Rental Property Owner & Real Estate Investor Podcast

Hello and welcome to episode #300!  This is a big number for us here on the Rental Property Owner and Real Estate Investor Show, and I want to thank all of you for being such an incredible and receptive audience. To celebrate, I thought we'd invite back two early guests, so we can check in with them to see how their investing has progressed over the years, and how joining professional organization...

Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite topics – demographics.  Specifically, how Generation Z is going to amplify the trends that millennials have already established, such as delaying marriage and living with their friends into their 30's.  It pays to understand these trends and the disruption they create in the traditional rental housing market.  Concepts such as Shared Housing and C...

My guest today is a successful entrepreneur and real estate investor who hosts the excellent podcast called "Street Smart Success". Roger Becker is also a great guy and is not afraid to share the ups & downs of the deals he's done, which include single family, commercial properties, and a rent-controlled multifamily in San Francisco. Today Roger goes where very few investors care to travel --- he'...

Across the United States, Security Deposits tie up over $45 Billion dollars a year in non-interest-bearing accounts, and neither the landlord or the renter benefits from these funds while they're just sitting there.  The security deposit is meant to protect the landlord from any damages caused by the renter, but often when it comes to serious damage the landlord will have to take the tenant to cou...

In order to understand how to structure an investment opportunity for your potential investors, you need to be clear on how the cash flow and profit will be distributed.  This is called a Waterfall, and there always seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to what that actually means and how to convey it. My friend Paul Moore recently wrote an in-depth article on Commercial Real Estate Waterfalls a...

My guest today believes that the Best Time to Buy Real Estate was 20 Years ago, but the next best time is NOW.  Joe DiSanto built a multi-million-dollar post-production company, produced critically acclaimed films and Emmy-winning TV show, all while investing millions of dollars in real estate.  Joe semi-retired at the age of 43, and now he's sharing his lifetime of fiscal know-how through his com...

One of the most lucrative ways to invest in real estate is to find an underperforming, tired multifamily property and bring it back to life through better management, renovations, and capital improvements.  I've done this myself many times and have added exponential value to the property and investment. My guest today is going to share with us the five most important steps you must follow when ren...

If you're in the business of syndication and raising money from high-net worth investors, it's good to know where to find your ideal investor.  One of the worst-kept secrets is that doctors and dentists fall into this category, and you need to know how best to approach them with your opportunities. My guest today is a Neurosurgeon out of Houston, Texas who just released a book called "Prescribing...

Is the United States the best place to invest in Real Estate?  What if you want to find opportunities in other countries?  Is that even possible? What about investors from other countries who want to invest in the United States?  What are their options? My guest today helps her clients overcome obstacles and navigate businesses and investments across borders so that they can invest, live, work and...

When my guest today first moved to the United States, he did not yet know how to speak English.  When he received his degree in Pharmacy, he ended up leaving a secure job to become an entrepreneur.  And when he began building his Multi-Million Dollar Rental Portfolio, he started with only $8 Thousand Dollars. Since then, Ketan Patel has raised over $10 Million for multifamily syndication, grown a...

My guest today started at the bottom during the Great Recession by knocking doors to find leads for his fix & flip business.  Fast-forward to today and he controls and manages over $15 Million in real estate and is the co-owner & founder of KECO Capital based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Cory Nemoto specializes in deal sourcing and valuations, acquisitions, financing, investor relations, and project manag...

Have you ever tried talking to your financial advisor about investing in Real Estate?  What did they have to say?  Did they bring up the risks and performance compared to investing in stocks, mutual funds, and bonds, or did they encourage you to invest in real estate and build passive income? If you're talking with a traditional mainstream financial advisor, it's more likely that they steered you...

The mastery of Influence and Persuasion can be a powerful tool in negotiating with buyers and sellers.  Today we're going to discuss techniques that will help you achieve that mastery. My guest today has 19 years of experience acquiring real estate below market value.  He's flipped over 1,000 Single and Multifamily Residences and has extensive experience in lease negotiation. Todd Toback is also t...

