Best Madison Real Estate Investing Podcasts (2024)

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Deal Alchemy™ - Debt Paydown to Cash Flow 25:13

16h ago25:13

25:13

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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100: Explaining the Buyer Representation Agreement and How to Use it Effectively with Brent Lancaster: Part 1 38:07

3h ago38:07

38:07

Please Note: Effective August 17, 2024, all MLS Participants working with a buyer are required to obtain a written buyer agreement before touring a home. For details about this and other practice changes, please visit facts.realtor. This is our 100th episode — 100 great episodes with so many amazing people who volunteered their time to help you be …

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Tax Deductibility of PMI Payments 14:14

12d ago14:14

14:14

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! 30:57

19d ago30:57

30:57

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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099: Navigating Client Conversations: Communicate Your Value with Confidence and Clarity with Lynn Madison: Part 2 39:48

5d ago39:48

39:48

Please Note: Since the recording of this episode, NAR entered into a proposed settlement agreement that would end litigation of claims brought on behalf of home sellers related to broker commissions. To learn more, and to prepare for the practice changes taking effect August 17, 2024, go to facts.realtor. Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with L…

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How to Analyze an All-Cash Rental Property Purchase 1:08:42

26d ago1:08:42

1:08:42

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 41:44

1M ago41:44

41:44

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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Is It Better to Buy Rentals with 25% Down or All Cash After Buying an Owner-Occupant? 31:18

1M ago31:18

31:18

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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The Impact of Buying Properties at a 5% Discount When Nomading™ 26:16

2M ago26:16

26:16

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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Deal Alchemy™ - Black Box Cash Flow 31:48

2M ago31:48

31:48

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 27:01

2M ago27:01

27:01

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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Private Mortgage Insurance Myths 27:16

2M ago27:16

27:16

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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Warning - Risks of Neighborhood Decline When Investing in Real Estate 28:15

2M ago28:15

28:15

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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How to Analyze a Duplex 20:56

3M ago20:56

20:56

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) 12:31

3M ago12:31

12:31

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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Is it Better to Pay Off Properties with Cash Flow or In Full When Nomading™? 35:54

3M ago35:54

35:54

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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Deal Alchemy™ - Residential vs Commercial Property 14:44

3M ago14:44

14:44

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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Warning - Risks of Loan Called Due When Investing in Real Estate 30:04

4M ago30:04

30:04

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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How to Analyze Buying a Rental Property at a Discount 36:40

4M ago36:40

36:40

How to Analyze Buying a Rental Property at a Discount in Madison 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 o…

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How to Calculate PMI 13:21

4M ago13:21

13:21

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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Is it Better to Buy Rentals with 20% Down or For All Cash After Buying an Owner-Occupant First? 31:05

4M ago31:05

31:05

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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Deal Alchemy™ - Increasing Down Payment 19:51

5M ago19:51

19:51

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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Warning - Risks of Rental Property Expenses When Investing in Real Estate 43:00

5M ago43:00

43:00

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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098: Navigating Client Conversations: Communicate Your Value with Confidence and Clarity with Lynn Madison: Part 1 39:23

5M ago39:23

39:23

Welcome back, Friends! Our podcast has received another award from AVA Digital Awards, an international competition that recognizes excellence by creative professionals in the area of digital communication. We received a Gold Award for Podcast and Audio Production! We have another amazing award-winning guest today! She has been recognized as an ama…

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How to Analyze a New Construction Single-Family Home Property 33:41

5M ago33:41

33:41

How to Analyze a New Construction Single-Family Home Property in Madison 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 w…

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The 3 Strategies to Pay PMI 29:51

5M ago29:51

29:51

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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097: Filling your Buyer Pipeline with Current and Future Clients: Part 2 with Janet Judd 42:06

5M ago42:06

42:06

We’re back with our second episode of the month to talk about connecting with people so that you will have clients throughout 2024. We call it filling your pipeline. Many of us focus on getting business. If we can spend time connecting with people with purpose, there generally will be a more steady flow of clients throughout the year. Did you apply…

