Passive Real Estate Investing

Full-time entrepreneur, investor, and coach, Michael Blank shares great insights and information about his main focus, multi-family real estate investing. Taking us from the beginning of his journey to settling with multi-family investing, he provides the pros and cons he has learned along the way. He provides some contract to investing in residential real estate, the one to four-unit properties. He shares his thoughts on the market value of properties and what determines it; why most people don’t involve in large real estate business; and how to find deals. Pushing forth the value of appearing experienced, he urges to get yourself educated and to build a team around you that will help you forward.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brett Swarts, president of Capital Gains Solutions LLC, helps break down real estate taxes and offers some tips on what you can do to minimize them in a legal way. He talks about capital gains tax and how through deferred sales trust, the investors achieve freedom, liquidity, and diversification with their funds. Covering also 1031 exchange, he discusses its advantages and disadvantages in commercial real estate. Learn how both are different and when it is the best situation for both. Know your role in the process and the perspective to take while keeping in mind the solutions to some of the issues or problems that may arise.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Americans are losing the money game. Freedom is our innate human tendency, yet that beacon of Americanism has dimmed over the last decade. It's an abstraction to some and a fantasy to others. Our society has replaced the foundational principles of self-reliance and entrepreneurship with security and dependency. The price we've paid for this transfer responsibility continues to compound. However, the opportunity to create financial freedom is far more available than it has been for your parents and their parents' parents. Patrick Donohoe, founder and CEO of Paradigm Life and PL Wealth Advisors, says it all starts with your financial education and your mindset. You may need to question everything you know about money and wealth investing in retirement, but it's available to you. Patrick talks about his new book, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose. His work centers on educating clients to reach their financial freedom by building wealth, creating cash flow, and establishing a legacy.Learn more about your ad choices. Vi

The US housing market continues to grow with rising prices and new construction supported by a strengthening domestic economy. According to new data released by the NAR, the National Association of Realtors, home prices are still rising. However, a rental property is only valuable to you if there is a person willing and able to use the property and pay you rent. If you buy a house standing by itself in the middle of a desert, the prospects of you finding a tenant are very poor. What you want is a hassle-free cash flowing property near lots of well-paid people. Those people want to live near their jobs and the amenities they enjoy. Learn the seven steps for picking a suitable and strong rental market.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Real estate becomes an asset when it brings you cash flow. As a real estate investor, you'll be putting other people's money to work for you. When we talk about loopholes of real estate, we're talking about the financial tax and legal advantages of investing in real estate as a passive income earner. It has been successfully utilized by many investors to protect and maximize their real estate investments. Loopholes provide for the defense of your valuable real estate. From a tax perspective, there are real estate loopholes to be opened. Smart investors know how to open those loopholes to their maximum advantage. From the legal side, there are real estate loopholes that need to be closed. When you learn when to open and when to close loopholes, you become a successful and even a sophisticated real estate investor. Bestselling author and Rich Dad advisor Garrett Sutton discusses the loopholes of real estate investing. Garrett has been practicing corporate law for more than 35 years, assisting real estate invest

