How To Work Around Market Changes In Real Estate Investing | Ricardo Rosales
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Join Nick Lamagna on The A Game Podcast with our guest Ricardo Rosales, a full-time real estate investor, entrepreneur, educator and podcast host from Venezuela who is now investing out of Texas! After being a bit lost in his early years, he found some purpose in the military as a diesel mechanic in the US Navy. The oil and gas industry brought him to Texas and after seeing a real estate investor make money flipping homes it gave him the confidence to jump into real estate investing
He borrowed money from his mother-in-law and learned some lessons through the school of hard knocks as he earned his stripes as a contractor and after getting laid off from his job, he became a full-time investor and became an accident landlord and was bit by the cash flow bug owning up to 100 rentals at one time.
Over the years he scaled his business to doing 40-50 deals a month after overcoming adversity in business a hurricane threw some unexpected winds into his sails and caused him to once again pivot his business into wholesaling to pay make his private lenders whole and fell into hiring and training virtual assistants to manage his day to day and scale his business. Today that has become his bread and butter helping business owners and investors through his company Top Of The Line VA. He holds exciting live real estate events for investors throughout the year known as Attend Growth and has one coming up June 27 and 28th in Tampa you won't want to miss!
Topics for this episode include:
✅ Why having a high quality VA is important
✅ Top things VAs can help you with today
✅ How to stop being your own enemy in business
✅ How to rebuild and pivot your business after a setback
✅ Inspiring story of rags to riches you wont want to miss + more!
Connect with Ricardo:
Real Estate Entrepreneurs Podcast
Connect with Top Of The Line VA:
Top Of The Line VA on Facebook
Top Of The Line VA on Instagram
Top Of The Line VA on LinkedIn
Connect with Attend Growth Event:
Attend Growth Conference on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the A-game podcast with Nick LaManya, digging into the minds and experiences of some of today's brightest entrepreneurs in real estate and business, |
| 0:23.6 | along with Hollywood stars, UFC fighters, and your favorite rock fans. |
| 0:27.6 | People that have figured out how to overcome obstacles, take chances, live boldly, |
| 0:32.6 | and no matter what they do, they always bring their A game. |
| 0:49.8 | This is the A game podcast, |
| 0:51.3 | We're investing for entrepreneurs and the whole point of this podcast |
| 0:52.5 | to show average people that they can |
| 0:54.6 | achieve extraordinary things every single day. There is multiple guests we've been through for the last |
| 0:58.7 | 350 plus episodes that if you just go back into these past episodes, you will see athletes, |
| 1:04.1 | entrepreneurs, fighters, business owners, comedians, people of all shapes and sizes that will tell you |
| 1:09.4 | exactly how they found a way to live their |
| 1:11.3 | best life financially, physically, personally, or teach you the mistakes that they made along |
| 1:15.6 | the way so you do not have to. If that was not enough, we have another bangor of an episode |
| 1:19.4 | today. I guess today on the A-game podcast is Ricardo Rosales. He is an amazing real estate |
| 1:23.5 | investor who is now running top-of-the-line VA, and he's helping real estate investors, |
| 1:28.6 | business owners, and entrepreneurs grow and manage their daily tasks and everything from social |
| 1:33.0 | media to lead managers, to lead generations, to closures, to executive assistance. |
| 1:37.1 | And he's doing it through his team from his old home country in Venezuela. |
| 1:40.5 | And he's got an amazing story where he's been through the whole gamut of making money, a questionable beginning, and then finding his way through the military as a diesel mechanic in the U.S. Navy, and then getting it to real estate and having a little bit of a bumpy road, gotten up to 100 rentals at one point, figuring out he didn't really love being a landlord, then getting into 40, 50 flips a month, bringing in a ton of money like that, borrowing over $50 million. |
| 2:02.4 | Hurricane came through, ruined his business. |
| 2:04.5 | He had to start over, started getting back into wholesaling, figuring how to pay back those investors. |
| 2:08.8 | So he's got the true test of an entrepreneur for adversity, and he knows how to pivot his business. |
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