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Is It Better to Pay Off Rentals Early With Extra Cash Flow or Traditional Nomad™? 31:07

6M ago31:07

31:07

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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Deal Alchemy™ - Cash Flow to Debt Paydown 25:51

6M ago25:51

25:51

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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Are New Construction Homes Worth It? 15:11

6M ago15:11

15:11

Explore the ins and outs of purchasing new construction homes with our comprehensive guide. From the excitement of customizing your dream home to understanding the premium costs involved, we cover everything you need to know. Learn about the benefits of modern amenities and technology, the assurance of warranties, and the reduced need for early rep…

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096: Filling your Buyer Pipeline with Current and Future Clients: Part 1 with Janet Judd 35:49

6M ago35:49

35:49

How is your business growing and flowing right now? I hope you have a pipeline full of clients who are looking right now or planning to buy or sell in the next few months. We know, though, that hope is not a strategy. We need better tools than just hope to get our buyer pipelines filled. We know that a whole lot is happening in the real estate indu…

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Warning - The Risk of Down Payment Size When Investing in Real Estate 47:34

6M ago47:34

47:34

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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How to Analyze a 5% Down Single-Family Nomad™ Property 36:39

6M ago36:39

36:39

How to Analyze a 5% Down Single-Family Nomad™ Property in Madison 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 …

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What Affects Your PMI Rate 16:27

6M ago16:27

16:27

What Affects Your PMI Rate Lenders prefer that you put at least 20% down, but if you push hard enough, many will allow you to put less than 20% down if you're willing to purchase insurance to protect them in case you default. This insurance is called Private Mortgage Insurance. The cost of this insurance depends on several factors. Some are primary…

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095: Strategies for Successful Business Planning in the New Year: Part 2 with Matthew Rathbun 35:03

7M ago35:03

35:03

We are so glad you joined us to help you start your new year! This episode’s guest is Matthew Rathbun. Matthew discusses business suggestions, strategies, and ideas to help you make your plans for success this year. This is Part 2 of the interview with Matthew on Business Planning. The first part was launched earlier this month. In this part 2 epis…

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Is It Better to Rent or Buy an Owner-Occupant Property for 5% Down When Otherwise Buying 25% Down Rentals? 31:18

7M ago31:18

31:18

You're a real estate investor looking to acquire properties by saving up and putting 25% down. Should you buy an owner-occupied property first? What if that's more expensive than renting? Should you still do it? What if it means you'll be saving less for acquiring rentals by buying an owner-occupied property first? In this comparison class, we will…

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Deal Alchemy™ - Lease-Options 27:09

7M ago27:09

27:09

Deal Alchemy™ - Lease-Options Different real estate investors desire, prefer, and prioritize different returns. For example, many real estate investors have a strong preference for the cash flow part of their return. With Deal Alchemy™, we can manipulate returns and move them from one area to another. Or, we can move them from one or more areas to …

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094: Strategies for Successful Business Planning in the New Year: Part 1 with Matthew Rathbun 36:51

7M ago36:51

36:51

We are so glad you joined us to help you start your new year! This episode’s guest is Matthew Rathbun. Matthew will be discussing business suggestions, strategies, and ideas to help you make your plans for success in 2024. This is the first part of a series on Business Planning with Matthew this month. The second part will launch later this month. …

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Warning - Insurable Risks When Investing in Real Estate 32:32

7M ago32:32

32:32

Warning - Insurable Risks When Investing in Real Estate Life has risks. Real estate investing in Madison adds some additional risks. Some of these risks can be shifted from your responsibility to the responsibility of a third party for a fee. This is often described as insurance. You choose to pay someone else to take on a risk you don't want to ta…

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How to Analyze a 20% Down Single-Family Home Rental 54:13

