Smart real estate investing will give you the time and the money to live life on your own terms! We call that real wealth. Host Kathy Fettke is Co-CEO of Real Wealth Network, author of the best selling “Retire Rich with Rentals" and the host of companion podcast, Real Estate News for Investors. Kathy Fettke launched this podcast in 2003 to share her own secrets and those of top experts in the real estate investing field. She along with guests like Robert Kiyosaki, Peter Schiff, Doug Duncan, ...
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Portfolio Rebalancing: Your Key to Maximizing Real Estate Returns
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Should you hold on to that long-time rental or trade it in for something else? Many people say you should hold forever, but is that always the best way to go? In this episode, you’ll hear when it might make sense to break that rule for the sake of better cash flow or better appreciation. We call this process “portfolio rebalancing.” Among the topic…
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Scaling Smart: How to Grow Your Business Without Losing Your Mind
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Are you energized by the thought of starting your own business but overwhelmed by the amount of work it will take? Or maybe you’ve already begun, but you feel like you’ve reached a plateau and don’t know how to get it going again? Or maybe you’ve just gotten through one major hurdle and can’t muster the enthusiasm to tackle another? These are just …
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Robert Kiyosaki: Financial Literacy, Investing & Big Money Ideas!
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Are you familiar with the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad? How about the investing game Cashflow Quadrant? If you know about either of these, you’re probably also familiar with the legendary Robert Kiyosaki who wrote the book and created the game to teach people about wealth creation and real estate investing. He was on our show many years ago at the very …
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Real Wealth Story: How to Recognize Real Estate Investing Opportunities!
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Have you ever felt I coulda, woulda, shoulda bought some rental properties after the 2008 housing collapse? Prices were so low it was like getting a 75% discount in many cases! But it’s always easier to see what you should’ve done instead of what you might want to do right now. The truth is that when you're in it, you can't see it as clearly. So wh…
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More Money, Fewer Regs with Medium-Term Rentals
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*This is a re-posting of a previous interview with Zeona Macintyre on the topic of medium-term rentals.* If long-term rentals aren’t giving you enough cash flow, and short-term rentals seem like too much trouble, there IS a third option. By renting your property as a furnished home for 30-days or more, you can increase your cash flow, avoid local s…
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The Magic of “Portfolio Rebalancing” and the 1031 Exchange!
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Have you ever wondered how long a buy-and-hold strategy should last? Forever? Or, at some point, is it appropriate to sell? It’s a decision that most investors have at least thought about. Personally, my husband Rich and I have sold and later regretted it because our properties shot up in value after we let them go. But we’ve also had better luck i…
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Jumpstart Your Wealth: Eliminate Debt and be FREE to Invest!
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This is the first of our new “Jumpstart Your Wealth” series to help first-time home buyers and investors jumpstart their real estate experience. And the first topic we’d like to address is “Getting Out of Debt.” We had an amazing husband-and-wife team on the show last year to talk about their efforts to eliminate debt and get into real estate, so w…
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The Impact of Industrial Growth on the Rental Market
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The real estate business is not entirely about the housing market. In this episode, we talk about industrial real estate, oil and gas, bringing US companies back home, or what’s known as “reshoring,” and of course, the housing market. But the conversation goes beyond that with talk of economic trends, investment strategies, and our recent RealWealt…
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How Does RealWealth Find Such Exceptional Property Teams for Investors?
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It’s not easy to find a good investment property in today’s market. Prices and mortgage rates are high, and it can be really difficult to make the numbers work. As a lifelong Californian, Kathy has learned this lesson. It’s just too expensive in California to invest here. So 20 years ago, she started looking in other states and had to evaluate real…
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How Corporations Identify Hot Growth Markets Nationwide with John Boyd Jr.
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How do large corporations decide what part of the country they should move to or build new facilities? It’s much more than a random recommendation, a sale price, or a gut feeling. They do in-depth studies and often hire expensive consultants because it’s a huge investment and they don’t want to get it wrong. In this episode, you’ll hear from site s…
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Cost Segregation - An Amazing Tax Savings Tool for Real Estate Investors!
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One of the most compelling reasons for owning investment property is the huge amount of money you can save on taxes. So it’s extremely important to understand the kind of tax benefits and deductions available to you. In this interview, you will hear about cost segregation studies and how they can help you depreciate different components of your pro…
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CoreLogic Warns Investors About Climate Risks to Real Estate
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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 tha…
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Is the Fed Getting Outdated Data from the Jobs Report?
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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 report…
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What You Need to Know About Syndicated Real Estate Deals
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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 expl…
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Rent vs Homeownership: Is the Answer that Simple?
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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 ho…
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How Real Estate Can Give You BIG TIME Tax Savings!
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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 impo…
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Beyond Bigger Pockets: Brandon Turner's Real Estate Odyssey
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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 ca…
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