Invest Florida - A Real Estate Podcast

John Galane from Mountain West IRA discusses how to hold real estate inside of your retirement accounts . Those looking for cash flow and greater control of their retirement assets might consider self-directed plans.  

Mike Buice at L&M Insurance discusses how to avoid gaps in coverage on your investment properties.  Insurance for investment real estate varies from insuring your personal residence.

1031 exchanges allow investors to sell their properties and defer the taxes on capital gains by purchasing another property.  The genesis of this rule goes back to the agrarian US society, in which Congress did not want farmers making decisions to delay acquiring more or better property because they did not have the cash to pay the capital gains.  It later became the standard for most business ass...

Larry Feldman  is a career real estate investor from a family of real estate investors and developers.  Originally from New York, he has owned off and on in various Florida markets over the years.  Recently, he made a big move in to the Tampa market , acquiring two large signature properties in Tampa and St Petersburg.  Find out how Larry does it....What he likes about investing in the Florida mar...

Investing in real estate can be a terrific method of accumulating wealth. But, where do you start?  What asset class is best for you?  To whom or where can you turn to put you on the path to success?  In this episode, we discuss some tools you might use to put you on the path to getting started in real estate investment.  

Christopher Urso began his investing career at 21 years old with the acquisition of his first investment property in Paterson, NJ. His real estate investment company, URS Capital Partners, now controls over $50,000,000 of multifamily assets throughout the Midwest and Southeast United States. In addition to actively managing URS Capital Partners, Christopher is passionate about helping individual i...

Tim Becker discusses the Jacksonville real estate market.  What it does well….areas it needs to improve.  The topic of making the city friendly to young professionals is covered extensively.  This is the 4th of 4 in our series with Tim, the Director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate at the University of Florida.

Michael Becker is a career lender, first for a large national bank and later with Old Capital Lending in Texas.  Michael used his experience as a banker to acquire over 1600 units in less than 18 months with superior agency debt.  Michael talks about the advantage of agency mortgages, how to acquire agency debt and also so some tricks of the trade in purchasing a shocking number of complexes in a...

The Tampa Market marches to the beat of its own drum.  While the beach communities follow the State’s tourist market, Hillsborough and Polk Counties have a solid industrial and transit base.. Tampa International Airport is the largest in the area and Ports Manatee and Tampa are significant players in the bulk and container maritime markets.  Tampa, however, was slow to emerge from the real estate...

Tony Muniz is one of Tampa’s most successful real estate investors.  At the ripe old age of 18, he bought his first house, not long after buying his first car.  Tony has owned hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate over the years and currently owns a large portfolio of single family homes and retail centers. If you are interested in what makes a successful real estate entrepreneur tick, yo...

Tim Becker, Director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Florida talks Orlando in the 2nd of 4 part series, covering the major real estate markets in the State of Florida.  In anticipation of the Bergstrom Center’s Trends and Strategies conference February 26-27 in Orlando. Real Estate Investing in Orlando

Tony Montanez was stuck in the daily grind of his carpentry and handyman business, but he dreamed of taking control of his professional life and longed for financial freedom. He saw real estate ownership as the potential solution.  The problem, however, was the downturn in the market had hurt his credit and it was challenging for him to acquire the debt necessary to make ownership of real estate i...

The Miami real estate market is one of the most resilient markets in the world and certainly the strongest market in the State of Florida.  It was left for dead after the 2008 market downturn and even optimistic projects estimated it would take at least a decade to rebound.  Fast forward to 2015 and the Miami market is seeing eye-popping growth, not only in construction starts, but also a rebound...

Todd Jones is an MAI appraiser and President of the Florida Association of Property Tax Professionals .  He helps guide us through the sometimes mysterious ways of how property assessors determine value of your real estate and subsequently, the taxes you pay.  Florida is not an income tax state, so property taxes are critical to funding the operations of local government. It also means, property t...

The recent changes to insurance rules sent the Florida real estate market into a tizzy.  As soon as the Biggart-Waters laws were passed, there was a public outcry about the changes.  Florida was hit harder than most  states in terms of insurance rate increases and the law threw ice water on a market that was just starting to emerge from one of the worst downturns in history.  But, seemingly, as so...

Darren Wilson was an accidental investor.  He did not start out to be a serious investor in single family properties, but once he got the taste of it, he didn’t look back.  In the early part of his career, he was in the technology business, but now is an investor full time for himself and Kennedy Investments. Now Darren owns and controls not only single family homes, but also a large office comple...

Sale-Leasebacks can be a win-win situation for Investors and Sellers.  Find out the basics from what type of sellers should consider and what can investors expect and look out for when taking advantage of these opportunities.

Dan Pepper is a young guy with a lot of experience.  He is a value added real estate investor. While he has invested in many different asset classes, his focus is on multifamily dwellings.  He is going to share with us his 5 biggest pitfalls of conducting reviews of investment properties .  

Host Steven Silverman talks about the most common mistakes investors make that prevents them from maximizing the price for which they can sell their investment property.  

Renowned environmental attorney, Frank Hearne, of the law firm of Mechanik, Nuccio, Hearne & Wester brings his decades of experience to the Invest Florida Show to discuss the most common mistakes he sees investors make in dealing with environmental issues.  There will also be some nuggets on how you can recognize value in buying real estate with environmental issues.

  Hosts Steven Silverman and Eric Odum discuss the differences in listing services in commercial real estate. #Loopnet #MLS #Catalyst #Costar

After a short introduction to the program, Host Eric Odum welcomes Mike Walker, of the Real Estate Negotiation Institute to talk about the top 5 things everyone should know to be successful in negotiating a real estate deal. Mike is a Senior Instructor at the Institute and brings over a decade of deal making experience to the table.