If you are looking to buy or sell a home, get all the information and the latest updates, tips, and tricks from Bob Sokoler - your professional Louisville Real Estate Agent.
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Learn all about investing in real estate in Louisville, Kentucky with a combination of real estate financial planning and modeling with numbers specific to Louisville plus syndicated, more generalized recordings of live and pre-recorded real estate investing classes (not all specific to Louisville).
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A Video Blog about the Louisville Real Estate Market for buyers and sellers by Louisville"s premiere Realtor JP Pirtle.
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Welcome to Perspectives, our look at the fabric of our city and what makes Louisville so interesting and full of possibilities, it’s our take on the trends and events in town, what’s happening and when, and why it’s important to you - all brought to you by Lenihan Sotheby's International Realty in Louisville, KY.
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If you are looking to buy or sell a home, get all the information and the latest updates, tips, and tricks from The Sokoler Medley Team - your professional Louisville Real Estate Agents.
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How to Analyze an All-Cash Rental Property Purchase
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Interested in learning how to analyze deals using The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™? Specifically, do you need to know how to analyze a deal purchased with an interest-only loan? In this special deal analysis, you will: Discover the secret strategy for analyzing the purchase of a rental property with an interest-only loan …
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Avoid the Sting: 10 Places Wasps Hide Around Your Home! Plus your questions answered!
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Avoid the Sting: 10 Places Wasps Hide Around Your Home! Plus your questions answered! Lots of great information here, loaded with Real Estate Questions and answers! What's happening to Real Estate? Buyer or Seller? Love Real Estate? You can listen to our latest Radio Show here! Stay up to date on Louisville, KY Real Estate. Also, check out www.loui…
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Haunted Houses or Hidden Treasures? Decoding Stigmatized Real Estate
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Life has risks. Investing adds new risks. Investing in real estate adds new risks specific to real estate investing. One risk that is unique to real estate investing is the risk of buying a stigmatized property or having a property become stigmatized while you own it. In this class, James will: Uncover hidden gems in the real estate market and turn…
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Are you sabotaging your kitchen paradise? Plus your questions answered!
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Are you sabotaging your kitchen paradise? Plus your questions answered! Lots of great information here, loaded with Real Estate Questions and answers! What's happening to Real Estate? Buyer or Seller? Love Real Estate? You can listen to our latest Radio Show here! Stay up to date on Louisville, KY Real Estate. Also, check out www.louisvillequestion…
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Real Estate Investing Through Massive Foreclosure Periods
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Real Estate Investing Through Massive Foreclosure Periods Join us for an exclusive episode of the REFP podcast, focusing on "Real Estate Investing Through Massive Foreclosure Periods." In this enlightening episode, you'll dive into the following insights: Discover the secret to making money during economic downturns, a strategy that can set you apa…
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Secrets revealed: What to know when buying a home and your questions answered!
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Secrets revealed: What to know when buying a home and your questions answered! Lots of great information, loaded with Real Estate Questions and answers! What's happening to Real Estate? Buyer or Seller? Love Real Estate? You can listen to our latest Radio Show here! Stay up to date on Louisville, KY Real Estate. Also, check out www.louisvillequesti…
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Deal Alchemy™ - Debt Paydown to Cash Flow
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Deal Alchemy™ - Debt Paydown to Cash Flow Join us for an exciting and enlightening class with James Orr as he delves into the fascinating world of Deal Alchemy™. In this class, listeners will discover a surprisingly powerful strategy that has the potential to drastically improve cash flow on rental properties. Whether you're considering buying a ne…
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Maximizing Small Spaces: Expert Solutions for Room Enlargement and your questions answered!
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Maximizing Small Spaces: Expert Solutions for Room Enlargement and your questions answered! Lots of great information, loaded with Real Estate Questions and answers! What's happening to Real Estate? Buyer or Seller? Love Real Estate? You can listen to our latest Radio Show here! Stay up to date on Louisville, KY Real Estate. Also, check out www.lou…
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Tax Deductibility of PMI Payments Are you an owner-occupant puzzled by the ever-changing rules around PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) deductibility? Or perhaps an ambitious real estate investor, hungry to maximize your deductions and supercharge your profits? Then this class is your golden ticket to the world of tax wisdom! Join us for an exhilara…
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Functional Obsolescence Unveiled: The Silent Value Killer in Real Estate Investments—and How to Defeat It!
