Real Estate Investing with House Money

Download the glossary: https://www.housemoneymedia.com/realestateglossary House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, Dan, the guy behind the Landlord Horror Stories Podcast. They discuss blog 132, 5 Surprise Fees at Real Estate Closings . When Alan bought his first property, he thought the down payment was enough, but he did...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, Jasmine from Jasmine Mortgage Team, where they discuss blog 131, the 4 market niches of vacation rentals . This blog was written with the help of Lauren’s experience in Short-Term Rentals. Alan and Lauren always teach that if you’re going to invest, you must create a niche for yours...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest , Kolin, also known as Decade Investor on Social Media and they discuss blog 130, Why Rich People Don’t Have Paid-Off Properties . Being a realtor, Alan has helped a couple of billionaires buy properties and although they have the money to pay cash for a property, they don’t. Kolin a...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, Clint, where they discuss blog 124, the 3 real estate books every investor should read that’s not rich dad poor dad. Many people ask him questions about what books they should read when starting in real estate and that’s why he wrote this blog. Clint has never read a single book abo...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, Dave from Side Hustle Houses on Twitter, where they discuss blog 129 about the big risks of transferring your property from your personal name into an LLC. The article was written because many people ask Alan about this topic. Loans are cheaper if you put them in your personal name....

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, Crystal Hammond from the Stacking Deeds Podcast where they discuss blog 128 which is an article written by Alan with the help of Lauren called “10 Ways You Suck as an Airbnb Guest.” If you want to invest in short-term rentals, understanding how you’re a bad guest will help you be a...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan as well as their special guest, Brian Orr, discuss blog 127, which is about why a 30-year mortgage is superior. Reason number 1 is because it’s the best inflation hedge that exists! Alan used the Snickers bar at a gas station as an analogy to explain why getting a 30-year mortgage is superior rather than getting a 15-yea...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan get together with their special guest, James from Rethink The Rat Race. They discuss blog 126, how to find a real estate partner. Alan broke it down to 3 steps and the 1st step is you must know what you bring to the table. Someone is going to ask questions like the following to see if they want to partner with you: “Is t...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, Lauren and Alan have a special guest, Chris Luger from Heavy Metal Money where they discuss blog 125, which is about the 3 essential skills every real estate investor should have. The 1st essential skill is being optimistic. Alan experiences people telling him they want to invest in real estate and what stops them is they worry about ev...

House Money Podcast In this week's House Money Podcast, get ready for a dose of laughter with hilarious bloopers from your hosts' past podcast recordings! This special episode is a heartfelt tribute to Tom Brickman, also known as The Frugal Gay, who has been with House Money Media from the beginning. Working alongside him has been an absolute honor, and he holds a cherished place in our hearts. We...

House Money Podcast In this week’s House Money Podcast, Tom and Alan host a Twitter Space. Alan talks about being in real estate for 20 years and it feels like every 6 months, he sees something he has never seen before. He learns that predicting the future is a fool’s errand. Tom also shares that when he was working with a client, he knew waiting was not a good idea so put in an offer. They didn’t...

HMP 23 Show Notes House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 123, “Why is my contractor ghosting me?” Alan detailed 1 out of the 3 answers as to why your contractor is ghosting you. The other 2 reasons can be found in the blog. The number 1 answer is that you are a terrible client, and you don't realize it. One reason is you’re clearly shopping quotes aro...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 122, where they discussed what a season 1 real estate investor is. Before giving his answer, Alan asked Tom and Lauren how they define a season 1 real estate investor. Tom answered that season 1 investors are the ones who are looking for a property at a certain location and they know their buy box, these are the...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 121, where they discussed where to start real estate investing. Alan shared 3 answers on where you should start real estate investing today. Answer number 1 is to invest in where the numbers work, whether that’s where you live or not! Alan shared that regardless of whether it’s a short-term rental or long-term re...

Lauren, Tom, and Alan were in New Orleans for FinCon, so this week we’re changing it up a bit! In this week’s House Money Podcast, we’re airing part of a recent Stacking Deeds episode in which they interviewed our very own Alan Corey. He used to host this show with Crystal Hammond, so the two easily fall into their old routine. Alan shared why his social media account is @realestatemaxi and the pl...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts changed things up by discussing one of Alan’s books entitled “A Million Bucks by 30.” Alan shared some background on why he wrote this book and what he did to achieve that goal. Alan shared that to be a millionaire before you become 30 years old, you basically must live below your means and try house hacking. Putting 60% of y...

House Money Weekly   In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 119, where they talk about getting a real estate license as a real estate investor. Alan shares that the license you would get is called a real estate salesperson license which means you learn how to represent someone else who is buying real estate. Alan points out that a real estate salesperson license is...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 120, about the three types of insurance you must have as a real estate investor. Alan shared the three types discussed are Property Insurance, Umbrella Insurance, and Renter Insurance. The lender will require you to get property insurance and the minimum depends on your location. Alan explained that Property Insu...

This show is a little different. Lauren, Alan, and Tom recorded live and in-person at the recording studio of fellow podcasters, The Debt Free Guys! The sound is a little different, but we all tried to make the flow the same. House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 118, where they talk about how to HELOC hack your down payment. Alan explained what HELO...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 117, where they talk about buying real estate with bad credit. Although you can buy real estate with bad credit, it is not as easy as buying with good credit. Alan lists 4 options when it comes to buying real estate with bad credit. Lauren asks, why do you have bad credit? Have you fixed those behaviors? Alan’s f...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 116, is being a landlord unethical? We hear this a lot from people who want to buy a house but can’t for whatever reason. They want to blame someone, so they blame landlords. When landlords own single family homes, though, they aren’t typically competing with first time home buyers. They’re buying houses people d...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 115 – what do look for in an inspection. Even though they cost $500-$800, inspections are very, very worth it. None of the hosts have had a clean report, though, so that’s to be expected. Alan thinks of inspections as an opportunity to ask for the price of problems found, plus a headache fee. Thus, you get the co...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 114, things learned when investing through the Great Financial Crisis. But only after discussing how old they were in 2008. Alan points out that in the GFC, there were more renters as people lost their homes. Both Tom and Alan’s properties cash flowed all the way through the GFC. Lauren was 18 in 2008 so she didn...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 113, which covers analysis paralysis, which according to Investopedia is an inability to make a decision due to over-thinking a problem. What causes this? Perhaps it’s from having too flexible of a buy box. Alan suggests narrowing price point within $30k. Lauren reminds listeners to truly decide on your why and y...

House Money Weekly In this week’s House Money Weekly segment, your hosts discuss blog 111, about how to house hack without roommates. Lauren, Alan, and Tom have all had roommates in the past. Now, they’re all pretty much past that. But what if you never want to have roommates at all? The question is: what else can you rent out? Basement, yard, parking spot, flex space, pool…. there’s an app for th...