Learn all about investing in real estate in Fargo, North Dakota with a combination of real estate financial planning and modeling with numbers specific to Fargo plus syndicated, more generalized recordings of live and pre-recorded real estate investing classes (not all specific to Fargo).
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Welcome to Dollars & Sense with Joshua Dobi, CFP® About the Show: Prepare to gain valuable financial insights and smart investment strategies as Joshua Dobi, a seasoned Certified Financial Planner® (CFP®), takes the airwaves by storm every Thursday from 4 pm to 5 pm on WSIC. Join us for an hour of comprehensive financial advice and expert guidance that will empower you to make informed decisions for your financial future. Meet Joshua Dobi, CFP®: With nearly two decades of experience in the f ...
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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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Airline Problems | Ford EVs Not Selling | Market Check
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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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Social Security | Airline Industry | Estate Planning
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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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High Risers - Low Vacancy | OFF the Field Moves for the Knights and Panthers | Stock-Splits
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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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Wells Fargo | White Castle | The Greatest Wealth Transfer in Human History
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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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NBA Eyes A Huge Deal | An American Icon Returns to Subway | Market Outlook
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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 - 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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Stewart-Haas Racing | The Magnificent Seven | Cava and the Future of Fast Food
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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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Dead Lobster? | NVIDIA | Consumer Has Yet to Stop Spending
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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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WALMART | Credit Card Debt | Oreo's and Goldfish
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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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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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Apple Earnings | Cocoa Price Surge | Arby's Sauce
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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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FTC's Ban on Non-Compete Clauses | Meta Earnings | ByteDance
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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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FED Interest Rates | Caitlyn Clark Sets A New Standard | Gold | Grayscale Bitcoin ETF Paradox
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Your host, Joshua Dobi, CFP®, discusses the far-reaching impact of the Federal Reserve's decisions on various financial aspects of people's lives, including loan rates, savings, and consumer spending. He also provides insights into the recent discussions about potential interest rate cuts, expressing skepticism about the advisability of such cuts a…
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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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Analysis on Interest Rates | McDonald's Surf and Turf | Proposal for Student Loan Forgiveness
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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 Fargo 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 test of …
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Bond Performance | Grocery Goods Prices Now vs. 5 Years Ago | FED Talk
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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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Hidden Valley Ranch | Kroger and Albertsons Merger vs. FTC | Credit Card Myths
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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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Reddit IPO | INTEL Grant | Money Market Accounts
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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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401K Early Withdrawals Trend | Grilling | Cruises | The 411 on Oil
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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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New York Community Bank | Wendy's | ETF's
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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 Fargo 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, James wil…
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Inflation & Unemployment Numbers | Wendy's Surge Pricing | Small Business Retirement Plans
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The 3 Strategies to Pay Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) Whether they're putting 15% down and buying a non-owner-occupied property or utilizing an owner-occupied loan with 0%, 3%, 3.5%, or 5% down for Nomading™ or house hacking, some real estate investors will choose to put less than 20% down. With the decision to put less than 20% down comes the c…
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Is It Better to Pay Off Rentals Early With Extra Cash Flow or Traditional Nomad™?
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Investing in real estate is full of truthy-sounding falsehoods: it is always better to do X than Y. However, if you were crazy enough to sit down and do the math, you'd find the truth to be much more nuanced. For example, should you take all your extra cash flow and savings and apply it to your mortgages each month to pay off rental properties fast…
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Space X Domicile | Residential Renting Climate | Managing Debt
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Deal Alchemy™ - Cash Flow to Debt Paydown
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Deal Alchemy™ - Cash Flow to Debt Paydown 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 i…
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META | Class A Commercial Real Estate | Chipotle
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Warning - The Risk of Down Payment Size When Investing in Real Estate
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Warning - The Risk of Down Payment Size When Investing in Real Estate Life is full of risks. When we choose to invest, we choose to take on additional risks. If we invest in stocks, we choose to take on certain risks. When we choose to invest in bonds, we take on different risks. When we choose to invest in real estate, we choose to take on additio…
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Robot Wranglers | Interest Rate Cycle | Roth IRA's
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How to Analyze a 5% Down Single-Family Nomad™ Property
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How to Analyze a 5% Down Single-Family Nomad™ Property in Fargo Using the latest version of The World's Greatest Real Estate Deal Analysis Spreadsheet™, we will walk through how to analyze a single-family home Nomad™ property with a 5% down payment. Learn how to analyze deals correctly and avoid buying cash flow vampires. Only buy the best deals th…
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