Wealth Renegade

The typical investment approach by the typical investor is upside down. How can you turn it right-side up? Follow a better path to underwriting a deal by beginning at the beginning. Highlights Underwriting with a new perspective from Shannon Robnett Importance of proper underwriting approach Overcoming construction issues through proper assessment Understanding the upside-down pyramid analogy Navi...

Robby and Ben attend the Real Estate Guys sales event "How to Win Funds and Influence People" and reflect on lessons learned and their application to business. Highlights The experience at the How to Win Funds and Influence People Real Estate Guys event, a two-day sales training event centered around financial selling The hosts compare the event's teachings to their own previous sales experiences...

How much research do you do? Do a little more, and follow Ben and Robby as they connect the dots between research and growth. Highlights Different market indicators and identifying good deals in specific asset classes Crime rates and population growth as key factors affecting the real estate market Importance of selecting a niche market and creating a strategy for investment Analyzing job growth a...

In a January 2023 edition of the Wall Street Journal, an opinion piece commented on a letter the current President received from 50 lawmakers attempting to prevent "price-gouging" in the rental real estate markets. Robby and special guest Emma Herman discuss the economics of this particularly thorny policy called "rent control". Highlights Rent control and its effects on landlords and tenants Rent...

We are sure you've all heard about ChatGPT by now. Kids are cheating, no one writes anything original, and the computer does it all! Listen on for three ways we've used ChatGPT as an artificial intelligence assistant in our business so far.   Highlights What ChatGPT is The benefits of using ChatGPT for your business How you can use it for your business Who can use ChatGPT? The good side and the ba...

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn. Your hosts advocate for a strategic and systematic approach to life planning to handle the influx of information that makes the 21st century so wild and crazy. Get organized!   Highlights Benefits of having access to information in the digital...

On the eve of a new year, do you study your past and your future to plan? Ben and Robby do a form of this life to anticipate their growth in 2023. Highlights What went through in 2022: The goals they've accomplished The reason people are afraid to invest in real estate Missed goal in 2022 to make it happen in 2023 2023 real estate goals How to achieve your real estate investment goals Upcoming eve...

Is anyone out there? (Just kidding - our data on our listeners comes in monthly.) Ben and Robby discuss the ideal "Wealth Renegade": A listener who is a novice in their investing journey, a lifelong learner, morally upstanding, has an essential sense of hope about the future and themselves, and more. Part 1 of 2. Highlights Who are we and what are we aiming at as a partnership? The ideal listeners...

"Investing is a team sport", says Robert Kiyosaki. Should you find a partner for your deals and investments? Some investments are really solo investments - no partnership options. You typically don't own gold or NFTs or precious art with a partner. Look into the legal structures (General partnership, limited partnership, multi-member LLC, etc) available for other certain investments (oil and gas,...

"Market turmoil" is such a generic phrase. The Wealth Renegade podcast looks through the core asset classes (stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, precious metals) and gives their opinion (not financial advice, haha) on where an astute investor looks for opportunity. To quote Dolf de Roos, "the deal of the decade comes around once a week". Highlights The economy: Where are we and what's next? W...

There is a common maxim that a person dramatically overestimates what they can accomplish in one year and dramatically UNDERestimates what they can accomplish in 10 years. Ben and Robby talk about what they have observed in the areas of trajectory, the power of choice, and the choices they want to make to achieve their wealth-building goals. What is your next choice to go big? Highlights Why is ev...

Macroeconomic woes abound today in October of 2022. Ben and Robby recap a conversation with a professional investor about the two futures that the US financial system could experience: 1) the Federal Reserve continues to raise rates until something breaks, or 2) they "pivot" and return rates to normal times. This investor is considering refinancing a storage facility and pulling cash out, and Robb...

Figure out how to manage and optimize the assets you have - and quit thinking of cash as the goal of your financial life. In this episode, Ben and Robby discuss receiving assets in unanticipated ways - inheritance, crisis, or because you were in the right place at the right time - and how this specific opportunity is often wasted and rarely capitalized upon. This is a key method to grow your finan...