Your property managers are your asset managers. They take care of your property, fill vacancies, maintain the property, take care of the tenants who are your customers, and deal with the law and liability. They need to be understanding of the environment, speaking of the law and liability. Dave is the co-founder of Great Jones, a venture-backed business on a mission to make property management efficient, effective, and delightful for owners regardless of their portfolio size. He has a lot of industry exposure and experience. He was the director of construction for FirstKey Homes, a massive company that has purchased an untold number of homes. He oversaw operations across ten markets. Before that, he was the regional director of another massive company called Waypoint Homes. Dave talks about building his own company and gives his perspective on real estate investing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warren Buffett once said, “Until you can manage your mind, do not expect to manage money.” Warren Buffett is correct. Without the right mindset, it would be difficult to become a successful investor. Getting into the field of property investing, your mindset matters and it plays a very important role in leveling up your life. Paul Thompson used to have a corporate day job but now he's a full-time real estate investor who lives to help others find their way. When Paul realized that the perfect time to start investing was never going to come, he simply switched his mindset and jumped in. Now, he's doing three deals a month and is able to help himself as well as others build wealth and passive income with cashflow. Paul tells his personal story of securing twenty plus deals in his first eighteen months of investing to serve as an inspiration for everybody else.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, it can be unfortunate to find how so much focus is given on academic and professional education without having to recognize the importance of financial education. In our lives, not only do we live everyday pursuing our goals, but we also have to live a life full of financial matters. That is why as we have often seen, most still find themselves financially insecure and experiencing negative cash flow. And as we put it here, “Ignorance is expensive.” The good thing is we can always change that.  Marco answers some of your real estate and other financial-related questions, touching on topics like investments, portfolios, financing, multifamily housing, funds, appraisals, and more! You’ll find yourself learning so much more and getting some insider tips on navigating your way to financial freedom.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you could convert a portion of your home equity into immediate cash that you can use for any purpose, and what if there were no monthly payment requirements on that immediate cash? Jim Benavidez invests alongside with you in your home. It’s what’s called a home ownership investment, and because it's an investment and not a loan, there are no monthly payments at any given time on the money they provide you. In fact, there are no payments at all until you sell or refinance the home, and that can be up to 30 years later. Learn more how you can unlock home equity without monthly payments to grow your portfolio.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go to school, study hard, get a good job. That’s the linear path that a lot of people start on. After getting an engineering degree, Lane Kawaoka started working in the day job as a construction supervisor and bought a house pretty quickly. But he was never home because he was traveling all the time for work, so he started renting his home out. Realizing how much passive cash flow he was able to pull from that got him started into real estate investing as a working professional. He currently has a portfolio of eleven single-family homes in places like Seattle, Birmingham, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Pennsylvania. He's also a partner in a syndication that controls currently over 1,300 apartment and RV units. Lane has made it a mission to help people get off the corrupt Wall Street roller coaster and focus on main street investments with safer, higher returns that benefit the American middle class.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10,000 people a day are turning 65. Much more importantly, 4,000 a day are turning 85. Gene Guarino of Residential Assisted Living Academy is focused on investing in the mega trend of senior assisted housing. They find the right location, the best demographics, and they buy or rent a home and convert that into a senior-friendly, senior-safe home with grab bars, smooth floors, wide doors, and the like. Gene explains it's a residential home in the neighborhood which may have six to twelve seniors living in it with no sign in front being used as a group home for the elderly with caregivers 24/7. Gene exposes this exciting opportunity in a growing trend and talks about the real estate angle and the business angle of residential assisted living.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investing in tax lien certificates is an alternative way to include real estate in your portfolio, at least another source of income. When a homeowner falls behind on their property taxes, the county or municipality where the property is located can place a tax lien against the property. A tax lien certificate is issued usually by the tax assessor's office, verifying that there is a lien in place and the amount of taxes owed on that property by the current owner. According to the National Tax Lean Association, an amazing estimated $14 billion in property taxes goes unpaid each year. This is a pretty broad market for investors that most people don't understand. Ted Thomas explains how you can diversify a little and generate some extra cash using these tax lien certificates. Ted is a Florida-based educator, publisher and author of more than 30 books. His home study materials are international best sellers and draw clients from as far as Europe and South America. Find out how you can earn and make more money thr

Everybody has heard of Bitcoin, but some people really don't know what cryptocurrency is. Cryptocurrency is essentially a decentralized form of currency, and bitcoin is the market leader. The blockchain technology is the technology behind bitcoin. Blockchain and cryptocurrency expert Mike Freemen says the crypto revolution can bring money into the pockets of people who have never had a bank account and just skip that entire system. It's very liberating and powerful and the reach is virtually unlimited. Mike talks about bitcoin, blockchain and real estate, and says it's just a matter of understanding the uniqueness of what blockchain is and how that's going to apply to investing and real estate and contracts. Mike shares how his knowledge of blockchain technologies coupled with his investing experience allowed him to retire to Chile where he now spends his time advocating for freedom and seeking the next best way to cause more freedom in the world.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where’s the hotbed for real estate investing? Answer: the Quad Cities. Chris delves into buying and renovating luxury properties for the working-class folks. The Quad Cities, where Chris started, boasts very solid fundamentals. There's very consistent, strong returns on these properties. Single family up to four unit properties and the tenant base are pretty stable. It's not a more volatile market, like you're looking at major markets, like New York or Los Angeles. There's just a really high demand for a good rental product in the Quad Cities right now, considering that a lot of smaller operators don't take good care of the properties they handle. There's not too big of a supply of the more, as Chris would call it, like a luxury product for these working-class folks - and Chris’s team provides just that. Want in on the game before it's too late? Learn how to hold your properties to a high standard so you can lease them up in two weeks! Copyright 2018Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic

