is also the Co-Founder of Project 22:22, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating veteran suicide and supporting those who have served.

Michael Elefante

Co-Founder, The Rise Collective · Short-Term Rentals / Airbnb

Bestselling author and investor with a $30M+ portfolio of 14 luxury vacation rentals generating over $3M in annual rental income. Founder of BNB Investor Academy, where he has helped 3,000+ investors acquire over $1 billion in real estate. Co-Founder of The Rise Collective — a portfolio of companies including a national property management firm overseeing 650+ luxury rentals and $80–100M in annual bookings, and Somerled Designs, the country's leading short-term-rental interior design firm. His work has been featured on Fox Business and Business Insider.

Instagram: @melefante6

Collin Schwartz

Founder, Liquid Lending Solutions & Titan Mastermind · Multi-Family

Collin was sitting in an IT cubicle in January 2017 when Rich Dad Poor Dad flipped a switch. He wrote 191 handwritten letters to property owners, landed his first deals, quit the cubicle, and never looked back. Today he owns 3,500 units and is an owner in Point Guard Omaha, his vertical integration arm. He co-founded Liquid Lending Solutions, a hard money fund that has done over $120 million in loans, and runs Acreage Brothers, a fix-and-flip operation with his partner Tyler.

He also co-founded Titan Mastermind on the belief that the most important asset in any business is the health of its founder. Building businesses — and business owners — has become his true passion.

Instagram: @collincschwartz

Cam Cathcart

Single Family, Flips & BRRRR

Cam was a pastor living paycheck to paycheck when his daughter had a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter. The hospital bill came to $15,000 — money he didn't have. That was the moment he decided his family needed a different financial future.

He and his wife moved in with her parents to scrape together a first deal, then bought in St. Louis because Denver was out of reach. They ran the BRRRR playbook — Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat — and lived inside their first renovation while the costs blew past budget. They barely made a dollar on it. They learned everything.

That first house has since compounded into a $50M portfolio. Cam built it on relationships — wholesalers, agents, property managers, probate attorneys — and a buy box he never drifted from: three- and four-bedroom homes between $150K and $350K, no flood zones, no busy streets. As he scaled, he went direct-to-seller. He and his wife still run it as a team: he acquires, she operates.

Micheal Miller

Creative Finance · Host, The Dead Presidents Podcast

Micheal is the guy people call when the conventional financing falls through. Twelve years in, he has built his reputation on creative finance — seller financing, flexible loan terms, alternative lending — structuring the deals that shouldn't have worked, and making them work anyway.

In the last two years alone he has purchased $15 million in single-family and small multifamily. No syndications. All of it structured creatively.

But ask what he is proudest of and he will not talk about deals. Alongside his wife, Micheal co-founded Marked, a nonprofit protecting underprivileged children in Mexico — in regions where kids and youth are actively targeted by organized crime. What began in orphanages has expanded into rural villages, reaching families with systems of empowerment before it is too late. Over the past decade, Marked has served more than one million meals to children who would otherwise have gone without.

He is also the host — and unmistakable personality — behind The Dead Presidents Podcast.

Ian Bishop

Founder, The RevOps Coach · Operations

Ian is The RevOps Coach. He helps owners of $2M+ companies cut their hours by installing the systems that let the business grow without them — so they can spend more time with their families and doing what they love. Most of the year he lives in Maui with his high school sweetheart Bianca and their four sons.

If you're building a portfolio that owns you instead of the other way around, Ian is the one to talk to.

Instagram: @therevopscoach · therevopscoach.com

Matthew Hitchcock

Multi-Family

Matthew Hitchcock is a seasoned real estate investor and entrepreneur who began his experience in the Merrimack Valley market of Massachusetts. As the co-founder of Commonwealth Collective, LLC, a New Hampshire–based real estate investment firm with over $250 million in assets under management, as well as Co-Founder of Residents First Property Management Group and Commonwealth Hospitality Group. Matthew brings a strategic approach to property acquisition, management, and marketing.

Prior to launching Commonwealth Collective, LLC, Matthew built a successful career as an independent real estate investor, acquiring and managing properties throughout the region. His intimate knowledge of the local market, combined with a keen business acumen, allows him to identify high-value investment opportunities and maximize property potential.

Matthew’s background in sales, operations, and talent management has been instrumental in shaping his approach to real estate investment. His ability to develop strong client relationships, optimize financial performance, and lead teams has seamlessly translated into managing properties, securing tenants, and maximizing asset value. By blending his expertise in business development, marketing, and operations, he continues to drive the growth of Commonwealth Collective, LLC, positioning it as a trusted name in real estate investment and management.

