Property Unpeeled

This week, Tony shares his 40-year journey from the streets of London to building the ultimate platform for distressed property investing. Discover how a $5,000 foreclosure mistake led to the creation of Property Onion and why understanding lien priority is the ultimate safeguard for your capital. Tony breaks down the mechanics of tax deeds, the psychological warfare of live auctions, and the shoc...

The World Cup and Housing Market Are Running the Same Playbook In this bonus episode of Property Unpeeled, Tony Stern takes a detour from distressed real estate to talk about something that sounds surprisingly familiar: World Cup ticket prices. What starts as a rant about FIFA, dynamic pricing, and the eye-watering cost of watching “the people’s game” in person quickly turns into a larger conversa...

Think foundation issues are an automatic deal-breaker? You might be walking away from your next goldmine, or straight into a massive contractor trap. In this episode, forensic foundation expert Bob Brown, aka The Dirt Whisperer and author of Foundation Repair Secrets , brings over 30 years of foundation expertise to expose how commission-driven salesmen inflate minor settling into costly $80,000 r...

A foreclosure auction win can turn into a title problem fast. We break down what happens when an investor discovers an unwanted mortgage, hidden lien, or oversized payoff. In this episode of Property Unpeeled, Tony Stern talks with David Abelard Jr. of Equity Fixers about the encumbrances that can ambush foreclosure and tax deed buyers. They cover lis pendens filings, junior liens, HOA balances, m...

Picking up where Part 1 left off, Tony and Jeff dive straight into the courtroom counter-attack, exploring advanced legal defense strategies like the Merger Doctrine and equitable ownership to fight back against federal overreach. Learn how distressed real estate investors can use federal discovery to force transparency and expose HUD's questionable foreclosure timelines. We break down a real case...

Jeff Harrington on Reverse Mortgages, Hidden Foreclosures, and Real Consequences: What Investors and Associations Need to Know Tony Stern and attorney Jeff Harrington discuss an invisible but devastating threat facing Florida foreclosure investors and homeowner associations. This little-known federal foreclosure process involving HUD-backed reverse mortgages that may blindside HOA and foreclosure...

Ari Pregen on Defending Your Properties: Code Violations, Lien Negotiations, and South Florida's Enforcement Landscape Tony Stern, co-founder of PropertyOnion.com, interviews Ari Pregen, founder of The Code Clinic, a South Florida law firm exclusively dedicated to defending property owners, landlords, and investors against municipal and county code violations across Broward, Miami-Dade, and Pa...

Scott Carson on Becoming the Bank: Distressed Note Investing, Strategy, and Opportunities in 2026 Tony Stern, co-founder of PropertyOnion.com, interviews Scott Carson, CEO of weclosenotes.com and widely known as “the note guy,” about distressed mortgage debt, note investing, and what it really means to “become the bank.” Scott explains why he transitioned from traditional banking and landlording i...