Episodes

If you’ve been looking to make passive investments in hard assets but are finding it difficult to get the returns you’d expect, there are other great vehicles that can generate 10 % or higher with conservative risk. Business ...

The best ideas are simple. For example, creating a national coffee chain like Starbucks, or an alternative to taxis, like Uber, or Airbnb, etc. Joseph Woodbury, CEO of Neighbor.com, connects homeowners and businesses that hav...

Starting a Multifamily brokerage from scratch can be a steep undertaking. It takes time to build awareness, and to get known in a market in order to hire the right agents and obtain property listings and clients. As the curre...

Despite the desire for short-term gains, the predicable wealth in Real Estate is built over the long term with quality assets and strong operators. In multifamily markets where employment and population trends are favorable, ...

Single family homes in the U.S. are the largest asset class in the world at $37 trillion dollars. This is why the largest financial institutions on Wall Street have been increasing their investments in this lucrative asset cl...

In an environment where it’s difficult to achieve significant cash flow with direct equity investments in Real Estate, investing in the debt can be an attractive option with much more liquidity. Investing in debt can have le...

Most of the problems in commercial Real Estate right now are related to debt. In addition to evaluating the General Partner, debt is the most important aspect of a deal. James Eng, “The Professor” of multifamily financing, is...

Making money in Real Estate requires timing and being able to see what others don’t. Just a few years ago, retail was written off for dead because of e-commerce and Amazon. More recently, office has become a hated asset class...

Both residential and commercial Real Estate occupancy rates and rents are contracting in many markets in combination with higher expenses. When investing in the right part of the cycle, however, Real Estate can generate attra...

Real Estate is a block-to-block business where an intimate lack of local knowledge can be costly. It’s critical to know the nuances of a submarket and the different neighborhoods to mitigate risk. Eddie Ring, Founder and CEO ...

In the world of multifamily, 80% of total units are in buildings with fewer than 50 units. This represents a big opportunity for buyers, because these buildings are mostly too large for most smaller operators to acquire, and ...

Although the multifamily market has seen huge headwinds, the competition for buying these assets remains fierce. Even in this market, there is still lots of competition, but Lee has managed to find great value-add properties ...

You don’t need to be a direct operator of Real Estate to get a great return on your money. You can invest in the secondary mortgage market and get a 12% return with conservative leverage against single family homes. Nic DeAng...

Getting high returns is very difficult in Real Estate investing, largely because there are too many people chasing the same deals and sellers want a lot for their properties. If you’re willing to invest in projects that are o...

Single family homes in U.S are the largest asset class in the world at $43 Trillion. Many investors have made a fortune investing in single family homes over the decades, and large institutions have been aggregating single fa...

Investing passively is a great way to generate cash flow and appreciation, without having to deal with day-to-day operations. You just need to develop the skills at vetting operators and specific deals. David Shirkey, a fello...

Most multifamily syndicators are facing major headwinds including interest rate increases, new supply, and escalating expenses. In order to thrive in this environment, you have to have an excellent organization that executes ...

Eventually, ma and pa Mobile Home Park operators will be swallowed up by professional operators, so the opportunity to invest is now. The demand to live in Mobile Home Parks is growing while the supply is shrinking. The avera...

Even before covid, the Southeast was rapidly growing, but the trend accelerated during covid, and still continues. The population of Atlanta, for example, is projected to multiply three times in the next thirty years to over ...

Compared to most other Real Estate asset classes, Self-Storage has more resilience in the face of different economic climates. Self-Storage has a steadier revenue stream, a smaller percentage of operating expenses, and theref...

One of the time-honored ways to make money in Real Estate is flipping single family houses. For years, this is how many successful Real Estate investors have made a great living. In fact, many Real Estate moguls started with ...

Over the past several years, as prices in multifamily have escalated, the greatest value has been in acquiring older, C Class assets with the highest returns. As interest rates have pushed prices down more recently, however, ...

The rate at which the Real Estate market has unraveled is unprecedented in recent history. The debt and equity markets have all but frozen, which has suspended the market. Many operators and lenders are in trouble because ope...

Many Real Estate investors start out investing in residential properties before migrating to asset classes like industrial, self-storage, or office for less day-to-day management. Jonathan Hayek, founder of Endurance Properti...