Though public seminars and webinars, over 250,000 people have listened to Phill present on the topic of real estate investing, and millions more have watched re-plays of his presentations though a network of affiliates.

While developing various training programs, Phill also Co-founded REIMatcher, in 2010, a real estate investor platform providing tools and training to real estate investors looking to automate their business. Along with this platform Phill created the REI Scoreboard – a tool showing how to make money on any real estate investment lead from any seller with any home with any mortgage. Later REIMatcher was replaced by a proprietary App based platform known as Big Dog Tools.

By 2012-2013, Phill, and his wife Shenoah, expanded their network, across the state off Texas, by creating a series of real estate investor associations (REIAs) in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston (2), and San Antonio. These REIAs became the Texas Wealth Network, and then later, Texas REIAs in 2014, and rapidly grew to become the largest real estate investors network in Texas (possibly in the USA) with over 70,000 participants, members, attendees by 2018.

In 2017, Phill founded the Texas Real Estate Investors – Legislative Action Group in response to the Texas State Legislature proposing new legislation that would potentially make seller financing and wrap-around mortgages (a popular investor strategy in Texas) illegal. The legislation was proposed in response to some disreputable investors (outside of Phill’s network) committing fraud on a group a Texas homeowners. The Texas REI Legislative Action Group successfully funded a lobbying effort to have the law modified to shut down the fraud activity, while keeping the straggly legal for reputable investors. A major victory for Texas investors, as without this concentrated effort, the new law would have been devastating the to real estate investor community.

In 2017, Phill launched The Canis Major Incubator a platform and community for Commercial Multi-Family investing in Texas. This platform provides Texas real estate investors with training to become sophisticated active or passive investors of Commercial Multi-Family real estate. The platform connects active investors with deals to passive investors looking to invest in deals. The platforms is growing rapidly, and members have funded over $100M in commercial real estate projects in Texas. In additional to sponsoring the Texas Residential Real Estate Investing Workshop, Texas REIAs also sponsors the Texas Commercial Real Estate Investing Workshop, for Texans wanting to learn how to invest actively or passively in commercial real estate. See the page for that workshop, also on this website.

Today, Phill and his wife, Shenoah, manage the largest network of real estate investor in the state of Texas (possibly in the USA), with over 87,000 (and growing) participants, attendees, members, and sponsors. They continue to provide the most extensive training, mentoring, and investing resources, for both residential and commercial investing, in Texas.

Phill and Shenoah have personally mentored thousands of real estate investors throughout Texas. He and Shenoah call this “Bringing people along for the ride”. They have participated in negotiating over 1200 real estate deals, and have acquired and currently own over $10,000,000 in personal residential properties (mostly rental properties) and have ownership in over $35,000,000 in commercial properties in Texas. The Groves run their business out of their 10,000 foot home in Barton Creek, Austin where they live with their son, Zilker.