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🎙️ 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

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

💡 We’d love to meet with you and hear about your investing goals. Book a time with us here:
TwinCitiesRealEstateInvesting.com/schedule

In this episode, we sit down with John Zilverberg, a Minnesota investor whose journey into real estate started with a bold first deal: a beautiful duplex just two blocks east of Lake Calhoun (Bde Maka Ska). John bought the property in 2020 and went all-in on a DIY value-add renovation, essentially gutting much of the building and learning a long list of lessons the hard way. The risk paid off when the property appraised far higher than expected, allowing him to refinance, unlock a large amount of equity, and pull out cash to fund his next moves.

John used that momentum to pivot into out-of-state short-term rental investing, where his engineering mindset turned out to be a huge advantage. Running STR properties across the country requires tight systems, data, and operational discipline—exactly the type of challenge John enjoys solving. Today he owns five short-term rentals in different markets, and in this episode we take a deep dive into his first out-of-state deal in Sedona, Arizona, breaking down how he chose the market and what he learned along the way. For Minnesota investors dreaming about owning a property somewhere warm, this episode offers a practical look at how to make that jump.