The Real Estate Guys Radio Show - Real Estate Investing Education for Effective Action

Renowned real estate syndicator Sam Freshman is our special guest for this episode. Sam Freshman began his real estate investing career in 1957 and founded his syndication company in 1961. Since then he's been involved in deals exceeding $500 million. And when you consider the price of real estate in the 60's, 70's and 80's, that's a LOT of deals! Sam's no-nonsense, pragmatic adherence to proven p...

An essential skill for every rental property investor big or small is knowing how to do accurate financial analysis. Without it, how do you know if a property is a good deal, how it compares to other properties; or whether it's a good time to buy, sell or refinance? These are just some of the very important questions a prudent rental property investor needs to know how to find the answers to. That...

Real estate investors plunge into properties hoping for an endless stream of passive income. But sometimes, instead of getting rent checks, the market delivers reality checks. So even though we love real estate and remain convinced it's the single best investment vehicle available to everyday investors...once a year (in honor of Halloween), we dig up some terrifying tales from the crypt of real es...

Hotel Impossible star Anthony Melchiorri and Louisville Kentucky boutique hotel operator (21c Museum) Craig Greenberg are our special guests as we discuss how to develop the hidden potential of distressed properties. Whether a hotel, apartment building or a single family home, skilled rehabbers can find creative ways to force value where others can’t. And with a market full of distress, there’s ne...

Our special guest for this episode is YOU! We've sorted through the hundreds of questions received over the last several weeks and picked out as many as we could to answer on the air. To get great answers, you have to ask great questions. Sometimes the great question is less about how and more about why. As famed business philosopher, the late great Jim Rohn often said, "When the why becomes clear...

Host Robert Helms travels to Orlando Florida to attend the Encounter of the Americas conference which is hosted by RE/MAX. This event brings company leaders and agents together from all over the world, with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. RE/MAX is one of the biggest brands in real estate brokerage with an especially strong international presence. So they're able to help us gain a...

Hospitality as a business involves using real estate to provide services to leisure and business travelers. That’s pretty straight forward. As real estate investors, any time there’s real estate producing cash flow, we’re interested. And when you do the math based on nightly cash flows, the numbers look pretty good! But this type of real estate investing is very different than your run-of-the-mill...

Host Robert Helms travels to Orlando Florida and attends the 14th Annual Shared Ownership Conference. So what exactly is "Shared Ownership"? Great question! And the answer is this extra long episode of The Real Estate Guys radio show - including a huge collection of interviews with experts on the topic. Can you make money with shared ownership? Sure! Even better, you can use this investment strate...

Most savvy real estate investors know it’s a good idea to put each property in a limited liability company. More complex strategies include setting up management companies, holding companies and can even include an offshore component. The basic idea is to create a legal entity (corporation, LLC, etc.) or network of entities through which various aspects of your business activities are conducted. A...

The overall health of the US economy affects jobs, incomes and asset values - including investment real estate. Throughout one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent memory, economic policy has been a central theme. At their convention, the Democrats invoked the spirit (and oration) of ex-President Bill Clinton, while the GOP conjures up visions of Reaganomics. Dire predictio...

Another exhilarating episode of Ask The Guys! Robert and Russ answer your questions... With only $20,000 to invest and living overseas, which U.S. markets make sense? Does size matter? A Minneapolis investor is enjoying great cash flow on smaller properties, but feels the urge to go big. Should he? A Texas investor is stacking up cash flow properties and wants to retire in Belize in 12 years. Grea...

Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Mark Victor Hansen is our guest for this episode. As a mega best-selling author and world famous public speaker, Mark’s lifestyle and profession requires lots of positive energy and creativity. The same is true for real estate investors. So we asked Mark to sit down and share some of himself with us to see if we could pick up some great ideas from this iconic pe...

CPA Tom Wheelwright gives us his take on "The Fiscal Cliff" that the U.S. economy is said to be headed for at the end of 2012. What is "The Fiscal Cliff"? Should real esttate investors be concerned? What should investors do to prepare? Sometimes problems are exaggerated and sometimes they're hidden when election year hype hits the headlines. Listen in and find out what CPA Tom Wheelwright says inv...

