Flipping America

More than thirty million Americans are currently unemployed. Many of them do not have several months of cash reserves for emergencies. And many are turning to real estate as an opportunity to help them no longer rely on their employer for all of their income. Some desire to break from the corporate world and become professional real estate investors.  It's tough to do when you're broke.  Real esta...

Today we conclude the conversation we started last time with Dr. David Janssen. We are talking about personality types, learning styles, and other characteristics that create our Divine Design. What does this have to do with real estate investing? I'm glad you asked. If we know ourselves well, we will know there are certain things we shouldn't try. But that's ok, because there are a lot of other o...

"Know Thyself." If you can do this, you have a much better chance of succeeding in life and work. You also have a much better chance of knowing, valuing, and relating to other people. To know yourself is the beginning of understanding the differences and learning to value those differences. In just a few moments we are going to join a recent call we did for the Flipping America REIA. Our guest is...

Would you ever consider investing with someone who has never lost money on a deal? That would certainly get my attention. I can't make that claim - I've lost money on a few. But today I'm going to have on the show a young man who so far is batting 1000. He's never lost money on a deal. And he's been at it for awhile. Blake Templeton is an international motivational speaker, author of the new book...

It's OK to start small. But if you start well, and build disciplines around expenses, cash flow and reinvestment of profits, your business will grow and grow until it becomes a juggernaut, which is an unstoppable force, not a bad guy in Marvel comics.  Jason Pero was born and raised in Erie, PA and attended college at nearby Westminster. After college Jason began a sales career in pharmaceutical a...

Today we conclude the presentation from last time about how to build your personal network. Plus I have a bunch of questions from you and I'm going to give you some answers.  How to contact us www. RogerBlankenship.com . Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line: 877-55-ROGER (76437)   ext 1....

They say your Network is your Net Worth. That may be true and if it is, building your network could be one of the most important things you will do. If you make yourself attractive or credible enough people will reach out to you. I'm going to show you how to accomplish this and no, it's not a diet and workout lesson. I'm also going to talk through the steps and key principles for intentionally gro...

Today we are concluding our conversation with Chris Larsen about how to make a million dollars in real estate. There are multiple paths. We've laid out a path in single family and in multi-family for you, but there are other options as well.   How to contact us www. RogerBlankenship.com . Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingA...

Your life is a combination of repeated tasks and special projects. Repeated tasks include all of your regular weekly, daily and monthly routines. These are essential to your life and while they may have some variety (i.e. beans instead of fish for supper), their repetition minimizes the need for special or extra-ordinary intervention from your brain. Special projects are those things that interrup...

They say there are two inevitabilities in this life: Death and Taxes. We won't tell you that you can completely avoid taxes, but you can minimize them with the right strategies and there are some cases where you can avoid taxes all together. The Self-Directed IRA is our topic for tonight and in a few moments we are going to show you how you can make a million dollars or even more in your Self-Dire...

Imagine standing in front of someone you need to impress (a date?, investors, potential clients, home-sellers?) with complete confidence. We're not talking about false bravado or an over-inflated ego disconnected from reality. We're talking about confidence that comes from preparation, skill development, knowledge, experience, and a thorough understanding of your weaknesses and what you have done...

We continue today in our conversation about Creative Deal Structures with Don Derosa. As we left off last time we were about to have a pile of wisdom and experience laid on us. In a few minutes I'm going to start the recording up again - I'll back it up a little bit so you have some context, but Don is going to share some key principles with you about getting these deals done.   How to contact us...

In the coming months we are going to see a bump in the number of distressed homeowners who need an offer "right now." Many homeowners do not have enough equity or the ability to discount their houses low enough for there to be an opportunity for an investor to make money. Unless you know how to creatively structure deals to minimize your cash outlays. That's the topic for the next couple of episod...

Today we conclude the conversation with Ramon Tookes and John Durham on the topic we titled, "Some Like it Hot". We are looking for hot markets, hot products in those markets, and hot deals. We also took a number of questions from the audience during the call and we are sharing it all with you here. The first two installments from this call were part of the previous two episodes. You'll want to li...

We are continuing the conversation today with Ramon Tookes and John Durham on the topic we titled, "Some Like it Hot". We are looking for hot markets, hot products in those markets, and hot deals. We also took a number of questions from the audience during the call and we are sharing it all with you here. We will join the conversation in a few moments. This part two of three parts. If you missed t...

I believe every meeting we hold and every call we conduct provides great information that you need and want. We almost always, in my humble opinion, we hit that mark. I take pride in the fact that this show is carefully researched, thoughtfully constructed, and reasonably presented to add incredible value to the life of anyone interested in real estate investing. But occasionally we move the needl...

We continue today the conversation we started last time with Mark Dolfini and Tom Zeeb. We are talking about the recovery after the coronavirus shutdowns end and where we think real estate will be. Mark is a buy and hold investor in Indianapolis and Tom is a wholesaler in Washington DC. It's tough to predict outcomes from something unprecedented like this, but we are going to try anyway.   How to...

The economy can't stay closed forever. And when it reopens it might not open all at once everywhere. Many experts now are beginning to believe that real estate will lead a resurgence that could impact the entire economy. What shape will it take? We are joined today by my good friends Tom Zeeb and Mark Dolfini. These are high volume investors from Washington DC and Indianapolis respectively and the...

We sometimes take technology for granted in our world. I'm not going to turn this into your daddy's talk about how he had to walk to school every day 5 miles, uphill each way in rain or snow. But I will tell you that when I started in this business TVs were not flat and phones didn't take pictures or send emails. Yes things have come a long way and this is not just to tell you that I'm old or I've...

We continue the conversation today about whether it is time to buy, to sell, to hold, or what to do. My guests are Gordon Catts and Chris Larsen. This is the second and concluding portion of the conversation. If you missed the first part, be sure to download Show number 364 and give it a listen when you can.  Later on I'm going to reveal the top six months for home sales in the United States. If w...

The Pandemic of 2020 rages on. And raging perhaps louder than the disease itself is the on-going debate about when and how the economy should open. Protesters are out in multiple metropolitan areas, jobless claims went up another 3 million last week - nearly 35 million now unemployed. Yet the Governor of California this morning announced that the state will remain locked down until there is a vacc...

We talk all the time here on Flipping America about getting a hard money loan. It could be that you're listening and are vaguely familiar with the idea, but it gets kind of complicated quickly when you start talking about all of the variables. Interest rate, term, points, loan-to-value, purchase money, rehab money, percentages of this or that. On today's episode I'm speaking with Nate Wolosiewicz...

"Most people don't recognize opportunity because it often comes disguised as hard work." "Opportunity paged me, beeped me, linked me, emailed me, faxed me and spammed me, but I was expecting it to knock."  How to contact us www. RogerBlankenship.com . Leave a voicemail right from the home page! Facebook.com/flippingamericamedia Twitter and Instagram @FlippingAmerica Call our National Comment Line:...

Chris Larsen is the founder and Managing Partner of Next-Level Income, through which he helps investors become financially independent through education and investment opportunities. He began syndicating deals in 2016, has raised more than $12M and been actively involved in over $150M of real estate acquisitions.

Tom Peters said, ""If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." No one listening to this show right now is responsible for the pandemic that is destroying the worldwide economy while taking fewer lives than the seasonal flu. It's a strange and challenging time, but it is precisely during times like these that shrewd people sense the changing opportunities, respond to meet them a...