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Functional Obsolescence Unveiled: The Silent Value Killer in Real Estate Investments—and How to Defeat It! There's a often overlooked risk of investing in reale state: obsolescence. Whether we're focused on properties that are or will become functionally obsolete or drift directly into economic or physical obsolescence... these are real-world risks…
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Genius ways to safeguard your travel this summer.. And your questions answered
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The shocking truth about summer home temperatures.. And your questions answered
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Transform Your Home into a Refreshing Oasis with THESE Genius Tips! Plus your questions answered!
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How to Analyze an All-Cash Rental Property Purchase
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How to Analyze an All-Cash Rental Property Purchase Deal analysis is important. Learning how to analyze deals is a critical skill for all real estate investors, whether you're financing 100% of the purchase or buying a property without a loan at all and paying all cash. In this class, we will look at how deal analysis changes when you plan to buy a…
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How Return on Investment Changes Based on Credit Score With PMI
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How Return on Investment Changes Based on Credit Score With PMI Does your credit score really matter when you're buying rental properties? Sure, your credit score impacts the mortgage interest rate you can get with traditional mortgages. And yes, your credit score affects how much private mortgage insurance (PMI) will cost. Your credit score can al…
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Zillow renovation IQ quiz: Are you a pro or a novice? Plus your questions answered!
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Is It Better to Buy Rentals with 25% Down or All Cash After Buying an Owner-Occupant?
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So, are you stressing out over higher mortgage interest rates and properties not cash flowing as well as they used to, or in some markets, not having positive cash flow at all... even with 25% down? What's a real estate investor seeking financial independence to do? In this class, we will compare two strategies. In both strategies, you first buy an…
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Avoid These 13 Appliance Killers and your questions answered!
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The Impact of Buying Properties at a 5% Discount When Nomading™
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So, you're considering Nomading™. Excellent! But as you dig into the details, you may wonder what the impact would be if you chose to buy a more desirable, higher quality, but maybe less optimal property at full price (without a discount), versus focusing on finding a slightly less desirable, slightly lower quality, but slightly more optimized rent…
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Surprising secrets: The 12 items to avoid placing on top of the fridge and your questions answered!
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Deal Alchemy™ - Black Box Cash Flow Deal Alchemy™ is all about manipulating returns to get the returns you desire most. One variation of Deal Alchemy™ has you think about your rental property investment as a black box. You put money into the black box, some magical things happen over the next few years and out pops profit which you can spend like c…
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Warning: Mold and Flying Spiders in Your Home and your questions answered!
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Warning - Risks of Rental Demand Declining When Investing in Real Estate
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Warning - Risks of Rental Demand Declining When Investing in Real Estate Risk, risk, risk... Life is full of risks. To a limited degree, we get to choose which risks we voluntarily take on. For example, if you choose to invest in real estate, you choose to take on some additional risks that you might not—directly—face if you opt to invest in someth…
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Transform your home with Zillow's $6,000 paint color tip and your questions answered!
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Private Mortgage Insurance Myths Reputation can be a challenging thing. I have found, through many conversations with clients over the years, that Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) has a questionable reputation with home buyers in general and investors in particular. However, much of its reputation is based on half-truths, bad information, lies, and…
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Fear Factor: The Invasion of Spiders, Bedbugs, and Mosquitos and your questions answered!
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Warning - Risks of Neighborhood Decline When Investing in Real Estate
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Warning - Risks of Neighborhood Decline When Investing in Real Estate Everything in life has risks. Not investing adds certain types of risks, while investing adds other risks. One risk that some real estate investors face is the possibility that the neighborhood they're investing in will decline, causing values and/or rents to drop. So, how do we …
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Secrets revealed: Why blurring photos on Google Maps is crucial... And your questions answered
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How to Analyze a Duplex Some real estate investors are sensitive to their ability to get ten 30-year fixed rate financing loans and would prefer to fill those loan spots with larger purchases than just single family rental homes. One way to do that is to buy more expensive properties like duplexes, triplexes or fourplexes. In this class, James will…
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Surprising Cleaning Tips from Bob Sokoler's Fiancé and the Web, Plus your questions answered!
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How to Analyze Deals with Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
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How to Calculate PMI If you're a house hacker, Nomad™, investor buying properties with less than 20% down, or buying creatively where the seller has PMI, you'll want to make sure you know how to analyze deals that have Private Mortgage Insurance. In this mini-class, James will cover how to analyze deals that have PMI, with an emphasis on doing it u…
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Avoid being scammed by contractors: 5 crucial tips and your questions answered!
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Is it Better to Pay Off Properties with Cash Flow or In Full When Nomading™?
