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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

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Episode Description

James Faillettaz came into real estate with a massive vision and the ambition to build something far bigger than himself. Early on, he designed an elaborate investment structure where people could buy into his company based on a future valuation tied to him continually adding units—a creative and uncommon approach that came with both advantages and real challenges. Over the years, he’s moved from small duplexes to small commercial to larger multifamily, built vertically integrated service businesses to support his portfolio, and expanded into representing clients as an agent. Throughout it all, he has been unusually open about what worked, what absolutely didn’t, and the lessons that reshaped his strategy.

What makes James compelling is how sharp he is paired with how candid and humble he remains. Today he runs a real estate sales team, a property management company, a commercial leasing arm, and continues to acquire new units while raising capital for his fund. He talks openly about mistakes, pivots, personal growth, and the systems that actually sustain momentum. It’s a rare conversation with someone who has built a wide-reaching ecosystem in real estate—and is still hungry, thoughtful, and improving.