How do you invest in real estate essentially as a solopreneur from over 6,000 miles away? Billy Keels is an international real estate entrepreneur, author, coach, and mentor. He sees opportunities where others often don’t in real estate. One thing that makes Billy interesting is that he works full-time for a Fortune 500 company in Barcelona, Spain, yet invests in US real estate from over 6,000 miles away. Billy talks about how he got started in long distance real estate investing, why he's doing what he's doing, how he's doing it, what's important to him, and what his challenges had been.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ownership of real estate has many benefits from an investment and tax perspective, yet there is downside risk. The value of real estate holdings can be used to cover damages awarded in lawsuits. It is important to consider asset protection strategies relating to real estate holdings in order to minimize that risk. Asset protection planning is a preemptive measures to reduce your exposure to future lawsuit risk. Scott Smith, owner of Royal Legal Solutions, says using the right tools to mitigate your exposure risk and liability is critically important. Learn more about the right tools and properly protecting ourselves.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thousands of people, despite all their best efforts to succeed, grow, and thrive, end up failing financially. Our subconscious beliefs often work against us, setting up hidden obstacles in the way of achieving what we consciously think we want and blocking the path to our highest potential. It’s those money and wealth limiting beliefs that hurt us the most. These negative beliefs are the money phrases that we have all heard before and that many of us say consciously or even subconsciously all the time. You need to be careful because of these seemingly harmless phrases about money can interfere with the wealth building process, exactly what you're trying to work towards. Buck Joffrey, an accomplished surgeon, entrepreneur, asset manager, and bestselling author of 7 Secrets of Eternal Wealth, shares the most common limiting beliefs and created a roadmap in his course to help people towards their journey of investing on their own and ultimately financial independence. Learn more about Your Roadmap to Real Wealth

As a twenty-year veteran in the finance industry, Aaron has developed this concept of the evolution of the real estate investor. You can imagine it as an hierarchical structure or similar to what you might find in an organizational chart with a company. Aaron explains that it is an evolution where you start out working with real estate investors who spend money by investing in real estate, who then evolve to a position as a business owner in possession of several properties, to being a chief operations officer and having within their organization people that are going to work with new investors to market the properties and find more. He shares that understanding each level of this evolutionary structure will help make the team become more efficient in doing their particular tasks and also enable them to work in harmony with the other levels. — I wanted to do something a little different. I’m bringing on a good friend and one of our preferred mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers and mortgage lenders, Aaron Chapm

Memphis is a consistent and stable market. Mark brings back James, one of their team members out in the local market, to talk about the Memphis market and amazing things on the two-day Memphis investment property tour. He also talks about investing in Memphis and why it’s such a great cash flow market. James and his team has renovated, purchased, and sold over 235 single-family homes in Memphis, Tennessee that cash flow well and rent for very high-dollar amounts, making the cash on cash returns very attractive. Learn more about how you can invest in Memphis on the next investment tour. — I want to talk about Memphis and our next upcoming Memphis Investment Tour. For many of you, you know that we did a property/investment tour. I believe it was around the September, October timeframe. If you go back to an earlier episode, you will know that we talked about the Memphis Market and why invest in Memphis and why it’s such a great cashflow market. We can actually look back and talk about what we did on this two-day

Having a plan of action is one thing, but sticking to that plan is another. Most investors lose motivation when they see a task that is too big for them to do. But Anton Ivanov had a clear vision of his goals. When his tasks where bigger than he can handle, he broke it down to smaller pieces. Anton inherited a condo and became an accidental landlord but then saw that turnkey investments is great for starting investors who want to go out of state. Now he owns 35 rental units across four states that generates passive cash flow. Anton shares his stories of beginnings and how he got his confidence in the real estate investment world. — I have an interesting episode because I have a special guest, but he’s more than a guest. He’s actually a past client. This guy has really impressed me. The reason is because he set out to acquire real estate and build a portfolio. He set some goals and he made a plan. Not only did he execute on his plan but he stuck to it. He stuck to it in a way that he actually surprised me. I g