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In many cases—not all, but many cases—real estate investors can speed up the time it takes to become financially independent by choosing to pay off the mortgages on their properties early. Sometimes it makes sense to take every extra dollar beyond a healthy amount of reserves and aggressively pay off properties as quickly as possible. Other times, …
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Unbelievable! The Secret to Sparkling Silverware With Just Aluminum Foil and your questions Answered
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Deal Alchemy™ - Residential vs Commercial Property
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Deal Alchemy™ - Residential vs Commercial Property Deal Alchemy™ is all about manipulating the returns you're earning on your investments. Often, this is done through the choices we make when selecting the investment property and the strategies we choose to implement. For example, you could choose to invest in residential properties where your tena…
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6 Structural signs something is wrong with your home...and yoiur questions answered!
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6 Structural signs something is wrong with your home...and your questions answered! 🏡 Are you seeking valuable insights into the real estate market in Louisville and Southern Indiana? Look no further! Our resource is a treasure trove of information, overflowing with answers to your real estate inquiries. Whether you're a prospective buyer or seller…
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Warning - Risks of Loan Called Due When Investing in Real Estate
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Warning - Risks of Loan Called Due When Investing in Real Estate Investing in real estate adds some risk to an already risk-filled life. However, certain activities and strategies when investing in real estate create additional risks that other strategies and activities do not have. For example, choosing to utilize strategies where the lender has t…
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Kitchen Declutter: 13 Items to Toss Now and your questions answered!
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Kitchen Declutter: 13 Items to Toss Now and your questions answered! 🏡 Are you seeking valuable insights into the real estate market in Louisville and Southern Indiana? Look no further! Our resource is a treasure trove of information, overflowing with answers to your real estate inquiries. Whether you're a prospective buyer or seller, or just have …
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How to Analyze Buying a Rental Property at a Discount
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How to Analyze Buying a Rental Property at a Discount in Louisville Some real estate investors insist on only buying properties where they can purchase them at a significant discount. While not mutually exclusive, other investors insist on buying quality properties at a fair price as long as it gets them their desired returns and will stand the tes…
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Shocking truth: 6 scams used by dishonest contractors and your questions answered!
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How to Calculate PMI If you're planning to buy a property and put less than 20% down, you're likely to be required to pay Private Mortgage Insurance. Lenders prefer that you put at least 20% down, but if you insist on putting less than 20% down, they may still make the loan. However, they will usually do so at a slightly higher mortgage interest ra…
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Unlocking Hidden Tax Benefits for Homeowners and your questions answered!
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Unlocking Hidden Tax Benefits for Homeowners and your questions answered! 🏡 Are you seeking valuable insights into the real estate market in Louisville and Southern Indiana? Look no further! Our resource is a treasure trove of information, overflowing with answers to your real estate inquiries. Whether you're a prospective buyer or seller, or just …
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Is it Better to Buy Rentals with 20% Down or For All Cash After Buying an Owner-Occupant First?
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There are a large number of investing strategies you could pursue as a real estate investor: Nomad™, house hacking, fix and flip, buying 20% down rentals, buying 25% down rentals, saving up to buy free and clear rentals and many, many more options. Which is the best? Which gets you to financial independence fastest? Which gives you the highest net …
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Secret reasons to love owning a home and your questions answered!
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Deal Alchemy™ - Increasing Down Payment There are four primary returns from investing in rental properties: appreciation, cash flow, debt paydown, and the tax benefits of depreciation. Additionally, there is a secondary return in the form of the interest earned on the reserves required to make the investment in the first place. Many real estate inv…
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Revolutionary Cleaning Hacks For Your Home While You Sleep plus your questions answered!
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Warning - Risks of Rental Property Expenses When Investing in Real Estate
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Warning - Risks of Rental Property Expenses When Investing in Real Estate Risk is all around us. When we choose to invest in anything, we’re choosing to take on the additional risk characteristics of that investment. For example, when we choose to invest in real estate, we choose to take on the risk characteristics of the specific real estate inves…
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Must-Do Repairs Before Selling Your Home and your questions answered!
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Must-Do Repairs Before Selling Your Home and Your Questions Answered! 🏡 Are you seeking valuable insights into the real estate market in Louisville and Southern Indiana? Look no further! Our resource is a treasure trove of information, overflowing with answers to your real estate inquiries. Whether you're a prospective buyer or seller, or just have…
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How to Analyze a New Construction Single-Family Home Property
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How to Analyze a New Construction Single-Family Home Property in Louisville Your ability to analyze deals is arguably the most important skill as a real estate investor. It allows you to make smart investment decisions and helps you avoid making career-ending bad decisions, such as buying cash-flowing-sucking vampire properties. In this class, Jame…
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