7M ago54:13

54:13

How to Analyze a 20% Down Single-Family Home Rental 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 rental property with a 20% down payment. Learn how to analyze deals correctly and avoid buying cash flow vampires. Only buy the best deals that make sen…

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What is PMI And How to Avoid It 21:31

8M ago21:31

21:31

What is PMI And How to Avoid It You want to work with a lender so that you don't need to purchase a property with all cash. The lender is willing to lend you money, charging you interest to make a profit, and ensuring there is a safety buffer of equity in case you default and they need to foreclose to recover their funds. Your goal is to minimize t…

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Is It Better to Put 25% Down and Buy 9 Rental Properties After Buying an Owner-Occupant or Nomad™ with 5% Down? 33:12

8M ago33:12

33:12

Should you use the Nomad™ strategy to acquire properties with a minimal 5% down payment as quickly as possible? Or is it better to be a little more patient and save up for full 25% down payments and buy rentals without moving into each? By saving up for a 25% down payment, the properties will cash flow better. That may allow you to save up faster f…

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093: Investing in Real Estate is More than the Purchase with John LeTourneau 58:42

8M ago58:42

58:42

This episode’s guest is John LeTourneau. Our topic is real estate investing. The Center for REALTOR® Development has a course that teaches this: Real Estate Investing: Building Wealth: Representing Investors and Becoming One Yourself. There is so much opportunity for you, our listeners, in this area. John is just opening the door of what’s possible…

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Improving Cash Flow on Rental Properties by Improving the Property 28:01

8M ago28:01

28:01

Improving Cash Flow on Rental Properties by Improving the Property When real estate prices, mortgage interest rates, and rent rates are high, it can be more challenging to generate great cash flow from a rental property. However, it is also more important than ever to do everything in your power to maximize cash flow. There are 88 strategies for im…

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Refinancing Rental Property Tips 33:13

8M ago33:13

33:13

Refinancing Rental Property Tips There are many flavors of refinancing rental properties: cash-out refinances, cash-in refinances, rate and term refinances, and recasting loans. Understanding each one, when you might want to use them in your real estate investing, the general rules and guidelines for using them, and the impact of each are all impor…

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Financing Tips When Writing an Offer to Buy a Rental 18:49

9M ago18:49

18:49

Financing Tips When Writing an Offer to Buy a Rental So, you understand financing for buying your next property, and you're ready to go out in search of a property to buy. There are a few financing-related tips that might help set you up for success, improve the odds of getting your offer accepted, getting the best price and terms on your offer, an…

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Is It Better to Sell Properties to Invest in Stocks If That Means Financial Independece When Nomading™? 30:30

9M ago30:30

30:30

Sometimes buying rental properties is merely a means to an end: financial independence. Some folks don't want to hold onto their rental properties, manage them, or deal with the business of owning them when they achieve financial independence. Instead, they may prefer to have their money more passively invested in stocks. Can a real estate investor…

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092: VA Loans, Helping Veterans, and Improving Business with Jimmy Vercellino 55:20

9M ago55:20

55:20

We are in a market that is now topsy-turvy. We are part of the major movements in the economy of our country and there are benefits and challenges in the flow of economics and of buying a home. Today, we are going to talk about a group of people who have had some tough times buying in recent years. We’re talking about our active-duty military and o…

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Tips for Getting Mortgage Quotes from Lenders 34:05

9M ago34:05

34:05

Tips for Getting Mortgage Quotes from Lenders If you choose a random lender, you'll have a random chance of closing with financing. And in many markets, if your lender fails to perform, you as the buyer are in default (since your lender is not a party to the contract). Wouldn't you rather have more certainty that your lender will perform and that y…

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EV - Why It's Risky to Leverage Up When Investing in Real Estate 39:44

9M ago39:44

39:44

In the last few years, we've seen equity explode. Property prices have been growing like a weed in a spring. And, lower mortgage interest rates mean loan paydown has been more like the Mississippi than a backyard creek. Many real estate investors who owned property during that period will be tempted to tap into that equity to invest in more propert…

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