I've been looking forward to our conversation with today's guest because he's one of the smartest people I know in the Multifamily and Property Management space.  JC Castillo has taken what he learned during his time in Silicon Valley and the semiconductor industry, and he's applied that tech and data experience to his current business Multifamily Property Group which has grown to $80 Million in a...

Today we're going to talk about the future of retirement and how real estate is an often overlooked vehicle for securing your financial future.  Increasingly, pensions are being converted to 401(k)s which is shifting the retirement risk to employees.  This has caused today's guest to reconsider traditional beliefs about retirement savings. Eric Martel lost a fortune during the dot-com crash of 200...

Today we're going to get hyper-local and discuss the eviction protection program here in Kent County.  No matter where you live and own rental property, there are programs like this all over the country that are helping residents who are struggling to pay their rents during the pandemic, as well as landlords who need to collect that rent in order to make sure their bills are being paid. Gustavo Pe...

Mobile Home Park Investing has been a hot asset class over the past five years, and we've certainly talked about it on this show.  But what kind of opportunities are really available to investors right now, and how has the increased competition from institutional buyers and effects of the pandemic affected the opportunities in this space? My guest today is here to give us an update on the state of...

One of the reasons people never pull the trigger to invest in real estate is that they believe they won't qualify for a loan.  But what if there were a way to acquire property without ever stepping into a bank or passing a credit check? Today's guest bought his first 400 units using techniques that allowed him to sidestep the banks and work directly with the seller.  He now has over $100 Million i...

My guest today believes that Holding Forever is the best way to become Financially Free. Jonathan Barr grew up in a real estate family and started investing after the Great Recession.  He's completed Higher-End Single Family Flips, Ground Up Developments, and Multi-Family Repositions with his brother through their company JB2 Investments. Today we're also going to talk about Fix & Flipping V.S. Mu...

My guest today has developed a program that is designed to increase rents by 3 to 5% without costing you a huge capital investment.  He accomplishes this by optimizing your rental space. Jim Monk is the President of CLOZZITS and believes space optimization is a game-changer for existing properties as well as new construction.  Creating more space for residents is a bigger issue that most owners th...

What I admire about today's guest is that she is extremely strategic in her approach to real estate investing, fearless in the type of projects she takes on, and creative in the way she structures her deals and works with her clients. Allison Koetsier is also a Top-Selling and Award-Winning Multi-Family broker with Compass Realty Services and a previous guest on this show.  Today we discuss why it...

When you look at all of the disruption, vacancies, and permanent closures in the office, hospitality, and retail space, it's clear that we need to start thinking differently about Adaptive Reuse of these buildings.  And since one of the greatest needs we have in this country is for middle-income housing, I believe we're going to see a lot more conversion projects designed to expand our middle-inco...

My guest today is a second-generation builder who jumped into Fix and Flips after serving in the U.S. Navy "Seabees" battalion.  Since then, he has amassed a real estate empire consisting of single family homes, Multi-family apartment buildings and Self-Storage. Joe Evangelisti is also a High-Performance Coach for real estate investors and entrepreneurs and serves as the Visionary and CEO to three...

We've talked about 1031 exchanges on this show before, and today we're going to go into more detail on how real estate investors can use this and other tools to legally defer taxes on profits. Brandon Bruckman is an Advisor with Insight Real Estate Partners which helps real estate investors, farmers and business owners sell and reinvest their profits, while legally avoiding taxes through 1031 exch...

My guest today is known to the world as "the Canadian Note Guy".  After running several businesses including Fix & Flip Real Estate, he discovered notes in 2009 and has since become an industry leader in the private investment sector. His company is Earnest Inc, where he actively manages assets with a focus on non-performing 1st lien mortgages and contract for deeds in the U.S. Nathan's specialtie...