Is government too big, too small or just right? And what does this have to do with real estate investing? To help us explore this controversial and timely topic, Steve Forbes comes back to share his thoughts, as does first time guest Tom Woods. In a very polarized election year for the U.S., many people are paying close attention. As real estate investors, we care about how rules, regulations and...

We’re big fans of looking for clues in the news to help us gauge the mood of the market, monitor trends and seek out new opportunities. But sometimes headlines hide what’s really happening at the street level. That’s why it’s important to have people in place you can call to get the real scoop. In this episode, we call on our man in Memphis, Terry Kerr, to help us determine if recent gloomy headli...

Special guests include bond market expert Steven McDonald and dividend investing guru and author Mark Lichtenfield from The Oxford Club; and David Conover, President of Wealth Management at Everbank. Yes, bonds. stocks and banking on a real estate show. But for good reason! We’ve been talking forever about the connection between the bond market and the mortgage market - and the powerful influence...

Bad news for housing can be great news for investors. But it means seeing a bigger picture and reading between the lines. For this episode, we do back to back interviews with two special guests. First, we visit with Gene Epstein, who is the former chief economist for the New York Stock Exchange and current economics editor for Barron’s magazine. Next, we chat with Anthony Randazzo who is the direc...

Our special guest is G. Edward Griffin, the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island - a Second Look at the Federal Reserve. Whatever you think about the motives and contributions of the Fed, there is no denying the profound impact it has on the supply and cost of capital. 2013 Summit at Sea faculty member Peter Schiff says Fed policy, dating back to Alan Greenspan in the 90’s and carried on to t...

A bad market can doom a “great deal”. And a strong market can make a mediocre deal a winner. While you might be able to fix up a bad property, what can an individual investor do to re-hab a bad market? Not a lot! So it’s REALLY important to pick a great market before you start loading up the shopping cart with all those bargain properties. In this episode of The Real Estate Guys™ radio show Robert...

The mortgage crisis still isn’t over for millions of property owners. There are many resulting ramifications, but in this episode we focus specifically on how a property owner can stop, stall, and in some cases actually overturn an improper foreclosure. Real estate agents and investors can use these techniques to buy more time to negotiate a short sale, and troubled borrowers can find more time (a...

Interest in real estate investing is picking up based on the number of questions coming in from our listeners. Of course, it probably helps that The Real Estate Guys radio show is the most downloaded podcast on iTunes and Apple is one of the most successful companies on earth. It’s fun to be us. In this episode of Ask The Guys, we field a variety of excellent questions from all over…including Indi...

Will Smith brought the world the heart-warming story of a down-on-his-luck real life Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness. In the film, Smith portrays Gardner, a homeless single father who lands a job as a stockbroker and with true grit and determination becomes a financial success. Not to be outdone by Wall Street, we found a real estate investing version that will inspire (and challenge) yo...

Shadow inventory is a term used to describe gobs of distressed properties, mostly single family residential, that isn't yet on the market. Statisticians look at top down data like bank reports and public filings. But what about a street level view? Atlanta, Georgia has been one of the stat leaders for foreclosures, so we thought it would be interesting to sit down with a guy who spends a lot of hi...

Peter Schiff is our guest for this episode. In his 3rd appearance on The Real Estate Guys radio show, Schiff tells us about his latest book, "The Real Crash - America’s Coming Bankruptcy". Scary title (and you thought the Mayan calendar thing was alarming)! But remember: In his 2006 book, "Crash Proof" Peter Schiff was right about the mortgage meltdown. So this time we're all ears. In this intervi...

U.S. election year political rhetoric has already hit high gear, but we’re sure the best (worst?) is yet to come. And you can bet tinkering with the economy is going to be a major part of the conversation - probably more so than any time since 1992 and Bill Clinton’s now famous slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” As real estate investors, we care deeply about things like the supply and cost of cap...