Flipping America

FAR 164 Expected Air Date: 07/2/18 Opening Have you ever asked yourself the question, "what is this remodeling job going to cost?" When you buy an investment property, especially if you are going to flip it, the repair / remodel number is one of the big three numbers you HAVE to know in order to be sure you're going to make money on the project. The other two are the ARV and the cost of the money....

FAR 163 Expected Air Date: 06/30/18 Opening We've been talking about life and business over the past few weeks and today we have Ron Carucci online to visit with us about start-ups. We discuss several of the misconceptions in the minds of new entrepreneurs, and the mistakes that flow out of those misconceptions. More importantly we discuss how to address them. Ron and his partners work with medium...

FAR 162 Expected Air Date: 06/25/18 Opening Many of you listening to this have two types of assets - liquid assets and illiquid assets. A liquid asset is cash or anything that can be turned into cash in about 3 days such as publicly traded stocks. Illiquid assets include things like real estate, which clearly cannot be turned into cash -- until now. Our guest today is Matthew Sullivan, founder and...

FAR 161 Expected Air Date: 06/23/18 Opening For most people Real Estate Investing is a Team Sport. You may not have any employees or if you do they won't be a large number. This is in part by design. We got into this business to get away from the inherently stifling nature of the corporate world. We didn't set out to create another corporate world. We are entrepreneurs. We want to come and go as w...

FAR 160 Expected Air Date: 06/21/18 Opening Looking for an opportunity to get into a real estate business that doesn't require a lot of cash, doesn't have much competition, and can be done remotely without ever leaving your computer? Today Mark Podolsky is going to join us and talk about an opportunity to do just that. You won't have tenants to deal with, you never have to make repairs, the cash f...

FAR 159 Expected Air Date: 06/14/18 Opening What in the world is Real Estate Day Trading? And how can I learn to do it? Can I make money doing this? How does it work? How do I analyze the deals? How do I pay for them? How do I move them out? IS IT POSSIBLE TO SIT AT MY COMPUTER ALL DAY AND MAKE MONEY IN REAL ESTATE? Well -- maybe. Stay tuned because today I have the guy who invented Real Estate Da...

FAR 157 Expected Air Date: 06/11/18 Opening President Trump dominates the news cycle in a way like no other public figure I've seen in my lifetime. It almost seems to me that he says some of the outrageous things just to stay in the limelight. I generally avoid politics on this show as you know and prefer to talk about real estate and the opportunity it presents. Although today I have to give a li...

FAR 157 Expected Air Date: 06/9/18 Opening Your Personal Retreat Everyone needs from time to time an opportunity to rest, relax, recover, and re-focus. I think you should take at least one day off per week for a miniature version of this and perhaps once a quarter, get away for a few days for renewal. Sometimes we need a purposeless vacation. There is a time and a place for this and we all need it...

FAR 156 Expected Air Date: 06/5/18 Opening Good morning everyone I'm Roger Blankenship your host. I teach people how to make money in real estate. We don't encourage everyone to drop what you're doing and start flipping houses like you see on TV but we do encourage everyone to include real estate as a part of a balanced investment portfolio. Let's talk about real estate! Let's talk about life. On...

FAR 155 Expected Air Date: 06/2/18 Opening Over the past couple of weeks we have been visiting together around topics that some in the training industry would call "mind-set pieces." We have talked about knowing your Why - understanding your basic motivations. We've talked about Choices and how your life is a reflection of the choices you've made and your future will be determined by the choices y...

FAR 154 Expected Air Date: 05/31/18 Opening Hello Everyone. Great to be with you today. Today we are going to be talking about a quality that is absolutely important for any business owner,  Confidence. You have to have it, but how do you get it? How do you keep it when life happens? How to you keep it in check - to prevent being over-confident? All that is coming up with a few lessons learned the...

Hello Everyone and welcome to Flipping America. Today we are going to talk about how to get started as a Real Estate investor. I'm going to break down some of the big steps for you in the next few minutes. Then we are going to explore what you do when you don't see the opportunities in your area. Jennifer Beadles is in Seattle but she invests east of the Mississippi. Stay tuned as I talk with her...

Guests Today: Desktop Investing with Jon Ionatti Multi-Family Investing with Juan Pablo

Questions from listeners: From Bob in Long Beach California: I'm looking at a possible rental property. The rent is about $750 per month less than the payment but I feel like long-term this will be a good investment for me. What are your thoughts?   Research: The median home value in Long Beach is $544,600 . Long Beach home values have gone up 6.8% over the past year and Zillow predicts they will...

Alison Feliciano at 5 Credit Restoration Mark Hall. As always I am going to share some investing tips for you and answer a few questions. Later in the show I'm going to tell you why I prefer RE investing to stocks. But first let's check some emails. Wrap up with about 7 minutes Open: Mailbag: From Tyler in Tampa, FL. "Roger do you have some guidance for what you would pay for a rental property and...

Frank Rolfe has literally written the book on buying Mobile Home Parks. He's our guest today on Flipping America and will be here in a few minutes to talk about it.

Pat Dornan is Guest, Ultimate Rehab Estimator News You can use: Washington Post: Article on Selecting a Realtor, Ilyce Glink Very good - Some differences with selecting a realtor to work with you as an investor Treat house as inventory, not home Daily costs Cash flow Opportunity costs Forbes: How To Get Rich In Real Estate - Without Being A Landlord REIT: If you're good with a 4.5% return, go ahea...

Jim Beach is a serial entrepreneur with success in building large companies with the systems to support them. Jim started his first company when he was 25 years old. He was the Co-founder and CEO of American Computer Experience, which he grew with no capital infusion to $12 million in annual revenue in 2000 and to over 700 employees, operating in 39 states and three countries. American Computer Ex...

FAR 008 Marty from Dayton OH: I'm looking at 4 or 5 possible deals that I can buy for less than $20,000 each. I can buy two of them. All of them are in the same area - it's not a great area, but it's not a war zone either. The realtor tells me they will rent well and the return will be pretty good. My concern is the value of the property isn't going to increase much over the years. What are your t...

FAR 010 News Commercial Markets are bullish on Trump. Article in bizjournals.com. In 2014, 100% of the brokers surveyed said they were uncertain with the federal government's policies and how they would affect markets. In their most recent survey that number is down to 37 percent feeling uncertain. I don't know what that means but the article states that this is a sign that the commercial real est...

FAR 011 Announcements: Email and website are down. Email has a temporary fix. Website will be up soon. Emails today: Billie Jean from Meridian MS. One of my rental houses has developed a mold problem. The tenants are refusing to pay the rent and are threatening to sue me. Lorna from Atlanta: I want to make an offer on a house I found on Craigslist. The seller doesn't want a realtor involved. That...

Today we are joined by local Atlanta entrepreneur and investing legend Joe Thompson. Joe leads a group of investors that over the past 17 years have conducted more than a half billion dollars in real estate transactions with each other.

FAR 013 Announcements: Remember the website and email have been down. If you sent an email and it bounced back, please re-send. Today's show We a  re going to finish the conversation about Contractors, contracts and vital construction documents. Updates: The other day Joe Thompson: "If at first you don't succeed, then go back and do what your coach told you to in the first place." Eriq: doing exac...