Flipping America

Roger outlines the top 20 "places" to invest for 2019. The first 18 are not cities, but investing principles to follow when choosing a location. Then he provides 2 cities for example and goes on to give a list of 20 great investing cities for 2019.

Roger shares is TOP 20 Insider tips, tricks and techniques for success in Real Estate investing.

Welcome to the Big 2018 Real Estate News show! Today we are going to talk about some of the biggest stories of 2018 with regards to real estate. I'm going to lead off with an in-depth report on flipping houses. This is the show Flipping America after all, so the topic is on point. But we've been getting quite a few questions lately about flipping houses so before I get to the news, let's deal with...

She has a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering from one of America's leading technical institutes. She was a test pilot with the US government with Top Secret clearance. She also has a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, which seems very different than engineering! She gave up what looks to all of us a GREAT career to become a real estate investor. Yeah she's good at that too. With more tha...

Ever wonder what it's like to be a real estate reporter for a major news outlet? Wonder no more. We have a couple of them lined up for you in the next two weeks. I like to know what people think and how they think and these reporters provide a lot of the interpretation for the data we all consume as real estate investors. Today we are going to be joined in a few minutes by Devon Thorsby from US Ne...

Roger is at it again - making fun of the Real Estate Headline writers. Today he picks on self-contradictory "news" stories on interest rates over a three week span - all by the same author. He then gets on a mild rant about homeownership and finally takes some questions from the listeners.

Have you ever thought about investing in other asset classes besides residential? Today our guest is Hunter Thompson (I know you're going to ask, so "no, no relation to THAT Hunter Thompson) Hunter is a full-time real estate investor and founder of Cash Flow Connections, a private equity firm based out of Los Angeles, CA. Since starting CFC, Hunter has helped more than 250 investors allocate capit...

A couple of weeks ago we did a show about Chicago and the Chicago market. One of our guests, Jane Garvey is back with us today. I had so many more questions I wanted to ask her about life and investing in the Chicago area and my friends I've learned over the years that if you have a chance to tap into the mind of an expert, take it! As soon as our last interview was finished I asked Jane if she wo...

If you are going to own rental properties and acquire enough of them to achieve financial freedom, sooner or later you are probably going to want to stop managing them yourself and hire a property management company. I've hired a few management companies in my time and coming up I'm going to share with you some tips and techniques about managing properties yourself and then give you my guidelines...

FAR 214 Inexpensive Rental Houses Expected Air Date: 12/10/18 Opening In this business you make your plan, plan your work and then prepare yourself for curve balls. Real estate is by definition an inefficient investment vehicle and that is a good thing. It means opportunities are always springing up. It's a challenging thing in that you can't get locked in to forever implementing one trick, techni...

FAR 207 Rentals Part 3 Expected Air Date: 11/12/18 Opening In the last show we talked about short term rentals. Today we are taking a more traditional approach with a discussion about landlording. I've owned and self-managed dozens of rentals properties over the years and I've also hired property management. I'm going to share with you the top 35 things I've learned so far. I'm pretty sure there's...

FAR 204 BuildZoom Expected Air Date: 11/03/18 Opening Hello everyone! If you are listening to this on our broadcast date of November 3rd, I am right now teaching the FlipStarter Course in Atlanta, GA to 40 future real estate millionaires. We are already planning our next events and are considering opening up to a larger group - perhaps up to 100, but we are trying to be careful that we are still a...

FAR 202 Chicago Chicago Expected Air Date: 10/25/18 Opening What a day! What a City! Chicago Illinois, the third largest city in America and as you are going to hear in a few moments, the nation's leader in Pumpkin Spice Lattes! Today we are going to focus on Chicago. We are going to speak with a leading realtor and a couple of leaders from the investor community there. And as a bonus, out bumper...

FAR 203 Let's Get Privy! Expected Air Date: 11/1/18 Opening All right sports fans, the World Series is over, it's time to stock up for the winter and I'm not referring to groceries, I'm referring to inventory if you're in the house flipping business. Pretty much any time is a good time to buy if you're buying right. Coming up today is Jane Garvey, one of the founding leaders for all real estate in...

FAR 201 Max Keller Expected Air Date: 10/25/18 Opening The year 2030 marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2017 National Population Projections . By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. This will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age. "The aging of baby boomers means th...

FAR 200 Appreciation Expected Air Date: 10/22/18 Opening Real Estate, we appreciate you! Let's talk about appreciation. Looking to the future. What has happened in the past 12 months? What is expected for 2019? What is appreciation anyway and what is the historic rate of appreciation in housing? A complete explanation plus news and some of your questions coming up. How to contact us www.flippingam...

FAR 199 Chantelle Owens Expected Air Date: 10/20/18 Opening We are excited today to be broadcasting the show via livestream from our studio in Sandy Springs, Atlanta. We have Chantelle Owens here with us and today we are going to be talking about tax liens. I call her the Queen of Tax Liens! Chantelle has a boot camp coming up here in Atlanta and we will be talking about that as well as the tax sa...

FAR 198 The Guru Scam Expected Air Date: 10/18/18 Opening A friend sent me an email the other day with information about a real estate seminar he had signed up to attend. Wanted me to check it out and tell him what I thought. I did some checking and told him he was in for a high pressure sales pitch that rivaled something between a time-share and a used car. But they would be much more polished th...

FAR 197 Leslie Smith, Commercial Direct Expected Air Date: 10/15/18 Opening Leslie Smith led the launch of Silver Hill Funding in 2016, and is building on that experience to spearhead the launch of the consumer-facing direct lender, Commercial Direct. An experienced financial services professional and thought leader with more than 20 years in the industry, she has been instrumental in leading mult...

FAR 196 Tom Olson, Community Go Giver Expected Air Date: 10/11/18 Opening Tom Olson is a very active Real Estate investor working in Northwest Indiana Area. Tom and his teams at Olson Group provide lending, turn key, and active turn key investment opportunities to today's smart investor. Tom and his teams manage his rental portfolio which includes traditional rentals and short term vacation rental...

FAR 195 What NOT to Do Expected Air Date: 10/07/18 Opening Good morning. We have market news today. There is increasing evidence that the shift we predicted a year ago is happening. Sales are slowing down and we are moving in the direction of a buyers' market. Are we heading into a crash? In a few minutes I'll cite a story that says "yes, no, and maybe." That's right - a classic example of bold pr...

FAR 193 Expected Air Date: 10/1/18 Opening Thank you Kathy. It has come to my attention that I have missed a question that is waiting. When we wrapped up two shows ago I had a question from Ashton in Austin about note-buying and I didn't get to it on the last show, so I'm going to start with it today. Ashton, Austin, TX, "Really enjoyed the show with Scott Carson, Can you explain the math on buyin...

FAR 192 Kory Angelin Expected Air Date: 9/29/18 Opening We have a little bit of a selling and marketing theme going on this week on the show. Today we are joined by Kory Angelin who is going to tell us if we have something to sell, stop selling. Start relating. Remember what I said previously that in this business we are selling all the time. We are not selling our houses. We are selling ourselves...

FAR 191 Steve Rigby, Selling with SMILE Expected Air Date: 9/27/18 Opening Thank you Kathy Curtis! Today our guest is Steve Rigby, author of the book "S.M.I.L.E. How a People First Philosophy Creates Extraordinary Sales." In our conversation we are going to break down the major points of his book and talk about specific ways to improve our relationships as a way of increasing sales. For nearly two...