76: Growing Your Real Estate Company Into a $30 Million Dollar Business with Brian Burke

<p>Today on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcast" target="_blank">BiggerPockets Podcast</a>&nbsp;we are&nbsp;excited to welcome&nbsp;back&nbsp;Brian Burke, who we last talked to back in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2013/01/31/raising-money-getting-started/" target="_blank">episode number 3</a>. Brian is the&nbsp;owner of a large, successful real estate company headquartered in&nbsp;Santa Rosa, CA. Last time we sat down with Brian, he showed&nbsp;us how he got started investing in real estate, walking us through his first steps.&nbsp;On today’s show&nbsp;Brian&nbsp;goes deeper, sharing the details of how he&nbsp;scaled his&nbsp;real estate business from a one-man operation to fully staffed multi-million dollar company! This show&nbsp;goes into incredible detail (and offering<em>&nbsp;highly</em>&nbsp;actionable steps) on how to bootstrap your business, how to vet employees, how to gauge your market and much much more! If you are looking to turn your investing company into more than just a hobby… this show is for you!</p><p>In This Show, We Cover:</p><ul><li>How to&nbsp;grow your business&nbsp;from a&nbsp;1-man business to a full scale operation</li><li>How to&nbsp;prepare for legal issues&nbsp;as an investor</li><li>When is the right time to&nbsp;grow your team?</li><li>How do you&nbsp;find good players&nbsp;for your team?</li><li>When is&nbsp;it time to use property management?</li><li>The importance of&nbsp;growing organically… and we’re not talking about vegetables!</li><li>How to&nbsp;track your deal history&nbsp;in order to&nbsp;raise money</li><li>What&nbsp;bootstrapping&nbsp;your&nbsp;real estate business&nbsp;really looks like</li><li>How to&nbsp;find a mentor</li><li>What&nbsp;BiggerPockets&nbsp;has to offer&nbsp;experienced real estate investors&nbsp;(Brian made&nbsp;over $400K netfrom using BP!)</li><li>and much, much more!</li></ul><p>Links Mentioned</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2013/01/31/raising-money-getting-started/" target="