Real Wealth Show: Real Estate Investing Podcast

If you haven't considered the impact of climate-related natural disasters on your real estate decisions, you'll get valuable insights from this episode. Call it climate change or climate risk or simply a natural climate cycle that we're going through  –  whatever side you are on – there are an increasing number of risks related to our environment that are having an impact on real estate.   In this...

The jobs report for May was a surprise to the upside, with 272,000 new jobs. Wage growth also came in hotter than expected. Good news, right? But maybe it's not so good for the fight against inflation. It stokes fear among Fed officials that inflation could heat up again if they cut interest rates too soon. With so much weight given to those reports, just how accurate are they?  In this episode, J...

Syndicated real estate deals can be complicated and can look like a lot of legal mumbo jumbo, but you CAN make sense of it all with a few good pointers! And that's what you're going to get in this interview – a short-but-sweet overview of the syndicated real estate deal in language you can understand. Our guest is a syndication lawyer who will explain things like capital calls and how to deal with...

With interest rates hovering around 7% and housing prices still soaring, does it make sense to be a homeowner? Or would it be wiser to rent, spend less money, and enjoy more lifestyle flexibility? And how will the lawsuits against NAR impact the cost of buying a home? Will they help bring prices down by reducing real estate agent fees? These are hot topics for American home buyers and investors. I...

Tax deductions are a big deal for real estate investors and there's one important deduction that's dangling from a cliff right now. It's the 100% bonus depreciation that's currently hung up in the Senate, past the date mentioned in this interview. But our guest, Brandon Hall, will fill you in on exactly how this deduction works and why it's so important.  He'll also dive into several other very us...

I love getting together with long-time real estate investing friends. It's been a few decades now since I started investing in rental properties and co-founded RealWealth to help other people do the same. We recently held a live event in the San Francisco Bay Area to showcase a few rental markets we are excited about and I had the opportunity to catch up with many people I've gotten to know over t...

Homeowners are seeing their insurance costs skyrocketing, and in some cases, they are getting their insurance canceled all together, even after they've bought insurance from the same company for years without any claims. What should homeowners and real estate investors know about buying property insurance in today's market?   In this episode, you'll hear from an insurance expert with decades of ex...

The economy is a beast that keeps us on our toes. It is constantly evolving and is never easy to figure out. But it helps to hear how top economists are interpreting the data and what they are forecasting for various segments of the economy, such as housing and real estate.   In this episode, you'll hear from long-time award-winning economist Selma Hepp. She's the chief economist at CoreLogic whic...

There are so many ways to invest your money, but it's difficult to know whether you are making the right decisions. Should you invest in real estate, stocks, bonds, or just tuck your money away in a savings account? Is it smart to invest when inflation remains stubbornly high? What happens if we really do have a recession? What's up with the central bank and interest rates? In today's episode, you...

Welcome to a very special episode of The Real Wealth Show . Today, we dive into a personal story about how I got into real estate and the real estate professional who opened so many doors for me and became my mentor. It's a story about how we came together as co-hosts of a wealth building radio show many years ago, how both of us turned challenges into opportunities, and how he helped me during a...

I love answering questions about Real Estate and you'll hear some of my answers in this episode of "Ask Kathy." Questions have come from various people including followers on my Instagram account, our RealWealth website, and live events. So buckle up! I'll be going into detail about several real estate investing topics including the kinds of opportunities you might find this year, whether it makes...

So what the heck is going on with the U.S. economy? We've been warned about a possible recession for two years now. But the economy is still going strong, and the housing market seems to defy gravity. The contradictions may have left you scratching your head, but the guest in this episode will help clear up any confusion. He'll also share his thoughts on what and where to invest. Our guest Rick Sh...

Do you have a really clear strategy for your real estate portfolio and a clear vision for where you want to go? Most of us know we need this, but maybe we haven't taken the time to figure it out or we just simply don't know how. In today's episode, you'll hear from someone who shares some great insights on how to create a strategy that fits your goals. You might recognize the name Dave Meyer. As a...

Are your real estate investments earning enough profit to make it all worthwhile? Do you know how much money is going out versus how much is coming back in? Do you need a better way of tracking the cash flow that you're working so hard to create? In this episode, you'll hear from real estate investor, David Richter, who learned by experience that he was spending too much for the amount of money he...

It's the start of a New Year, and we kick it off with a new rental market that we're very excited to tell you about! We're always on a mission to find the next up and coming metro for investors – where there's job growth, population growth, cash flow and appreciation — and we're happy to say that after a lot of due diligence, we've added San Antonio to our list. We're even more excited that our te...

We talk a lot about how to build a real estate portfolio so you can have more free time. But what about the process of actually stepping back from your job to capitalize on that promise of free time? When's the right time? Why now? What will you do next? In today's episode, you'll hear from someone who's had his ups and downs with real estate, but has been very successful overall. At the age of 51...

It's that time of year when everybody's enthused about closing down the old year and bringing in the new! And who better to help us with that process than my business partner and life partner, Rich Fettke. At the end of each year for many years now, Rich has led a focused investor exercise in two parts – one to assess and close out the old year and the other to set goals for the upcoming year.   I...

Should Wall Street companies be kicked out of the single-family rental market? Would it improve housing affordability if Congress banned institutional landlords from owning rental homes and forced them to sell off what they now own? That's exactly what U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and U.S. Representative Adam Smith of Washington believe is needed to improve housing affordability. They intro...

Finding a good investment opportunity is not as easy today as it was about ten years ago but sometimes it's a matter of identifying those opportunities with the eyes of an experienced investor. Today, I'd like to share the good fortune I've had to work with long-time developer and real estate investor Fred Bates. He's been my partner for many syndicated deals, and with great success! In this episo...

Imagine if you owned a piece of undeveloped land to build your dream home and you show up one day to find a home under construction by someone who thought they had purchased your land. That sounds somewhat impossible with all the steps you go through to purchase land, but it's apparently something that has been happening more often. Some industry experts even say it may have become an even bigger...

This episode could change your life! Find out how one real estate investor has built a portfolio that only takes him a few hours each week to maintain! The rest of his time he can do whatever he wants, like living abroad for a year at a time, and he's earning plenty of passive income to make it happen. Chad "Coach" Carson began his real estate journey 20 years ago, at the age of 23. He had just en...

Owning your own magnificent beachfront real estate doesn't have to break the bank. Whether you are looking for a place to vacation or a property for rental income, buying on the beach can be very affordable if you look outside the U.S.   In this episode, you'll hear from my daughter Krista Fettke and her partner, Alec Denney. They've been traveling internationally for a few years and discovered gr...

With the high cost of property damage from recent wildfires, storms, and flooding, many insurance companies are dropping customers in high-risk areas, or moving out of risk-prone areas altogether. That's created a huge dilemma for people who need insurance to satisfy home loan requirements and property owners, in general, who want the safety net of a reliable insurance policy. In this episode, you...

If you've already bought your first investment property, you may recall the initial fear you had about managing it. And that was just one property. But many investors find out it's not that tricky, and quickly scale up once they've dipped their toes in the water. It can become addicting to feel the success of a good deal that brings you the kind of wealth and free time you can get from a growing i...

Every quarter at RealWealth, I do a housing update, and I just did one for Q3. We received a ton of questions during that webinar so our team asked me to do an "Ask Kathy" segment here on the Real Wealth Show to answer some of those questions: 1 - Should I pay off a loan with an interest rate of just 2%? 2 - Is Austin a good place to buy investment property? 3 - Where can you buy new builds for un...