Robby and Ben continue their recap of the 2022 Investor Summit on Sand, which they attended with The Real Estate Guys and investing stars such as Kim Kiyosaki, Ken McElroy, and Danielle DiMartino Booth, George Gammon, Chris Martenson, Brian Lundin, and many more. A philosophical discussion about investing and our freedom to improve what has been entrusted to us ensues in this episode of the Wealth...

Robby and Ben introduce our listeners to the Investor Summit on Sand, which they attended with The Real Estate Guys and investing stars such as Kim Kiyosaki, Ken McElroy, Danielle DiMartino Booth, and George Gammon, Chris Martenson, Brian Lundin, and many more. The vast array of material out of an 8-day conference on all investment types will provide the bulk of the next episodes of the Wealth Ren...

In this part 2 interview with Caleb Davis, part-owner of Three Doors Real Estate brokerage, we look through data to see where the future is going in real estate, financial markets, and the workforce that makes up every real estate deal. Highlights The core values of Three Doors What the differences are between the real estate industry back in 2008 and now How Three Doors would need to adjust due t...

Entrepreneur and 29-year-old phenom Caleb Davis joins the Wealth Renegade podcast to share his journey from construction worker flipping houses in small-town Granite City, to seller-financing his first 8-unit apartment, to being part-owner of Three Doors real estate brokerage. This is the first of two crazy episodes with Caleb. Highlights What Caleb is up to now What his beliefs are in terms of af...

"Is mold really gold?" Ben and Robby debate the wisdom and variables included in buying problem properties... because two doors down, a mold-infested home has arisen as a buying opportunity. Highlights What is concerning when buying a property from a scared seller Which is better when buying the property: Flipping it or selling it as is? The strategy of being influenced the most by labeling what f...

Kyle Fuller: wealth strategist, business owner, and staunch proponent of life insurance, financial literacy, and real estate investment. Kyle found his calling in life early - using "Infinite Banking" (life insurance-friendly wealth strategies) to create maximum potential and velocity with money. We cover all these subjects at light speed on this episode of the Wealth Renegade Podcast. Highlights...

"Timing the market" is nearly impossible... What do you do when you think you're about to overpay? Ben and Robby debate the validity of buying at a premium and study an example of professional investors that do this (sometimes). NOTE: Blackstone bought "Preferred Apartments" not "Premier Apartments". Check it out. Highlights The overpaying opportunity. - 0:49 Take charge of your own deal-making. -...

Mistakes are good teachers. Frozen pipes explode in the walls in an apartment complex and Robby and Ben learn about the pains of marginal thinking. Highlights A story of the man who bought his first huge apartment. - 0:26 Turning into the wall. - 4:21 The total time spent to find what the issue was. - 6:57 The lesson. - 9:38 Episode Resources Connect with Robby Butler and Ben Robinson www.wealthre...

Join Robby Butler and Ben Robinson as they discuss Ben's experience in real estate. Ben details the experience of his first investment property: A flip in St. Louis with extensive problems, purchased during the highs of the 2020 real estate market. Highlights What are we going to talk about today? - 0:18 Ben's first hand experience with real estate: Finding his place. - 0:31 The timeline of when t...

Join Robby Butler and new co-host and real estate investor Ben Robinson as they discuss the chief wealth creation vehicle of the middle class: the single-family home. Listen to the journey of Robby and Ben's first single-family home purchases and what strategies they employed to purchase.   Highlights New season, new co-host. - 0:17 What's one of the biggest, if not the only, investment that most...

From a stellar conference experience in March 2021, Robby articulates several key takeaways that apply universally to the businessperson, investor, and student of money. The Real Estate Guys' "Secrets of Successful Syndication" conference has lessons for everyone. Highlights Anything can be syndicated - 2:46 Scaling businesses and growing exponentially - 4:08 Robby's personal story - 6:40 Investin...

Wisdom lets us discern between what we should choose and what we should leave behind. Dig deeper with us into opportunity filters as the way to apply your wisdom to your context as a financially literate person. Highlights Having mentors - 1:57 The idea of mentorship - 2:40 You have to begin to learn - 5:32 The best mentors can have different skillsets - 7:36 Find your space - 12:13 Episode Resour...