Matthew is also the Co-Founder of The Vault Society a luxury co-working space in Windham, NH.

Zander Kempf

Founder & CEO, Clear Summit Investments · RV Parks & Outdoor Hospitality

Zander leads a $60M portfolio of five glamping and hot springs resorts across the Western U.S. A former Army officer and paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne — including a combat deployment to Iraq — he bought his first deal, a $45,000 house in Oklahoma City, sight unseen. He scaled that into 23 apartment buildings, then made the contrarian call to sell the entire multifamily portfolio at the peak of COVID and go all in on outdoor hospitality: a fragmented, mom-and-pop industry he saw following the exact consolidation curve that transformed mobile home parks and self storage a decade earlier.

55+ projects in 9 years. Financially free at 27. He lives on the North Shore of Oahu, where he surfs, free dives, and paraglides most days he isn't underwriting the next deal.

Instagram: @zanderkempf · clearsummitinvestments.com

Geoff Gane

Senior Living

Geoffrey Gane is the epitome of what it means to chase greatness with relentless passion and grit. A serial entrepreneur, Geoffrey has built and scaled over a dozen businesses, with two successful exits, while independently amassing a high performing real estate portfolio. But he didn’t stop there. He’s now redefining what’s possible in the senior care sector as the CEO of OakBrook Senior Living, a company that’s not just growing—it’s disrupting the industry with a bold vision of life, love, and luxury.

Geoffrey’s journey started with hard work, discipline, and resilience. Becoming a Division 1 football player and a graduate from Harvard, he’s a man who knows what it takes to win. But here’s the truth:
Geoffrey’s success wasn’t handed to him. It’s built on lessons learned from failures that would have made most people quit. Instead, he used those moments to grow stronger, to sharpen his focus, and to raise his standards.

Geoffrey is proof that when you push past limits, commit to excellence, and embrace the hard lessons, there’s nothing you can’t achieve. He’s a disruptor, a visionary, and a leader blazing a path for others to follow.

Bill Murray

Multi-Family

Axel Ragnarsson

Founder, Aligned Real Estate Partners · Multi-Family

A full-time real estate investor since 2017, Axel is the founder of Aligned Real Estate Partners, which acquires and operates multifamily properties throughout NH, RI, and FL. The firm owns or is a general partner in 550+ units and has been a principal party in $90M+ in transactions — sourcing 35+ deals and closing 300+ units direct-to-seller in the last three years alone.

He is also a founding partner of Blue Door Living, a New Hampshire property management company managing over 850 units, and hosts The Multifamily Wealth Podcast, one of the most highly-rated multifamily real estate podcasts in the industry.

Instagram: @multifamilywealth · alignedrep.com

Magdiel “Mags” Matias

Matias Companies · Real Estate Agent & Investor

Mags was born in the Dominican Republic to parents who taught him exactly what sacrifice looks like. His father became an engineer in Russia — and learned Russian to do it. His mother earned her degree back home and was the steady force holding the family together. They carried that work ethic to America, and it stuck.

He came to the U.S. at six, grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and had his own newspaper route by twelve. He worked full-time through high school and college, became a citizen at 21, and earned his finance degree from UMass Lowell. Then he turned down corporate America to work with troubled youth instead. He will still tell you the impact he made in that job ran deeper than any deal he has ever closed.

Real estate found him when his brothers sat him down and said, “We're going in.” Manuel founded Matias Companies; Mags got his license and never looked back. When he wanted to scale, he studied what a family friend named Mike Ketchen was building — asked the questions, learned the strategy, and joined the coaching program. It expanded his vision and sharpened his execution.

Immigrant roots. Discipline, education, and service. This all carried him to build a multi-family portfolio of almost $10M. 

Mike “Bougie” Bourgeois

Founder, Bougie Realty · MC

Your MC for the weekend. A self-taught investor, Mike built and managed his own residential portfolio while running a 15-year international career in IT and business leadership, including several years working in Europe. Real estate became more than a strategy — it gave him the financial freedom to leave the corporate world and build a business of his own.

Today he owns and operates a portfolio of long-term buy-and-hold rentals across MA and Southern NH, and was named Rookie of the Year by the Northeast Association of REALTORS® in his first full year in sales. He knows the investor's side of the table because he sits on it.

Instagram: @bougierealty · bougierealty.com